[quote]guhkes wrote:
Yea, we’re reading. I think you’re doing just great. It’s good to stop few times a year and check one’s bearing and see whether the direction is still right (the original) or is something perhaps fundamentally changed. Maybe few detours need to be taken, but that doesn’t mean you still don’t plan to arrive to the right destination. This writing turned out very odd…maybe I’ve been on the road too long this summer.
You sure can have your cookie.[/quote]
Your post wasn’t odd man, don’t worry. Thanks for posting man, it’s good now you’re still reading.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
It seems that I change my mentality/goals quite frequently in terms of my training.
I think of it as a sign of maturing.
It’s when you learn what you really want, not what others want and what you may think that you want.[/quote]
I still want the same I did when I started, I wanna get strong. I’m still going to get strong, but not the way I want to, that’s what troubles me. Of course, I can go on and strength train on my own, but there’s always the risk I wouldn’t believe in my own program :/.
Oh, I was going to post a pic, but my pump went away! 
Want me to PM you a pic to get your pump back?..
Or are you talking about the pump in your muscle after training? Nevermind 
August 09, 2010: Training
Chest, Shoulder, Tris
140x5
180x5
200x5
220x5
240x5
240x5
250xfail
100x25
100x25
100x15
210x8
210x8
210x8
45x12
45x12
45x12
45x12
110x5
110x5
110x5
110x5
110x5
100x15
100x15
100x12
110x20
110x12
110x12
110x10
105x12
105x12
105x12
It seems pretty pointless doing the Pec Dec when I already do Flys. Uhm…
My M.P numbers fell a lot after the bench.
I’m experimenting with a new split, since I wanna increase my overhead strength and bring up my shoulders I’m gonna increase shoulder frequency so I can get that sick cannonball look. This will also let me do more work on my leg days, wich are already pretty big ( I wear XL pants ) but could use some more definition and a
few sick veins.
Funny Fact:
A HUGE cockroach came out from under of the hack when I was doing the M.P, the situation became a mess, I couldn’t set the bar down without making the fucker ran away, but I couldn’t kill it since it was too far away, and I couldn’t just stand there waiting for it to climb up my pants, so I trew the bar on it.
J/K. The cleaning man sucked the poor bug with the vaccum.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Want me to PM you a pic to get your pump back?..
Or are you talking about the pump in your muscle after training? Nevermind ;)[/quote]
BOTH!
“I’m very very happy, that I never had the fucking internet when I started training. What that forced me to do was do something that 99% of the fucking training population has forgotten to do, and that’s lifting fucking weights.”
-Jim Wendler.
August 10, 2010: Training
Legs
180x5
220x5
240x5
310x5
350x5
400x5
190x12
190x12
190x12
- Unilateral Leg Extensions
240x12
240x12
240x12
240x12
220x5
240x5
310x5
350x5
400x5
420x3
Switch to Sumo Stance
420x5
450x5
460x3
Todays quote wasn’t a critic, I just though it was cool.
As always the gym was full, so I did my training and got out. I think I’ll keep DL’s out of todays program, since today I can only get to the gym on rush hours and that thing is always too crowded.
I was supposed to hit the Leg Press but they took it for maintance.
Couldn’t get quality training yesterday. Halfway through it I started felling sick… dizziness, weak, headache… the complete package, so I decided to go home and lay down for the rest of the day. Did some heavy BB curls and stuff but not the complete arm program I wrote up, so I think it isn’t worth a post.
Today was leg day again, so here’s what I did:
August 12, 2010: Training
Legs
- ATG Back Squats, drop sets
260x10/240x12/220x16/180x20
260x10/240x13/220x16/180x22
260x8/240x10/220x15/180x25
440x20
440x20
440x20
200x8
200x8
200x8
BWx12
BWx12
BWx12
140x25
160x20
180x15
200x8
200x5
I realized I haven’t taken rest days or deloaded since I started the log. I’ve been training nonstop, and I’m worried I might be feeling the effects of this, I can’t get enough quality sleep as I used to, I’m tired more often, I’m getting even more pissed off ( temper gone through the roof ) and everytime I get into the gym I fell like I already did a ton of work and I’m instantly demotivated. I might take a week off or some days to allow my body to recover and rest. Then I’ll kick back with all I have.
Note: I didn’t had the time to write up a whole new program, I’m taking my time to experiment with what exercices makes me fell the muscle, so I’m just doing what comes to mind, this might not be what I’ll be doing in the future. I may be switching to a new gym someday soon. It’s one of those “fitness centers” but from what I see they have a decent free weight area with lots of weights, a powercage and some bumper plates. Prepare your lunk alarms, Delta’s on his way.
