Chicks Dig 5/3/1

[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
I was just on a Pling web sight, and read an article ‘’ 7 signs your weak ‘’ Anyway a couple of them made me laugh, but one was, ‘’ if your counting calories, and macros ‘’ it made me think of your log, and how since you’ve loosened up your diet, you’ve had a boost in strength. It was a poke fun, type article, but some were pretty relevant, ‘’ if you spend more time on prehab, than on actuall lifting ‘’ or ‘’ if you time when you take your supplements, down to the minute ‘’ I see alot of this stuff going on now days, around my gym, and such.

I think your on the right track lately, focus on putting more weight on the bar, and let everything else take care of it’s self. i guess it all comes down to goals, and what your real focus is. Anyway latter[/quote]

People get really pissed at me when I tell them that all they need to do is eat a healthier version of hamburger helper, and to lift smarter. Most people train hard as hell, they just don’t do the work properly (hit depth, or touch their chest on bench, etc) or have a plan.

I have had two people insist that they train with me. I keep progressing, and they stall, and stall, and fail reps, and stall some more. The difference? I show up every day with numbers I want to hit, and knowing how I feel/where I should push or back off. They have no clue. They think they are just going to do what I do and POOF…100 lbs to their deadlift haha. I also take them to eat and let them order first. They usually get something “healthy” like a salad or some shit because they just “exercised.” I go for the carbs and lean meat, and just pound skim milk.

Neither of them have put those two simple things together. It amazes me, especially when I tell them that GOMAD with skim milk is cheap and works. One guy said he couldn’t afford a gallon of milk every day, yet he buys a 4 dollar shake with 25 grams of protein EVERY TIME WE GO TO THE GYM haha.

@trivium I think we’re talking about the same people…the guys who do 135x10, 140x8, 145x6 EVERY DAMN WEEK

Foreal tho if they’re gonna do GOMAD do it with whole milk, more cals and same price. I did half galloon of whole milk and 2 sloppy pb and j’s every night and it works, I did it a little too aggressively lol but it works

[quote]chobbs wrote:
@trivium I think we’re talking about the same people…the guys who do 135x10, 140x8, 145x6 EVERY DAMN WEEK

Foreal tho if they’re gonna do GOMAD do it with whole milk, more cals and same price. I did half galloon of whole milk and 2 sloppy pb and j’s every night and it works, I did it a little too aggressively lol but it works[/quote]

The guys who don’t even know what they did last week, because they didn’t write it down?

I ask my one training partner all the time. How the hell are you gonna beat last week if you have no idea what last week’s lift was? He still asks me what the next lift is. I do the workouts in order. If we did press last time, then next time I go will be squat. It always is that way.

I usually recommend skim because people (extremely healthy 22 year old males) freak out about the large amount of fat in milk. I personally prefer whole milk haha. Tastes better, and as you said more calories.

I literally had to shit 4-5 times a day drinking half a galloon of whole milk lol it was the only negative tho

[quote]chobbs wrote:
I literally had to shit 4-5 times a day drinking half a galloon of whole milk lol it was the only negative tho[/quote]
I’m kind of lactose intolerant but I drink a lot of chocolate milk anyway. My kind of girlfriend is not a fan.

[quote]budreiser wrote:

[quote]chobbs wrote:
I literally had to shit 4-5 times a day drinking half a galloon of whole milk lol it was the only negative tho[/quote]
I’m kind of lactose intolerant but I drink a lot of chocolate milk anyway. My kind of girlfriend is not a fan.[/quote]
You drink chocolate milk so that your toilet can have some too. How kind of you.

Not to hyjack Chobbs log, but I just posted on my log, talking with Chobbs about how to use GOMAD during the winter, and then it actually helps me get lean easier come summer. From a health stand point, I’m 40, alot older than most here, but I’ve been doing 3 litter’s of milk (2%), and a dozen eggs a day for years, all my blood work (twice a year) comes back right on the mark. I also eat lots of veggies, and fiber, but it proves people don’t haver a clue what they’re talking about, when they rag about our PLing diet not being healthy. Latter

[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
Not to hyjack Chobbs log, but I just posted on my log, talking with Chobbs about how to use GOMAD during the winter, and then it actually helps me get lean easier come summer. From a health stand point, I’m 40, alot older than most here, but I’ve been doing 3 litter’s of milk (2%), and a dozen eggs a day for years, all my blood work (twice a year) comes back right on the mark. I also eat lots of veggies, and fiber, but it proves people don’t haver a clue what they’re talking about, when they rag about our PLing diet not being healthy. Latter[/quote]

Well as a future healthcare professional, I will say that if you aren’t working out hard, it would be devastating to your health.

Unfortunately most people don’t understand just how weight lifting is when you are serious about it. I have broken blood vessels in my eyes squatting, I am stiff for days after lifts, and my buddy says that my face and eyes turn so red that he thinks I am going to go super saiyan.

I have had people stop to watch me deadlift my top sets, and I am nothing special. I think they would shit a brick if they saw someone who was really strong lift.

Most people think they are going to go do a treadmill for 30 minutes at barely above a brisk walk, and be “fit,” or workout aimlessly with some home made program and be the next mister olympia. It just doesn’t work like that. It may work for a few weeks, but some day you’re going to have to go somewhere you never thought you could go, and you’re going to have to get mean to get there. Most people can’t and won’t do it. That is what makes them weak, makes them fail, or makes them waste potential. It is one of the reasons I try to encourage people to stick with it and break records. Your log and the scale/mirror wont lie unless you cheat.

