Brotherhood of Iron 2.0

Saturday - Shoulders

Standing military press

bar x 15
95lbs x 10
135lbs x 8
185lbs x 3
225lbs x 1+1
175lbs x 6 or 7

Seated DB press

70’s x 10
80’s x 8
90’s x 10
100’s x 6 (with a lot of help… I couldn’t handle them by myself)

DB lateral raises

30’s x 12
35’s x 12
45’s x 10 (started to use a bit of body english)

Face pulls

12 plates x 10
13 plates x 10
stack x 12 / 10 plates x 8 (squeeze and hold)

Cable X raises

2 plates x 10
3 plates x 8
4 plates x 8 / 3plates x 7

Shrugs (just going light, squeezing at the top)

315lbs x 20
365lbs x 15

Home. Time for the game! #1 Texas v. #5 Mizzou, should be a good one!

Piss poor chest and tricep session tonight.

Need to get more food in me…at least tonight I held down the eggs, if only barely. Maybe I need a job change so I have more time to eat while working…

I feel like I’m getting to the point where every time I eat, I get a little bit nauseous, even if I’m not even completely STUFFING THE SHIT out of my face (which is somewhat common), unless I’m doing that by accident. I’m getting to the point where tasting steak is making me nauseous. I think this week I’m going to go a little easier on the eating… and maybe try some new foods.

todays session

deadlifts

100kgx5
130kgx5
150kgx5
170kgx5
180kgx1
190kgx0

  • stopped my core was still tired from yesterday, probably not the best idea to do deadlifts the day after squats and abs

this weird row machine at my gym same as seated row but different at the same time

75kgx10x3

lat pull down with close grip but palms facing away

70kgx10x3

dumbbell curls

20kgx10x2

  • was a rushed session and didnt really push especially towards the end of the session, just going for quality reps

[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
I feel like I’m getting to the point where every time I eat, I get a little bit nauseous, even if I’m not even completely STUFFING THE SHIT out of my face (which is somewhat common), unless I’m doing that by accident. I’m getting to the point where tasting steak is making me nauseous. I think this week I’m going to go a little easier on the eating… and maybe try some new foods.[/quote]

I usually cycle my food intake: While blasting for 6-12 weeks on DC, I go all-out in the gym and the kitchen (500 or more grams of protein a day, lowish carbs, medium fats), then while cruising for 2 weeks, I lower my food intake and eat mainly to satisfy hunger (400 grams of protein per day or a little less, generally less food, maybe one meal less per day…).

Helps to keep you sane (and keeps the food in, instead of running out your mouth)…
Once I reach the end of a cruise, I start upping the food intake to the previous level again.

Also, try fasted cardio in the mornings 3 days a week on off-days at first… Makes you hungry as shit. I’d do 30-45 mins of brisk walking or so. That’s all that’s needed for me.

Additionally, I’ve lately been sticking to carb-cutoffs past 6. Basically I just keep on consuming lean protein sources or shakes after that time with trace carbs from a vegetable or two. All the high-energy carb/protein or fat/protein meals are eaten earlier in the day…

Been leaning out a little already due to that, strength is not affected.
And I can eat breakfast again without getting a gag-reflex each time I even so much as look at food.

[quote]jtg987 wrote:
Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
jtg987 wrote:
WS4JB wrote:
nate, i noticed the 2/4, but i was literally walking out the door as i typed that, it was supposed to be 3/4.

JTG, was Max Payne shit, or was it “the” shit, huge difference.

Im seeing it after work tomorrow as well.

one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year and that’s saying something I’ve been to the cinema’s atleast 25 times this year

Shame, esp. the second MP game would have been great for movie-conversion…

How’d they fuck it up?

wrong choice of actors, honestly they probably should have gone for bruce willis instead of marky mark, also mila kunis was another terrible choice, she’s cute and all but I can’t picture her being the character they were trying too portray. Also the story line was pretty average and predictable, and dialogue terrible.

I never played max payne 2, max payne 1 was a pretty fun game
[/quote]

MP2 was kind of a noir-type story and all, perfect for a movie imo.
I’m sure you could grab some budget version or whatever… Was definitely a fun game, bunch of cool mods available, too.
You need to play through it in the hardest regular difficulty mode though (not the time-limit one) to get the best ending.

I know that added cardio has greatly helped me in being able to shovel more food down.

