Damn,… well, glad everything’s okay… I won’t go into the whole ‘building character’ or ‘…makes you stronger’ BS, but I will say that I’m a bit relieved to hear a positive spin on things. You’ve certainly got some good positives in there to focus on.
When you and the Mrs (well, future Mrs) finally get stateside, the first round of Metabolic Drive is on me brother 
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Thats a shock for anyone to go through, I hope your good health returns.
I was wondering where you were big P, sounds like a hectic week. Here’s to smoother sailing in the coming weeks.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
When you and the Mrs (well, future Mrs) finally get stateside, the first round of Metabolic Drive is on me brother
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Very much looking forward to that! MD happens to be my favorite drink 
My girl will prbably have some cosmopolitans, though…
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
I was wondering where you were big P, sounds like a hectic week. Here’s to smoother sailing in the coming weeks.[/quote]
I did a deadlift workout today. Up to 250 pounds - lol. Very strange feeling that such a light weight feels so heavy. I will try to do some heavier workouts the weekend and keep you posted.
By the way, INDIGO-3G just rocks! I ate plenty of carbs last week and somehow - even though I did nothing but sleep and recover - the all went to my muscles only. I’d say my shape even increased. Will post some new pics soon.
Cheers, PA
The next workout after my ‘heart issues’ today. Went much bettet than yesterday.
Push pressed 264 pounds, so I believe I will be babk to normal somewhen next week.
I’ll write more detailed posts and upload some pics next week. This weekend I plan to recover and sleep a lot. Then let’s just hope that I’ll never have to go to the hospital again until I’m, let’s say, 95!
Cheers, PA
[quote]ParagonA wrote:
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
When you and the Mrs (well, future Mrs) finally get stateside, the first round of Metabolic Drive is on me brother
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Very much looking forward to that! MD happens to be my favorite drink My girl will prbably have some cosmopolitans, though…[/quote]
Lol, As much as I usually just down mine with water in a shaker, summer time is when I have to get a little fancy for the girlfriend. Last summer I discovered a few ‘flavored’ peanut butters (chocolate, banana…), and invested in a seriously heavy duty blender. Let me just tell you that if you toss some ice cubes, Banana Metabolic Drive and some Chocolate Peanut Butter together and let’er rip, you could pour that stuff in a fancy glass and stick an umbrella on top and no one would be the wiser 
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Great to hear you are recouping nice Paragon. You’ll be back to normal (and well beyond it) in no time.
Read every single post on this thread and loved it. Good shit man!
@STU: Wow, this sounds delicious! See, that’s one of the cool things about living in the US: you have access to so many cool products. It’s very difficult to buy normal non-sugar peanut butter here in Switzerland. No chance finding almond milk anywhere and I had a hard time finding a farmer who sells omega-3 eggs.
Dear fellow T-men (and T-girls, if some are following my thread)
I?d like to give you an update on my recovery and my contest prep. As you know, I struggled with some strange heart rhythm irregularities a few weeks ago and am under medication since then. Fortunately, I could lower the dose of the drug prescribed by the cardiologist. I really suffered from the side effects the first week or two. In a nutshell, it felt like a terrible hangover.
It is much better now and I can normally work and am back to serious lifting, too.
I will have to take the drug until mid of July and am already sure that I will not take it a single day longer.
I did a leg workout this morning which went very well. Nothing totally crazy in terms of weight or volume, but it felt very good to step under a bar with some plates on.
A1 Top-Half Back Squats from Pins
Activation cluster of 3 sets with 3 single reps each (lay down weight after each rep, reset, push).
Started relatively light and did 3x1 x 640 in the last round.
A2. Vertical Jump
5 jumps each round.
These first 2 exercises I mainly do for nervous system activation. Since I work out early ion the morning it needs a bit of effort to activate my nervous system and get it ready for the ?main? workout.
B1. Barbell Front Squats
First ramped up to the weight I would be using for the circuits. Not because I needed extra CNS stimulation, but because it feels just better to me having done some sets with lighter weights of an exercise first. The ramp took me 6 sets.
Then I did sets of 3 reps at 448.
B2. Dumbbell Jump Squats
Sets of 8 Jumps with a 62 pound dumbbell
B3. Vertical Jumps
Sets of 6 Jumps
I did 6 rounds of this.
C. Barbell Back Squats
5 sets of 5 reps with 475
D1. Leg Extension (entire stack), 12 reps
D2. Seated Leg Curl (entire stack), 12 resp
D3. Adductor Machine (entire stack), 15 reps
D4. Abductor Machine (almost entire stack), 10 reps
I did 2 rounds of this.
Looking forward to tomorrows performance workout!
Cheers, PA
I have just received my customized workout plan from Thib.
