magnificent 
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Wow! Color me impressed.
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I am okay with your decision. IMO, the first attempt at getting in contest condition is the most difficult. Your next attempt should be easier and reach a better end.
I would suggest going to the show you had targeted and watch the prejudging. It won’t equal the actual experience of competing. But you will get a better idea what to expect.
Try to place all of the contestants (with you as the judge.) I don’t believe there is anything to learn from the night show, other than to see how well you placed the contestants compared to the judging panel.
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Push+Quads (Delt focus)
Friday, Oct 24, 2025 at 11:44am
Meadows Lateral Raise Partials
Set 1: 50 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 2: 45 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Viking Press
Set 1: 135 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 2: 95 lbs x 15 [Failure]
Pendulum Squat (Machine)
Set 1: 225 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 2: 135 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Butterfly (Pec Deck)
Set 1: 200 lbs x 15
Set 2: 200 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Triceps Pushdown
Set 1: 80 lbs x 26 [Failure]
Set 2: 80 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Set 3: 80 lbs x 5 [Failure]
@hevyapp
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Such an insane transformation brother, you really should be proud.
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Echo this, hard work and consistency paying dividends! Would have been great to see you tanned up and in perfect lighting! You must be delighted with the results… And happy to be reversing?
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Yes and yes.
I would’ve liked to hit stage but it just wasnt in the cards.
Also happy to stop feeling like an emotionless zombie and dropping the tren
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Woohoo! Glad you are feeling better!
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Shame about the show but totally understand. Echoing the other comments on here, bloody good job sir.
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45mins fasted cardio
Push+Quads (Chest focus)
Tuesday, Oct 28, 2025 at 11:27am
Chest Press (Machine)
Set 1: 275 lbs x 10 [Failure]
Set 2: 225 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 3: 135 lbs x 10 [Failure]
Meadows Lateral Raise Partials
“FST7”
Set 1: 30 lbs x 12
Set 2: 30 lbs x 12
Set 3: 30 lbs x 12
Set 4: 30 lbs x 12
Set 5: 30 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 6: 30 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Set 7: 30 lbs x 6 [Failure]
Cable Fly Crossovers
“FST7”
Set 1: 35 lbs x 12
Set 2: 30 lbs x 12
Set 3: 30 lbs x 12
Set 4: 30 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 5: 25 lbs x 12
Set 6: 25 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 7: 25 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Leg Extension (Machine)
Set 1: 85 lbs x 15 [Failure]
Set 2: 45 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Triceps Dip (Weighted)
“Getting back into the movement”
Set 1: 0 lbs x 18
Set 2: 0 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Set 3: 0 lbs x 6 [Failure]
@hevyapp
Pulling back on distractions.
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45mins fasted cardio
Pull+Hams (Width)
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2025 at 10:55am
Lat Pulldown (Cable)
“FST7”
Set 1: 160 lbs x 12
Set 2: 160 lbs x 12
Set 3: 160 lbs x 12
Set 4: 160 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 5: 140 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 6: 140 lbs x 6 [Failure]
Set 7: 140 lbs x 4 [Failure]
Straight Arm Lat Pulldown (Cable)
Set 1: 55 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Set 2: 55 lbs x 6 [Failure]
Lying Leg Curl (Machine)
“Recovery”
Set 1: 100 lbs x 20
Set 2: 100 lbs x 20
Set 3: 100 lbs x 20
Shrug (Smith Machine)
Set 1: 405 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 2: 315 lbs x 17 [Failure]
Reverse Curl (Cable)
“FST7”
Set 1: 42.5 lbs x 12
Set 2: 42.5 lbs x 12
Set 3: 42.5 lbs x 12
Set 4: 42.5 lbs x 10 [Failure]
Set 5: 35 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 6: 35 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 7: 35 lbs x 6 [Failure]
@hevyapp
Dropped FST7 shrugs because it just didnt produce the fatigue i needed it to. Unsure when I’ll stop with the FST7 sets… maybe when i feel like I’m back up to snuff with gym time. Thinking about running some Phil Hernon stuff but we’ll see.
Starting to feel like I’ve actually got some energy in the gym instead of slogging through it like i have been. Feels good.
Idk how long l keep this log going before moving over to my old one… maybe I’ll keep this one running until the reverse diet is over. I guess that’ll give a full story from start of prep to end of reverse diet.
