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[dcdogz]

Tuesday - Pull - I miss doing PPL split. Looking forward to going back to this full time in December.

Wide Lat Pulldown
SA Pull Down
Wide Upper Back Row
SA Row
Rear Delta
Preacher Curls
Recline Curls
Lat Pullover

got 14k steps yesterday. 10min on stairmill included

food was okay. Ate breakfast I brought, pizza for lunch (only 2 slices). Filet and potato (limited butter) for dinner

Pretty sure these are knock off Cybex, but both felt really good
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The Hoist Lat Pulldown was actually pretty solid. Good frontal plane Pulldown
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Never seen a plate loaded hoist

The ones that move mostly trash

 

[Meetketchup]

Never seen a plate loaded hoist

The ones that move mostly trash

The only hoist machine I really like is the Incline Plate Press. Crushes upper pecs and allows for a really deep stretch that converges at the top. The rest are mid.

 

[WED]

Never seen a plate loaded hoist

The ones that move mostly trash

This one was actually good.

The leg Ext/Curl were awful. They had a in an crunch, which you'd think they'd crush bc it is like the Hammer Strength ones....but it was horrible.

They had a preacher curl which just looked fucking stupid do I didn't use.

 

[ERock5]

This one was actually good.

The leg Ext/Curl were awful. They had a in an crunch, which you'd think they'd crush bc it is like the Hammer Strength ones....but it was horrible.

They had a preacher curl which just looked fucking stupid do I didn't use.

I used some hoist equipment not to long ago. The only piece I actually really liked and connected well with was the machine row

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Tuesday - Pull - I miss doing PPL split. Looking forward to going back to this full time in December.

Wide Lat Pulldown
SA Pull Down
Wide Upper Back Row
SA Row
Rear Delta
Preacher Curls
Recline Curls
Lat Pullover

got 14k steps yesterday. 10min on stairmill included

food was okay. Ate breakfast I brought, pizza for lunch (only 2 slices). Filet and potato (limited butter) for dinner

Pretty sure these are knock off Cybex, but both felt really good
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The Hoist Lat Pulldown was actually pretty solid. Good frontal plane Pulldown
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The design of the gym looks cool at least haha

 

[WED]

The design of the gym looks cool at least haha

It's small, but has enough good equipment. I can see it getting super crowded at night

 

[dcdogz]

The only hoist machine I really like is the Incline Plate Press. Crushes upper pecs and allows for a really deep stretch that converges at the top. The rest are mid.

yea, the leg ext/seated curl are the only ones that are like high mid. they work but are still super strange

This one was actually good.

The leg Ext/Curl were awful. They had a in an crunch, which you'd think they'd crush bc it is like the Hammer Strength ones....but it was horrible.

They had a preacher curl which just looked fucking stupid do I didn't use.

i had to use the hoist ones that move for seated curl, and leg ext and after a good amount of time i was able to make them work, but i hated them everytime lol
it was always more effort to get what i wanted out of them, then what i was getting.
and the leg ext also hurts the shins real bad lol

 

[WED]

Wednesday - Upper Day

NewTech Flat Bench
Hoist Lat Pull Down
NewTech Incline
Cybex Knockoff SA Lat Pulldown
Flies
T-Bar Row
Lateral Raises
Preacher Curl
SA Tri Pushdown

Walked 2mi back and forth from gym and got in 15k steps with some other trips during the day.

Ate pretty healthy, went to a fine dinning and only option was tasting menu. Was but all the servings were tiny. IDK how many calories I had, but had around 800 to play with to get to 2900. Came close-ish.

 

[WED]

Let's get it. No whey Drip here, although some kind of Maple Syrup protein could be good

 

[WED]

Thursday - Leg Day. Repeat of Tuesday, but the BodyMaster's Hack squat was open. I really do enjoy my pendulum and think it's the best (especially for my home gym), but I do enjoy getting out into the wild and doing a heavy leg press or hack squat.

Walked 20k steps. 4 miles around the workout then did a 3 mile walking tour around Bucharest.

Feeling pretty lean, especially for a long work trip. Maybe European food is better for you. This one was a little aggressive, so spoiler'd it....starting to get a hip crease

Spoiler

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Let's get it. No whey Drip here, although some kind of Maple Syrup protein could be good

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You think this would be good ? Definitely a South thing

 

[WED]

You think this would be good ? Definitely a South thing

I mean, I do love a bacon egg and cheese bagel. So it might be solid. "Reviews" on social media seem positive.

More of a grits texture

 

[Chemicalreaction]

I mean, I do love a bacon egg and cheese bagel. So it might be solid. "Reviews" on social media seem positive.

More of a grits texture

We're I'm from grits and cheese and bacon is a big thing so I'm sure it's gonna taste good

 

[WED]

We're I'm from grits and cheese and bacon is a big thing so I'm sure it's gonna taste good

I make Cheese Grits and Shrimp regularly. Pretty healthy

 

[ERock5]

I mean, I do love a bacon egg and cheese bagel. So it might be solid. "Reviews" on social media seem positive.

