[quote]Blazin wrote:
Does tate’s program recommend that amount of calories?
2lbs isn’t a big deal mid week, I found that I dropped that much in my weight gain stage but then I ended up floating back up to normal by the end of the week.
I think you should start measurements and PRs over weight… Who cares if you weigh 200 or 225 if you’re benching 315+
You’ll be a beast man[/quote]
Tate doesn’t recommend any diet, just a weight program. I’ve been increasing calories each week if I don’t gain weight in the previous week.
I need to get new measurements this weekend, forgot last weekend.
[quote]dday wrote:
dday wrote:
Neck 16
right arm upper 13.5
Left arm upper 14.5
Chest 46
waist 42
hips 40
right thigh 25.5
left thigh 25.5
right and left calf 16
Neck 16.5
right arm upper 14.25
Left arm upper 14.5
Chest 45.25
waist 42
hips 39.25
right thigh 25.5
left thigh 25.5
right and left calf 16
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10-31-08
Neck 16.5
right arm upper 15
Left arm upper 14.75
Chest 45.25
waist 42.25
hips 39.75
right thigh 25.25
left thigh 25.25
right and left calf 15.25
no drastic changes, should have my wife help measure me, would be easier and probably more accurate.
Diet still has come hard being home all day, you’d think that it would be easy but there are so many things that need doing and I forget to eat sometimes. Like now, I’ve been up for almost 2 hours and haven’t made myself eat yet, its next. I doubt I’ve gotten anywhere near my calories the last couple of days. FOCUS is the name of the game right now.
Leg day yesterday, good mornings ripped my back up, I was bleeding through my shirt by the time I was done. Pretty cool looking bruises and scabs on my back from the bar.
I like this new work out but there seems to be a few things missing IMO. For instance there is no direct biceps work and no real back and shoulders, I think I’ll make wednesday a day for those things.
I wouldn’t sweat direct bicep work… there is 0 direct bicep work in my program, and I’ve definitely increased bicep strength…
My roommate was going to do this program with me as well, then he decided not to, because he doesn’t follow any diet but the eat like shit average american diet, and he can’t get past isolation exercises…
Fucker weighs 180 and is pretty lean considering his diet/exercise conviction/effort is a 4 on a scale of 1-10, being he doesn’t eat tons of sugary sweets, and he goes to the gym…
Fucker… I hate people who are skinny and muscular just by existing.
[quote]Blazin wrote:
I wouldn’t sweat direct bicep work… there is 0 direct bicep work in my program, and I’ve definitely increased bicep strength…
My roommate was going to do this program with me as well, then he decided not to, because he doesn’t follow any diet but the eat like shit average american diet, and he can’t get past isolation exercises…
Fucker weighs 180 and is pretty lean considering his diet/exercise conviction/effort is a 4 on a scale of 1-10, being he doesn’t eat tons of sugary sweets, and he goes to the gym…
Fucker… I hate people who are skinny and muscular just by existing.[/quote]
I started my bench way to low hence the 9 sets, I could have kept going too however my spotter seemed a bit annoyed my repeated requests for a spot. My previous max bench was 235, guessing I’ve relearned how to bench properly because 245 went up twice with no problems, hardly a strain except for the lock out.
Last night was dynamic squat night, I experimented with some different ways to place the “box” for more confidence. We don’t have an actual box so I’m using some of those adjustable aerobic step up platforms.
I’d had my box narrow side in the rack which gave me a little surface to sit on so I was nervous about stability which in turn caused me to lean forward A LOT because I was scared of what could happen.
One of the trainers came to me about how I had my set up and crappy form, we decided to put the steps/box parallel to the bar giving a more stable and larger surface that helped my confidence and freed up my motion.
Not ideal but it’ll do, wish we had an actual box and/or a cage but I’ll have to do with a regular rack.
Box squat
235 10x2
reverse hypers
30db 3x8
one leg squat
215 4x10
DB row
60 3x10
db shrugs
110 3x15
The one leg squats have been done on the nautalus leg press machine, works well.
Diet, I’m eating every 3ish hours, always clean but I’m not logging it like I had been. As long as I’ve been at this I believe I got it locked in, if I fail to gain weight or gain to much then I’ll clean my act up, I just haven’t made counting calories a priority.
That being said I don’t think I’m going to go for 30lbs. I am for certain to go until January 1st, reason being I graduate in June '09 and I want to have “the look” ready for job hunting when I’m done, no one wants to hire a flabby trainer.
