Hey guys....
So I started the stack yesterday which was a day off from training for me. Today was chest/triceps which is a change from my contest prep. I was doing arms together but decided to change it up and try and confuse the old body...
I wanted to go over a couple things about me and my diet at this point.
I'm 48 years old ... started lifting about 2 years ago ... but during the first year of training I had 3 injurys ... which set me back about 3 months. I train 5 days a week with Monday and Thursdays off. I split up the training with days off instead of doing 5 days in a row with 2 off. I feel that my body needs the rest in between the training days.... remember I'm old ...
My training at this point is performing about 10-15 reps per set and I use very strict form. During the contest prep I was really able to learn to have a great mind/muscle connection and zero in on making the particular muscle group work to the best of its ability. I truely believe that in order for the muscle to grow you must be able to establish the mind/muscle connection. I believe that it is very important to purposley dial in to the actual muscle working and do everything possible to "relax" all the other muscle that could become involved if your just concerned with moving the weight from point A to point B.
Now.... in order to do this properly ....at least in my case... I have to not get caught up in the amount of weight that I'm moving. If I'm concerned with how much weight I can move... I should become a power lifter. That is not my goal. My goal is to gain muscle mass that is bigger, rounder and fuller than what I have now. I believe the only way to that is to focus on the muscle that is "supposed" to be worked. You will not move as much weight, but you will in my belief have more of an effect on the muscle your working.
Now dont get me wrong the amount of weight that I'm using as I go into the 8 week phase is to increase it but not at the expense of losing the mind/muscle connection.
My diet right now has just been bumped up to about 3500 calories on workout days ... and non-workout days is about 2800 calories. I was at 3200 on workout days but I'm holding my condition fairly well so Matt (Porter) made a change in the diet. Matt was able to do so much with my physique in just 3 months of contest prep that I have him on retainer for my off-season
I plan on logging my progress through out my off-season. I will have pics as well as video which I believe adds alot more to logs then just pics.
Sooooo I started the AH/AL yesterday which was a day off from training.... today was a training day .... obviously nothing to really report yet. I don't expect to really start to feel anything till about 1.5 to 2 weeks into it. Although that may be abit sooner as my AndroEnhance was shipped today so I will be adding that into the mix as soon as it shows up.... hopefully by Friday at the latest.
I will post some pics from last friday that I sent to Matt so you guys can get an idea where I'm starting from ... I have to get to the other computer that has them on it ... haha.
I want to thank you guys again for following .... and please hit up my facebook page and YouTube Channel for even more info .....
Ok.... trying to add in pics ... but they are too big and need to be resized to 800x800 ... need to figure out how to do that ..... instead for now I will post a couple pics of the very beginning stages of the contest prep to what I looked like at the show... I'll figure out how to resize the other pics and get them up hopefully by tomorrow...
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