akboom87
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They should have that stamped on themIt's a delicious way to regret a decision
Kleen - Project 50: Under Construction
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gphagan1
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Just got caught up reading Wed. and yesterday’s posts, and I love good Chili and love Tortillas with any kind of dip as well, but I’ve never liked any of the diet drinks with artificial sweeteners. I think it’s because when I was a kid my Dad would drink Tab, and every once in a while I would try one, well because my Dad drank them, but I always thought they tasted like medicine and couldn’t stand them really. So I think that’s why any time I get a taste of artificial sweeteners it still tastes like medicine. I guess it’s Saccharine PTSD from the 70s and 80s.
Rocket3015
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The worst tasting soda ever - Fresca !!Just got caught up reading Wed. and yesterday’s posts, and I love good Chili and love Tortillas with any kind of dip as well, but I’ve never liked any of the diet drinks with artificial sweeteners. I think it’s because when I was a kid my Dad would drink Tab, and every once in a while I would try one, well because my Dad drank them, but I always thought they tasted like medicine and couldn’t stand them really. So I think that’s why any time I get a taste of artificial sweeteners it still tastes like medicine. I guess it’s Saccharine PTSD from the 70s and 80s.
gphagan1
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Oh yeah, I think they made it originally with grapefruit and sweet & low.
Rocket3015
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Oh yeah, I think they made it originally with grapefruit and sweet & low.
It was bad !!
MrKleen73
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If it is the one I am thinking of it is a bit nostalgic too. Reminds me of the ones you could buy from the food vending machine in the lunch room in High School!It's a delicious way to regret a decision
MrKleen73
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They should have that stamped on them
Oh man TAB was from the devil!!! I got used to Diet Cokes but now I am a Coke or Sprite Zero kind of guy. I think they use sucralose which is in almost overy protein powder nowadays. Far better than a tab or even an old diet coke. Still an ice cold Tope Chico is better most of the time unless I just crave a flavor.Just got caught up reading Wed. and yesterday’s posts, and I love good Chili and love Tortillas with any kind of dip as well, but I’ve never liked any of the diet drinks with artificial sweeteners. I think it’s because when I was a kid my Dad would drink Tab, and every once in a while I would try one, well because my Dad drank them, but I always thought they tasted like medicine and couldn’t stand them really. So I think that’s why any time I get a taste of artificial sweeteners it still tastes like medicine. I guess it’s Saccharine PTSD from the 70s and 80s.
Oh yeah, it was horrible, but not sure it was worse than tab. I remember one time my Mom made iced tea with saccharine and forgot and doubled up on the saccarin and it was so horrid!
MrKleen73
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4/21/23 Upper Push
WU = 1 mile walk with chain doing upper body warms ups.
DB Low Incline - 15x15, 25x15, 35x15, 50x15, 60x15, 60x13, 60x6@Fail - All sets with 60 except the last one were about 1-2 RIR, the lead in sets were done slower with me creating my own tension to make the more work. I would say everything from 50 on was a solid work set.
IronTec Decline Press - 45ps x15, 55ps x13, 55ps x15, 55ps x11 @RPE10 - Really went for a stretch in the lower positing and a hard flex towards the top. Kept tempo about 3-1-1.5-1 Chest was ridiculously pumped after this!!! All sets can be considered working sets. I rested a little longer in between the first and second set which explains the higher reps on the 2nd set of 55.
IronTec Shoulder Press 45ps x15, 45ps x13, 45ps x11 - First 2 sets done with more of a supinated hand grip, last set was prone grip
Super Set
Rope triceps Extensions 50x14, 50x12, 50x11, 50x9 - Triceps were blasted after this and barely moving when I flexed they were so full.
Band Pull Aparts - 50, 37, 23, 20 - I choked up after the first set to make these harder. I have to work really hard to keep my right trap from climbing up during these but that means they are working the muscles I need to get stronger for a good bench.
Biceps for pump and blood flow -
DB Supinating Curls - 5x58 @ a burning RPE8 - Performed with a smooth cadence, and a 1 second hard contraction at the top of each rep. I did these flexing the weight up more than just curling it, creating extra resistance with my triceps.
