GrizzleB's Apex alchemy eclipse log + Blast

GrizzleB said:
Quick update, been sick with the flu and a stomach bug so lifting had to be put on hold. Feeling much better today so I'm going to get a workout in. Considering a full body workout if I can handle it. I hate getting sick, it always sets me back, lifts and endurance drops. On the plus side I'm very lean from 2 days of sweating out a fever of 102.7 lol. Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday.
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Glad you're feeling a bit better!
 
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Glad you're feeling a bit better!
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Thanks! I spoke too soon though. I got covered today at work just to rest more. No longer put on a Thursday double so I should be able go back at it full force next week. I really want to workout today, I just feel like I'm going to be extremely weak.
 
Hey guys, so got back at it on Saturday. Still using Eclipse at 5 pumps day, 5 at night. I swear this stuff is helping my joints, waking up lean, really like the smell too. Went in the garage and did shoulders.

Barbell shoulder press
45x8
65x8
95x8
135x5
155x5x5

Did the usually incline bench rear delt fly's
10x20x5

I always do these with the DBs facing palms down, I think its neutral grip? Anyways, It seems to target my rear delts more and uses less traps.

Used some bands to do lateral raises supersetted with db lateral raises. The bands give a different feel, starting to utilize them more.

Decline front delt raises
10x20x5

Overall just kept it short and simple since I'd been out a week.

Sunday I did my back workout

Deadlifts
135x10
225x10
295x5
315x8
385x3
405x1
435x1

T-bar rows with v grip
Not sure how you gauge weight used on these as you're lifting one side so I'll just list weight of plates weights used.
45x12
90x12
125x12x3
90x12
90x12

Saw Bob did these then looked them up(meadows rows). I enjoyed them, barbell rows haven't seemed too effective for me so I'm going to do these more.

45x10x3

Barbell shrugs

135x10
225x10x3
275x8

Ezbar curls superset with hammer curls

60x10 ezbar
40x10 hammer
60x10 ezbar
40x10 hammer
60x10 ezbar
40x10 hammer

I threw on the fat grips for some sets of each, did some without. Seeing some good growth in my forearms with these things.

Standing incline bench 1 arm preacher curls. It never occurred to me I could use my bench for these so finished off my biceps with em.

20x8x3

Overall felt fairly strong considering I was sick for over a week. Looking to hit a deadlift PR next back day and get some pullups and chins in as well. Been slacking on those lately, I just prefer lat pulldowns but don't have one of those in my homegym(yet).

I'm going to hit my chest workout today and get some pica up. I did snap a pic after shoulders and my post workout snack(Mississippi pork and brown rice) this is an amazingly simple crock pot recipe if you haven't tried it you need to. I think I ate half the crockpot that night lol. Y'all have a wonderful day!









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Glad your feeling better!

Now that you are healthy again: The walls need a paint job! ;)
 
hairygrandpa said:
Glad your feeling better!

Now that you are healthy again: The walls need a paint job! ;)
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Lol we attempted to remodel the bathroom over a year ago and then gave up on it for a bit. Slowly getting all the paper off. The previous owners just painted over it and it looked terrible. Thanks for dropping in, just finished my chest workout so I'll get that posted up in a bit.
 
Ok I got a chest workout in Tuesday but forgot to post.

Bench Press
135x5
185x3
205x3
235x5
235x5
235x5
235x4 (couldnt get the 5th rep)
235x3

I'll retry at 235x5x5 next session and hopefully be successful.

Incline Bench Press
135x8
155x8
175x5
175x5
155x6
135x8

Incline db fly's
20x20x3

Decline fly's
20x20x3

Skull crushers
60x12
80x10
100x5
100x5
100x5
80x8 (close grip)
80x7 (close grip)

Overhead trip extensions with ez curl bar
60x10
60x10
60x10
60x8

Overall it was a good workout. I was hoping not to stall so I could move to 240x5x5 next workout but I'm not to worried about it since I was out a whole week with the flu and stomach bug.

I'm about to hit the garage for squats and leg work. Heres a pic I snapped after chest day. Y'all have a wonderful day!
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Hey guys, been really busy and forgot to post my workouts recently. I did squats on Thursday. It was raining and my knee was hurting so I kept the reps low and just did lots of singles. I think I need my riught knee xray'd. Its been hurting for over 10 years, has a big knot on it compared to my other one. Can get real painful at times but ive just pushed through it.