Then you have the flip side of the coin, with the guy who will work hard and keep records, but he wont eat calories because he has manorexia and doesn’t want to risk losing his 4 pack and girlish figure for something better.

I am going to say that if you are eating relatively clean, and you are getting fat, you’re not working hard enough. If you are stuck at the same weight and have stalled lifts, you are probably not eating enough. The gold standard is getting stronger AND bigger without getting sloppy. Eventually your body will stop getting bigger and you will just keep getting stronger (yes I believe that.)

I will make another bold statement that I believe. For an average male if you work hard/intelligently, and eat APPROPRIATELY you will be at least 90% of your genetic potential for size in 24 months. I am talking brutally hard work, with a fantastic plan, and a great meal plan that is made for gettin swole. Strength however I feel takes much longer to build.

[quote]trivium wrote:
Unfortunately most people don’t understand just how weight lifting is when you are serious about it. I have broken blood vessels in my eyes squatting, I am stiff for days after lifts, and my buddy says that my face and eyes turn so red that he thinks I am going to go super saiyan.

I have had people stop to watch me deadlift my top sets, and I am nothing special. I think they would shit a brick if they saw someone who was really strong lift.

Most people think they are going to go do a treadmill for 30 minutes at barely above a brisk walk, and be “fit,” or workout aimlessly with some home made program and be the next mister olympia. It just doesn’t work like that. It may work for a few weeks, but some day you’re going to have to go somewhere you never thought you could go, and you’re going to have to get mean to get there. Most people can’t and won’t do it. That is what makes them weak, makes them fail, or makes them waste potential. It is one of the reasons I try to encourage people to stick with it and break records. Your log and the scale/mirror wont lie unless you cheat.[/quote]

Well said.

Can I please steal “manorexia”

[quote]budreiser wrote:

[quote]chobbs wrote:
I literally had to shit 4-5 times a day drinking half a galloon of whole milk lol it was the only negative tho[/quote]
I’m kind of lactose intolerant but I drink a lot of chocolate milk anyway. My kind of girlfriend is not a fan.[/quote]
Chocolate milk is liquid gold

[quote]chobbs wrote:
Can I please steal “manorexia”[/quote]
L-O-L

[quote]chobbs wrote:
Can I please steal “manorexia”[/quote]

It is the lifter classification under class 4. Don’t you see it on the charts?

It’s the looks you get by the 250 women working at the grocery store, when I buy 8 dozen eggs, and she says that many eggs isn’t healthy for you, ya, but the bag of potato chips and box of cookies you eat every night is, thats the part I don’t get, that these people want to lecture me. I don’t get it
the manorexia, is that for the Beiber look thats going on in gyms now days, because this fits.

[quote]AnytimeJake wrote:
It’s the looks you get by the 250 women working at the grocery store, when I buy 8 dozen eggs, and she says that many eggs isn’t healthy for you, ya, but the bag of potato chips and box of cookies you eat every night is, thats the part I don’t get, that these people want to lecture me. I don’t get it
the manorexia, is that for the Beiber look thats going on in gyms now days, because this fits.[/quote]

It is for all people who train, but never gain weight or get stronger, and it is all of the guys out there who “train to look good” and "don’t want to get too big.

That is why I preach the “big is beautiful” thing. I don’t care if you have abs. If you are big, strong, and don’t have a huge sloppy muffin top/beer gut/man boobs, then you’re OK in my book. I tell my partner that he can lean up when he gets to 230.

He is 160 and afraid to eat anything that has carbs in it because he doesnt want to get fat. Then he tells me that he wants to look like me, and I am over here slamming pizza, and pasta, and drinking tons of chocolate milk.

He has hit a plateau on his squat, deadlift, and press at 160 lbs of bodyweight. He started weighing 155 almost 4 months ago. I gained 5 lbs a month when I started. I went like that from around 160 to 214 before I slowed down my eating.

Why wouldn’t you want to gain that fast? A lot of people didn’t even recognize me because I changed so fast. Who wouldn’t want results like that? People ask me if I am a marine, or a baseball player, or if I played football in college all the time. I have been lifting for just under 2 years, and my diet and training have not been as consistent as I want them to be a lot of that time.

It is pretty easy.

Cycle 5 deload
Wellllllll this was supposed to be a deload but I lifted in my old high school with my brother and former football teammates and everybody was going hard and I wasn’t gonna be the one to be a puss lol
SQUAT
225x3
275x3
300x3
315x2

WEIGHTED PULL-UPS
5x5 with 25
-SS
WEIGHTED DIPS
5x5 with 25

INCLINE DB CURLS
4x8-12 with 30
-SS-
SKULLCRUSHERS
65x12, 85x12, 95x12, 95x12 then like 10 jm presses

INCLINE DB HAMMERS (Elbows tucked in, hard to explain)
4x12 with 25 with far grips
-SS-
OVERHEAD EXTENSION
4x12 with 55

STRAIGHT BAR PUSHDOWN
4x12-15 with a 4 set drop at the end

BB CURL
Same as above

Food, family, football, shootin guns…Merica

just add beer, and the Hill-billies will be smiling !

Fairly certain in getting sick