Well, when I got home from work today, I had a lovely surprise on my doorstep: a BOX from Biotest! Just in time for Monday’s workout. So I popped some Indigo-3G, some Carbolin 19, made up my Anaconda, MAG-10 and Surge mix and hit the gym for the Bench Pattern workout outlined in CT’s Hypertrophy Phase 1 program. I completed all the sets and reps as prescribed.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Ya feelz me?[/quote]
So, what you are saying is that you have an anger management problem and struggle with other peoples opinion of you.
Fair enough. I understand.
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[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Ya feelz me?[/quote]
So, what you are saying is that you have an anger management problem and struggle with other peoples opinion of you.
Fair enough. I understand.
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EXACTLY. Now go shit in someone else’s log.
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
Commercial electricity is a bit more intimidating than residential - you ever have days where you get confused as hell and have to take a 20 minute smoke break just to get your head back together? haha[/quote]
When I walked into this one, if I smoked, I would have taken a 20 min smoke break!
Hey man, I see you’re taking Carbolin 19, have you taken it before? I just started taking it Sunday and I am hoping I see results after a month or two. If you have used it before let me know the changes/effects you noticed.
[quote]stefan128 wrote:
Hey man, I see you’re taking Carbolin 19, have you taken it before? I just started taking it Sunday and I am hoping I see results after a month or two. If you have used it before let me know the changes/effects you noticed.[/quote]
Nope, I have not taken it before. I’m interested to see the results along with Indigo-3G. It’s pretty cheap I(relatively speaking), so why not give it a try? I will keep everyone posted.
For the record, I’m taking 3 Indigo-3G caps in the morning 45 min before my shake. I’m taking 2 Carbolin 19 caps along with my shake as well as fish oil and ZMA. I take another 3 Indigo-3G caps before my workout in the afternoon/evening. My peri-workout nutrition is a scoop of Surge, scoop of Anaconda, scoop of MAG-10.
Before anyone jumps in my shit, I KNOW the full dose one is supposed to start out with is six caps and six caps of Indigo-3G. I’ve never taken this supplement before so I chose to do a maintenance dose for a week or so to see how I tolerate it and to get my system used to it. I’ll increase to six caps twice a day next week.
For example, last year I jumped right into the Pulse Feast with MAG-10 twice a day and ended with a serious case of the runs. I found that I only tolerated ONE pulse a day. So given that I work on a commercial construction project, and the “jiffy johns” are fucking disgusting, I’m pretty cautious about jumping into something too fast.
completed today’s Squat pattern workout. Legs are jelly - I haven’t done leg extensions in years. Gonna hate stairs tomorrow.
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
Commercial electricity is a bit more intimidating than residential - you ever have days where you get confused as hell and have to take a 20 minute smoke break just to get your head back together? haha[/quote]
When I walked into this one, if I smoked, I would have taken a 20 min smoke break![/quote]
Not only is that dauntingly confusing but there is extra wire with exposed copper! nice! haha
Ever been shocked bad?
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
Commercial electricity is a bit more intimidating than residential - you ever have days where you get confused as hell and have to take a 20 minute smoke break just to get your head back together? haha[/quote]
When I walked into this one, if I smoked, I would have taken a 20 min smoke break![/quote]
Not only is that dauntingly confusing but there is extra wire with exposed copper! nice! haha
Ever been shocked bad?[/quote]
It took me a day and a half to figure out, but this is the same panel after I was done with it - everything worked as designed, too!
I’ve been shocked pretty bad several times. Blew out both my elbows one time (as in some asshole energized the starter I was working on and LUCKILY the electricity went in my hands and exited, rather violently, out of each elbow to ground, leaving scars and nerve damage - smelled like bacon). First degree burns on my face from a bus duct blow up on a switch I was working on. Second degree burns on my hands when a battery bank on a UPS system blew up (ratchet slipped and went + to - with 40 12v batteries in series, BOOOM! lol). Compared to all that, 110v feels like a pleasant tingly sensation.
Did all the workouts, it was hard, blah blah blah. It’s more volume per workout than I typically do, and I’m not as sore as I thought I’d be. My poop is nice and blue now, haha. It COULD be wishful thinking, but I THINK I’m using the next smaller hole in my belt in the morning… If it happens three days in a row, I’ll call it an official inch off my waist, stay tuned. I am definitely feeling “warmer” through out the day - I was down to just a sweat shirt working today and everyone else had a coat on. So far, I’m very pleased with the I3G results.
Good to see you’re staying warm. I ran sprints on Sunday. 73 degrees F here. Suck it, yank. 
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
[quote]krazykoukides wrote:
Commercial electricity is a bit more intimidating than residential - you ever have days where you get confused as hell and have to take a 20 minute smoke break just to get your head back together? haha[/quote]
When I walked into this one, if I smoked, I would have taken a 20 min smoke break![/quote]
Not only is that dauntingly confusing but there is extra wire with exposed copper! nice! haha
Ever been shocked bad?[/quote]
It took me a day and a half to figure out, but this is the same panel after I was done with it - everything worked as designed, too!
