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Couldn't stand it anymore.

Back to training full bore.

Diet is still loose in the way of how many times I'm eating. Eating when I'm hungry. 50-60g protein and 50-75g carbs from usual sources. Fats are minimal. Whole egg here and there Flank, tiny bit of evoo.

Since we did an upper and lower day Monday Tuesday I started muscle rounds today.

Strength isn't great but it's a good starting point. Felt every movement so well. Excellent mind muscle connection.

Pumps were absolutely brutal too. Pics below are about thirty minutes after training.... Holding pumps is a good sign. Tight. Full. Weight back up around 230 after getting the cheesecake out of the way and settling back into a semi diet lol.

Cardio is 30 minutes ed atm.

Trt dosing until next check in when we put together a plan.

Upper muscle rounds -

Plate loaded pull-down - 270*24, 230*22
Yates Smith row - 225*26, 24
Star flat press - 270*24, 22
Pin selector shoulder press - 80kg*24
DB lateral - 35*24
Skull Crusher - 70*25
Ab machine - 110*25

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Damn man, that's intense! Great work!
 
1st picture: anyone else see that dude checking out monte in the background? My goal is to solicit the same response when I wear briefs and sneakers. Daymn.
 
Crushed lower muscle rounds.

One thing I've made a promise to myself to do this off season is to make sure I'm feeling every rep in every set. This is hard enough to do but, even harder when you're so focused on progressive overload. I've made t commitment though, I'll follow though with it even if weights are down a tad.

Lying hamstring curls - 4 warm up sets going up to a tough twelve just to get blood in them and have them firing. No real big effort here just something I do and recommend others do before legs. John meadows is where I got this from.

Smith Squat - 315*25, 23
Quad extension - 150*25
Hammer shrug dead stop partial dead - 225*22
Seated calf raise - 95*26* 23 (holding stretch been mini sets, pain, so much pain)
Hammer iso preacher curl - 55*25/ 2 hands 55*24
Cable crunch - 80*26

I look like I've got a skin disease.
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Right at 230 this morning.

Struggling to keep the water off. Having to go over a gallon and a half each day to flush still.

Only a couple hours sleep last night, early day.
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Feedback from a Judge at the show.

Agree 100% with his critique.

Got work to do, starting with a rear relaxed every time I have a chance like below from ten minutes ago. Didn't hit it like this Single Fucking time. I'm obsessed now.
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Little bit of a scary moment this morning. My Sartorious cramped up again out of nowhere. Not sure of the cause either. Yday was an off day. Water and electrolytes were very high.

I did have a "free meal" last night though. It wasn't sloppy just, 23oz porterhouse, loaded baked potatoe and two salads. Maybe the sodium blast? I woke up lighter though. I dunno.

Today I was going to start putting pump work back into my loading days but, this changed my mind pretty quick for the time being so, it was just upper loading.

DB rows - 110*12, 110*10
Seated dual handle cable row - 160*20(way to light)
Incline Smith - 315*12, 315*10, drop 225*9 partials
Star Shoulder Press - 360*12, drop 270*10
DB lateral - 40*20, 40*16
DB partial - 60*15, 60*13

Done. Pretty good starting spot on strength, form and rep execution. Now we start the grind. We're gonna get strong as fuck.....
 
Those of you with adductors know....

I've been having to use this for quite a few months, just figured I would share a trade secret
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LOL, hopefully one day I will need that.


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Feedback from a Judge at the show.

Agree 100% with his critique.

Got work to do, starting with a rear relaxed every time I have a chance like below from ten minutes ago. Didn't hit it like this Single Fucking time. I'm obsessed now.
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Don’t agree with him on your hamstrings but who am I! Back width is always something for most of us can improve on. I have a wider waist as well so that’s huge emphasis for me and of course my legs in general.


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Don’t agree with him on your hamstrings but who am I! Back width is always something for most of us can improve on. I have a wider waist as well so that’s huge emphasis for me and of course my legs in general.


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I definitely need more hamstring drop on the side shots.

The center muscle of the ham is thick but the outer heads could definitely use some work.
 
Got our plan set

Will ride this out for a bit.

Drugs leave 200mg test

Not happy about that but, I'm following orders.

20 minutes cardio 3x a week


Training days -

1- pre workout
1c oats
2 Whole Eggs
1tbsp pb
12oz egg Whites

Intra -
50g cyclic dextrin
10g eaas

2 - post workout
16oz Whites
2 packs oats

3-
250g chicken breast
225g rice

4 -
250g chicken breast
225g chicken breast

5-
250g Flank
2c greens


Non training days

1-
1c oats
1tbsp pb
12oz egg Whites

2-
250g chicken breast
225g rice

3-
250g chicken breast
200g rice
Or
50g protein from shake
2 packets oats

4 -
250g chicken breast
1c greens

5-
250g Flank
2c greens
 
Those of you with adductors know....

I've been having to use this for quite a few months, just figured I would share a trade secret
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Ha! I've been having to put deodorant between my thighs because they started rubbing really bad last week. Works okay. I'll have to order some of this!
 
sorry i havent been on much but i had my pitiutary removed. you look awesome my friend!
 
No Flank.

Went with a little NY strip tonight.

Also, 2x a week I will have a higher calorie clean meal.

So

steak, baked potato, big salad

Sushi

That type of meal
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Damn looks good!!


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Smoked..... I forgot how brutal full fortitude loading days are since I removed the pump work in mine a couple months back. This wasn't even the worse day lol, upper loading is more brutal. I'm looking forward to it.

Lower loading

Safety bar squat - 405*12, 405*10 drop 225*15
Low close leg press - 12 plates *10, drop 8*10
Partial deads - 225*12, 10 (started to get light headed working up on these so I didn't push them too heavy, worked the stretch hard)
Calf Raise - 160*12,:12,12,12

Lat pull down ss pec deck 2 rounds
Preacher curl ss dip machine 2 rounds
Kneeling cable lateral 2 sets

I had lost any type of pump by the time I did my first super set for upper pump. Shows I'm out working the food.
 
2nd post training meal

I usually don't like spicy food but, this sauce is petty good. Just a tad bit of heat and only a couple grams of fat per serving.

I've only used the Mild one since it's got minimal calories.
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Where did you buy %o ketchup tired of hot sauce


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G Hughes ketchup is the bomb!! Along with everything else he makes!!


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Man I can't ever find it anywhere here. I don't use any sauce for the most part except enchilada sauce on my chicken sometimes, but the 93/7 is dry as hell. Maybe Amazon has it...
 
Where did you buy %o ketchup tired of hot sauce


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Man I can't ever find it anywhere here. I don't use any sauce for the most part except enchilada sauce on my chicken sometimes, but the 93/7 is dry as hell. Maybe Amazon has it...
Walmart only has it usually.

It was at my Kroger the last time I went though.
 
I have been using the G. Hughes BBQ sauce on my plain chicken. Good stuff!
 
Walmart only has it usually.

It was at my Kroger the last time I went though.
Yeah the Walmarts here have been wiped out constantly and I've never seen that stuff here at all. They don't have the simply Heinz ketchup anymore either, which has less sugar than the regular. Frustrating
 
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