Good day j_willy3. I must say, I have enjoyed sharing this site with you. Your dedication has kept me pressing forward, not to mention all your support and encouragement.
I hope the coming year is filled with personal and physical achievements of your design. May the best of 2008 be your worst in 2009.
It is with a full heart that I wish you and all of yours the absolute very best. Stay strong and spend sometime reflecting on all the wonderful things in your life.
I had a good cardio workout this morning, brief and hard. I think I may up the number of sets on complex day. There is nothing like a good challenge! ha-ha. Still a little sore from Saturday and Sunday. But I welcome the pain. A wise postman once said it was like an old friend. I’m beginning to see his wisdom.
DAMN!!! The wind shifted out of the northwest, and after a week of cloudy, misty, dreary 50 degree weather its clear cold and 30 degrees with a light gale blowing. For we eastern NC rednecks its cold as hell here!
I had a good cardio workout this morning, brief and hard. I think I may up the number of sets on complex day. There is nothing like a good challenge! ha-ha. Still a little sore from Saturday and Sunday. But I welcome the pain. A wise postman once said it was like an old friend. I’m beginning to see his wisdom.
DAMN!!! The wind shifted out of the northwest, and after a week of cloudy, misty, dreary 50 degree weather its clear cold and 30 degrees with a light gale blowing. For we eastern NC rednecks its cold as hell here![/quote]
Feels good to me willy. But I’ve always liked cold weather.
I am trying to increase the workload on the complexes. More work, more better. Maybe I’m taking the “Tim the tool man” approach to things, I don’t know. But I know that more work with the complexes means a better handle on my weight management. Which is a good thing.
I bagged treadmill time to stop in the grocery store. I had to pick up the stuff for my part of the Christmas family gathering. I’m planning to make andouille cornbread stuffing, oyster’s Bienville, and a big old pot of snap beans and red potatoes. Plus I had to get the stuff for French toast. that was the breakfast request by the wife and daughter.
I sure hope y’all have a Merry Christmas. (None of the PC happy holidays for me)
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
Willy, you should get a weight set and do these complexes at home. Save the trip to the gym. You sound like quite a cook.[/quote]
Eco, I have thought about that, time and time again. But honestly if I had the weights at home I’m more likely not to do the work. I need the discipline of making the trip to the gym.
I really like to cook. But I am a replicator, a factory worker in the kitchen. It’s a different ball of wax when you can create a dish. I wish I had that talent.
Oh the day after Christmas! I’m 5 lbs heavier today than I was Monday. It was expected! So I upped the volume a bit today and left the gym huffing and puffing. I had planned to bench today but the work spouse tweaked her neck and shoulder. So we are benching tomorrow.
It sure felt good to get back in the gym!
I guess I’ll be hauling off Santa Claus boxes today and Moving some stuff in storage. I sure hope everyone had a nice Christmas!
With a topic named Fat, bald and damn near 50 I could relate to 2 out of 3. I’m 41.
I too was a bodybuilder in my teens then walked away from my true passion. Torn rotator cuff, arthritis in my shoulder AC joints made working out a demotivational experience. So I gave up. As a result, I blew up from a “smooth but with abs” 180 bodybuilder to a 250lbs fat, bald dude.
Three years ago, I tore my quad tendon carrying my daughter down the stairs. Three surgeries later I have bad patellar athritis. I was using a cane for the better part of a year. During that same time frame, is when I have my “Ah-Ha” moment.
The ephiphany was on my 40th birthday when my friend saw a picture of me at the age of 17 without my shirt. I was at my peak condition and he asked “What happened?” I really could not give an acceptable answer.
Thats when I decided to apply my intellect, (not just youthful passion) to constucting a ComeBack that I could live with given my situation. I started working out 12 months ago. In the past 12 months I have struggled with Plica Syndrome on my “good knee,” horrible shoulder tendonitis, sportsman’s hernia and a host of other things that would have in my younger days caused me to quit.
I say F%CK IT! I change frequencies now when something hurts. I will switch to circuit training or even more cardio or whatever the hell it takes to keep going! I am down to 205 from 250, eat healthy as heck. Train 5 days a week and I actually see a six-pack in my future. My back is getting huge, shoulders starting to look like “boulders” and I am not giving up on this shit. Heck, I am even squatting again (not heavy but WTF do you expect?). They used to call me the “Tom Platz” of my gym back in the day. Perhaps I could leverage good genetics to develop a half-decent set of legs despite crappy knees.
Its good to see others than myself in similar situations making an honest comeback to health, re-ignition of the dreams of our youth and mental well-being.
With a topic named Fat, bald and damn near 50 I could relate to 2 out of 3. I’m 41.
I too was a bodybuilder in my teens then walked away from my true passion. Torn rotator cuff, arthritis in my shoulder AC joints made working out a demotivational experience. So I gave up. As a result, I blew up from a “smooth but with abs” 180 bodybuilder to a 250lbs fat, bald dude.
Three years ago, I tore my quad tendon carrying my daughter down the stairs. Three surgeries later I have bad patellar athritis. I was using a cane for the better part of a year. During that same time frame, is when I have my “Ah-Ha” moment.
