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I was supposed to go to the gym today but I didn’t and I have a good excuse as to why. Well, no excuse is good but this one is up there.

My best friend Eric, he is the one in the '07/'08 race picture at the end of my article, caught his old lady in bed with another dude.

I’m sure I will have something to say about this once I get to think of it, but beers were needed.

I did lift yesterday though:

A1) Medium grip row - 6-8 reps, 210 lbs
10
A2) Chest supported DB Row - 10-12, 45 lbs
10
A3) Chest supported rear delt flies - 20-25, 12.5 lbs
150 seconds rest

B1) Incline Bench - 6-8 reps, 185, 155
10
B2) Bench - 10-12 reps 155, 145
10
B3) Incline Flies - 20-25 reps, 35 lbs
10-12 reverse crunches
150 seconds rest

I was weak again in chest. I didn’t go up in weight as I tried to not go down. I did get more sets out of the original weight before I had to drop though, so that was one little battle I won. My back is starting to become a strong point of mine, which is quite strange. I’ve never had a strong back so this is a new feeling for me, but I really like it.

I can’t help but count down the days until I can start training legs again. I think thats why I’m not feeling right, I can’t do any legs. Training legs is seriously the most fun day in the gym for me. I love doing leg movements.

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Shit. I feel bad for your friend, man. But at least he has a good friend like you to help him get through it or at least get drunk.

Here’s hoping he bounces back strong and to your continued training success.

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[quote]Xeneize wrote:
Shit. I feel bad for your friend, man. But at least he has a good friend like you to help him get through it or at least get drunk.

Here’s hoping he bounces back strong and to your continued training success.[/quote]

He will bounce back. Now he is REALLY focused on our next triathlong

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Thats vicious about your friend, I had the same thing happen to me years ago. Not a pretty sight, but when the bitch tried to tell me they were just wrestling naked, I nearly choked.

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[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Thats vicious about your friend, I had the same thing happen to me years ago. Not a pretty sight, but when the bitch tried to tell me they were just wrestling naked, I nearly choked. [/quote]

I just almost spat out my MDC reading that. I’m still laughing, even though its not a funny situation.

great response though…

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[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Thats vicious about your friend, I had the same thing happen to me years ago. Not a pretty sight, but when the bitch tried to tell me they were just wrestling naked, I nearly choked. [/quote]

I just almost spat out my Metabolic Drive Complete reading that. I’m still laughing, even though its not a funny situation.

great response though…

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[quote]Bartl wrote:
Time to hold myself accountable.

Weight - 204

That kind of sucks. Actually it fucking pisses me off. I know I am trying to do a clean bulk, I know I am eating more and doing less cardio and I know there is going to be some fat gain. But that just seems excessive to me. 9 pounds in the month of May.

I don’t feel fatter. Just not sure what is going on but I am not a happy camper.

I am really happy with my diet right now but I know what I’m going to change. No longer will there be oatmeal, which sucks because I love oatmeal. Its seriously one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast. The carb intake on that? Not so much.

Like Poliquin and Thibs say, you have to earn your carbs. It really won’t affect my caloric intake for the day and it won’t really affect anything other than my carb intake for the day. I still need to find a way to eat more, clean foods. Its just that everything I would want to add in has carbs. I would add more fruit, but guess what…carbs.

Man, writing your own diets is hard.

Anyone else think I’m over reacting or is this normal. [/quote]

A little late in the game on this, but…

I used to be a fat guy as well (close to 250! around 200 now). It hard to not pay attention to the scale, but it might be a good idea to step off the thing. I’ve never been happier than when I decided to ignore it. I also decided to not worry so much about my diet (as my auto pilot of clean eating is fully engaged, and I can just coast without fucking up), and start worrying more about throwing around heavier shit.

The point being that maybe you’re over reacting. It’s for you to decide. But chances are that 9 lbs. is nothing serious. Step off the scale, and take bi weekly pictures maybe? That might give you a better idea of progress or regression and from there you can judge accordingly (and adjust accordingly).

