If only I could pull as hard as ashylarryku pulls on my heartstrings
Wow. Mr. Perfect strikes again… Awesome deadlift. Don’t know what to say that’s not already been said. So jelly.
That must be pretty damn close to 3x bodyweight as well?
[quote]mmatt wrote:
If only I could pull as hard as ashylarryku pulls on my heartstrings[/quote]
It’s as if you’re inside my mind.
Nice pull!!! Adam, great job!
Yo ashy great stuff you got going on bro, you have been dominating weight. was wondering if you could maybe put up some more of your daily diet to have an idea of how you are eating while training as often and hard as you do. thanks dude
Haha thanks everyone! And yes, jake, I’m weighing right at 200 in the mornings lately, so that’s about a 3x BW pull.
@pbw: I may just start tracking my diet in here from now on, because I have to make sure I make the 198 class for my meet in 9 weeks. But, this is what I’ve been eating on a typical day lately:
Wake up:
1 scoop of hydrolyzed whey
1 scoop Power Drive
Meal 1 (2-3 hours later)
~dry cup of white rice
1 chicken breast
1 tbsp EVOO
~60 minutes pre-training (I have 6 caps of Indigo-3G an hour before this)
2 FINiBARs
Spike
during training
currently a serving of new Anaconda
~45 minutes after
1 serving new MAG-10
1 scoop Power Drive
Meal 2
same as meal 1 here
Meal 3 (this is a shake, all blended up and I usually just make this to wash down my previous meal)
2 cups of almond milk
2 scoops of whey
1 banana or other fruit
Meal 4 (pre-bed)
2 cups of almond milk
2 scoops of whey
This has me maintaining, if not slowly losing weight. Every now and then I may replace my postWO meal 2 with a steak burrito from Chipotle or a footlong grilled chicken from Subway, because eating the same thing multiple times a day every day can get old lol. I also supplement with 8-10g of generic fish oil, 2g vitamin C (1 with meal 1, 1 with meal 2), 5000 IU vitamin D with meal 1, and ZMA at night. Any other questions, shoot them at me.
I had 3 finals this week, a paper due today, and now an interview for a summer civil engineering research position an a little over an hour, so I haven’t had much time to log my sessions. But, I have been getting my training in, and it’s been going great. I won’t type up the sessions from this week, but here is my session from yesterday that went very well. The video has some highlights from the previous two sessions, also.
64 Day Out
Phase 2 Week 4
A) SSB
330 x 1 PR
B) Bench
275 x 2, 265 x 2, 275 x 2
C) Deadlift
415 x 2 x 3
D) Top-Half Squats
585 x 3
600 x 3
600 x 3, 2, 1
615 x 3, 2, 1 PR
E) SSB Box Squats
200 x 8
210 x 8
220 x 8
230 x 6
240 x 6
250 x 6
260 x 4
280 x 4
290 x 4 PR
Mmmm volume
NOTES: I’m feeling really good right now. I am certain I’m going to hit 455 at the USAPL meet, which means I will have the record for squat, bench, and deadlift for the state of Kansas in the Junior 198 class.
Can’t watch the vid because of damn copyright. 
Looks like a good sess though!
Good song.
Is your SSB squat that much lower than your bb squat? I’ve never noticed such a large discrepancy in my own.
Session looks good, +1 on the copyright thing though…
I will keep this short because I’m on my way out to train right now, but I’ve been having less than stellar sessions the past couple of days due to my new job. I’m working physical labor in the concrete lab at KU for up to 8 hours a day, so by the time I get done I feel dead.
I think today’s session is going to go much better, but I’d like to know if anyone has had similar problems working physical jobs now or in the past. Does it just take a week or so for your body to get used to the added stress?
I moved recently and it was about 4hrs of hauling boxes up and down stairs and moving furniture ect for 5hrs a day for about a week. My workouts suprsingly did not drop in performance but i felt super run down before them. But once in the gym i did alright. Its my belief that the body can adapt to many things that people either chose to not think possible or just dont want to push themselves. But i would imagine in a week or a bit more your body will adapt and you will have great workouts. Make sure to up your nutrition though. Eat more. You are obviously spending a lot more energy than you were. THis may be one reason my workouts didnt suffer i was eating aroung 6-7k calories.
You’ll adapt. Make sure to keep your eating up, as has been mentioned.
Now you can pretend to be Arnold/Franco working manual labour all the time. Congrats on the job, sounds like hard work.
It took me a day, but I did this job last summer. I’m working 10hour days, then immediately training. Hit me up on facebox if you have questions
Thanks for the comments, guys. Ryan, I have definitely made an effort to eat more the past couple of days since noticing a lack of drive in the gym. Thanks for the advice, bud.
Today’s sessions started off very “meh” and pathetic. I got to deadlifts after HFS and just kept going because I did this same session yesterday but stopped because everything felt ridiculously heavy. Kind of the same thing today, but I was too pissed and upset with myself to go home. I got through 4 triples at 465 and it didn’t feel too great, but then I did the giant cluster set and got on fire. Near the last 5 reps I cut rest periods to about 20 seconds or less and the reps actually felt easier. I played it safe, finished off with some high rep stuff, and left the gym feeling like a king. I’m making sure to eat a lot more right now while working this new job, and I think I’ve past the worst of it (hopefully).
Phase 3 Week 1
51 Days Out
A) SSB
240 x 4 x 3 knee/shin pains are coming back so I stayed light, ugh
B) Bench
225 x 4 x 3
^Did not feel like 225 should
C) Deadlift
365 x 4 x 3
Still some pain
D) Deadlift some more
465 x 3 x 4
10 Minute Giant Cluster Set: 465 x 16 singles
GHRs and leg curls for a few sets of high reps. I did some assisted GHRs until I couldn’t go and about crashed down on my face.
Have you had a “just go in the gym and do what I feel like” day lately? That helps me sometimes, gets my motivation up.
But regardless you are still destroying the poundages bro… So jelly of your deadliftawesomesawce.
Deadlift looks like chaos & pain style… ie. half an hour (or a longish time) of as many singles at a decently high percentage of max as possible. I get the impression it’s a pretty good way to train it.
[quote]jake_j_m wrote:
Deadlift looks like chaos & pain style… ie. half an hour (or a longish time) of as many singles at a decently high percentage of max as possible. I get the impression it’s a pretty good way to train it. [/quote]
X2 seems like an awesome way to make big gainz
@Jab: My recent back and biceps session was a buddy of mine and I just going in and picking exercises as we went along. It was a good time, and I hit my lats harder than I have in a long time. Just what I needed to get me back into it.
And thanks! Jelly of your ridiculouslysecksyfrontsquat
EDIT: OMG I hate when I type a wall of txt and it doesn’t go through!