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Getting bigger and leaner with Alpha, 550, and Epi-V.

Goldbond Ultimate Healing for dry itchy hands. My knuckles crack and bleed pretty bad every winter, especially from all the scrubbing I do at work to get oil/grease off. Cheap and you'll notice immediate results and big changes in 2 wks.

Couple bodybuilders at my gym loves the versagrips; they use em for everything. I don't know if I agree with that but they're obv not inhibiting the muscle growth!
 
PalmFist said:
Good job smoking them shoulders brah!
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Thanks PF. It felt great. I have a plan for tomorrow and I can tell you this, my arms are going to be toast.

Hyde said:
Goldbond Ultimate Healing for dry itchy hands. My knuckles crack and bleed pretty bad every winter, especially from all the scrubbing I do at work to get oil/grease off. Cheap and you'll notice immediate results and big changes in 2 wks.

Couple bodybuilders at my gym loves the versagrips; they use em for everything. I don't know if I agree with that but they're obv not inhibiting the muscle growth!
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Yah I use them on some things. Mainly standing BB rows, deadlifts, shrugs. Pretty much just pulling motions.
 
Nice shoulder volume. Keep killing those weights.

I use the Versagrips as well. Love them for pulling.
 
Day 36 - 153.2 (+7.7) bis and tris

Well I did something kinda new today, the volume was up but check this. Between each and every set I did one set of push ups, if its was a bicep motion I did close grip tricep push-ups if it was a tricep motion i did a set of wide grip push-ups. All in all my arms are toast to say the least.

Standing hammer curls
30x10
30x10
35x10
30x10
30x10
25x10

Behind the head tricep extension
50x10
50x10
50x10
50x6
40x12
40x12

Incline DB curls - full extension
25x10
25x10
20x10
20x10
20x10
20x8

Close grip bench
95x10
95x10
115x8
125x6 (PR)
95x10
 
Yah that pushup thing is very effective I had a lot of routnes where I added in body exercises like that as a superset.
 
DreamWeaver said:
Yah that pushup thing is very effective I had a lot of routnes where I added in body exercises like that as a superset.
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Yeah, deff put a hurtin on me.
 
Nice looking workout bud. Ill do that too with pushups to get the blood into the muscle even moreso.
 
Talking to my ART doc last night makes me wish I didn't have asthma. Damn guy runs 10 miles at just over a 7 minute mile average. Super happy with shoulder progress. Before ART treatments my shoulders were about 20% now I dare say they are at 90%.
 
PREracing25 said:
Talking to my ART doc last night makes me wish I didn't have asthma. Damn guy runs 10 miles at just over a 7 minute mile average. Super happy with shoulder progress. Before ART treatments my shoulders were about 20% now I dare say they are at 90%.
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Wow. ART is awesome but it can get expensive.
 
Yup I'm 1200 deep.
 
Montego1 said:
GEW!
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Yeah monte it sucks, but it was either, never throw over hand again and never train over my head or do something about it. I know what your choice would be. And actually my work puts 1750 on a flex card for a little more then half of the deductible so I'm not spending my money yet?
 
Yah I avoid long distance running though most catabolic thing I ever did. I rean 10K's for a couple years back in the day though. For body shaping walking is far superior.
 
PREracing25 said:
Yeah monte it sucks, but it was either, never throw over hand again and never train over my head or do something about it. I know what your choice would be. And actually my work puts 1750 on a flex card for a little more then half of the deductible so I'm not spending my money yet?
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Yeah that's not a hard choice. Did you notice any improvement with your joints from the 550?
 
Not really but I'm not having any issues. Plus all my issues iv had are muscular and not joint related.
 
That's right. I actually remember you mentioning that before. My bad sir.
 