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Have you changed your supplement regimen
Yessir. I’ve dropped T3 down to 25, clen to 50, dropped winny, var, cardarine altogether.
Lowered test to 250 and mast to 200, nothing else for anabolics. AI dropped to 12.5 2x per week from 3x.
Feeling healthier by the day!
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45mins fasted cardio
Push+Quads (Delt focus)
Friday, Oct 31, 2025 at 11:23am
Meadows Lateral Raise Partials
“FST7”
Set 1: 30 lbs x 12
Set 2: 30 lbs x 12
Set 3: 30 lbs x 12
Set 4: 30 lbs x 12
Set 5: 30 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 6: 30 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Set 7: 30 lbs x 6 [Failure]
Viking Press
Set 1: 135 lbs x 9
Set 2: 95 lbs x 15 [Failure]
Pendulum Squat (Machine)
Set 1: 225 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 2: 135 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Butterfly (Pec Deck)
Set 1: 200 lbs x 15
Set 2: 200 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Triceps Dip (Weighted)
“FST7”
Set 1: 0 lbs x 12
Set 2: 0 lbs x 12
Set 3: 0 lbs x 12
Set 4: 0 lbs x 12
Set 5: 0 lbs x 12
Set 6: 0 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 7: 0 lbs x 9 [Failure]
@hevyapp
Idk if shoulders will continue to tolerate dips, but I’m going go try and we’ll see how far my body will take it. Shoulders, right one in particular, have been giving me issues for months so we’re testing some shit out.
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If your having shoulder issues then dips are about the worst thing you can do.
I would look at machine pressdowns.
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45mins fasted cardio
Getting shin splints from my cardio… working on flexibility to see if that helps. Will have to switch to different modality if it doesnt start being corrected.
Pull+Hams (Thickness)
Monday, Nov 03, 2025 at 1:31pm
Seated Cable Row
Set 1: 200 lbs x 16 [Failure]
Set 2: 160 lbs x 18 [Failure]
Face Pull
“Seated, long rope”
Set 1: 55 lbs x 17 [Failure]
Set 2: 55 lbs x 16 [Failure]
Shrug (Smith Machine)
Set 1: 225 lbs x 24 [Failure]
Set 2: 225 lbs x 19 [Failure]
Preacher Curl (Barbell)
“FST7”
Set 1: 75 lbs x 12
Set 2: 75 lbs x 12
Set 3: 75 lbs x 12
Set 4: 75 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 5: 75 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Set 6: 75 lbs x 6 [Failure]
Set 7: 75 lbs x 5 [Failure]
Lying Leg Curl (Machine)
Set 1: 150 lbs x 15
Set 2: 150 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 3: 125 lbs x 9 [Failure]
@hevyapp
I’d buried some shit that went down a few months back and it started hitting me hard this weekend. I let my cheat meal turn into a cheat day. Then i felt like shit for going off plan, and didnt do my check ins.
Ive unpacked it, but i don’t yet know what to do with it. Need to get my shit together here because it’s affecting my girls and my goals.
Check ins to follow.
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Just an observation, so fwiw:
I do a cheat day for sodium like once a week or two. Best way is to titrate it out of your system with water. Ive found that a half hour on the airdyne at a moderate pace gets the blood flowing so that the kidneys can take care of kidney stuff.
A day or so and its all back to normal. No biggie.
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Yeah, i do believe its water to saturate the sodium, then it has to be sweat out.
Normally not a problem for me, but with the huge reduction in thermogenics, I’m not sweating a lot right now.
Its literally just water weight so no biggie, it just makes it hard to gauge whats to be done for the next week as scale is all over the place.
Still waiting on response from coach, but ive asked that we keep macros the same this week so we have a solid data point.
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Happy cake day, my dude!
You’re looking great—hope you’re feeling well, too!
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This is one of the reasons that I liked to do a tune-up show two weeks before the show that meant the most to me. My diet was low sodium and as I looked drier, my body would ease into sodium sparing mode. When I did the tune-up show I would eat excessive that night and breakfast the next morning. The excess sodium would stop the sodium sparing mode for a while. Back on the diet after Sunday breakfast and the excess water would start being eliminated via sweat and urine. By the targeted show I would be able to look a little drier (usually.)
I don’t know how quickly it would respond on the reverse diet, but I would suspect it would be very similar.
When your body is in sodium sparing mode and you drastically increase the sodium intake, its effects on fluid retention would be magnified
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