Beer, Bitching, and Lifting

Training Training Logs
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So, it’s been 4 days since my last post.

I did Quads/Calves on the 27th and Shoulders/triceps on the 28th. Today I’ll do Back/Hammies.

On the zercher squats 270 flew up like it was nothing so I may need to readjust my goals at some point. Or I’ll just reach 315 quicker than I imagined I would for the movement. Perhaps I underestimated myself.

I have been considering doing some John Meadows type stuff … like heavy partial lateral raises for shoulder width, 30+ rep sets for rear delts, etc… I want more shoulder width fo’ rizzle.

Pumpkin Ale update: The pumpkin ale came out as a major fail. The fermentation process completely ate up any trace of spice in the beer. It basically just tasted like pumpkin. Haha. Oh well - I will brew up another when I get more free time. I’ll try making a vodka/spice tea and adding it to the beer after primary fermentation is done in hopes of keeping the spice flavors.

In the mean time, I’ve had an Irish stout (think Guinness) in the works for a couple weeks now and it should be about done. I’ll try to bottle it up tonight. It smells great and a sample I tasted was spot on. Now it just needs to get carbonation.

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Yesterday I did Back/Hammies - strength is going up slowly and I added in DB rows after my v-grip cable rows. I haven’t done them in a long time.

Also decided to try stiff-legged deadlifts rather than romanian deadlifts - I’m not sure which I prefer. I have more difficulty feeling my hamstrings on RDL’s but SDL’s feel more iffy on my lower back.

I also noticed that my leg extension/curl attachment on my bench is fucked up. It’s not welded on level… one foot pad is higher than the other and sadly, as I expected, my right hamstring has much more of a ‘ball’ appearance when I bend my knee and look at it in the mirror. I think I’ll be doing 1-leg leg curls from now on even though they are ze ghey!

Yesterday I played basketball with my family and somehow jammed my right pinky finger a good one on my brother-in-law’s elbow. It’s all fat and puffy and I can’t grab much today - no fun! :frowning: Luckily it is not broken though… my knuckle is just all ‘FAK YOU!’.

Also, my in-laws have been staying in an apartment my wife and I are renting them (been a month so far…) and it sounds like they may never be leaving. They are seriously considering seeking political asylum because of Morsi (muslim brotherhood) being elected in Egypt.

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Yesterday I did:

Chest/Biceps

Incline bp - 170x5, 170x4 - Didn’t see how many I could do with 200 today because I want to add reps for 170 instead. I’d like to get up to at least 8 before adding another 5 or 10lbs.

Standing preacher curls - ack x lol, ack x lol (Never done these before and I don’t have a true preacher curl station… just put my bench on a low incline and stood behind it.)

Incline flyes - 60x8, 60x6

DB Hammer curls - 45x8, 45x8

Pin press - x_x

DB incline curls - 40x7,40x6

Played basketball again with my in-laws last night… my pinky finger was alright. I got two blood blisters on it though… it’s pretty fucked up looking… lol

At like midnight I ate:

5 scrambled eggs (with a generous amount of butter)
3 Babybel mini cheeses
1 yoplait blueberry yogurt
1 Yuengling Black & Tan

It was gud.

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Yesterday I did:

Quads/Calves

Leg extensions - Didn’t add weight but pushed for 20-25 reps each set. 3 top sets.

Zercher Squats - Attempted 300 on a whim and missed it. I got 290x1 up after, though. I felt a lot of strain on my abs so I know my abs need some attention. I definitely underestimated myself though. 315 is pretty close already.

Walking DB Lunges - 60x(9,8)

Gastroc raises - me x 50, me x 50, 220x12, 230x10, 230x9

Roman chair sit ups - lol

Hyperextensions - a bazillion

What are my goals?

What are my goals? The truth is that I don’t really know.

I evaluated myself earlier this year and I came to the following conclusions:

Even if I put on 50lbs of lean muscle (by any means) I would still most probably not have a chance at anything significant in bodybuilding.

My chest insertions suck - I have that kind where it looks like somebody cut a big triangle out where they connect to the sternum. My abs are fucked up looking … only one side even resembles ‘abs’. I got decent lengthed biceps but 0% peak and my triceps are high as well.

On top of that I am 5’2"/5’3" depending on who is measuring. We all know everybody likes to say bodybuilding is a short man’s sport and it’s easier for short guys and everything… but there is a reason Lee Priest never won an Olympia. He was just too short. I am just too short as well.

And on top of all that… so far in my life I have lacked the discipline required to even eat enough on a daily basis. That doesn’t even mean what I eat is healthy - because a lot of it is not!