Day 37 - 153.2 (+7.7lbs) legs

Ok guys today's workout was primarily just to get some work done on my legs. I got 5.5 hours of sleep last night but I really think my body is just tired of being pushed so hard. I did not want to go to the gym this morning but I'm determined not to miss one scheduled workout. My back is killing me today but I'm going to push through it. Il be at my buddy's house tonight to finish up his open wheel modified for his race on Sunday. I'm his spotter this year so it's time to have some fun. Well guys here is the un impressive workout today.

Squats - first to sets were normal, the rest were box with a pause at bottom and exploding up.
135x10
185x5
185x5 box
135x10 box
135x10 box
135x10 box

Calf extensions on squat machine
90x10
180x10
270x10
270x10
270x10
 
diggin the drive PRE, way to stay motivated
that said - if you are feeling rundown and notice recovery is lagging, either take a day and eat 25-50% more cals than what you have been, or simply take a day off to rest
i understand walking that fine line between motivated prosperousness, and madman burnout..believe me ;)
pushing yourself too hard will at some point bring about diminishing returns
 
Yeah, the time will come for rest, I take the weekends off from lifting but I think the lethargy is taking over. I know my next cycle with have something like stano involved. Iv been having issues for a while now staying awake through out the day. The scary one is falling asleep while driving. I did goto the doctor about it and he did nothin about it. Said my bloodwork is perfect and said I should see a counselor or something. A damn joke. I can't believe I have to even pay them.
 
snagencyV2.0 said:
diggin the drive PRE, way to stay motivated
that said - if you are feeling rundown and notice recovery is lagging, either take a day and eat 25-50% more cals than what you have been, or simply take a day off to rest
i understand walking that fine line between motivated prosperousness, and madman burnout..believe me ;)
pushing yourself too hard will at some point bring about diminishing returns
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Yah we all go there....
 
Have to get that rest in so you recover from these bad ass sessions you have been putting in. Get a good rest day in with a nice re feed and you will come back even better brother.
 
Yeah il need to pump some food into me tonight or something, iv been cheating here and there just trying to make myself feel better. But again there is something else going on to that my doctor won't help me with. I'm 153lbs and 2 scoops of micro in 6 oz of water does not get me jacked up which I should. That goes for all Pre workouts. Before this cycle it was the same way, 2 scoops of condense nothing, it's jut weird why I get tired all the time. Anybody is more then welcome to shoot me a PM to chat about sh!t.
 
From what u have described it sounds like a thyroid problem......would explain the heart palpatations and lack of energy.
 
My thyroid levels a great according to pre cycle blood work. All of the issues were here before my first cycle.
 
I can say from my own experience that it's possible to get used to stims alarmingly fast, and become dependent in turn. Very easy for me to 'lose the magic' with stims and need many cups of coffee or energy supplements thru the day at work or weekends just to function. Only thing that works is a taper over a few days into no stim misery and headaches for 2-3 days.

Then I'm all good and remind myself to be more responsible next time. Right now I'm great, but all the msten and 4dhea act as big stims in their own way. Not remotely needing a preworkout since on the Ultradrol. But off cycle even I try to set a threshold of one 12oz or less coffee in morning at work and x scoops of x preworkout once/day on lift days only. Second cup of coffee on off days is optional but try to avoid.
 
Hyde said:
I can say from my own experience that it's possible to get used to stims alarmingly fast, and become dependent in turn. Very easy for me to 'lose the magic' with stims and need many cups of coffee or energy supplements thru the day at work or weekends just to function. Only thing that works is a taper over a few days into no stim misery and headaches for 2-3 days.

Then I'm all good and remind myself to be more responsible next time. Right now I'm great, but all the msten and 4dhea act as big stims in their own way. Not remotely needing a preworkout since on the Ultradrol. But off cycle even I try to set a threshold of one 12oz or less coffee in morning at work and x scoops of x preworkout once/day on lift days only. Second cup of coffee on off days is optional but try to avoid.
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Yeah I gave up soda about a year ago, right after I left my last job. 12hr days from 2am till 2pm Monday thru Friday and then a 6hr day on Saturday. I was drinking anywhere from 1 soda a day to 2 or 3 and also a minimum of 1 energy drink if not 3 along with the soda. I'm now off all of that but I think that job is what did it to me. Past couple days I'm drowning myself in sugar mentally thinking it will help me even though it does not. I don't get headaches either.