The session was great! I definitely stimulated some growth with this one. Weights may not be too heavy but the volume and effort was very high.
I overshot my 2700-3000 goal by 35 calories. Still need to work on getting that fat back up a little, and bring the carbs down a bit, but this is definitely a solid day of nutrition!
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4/21/23 - Morning Weight - 212.4 - I totally expected to see a higher weight with about 75-127 more grams of carbs than I normally get in and plenty of salt yesterday. Although I love the chili it is such a mixed macro meal it makes it challenging to get things just right on macros since I am out of protein powder right now. I had to rely on the protein from the chili to hit my targets.
I was going to fast today but I didn't train my upper back last night. It was still toasty from the Dead lifts the other day. So I am going to do a pull session and will be breaking my fast around Noon today. Fasting most of the day Saturday, then will do quads on Sunday. I am contemplating doing something like a Upper Push, Upper Pull, off, Quads, Off, Upper Push & Pull, off, Hinge, off & repeat. I will have whatever program I decide to do all set up before I start the accountability thread that kicks off on May 1st.
WU = 1 mile walk with chain doing upper body warms ups.
DB Low Incline - 15x15, 25x15, 35x15, 50x15, 60x15, 60x13, 60x6@Fail - All sets with 60 except the last one were about 1-2 RIR, the lead in sets were done slower with me creating my own tension to make the more work. I would say everything from 50 on was a solid work set.
IronTec Decline Press - 45ps x15, 55ps x13, 55ps x15, 55ps x11 @RPE10 - Really went for a stretch in the lower positing and a hard flex towards the top. Kept tempo about 3-1-1.5-1 Chest was ridiculously pumped after this!!! All sets can be considered working sets. I rested a little longer in between the first and second set which explains the higher reps on the 2nd set of 55.
IronTec Shoulder Press 45ps x15, 45ps x13, 45ps x11 - First 2 sets done with more of a supinated hand grip, last set was prone grip
Super Set
Rope triceps Extensions 50x14, 50x12, 50x11, 50x9 - Triceps were blasted after this and barely moving when I flexed they were so full.
Band Pull Aparts - 50, 37, 23, 20 - I choked up after the first set to make these harder. I have to work really hard to keep my right trap from climbing up during these but that means they are working the muscles I need to get stronger for a good bench.
Biceps for pump and blood flow -
DB Supinating Curls - 5x58 @ a burning RPE8 - Performed with a smooth cadence, and a 1 second hard contraction at the top of each rep. I did these flexing the weight up more than just curling it, creating extra resistance with my triceps.
The session was great! I definitely stimulated some growth with this one. Weights may not be too heavy but the volume and effort was very high.
I overshot my 2700-3000 goal by 35 calories. Still need to work on getting that fat back up a little, and bring the carbs down a bit, but this is definitely a solid day of nutrition!
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4/21/23 - Morning Weight - 212.4 - I totally expected to see a higher weight with about 75-127 more grams of carbs than I normally get in and plenty of salt yesterday. Although I love the chili it is such a mixed macro meal it makes it challenging to get things just right on macros since I am out of protein powder right now. I had to rely on the protein from the chili to hit my targets.
I was going to fast today but I didn't train my upper back last night. It was still toasty from the Dead lifts the other day. So I am going to do a pull session and will be breaking my fast around Noon today. Fasting most of the day Saturday, then will do quads on Sunday. I am contemplating doing something like a Upper Push, Upper Pull, off, Quads, Off, Upper Push & Pull, off, Hinge, off & repeat. I will have whatever program I decide to do all set up before I start the accountability thread that kicks off on May 1st.
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Dustin07
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is your incline adjustable? (I noticed you called it low incline). I need to explore the incline options better at the two gyms I'm frequenting right now to see if one has a lower stance grade than the other one, I have a feeling my shoulders would love that vs the more upright one
MrKleen73
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Yes Sir, it is an older Weider bench I have had for 20+ years. LOL I really need to get myself a better one that is more stable. It holds the weight easily but the adjusting mechanism is just one thin bar you stick a pin through so it moves a little laterally making me concentrate on stability more than pressing in a lot of cases. I did them raised one notch and would guess it puts it between a 10-15 degree angle.