I’ve been shocked pretty bad several times. Blew out both my elbows one time (as in some asshole energized the starter I was working on and LUCKILY the electricity went in my hands and exited, rather violently, out of each elbow to ground, leaving scars and nerve damage - smelled like bacon). First degree burns on my face from a bus duct blow up on a switch I was working on. Second degree burns on my hands when a battery bank on a UPS system blew up (ratchet slipped and went + to - with 40 12v batteries in series, BOOOM! lol). Compared to all that, 110v feels like a pleasant tingly sensation.
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Wow, that is an incredible difference! TOTAL respect! I don’t think most people fathom how mind numbing that stuff is… for real. I probably couldn’t do that in weeks. When I first started learning electric work I would find myself confused when 3 lines of 2 wire came together in a box and I had to continue the circit… haha. It took a while until I was able to think about it line by line.
As for your shock stories… they are also incredible in a different light! It does seem like guys who have spent a lot of time doing electric have at least a couple stories… but I gotta say I never heard elbows being blown out before. Those stories keep me on my toes though… I sure don’t want to get shocked. That battery story is scary too, by the way,… it’s a lot easier to be killed by dc than ac.
I might just pursue plumbing… I can handle just getting dirty. haha
Well, since getting off the “moderated poster” list that I’ve been on for a year thanks to the wonderful cooperation of the Mods and powers that be, I’ve decided to pick my log back up again and order some Biotest supps again.
For the record, my tummy didn’t tolerate the Indigo-3G, so I stopped taking it (if anyone in the DC area wants a free half a bottle of Indigo-3G that’s a year old, let me know LOL). The stuff works, but it made me poop and that’s not good when you work construction. Since then I’ve gone over to the dark side a bit, so I’ll just be doing a lot of protein. In the last year I’ve lost 30 lbs of fat (gone from 240 to ~210) and maintained my strength levels for the most part.
For now, I’ll be keeping my weights and “supps” to myself because frankly, I don’t really want to deal with a bunch of assholes. Either I’m a pussy, too fat, or “there’s no way you can do that, post a vid and prove it”. See page two of this log for a perfect example. No thank you. Y’all can check that shit at the door.
The first part of the year I was doing three full body work outs a week. Now I’m doing a push/pull/legs split six times per week. Probably gonna try some of the things I’ve been reading in one of ZRAW’s threads when I change things up next. That guy seems to know his shit.
Life updates: came home from the Gulf of Mexico back in September 2012 working as a union electrician installing generators and switchgear on the silver line metro being built in northern VA. Just last month I switched companies and doubled my salary by accepting a position managing a data center in northern VA. I’m currently working the night shift making a shit ton of loot and happy as a clam. Most of it is down time so I’m just studying for my Master Electrician license while getting paid. Every once in a while the shit hits the fan and I have to minimize power losses and transfer some things around (transferring a bunch of medium voltage 4160v gear and writing some PLC code really quick), but after my experience in the gulf, I’m totally qualified to do that, so it’s pretty easy. So in two years I’ve gone from having my mortgage career ripped out from under me, to working on oil rigs, to working on generators and switchgear to making over 220K per year managing a data center. I’ll update the log again later.
Nice. All of it.
Pretty awesome stuff (lifting and life) in here. I lurked through a bunch of your stuff in the nameless forum a while back and had no clue you played rugby too. Judging by the picture I guess you were a flanker? Any chance you could post a brief rundown of how your training was broken up back then? (Ie. the timing of lifting vs. running vs. practice). Hope that’s not too much to ask for.
Congratulations on the new job, I’m a union carpenter and hope to eventually progress to management too, so I’d say you’re living the dream.
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Wtf I want that much loot 
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
For now, I’ll be keeping my weights and “supps” to myself because frankly, I don’t really want to deal with a bunch of assholes. Either I’m a pussy, too fat, or “there’s no way you can do that, post a vid and prove it”. See page two of this log for a perfect example. No thank you. Y’all can check that shit at the door.
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You’ve gotta love how some people have to be dicks even in the log sub-forum!
Welcome back, will be keeping an eye on your log.
Best of luck,
-Chris
Subscribed, looking forward to following along.
[quote]RuckItAll wrote:
Pretty awesome stuff (lifting and life) in here. I lurked through a bunch of your stuff in the nameless forum a while back and had no clue you played rugby too. Judging by the picture I guess you were a flanker? Any chance you could post a brief rundown of how your training was broken up back then? (Ie. the timing of lifting vs. running vs. practice). Hope that’s not too much to ask for.
Congratulations on the new job, I’m a union carpenter and hope to eventually progress to management too, so I’d say you’re living the dream.
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Thanks for stopping by.
My second job after prison was as a union carpenter (local 101 out of Baltimore). Then I joined the electrical workers union after that.
I think that pic was taken right after I switched from no 6 to no 1. I was the world’s smallest prop for a few seasons LOL.
In-season training was practice on teus/thurs, game on sat. Practice took care of the sprints LOL. Squats/Deads on monday, power cleans/snatches on Wednesday and high volume, light weight upper body work out on Friday
Off season, I trained like an animal - I was that asshole sprinting while dragging three tires behind him in 100 degrees. I lifted four times a week and sprinted HARD twice a week. Focused on squats/deads/cleans Did some upper body stuff like bench press, push press, bent rows, but I didn’t do any direct arm work until a few years ago. Now I have an impressive “yoke”, but small biceps and delts FML
I’ll update things soon, I’m getting sleepy.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Wtf I want that much loot :([/quote]
I want dem biceps! Lookin’ good, sulli