The ephiphany was on my 40th birthday when my friend saw a picture of me at the age of 17 without my shirt. I was at my peak condition and he asked “What happened?” I really could not give an acceptable answer.
Thats when I decided to apply my intellect, (not just youthful passion) to constucting a ComeBack that I could live with given my situation. I started working out 12 months ago. In the past 12 months I have struggled with Plica Syndrome on my “good knee,” horrible shoulder tendonitis, sportsman’s hernia and a host of other things that would have in my younger days caused me to quit.
I say F%CK IT! I change frequencies now when something hurts. I will switch to circuit training or even more cardio or whatever the hell it takes to keep going! I am down to 205 from 250, eat healthy as heck. Train 5 days a week and I actually see a six-pack in my future. My back is getting huge, shoulders starting to look like “boulders” and I am not giving up on this shit. Heck, I am even squatting again (not heavy but WTF do you expect?). They used to call me the “Tom Platz” of my gym back in the day. Perhaps I could leverage good genetics to develop a half-decent set of legs despite crappy knees.
Its good to see others than myself in similar situations making an honest comeback to health, re-ignition of the dreams of our youth and mental well-being.
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Welcome aboard CBK. Hope to see more of you and your training
I trained alone today. Seems a spotter really helps my workouts! Still I don’t guess it was too bad. I’m disappointed with my bench numbers of late. I know I can work the training numbers back up in time.
I added decline dumbbell presses in. I need a to work on the bottom of my chest. The cable cross-overs are done on this 4:1 pulley contraption, so you are actually lifting 1/4 the weight in the stack. It’s damn good for the ego!
I am finally enjoying some coffee I brought home from Vietnam. It has an interesting flavor that rolls around in your mouth. Mind you, it is no where as good as the Community Coffee I have imported from South Louisiana, but it beats the hell out of Folgers!
Hope y’all have a good weekend. The daughter and I are off to the Target, so she can use a gift card she received for Christmas.
Standing Mil Press: 4x115x6
T bar Row 4x135x8
Lat Pull downs: 4x175x6
Lat Raise: 4x120x6
Rear delt raise in the Smith: 85x8, 3x95x8
Bent Row: 4x155x6
Face pulls: 3x65x12, 65x10
I felt as if I had a solid workout this morning. I added the delt raises. I feel like I am lacking there. I probably need to re-think the whole mid-back training. Maybe I’m a bit to shoulder centric.
This year is the Christmas that never ends. Seems all the outlaws want their day. I think I’ll find some work to do. The wife might divorce me for not going, but WTF, it will be the price I pay for my holiday sanity!
Catchin up on everyone tonight. Looks like your having some good workouts and still experimenting. I’ve never done front delt raises. All the other pressing seems to hit them hard enough.
Wondering what supplements you fellas are taking and any results.
I just started the following stack:
A) Muscle-Link - GH Stak
I could use the support to rebuild my connective tissue an joints, not to mention some anabolic fat loss activitity in the mid section.
B) Muscle-Link - Cortblock
Cortisol blocker. Recommended by musclelink to work toghether with GH Stak
C) Gaspari Nutrition Novadex XT
Testosterone Booster
D) Gaspari Nutirion Mitrotopin
This is not just another fat burner. It is quite special as it uses Mitocondrial Uncoupling technology that is derived from seaweed. Doubleblind studies have show dramatic improvement in rates of rate loose. Watch out for knock-offs of this technology. I predict it will start a new “fat-burner” subcategory.
Now, I don’t know how WELL it works. I am starting to take it tomorrow.
E. Kre-Alkyln
F. BCCA
E. Luecine for use before/after workouts
F. Myogenix - Myolean Protein
The holidays are just about over and I plan a “last chance romance” comeback for this spring. I REALLY don’t how defined or how much muscle I will end up with but I sure as hell am going balls to the wall with the diet, supplements, cardio (2x/day), training 5-6x per week). Let’s see if the Combackkid can actually “Comeback” I hope my freaking joints hold up through the hard training.
I set my mind early in my comeback to run a 5K and I did it never having run on anything but a treadmill. finished it in 36:53. Not a great time mind you but for me it was like climbing mount Everest. Five months prior to the race I was using a can for over a year.
And now, I am on the hunt for a definte physique that would impressive by any measure.
Now guys, I can’t go a it alone as I need encouragement to get there. A hardcare pre-contest diet is no joke and I plan on starting that part this this Friday. I am 206-10 and MUST break into the 180s in order to get a stones throw of being
I going to take picture at the start and several times in between. Hope my willpower and joints prove their mettle.
I think I’m going to throw the 10 rep set in more and more often. It really works the crap out of me. Honestly the complexes are kind of torturous, way less than the treadmill or elliptical machine!
I skipped the treadmill today. I needed to get to work early. I have a lot of folks on vacation and we are sort of going thru the motions. Still someone has to be around to make sure all the motions are being going thru. Since I really don’t do that much, I have a lot of very capable folks surrounding me, I guess I can at least stay the hell out of the way.