Babe, please deload. And make sure that you’re eating enough; you don’t need to cut too much, you’re already hella sexy.
I’m praying this new gym is in Orlando, FL per chance
Hey delta!
i’m not gonna use the “O”-word, but a deload week, rest week or call it whatever isn’t such a bad idea. on Wendlers 531 it’s deload every cycle (4 week cycles) and as much as i’m dreading the deload I’m gonna trust the big dog’s advice.
Don’t be a limp noodle delta!
There is plenty of reasons for feeling beatdown and shit. Use the deload week at the new gym, no heavy weights. Plenty of hyooge guys out there to back up deloading. don’t take it from me, take it from them!
-half
^^He knows of what he speaks.
I don’t think anyone likes deload weeks. I’m forced to take mine after a ‘surgery’ in a couple weeks so I’m pissed at that, but then again I never technically had a deload week anyway, so I’m looking forward to some good numbers, maybe?
[quote]halfbreed wrote:
Hey delta!
i’m not gonna use the “O”-word, but a deload week, rest week or call it whatever isn’t such a bad idea. on Wendlers 531 it’s deload every cycle (4 week cycles) and as much as i’m dreading the deload I’m gonna trust the big dog’s advice.
Don’t be a limp noodle delta!
There is plenty of reasons for feeling beatdown and shit. Use the deload week at the new gym, no heavy weights. Plenty of hyooge guys out there to back up deloading. don’t take it from me, take it from them!
-half[/quote]
Thanks man, but don’t worry, I don’t believe in the “O”-word. In the past before I started to lift, I trained for a sport and each training session lasted about 5-6 hours everyday non-stop, and we never took any break. Overtraining is just a mental state. But thanks for the advice bro, I’ll definetly take some rest.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Babe, please deload. And make sure that you’re eating enough; you don’t need to cut too much, you’re already hella sexy.
I’m praying this new gym is in Orlando, FL per chance ;)[/quote]
Don’t worry, I don’t cut 
I just eat a lot of whatever I think I can call clean and load up my calories, I don’t even do cardio, I’m just naturaly lean! In fact I think I’m 220 lbs/100 kg already but I can’t be certain since my scale broke.
I just hope that when I get to Orlando someday you won’t call me a fatty! 
A quick update.
The deadline for all the resting I had to do ends tomorrow, so here am I to post the stuff I have done and what I’m planning on doing. That and now I have an excuse to bump my log out of page 5.
Since I’ve already transitioned to all out bodybuilding, I’ll focus on bringing up my lagging body parts wich are my arms, chest, traps, calves and shoulders, and for the sake of my biceps, I’ll trown in more forearm work, so I may be decreasing the amount of leg work I’m doing since they’re already huge for now and for my size (27 inches), I feel they’re taking a bit of symmetry from me. That will also keep me from developing a huge ass, I hope. So, in overall, I’m gonna up the frequency of those bodyparts, while it is wise to do that with just one bodypart at I time, I’m still doing it my way because I know I can recover easily for shitloads of work. My back is my strongest area, so it will just get along with one session and grow out of it.
While it might be a good idea to start every pressing session with a few pull exercices, I’ll work on my shoulder mobily and start with overhead work then horizontal pressing. Lucky, Thibs is doing something similiar on that livespill thingy, so I don’t need to explain. I forgot what I was going to write, but to cut it short, here’s the stuff:
Arms 1:
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Heavy BB Curls
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Alternating BB Curls
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Scott Bench/Machine
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CGBP
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Skullcrushers
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Overhead Extensions
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Triceps Finisher (Pump)
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Biceps Finisher (Pump)
Arms 2:
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Heavy BB Curls
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One Handed Preacher Curl
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Alternating Hammers
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Rolling DB Extensions
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Tate Press
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Weighted Dips
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Triceps Finisher (Pump)
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Biceps Finisher (Pump)
Chest and Shoulders:
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Shoulder Press
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Bradford presses
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Rear Delt Fly/Raise
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Incline Press
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High Cable Crossover
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Flat Bench
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DB Fly
Legs:
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Squats
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Leg Press
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Hack Squat Machine
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Leg Extensions
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RDLs
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Ham Raises
Back, Shoulders:
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Pull-Ups
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T-Bars
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Yates Rows
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DB Rows
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Shoulder Press
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Bradfort Presses (?)
