Why are you using Humapro? I noticed Way is using it as well. Is it just to get protein w/out calories, and if so, why would Way be using it?
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
<3 the gym sometimes.[/quote]
x 2 my man.
hlss - it’s a good product? it’s not really about whether it doesn’t have calories or not (I’m "maintainagainin’ ", so I want some calories). Our buddy did an experiment where his only protein source for a month was humapro and he maintaind strength, maybe got leaner, had great workouts.
I actually used/loved Humapro. It practically has no calories, so when I was dropping weight/leaning out, I used it. Basically, I followed Leangains style IFing, but ‘pulsed’ with Humapro during the day (before the feast) to satisfy my hunger and get a bunch of protein.
I didn’t believe that it was almost calorie free, so I emailed one of the dudes from their site, and he told me that since Humapro is only Essential Amino Acids, it has only trace calories. Usually protein has 4 kcals/gram, but humapro doesn’t. And he said that it’s not comparable to regular protein, but as a ‘ballpark’ estimate it is roughly equivalent to ~25 grams of protein per scoop.
And it tastes great. Do you use the apple cider or the sour grape? Either way dat shit is da bomb.
And lol at maintainagainin
And who’s the friend? Josh? I saw his diet from the other site, he’s really getting large and in charge. Great potential. Just sucks that he’s so good looking. Maybe I could pick up the girls he leaves in his wake?
Apple cider.
Well a lot of us from the OG BOI have been using it, but DOHCrazy did the experiment. At least 10-15 of us have used the product though with great success, including Josh, waylander, kingbeef, evan, etc.
Arms later today!
Used Evan’s last arm workout as a template and smashed that shit.
Rope pressdowns / Cable curls pump warm up
3 sets of 12-15, low rest. Tris were kinda sore from Tuesday? wtf.
Seated hammer curls
(arms together, slow neg, very hard contraction)
25s x 10
35s x 10
45s x 10
—switch to alternating, more regular tempo
55s x 10
65s x 8
Decline CGBP - slow negative, very conscious effort to SQUEEZE and lock out with the triceps at the top of each rep. AWESOME.
135 x 10
185 x 8
225 x 6
275 x 5
EZ bar preachers - very very forceful contraction, controlled negative
10/side x 15
15/side x 15
20/side x 12
25/side x 10
PJR pullovers with a fixed bar - first time trying these, liked them a lot, minus having to pick up off the ground. Like decline, made a very conscious effort to squeeze tris at top. Nice 1 second stretch.
60 x 10
80 x 10
100 x 10, 8
Incline DB curls - arms together, retardedly controlled and squeezed
25s x 12
30s x 10
27.5s x 12
Levrone pressdowns on lat pulldown
3 sets up to a hard set of 9.
Overhead rope ext. / EZ bar cable reverse curl superset FINISHA!!!
3 sets of 12 with no rest, JUST LIKE EVAN.
Stretch tris, bis, a little mobility work then dunzo.
I tried to have a pumpz inducing bug worthy session today.
Did I succeed?
had to get all caught up from what I missed while I was gone on my trip… sick rear double bi. Lookin large and in charge… shoulders like a boss.
What is this humapro that you dudes speak of? I must investigate…
Dix - YES. pumpz = HUGE MUSCLES OBVI. I didn’t know PL’ers had this ability…
greg, humapro is an essential amino acid product, basically like the benefits of ingesting a protein without calories (which isn’t necessarily why I/others are using), supposed to have high levels of absorption into teh musclez and all this other cool science-y stuff. Anyways, it’s cool, and tastes good, and I like it. check it out!
So I’ll be in the D.C./Baltimore area from Wednesday thru Monday morning. So I moved back from Wed to today, chest tomorrow as normal, and I’ll go in Wed. morning for some legs. Back today went fucking awesome. Finished the back portion of the workout in just about an hour. Rest took another half hour. Strength is coming back… little by little.
Stretchers - god this has to be one of the best lat stretch/pump moves you can do.
75 x 12
100 x 12
125 x 10
150 x 10
Lat pulldowns / underhand EZ cable rows
137.5 x 10 / #10 x 10 (already retardedly pumped at this point)
175 x 10 / #10 x 10
200 x 12 / #10 x 10 - jesus fucking christ it hurts, lol.
Chest-supported machine rows
1pps x 12 squeezed
1pps + 25s x 10 squeezed
2pps x 8 squeezed
Rack pulls - mid shin / a few inches below bottom of the knee cap. I think this is one of the toughest places to pull from, arguably harder than off the floor… Second time doing these in awhile, and form and everything felt MUCH better today.
135 x 5
225 x 5
315 x 3
405 x 3
475 x 3
525 x 5 - +30lbs, +1 rep from last time, and reps much smoother. Prob had another 1-2 good ones in me.
Cable rows - top half ROM, holding the contraction
#12 x 10
#16 x 8
stack x 7
Rope pulldowns finisher - 3 sets.
Ebomb’s smith wide-grip rear delt rows - Evan, these felt MUCH better this time. bent over more and rowed higher. Loved it.
35/side x 20, 20, 20
Bent-over rear delt DB raises
25s x 15, 15 - teh pumpz
35s x 12
45s x 10, 10
Started doing meadows hammers using 1 and 1/2 reps, but my left shoulder was feeling tight so I scrapped it after a couple warmups.
