Becoming the Iron Lion

[BC22]

Been steady at it.

My last leg session was fucking awesome. I could feel the quads all the way into my hip on every set of every movement. I tossed in the pendulum squat for the first time in ages, only put 1 plate on there since it was the last exercise, I was gassed and I don't need my knees acting up and it felt decent. Needless to say I was hobbling the next 2 days.

Push and pull were y'day and today. The push session was just fair. Felt like I missed something because the feeling from the previous sessions in terms of connection wasn't there. Still got some good work in though.

Pull today was solid. Still riding the high volume wave but, as I've progressed the log book I've noticed I'm back to resting longer between sets and the gym sessions are stretching out over an hour and a half compared to right at an hour as before.

Just need to find a happy medium..... Part of the longer rests is from the super sets. My biceps on pull day and triceps on push day don't feel ready for the next pull or push set so I'm waiting a bit longer. Don't want my sets ending early from limb fatigue. I'll probably save the limbs till the very end and see if that shirts shortens things a bit.

Absolute beast!

 

[Montego]

Rest.

Tried to find a new pair of shoes to train in but nobody had shit.

I'll probably pull the trigger and get another pair of metcons since I can't find anything else to even try on.

The Mets are fine but, they're not a great shoe for walking and I would like both...
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[ERock5]

Rest.

Tried to find a new pair of shoes to train in but nobody had shit.

I'll probably pull the trigger and get another pair of metcons since I can't find anything else to even try on.

The Mets are fine but, they're not a great shoe for walking and I would like both...
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I recommend adidas ultra boost. My favorite shoe as far as feel goes

 

[BC22]

Rest.

Tried to find a new pair of shoes to train in but nobody had shit.

I'll probably pull the trigger and get another pair of metcons since I can't find anything else to even try on.

The Mets are fine but, they're not a great shoe for walking and I would like both...
.

ASICS gel Kayono. Most comfortable shoe I’ve ever worn and great for both gym and walking. I’ve tried ALL the shoes at some point and these are the shit!

 

[Montego]

I recommend adidas ultra boost. My favorite shoe as far as feel goes

Ended up getting a pair of Reebok Nano 2s. Buddy if mine swears by them so I'll give em a whirl.b

ASICS gel Kayono. Most comfortable shoe I’ve ever worn and great for both gym and walking. I’ve tried ALL the shoes at some point and these are the shit!

I've got a pair of those that I walk in, actually almost wore completely through on the sole, but they're too squishy for me in the gym. I prefer a minimalist flat sole shoe.

 

[Battousai]

Haven't checked in a while. How's the wrist doing?

 

[Montego]

Haven't checked in a while. How's the wrist doing?

It's doing ok.

Lateral pressure aggravates it so I'm being a bit more picky in my exercise selection.

Work on the other hand bothers it regularly. Hopefully it'll keep improving though.

 

[Montego]

Last few days of training have been good.

Went straight through three days, legs, push, pull.

Legs was really good. Upped the weights a touch and everything held together just fine.

Same with push, did have a bit of wrist inflammation y'day before and after pull but, nothing too bad.

I think it came from switching up the incline hammer press, which bothered the wrist, to a matrix plate loaded incline. The handles on the hammer machine have a slight angle, and those angles on all presses give me issues, but the matrix machine is flat.

The issue was I went too heavy too fast lol. 4 plates a side for a set of 7 then backed it down to 3 plates. Felt really good but, just jumped too quick.

Pull was good but not great. Progressed but, I was very short on sleep and even though I got stronger it didn't feel like a particularly great session. Next session will be better though I'm sure.

Still in a really good grove with food. Eating a ton and to the point now where I'm having to add in snacks to keep the weight going up. These have been extra fruit, some of those protein chips (they're not great) and ninja ice cream ever night.

Getting there!

 

[Montego]

Low quality images from Sam's second show this year.

We pushed the food a touch harder Friday. Pulled a little bit more water Friday night and Saturday morning.

Visibly fuller this week and kept the dug out glutes.

No diuretics, no voodoo the final week. Just get ready, make slight changes and go.

Hopefully he'll get professional pics because these pics don't do him any justice.
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[Montego]

Push today wasn't very good.

Think I am just run low on sleep because I couldn't get up for the session and I actually cut the session an exercise short because I was just going through the motions.

It could be training volume and frequency being too high but, a sudden "crash" like this isn't what I would expect. A slow decline in training ability over a few weeks would be more likely.