It looks very cool and doable. I thought he would try to kill me, but it looks ok volume-wise and in terms of exercises selected.
I am not adviced to do either barbell bench presses or barbell squats, which is hard (for my ego) because I really, really love those exercises and am fairly strong at them.
I will start tomorrow
Wow, you definitely arent slacking, thats for sure. Glad to have you back big P, looking forward to the updates here.
I am sitting here in front of my supper, letting my I-3G do its work and looking forward to hitting the sack soon.
Today I did my first CT-designed workout. I wont go into detail because I am not yet sure if we are allowed to write about the workouts in detail. But to summarize: I did a total of 67 sets of heavy pressing and some structural work for my shoulders and chest.
The funny thing is, that after about 20 minutes in the workout I really thought I would die (that’s not the funny part), but at the end of the workout I could have started all over again!
My nervous system was so incredibly ramped up and I felt much, much better and more energetic after the workout than at the beginning.
I-3G really does wonders on work capacity to me. It’s amazing. I just talked to Chris and Jared from Biotest (re-order) and told them, that I just couldn’t compare I-3G to any supplement I have ever taken. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
Now I’m looking forward to tomorrows back and biceps workout and will try to get a full 8 hours of good quality sleep tonight (that’s 3 hours more than normal, but I believe that I need it today…).
Cheers, PA
Thx for this nice thread ParagonA,it has been a nice read and inspirational.
I have a question regarding the seated lateral raises with feet on bench. Does the feet on bench allow for more isolation? also do you have the feet hangning of the bench or do you your shoes on top of the bench? never tried this variation,thanks in advance
[quote]Alexsarmin wrote:
Thx for this nice thread ParagonA,it has been a nice read and inspirational.
I have a question regarding the seated lateral raises with feet on bench. Does the feet on bench allow for more isolation? also do you have the feet hangning of the bench or do you your shoes on top of the bench? never tried this variation,thanks in advance[/quote]
Thank you for reading!
Here is a link to a Paul George workout video:
If you don’t know the guy yet, do a search on YouTube and watch some other vids of him. Cool guy!
After about a minute you see how I do the seated lateral raises with feet on the bench. In the vid the feet are hanging a bit off the bench. I sit a little more back on the bench and place my heels on top of the bench.
When I do standing or conventional lateral raises I tend to lean forward and do too much work with my rear dealts (because they are very strong) instead of the lateral heads.
When I put my legs/feet ON the bench, the only way I can cheat it to lean back, not forward. This puts more emphasis on my lateral and front delts. Love this version of the lateral raise!
Cheers, PA
Thanks for the tip, PA. Much appreciated!
Hi there
I just wanted to give you a short update on how I am doing.
First of all, I feel strong and healthy again. My hard still does some strange strange things some days (just doesn’t beat for a few seconds), but it’s much less pronounced then a few weeks ago.
I am back to training an the weight are going up well again. Back squat and deadlift both well over 600, bench around 460. Not yet my PR-region, but I believe I will be performing 100% next week again.
I just received a second version of my CT-designed routine. He is such a great man. I wrote in a live spill that I loved the bench press complexes he described there and that I would love to try them on my journey to a 500+ bench. He immediately wrote a new version of the program where he incorporated the new bench complex!
My weight was 219.5 this morning. I hoped it would go up a bit after the initial rapid weight loss on I-3G, but I am very happy given the fact that I was hospitalized and unable to train just a couple of weeks ago. Shape is good.
I posted a pic my girl took with here iPhone after yesterday’s evening workout. It’s not a good picture and I believe I even look leaner in reality than on the pic. Lower back is already almost fat free. Skin folds on abs and legs are very thin already.
I’ll keep you updated on how the prep goes. I beliebe next week will be the real start of the prep and I will take everything a notch higher. Do Thib’s workouts, clean up my diet even more, give everything at the gym.
I’ll be training twice more or less every day.
Thib’s routine has me going to the gym on 5 days a week, and twice a day on 2-3 of those training days. On the other days I will do cardio (2-3 sessions a week to start with) and some neural charge work whenever I need a neural boost.
Cheers, PA
Is there a point in your prep diet where you eliminate all dairy?
(I’m not referring to protein powders)
[quote]tolismann wrote:
Is there a point in your prep diet where you eliminate all dairy?
(I’m not referring to protein powders)[/quote]
Yes, there is. I eat cottage cheese, probiotic joghurt and the like up to 6 to 4 weeks before a show. Then I throw out all dairy. I even reduce protein powder consumption very much in the last few weeks before a sho, but mainly because I am starved then an like the satisfaction of chewing whole foods much better than just downing a shake.
Peri-workout nutrition stays in up to contest day, though.
Cheers, PA