Also, I had better success with my diet by eliminating virtually all starchy carbs. I consume fruit before and after work outs with some protein powder and eat a piece of fruit with every full meal. It’s worked really well for me so far, and may be worth a try.

Also, more fuel to abandon the scale: I’ve been told by several people that I look thiner than 6 months ago (and accused by my mother of being skinnier, apparently moms worry about weight loss?). I’ve “lost” a total of about 7lbs in the past 6 months–I could loose 7lbs in a week from water weight. Something is going on there that doesn’t have anything to do with scale weight.

It kind of sucks for a bit to be the recently fat guy (like this is a bad problem to have?). There’s a constant fear of regressing, which isn’t a bad thing. But it can be paralyzing–you just have to keep it in check.

Good luck!

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[quote]boyscout wrote:
Bartl wrote:
Time to hold myself accountable.

Weight - 204

That kind of sucks. Actually it fucking pisses me off. I know I am trying to do a clean bulk, I know I am eating more and doing less cardio and I know there is going to be some fat gain. But that just seems excessive to me. 9 pounds in the month of May.

I don’t feel fatter. Just not sure what is going on but I am not a happy camper.

I am really happy with my diet right now but I know what I’m going to change. No longer will there be oatmeal, which sucks because I love oatmeal. Its seriously one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast. The carb intake on that? Not so much.

Like Poliquin and Thibs say, you have to earn your carbs. It really won’t affect my caloric intake for the day and it won’t really affect anything other than my carb intake for the day. I still need to find a way to eat more, clean foods. Its just that everything I would want to add in has carbs. I would add more fruit, but guess what…carbs.

Man, writing your own diets is hard.

Anyone else think I’m over reacting or is this normal.

A little late in the game on this, but…

I used to be a fat guy as well (close to 250! around 200 now). It hard to not pay attention to the scale, but it might be a good idea to step off the thing. I’ve never been happier than when I decided to ignore it. I also decided to not worry so much about my diet (as my auto pilot of clean eating is fully engaged, and I can just coast without fucking up), and start worrying more about throwing around heavier shit. The point being that maybe you’re over reacting. It’s for you to decide. But chances are that 9 lbs. is nothing serious. Step off the scale, and take bi weekly pictures maybe? That might give you a better idea of progress or regression and from there you can judge accordingly (and adjust accordingly).

Also, I had better success with my diet by eliminating virtually all starchy carbs. I consume fruit before and after work outs with some protein powder and eat a piece of fruit with every full meal. It’s worked really well for me so far, and may be worth a try.

Also, more fuel to abandon the scale: I’ve been told by several people that I look thiner than 6 months ago (and accused by my mother of being skinnier, apparently moms worry about weight loss?). I’ve “lost” a total of about 7lbs in the past 6 months–I could loose 7lbs in a week from water weight. Something is going on there that doesn’t have anything to do with scale weight.

It kind of sucks for a bit to be the recently fat guy (like this is a bad problem to have?). There’s a constant fear of regressing, which isn’t a bad thing. But it can be paralyzing–you just have to keep it in check.

Good luck!
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You make a great point here. I didn’t really want to get on the scale but I was curious and I wanted to update my fans.

I don’t plan on weighing myself again for a while. I am going to measure myself and take pictures…and try not to care.

I did change my diet around, check it out:

Meal #1:
4 whole eggs
(sometimes I will do a chicken sausage link)

Meal #2
1/4 cup almonds
3 scoops Metabolic Drive Complete

Meal #3
8-10 oz chicken
lettuce

Meal #4
1/2 C cottage cheese
2-3 dates

Meal #5
either A) 8-10 oz chicken or 8-10 oz shrimp
8 oz broccoli

On training days there will be post session Grow! Whey.

Still tinkering as we go.

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I’d make sure you are getting enough fat so you don’t feel like dog poo. Fish oil at all meals. then maybe add the following:

Meal 3- Olive Oil
Meal 4- Flax Seeds
Meal 5- Coconut Oil

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[quote]jlats wrote:
I’d make sure you are getting enough fat so you don’t feel like dog poo. Fish oil at all meals. then maybe add the following:

Meal 3- Olive Oil
Meal 4- Flax Seeds
Meal 5- Coconut Oil
[/quote]

Ya, I take 8-10 Flameout a day as well. forgot to mention that.