Also, I just updated my workout with the Biceps, I forgot to put them in there.
Biceps for pump and blood flow -
DB Supinating Curls - 5x58 @ a burning RPE8 - Performed with a smooth cadence, and a 1 second hard contraction at the top of each rep. I did these flexing the weight up more than just curling it, creating extra resistance with my triceps.
MrKleen73
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Yes Sir, that is such a rewarding feeling!Putting in some good volume, and I bet you were getting some good pumps. I’ve always loved getting that good old arm pump at the end of a workout, whether it was bi’s, tri’s or both, that I can hardly move my arms afterwards.
Also, I have been listening to the "Renaissance Periodization - Scientific Principles of Hypertrophy" book on Audible during my walks the last week and man that book is good. A fountain of knowledge explained in a very easy to consume way. The audio book comes with a PDF of all the tables, charts and reference he mentions throughout the book too so it can be a true resource. They are also working on a Workout App that actually has algorithms to adjust for MEV, and MRV based on your performances in the previous sessions. It sounds really interesting and something I might give a shot once released.
gphagan1
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I’m gonna have to check that out, sounds really good.
Rocket3015
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I have never listened to an audio book, but that might be something to help me past the time during Chemo ???????
MrKleen73
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Definitely! I didn't for the longest time and now that I started I really enjoy them during cardio. I can't pay attention to them and do my lifting sessions at the same time. So intense music for weight sessions is the choice.
4/21/23 Upper Pull - Limited Time so short rest periods, 1 minute on compounds and 30 seconds on isolation movements
5 minute walk
Assisted Pull Ups Prone Grip **Body weight at time of training 215 lbs** -110x15, -90x15, -80x7 regrip with neutral grip +4 reps, -110x9@ Fail - Done methodically no explosiveness or momentum with a dead stop at the bottom before each rep. Lats were burning a little!
Seated Row Machine 100x15, 100x15, 110x15, 120x9@Fail - Done methoically with full protraction and a dead stop ate the stretched portion of every rep. Brutal!
Straight Arm Lat Pulldown - 50x15, 60x15, 70x15, 70x8@fail - WHEW! The lats were burning on these bad boys for sure! Triceps too from being worked last night.
Standing Cable Curls - 50x15, 60x15, 70x15, 80x9.5@Fail - Nice burn, and pump from this!!!
DB Side Raises - 5x100- some partials done to complete all in one set. Serious burn and pump here!
DB Incline Rear Delt Swings 5x53 - I was barely moving them by the end so I stopped there. I do a lot of Bnd Pull Aparts on other days too so I get the major volume elsewhere.
Entire session took 42 minutes from the time I got started. I was really pushing the pace and added in more failure on more sets since fatigue was setting in and I couldn't rest as much as I wanted to get more volume in so increased the intensity of the final sets to make up the difference slightly.
Pump is huge, and muscles are toast!
Rocket3015
Legend
And this my friend makes it all worth while !!!
akboom87
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Awesome workout man!! Those dumbbell side raises whew !!!
MrKleen73
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Hell yeah!
Thanks, those are so brutal, the burn gets unbearable during these. My delts seem like they will get a lot out of this with all the metabolic activity and cell swelling going on during these to drive hypertrophy!
I ended the night on the lower end of calories intentionally. My body is used to fasting a couple times a week so the back to back session had me wanting to have a slightly lower calorie day and just give enough carbs right around the workout to do the job. Ended up with some nice macros, and hitting my fiber goals too. Finished my night off with a Chili's Guiltless Grill 10oz sirloin with grilled avocado. It was definitely enjoyable, but not like eating one of my own steaks.
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4/22/23 - Morning Weight 209 on the dot! - Pretty happy with this, 2 days of eating that round out to maintenance and only up .6lbs from my weight after that 40 hour fast. I have no complaints here. Scale is moving in a zigzag pattern in the right direction!
