[quote]buddaboy wrote:
[quote]txhawkeyes wrote:
[quote]buddaboy wrote:
slept quite well last night, (after amazing sex 
fell asleep about 0000, and woke up at 0630. I felt totally fucking exhausted by 1500 and went back to sleep until 1630. Woke up not feeling too bad so drank a couple of energy drinks and ate some chocolate and hit my home gym. I’ve been reading STB’s ‘Westside method’ thread and I’m going to start using the ‘intensification’ and ‘accumulation’ phases. I need to study the thread in slightly more detail but this is what I did today…
I’m going to specialize on the dead lift, it’s the only lift I’m suited to (if I’m suited to anything LOL). My squat sucks but training it assists my DL. I will use the repetition, max effort and dynamic for my bench/upper body but the main focus will be on exercises to increase the DL.
DL: warm up 60 x10, x5
purple bands plus 60KG x3
purple bands plus purple x3, x3, x3, x3, x2, x2, x2 ,x2, x3, x3
blue bands plus 80kg x2, x2, x2, x2, x3, x3, x3, x2, x2, x3, x3, x2,x2, x2, x2
25 sets in total
Saturday AM 0900-1000-ish
intensification phase bench
Warm-up 50% x13, x12
50% + purple bands 1) x2 2) x3 3) x3 4) x2 5) x2 6) x3 7) x2 8) x3 9) x2 10) x2
50% + blue bands 11) x1 12) x1 13) x2 14) x2 15) x2 16) x2 17) x2 18) x2 19) x2 20) x2 21) x2 22) x2 23) x2 24) x2 25) x2
completed in 37 minutes, including the warm-up. I was pretty beat by the end. Towards the end I was having to increase the rest periods to remain as explosive as possible.
face pulls x20, x20 ,x27
red band OH ext x10, x16, x15
triceps bar hammer curl x15, x12, x10[/quote]
…“Totally fucking exhausted.” Is that being exhausted from too much? 
Here is a thought, but remember I am almost 50 yrs old…so take it with a grain of salt.
I can no longer do Pre workouts all the time, cause remnants of the stuff stays in my system and flips my switch in the middle of the night and wakes me up. OR, if I accidentally wake up, it puts my system in full on mode and I can’t get back to sleep. Once a week, if that much, I can use a pre once for a morning workout…but thats about it. I started just using Gyranium, which has some MPPP or something like that symbol. It gets me very focused, and is great in combo with one single cup of coffee. You might try it. You buy the bitter powder, and use a tiny amount…and it is cheap.
That said, I noticed from your posts…and I am NOT picking on you, but you use the Monster, or Energy drinks…sometimes a couple. If you have two of them in a day, do you think that is coming back to bite you later in the evening, when you are trying to get to sleep, or stay asleep? I am just asking… They have way too much caffeine in them for me, so I don’t use them. Makes me wonder if some of that stuff is still in your system 14 hours later…?? Just wondering. In this example above, you had the energy drinks in the mid afternoon too…wonder if that is too late in the day for so much of a blast of caffeine?
Hope you figure it out someday.
PS Still healthy after a WHOLE 5 DAYS !!! I coach Track at my girls high school, and about 40 percent of the school is out with the Flu, or some sort of Upper Resp Infection…[/quote]
Also, I may try restricting stimulants to pre workout on squat and DL days only.
Glad to hear you’re still not ill, are you still using that natural concoction you gave the family before Disney land?[/quote]
We blew away Mono in my daughter pretty well. Still have some green veggie powder left, and some Olive Leaf Extract too. The one thing that really helped, and this may sound gross, is that my milk guy got me some Collostrum Cows milk. Its the same as cows milk, but the milk that comes out right after birth. It has a LOT of stuff to make a baby cow grow fast, and give that baby energy too. I think that really plowed out about 60 % of the Mono in about 8 days. And you all know Mono is a 1-3 month thing.
I read your caffeine post. It is SOO true. Wake up tired, need caffeine. Have too much caffeine, can’t sleep well. Can’t sleep well, have caffeine. You might try some Whole Milk before bed. It really stays in your stomach, doesn’t wake me up to pea at night either.
Used it yesterday, and going to keep on it. With me, the straight Hersheys is awesome. I also found yesterday, that opening up my Creatine capsuls and putting them in a liquid so they can start to break down helps a lot with pumps.