I also know guys I have not mentioned libido during this log. The reason for that is my libido is pretty sh!tty anyway. It was before my first cycle. It's not even garbage for a 24 year old. A 50 year old has a higher libido then me. Also part of this may have started during my last job. Again blood work is good. But anyway, chest day tomorrow.
 
snagencyV2.0 said:
diggin the drive PRE, way to stay motivated
that said - if you are feeling rundown and notice recovery is lagging, either take a day and eat 25-50% more cals than what you have been, or simply take a day off to rest
i understand walking that fine line between motivated prosperousness, and madman burnout..believe me ;)
pushing yourself too hard will at some point bring about diminishing returns
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^This guy is smart-like...
 
I only had heart palp once. Back when in16 or so ad bought one of those AB energy drinks from the local gym. Probably when ephedra was still cool. Anyways had crazy awesome energy then went home and was standing around and felt my heart stop beating then it went double time to catch up. Happened a few times and scared the shyt outta me. I guess what I'm saying is I hope you can narrow down the cause of this and get it under control. Its frightening to imagine you suffering unnecessarily
 
Happens all the time. I went to ER once and they say I'm perfectly healthy.
 
The first time I cared about it I was moving for the first time so they said it was stress.
 
The thing I hate is I'm so tired. Doctor tells me to see a psychologist. I'm sure that will fix everything. Ummm no.
 
On another note, chest day tomorrow. I think I'm going to push it pretty hard and see how it goes.
 
Get in there and do some work brother. Get a heavy session in then take a nap....
 
PalmFist said:
Well keep killing it bro but don't kill yourself in the process...
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Don't worry PF I'm dumb but not that dumb.

Montego1 said:
Get in there and do some work brother. Get a heavy session in then take a nap....
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I'm going to monte. Going to change it up a bit this morning and see what happens.
 
Hyde said:
I can say from my own experience that it's possible to get used to stims alarmingly fast, and become dependent in turn. Very easy for me to 'lose the magic' with stims and need many cups of coffee or energy supplements thru the day at work or weekends just to function. Only thing that works is a taper over a few days into no stim misery and headaches for 2-3 days.

Then I'm all good and remind myself to be more responsible next time. Right now I'm great, but all the msten and 4dhea act as big stims in their own way. Not remotely needing a preworkout since on the Ultradrol. But off cycle even I try to set a threshold of one 12oz or less coffee in morning at work and x scoops of x preworkout once/day on lift days only. Second cup of coffee on off days is optional but try to avoid.
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This was my thinking. I used to take more and more and then more again to see the effects of any and every preworkout I had in my arsenal, gave them up a few months back and only use them when I need that extra kick and it seems to do the trick.
 
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Small chest workout pump.
 
Looking bigger PRE. Nice job man.
 
Day 38 - 154.2 (+8.7lbs) chest day

Well boys having a weird jump in weight but still looking lean so il take it. I was fuggin pumped this morning just kicking some a$$ and hitting a PR. Lets check out this workout.

Flat BB bench
135x10
145x10 (Rep PR)
145x6
135x10
135x5
115x10

Flat DB Flys
15x10
15x10
15x10
15x10
15x10
15x10

Flat DB Bench
45x10
45x10
50x8
40x10
40x10
40x10

Seated machine flys
85x10
85x7
70x10
70x10
70x10
70x5

This workout was great. I'm exhausted. Just need to finish my work day and then going help my buddy finish his modified and then racing all weekend.
 
snagencyV2.0 said:
i know that feeling :D
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Well it was a good workout, I hate when I post a workout and then the very next post it makes a new page on mobile. Then people think I didn't post a workout lol.
 
Looking big! Awesome progress brother. And that workout looks awesome.
 
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