Tonight we have a big "chosen family" birthday celebration. Going over to some of our best friends of over 20+ years for their son's BDay. We will be killing a lot of meat, they always order extra meat for me when I come over. So everyone else loves when they find out the wife and I are attending because he gets ribs and nice cuts of meat for me. LOL I will definitely be having some drinks. Decent chance it will be enough to get a nice buzz. This is one celebration I am definitely going to partake in. I will most likely stick to the meats and some form of liquor on the rocks or in a calorie free or low calorie mixer. I am probably just going to take some vodka, Topo Chico, and lime juice and make myself Ranch Waters most of the evening. That both keeps calories down, and guarantees I am also rehydrating at the same time! The salt from the meats should also help with not getting too dehydrated. With that being said I intend to fast all day until we head over there around 6 or 7.
Also, I will be posting up a link in here either tomorrow or Monday with the link to invite people to the thread to either participate or support the group that join in.
Renew1
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Just got caught up reading Wed. and yesterday’s posts, and I love good Chili and love Tortillas with any kind of dip as well, but I’ve never liked any of the diet drinks with artificial sweeteners. I think it’s because when I was a kid my Dad would drink Tab, and every once in a while I would try one, well because my Dad drank them, but I always thought they tasted like medicine and couldn’t stand them really. So I think that’s why any time I get a taste of artificial sweeteners it still tastes like medicine. I guess it’s Saccharine PTSD from the 70s and 80s.
Splenda is the only one I can really tolerate, man.
MrKleen73
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Yep, sucralose is my go to as well! I can do all of them without any real sides or anything but sucralose is the closest tasting to real sugar that I have found. Lab test show that it doesn't even start messing with the gut biome until you get to a ridiculously high level of intake. Like the equivalent to 40 diet sodas a day or something silly like that. I can't remember exactly but I was listening to it on the Renaissance Periodization Diet 2.0 audio book just the other day where he referenced the studies. Of course those studies could have been paid for by a sucralose company too. There is always that chance.
Rocket3015
Legend
I use mainly Stevia
MrKleen73
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Just picked up 10lbs of NutraBio Protein, and 30 25mg servings of Pineapple HBCD from NutraPro that has electrolytes in it too. I will add about half a serving to my intra drink. For the protein, I got 5 lbs of the Strawberry Shortcake flavor I like of theirs, and 5lbs of a new flavor to try called Chocolate Peanut Butter Bliss. We talk often when I go in, so he was nice and gave me a bag full of samples and a 10% discount on the total.
Still fasting, but I am admittedly very hungry today. Looking forward to the grub tonight! I went and got all my party supplies.
Still fasting, but I am admittedly very hungry today. Looking forward to the grub tonight! I went and got all my party supplies.
MrKleen73
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Oh yeah, I got my secondary cats taken back off and Flex sounds glorious again! My wife is so used to hers now that mine doesn't sound that loud to her. Gotta love the power of a good resonator at keeping the rasp down. Mine is almost 2ft long. It was tuned for not having them and it feels like it is responding better too, but that could also just be the better sound making it feel faster. LOL
Hyde
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Just picked up 10lbs of NutraBio Protein, and 30 25mg servings of Pineapple HBCD from NutraPro that has electrolytes in it too. I will add about half a serving to my intra drink. For the protein, I got 5 lbs of the Strawberry Shortcake flavor I like of theirs, and 5lbs of a new flavor to try called Chocolate Peanut Butter Bliss. We talk often when I go in, so he was nice and gave me a bag full of samples and a 10% discount on the total.
Still fasting, but I am admittedly very hungry today. Looking forward to the grub tonight! I went and got all my party supplies.
Let us know what you think of the HBCD. I will need some at some point soon I expect.
MrKleen73
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Will do, I intend to try them out today with my 3 scoop serving of Oracle. So should be an interesting ride. I will make my HBCD separate so I can give an honest review of the flavor.
Last night was great, I kept my drinking reasonable and only had 4 shots of tequila total. It was the boys 21st BDay so it was insisted I have a birthday shot and then 2 30oz ranch waters ith 1.5oz tequila in each. I kept my drinks to the Ranch Water so as little calories as possible with each drink. I messed things up a little making a chili con queso taco which added some additional calories, but I still kept calories under 2000.
The salt content in the bark on the brisket, and the dry rub on the ribs was loaded with sodium so I have a decent level of sodium bloat this morning. I am sure I could have gone without supplementing sodium earlier in the day but I ain't mad about it.