That is why I label myself the ‘recreational’ lifter… I don’t have clear defined goals at this moment in time. I don’t mind getting bigger, I don’t mind getting leaner, and I sure don’t mind getting stronger… but I’m not really pushing hard enough towards any of the three.

I guess I figure that any lifting is better than no lifting… and maybe there will come a day where I do have clear defined goals. Maybe one day I will have the discipline required to live the bodybuilding lifestyle. We will see, I guess…

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*Modified Shoulders/Triceps

DB Press - 3 top sets
Partial DB lateral raises - 45 x (15,11,8) - burns so gud~
Over/Back’s - 90x(8,6,6) - why are these so hard? agh. Maybe it’s just because it was my first time ever doing them?

Ez-Overhead extensions - 85 x 7,5,6 - I dropped the weight to make sure I am controlling the weight with my muscles… not my tendons. My suspicion was true… felt the muscles much more at this weight than 95. I’ll work from here.
Tricep rope pushdowns - 3 top sets

BB shrugs - 3 top sets. I am considering creating an entire ‘grip’ day because my grip is so frustratingly motherfucking pitiful. I know I have tiny hands but AGH >_<#

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Add the muscle and then see where you are and what you look like.

If eating is a problem then drink BCAAs and take a vitamin and some fish oil.

Get to work homeboy.

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Add the muscle and then see where you are and what you look like.

If eating is a problem then drink BCAAs and take a vitamin and some fish oil.

Get to work homeboy. [/quote]
Thanks for the encouragement! xoxoxo

You’re right - I should just try to add the muscle and then see what it’s like then. I was just in a real crappy mood the other day lol

You think taking BCAA’s would really help? If I don’t eat enough all the time I feel like they’d kind of be wasted.

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Back/Hammies
V-grip pulldowns - worked up to 165x6,5
V-grip cable rows - 0% improvement … 150x10,8
DB rows - 110x8,7 … kinda do them dead-stop like big JM but it’s not completely intended. My arms are just so short that because of the size of the DB they rest on the ground at the bottom of each rep… lol

Straight/stiff-legged deadlifts - worked up to 220x8 and then tried them out of the rack from the point where my back starts to round… got 220x8 that way as well but basically didn’t feel my hamstrings at all.
Leg curls - lulz… did single leg-leg curls with my left leg before hand - it has some catching up to do.

Hyperextensions - a hundred bazillion million sets of 20

I spent the day eating cheese, tuna, beef, and pineapple before my workout but I got hungry like half way through it anyway. I ended up taking a 5 minute intermission to cram more cheese down my throat.

PWO meal will be canned sweet potatoes, 3 or 4 scrambled eggs, and a nice big glass of whole milk.

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The amino acids will make up for the protein you don’t get from your diet. There are guys on this site that use amino acids as their biggest protein source…dohcrazy and some others swear by it

I used it mostly on spring break to avoid muscle loss…its all I drank really.

Stuff is called humapro

Plus a vitamin and a fish oil and you should be good.

Hell everything you’d be eating is made of amino acids anyway

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Islam is awful. I dislike it with all my heart. I dislike everything about it. I dislike how in my everyday life these ugly dumb and dull womens with scarf on their head take the space where the alive ones should be.

Anyway cool log

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
The amino acids will make up for the protein you don’t get from your diet. There are guys on this site that use amino acids as their biggest protein source…dohcrazy and some others swear by it

I used it mostly on spring break to avoid muscle loss…its all I drank really.

Stuff is called stuff

Plus a vitamin and a fish oil and you should be good.

Hell everything you’d be eating is made of amino acids anyway [/quote]

I looked up that stuff and its claims are pretty interesting. I was much leaner when I was taking BCAA’s all the time and your suggestion has re-piqued my interest. I think I’ll try to make a ‘duplicate’ of it using base ingredients to cut costs… I can’t afford it right now. lol

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[quote]jasmincar wrote:
Islam is awful. I dislike it with all my heart. I dislike everything about it. I dislike how in my everyday life these ugly dumb and dull womens with scarf on their head take the space where the alive ones should be.

Anyway cool log[/quote]

I, too, dislike it with all my heart. While it is hard to understand why women would want to follow Islam… I see no reason to call those women ugly, dumb, dull, and suggest that they deserve to be replaced by non-Muslim women.

My wife is a somewhat devout follower but she is very pretty, intelligent, and very much alive.

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Id hit it

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Id hit it[/quote]

Word! xoxoxo

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Yesterday:
Spent the day cutting down, cutting up, and splitting dead trees with my Dad yesterday. Lots of oak (pain in the foot!). I was pretty wiped out after spending the day in the sun so I just did some light curls and some push ups.

