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.
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.
Notes for pics:
Basically binged on shitty and salty foods Saturday. Feeling watery from all the salt.
Small updates:
Mental
Been feeling a bit ‘down’ last week or so. Can’t tell if it’s coming down from the gear or if it’s just life shit. Otherwise doing okay, not having huge temper issues like before, still a bit irritable though. Not uncommon for me, it’s just not back to normal yet.
Physical:
Starting to get shin splints while doing my am cardio… its just fast paced walking, but its a thing.
Will be getting orthotics and have already started stretching Hams and calves to try getting rid of it.
Other:
Body temp is up like a lot. Getting hot every time I eat food… bulging veins and all that. Not sure if this is a sign my metabolism is coming back or not, just making note of it.
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.
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.
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
Push+Quads (Chest focus)
Tuesday, Nov 04, 2025 at 11:34am
Butterfly (Pec Deck)
“FST7”
Set 1: 150 lbs x 12
Set 2: 150 lbs x 12
Set 3: 150 lbs x 12
Set 4: 150 lbs x 12
Set 5: 150 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 6: 150 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Set 7: 150 lbs x 5 [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 12 [Failure]
Set 6: 30 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 7: 30 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Overhead Triceps Extension (Cable)
“FST7”
Set 1: 50 lbs x 12
Set 2: 50 lbs x 12
Set 3: 50 lbs x 12
Set 4: 50 lbs x 12
Set 5: 50 lbs x 12
Set 6: 50 lbs x 12
Set 7: 50 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Leg Extension (Machine)
Set 1: 90 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 2: 45 lbs x 13 [Failure]
Oh yeah! Between the sparring mode and vasodialators, I could pound a gatorade and eat a bag of chips and in half an hour look like superhero vascular.
Sodium is important to maintain good extracellular fluid levels for circulation, but you guys are slicing it razor thin, and only temporarily.
I could barely make it through the 10-12 sets I was doing months ago lol
I’ve just got a bit more to give now. Wanted to try out FST7 but will probably be swapping to something more traditional HIT once I’m feeling up to speed.
Misery in a bottle. Lasix sucks. Definitely jeopardizing health to get the skin that thin & crispy when already in a prolonged deficit.
Honestly, with the way they affect hydration levels I can’t see that being beneficial, but I also don’t know if there is any affinity for certain cells (skin) over others (muscle).
Diuretics work by removing excess salt and water from the
extracellular fluid compartment of the body, which includes the fluid in the bloodstream (plasma) and the fluid in the tissues (interstitial space), such as the skin, to reduce swelling (edema). They do not specifically target “skin” or “muscle” tissues for fluid removal in an isolated way.
The fluid within muscle cells (intracellular fluid) is generally stable and less affected by the immediate action of diuretics than the fluid in the interstitial spaces. The mechanism is as follows:
Diuretics cause the kidneys to excrete more sodium and water, reducing overall blood volume.
This reduction in blood volume lowers capillary hydrostatic pressure, which encourages the excess fluid that has accumulated in the interstitial spaces (e.g., in the skin, causing edema) to move back into the bloodstream to replace the lost fluid.
The kidneys then process this returning fluid, and the cycle continues until the excess fluid is removed from the body.
Therefore, any effective diuretic used to treat edema will help pull fluid out of the skin, as it is part of the extracellular fluid space where excess fluid accumulates
Pull+Hams (Width)
Thursday, Nov 06, 2025 at 10:47am
Lat Pulldown (Cable)
“FST7”
Set 1: 160 lbs x 12
Set 2: 160 lbs x 12
Set 3: 160 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Set 4: 140 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Set 5: 120 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Set 6: 100 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 7: 100 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Straight Arm Lat Pulldown (Cable)
Set 1: 55 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 2: 55 lbs x 8 [Failure]
Lying Leg Curl (Machine)
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 22 [Failure]
Reverse Curl (Cable)
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 12
Set 5: 42.5 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 6: 42.5 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 7: 42.5 lbs x 7 [Failure]
@hevyapp
Feeling a burnt out… sleep not going great and I’m not sure why. Otherwise doing fine, just doing the work.
Push+Quads (Delt focus)
Friday, Nov 07, 2025 at 10:25am
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
Set 6: 30 lbs x 11 [Failure]
Set 7: 30 lbs x 7 [Failure]
Cable Fly Crossovers
“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
Set 6: 30 lbs x 12
Set 7: 30 lbs x 10 [Failure]
Overhead Triceps Extension (Cable)
“FST7”
Set 1: 57.5 lbs x 12
Set 2: 57.5 lbs x 12
Set 3: 57.5 lbs x 12
Set 4: 57.5 lbs x 12
Set 5: 57.5 lbs x 12
Set 6: 57.5 lbs x 12
Set 7: 57.5 lbs x 9 [Failure]
@hevyapp
Tweaked my left leg this morning when i was stretching so i just passed on quads. Hips and lower back have been very tight lately, then this added on to it. Just going to take it easy on legs for a bit until things calm down.
P.S
If I just spam-liked your log, dont think I forgot about you specifically… I’ve just been unplugging from the forums a bit and caught back up today. With everyone. So yes, I’m still following along
Pull+Hams (Thickness)
Saturday, Nov 08, 2025 at 11:37am
Seated Cable Row
Set 1: 200 lbs x 19 [Failure]
Set 2: 160 lbs x 17 [Failure]
Face Pull
Set 1: 55 lbs x 18 [Failure]
Set 2: 55 lbs x 17 [Failure]
Shrug (Smith Machine)
Set 1: 225 lbs x 25 [Failure]
Set 2: 225 lbs x 24 [Failure]
Preacher Curl (Barbell)
Set 1: 75 lbs x 12
Set 2: 75 lbs x 12
Set 3: 75 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 4: 70 lbs x 9 [Failure]
Set 5: 55 lbs x 12
Set 6: 55 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Set 7: 55 lbs x 12 [Failure]
Lying Leg Curl (Machine)
“Skip - leg recovery”
Set 1: 0 lbs x 0
Set 2: 0 lbs x 0 [Failure]
Set 3: 0 lbs x 0 [Failure]
Push+Quads (Chest focus)
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025 at 11:32am
Butterfly (Pec Deck)
“FST7”
Set 1: 150 lbs x 12
Set 2: 150 lbs x 12
Set 3: 150 lbs x 12
Set 4: 150 lbs x 12
Set 5: 150 lbs x 12
Set 6: 150 lbs x 12
Set 7: 150 lbs x 12
Meadows Lateral Raise Partials
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
Set 6: 30 lbs x 12
Set 7: 30 lbs x 12
Overhead Triceps Extension (Cable)
Set 1: 50 lbs x 12
Set 2: 50 lbs x 12
Set 3: 50 lbs x 12
Set 4: 50 lbs x 12
Set 5: 50 lbs x 12
Set 6: 50 lbs x 12
Set 7: 50 lbs x 11
Leg Extension (Machine)
“Nah”
Set 1: 0 lbs x 0 [Failure]
Set 2: 0 lbs x 0 [Failure]