Here are my estimated calories and macros from yesterday. I didn't weigh anything and went a little high on my brisket estimates just to try and keep things legit.
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4/23/23 = Morning Weight 211.3 up 2.3lbs from yesterday morning. I expect to start peeing a lot of this out. Once I finish my morning coffee, I will start knocking down more water. I will make today a lower fat, high protein and carb kind of day. Going to break my fast around 10:00AM today and then eat again about 1PM, then plan to hit the gym at about 1:30-2PM. It's a leg day, and I plan to go to the gym today and get on some machines. I may kick off with some sets of squats but right now my back is still recovering a little so I probably won't push them too hard so much as get in a little volume and practice on them and then push volume with leg press, and other machines I only have access to at the commercial gym.
MrKleen73
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Oh yeah it was all good too! I realized this morning Sage left the last half of a drink on the counter so I had less alcohol than I thought. She carried it to the car without emptying it and left it on the counter for me. I am so happy I didn't get pulled over for something. I would have passed all the tests for sure but an open drink in a car is still a big nono!Sounds like a good time! Glad to see you had fun and a few drinks and kept it all in line that’s awesome. Man makes me wish a I had a big fat brisket to light up on the smoker today
It was a great time, it was actually more of an adopted nephew, but I can see how it looked like my kid. The food was on point, this is that guy that just has magical pit and smoker skills. You know at least in Tx, there is one in every friend group if not more. I have many friends on competitive BBQ teams. So the summer months are delicious for me!Sounds like a great time, and Happy Birthday to your son. Chili con queso taco and smoked Brisket, now that sounds like my kind of day.
I had the Chocolate Peanut Butter Bliss protein with my fast breaker, and it is pretty good even with water. Honestly one of the better tasting chocolate peanut butter flavors I have had. Nice consistency, not too thin, and tastes creamy. I am normally underwhelmed by this flavor combo compared to what it could be. I also had 2 servings of Cream of Rice Cereal, and topped that off with 1.5 Tbls of Peanut Butter, ate a kiwi and a cutie.
gphagan1
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Yeah I’ve been to Texas a couple of times and have ate some great BBQ, and that’s coming from a Georgia boy where we have some good BBQ too. The steaks and burgers in Texas were great to, and I love Tex-Mex food.
MrKleen73
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Yep Tex-Mex is one of my favorite food groups! LOLYeah I’ve been to Texas a couple of times and have ate some great BBQ, and that’s coming from a Georgia boy where we have some good BBQ too. The steaks and burgers in Texas were great to, and I love Tex-Mex food.
I am about to test out 3 scoops of Oracle for my Lower Body Quad focus session. Wish me luck! I am finishing the drink now then heading off to the gym in the next 15 minutes or so. Maybe I will finally get the BA tingles at 3 scoops. I have had a prickle or two in my face like it was going to start a couple times at 2 scoops so we shall see. Hoping it doesn't enter the overstimmed category but I don't really think it will with the type of energy it provides.
MrKleen73
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I am a sucralose kind of guy. I also like to use Brown Rice Syrup when I have some on hand. It has like 20g sugar and 10g complex carbs in a serving. Sometimes like yesterday I will drop in an oz of Torani Sugar Free Salted Caramel coffee Syrup in there for a different flavor profile too. That and a little extra salt makes it pretty good. When I add peanut butter I wait until it is cooked and hot then take 1-4 tablespoons of PB and fling it on top of the cereal, then just drag the spoon through it sideways in a few directions to leave thick stipes of peanut butter so I get a bit of straight PB piping through most bites. The PB taste is much stronger when you get a pipe of straight PB instead of a hint of PB from stirring it in all the way.
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Having a 50 year old kind of day... LOL I am a little beat up. Happy to have a day off and may extend my rest period by a day. I went to the gym yesterday for lower body but my left hip / hip flexor was super aggravated. Making yelp in pain when I did any abduction or adduction while rotating the hip and using the hip flexors at the same time. I started out trying some leg curls and after yelping out some curse words a few times just trying to get my leg up into the curling postion I decided that this was not the exercise for me. So I was just going to try to get in some light leg press to get things going and was going to limit ROM to keep things comfy. However that was just not in the cards. Even with only 4 plates on the machine it was bothering my hip. I think I may have aggravated the labrum somehow, or just strained a hip flexor. It is hard to tell. Anyway, I wasn't ready to give up on getting a good session in so I did a full upper body hypertrophy session. I really enjoyed the session but woke up last night feeling like I dislocated my rib on the left side right by the thoracic regionagain. That, or maybe something just under the scap on that side. I have an old injury where I dislocated those ribs during a car accident and every once in a blue moon it just decides to come back and take a bite out of my ability to perform. I started a round of ibuprofen today just to help with healing and inflammation.
