Thanks!
oh yeah?
wow even more impressive .
You should have, why you gotta leave me out in the cold bro!
You are very welcome!
Thanks Kat! I try to get myself up to your intensity!
I was still an athletic power house, with explosive speed, and decent muscular endurance. Bad shape for me is still pretty athletic.
You are very welcome!
Thanks Kat! I try to get myself up to your intensity!
My initial reaction was to think WTH, but I have been in and around the game long enough to know that it was coming from a positive place. I chose to take it as a compliment that he thought my results were good enough to likely need to be PED assisted. It is a matter of education and expectations.
Around this board, and to be honest most boards that are supplement based in nature that everyone thinks that the biggest and best results come from the supps and the PED's. People will get on and run a sponsored log and all of the sudden the eyes are on them. Those who have a lot of self pride suddenly go from loosely following a diet plan to being strict and trying to do the product right so they can get more logs. What really improves them the most? The new attention to detail, and extra discipline they are using. Then they get leaner add a few lbs and suddenly product X looks like a miracle when in reality the biggest changes were behavioral.
I don't fault people for falling into that mindset, it is easy to do. I will tell you that logging a product ALWAYS increases my positive goal seeking behavior for exactly the same reason.
Ouch BAD shape? Let's say I was chubby, or soft...
No you are right, bad shape is correct.
I think Jim probably felt you were also being a jerk by discounting my hard work and was just trying to take up for his boy. Plus people who are making good progress naturally get very frustrated when people imply that excellent results can only be obtained when on PEDs. Your assumption of that probably triggers that preexisting annoyance even though it is the first time you asked it is the 1000th time we have seen it asked.
A possible rewording of the question that would be met with much better response might be. "Wow, you made one hell of a transformation, did you do that naturally?" Sounds much less like an assumption / accusation and more like you are extremely impressed which was your intent.
Ouch that's rough, but I laughed. House was such a funny prick!
Now let's all play nice.
He knew you had been training in the AC and thought you were adapted to the cold.
The rest seems to be doing the trick, a lot of the stiffness is subsiding in my back. Traps still a little tight but not hurting or anything so I am pretty happy with that. According to Amazon I will have my slingshot, BFR bands, and other stuff by no later than the 13th. Got a new digital food scale too. Should make things easier. Mine was a cheesy old unreliable spring scale, and it finally gave up on life.
My poor daughter, she is having to deal with her first real death experience. I mean she has experienced it a little but not someone she loved. The owner of her Karate school passed this weekend. She has been at his school in his Karate Day Care every week day for over 5 years, and thought of him like a grandfather. She is completely heart broken. Someone left a memorial at the door of the facility for him and when she saw it this morning she just fell apart all over again. Nothing can really make a parent feel as helpless as your child being in pain and not being able to make it better. Was pretty hard to see this morning. Sitting here knowing she is there being reminded of him all day, and knowing she will be breaking down off and on all day is just kind of got me well for lack of a better word sad. Of course it is a loss of a man I respected too but my concern if for Trinity. Anyway, it is a good thing I have another night off tonight to baby her and love on her a bit. Poor little thing.
Thanks, she is doing really well now, just as I expected. I know the funeral will be rough on her but she is already doing so much better.
good thing u r ok, and pokemon hunting is reall haha, good workout man.Morning everyone, thought I would report in. Had a ROUGH weekend, had to travel to Austin for a network upgrade we were doing on Friday and had it blow up in my face effectively ruining my weekend. A planned 6 hour outage turned into a 30+ hour fiasco where we were not even sure we could get the network back online due to a switch failure. Couldn't even leave the office for food. Was pretty brutal I have not pulled an all nighter in a very long time. Actually the staying up wasn't so bad. It is just that I AM STILL DOG ASS TIRED!!!!!
I did get up early that morning for some leg work.
Hacks - 100x10, 190x5, 280x5, 370x5, 460x6, 460x, 460x6, 460x6, 460x6, 460x6, 370x6, 370x6 - Hands down the most volume I have ever pushed on hack squats!!!! I have gone heavier but this was 6 sets at 460!
Leg Press Squat Stance - 20p x 8, 8, 8
Calf Machine 390x8, 8, 8
Drawbridges x8, 8, 8
Rope Crunches 180x8,8,8
Friday extra "cardio" moving heavy UPS around office all evening. For anyone who does not know, a UPS is basically just a big long awkward metal box with a 150lb battery in it for when power fails.
Saturday work and sleep, Sunday slept almost all day but promised my daughter I would take her to the park to hunt Pokemon. So I got up and took my happy ass to the park for a few hours yesterday too. Probably why I am still exhausted. Running around in 100 degrees on the hunt for make believe animals. LOL Yeah you can take my Man card for playing if you want, my Daddy Card trumps a Man Card ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!!!
Today was the full body Hypertrophy workout. I was pretty tired but got in and got it out of the way because tonight is my son's birthday and we are taking him out for dinner. He has already made his request for a steakhouse and some cheesecake for his cake.
(sorry that is funny the way you worded it) would be frequency and variety. Train them 2-3 times a week, superset tibial raises with them every set and switch back and forth between very heavy weight for 5-6 reps, and tempo work doing 5-5-1-5, so 5 second negatives, 5 second stretch at bottom and 1 second contraction and 5 second hold at top for 5-10 reps with as much weight as you can handle in that range. Also make sure you are doing something that works the soleus too as a lot of the size comes from the soleus. Once you bend your leg your soleus us activated. So I tend to bend my knees a little on my straight leg stuff to make sure I am always hitting them a little if training. However you will also want direct work by doing the bent leg calf raise as well.
thank u bro , I'll try to sort out through ur advice and get a good routine.My recommendation for a genetically challenged calve,
If you stick to it in 2 months you should see some difference and in 6 they should be pretty noticeable. Calves grow slowly so keep consistent and on the grind and they will grow.
Thanks Daniel! This should be a lot of fun!
Thanks, me either! Although, other than Dead Lifts I am not sure I will get my best max on this attempt. He told me to move up carefully and feel things out as I go and decide how far to push it based on how everything is feeling. Before this shoulder business I could bench 365, and an estimated squat around 465-475, but I haven't pushed very heavy on either of them in weeks so we shall see how things go. I think I should still be moving some weight and would be ecstatic to see some increases although I don't expect any on those two lifts. I do however expect to beat my old max of 575 on dead lifts. I am thinking a 600 pull is going to go down this weekend!
Yes Sir, knowing where people are around here is cool. I like to meet up with people for a workout sometimes.
If you're on the north side you should come get a session in with me.
You know what area of Houston you will be in?
I didn't know they built one out there. I may have to go out there just to practice my swing in the AC sometime. I haven't swung my clubs in years!