Anyways, rest, eating, hopefully extra sleep tonight and back to it.

 

[Bigjape34]

Get some rest and keep pushing brotha you got this

 

[samgraves82]

Low quality images from Sam's second show this year.

We pushed the food a touch harder Friday. Pulled a little bit more water Friday night and Saturday morning.

Visibly fuller this week and kept the dug out glutes.

No diuretics, no voodoo the final week. Just get ready, make slight changes and go.

Hopefully he'll get professional pics because these pics don't do him any justice.
.

Thanks man. I'll have the real pix tomorrow

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[Montego]

Legs today.

Borderline sick a couple times but I held it together.

Legs are doing pretty well..... Very minimal knee issues and the connection is holding up well.

We'll see where they go when I start a little blast here in the next couple weeks.

 

[Montego]

Rested yesterday (slept most of the day between meals) and worked last night. Sleep was planned and not due to fatigue or anything like that.

Only got about 4 hours of sleep when I got home this morning though before I pulled myself out of bed to go train.

It was push and even though sleep sucked the session was actually very good.

Instead of pulling weight off the incline machine press I just snorted some nose torque and went in. Got 9 reps at 4 plates a side instead of 7. Then my second set i stayed at 4 and got 7. Two backoff sets matched my second and third set of last week so, progress.

Swapped dips back to decline machine. Added a rep to each set from 3 sessions ago or however low it was. I went ahead and seatbelted myself in this time and just jammed the wrist into place so it couldn't move and it was ok. Still a bit of an issue keeping it in place..... Might actually use a strap next time to see if that will hold it.... Talk about feeling like a cunt. 4 sets, 3 plates a side for 12,11, 9,8 I believe then a double drop.

Body Master press. Didn't use neutral grip, just regular flat press. Stack for 8, 6, 240*10, 9

Four sets of cable flys.

Lots of machine laterals between everything and some triceps work with the prime attachments.

Diet changed a bit. Just eating more. I'll update that tomorrow after I'm home and settled from work. Almost time to crank up a little blast!

 

[Montego]

Off day today. My low food day. Training is the almost the same but a little lower protein/fat and higher carbs.

Rice meals those days get to 300g. Potato 350. Intra carbs 50g), plus an extra carb (100g) and protein shake post training.

Diet -
All weights after cooking except egg whites and oats.

1-
16oz egg whites
100g oats
10g ghee
1banana

2-
225g chicken breast
250g Jasmine Rice
50g avocado (half a small one ish)
1 apple

3 -
225g 93/7 beef
250g Jasmine Rice
50g avocado
1 banana
100g melon

4 -
Same as 2

5 -
225g Chicken breast
200g Jasmine Rice
10g ghee
1 orange

6 -
250g strip steak
250g potato

7-
1 pint Ninja creami ice cream

Also during the day i have a bag of the quest protein chips since my wife bought me a bunch of them. Not a fan but they help with crunch needs.

Anyone can feel free to add that up cause I got no idea on totals.

 

[Montego]

Well I was going to train today but I fucked that up.

I leave my gym stuff in the trunk of the car but, like last year, my bands start to melt in the bag when it gets this hot so, I pulled it all out and took it inside. Needed to wash my sleeves as well.

I was running late today and forgot to bring anything with me. Since I was already short on time I just turned right around and went home.....

I have a strict don't talk to me when my headphones are on policy and since I didn't have them, I already knew I would waste more time talking to people then training anyways so I called it a loss.

Everything else is going pretty good. Food increases have been nice and weight is still holding, actually dropped a couple pounds today after 12 hours of sleep. I should be off work tomorrow so I'll get this pull session in and just enjoy the extra rest day.

Gathering it all up to do whatever it is I'm doing ATM because I have no real direction or plan currently other then eat more and train.

 

[Montego]

Push yesterday was good. Progressed a good bit without any short cuts taken.

Waiting on my goodies for the cycle from IL but, I bumped the test up to 900mg yesterday to go ahead and get rolling.

Cycle is gonna be

900 test
400mg deca
250mg tren e

My body naturally wants to hold onto fat so, for myself, tren during a time when I'm pushing food hard is pretty beneficial. I don't need much, as you can see, to keep things from getting to far out of hand bodyfat wise so, this should do.

I'll probably toss in an oral at some point when progress slows. Not sure what, dbol or anadrol most likely.

GH will be at 5 units every day I remember to take it. I'm bad about missing it on my off days since I usually only take it on training days.

Pull today!