All of that being said here goes the session, it was a really good one. Very mind muscle connection based efforts.
4/23/23 - Morning Weight - 211.3 - Upper Body Hypertrophy
Pre-Workout - Olympus labs Oracle @3 scoops!!!!
Pre/Intra Drink - 32g Country Time Lemonade, 32g Dextrose, 25g Super Carb = 69g carbs
Incline Hammer Strength - 45x15, 70x15, 90x15, 90x13, 90x11 - Some great contractions and an immediate chest pump!
HS Iso-Lateral Supinated Grip High Row - 45x15, 70x15, 70x13, 70x12 - Done one arm at a time with full stretch and protraction and slight twist at back to squeeze the mid back harder.
HS Seated Dips - 180x17, 180x13@RPE10 - Pecs and Triceps really pumped after these!
HS Iso-Lateral Seated Row - 90x15, 90x13@RPE10 - Done one arm at a time with full stretch and protraction and slight twist at back to squeeze the mid back harder.
HS Seated Shoulder Press - 45x15, 70x13, 70x11@10 - Pump was getting a bit silly by this time!
Lateral Raise Machine - 70x20, 70x20, 80x17, 80x15 @ Failed - I only completed a partial rep on rep 16.
HS Rear Delt Reverse Fly - 70xFail, 70x Fail, 70x Fail, 50 x Fail - Took these into fully protracted partials on each set, lots of continuous tension, and volume here. Rep Range was 25ish down to about 15 reps. I was focusing more on muscle tension and execution than counting.
Super Set 1
EZ Bar Cable Curls - 50xRPE9, 50xRPE10, 60xRPE10. 60xFail - Really focused on the flexing and keeping reps in the 20-10 range.
EZ Bar Cable Triceps Drag Extension - 70xRPE9, 70xRPE10, 80xRPE10, 80xFail - Really focused on the flexing and keeping reps in the 20-10 range.
Super Set 2
HS Preacher Curls - 50xRPE9, 50xRPE10, 50xRPE10. 50xFail - Really dug in deep here.
HS Seated Triceps Extension - 70xRPE9, 70xRPE10, 80xRPE10, 80xFail - Goal Achieved! I put it down on this session! On both I kept the reps in the 20 down to 10 range!
Sauna Time = 20 minutes
5 minutes of unweighted Rotary Torso Twists- Performed holding belly button back towards my spine to help cinch in the waist a little.
I was pumped to the gills after this bad boy. Went home looking pretty house!!!
Nutrition was pretty much on point. I did need another 10-15g of fiber for the day, but I can get more in Tuesday, or Wednesday if I choose to take tomorrow off and fast a little longer.
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4/24/23 - Morning Weight 211 on the dot. I am happy with this after having a big eating function Saturday while I was off and should have been fasting more that day and created a bigger deficit. Down .3 lbs from yesterday even with almost 300g of carbs.
I am going to put up the accountability challenge thread today, and will link it up in here. Anyone who wants to be one of the participants let me know here and I will go ahead and mention you when I start the thread.
Rocket3015
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MrKleen73
Legend
Will do!
Dustin07
Legend
Dude heck of a session!!!!
Yeah sign me up bro. I'm gonna start one week early (today). I've hit my goal weight on the upper side two days consistently so I'm ready to lean it up a little and my week is weirdly scheduled it works out perfect for it.
Dustin07
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still a crazy busy session though man.
I realized I forgot my knee sleeves today since I washed them over the weekend... contemplated switching to an upper day today but I'm so beat up I'm going to try to stick to my programming and see if I can get the knees warm enough for decent quad work today...