Squats
45x5
95x5
135x5
185x3
225x1
275x1
295x3
305x3
315x3
335x3
345x1(PR)
355x1(PR)
365x1(PR)

Stiff leg deadlifts
135x10
225x10
225x10
225x10

Calf Raises
135x15
185x15
225x12x3

Real happy to get my max up to something half decent. I recieved my new bench saturday night, so I woke up Sunday and a did chest workout. Only day of the week where me and the wife are home all day so figured I'd switch Sundays to chest day as that workout always takes the longest.

Bench press
45x5
95x5
135x5
185x3
225x1
235x5x5

Incline Bench
135x10
155x8x3

Incline Db fly's
30x12x3

Skull crushers
60x10
80x10
100x5x3
80x8 close grip
80x8 close grip
80x7 close grip

Overhead tricep extensions with ez curl bar
60x10x3
60x6x2 close grip

Happy I got 235x5x5 with ease this time. The new Bench is much more stable than my old one that was falling apart. Overall I'm still getting leaner, eclipse seems to be working well. And I'm up 13lbs from 217 before cycle to 230 when i weighed myself yesterday. Heres a pic I just snapped. Hard to see small changes in BF% but i can see more definition in areas ive never seen. I'll try and update tomorrow after my workout. Y'all have a good evening!


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hairygrandpa said:
Good volume! You are training at home?
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Thanks! Yes most of the time in my garage. I have a power rack, around 500 lbs Olympic weights, flat bench, one for incline, pull up bar, ez curl bar, dumbells etc. If I want to switch it up I can go to planet fitness to use some machines just for variation but I'd say 90% of the time I train at home. Looking to add more equipment to my garage but for now ive got enough for compound lifts and accessory work.
 
GrizzleB said:
Thanks! Yes most of the time in my garage. I have a power rack, around 500 lbs Olympic weights, flat bench, one for incline, pull up bar, ez curl bar, dumbells etc. If I want to switch it up I can go to planet fitness to use some machines just for variation but I'd say 90% of the time I train at home. Looking to add more equipment to my garage but for now ive got enough for compound lifts and accessory work.
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Knowing how most garage gyms look:
If I ask for pics of your gym you are in trouble, because you would have to clean, paint and whatnot! Hehehe! I bet its a heavy duty beast-cave!
 
hairygrandpa said:
Knowing how most garage gyms look:
If I ask for pics of your gym you are in trouble, because you would have to clean, paint and whatnot! Hehehe! I bet its a heavy duty beast-cave!
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Its ok, took much crap everywhere cause of all the kids. I'll get pics soon. Getting my daughter to sleep then I'll post up today's workout.
 
Ok did shoulderd when I got home from work.

Barbell Press
45x8
95x5
115x3
135x3
155x1
165x5x3
135x8
115x10
95x12

Incline bench rear delt raises
10x15
19x15x6

Numbers are weird because I got new dumbbell handles and they weigh 4lbs each with collars.

Lateral raises
19x15x5

Decline bench front delt raises
19x15x5

I'll probably shoot for 165x5x5 on press next shoulder workout. And throw in some more stuff, I was pressed for time my 2 year old kept coming out in the garage and the other 5 kids wouldn't help me out lol.

Heres a pic I snapped, been crazy vascular lately, probably cause I'm still getting leaner by the day.


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Hey guys, I trained back yesterday before work. I tried to tuesday but felt ill, not surprised because both my kids came earlier from school throwing up. I did manage some deadlifts Tuesday but stopped because I just felt wayyyy off. I didn't keep track of everything I did. Started off with chin ups in 8 rep range. Various grips, roughly 3 sets of each, wide, neutral, narrow grip, then some pull ups. Then went and did t bar rows with v grip. I believe it was about 5 sets 10 increasing weight each set. then did some rackpulls. 135x5, 225x5, 315x5, 385x3, 435x1, 455x1, 475x1, And 500x1. Ivec never pulled 500 lbs, I was stoked. Finished up with variatiins of dumbell curls, ez barl curls, decline bench db curls, hammer curls. Kept weight light and Just focused on form and contraction. Took a few pics after. I'm loving eclipse, probably will be grabbing another bottle soon. Downloaded a new camera app today which takes much better pics. The last 2 are from 30 minutes ago. Never been this lean or vascular. I'll make sure to take notes tomorrow when I train legs so I can have a better update. Excited me and the wife are finally off together on a saturday night! Y'all have a wonderful evening, enjoy your friday! Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link RemovedInvalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
 
Dang man definitely looking lean!
 
