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[quote]SSC wrote:
Lolol… Glad to know it’s not just me, man. I legit use to be a 5/6/7+ times a day kind of toker, but had to cut that shit out due to money and the pursuit of getting lean. I can’t believe how remarkably weak-minded I was last night. Lessons learned, hard.

And yeah, it looks like the majority of it was water weight and poop. Lol. For whatever reason I hadn’t been very regular this week, so I bombed the living shit out of some fiber yesterday (like, 40 g or more.) Couple that with Gwen (always makes my bathroom movements much more intense and frequent for some reason) andI I lost about 4-5 lbs alone from pooping today. No joke. Was around 214 prior to the workout, we’ll see where I’m at on Sunday to assess the whole Skiploading situation.

And peyote… goddamn, man. I wish. I’ve been legitimately interested in trying that for the longest time, hahaha. Definitely not a very common find, however. :([/quote]

40g of fiber? JFC haha! So how does it feel to give birth?

I kind of question whether or not peyote actually exists these days lol… I don’t think I’ve met anyone who has even seen it, and I’ve met a lot of assholes who have done some really stupid shit.

Kind of a random question, but do you get any weird respiratory related sides when you hang out with yo girl Gwen?

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[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
40g of fiber? JFC haha! So how does it feel to give birth?

I kind of question whether or not peyote actually exists these days lol… I don’t think I’ve met anyone who has even seen it, and I’ve met a lot of assholes who have done some really stupid shit.

Kind of a random question, but do you get any weird respiratory related sides when you hang out with yo girl Gwen?
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Lol, it felt pretty terrible, man! At one point during the workout I had to go and piss out my ass (you’re welcome for the visual,) and my stomach felt so bad I really couldn’t tell if it was poo or puke… Blech.

Well, I know my dad took it once waaay back when he was in the military, and he got it from some Native American reservation in like New Mexico or something like that… had to haggle with them and get them some terrible weed to do it. So it did exist at one point… lol. I’m sure you can grab it now but the legit stuff has to be more difficult to find. It is just a cactus plant, after all.

Hmmm, no, respiratory issues not so much. I’ve heard of that happening, but I’m not really sure what that would entail. My big negatives are shakes, flop sweating, increased need to use the bathroom as well as some odd “smell” that I get when I take it. What kind of respiratory issues are you pertaining to?

Morning weight was 212. Looks like a small(er) Skipload may be feasible tomorrow after all.

Had just a little bit to eat before going in to the gym, 6 oz ground turkey + a little bit of coconut/peanut butter spread. Didn’t want to do carbs.

Kept it extremely fast-paced in pretty short. Training partner was there today, too.

All bottom-half partials are from shoulders to around elbow-straightening.

[u]Shoulders[/u]

Seated Military Press
145 x 4+1 (+1 = spot)
135 x 4+3 (4 partial/bottom half, 3 full-rep)
95 x 15+5 (15 partial/bottom half, 5 full-rep)

Seated DB OHP
40lb dbs x 25 (bottom half)

Standing DB Front Raises (~30 sec rest between sets, MAYBE)
30lb dbs x 20
25lb dbs x 15
20lb dbs x 15
15lb dbs x 10

Standing Lateral Machine
105 x 12
90 x 12
90 x 11

Seated Lateral Raises (Roommate got up, I sat down, etc.)
80 x 30
60 x 25
40 x 30

Bent-Over Rear Delt DB Flyes (Same tempo as above)
25s x 18
20s x 16
15s x 15

30 minutes of stair climbing, some HIIT and LISS…
2 minutes warm-up
12 minutes - 30 seconds @ Level 13, 1 minutes @ Level 8
1 minutes of Level 13 for 20sec, Level 12 for 20sec, Level 11 for 20sec
13 minutes SS @ Level 8
2 minutes cool-down

Eat.

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[quote]SSC wrote:
Hmmm, no, respiratory issues not so much. I’ve heard of that happening, but I’m not really sure what that would entail. My big negatives are shakes, flop sweating, increased need to use the bathroom as well as some odd “smell” that I get when I take it. What kind of respiratory issues are you pertaining to?[/quote]

Well I’ve heard of some general shortness of breath and things along those lines being associated with it, so I guess I was curious if you saw any of that. I ask because I do technically have asthma, even though I usually don’t notice anything from it anymore. The shortness of breath is one of the sides that I occasionally see with stims, and that kind of drives my decisions as far as stim use- not trying to be heavy breathing while just walking from point A to point B, namsayin? Other than that I can pretty much handle any extent of tweaking balls that stims may bring haha.

I’m going to crank up the stims a little over the next few weeks to see if I can eat least make it to the edge of shredded, so I’m kind of weighing options. I’ll probably go with the scientifically-proven, cheap, and easy to acquire at the store option for the near future, but I guess gwen might be worth a shot toward the end of the summer if I’m still not happy with my condition and want to do work real quick. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.

Also re: the smell thing- I get a weird smell with really any substance that leads to shedding a lot of BF quickly. I’ve heard that it’s related to toxins contained in the fat cells being released, but who knows for sure.

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[quote]bigmac73nh wrote:
Well I’ve heard of some general shortness of breath and things along those lines being associated with it, so I guess I was curious if you saw any of that. I ask because I do technically have asthma, even though I usually don’t notice anything from it anymore. The shortness of breath is one of the sides that I occasionally see with stims, and that kind of drives my decisions as far as stim use- not trying to be heavy breathing while just walking from point A to point B, namsayin? Other than that I can pretty much handle any extent of tweaking balls that stims may bring haha.