Today:
Chest/Biceptuals
Incline bp - 175x3,3 - added weight too soon. Shoulda just stuck with 170. Boohoo. Contractions were good though.

Improvised preacher curls - lolololx10,6. What part of the arm does this mostly train? Because whatever it is , is way weaker than the rest of my arm.

Incline DB flyes - 60x8,6

Pin press - nothing worth noting. Basically a repeat of the last 3 weeks. I probably need to bump up the food intake a bit.

DB hammer curls - 45x10,8

DB Incline curls - 40x8,7

I put on a couple pounds. I was 140 the other day with food in mah tummah - so I’m prolly like 137/138 or so.

edit: Looked up what preacher curls work and it turns out I was confusing brachilias with brachilordias (however you spell it)… so my brachilias has never had much direct work ever since I thought I was training it but I was actually training the other. lololol

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If you’re ever looking to catch up on some literature about Islam and all their crazy shit, read “American Jihad” by Steven Emerson. It’s eye opening. I’m reading it right now. I’m trying to better understand America’s current enemies.

CS

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[quote]CSEagles1694 wrote:
If you’re ever looking to catch up on some literature about Islam and all their crazy shit, read “American Jihad” by Steven Emerson. It’s eye opening. I’m reading it right now. I’m trying to better understand America’s current enemies.

CS[/quote]

I haven’t read that one but I read the synopsis online and it does seem pretty interesting. I’ve read about much of the material supposedly discussed but I don’t know too much about HAMAS. If I were to read it it’d probably be to learn more about HAMAS.

Just don’t go believing all Muslims are crazed militants trying to take over the world with political Islam though… heh. Legally, I am a Muslim myself according to Egypt and I repeated the Shahada in a well-known Egyptian mosque. I’ve truly walked on each side of the rail road and straight down the middle when it comes to this one.

I’ve been an ignorant, hateful , prejudiced bastard regarding Islam.

I’ve also been a follower.

And now I’m whatever I am now - in between.

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Yesterday I was plagued by a stomach virus or something. Had the runs like crazy all day and was just too drained to train. Today I felt somewhat better though - a little drained but ok.

Quads/Calves

Rockula Hack Squats - 220x8, 220x6 - these felt greaaaat. I am replacing the leg extensions (which started to bother my knees if I went above 135ish) with these. I have to stand on a cinder block with the bar on the lowest hole to be able to sit on it and get a 90* angle for my thighs though… lololol

Zercher squats - missed 300… have a hard time staying upright out of the hole. Pins too low? Not sure. I don’t wanna start too high either though.

DB walking lunges - 60x8,8

Gastroc raises - 65xme, 220x16, 12

Roman chair situps

Considering trashing this day and combining hamstrings back in with it. There’s really just no reason not to. I think I’d do that combined day twice a week as well.

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Well, I did Shoulders/triceps today but there is really nothing worth reporting. I slept through today’s workout big time.

It’s become apparent to me that while the solid foods I eat are relatively healthy (you won’t catch me eating no god damn cinnamon buns) that there are two main things ruining my ‘diet’.

1)I have trouble eating the requisite calories every day (as I have stated many times.)

and

2)I drink far too much sodas (3-4 cans a day), energy drinks (1-3 a day), and beer (2-3 a day). Along with not eating the requisite calories … I am convinced this crap is not allowing me to absorb/utilize the good nutrients I DO consume [completely/efficiently]. Energy drinks and beer dehydrate the crap out of me and it’s always a losing battle. They all may help me reach requisite calories but they are calories that do NOTHING for me.

So my plan is this: Once my supply of soda and energy drinks run out - I plan on not purchasing any more and replacing all of it with a BCAA/EAA drinks (as Rockula inspired) and I want to see what happens.

My guess is at the very least I’ll lean out a little and inflammation will go down. It’s gonna be pretty hard for me to stick to but I’ve decided I really wanna do this. I have a highly addictive personality and I am DEFINITELYYY addicted to sugary drinks and alcohol. I got to do this though.

I was always a naturally very lean guy (26-27" waist, for real) until I ruined it with the crap I continue to put in my body and there really is no logical reason to keep putting in my body. I’m just addicted and it IS effecting my body and ability to recover from training.

I guess at least it’s not heroine, right? Gah.

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Cool log man. Diet soda should be your best friend LOL im addicted to it. Drinking BCAA throughout the day should be great for your, iv’e actually heard of people gaining like 5 pounds in 2 weeks just from BCAA’s. I also think dropping alcohol would help you tremendously . I’ll be following