LeanEngineer said:
Dang man definitely looking lean!
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I appreciate it man!

Well since I had the night off with the wife this evening we went out to eat dinner with our kids. Haven't actually gone out for dinner in forever. Then took the kids to the trampoline park because they'd never been. I jumped a lot as well, good cardio. So leg day got delayed, I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow from jumping lol. Gonna try to hit the gym in the am to do some leg work. I'll post up if I do. Have a good evening everyone!
 
Couple pics my wife took in better lighting. Back finally getting some definition. Hoping to hit legs today, just been super busy. Will update later on if so. Anybody give me a bodyfat % estimate? Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
 
GrizzleB said:
Couple pics my wife took in better lighting. Back finally getting some definition. Hoping to hit legs today, just been super busy. Will update later on if so. Anybody give me a bodyfat % estimate? Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
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Looking awesome brother
 
Thanks man! Eclipse still working well, staying lean and no estro sides. Probably ordering a 2ns bottle this week to continue. Did legs at the gym last night. I've never done leg press so it was nice to switch it up. My quads got insanely tight after that. Heres the workout

Leg press
135x15
225x10
315x8
365x8x3

Leg extension
70x12
90x12
110x12
130x10
130x10
130x10

Seated leg curl
50x15
80x15
100x10
100x10
100x10

Calf extensions
50x15
90x15
130x12
170x12
170x12
210x8

Hip abduction (2 different machine one outward and inward)
100x20
100x20
100x20
100x20

Ab machine
95x12
95x12
95x12

ab twist machine (both sides)
100x15x3

Heard those hip abductor machines suck but I've been reading that knee pain can be caused from using all quads and not enough hips so I figured I'd try it out. I'm definately sore in different places so maybe I'll do legs twice a week if I can fit it in. One squat day and one machine day with leg press at the gym. That's it for now, y'all have a good day!
 
Heres my chest/tri workout from yesterday, overall feeling great!

Bench warm up
45x8
95x5
135x5
185x3

Bench
240x5x5
265x1
285x1
295x1

Incline BP
135x8
185x5
155x5
155x5
145x5
135x5
135x5

Incline db flys
30x12x3

Flat db flys
30x12x3

Overhead triceps extensions
60x10x3
 
Hit shoulders today, was quite a choir with my 2 and 4 year old constantly in the garage with me. Great workout though, awesome pump too!

Overhead press
45x5
65x5
95x5
115x3
135x3
165x5x5

Behind the neck shoulder press
115x5x5

Incline bench rear delt raises
30x15x3
10x20x3

Lateral raises
30x12x3
20x12x3
10x20

Decline front delt raises
20x20x3


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Looking awesome! Takes a lot of focus to be able to train with little ones around!
 
Got a back workout in last night after work. Feeling great still, my joints have been feeling great. I found a sweet deal on flexatril, I've added on curcumin, and am running transdermal B-aet which seems to give a great feeling overall. Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday!

Deadlifts
135x8
225x5
315x5
385x3
435x1
475x1(PR)
495x1(PR)

T bar rows
2-45lb plates 10 reps
3-45lb plates 10 reps
4-45lb plates 6 reps x3

Meadows rows
2-45 lb plates 5x3
2-45lb+25lb plates 5x3

Pull ups
Body weight 5 wide grip x 2
Body weight 5 x 2
Bodyweight +25 lb plate x 5

Did various curls, I'm starting to notice curls with the e-z curl bar hurts my right elbow.* Its always been an issue,* I don't even directly train biceps except on back day.* Been doing reverse curls and those seem to hit my biceps very were, and I enjoy hammer curls. Still cant curl much.*Any suggestions?
 
GrizzleB said:
Got a back workout in last night after work. Feeling great still, my joints have been feeling great. I found a sweet deal on flexatril, I've added on curcumin, and am running transdermal B-aet which seems to give a great feeling overall. Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday!