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[quote]Bartl wrote:

2-3 dates

[/quote]

Best. food. ever. period. ever. no question. ever. no doubt. ever.

If you can, get Medjool dates, they are much bigger and softer and tastier. If not, the Sunsweet brand from Sam’s or wherever you get them are cool.

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I wondered about this. What made you want to go straight into building more muscle instead of enjoying being skinny and perhaps try to get to 7% body fat?

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[quote]Bartl wrote:

You make a great point here. I didn’t really want to get on the scale but I was curious and I wanted to update my fans.

I don’t plan on weighing myself again for a while. I am going to measure myself and take pictures…and try not to care.

I did change my diet around, check it out:

Meal #1:
4 whole eggs
(sometimes I will do a chicken sausage link)

Meal #2
1/4 cup almonds
3 scoops Metabolic Drive Complete

Meal #3
8-10 oz chicken
lettuce

Meal #4
1/2 C cottage cheese
2-3 dates

Meal #5
either A) 8-10 oz chicken or 8-10 oz shrimp
8 oz broccoli

On training days there will be post session Grow! Whey.

Still tinkering as we go. [/quote]

Looks good to me. I eat in a similar way:

Meal 1: 4 whole egs, steamed broccoli, fruit
Meal 2: 1/2C mixed nuts (no peanuts)
Meal 3: 6-8oz. Pork or beef or whatever, veggie, fruit
meal 4: 4oz. cheese
Pre W/O: 1 scp whey, 1 banana
Post W/O: 1 scp whey, 1/2C raisins
Meal 5: 6-8oz protein, veggie, fruit (or a cheat meal on fridays…like today)
Meal 6: 4oz. cheese or 1/2C mixed nuts

You could add some olive oil into your Metabolic Drive instead of having the almonds, and move them meal 3 (making meal 3 protein+fat). I feel pretty good taking in some protein before lifting, and it’s not like it won’t go to use then.

Also, I burnt out on chicken and didn’t eat it for a good three months, until I figured this out:
-take 3-4 frozen chicken breasts
-Throw them in the slow cooker (still frozen) with a bag of frozen “pepper stir fry” and some hot sauce
-let them cook on high or low (doesn’t matter, I put it on high) for 8 or so hours.

Do that in the morning as you make breakfast and you’ll have outstanding chicken for the next 3 days awaiting you when you get home that night. Try that if you get bored with baked or whatever chicken–and it only takes about 5 mins to get ready in the morning.

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[quote]tmoney1 wrote:
Bartl wrote:

2-3 dates

Best. food. ever. period. ever. no question. ever. no doubt. ever.

If you can, get Medjool dates, they are much bigger and softer and tastier. If not, the Sunsweet brand from Sam’s or wherever you get them are cool.[/quote]

they are crack

dieting down was hard, trying to only eat 2-3 dates…way harder.

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[quote]nikoa wrote:
I wondered about this. What made you want to go straight into building more muscle instead of enjoying being skinny and perhaps try to get to 7% body fat?[/quote]

because i wanted to eat and I wanted to eat a lot. or at least more than I was. plus, my plan for the rest of the year with 2 triathlons and the V-Diet, i wanted to get my food consumption in while i could.

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[quote]boyscout wrote:
Bartl wrote:

You make a great point here. I didn’t really want to get on the scale but I was curious and I wanted to update my fans.

I don’t plan on weighing myself again for a while. I am going to measure myself and take pictures…and try not to care.

I did change my diet around, check it out:

Meal #1:
4 whole eggs
(sometimes I will do a chicken sausage link)

Meal #2
1/4 cup almonds
3 scoops Metabolic Drive Complete

Meal #3
8-10 oz chicken
lettuce

Meal #4
1/2 C cottage cheese
2-3 dates

Meal #5
either A) 8-10 oz chicken or 8-10 oz shrimp
8 oz broccoli

On training days there will be post session Grow! Whey.

