[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Haha yeah that was me! I don’t really look around too much, especially during my main lifts, but def come say what’s up next time you see me.
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For sure man. I’ll try to catch you when you’re not busy.
It feels good to be done with all those exams…I hopped into my ride and headed home right afterward.
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Apparently chugging 2 energy drinks after 1AM makes it difficult to fall asleep. I didn’t sleep at all last night. [/quote]
Yeah, who knew?
I’m still alive. Got sick again from no sleep. But all my friends are MIA for the time being, so I can start building some good habits again. Chest and tris went well yesterday, nothing amazing. Getting my CNS back in the game. Today’s back and bis was fun. Filmed underhand BB rows and rack pulls, and ended up filming the second half of my workout. Will post a video when it’s up on youtube, but i warn you it’s like 7 minutes long and pretty boring.
Rope pulldowns for teh pumpz
4 sets of sexy
Cable rows, one arm at a time, done kinda like DB rows
worked up to #12 x 6 reps / arm
Pulldowns
up to the stack for an easy 10
Underhand BB rows
135x10
225x6
315x6
Rack pulls (well below knee)
315x6
405x6
495x1
545x4
Shrugs
115’s x some
135’s x some
Hammer curls
35’s x 10
60’s x 8 (I think)
80s x 5 (i think?)
100s x 4 or 5? sry dont wanna count hah
Preacher curls
15/side x a lot
25/side x 10?
35/side x idk /dropped to idk x idk
lolz. felt really good though!
Did some nighttime legs. I was draggggginnnn. Couldnt fall asleep last night, fucking sleep cycle is still fucked. Tried watching some videos to pump myself up while i was doing calves and stuff but it wasnt workin. Oh well, gotta shake out the cobwebs before i start killin it again!
Seated and standing calves.
Seated leg curls SS w/ leg extensions (high reps, for pump/blood)
Lying leg curls
110 x 10
150 x 10
170 x 8
SLDLs (beltless, video)
135x10
225x7
315x4
385x8
Leg press (feet up and wide on the platform)
6pps x 12
8pps x 10
11pps x 8
Squats (no gas left today)
135x7
225x6
315x4
405x4
Not every day is a winner. Grinded through it. 
You speak Japanese? Guessing you’re an int’l bus major? I’m jealous of your gym’s music. Mine plays shitty techno remixes of shitty techno songs. Lookin’ strong man.
Yessir I do. Well, I’m pretty decent. I’m a double major (Economics, Japanese) with a minor in Spanish. I had my headphones in so I had no idea what was playing, haha. 90% of the time it sucks balls, trustttt me. is it bad that sometimes I listen to techno when I lift (especially on higher rep, isolation shit)?
Delts and arms today, whee, one of my favs. There was a cute girl squatting 185 to almost parallel, so that was hot.
Seated military (video)
135x w/e
185x w/e
225x w/e
245x3 (this will definitely improve quickly. This lift is fairly detrained)
DB lateral raises
35’s x w/e
50’s x w/e
75’s x 9 I think, droppd to 35’s x w/e
Cable lateral raises
3 sets, pretty heavy today
Rear delt flies (all for sets of 10)
30’s
40’s
50’s
40’s
30’s
Cables curls on lat pulldown (soo sexy)
4 sets of 18, 15, 12, 10
Rope pressdowns
4 sets
Phil Heath curls (incline girls, each arm 5 reps while the other is being stressed. fucking SUCKED)
got through 2 rounds of 5 on each arm with:
25’s
30’s
35’s
Closegrip (weak today) bench press
135x a lot
225x10
275x4
315x3 (meh, 6 is PR)
Front DB curls 4 da gurlz
3 sets
DB kickbacks (realized i REALLY like these)
20’s
25’s
30’s - each set was 15 reps, last one was toughhh. made sure to squeeze hard and look sexy in the mirror.
that was it.
Nice log man, you got some good numbers. I’ll be tuning in from now on.
nice elbow sleeves
Bug, your log is always an interesting read. Would you mind explaining the Phil Heath curls a bit? They sound similar to something I read in Dave Tate’s log a while back, but he did them standing, and made sure to keep the “non curling” arm supinated while the curling arm was moving.
Sounds like a wicked move though.
wiggles, thanks man.
Sounds like almost exactly the same thing as you are describing, only sitting on an incline bench. Non-curling arm stays supinated, other arm does 5 reps, then the curling arm stays down and supinated, the other arm does 5 reps, and so on and so forth.
I think they are a better finishing move though, and I might go even lighter on them in the future so I can get a really good squeeze. Holding DB’s that are too heavy in that supinated position can get reallllly painful, haha.
Another DB curl variation that I really like is doing DB curls but with just one DB, and reallllly focusing on destroying that arm. The other arm can help do force reps too. Got that idea from this video of amateur BBer Todd Jewell:
In your military press video, wtf is that holocaust survivor behind you doing?
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Yessir I do. Well, I’m pretty decent. I’m a double major (Economics, Japanese) with a minor in Spanish. I had my headphones in so I had no idea what was playing, haha. 90% of the time it sucks balls, trustttt me. is it bad that sometimes I listen to techno when I lift (especially on higher rep, isolation shit)?
Delts and arms today, whee, one of my favs. There was a cute girl squatting 185 to almost parallel, so that was hot.
