Yes Sir!!!Dang now that's a solid pump for sure! Popeye arms!
You're welcome, and thanks for letting me log this. I am really enjoying it.Thank you! And very happy to see you enjoying the product so far
AMEN! Lucky for me I do tend to retain a decent bit of my pumps for a while after training. It takes a few hours for everything to get back to normal size. However the initial drop off is a good 20-30% of it.So true. Leave the house feeling pumped and get home after a few hours and flat again story of my life lol
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4/11/23 -Lunch Walk 70 minutes walking the hills by the bayou.
Training - Legs - Squat Based
Preworkout = 1.5 scoops of Olympus labs Oracle
Intra Drink - Country Time Lemonade Mix = 39 grams, Dextrose Powder 35 grams - Total 74g carbs
WU = Stair Mill x 5 minutes - worked very hard to really wake up the glute on these. Same method started with pushing the stairs down, and gradually built up intensity until I was breathing hard, broke a little sweat and heart rate was up high enough. I had a nice leg pump and my glutes were really fired up.
Squats - WU Bar x 20, 135x10, 185x10
Work 225x8, 225x8, 225x8, 245x8, 265x6 - I called it here, the 265 was very challenging at the end. If I turned it into a rest pause set I could have dug out 2-3 more. That was plenty volume and I had a rough set on the first 225 that had my lower back fatigued so I wanted to get away from loading my back without support. I will more than likely try out 245 for all working sets next week to see if more manageable way to add volume.
Hack Squat 225x5>155x6 - My quads were wrecked and this just wasn't going to do me much good here. I didn't want junk volume or to risk anything with lower back that might fatigue it any more.
Leg Press 460x20 with calve press at top of every rep - During my rest period my lower back let me know it was just done and even the leg press wasn't going to work out. So I moved on to leg curls and leg extensions to save the lower back for another day.
Leg Extensions - 80x15, 130x15, 160x15, 175x13, 175x11>145 x fail>130 x fail>100 x fail>85 x fail - Holy Hell the burn!!!! This is one exercise where it is so easy to increase the burn, and I was having to get up and shake out the lactic acid a bit in between sets.
Leg Curls - 70x15, 115x15, 145x15, 160x12>130 x fail>100 x fail>70 x fail>50 x fail - I did these with my hips rotated out intentionally for the first time and really felt them in the outer head of my hamstrings. It's something I got from the EMG series Ryan Humiston and boy did I feel the difference!
Since I wasn't able to increase volume by doing a pressing machine, or squatting machine for 3-4 solid sets I decided today was a great day to add in some intensity techniques to drive hypertrophy. Add in several points of failure to really get in some of those power reps. On each rep I failed at I pushed for another second or two before giving up to really create some hypertrophy.
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The Oracle Experience 1.5 scoops - I decided to give 1.5 scoops a shot since 2 was so money but I wanted to get to sleep a little earlier. I still felt the food on my stomach when I got home, so I gave the product a little breathing room to get fully into my system. I took it around 6:00PM and then went to the gym arriving right at 7:00PM.
I got the same focus changes as soon as I walked in the door. Intent on doing work, again I found myself finding ways to make the warm up a little more intense. Pushing harder on the stairmill, doing calves by adjusting to do a stretch then pressing up onto my toes then doing another single leg calve raise at the top for a couple minutes. Things like that. By the time I got off of the stairmill, I was ready for war!
I found the same drive and aggression to increase intensity and push harder throughout my squats. You can tell by the many drop sets to failure on Leg Extensions and Leg Curls it did not stop with the squats. Even though I had to limit some of my other pressing / machine squatting plans my mindset made me find a way to push the envelope and drive hypertrophy.
So far I am really enjoying this product. I think the 1.5 scoops is a very good compromise between the 1 and 2 scoop options for both being very effective and not causing any problems getting to sleep. I was out on my pillow by 10:30-11:00PM which is not an issue for me. It is when I start getting into 11:30 PM and Midnight before falling asleep that it really bothers me. I think this may be my new evening dose and 2 scoops will be my morning, daytime, or weekend dose. At some point I will bump up to 3 just to let everyone know what that is like because I know people are kind of curious.
Flavor and Mixability - Just to touch on these as i haven't seen too much feedback here. The flavor profile of Oracle is very light, but also refreshing. When I first got it I was a little disappointed because the flavoring was so light. I think I used about 8-9 oz for one scoop that first time. However I am only doing 4-6 oz of water per scoop now as recommended by one of the reps and I find it much more pleasing. Actually somewhat refreshing for a preworkout. As far as the mixability it just mixes right up. Just shake a few seconds in the shaker cup and I am good to go with no residue.