I’m going to crank up the stims a little over the next few weeks to see if I can eat least make it to the edge of shredded, so I’m kind of weighing options. I’ll probably go with the scientifically-proven, cheap, and easy to acquire at the store option for the near future, but I guess gwen might be worth a shot toward the end of the summer if I’m still not happy with my condition and want to do work real quick. Thanks for sharing your experience with it.

Also re: the smell thing- I get a weird smell with really any substance that leads to shedding a lot of BF quickly. I’ve heard that it’s related to toxins contained in the fat cells being released, but who knows for sure.[/quote]

Huh, interesting. Yeah, can’t say I’ve ever had a problem with any kind of shortness of breath to any capacity whenever I’ve used stims currently or in the past. I definitely can’t relate to any kind of heavy breathing - sometimes I have to take deep breaths just to “collect myself,” but that’s just because usually I’m tweaking so hard I want to not act like a spazoid.

The plan sounds dec - might as well exhaust every option before settling for something more. I can say, not to try to sway you, that straight-up nothing has bore better results than when Gwen and I have hung out in times’ past, and even now. Everything else is “fine,” but there’s something different about really being able to like FEEL it working. IDK. Ultimately, yeah, I think Gwen is the best and most effective thing overall without going really “over the line,” so to speak. I do however, in my heart of hearts, feel that once one has hung out with Gwen they can’t legitimately call themselves natty, but that’s my .02 and everyone has a different gauge of what constitutes natty-ness. And fair enough - makes sense about the smell, though Gwen seems to be the only thing that really it’s noticeable with - for me, anyway.

Fucking weight fluctuations piss me the fuck off. Essentially 216 today, but I definitely didn’t poo at all yesterday (cheese from the pizza on Thursday night DEFINITELY caught up,) plus I ate a decent amount of almonds right before I went to sleep. Definitely not a “true” or legit 216, though, as once I got to the gym I had to poo and such. I’ll just go ahead and consider baseline 215 this week, even though I still think it’s not accurate. Considering it was 218 last week, I can deal.

Sesh was terrific today. Great pumps. Training partner was in today, too.

Started off this morning with 45-50 “FMC” in the blistering fucking heat. It was like 90-95 degrees at 10am when we walked. So bad that my dog actually layer down, like face-first, four separate times on the walk due to being too hot. Kinda scary, actually. I even got a WICKED tan line just from the time spent outside, alone. Garsh.

[u]Heavier Triceps + Biceps/Forearms[/u]

Dips
+35lbs on belt x 6
+35lbs on belt x 7
BW x 14

Skullcrushers (Incredibly slow and controlled)
100lbs x 11
100lbs x 8

Rope Pulldowns
200 x 17
180 x 13

DC Seated One-Arm Curl Machine
140 x 14 + 8 + 6 = 28 (+5 lbs, -1 rep)

Rope Curls (As always, emphasis on brachi/everything not biceps. Also lightened up some.)
300 x 14
300 x 9

Straight-Bar Cable Curls
280 x 10
240 x 13

HS Preacher Curls
55 x 12
35 x 18
25 x 18

K-Pipe DB Curls
20s x 15
15s x 18

Seated Alternate Hammer Curls
30lb dbs x 9

DC Extreme Bicep Stretch
x60 sec

Then, just 20 minutes of stair climbing - since the roomie was driving.
1 minute warm-up
3 minutes @ Level 8
15 minutes @ Level 9
1 minutes cool-down

Home and start Skiploading. On deck today is a small bag of sour-patch kids, some Swedish/“Juju” fish, a thing of fat-free pringles and whatever I can put away from a box of Capt’n Crunch. Round 1 completed.

…maybe sprints later. Hmmm…

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[quote]SSC wrote:
Huh, interesting. Yeah, can’t say I’ve ever had a problem with any kind of shortness of breath to any capacity whenever I’ve used stims currently or in the past. I definitely can’t relate to any kind of heavy breathing - sometimes I have to take deep breaths just to “collect myself,” but that’s just because usually I’m tweaking so hard I want to not act like a spazoid.

The plan sounds dec - might as well exhaust every option before settling for something more. I can say, not to try to sway you, that straight-up nothing has bore better results than when Gwen and I have hung out in times’ past, and even now. Everything else is “fine,” but there’s something different about really being able to like FEEL it working. IDK. Ultimately, yeah, I think Gwen is the best and most effective thing overall without going really “over the line,” so to speak. I do however, in my heart of hearts, feel that once one has hung out with Gwen they can’t legitimately call themselves natty, but that’s my .02 and everyone has a different gauge of what constitutes natty-ness. And fair enough - makes sense about the smell, though Gwen seems to be the only thing that really it’s noticeable with - for me, anyway.[/quote]

I appreciate the insight on the gwen front, thanks man. I don’t think I’ll really need it this summer anyway, but I like to at least know my options.

Fair point on the whole “what constitutes natty-ness” issue. I’ve been doing a lot of reading recently and there does seem to be a lot of gray area as far as what people consider natty and also a lot of bullshit as far as calculatingly breaking the rules. I’ve got mad respect for the guys on here who have honestly avoided everything borderline for their whole lives and still compete natty with guys who are completely full of shit. I definitely don’t want to be on the wrong side of that division, so I’ve still got to do some thinking if natty comps will be my thing or not. Either way, interesting discussion- I won’t hijack your log anymore for now though haha.

Nice looking workout. I still need to try those k-pipe curls, everyone seems to love them.

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Hi SSC,

I found some of your earlier posts while searching for loose skin.

I was just wondering what you did about it or if it got better? (Any updated pics?)

You have made some awesome progress.

I lost 51kg and look similar to your pics posted in 2009 - I really don’t know what to do and I do want to avoid surgery if possible.

Thanks