Although on lazy sundays like today when all I want to do is lay on the couch and watch football, it has taken me an entire pot of coffee to motivate myself to walk the 200 feet to the apartments cardio club.

[quote]josh86 wrote:
Oh and dre - I got my vibram five fingers and trained it them today…absolutely LOVE them. [/quote]

I told you! haha They are seriously “the” shit!


Bad session on Friday night, wasn’t focused because I was pressed for time, didn’t eat enough on Friday, blah, blah, blah.

Squat 6x2 @ 265
got all 6, easy, good stuff.

Bench 6x6 @ 230
6x6
6x6
6x6
6x4
didn’t finish the last two sets, just didn’t have it. bench felt heavy from the very first set, my form was off, couldn’t find my groove. just didn’t have it. this was the first time since starting this program where a session sucked, it happens I guess.

can’t wait to try to make it up on Monday.

[quote]WS4JB wrote:
I know that added cardio has greatly helped me in being able to shovel more food down.

Although on lazy sundays like today when all I want to do is lay on the couch and watch football, it has taken me an entire pot of coffee to motivate myself to walk the 200 feet to the apartments cardio club.[/quote]

JB Sundays are meant to sit on the couch and watch football. God bless football.

Dre, I played football for 12 of my first 19 years of life, i know the importance of Sunday football.

The cardio room has a TV, and Ill be damned if im gonna let anybody in the cardio room have dibs over the tv besides myself.

[quote]WS4JB wrote:
Dre, I played football for 12 of my first 19 years of life, i know the importance of Sunday football.

The cardio room has a TV, and Ill be damned if im gonna let anybody in the cardio room have dibs over the tv besides myself.[/quote]

Alright, make sure you own that tv man. lol

So, I just made a 6 egg peanut butter omelet. Goes without saying it was awesome.

And ive got a nice big steak defrosted for dinner, add in a few shakes and a couple of big ol’ burgers with shredded cheddar and some Guac on them, and its been a damn fine day of eating.

time for more football. If only I wasnt being forced by my cable provider to watch the Texans/Lions game.

–JB

Last night with Mike Wolfe was a good time.
He’s a great guy, fun to be around, and was very informative.


His arms were about as big around as I’am tall.

He’s about 300lbs in these pics too, down from 420.

December 6th I’m going down to the gym he trains at in Selina OH for his bench press meet with my training partner Sean, who is in the other pic.

Cool pics xb.

CC now you have me thinking I should consider doing fasted cardio in the mornings again…man I hate fasted cardio though.

[quote]WS4JB wrote:
So, I just made a 6 egg peanut butter omelet. Goes without saying it was awesome.

And ive got a nice big steak defrosted for dinner, add in a few shakes and a couple of big ol’ burgers with shredded cheddar and some Guac on them, and its been a damn fine day of eating.

time for more football. If only I wasnt being forced by my cable provider to watch the Texans/Lions game.

–JB[/quote]

peanut butter omlette? you eat some weird sh*t man.

When i went to see Max payne(fully bad) last night the people on both sides of me were eating peanut butter cups, so I was really wanting some peanut butter.

It was pretty damn good, melted the PB in a seperate pan, then drizzled it over the eggs, then folded it over.

Think im gonna have it again in the morning.

off day from training, saw burn after reading, fucking great movie. 4.5/5

So it looks like I forgot my lifting logbook at my friend’s Max Muscle shop next to my gym so I don’t have my Thursday or Saturday sessions to post up until I get that back…but here is Friday’s Back session.

HS Row (someone was in the only place to do heavy t-bar rows like forever so I just did HS Row machine instead):

8plates x12
8plates x11
8plates x10
8plates x11

HS High Row:

8plates x11
8plates x10
8plates x10
8plates x10

Seated Cable Row:

210x12
210x12
210x11
210x11

Close, neutral-grip Lat Pulldown:

210x10
210x9
210x9
210x9

Was a really good session, had some big progress jumps from my last back session - wish that would start happening for my chest instead of always happening for my back…lol

I’ve been feeling run down the last few days so I just did some high rep stuff today to failure.

DB Bench
worked up to the 50’s for 1 set

CG Bench
For this I put a bunch of small plates on the bar, adding up to 155, then I did that until failure, stripped 10lbs or so off and immediately repeated repping out until failure. I did this until it was just the bar. Nice pump.

Seated DB Curls
3 sets

Seated Side Laterals
2 sets

I got a huge pump in my traps from the side laterals too, that was weird.