Deadlifts
135x8
225x5
315x5
385x3
435x1
475x1(PR)
495x1(PR)

T bar rows
2-45lb plates 10 reps
3-45lb plates 10 reps
4-45lb plates 6 reps x3

Meadows rows
2-45 lb plates 5x3
2-45lb+25lb plates 5x3

Pull ups
Body weight 5 wide grip x 2
Body weight 5 x 2
Bodyweight +25 lb plate x 5

Did various curls, I'm starting to notice curls with the e-z curl bar hurts my right elbow.* Its always been an issue,* I don't even directly train biceps except on back day.* Been doing reverse curls and those seem to hit my biceps very were, and I enjoy hammer curls. Still cant curl much.*Any suggestions?
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I use the straight bar for curls rather than the EZ Bar, but I do get that elbow pain when I use the preacher curl.
 
DemntedCowboy said:
I use the straight bar for curls rather than the EZ Bar, but I do get that elbow pain when I use the preacher curl.
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Yeah I'll try curling with my Olympic bar. My plates for dumbells, ez curl, and tricep bar "1. Maybe I should pick up a smaller straight bar off Amazon. Thanks for dropping in!
 
Couple back shots my wife took this morning. Anything I should work on? I wanna bring up weak points overall. My calves are tiny but I can't seem to get them to grow. I want my back wider, and thicker. Upper chest as well. Any recommendations on what's worked for any of y'all? Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
 
Went to PF last night to do legs. Man 2nd time doing leg press and I get an insane pump using it.

Leg press
135x10
225x10
315x10
405x8x3
315x10
225x12
135x20

Leg extensions
90x10
110x10x5
130x8

Seated leg curls
60x15
100x15
100x12x4

Calf extensions
110x12
150x15x3

Goton the treadmill at the end and did a Mile since I haven't done cardio in forever. My calves were on fire when I left. Will probably squat sometime later this week. I'm going to try and work in squats one day, then PF leg workout similar to the above. Y'all have a good day, time change got me all messed up I'm rushing to get to work lol!
 
BEAST73 said:
Nice Workout! I will be doing some of the same workout movements as well this Wednesday.
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Thanks bro! I'm enjoying the different workouts but definitely wanna hit squats, stiff leg dead and goodmornings this week. My joints are feeling much better. I started using transdermal B-aet recently and I believe its helping, also seems to provide me with more natural energy so I can take less stims. B-aet is good stuff! If anyones looking for some holler at me!
 
Got a workout in today, here how it went.

Bench warm up
45x8
95x5
135x5
185x3

Bench
245x5x5
275x1
290x1
300x1

Incline BP
135x8
185x4
155x6
155x6
155x6
155x6
155x6
135x8

Flat db flys
40x12x4

Skullkrushers
60x12x5 (fat grips)
60x9x3(close grip)

Overhead triceps extensions
70x8x4
60x10x4
 
Did a quick squat sesh today, kept it simple as I'm trying not to aggrivate my right knee. Switched up stance too which was a nice change of pace. Now getting some sun before work. Yall have a Good day!

Sumo Squats
45x5
135x5
185x5
225x5
275x5x5

Narrow stance squats
225x5x5
 
Went to the purple gym and got a back workout in. Also got in another bottle of eclipse as well as lithos and a bottle of Epoch spray. I have bloodwork coming up in April so I may do one last pin at 250 on Wednesday then stop until test time comes. Anyone have suggestions on getting back to trt levels? I've had people tell me take 2 weeks off, some say 3, then others say take off 2 then do my regular shot of 100mg 3 days before labs. Any recommendations? anyways here's the workout, yall have a great day!

Wide grip lat pulldown
105x10
135x10
165x10
195x6
195x6
195x6
165x8
135x10

V grip cable rows
90x12
135x10
165x10
165x10
165x10
135x12
105x20

Mts row
50x10
50x10
50x10
50x10
50x10

Back extensions
50x15
90x15
170x15x4

Single arm preacher curls
40x12
40x12
40x12
50x8

Smith shrugs
135x15
225x10
225x10
225x10
 
Hey guys, been a busy week. Did my last pin of 250 test cyp on Sunday. Gonna give it 2 weeks then probably resume my normal trt dose of 100 every 3.5 days. I'll probably reschedule the lab work since they have it on a Monday (April 8th) and try to do it Wednesday or give it a little more time to and push it till the next wednesday. I just want to make sure I'm back where I was. Did shoulders the other day after watching some Athlean X vids and tried to change things a little bit. Also posting my squat Day from Wednesday. I tweeked so'e thing in my lower back so I stopped after that. Overall feeling good though back still hurts a little. I got in some more eclipse, but I a bottle of epoch spray, and some lithos so I'm doing each at 5 pumps am, and 5 pm.