Still tinkering as we go.

Looks good to me. I eat in a similar way:

Meal 1: 4 whole egs, steamed broccoli, fruit
Meal 2: 1/2C mixed nuts (no peanuts)
Meal 3: 6-8oz. Pork or beef or whatever, veggie, fruit
meal 4: 4oz. cheese
Pre W/O: 1 scp whey, 1 banana
Post W/O: 1 scp whey, 1/2C raisins
Meal 5: 6-8oz protein, veggie, fruit (or a cheat meal on fridays…like today)
Meal 6: 4oz. cheese or 1/2C mixed nuts

You could add some olive oil into your Metabolic Drive instead of having the almonds, and move them meal 3 (making meal 3 protein+fat). I feel pretty good taking in some protein before lifting, and it’s not like it won’t go to use then.

Also, I burnt out on chicken and didn’t eat it for a good three months, until I figured this out:
-take 3-4 frozen chicken breasts
-Throw them in the slow cooker (still frozen) with a bag of frozen “pepper stir fry” and some hot sauce
-let them cook on high or low (doesn’t matter, I put it on high) for 8 or so hours.

Do that in the morning as you make breakfast and you’ll have outstanding chicken for the next 3 days awaiting you when you get home that night. Try that if you get bored with baked or whatever chicken–and it only takes about 5 mins to get ready in the morning.
[/quote]

Pre-training is all BCAA’s. I don’t like much in my stomach when I lift, thats why Surge Workout Fuel is so awesome because it digests so fast.

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I love women and I think at this point in time thats no secret. I’ve been called a man whore before, but that CUNextTuesday got what she deserved. A quick kick to the curb.

This whole issue with my friends slutty ex girl really has me thinking: can you truly trust someone?

I’m a 30 year old single guy, who at some point wants a family, but I’ve seen (and done) some pretty shitty things in my life that always makes me take a second look at things.

What makes things even harder is advent of modern technology. You can met people anywhere in the world and develop a relationship with that person. Then Chris Hansen from Dateline shows up at the door and some douche trying to bang a 12 year old goes to jail.

Yet trust is a big issue for me, as it should be for most people. I over trust people and its back fired against me a time or two, but I also wear my emotions on my sleave and don’t have a problem being an asshole (refer to instance in first paragraph).

Yesterday’s actions haven’t done much to quel this little dilema I have with trust, but something happened that I think has erased a little doubt in my mind.

I have a friend coming out to visit me next weekend from out of town. We have been communicating daily and have developed a great friendship. This person is like me in so many ways its scary. We have a chemistry that is pretty indescribable and is actually quite amazing, considering we’ve never met in person.

With that said, this person is going to come and play and I’ll admit, I’m as giddy as a 13 year old watching porn for the first time (or was 12, I can’t remember).

That takes mad trust on both ends. Could it be something more? Sure. But that takes trust.

And we know how good I am at that.

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Tonights meddley: Chicken a la Chicken, with Broccoli

ingredients:
12 oz chicken breast
1 chicken chorizo link
2 T coconut oil
red pepper flakes
vanilla extract
6 oz broccoli

Steam broccoli

meanwhile, sautee chicken breast in coconut oil over medium to low heat. once pink is gone, add in chicken chorizo and continue to sautee.

add broccoli once its done steaming and break it up in the pan into little pieces.

add red pepper flakes and about 1 T of vanilla extract

enjoy

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Bartl, I was reading your PC posts. In the beginning of your diet you started having 3 scoops of Metabolic Drive, 20g glutamine and 1 T of cream.

What did you mean by cream? Is this milk cream? Why was it added? For the extra fat intake?

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[quote]nikoa wrote:
Bartl, I was reading your PC posts. In the beginning of your diet you started having 3 scoops of Metabolic Drive, 20g glutamine and 1 T of cream.

What did you mean by cream? Is this milk cream? Why was it added? For the extra fat intake?[/quote]

If you go to the grocery store, in the dairy section I believe, they have small containers of heavy cream. Its mostly used for soups or as a thickening agent.

You are right, it was added as another source of fat intake.