 

[ERock5]

Push yesterday was good. Progressed a good bit without any short cuts taken.

Waiting on my goodies for the cycle from IL but, I bumped the test up to 900mg yesterday to go ahead and get rolling.

Cycle is gonna be

900 test
400mg deca
250mg tren e

My body naturally wants to hold onto fat so, for myself, tren during a time when I'm pushing food hard is pretty beneficial. I don't need much, as you can see, to keep things from getting to far out of hand bodyfat wise so, this should do.

I'll probably toss in an oral at some point when progress slows. Not sure what, dbol or anadrol most likely.

GH will be at 5 units every day I remember to take it. I'm bad about missing it on my off days since I usually only take it on training days.

Pull today!

Cycle looks pretty familiar. Must be a bread and butter cycle

 

[Montego]

Cycle looks pretty familiar. Must be a bread and butter cycle

Just simple and effective

To your point, completely different goals, same drugs.

Drugs are wildly over focused on. As long as it's real, you can do anything with whatever. Some lend themselves to work better in certain aspects but, it all works as well as you do in the end.

 

[johnsonl3872]

Nice log….was a rep for IL long ago and always got good results.


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[Montego]

Whew. Fucking smoldering hot today.

98 outside 111 real feel and thermometer in the gym read 107.

It was leg day and, overall it was good but, I've got some issue with my left quad still.....

I thought it was tore a few weeks ago, then the dent went away so I thought it was good, now at the bottom of the sweep it is inflamed and sore like I had a bad pin in the area. I never pin that low, and I haven't pinned that quad with gear since the possible tear, so I'm not really sure what it could be. I do put GH there time to time but, I can't say that I've ever gotten PIP from a GH injection...... I'll keep an eye on it and see what happens but, I'm not really sure where it came from.

Training wasn't affected by it at all.

Progressed all my weights but, I did pull out 2 sets of split squats at the end. My legs were thrashed, my pump was gone, I was getting dizzy and I had gone through a gallon and a half of intra up to that point. (Most of it was dripping from my clothes to the floor)

Finally did some hair removal....I was getting out of hand so that happened.

Push tomorrow!

 

[Montego]

Nice log….was a rep for IL long ago and always got good results.


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They've been solid for years and years for sure.

Thanks!

 

[Montego]

Been a crazy couple days.

Push yesterday was good. I only trained chest, no delts or triceps. Everything went up but, it wasn't the same session so not groundbreaking.

Took my mom to the cancer Dr today..... She's got a spot on her lung they are going to go in and remove. She's never been a smoker, just bad luck. They dunno if it's cancerous so, they will go in, remove it, test it and if it is, remove the lymph nodes and the bottom portion of that lung all in the same hospital stay.

Hoping for good news there but she won't go in till the end of September. My wife and her have a Vegas trip planned and she wasn't missing that for anything so, she'll go when she gets back

 

[Montego]

Legs

Solid day. I have been adding in 5mg yohimbine in the morning to try and curb the caffeine use a bit, forgot this new pre I'm testing out has yohimbine in it .... Was fucking dying during the session lol.

It was the coolest it's been here in weeks and I was drenched. Crashed pretty hard after the first two exercises but they were cranked up to 11 so, no progression after that but plenty on those.

Glutinator machine (I think that's what it's called) and extensions working warm up 3 sets

Single leg Rodgers squat press SS standing leg curl 3 sets last set was a double drop on each

Rodgers squat pro 3 sets

Hip hack split squat SS seated leg curl 2 sets

Limping. Legs were blasting full and, I feel like they're continuing to come around with this approach on high reps and more volume. Today I was a couple sets short of what I've been doing but it was plenty.

 

[Montego]

Side note -

I have been using the same brand and type of rice for years. Bulk Jasmine Sam's club brand.

I haven't had any other type of rice at home at all during that time and I rarely eat out much.

Wife made her and my mother in law stuffed peppers tonight and she used shit minute rice. Had a pack left over already cooked so I had that with one of my meals. (Perfect weight btw, exactly 300g)

Within five minutes of finishing it I felt like my stomach was going to explode. Crazy sharp pains and just bloated AF.

I knew better.... Fucking instant shit.

 

[Montego]

Went to train but didn't really

I was on the fence about going in today since I feel like the volume and frequency have gotten to the point where I'm not recovering well even with the added peds the past couple weeks. (Snorting abombs doesn't help apparently)

Saw a buddy in the gym I haven't seen in a while and got caught up talking. We were catching up and I told him how I had been struggling with what direction I was going to go after the set backs from injuries.