Overhead* press
45x8
65x5
115x3
135x3
155x1
170x5
170x5
170x5
155x6
145x6
115x10
115x10
95x12
95x12
95x12

Upright row
95x8x5

Incline bench rear delt raises
10x15
20x20x5

Single arm lateral raises
40x10x4
10x15x3

Overhead shrug
10x12x4


Squats

45x5
95x5
135x5
185x5
225x3
275x1
315x5x5(PR)
345X1
375X1(1RM PR)

Stiff leg deadlift
135x12
225x3(3rd rep ouch)

Overall I was very happy to hit 315x5x5 on squats even though I hqd to cut my workout short I feel ill be back at it this evening or ill give it another day then hit chest. Yall have a good day!
 
Hey guys, back still feels a little off but I did manage to get in a chest/tri workout. I cant fincmy logbook but I believe I remember everything.

Bench Press
65x5
95x5
135x5
185x3
225x1
250x5x5

Incline Bench
135x8
175x5x5
135x7

Incline DB flys
40x10x3

Flat Bench flys
40x10x3

Skullcrushers
60x12
80x8x3
60x12

Overhead Tricep Extensions
60x8x4

I've dropped lots of water weight since last week? probably since i stopped pinning, 2 weeks off test shots this Sunday. Can anyone offer opinions on when to start back at my trt dose for bloodwork? Would really appreciate it. Also using hypernova on backfat and abs. Opinions? Id say I recomped more than bulked during the first blast. Squat Max is 375, bench 300, and 500 deadlift. All these tested after warmup sets and my 5x5 workout except for reads, in sure I can do better.Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed
 
^Thank you!

So last week was extremly busy. We were running around everywhere trying to get my 2 youngest in daycare. Finally found one daycare accepting 2 year olds and they started today. Now hopefully my wife can get moved to more days so that we are able to come hone together to care for our 6 kids. The switching off is getting old fast. I am excited for now that ill be child free on days I can work nights so ill be able to workout more often. Hit 250x5x5 on bench press last week. Did some light deadlifts after tweaking my back I wanted to just shoot for volume and finished them with a 135x40 amrap set. Also hit shoulders but I struggled that day. I did hit legs today and felt decent other than my knees aching some. Overall feeling good, slowly getting stronger and leaner.

Squats
5x45
5x135
5x185
3x225
1x295
320x5x5(PR)

Calf raises
225x12x5

Good Mornings
135x10x3
 
Hey guys, Ive been real busy lately and kinda slacking on this log as of lately. I only got in a few workouts last week and my chest one was a bad day so I cut it short. I did hit back hard a the gym, and had a good squat sesh? Hit 320x5x5 and followed up with 6 sets of calf raises at 225x15x5 and finished with good mornings 135x12x5. That left me sore as hell for 4 days. Ill try and keep this updated this week. Hit shoulders today and got some pics, my back fat is slowly but surely dropping.

Overhead press
45x8
65x5
95x5
135x3
155x1
170x5
170x5
170x5
170x5
170x5

Behind the neck press
115x8x5

Upright row
95x8x3

Incline bench rear delt raises
20x20x3
20x15x2

Seated lateral raises
20x20x2
20x15

Standing lateral raises
15x15x3
10x20x3


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Looks like a great workout! Shoulders look nice and full!
 
Looks like a great workout! Shoulders look nice and full!
 
love2liftkat said:
Looks like a great workout! Shoulders look nice and full!
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Thanks Kat, I felt good today. Now leaving work early, having serious abdominal pains. I hope its not the Noro virus, I had that 2 years ago and it was the most agonizing pain ive ever felt for 3 straight days. If its still bad in the morning ill go to the doctor.
 
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