More of a grits texture

Definitely need feedback on this when you try it

 

[WED]

Definitely need feedback on this when you try it

It's been delivered. I think I'll eat it Sunday afternoon when I get home

 

[WED]

Let's get it. No whey Drip here, although some kind of Maple Syrup protein could be good

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4/10

Put some zero sugar syrup on it and it's 7/10

I prefer desert CoR. It does have a good bit of protein in it. I'll probably eat it and not order it again

 

[Vision]

The only hoist machine I really like is the Incline Plate Press. Crushes upper pecs and allows for a really deep stretch that converges at the top. The rest are mid.

The OLD school, "over engineered" adjustable seat with a that assisted where great for that.
Multifunctional those things were.

Like @dcdogz said, shit now wobbles, even "heavy commercial grade" 🫩

 

[WED]

W18 Day 1 - Back in the US and not on a VPN constantly? Are we fixed?

Sleep is fucked from Jet Lag. Feeling it towards the end of my lifts, 1st set is okay. 2nd and 3 are struggles. Ended up losing about 1.8lbs while I was in Europe. So happy with that. 7-8 weeks go to. Lock in and get below 210



Walked 17000 steps. Calories at 2900. Solid Upper session in the AM

 

[TommyJam]

Calories at 2900

How's the hunger? What dose of reta are you taking?

 

[WED]

How's the hunger? What dose of reta are you taking?

It's not bad. Eating a ton of volume meals and potatoes. No rice outside CoR. Take 3mg 2x a week. Reta doesn't crush my appetite like Sema did, so it's muted but I can still eat. So good and bad

 

[WED]

Struggling to get through leg workout this morning. Went to bed at 830. Slept pretty solid until about 2am then on and off restlessly until 350. Feel worn down a bit. Struggling to get my resting HR below 110 between sets.

 

[WED]

W18 D2 - Legs Day. Sleep still getting back to normal. First set was mostly fine, but then a drastic drop off. Hopefully get a little more back to normal each day.

Steps - 17k

Macros - 2900: I've seen on social media people use liquid egg whites and mix with PB Powder to get a better consistency and taste. It actually worked pretty damn well


Legs

 

[Chemicalreaction]

W18 D2 - Legs Day. Sleep still getting back to normal. First set was mostly fine, but then a drastic drop off. Hopefully get a little more back to normal each day.

Steps - 17k

Macros - 2900: I've seen on social media people use liquid egg whites and mix with PB Powder to get a better consistency and taste. It actually worked pretty damn well


Legs

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Glad to see the pb thing work

 

[WED]

W18 D3 - Back focused Upper

Sub 225 for the first time in a minute. 224.4. Close to being on pace for hitting 205 by Thanksgiving week. Pretty surprised I came off my Europe trip so well. I worked out and lifted hard and walked 15k pretty much everyday. Give props to the Tren for the nutrient partitioning


Should hit around 17k today.

Added some real peanut butter to my morning oatmeal. Was so good. Been a while since I've had some real peanut butter.


Kinda good. Hard lift, but still getting my endurance under me from jet lag. About back to normal.

 

[dcdogz]

W18 D3 - Back focused Upper

Sub 225 for the first time in a minute. 224.4. Close to being on pace for hitting 205 by Thanksgiving week. Pretty surprised I came off my Europe trip so well. I worked out and lifted hard and walked 15k pretty much everyday. Give props to the Tren for the nutrient partitioning
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Should hit around 17k today.

Added some real peanut butter to my morning oatmeal. Was so good. Been a while since I've had some real peanut butter.
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Kinda good. Hard lift, but still getting my endurance under me from jet lag. About back to normal.
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pb is glorious, im constantly trying to come up with ways to shed fat grams and add pb grams lol

 

[WED]

W18 D4 - Stamina starting to come back around as I'm pretty much kicked most of the timezone adjustments.

Legs today - Dropped the weight some on Add/Abductors. Think I'm going to have to get a machine. I don't mind doing these with a cable iso-lateral, but it's getting harder and hard to stabilize the movements. Wife is excited about a glue and inner thigh machines.


Steps sucked today. Really wanted to jump some rope for cardio, but work consumed me a bit today. Much more than I wanted.

Food good.

Weight jumped up a little bit to 1.8lbs after a dip yesterday.

 

[WED]

Missed a day or two, but legs this morning and absolutely cooked myself. Got done lifting, fed my son then took a 90 minute nap before soccer.

Preworkout trying to get some better posing, but still awkward. Mid back erector detail coming through. Arms and upper body posture still ain't right. Can't hide those quads tho.

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Missed a day or two, but legs this morning and absolutely cooked myself. Got done lifting, fed my son then took a 90 minute nap before soccer.

Preworkout trying to get some better posing, but still awkward. Mid back erector detail coming through. Arms and upper body posture still ain't right. Can't hide those quads tho.

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Damn impressive

 

[WED]

Had a decent break last week not banning every IP after 20s. Guess that was short livid.

Sunday was a full rest day. Slept in. Didn't do much at all