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🌊 🌊 🌞 🌞 WED Hot Summer || 61 Week Prep Log || Show Date 8/7/2027 🌞 🌞 🌊 🌊

WED said:
Aight got 15k steps before the airport. Walking pad under my desk helped a good bit. So hopefully end the day in a good surplus.

Got two day passes lined up at a gym called Strong & Shapley in NJ. Gonna be early mornings.

About half my suitcase is food and nutrition (steroids). Will 100% get flagged for the protein and PWO at security
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Which walking pad do you have? I've considered getting one for work also. For the days I'm in the office trailer mostly.
 
ERock5 said:
For as much traveling as you do you stay consistent as fuck. Most people would use that as an excuse to fuck up
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I've had a decent break recently, but it's hard. I try to bring food, cook at the hotel, and limit meals out.

Saturday I'm going to Eastern Europe for a week. I just hope to come home the same weight. Maybe I can grocery shop....but endless catered meals and team dinners are never calorie friendly
 
WED said:
I've had a decent break recently, but it's hard. I try to bring food, cook at the hotel, and limit meals out.

Saturday I'm going to Eastern Europe for a week. I just hope to come home the same weight. Maybe I can grocery shop....but endless catered meals and team dinners are never calorie friendly
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Haha stay strong brother unless the food is delicious, in that case fuck it enjoy yourself lol
 
Also I crash out at the airport on the return flights like 75% of the time. Never enough time to eat and just get shitty snacks and candy
 
Lifted at a gym called Strong and Shapely this morning in New Jersey. Place is awesome. 700 vintage pieces. Cybex Eagle, Flex, Strive, Body Masters, Nautilus OG stuff.... Doing legs tomorrow. Will edit and post some pics later
 
One piece I forgot to get a pic of but first time using was an OG Chain Driven Nautilus Pullover. I've used some Gen 1s before, but this was pretty cool. Chain def isn't as smooth a kevlar belt

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Incredible work. Idk how you do it traveling i would struggle for sure.


Most of my trips i drive so I take my dometic cooler with my meal prep.

I do have a cruise under my belt where i did pretty good. Have another coming up and a cancun trip but im determined to come back with little to no weight gain.

Helps researching the menus and planning my meals in advance.

Luckily for cancun I can take my scale.
I learned on the cruise it doesn't work lol.
 
dcdogz said:
Incredible work. Idk how you do it traveling i would struggle for sure.


Most of my trips i drive so I take my dometic cooler with my meal prep.

I do have a cruise under my belt where i did pretty good. Have another coming up and a cancun trip but im determined to come back with little to no weight gain.

Helps researching the menus and planning my meals in advance.

Luckily for cancun I can take my scale.
I learned on the cruise it doesn't work lol.
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Traveling is definitely a struggle. Try to take as much food as possible, which is annoying. I've taken my scale at times.
 
Arms

Strive Preacher Curl -- Super light all the way at the #3 setting, nearly nothing at the contraction. Prime's is better
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Cybex Bisolator -- This machine Was pretty sick. I've seen a few people wanting this recreated on some Alibaba Chats. Great "recline curl" version. Excellent movement.

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The had a few others. A seated Atlantis that I use at Absolute Recomp and was probably my #2 favorite after the Strive Lateral raise. This one was okay. They had a nautalis one that I've used before and liked it better.
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Icarian Pec Deck - Pretty standard. Guy gave me props for the weight on rear delts....which led to taking off the pump cover b/c was feelin' it
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Strive Shoulder Press - Was super light. Full stacked it and was doing 15-17 reps. Great ROM tho
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Back

OG Chain Drive Pullover - Was pretty cool. Could def feel the chain vs smooth kevlar belts.
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Cybex seated row. I've always seen people talk about how smooth and great this feels. Seemed odd for a seated row, but damn it was really good.
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Strive Lat Pulldown - Kind of like the Panatta lat pulldown that diverges. Just doesn't diverge enough. Wouldn't do again
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Pacific Fitness (?) - Panatta has a seated circular row that is a lot like this and diverges. Really great contraction and strength curve.
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Chest

Flex Leverage Chest Press - I'm going to be so disappointed if my Chinese Dupe doesn't feel as good as this machine. It's exactly the same. Best Vertical Chest press I've ever used.


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Flex Pin Loaded Incline - Great
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Cybex Fly - Movement was great, but needed grease on the rods so didn't use it after a warm up
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Tomorrow - Legs

They have a Hamtractor. Get to see what all the hype is about there. One leg piece I've yet to use that people freak out about. Looks like a leg curl, better live up to the Cybex seated row. Basic ass machine, but just perfect.
 