He's a freak, turned pro years ago thenmoved to open after a bit, dealt with his share of setbacks, over 40 now and trains with one of the best in the world.

He told me, "there's always another show, you aren't on anyone's timeline except your own and, You don't owe anyone a damn thing when it comes to your body and health except your wife and kids "

Really got me thinking.

I put the expectation out there that after I shit the bed at my last show, despite winning my class, I was going to do one more for redemption. I told my wife and kids and everyone on the board I would. So I felt like I HAD to go out one more time.

This made me push harder then I could recover from physically and in turn, we get dinged up. Then we get dinged up mentally but, keep pushing and making things worse and worse. The entire time feeling like I was letting everyone down when I myself was over it.....I can say I honestly didn't feel like I wanted to go on stage again after the first 6 months because of all the issues. I'm not a quitter though and slowly but surely, I just didn't enjoy the gym anymore.... The last couple months I've turned the corner in how I felt and accepted I was done...... Until today ....... Now I think I just need time enjoying the gym again without any expectations.

I never started training to compete, I loved training and dieting so, the stage was just a thing I could do as well. If I continue to enjoy my training, maybe I'll get to a point where another prep is something I WANT to do, maybe not. But, I'm no longer going to train to get back on stage, I'm train to improve my physique and enjoy the pain and struggle in the gym.

 

[Montego]

Well, today was definitely not what I expected my 40th birthday to consist of.

Daughter called me this morning asking if I would go to the ER with her and the grandson since my son in law was going to work.

Poor grandbaby (I call him Goose because he makes a goose sound when he gets worked up lol) was projectile vomiting everywhere. She was also throwing up so I went to help out with him.

He's 6 months old so it was best to get him checked and we were there for around 5 hours? I guess he got past the worst of it since last night because, he was able to keep down some Pedialyte and slept most of the time we were there. Daughter was still down though.

While we were there, youngest called and was running 101 fever. Then the wife called with fever. Wife picked up the youngest and went to the urgent care. My wife didn't get them tested for covid but, that's what they have given all the symptoms. They called it a viral infection.

Finally got home, went to train pull, it was good, picked up everyone's medicine and now I'm back home waiting on all the sicko's.

Hopefully I don't catch whatever they have. I rarely get sick, tren kills germs, so the rest of the week should be much better lol.

 

[Bigjape34]

Well, today was definitely not what I expected my 40th birthday to consist of.

Daughter called me this morning asking if I would go to the ER with her and the grandson since my son in law was going to work.

Poor grandbaby (I call him Goose because he makes a goose sound when he gets worked up lol) was projectile vomiting everywhere. She was also throwing up so I went to help out with him.

He's 6 months old so it was best to get him checked and we were there for around 5 hours? I guess he got past the worst of it since last night because, he was able to keep down some Pedialyte and slept most of the time we were there. Daughter was still down though.

While we were there, youngest called and was running 101 fever. Then the wife called with fever. Wife picked up the youngest and went to the urgent care. My wife didn't get them tested for covid but, that's what they have given all the symptoms. They called it a viral infection.

Finally got home, went to train pull, it was good, picked up everyone's medicine and now I'm back home waiting on all the sicko's.

Hopefully I don't catch whatever they have. I rarely get sick, tren kills germs, so the rest of the week should be much better lol.

Jesus bud well happy birthday. Special meal planned?

 

[ironlion]

Well, today was definitely not what I expected my 40th birthday to consist of.

Daughter called me this morning asking if I would go to the ER with her and the grandson since my son in law was going to work.

Poor grandbaby (I call him Goose because he makes a goose sound when he gets worked up lol) was projectile vomiting everywhere. She was also throwing up so I went to help out with him.

He's 6 months old so it was best to get him checked and we were there for around 5 hours? I guess he got past the worst of it since last night because, he was able to keep down some Pedialyte and slept most of the time we were there. Daughter was still down though.

While we were there, youngest called and was running 101 fever. Then the wife called with fever. Wife picked up the youngest and went to the urgent care. My wife didn't get them tested for covid but, that's what they have given all the symptoms. They called it a viral infection.

Finally got home, went to train pull, it was good, picked up everyone's medicine and now I'm back home waiting on all the sicko's.

Hopefully I don't catch whatever they have. I rarely get sick, tren kills germs, so the rest of the week should be much better lol.

Happy birthday. bro,

 

[Nood]

Happy Birthday Bro! All down hill after 40
I’m 41 lol