MrKleen73
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Nice, you should go ahead and take your before shot now since starting now. If not just wait for the first but once I get the thread up you can post them in there and get started.
If nothing else you could increase volume and lower weights a good bit. Get lots of blood into the area without beating up the knees too much. Give those knees a little time to recover.
Dustin07
Legend
agreed on both accounts!
my front squat only maxes around 230-245 anyways. I think I might work up and see how it feels to get some working sets in at 185, then drop weight and add bands if all goes well!
MrKleen73
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If knees are a lil crunchy you might even do one or two warm ups just above parallel to get blood into the area and get lubed up ready for full ROM squatting. I have found this helps. That or are good 20-30ish rep set of leg extensions and leg curls to get the knees nice and warmed up.
Dustin07
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that's a good idea, I shouldn't be rushed today so I should have plenty of time to warm up.
for me when I squat without my knee sleeves what I find is that the muscles feel much more strained and sore from an area above the knee cap > through the quads. Generally, the knees are OK, but it's the surrounding tissue that really benefits from the sleeves for me.
MrKleen73
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Give the leg curls and leg extensions or a slightly higher warm up set of squats or two and see if it helps any. It takes some movement to get blood flowing in the connective tissues compared to muscle. The sleeves really help to get them warm faster and keep them warm throughout the workout.
gphagan1
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Yeah these 50 year old bodies have a way of protesting sometimes that’s for sure. Looks like you changed everything up good and still got a good workout in. My shoulders have been giving me problems, again, over the last couple of months. It’s been frustrating because I just really can’t hit them too good lately, everything hurts, so just working around it and do what I can. My wife and I are leaving Friday to go to the mountains for a week, so probably will just give everything a break and see if it helps. You and Hyde are good examples of how to work around injuries, though, and keep at it.
Hyde
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Yeah these 50 year old bodies have a way of protesting sometimes that’s for sure. Looks like you changed everything up good and still got a good workout in. My shoulders have been giving me problems, again, over the last couple of months. It’s been frustrating because I just really can’t hit them too good lately, everything hurts, so just working around it and do what I can. My wife and I are leaving Friday to go to the mountains for a week, so probably will just give everything a break and see if it helps. You and Hyde are good examples of how to work around injuries, though, and keep at it.
“If all I can do today is the leg curl machine, I’m gonna be the legcurling-est motherf*cker in here.” - Chad Coy
Dustin07
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Hope a little time off mends things for you. my shoulder started acting up back in January when I dropped into my wife's xfit box and did an insane amount of bar work... took about 2 months of rehab and a lot of kettlebell armbars to get her feeling normal again.
MrKleen73
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Thanks, much appreciated! Yeah, we just go through those periods. Hitting these hurdles now make me that much more impressed with people like @Rocket3015 who crush it through everything, EVEN CANCER!!!Yeah these 50 year old bodies have a way of protesting sometimes that’s for sure. Looks like you changed everything up good and still got a good workout in. My shoulders have been giving me problems, again, over the last couple of months. It’s been frustrating because I just really can’t hit them too good lately, everything hurts, so just working around it and do what I can. My wife and I are leaving Friday to go to the mountains for a week, so probably will just give everything a break and see if it helps. You and Hyde are good examples of how to work around injuries, though, and keep at it.
BOOM! I try to have this attitude myself. I have really gotten a lot better at pivoting to get a good session in since I came back. The time away from the weights due to injury and frustration not being able to train hard was horrible and bad for me mentally and emotionally. So I have learned to adapt and conquer as best I can!
Amen! Might be a good time to give those a try @gphagan1
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MrKleen73
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No doubt, he is almost making me want to have my push mower fixed for extra weekly activity. I would more than likely still have the yard guys come to weed eat and edge once a month to keep the lines cleaner looking. I enjoy mowing, and using the blower, but the rest of that is for the birds... Probably because I am not efficient at edging with a weed eater and don't have a real edger.
MrKleen73
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So, I just did a look at my daily weights over the last 5 weeks and I have gone from a carbed up 220 on 3/15/23 to a carbed up 211 even with a low of 208.4. I have really been on a roll since I started focusing back in on the fasting. Very happy with that progress. Keeping this train on the tracks!
akboom87
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That’s awesome work man!!!