I know you travel a lot and have a family but if you could ever pull of a show, it would be awesome to see you on stage at some point.
 
Meetketchup said:
I know you travel a lot and have a family but if you could ever pull of a show, it would be awesome to see you on stage at some point.
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I was thinking of next year but I feel like I'm too small. Lil body Dysmorphia probably.

I want to end the year lean and grow for all of '27 then hopefully target 28. There is a May show and August show in my city. One of the two. Want to show out in Masters
 
I do love my pendulum squats, but there is something that just feels good about pushing 600# on a leg press.....

OG Nebula 35-Degree Linear Leg Press - so good
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WED said:
I was thinking of next year but I feel like I'm too small. Lil body Dysmorphia probably.

I want to end the year lean and grow for all of '27 then hopefully target 28. There is a May show and August show in my city. One of the two. Want to show out in Masters
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I was a whopping 163lbs on stage! Youd do great!
 
Pretty degected overall right now with myself. Left with a good plan then pretty much immediately fell apart on Wed/Thur/Fri. Had great workouts, but ate like complete shit. Weight up to 231 Couldn't get to a grocery store, limited cooking options in the hotel, and limited time overall.

Flying back out this evening. I've got my gym lined up. It's about 2 miles from the hotel. Plan on trying to lift when I land Sunday. We'll see how that goes after 16hrs of flying and probably malnourished at that point. Hopefully not dehydrated. Gym doesn't open until 6am & I'm not going to have time to do my typical Upper days, so going to do a PPL/UL/Arms. My goal is to try to stay somewhat on east coast time (7hr difference), get up and do some fasted cardio. Get some carbs in, then walk to the gym, lift, then walk back. Should get 8-10k steps by 8 or 9 am with a cardio session. I'm hoping to grocery shop and just eat cold shit. Maybe shred a rotisserie chicken and find some cooked rice. Everything after breakfast is going to be catered (never healthy) or dinners out with the team/client/vendor.

I've got a plan to eat pretty healthy today before the flight. Dinner should be 600 calories on the plane, breakfast should be about 400. Going to bring some oats to soak and get a core power or two at the airport for a snack if I need it. Sometimes I can find pickle bites, which are a great snack.

Anyways, done feeling sorry for myself. Hitting legs right now. In full sweats and a hoodie trying to sweat out some of this trash food.
 
Split Squats are going to do one of two things. They better help my legs grow. If they do nothing for my legs they are blasting my cardiovascular system. Hard to recover from a set of each leg in 3 minutes. Not much else makes my HR spike to near 150
 
Hoist machines are almost all trash. Gym I'm at this week in Romania has a bunch of them.

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Okay, I tried the Hoist Pec Deck Fly and it was 5/10. Interesting contraction, but prefer regular flies. I think they have a lat pull down that everyone likes, will that today

Flew for 16hrs, 7hrs timezone difference. Think I got 3-4 hours of plane sleep. Landed around 1pm, got checked in and headed to the gym, grocery store, then dinner.

🚶‍♂️ Got 16k steps. 2mi back and forth from the gym helps.

💪 Been a while since I've done a straight pull day. Felt solid, good pump into those muscles.

Chest Press
Incline Press
Dips
Shoulder Press
Flies
Lateral Raises
Single Arm Tri Push Down
Ab Crunches.

Got to use a few pieces that I haven't used before. Usually don't like NewTech, but their Converging Flat press felt really good (light). I used a Cybex Incline, but will probably use the NewTech Incline later this week.

NewTech Flat bench. Was light, but felt really good. Did 3pps+25
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Might be the first cybex I wasn't in love with. Was Okay.
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They had a cybex shoulder press that was similar to the above, but went with this NewTech Shoulder and it felt great.
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Hoist Pec Fly. Tried it over the Pec Dec b/c I probably will not see it often. IDK why your body has to move. Was okay.
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Gymelco equipment is always solid. This is probably near the top ofr the lateral raise machines I've used. Felt so smooth and secure. Everyone love the Icarian, but it didn't fit me. The Atlantis seated, Strive Lateral Raise, and this are probably all tied for top 3

If I can find space and get funding for a bodybuilding facility...I'll have some Gymelco pieces.
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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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Tuesday Leg Day. Got 14k steps. Walking 2min back and forth from the gym helps jumpstart steps

Had a pretty healthy lunch and dinner. One had calories, one didn't. The one without was just shrimp and octopus. Not a lot so had a small slice of pizza from a coworker. Probably hit 2800ish calories.

Eating pretty clean so far for a work trip
 

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