Seated military (video)
135x w/e
185x w/e
225x w/e
245x3 (this will definitely improve quickly. This lift is fairly detrained)
DB lateral raises
35’s x w/e
50’s x w/e
75’s x 9 I think, droppd to 35’s x w/e
Cable lateral raises
3 sets, pretty heavy today
Rear delt flies (all for sets of 10)
30’s
40’s
50’s
40’s
30’s
Cables curls on lat pulldown (soo sexy)
4 sets of 18, 15, 12, 10
Rope pressdowns
4 sets
Phil Heath curls (incline girls, each arm 5 reps while the other is being stressed. fucking SUCKED)
got through 2 rounds of 5 on each arm with:
25’s
30’s
35’s
Closegrip (weak today) bench press
135x a lot
225x10
275x4
315x3 (meh, 6 is PR)
Front DB curls 4 da gurlz
3 sets
DB kickbacks (realized i REALLY like these)
20’s
25’s
30’s - each set was 15 reps, last one was toughhh. made sure to squeeze hard and look sexy in the mirror.
that was it.
It’s only bad if it’s a shitty techno remix of an already shitty techno song. Carry on.
Was at my parents’ place from the 24th till today. No lifting or anything productive. Ate like shit, not enough, ate candy, w/e. It was fun though.
Thought I’d be decent in the strength department today, I was wrong. things will start coming together… I’ll put up the video too even though it’s embarrassing just to stay accountable.
Decline bench
135x10ish
225x8ish
315x4
365x3 (spotter yanked rep 3 a lil early, w/e)
Pec deck
3 ascending sets to failure and beyond. Sexy.
Incline bench
135x11
225x8
295x1 2 (lolz, a little ambitious with this one)
Dips
2 setx of 15 bodyweight with a deep stretch
Rope pressdowns overhead extensions SS
3 ascending sets of 15, 12, 10. Very painful and amazin
CG pin press
135 x w/e
225 x w/e
275 x 4 (solid)
295 x 4 (was pretty pleased, been a long time since I’ve done these)
Not great strength but I had a good time gettin back in the gym.
Fellow Gregory Gym goer here
Those are some pretty strong lifts. What are you weighing now?
Ha, thanks man. Just the product of 3 years of college lifting. I’m about 235lbs. Trying to get heavier… my current eating habits haven’t been too great, ha.
Time to go take down some back.
Not the greatest today. My training has been off as a whole for the past month or so. It’s happened before, I’m sure it has to all of us. Eventually things will click, just gotta keep grinding.
Thorough warmup, did a little calves because, I have little calves.
Pullups (alternate between wide grip / parallel grip / underhand grip during the set)
bw x 5/5/5
25lbs x 3/3/3
50lbs x 2/2/2 - Shit was harder than I thought, haha. Saw it in a Jim Wendler video.
Rope pulldowns
#5 x 10
#6 x 10
#7 x 10
#9 x 10
Underhand BB rows (felt awful today. 325 felt like 625)
135 x 10
225 x 8
325 x 4 (ugly, cut the set)
One-handed cable rows
#6 x 12
#8 x 10 - Stopped there. That was all the juice I got, and I wanted to save some for biceps (a priority)
At this point I was dragging and wanted to go home, I was huffing like a gdamned locomotive. So, decided to go heavy on bis haha.
Barbell curls (yezzir. gotta get them arms big again)
65lbs x 15
95lbs x 10
135lbs x 4
155lbs x 6 - Form looked dece on the video. Gonna shoot for 8 next time I do these.
One-armed DB preachers
30 x 12
35 x 10
One-armed DB curl finisher
25 x burnoutttttt
Incline rear delt flies
12.5lbs x 20/20/20
FIN. need some food, gonna see Black Swan, then come home and relax and eat like a fucking hog.
Worked out at a 24Hr fitness today. nice change of scenery. lot of people thought so i had to wait some, etc etc. Turned out ok though. Saw this workout in Shelby Starnes’ log over on EFS which inspired some stuff.
Standing calves
stuff x stuff
DB SLDLs (LOVEDDD these. definitely a keeper)
45’s x 12
60’s x 12
90’s x 10
120’s x 12
Seated leg curls
100 x 10
115 x 10
130 x 10
Leg extensions (while waiting for leg curls)
3 sets of 100lbs x 20
Lying leg curls
120 x 10
155 x 10
185 x 6
Squats (fuuuu)
135 x 10
225 x 6
315 x 4
405 x 4
445 x 3
465 x 3 (strength was decent, I was happy)
Leg press (i was friedddd, 6 plates felt like a million)
6pps x 10, 10
7pps x 10, 10
Seated calves
3 sets
Woooooof.
I love Shelby Starnes’ training log. Almost everything I’ve read on there has been useful to me.
I should start reading it more.
Delts and traps today at 24 Hour Fitness. again, the change of environment is nice. Pretty good session. I was a little drowsy though haha.
Thorough warmup
Seated military press
95 x 15
135 x 10
185 x 8
225 x 4
245 x 4 ( 1 from last week, and much better reps)
DB shoulder press
70’s x 10
90’s x 6
100’s x 10 (don’t usually do these after another press, so this was pretty good. One rep left in the tank)
DB laterals
40’s x 12
60’s x 8
75’s x 10 40’s x some 10’s x painnnnn
Cable lateral raises
40lbs x 12, 12
50lbs x 10
Face pulls (on the lat pulldown)
50 x 10ish
60 x 10ish
75 x 10, 10
Barbell shrugs (ooooh weee been awhile!)
225 x 15
315 x 15
405 x 10, 10 (lol)
DB rear delt flies (was pretty gassed by now)
25’s x some
35’s x some
45’s x some
Arms tomorrow, then NYE festivities. wheeee