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Lateral Raises
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Rear Delt Work
Chest:
- Incline Press
- Flat Bench
- DB Fly
- Cable Crossover
- ( ? )
Traps:
- Deadlifts
- BB Shrugs
- DB Shrugs
It’s not in this order, and this is not the split I’ll be following, this in only the way I can remember how I wrote it down, I will probably tweak this. As I said before, this is not the definitive work I’ll be doing, I still gotta take a better look at the new gym and see what I’ll be able to do there, I wrote down the basic and what I think that will work best for me.
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
^^He knows of what he speaks.
I don’t think anyone likes deload weeks. I’m forced to take mine after a ‘surgery’ in a couple weeks so I’m pissed at that, but then again I never technically had a deload week anyway, so I’m looking forward to some good numbers, maybe?[/quote]
I just noticed your new avatar, and I must say… I wanna go to Orlando…
I’ll never call you fatty.
And you definetely don’t have any lagging body parts. You need to see the view I see.
You should visit me, I’ll give you a good workout
Are you feeling better after your deload?
I look foward to that workout ;D
I actually felt a lot better the day after I decided to deload. I went to bed at 8 PM and slept until 10 am the other day, those 14 hours did a miracle, but I forced myself to sit down for a few more days and rest until I had enough motivation to think about going back into a gym.
August 18, 2010: Training
Arms
88x12 (Warm-Up set)
88x12 (Warm-Up Set)
132x15
132x15
155x12
155x12
- Small Incline Skullcrusher
110x12
110x12
110x12
110x12
110x15
110x15
110x15
110x14
88x6 (Warm-Up set)
110x6
132x5
132x5
132x4
80x12
80x12
80x12
For the Glory:
80x20
80x20
80x20
80x20
165x20
165x20
165x20
My biceps finally came back to life again, I haven’t felt the fucker working for a while now. The Scott Curl machine is way better than the Preacher Curl Bench ( same movement ), I fell it easier on my elbows and wrists and there’s no way to cheat on the Cybex Machine, but I think it’s better used for a finisher/pump movement.
Yesterday I had a shitload of work to do, plus I was tired due to a sleepless night of sleep from the the day before yesterday, so I didn’t train at all.
To screw with the rest of the week, I decided to do arms today again.
August 20, 2010: Arms
Superset:
135x5
135x5
135x5
- One Armed BB Preacher Curl
60x6
60x6
60x6
80x12
80x12
80x12
Superset 2:
110x10
110x10
110x10
100x10
100x10
100x10
220x20
220x19
220x16
That gave me time for a nice forearm blast:
143x20/110x10/100x10
143x18/110x10/110x9
143x18/110x9/110x7
25x1min
25x1min
25x1min
- Heavy BB Finger Hold ( experimental )
245x20sec
245x20sec
245x20sec
245x20sec
I had the idea of doing loading up a BB, and holding it in the top of a Shrug movement with only two fingers at a time for as long as I could. It worked wonders, your forearm, hand, arms… everything starts screaming after a few seconds. I actually read this somewhere on this site once, I can’t recall where.
“It is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.”
King Archidamus II
I’m a bit down today. This transition from strength training to bodybuilding does not please me at all… but it doesn’t stop me from working my ass off.
August 23, 2010: Shoulders and Chest
110x10
110x10
132x8
132x8
110x10
110x10
110x10
- Bent Over Rear Delt Fly/Raise
55x10
55x10
55x10
132x5
176x5
198x5
220x5
240x5
264x5
286x1
253x10
253x10
253x10
110x10
110x10
110x10
Bodybuilding, eh? That’s like chiseling an already sculpted Greek statue.
But no art work is ever done, hmm?
Stick with it, you’d either love the routines and/or the results.
I wish I was a statue, that way I wouldn’t smile like a child and drool in wonder and happiness everytime I look at your avatars. 
“Every day you miss in the gym is a lost opportunity to get bigger and stronger.”
-Kroc
I haven’t had a good night of sleep in 4 days, I think I had… only 6 hour total since sunday. I’m probably a few lbs lighter, and what a way to kick a deload week goodbye huh ? Anyway, I got to the gym today, did Arms, napped in the locker room, then off to work again. Lucky this will end somewhere next week and then I can nuclear-blast things into decent speed again. No highlights also, that’s why I’m not bothering to write everything down like I always do. Tomorrow is Squat day and I plan to kick in some Front Squats for fun, so I’m knocking myself out or ingesting a almost-deadly combination of ZMA and Melatonin tonigth.