Day 8 The Warrior returns with the heart of a BEAST!
Well, I have to say either my conditioning has gotten better very quickly or the HyperTest and Hemo are starting to shine. Maybe a little of both. I was very focused in the gym today and able to push through my sets with a lot of will and aggression. I decided to check out my Push Press tonight since it is in this rotation, I warmed up lightly and my tweak in my shoulder did not bother me. So I tested it on the 1st work set and was able to push it a little on the 2nd one. I did not do burnout on my reverse curls because I was deadlifting today. This is the first time I have done deads in about 6 weeks I think. I would have to look back. But my hamstring had me a bit worried so I kept it reasonable.
Push Press - 95x10, 145x10, 165x9>145x3>95x3 Was very happy with this since I was able to do it with out aggravatng shoulder. Still have a mass builder in the shoulder arsonal.
Dumbbell Pullover - 50x10, 80x10, 95x11>75x6>60x4 Typically I try to do my first work set pretty close if not the same as my second workset but I am feeling the exercises back out unt the rest periods an work load to see what I can do. As this goes along you will see more consistency in weight on first and second sets. These are also responsible for the serratus you see in my lean pics.
Reverse Curls - 40x15, 60x13 Like I said above did not want to fully kill my forearms the try to do deads. The deads took care of the rest of my grip for sure!
Reverse Grip Bench - 95x15, 165x10, 215x11>165x7>95x4 I decided to do these instead of lying triceps ext, just seems more appropriate to bring in some mass on an already seperated tricep, as well as give the shoulders a little more work.
Dead Lifts, 225x10, 225x15, 275x10, 325x8>275x1 At this point 4-5 different times during the set the octagonal plates bounced smackng me in the shin with the bar. Mind you I wasn't putting them down quickly just if I put it down on a point it rolled back to flat. I do my deads close in to my shins so this was just enough. I don't mind the scrapes on the way up and I got those but the bat smacking into me with blunt force trauma was not okay. Will do my deadlifts elsewhere! I am still very happy with the numbers considering no wraps and it having been a while since I have done them.
Leg Ext 130x15, 170x15, 210x10>170x6>130x4 Man my quads were burning.
Seated donkey calve raise - 250x15, 310x12, 2-1-2-1 tempo pausing both top and bottom.
Oh yeah the pump today was great, I was full and massive looking vascularity is up as well.
I have lost 4 lbs since day 1, Yes that's right I am 202 right now. I have tightened up like I said and have been running preety low carb intake. So some of this was glycogen as explained earlier but some of thids was fat too. What none of this was is muscle I can tell you that for sure. Like I said I am looking pretty big right now. Stomach area is smaller and skin trying to catch up. Should be pretty noticieable in the pics by next week. I wont be surprised to be down around 198-199 by Saturday of next week. I will weigh in then, have my first carb refeed that night and weigh myself again the next day for a non-depleted reference point as well. We will take pics of both as a comparison.
Current Weigh 202, weight at start 206, everything is going as expected.
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