Plate-loaded “incline curl” type machine- slow negative, 1+ sec hold
15/side x 12
20/side x 12
25/side x 12
35/side x 10 drop 25/side x some more.
EZ bar curls
25/side x 8
35/side x 8
45/side x 10 DROP 25/side x 10 reverse grip DROP 25s x 10 hammer curls.
Then 3 sets of calves. VOLUMEEEEEE. Honestly it didn’t feel like that much, I was moving really fast, and sweating like a god damned hyena.
Hlss09 endorses Humapro.
Bug, you’re a strong MFer. I mean, dayuuuum. Good work.
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the whole no calorie thing in HumaPro? If it has protein it has calories, I’ve never heard of any protein having 0.4 calories per gram. I’m not saying the product isn’t good but all the info on it just seems like such BS. In addition to the calorie thing, the claim that something from cows (i.e. whey) is only for cows and not humans is the most ridiculous argument…guess what else is from cows? Cow. I’m pretty sure no one would claim steak is for cows and not humans.
Again, not saying the product itself is bad.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the whole no calorie thing in HumaPro? If it has protein it has calories, I’ve never heard of any protein having 0.4 calories per gram. I’m not saying the product isn’t good but all the info on it just seems like such BS. In addition to the calorie thing, the claim that something from cows (i.e. whey) is only for cows and not humans is the most ridiculous argument…guess what else is from cows? Cow. I’m pretty sure no one would claim steak is for cows and not humans.
Again, not saying the product itself is bad. [/quote]
I will agree with you that if you only look at the science behind it, it doesn’t look too convincing, but IMO, it’s a product you need to try and embrace to truly see its benefits. I can tell you, from using it, that it is a great product, but I would have a hard time pointing to the studies that would clearly identify why it worked so well for me.
Bottom line, empirical results > science in this case.
[quote]ebomb5522 wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the whole no calorie thing in HumaPro? If it has protein it has calories, I’ve never heard of any protein having 0.4 calories per gram. I’m not saying the product isn’t good but all the info on it just seems like such BS. In addition to the calorie thing, the claim that something from cows (i.e. whey) is only for cows and not humans is the most ridiculous argument…guess what else is from cows? Cow. I’m pretty sure no one would claim steak is for cows and not humans.
Again, not saying the product itself is bad. [/quote]
I will agree with you that if you only look at the science behind it, it doesn’t look too convincing, but IMO, it’s a product you need to try and embrace to truly see its benefits. I can tell you, from using it, that it is a great product, but I would have a hard time pointing to the studies that would clearly identify why it worked so well for me.
Bottom line, empirical results > science in this case.
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Yea I mean I guess if it’s working so well for you guys the proof is there, it’s just the reasoning behind it that seems so dumb to me. The whole mother’s milk being the best protein we’ve had (until HumaPro that is…), lets just become cannibals. Human meat is obviously the best for humans. lol…but even beside that the calorie thing doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve never heard of macros having calories that different.
I’ll have to try the HumaPro myself I guess, it’s a bit pricey for me but maybe some day down the road when I’m not getting free food at college.
- YouTube 0:34 lol at his answer, as if it’s so off the cuff
I feel it’s analogous to BCAAs having only trace calories (IIRC). Regardless, I’m not tripping over it. The proof is in the pudding. I’m not a fan of the advertising either, but the product works, period. Also, if you consider that you can replace an 8-10oz serving of chicken/fish/beef with 2 scoops of this stuff, it starts to seem a bit more cost effective. Anyways, your mileage may vary, but after DOHCrazy’s experiment, and how well everyone else is doing with it, I’m sold.
^Yeah. Bigger men than I have endorsed it…so…
Horrible chest workout, lol. I slept maybe 2 hours last night (A/C was out, plus had some personal issues come up last night that were on my mind). Couldn’t shake the “mental fog” (even did some extra warming up… nope), and my back is sore as shit which didn’t really help. AND IT’S 106 DEGREES TODAY FUCK THAT NOISE. ok done complaining. here’s what i did.
Incline DB - warmup
30s x 20
40s x 20
60s x 20
Flat bench - FOR MAXIMUM LULZ
135 x 10 - heavy
185 x 10 - felt lighter than 135
225 x 10 - heavy
275 x 6 - stopped there.
Cybex incline machine - why not?
1pps x 15
2pps x 10 - heavy, lolz. I knew I had to stop at this point.
3 sets cable crossovers for blood pumpage.
3 sets rope pressdowns.
Did some giant set thingy. Since it works for shoulders, why not for tris?
Smith RGBP / Meadows kickbacks (pronated palms) / standing overhead EZ extensions
135 x 20 / 15s x 10 / 45 x 15
185 x 15 / 15s x 10 / 55 x 15
185 x 12 (paused) / 15s x 10 / 75 x 15
135 x 10 bottom half, 10 top half, 10 full ROM.
2 sets one armed pushdowns to get a decent pump. Did that in 45 min. fuck that noise haha. Will prob go in for some light legs tomorrow morning before getting on the plane, then I’ll be out of town for the weekend. I might lift with pwrbarboy while in DC if our schedules match up.
Hope y’alls session today goes better than mine!
Keep on truckin bug! Things will get back on track for ya!
Yeah no worries, it was just one of those days!
Shit dude, I need to start training like you,lol.
Lol Delta, I was thinkin the same thing about you.
Finishing up packing and heading to the airport. If I lift in D.C. I’ll let you guys know. Pzzzzz out.