31/1/2014 Chest Day Bro
Flat Bench
70k x 8 reps
80k x 8 reps
90k x 8 reps
70k x 12 reps
Incline Bench (1 sec pause 2 inches above chest)
60k x 8 reps x 6 sets
Ring Pushups
Bodyweight x 10 reps x 3 sets
Partner Forced Negative Flies (meadows article, was really good)
10k’s x 8 reps x 3 sets
Great job on breaking the 200lb barrier and doing so while lean!
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Lol, different music for different stuff. Classic music like Chopin just gets me really calm and focused.
[/quote]
Tell me you watch/watched Dexter?[/quote]
I’m afraid not… I don’t watch many TV shows, I started Breaking Bad a year and a half ago and just finished season 4 lol.[/quote]
That is funny because one of the main characters (an FBI analyst) says the same thing about Chopin and upon his recommendation another main character starts to listen to it during her workouts. I believe it was Nocturnes OP 9 No. 2 they listen to. After that episode I tried lifting to Chopin but it wasn’t enough to drown out all the other noises of the gym.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
30/1/2014 Special Day
Today marks the first day in my life I weighed 200lbs (AM after piss/shit before food).
I know it’s nothing really in the grand scheme but still a touching moment for someone who started at 136-138lbs.[/quote]
I’d completely missed this. Congratulations.
Someday I’ll get there too.
How long did it take you?[/quote]
Cheers. I started in mid 2009 so about 4 years with consideration of the time I had off from injury. Dieting last year for 8-9 months ate up a lot of time too lol, so like 4 and a half over all but 3 years of gaining. Thank god I dieted though, gave me drive and clarity.
[quote]furo wrote:
Great job on breaking the 200lb barrier and doing so while lean! [/quote]
Thanks man, still so far to go tho!
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Lol, different music for different stuff. Classic music like Chopin just gets me really calm and focused.
[/quote]
Tell me you watch/watched Dexter?[/quote]
I’m afraid not… I don’t watch many TV shows, I started Breaking Bad a year and a half ago and just finished season 4 lol.[/quote]
That is funny because one of the main characters (an FBI analyst) says the same thing about Chopin and upon his recommendation another main character starts to listen to it during her workouts. I believe it was Nocturnes OP 9 No. 2 they listen to. After that episode I tried lifting to Chopin but it wasn’t enough to drown out all the other noises of the gym. [/quote]
haha that’s awesome, good song too. You have unknowingly selected a PR song.
1/14/2014 Arms
Alternating Dbell Curls S/S Pushdowns
10k’s x 12-15 reps S/S Heavy Band x 15 reps x 3 sets
Alternating Dbell Hammer Curls S/S Lying Dbell Tricep Extensions
10k’s x 12-15 reps S/S 10k’s x 12 reps x 3 sets
Fat Grip Bbell Curls S/S Floor Ez Curl Extensions
20k x 15 reps/22.5k x 12 reps/25k x 12 reps S/S 30k x 12 reps x 3 sets
Ez Reverse Curls
15k x 20 reps x 4 sets
Squat PR coming this week? The BULKING thread is starting to run a bit thin
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
Squat PR coming this week? The BULKING thread is starting to run a bit thin[/quote]
Going for 140k x 5 and 160k x 1 tonight. You updated my stats btw?
I don’t feel comfortable posting pics or vids in other threads lol.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
Squat PR coming this week? The BULKING thread is starting to run a bit thin[/quote]
Were you wanting to keep track of current PRs in that thread? I can do that too, not just in the beginner PR thread.
Everyone’s welcome to post relevant training PRs in that thread - ie, new rep PRs on the big 4, assistance PRs like front squats or deficit pulls etc.
I’ll only update peoples stats if they’re pretty close to 1 rep maxes though - just because the nature of that thread is getting those weights for a single. So if someone posts a 90kg bench for 8 reps, and their current stat is 100kg for a single, I probably won’t update it to track their rep PRs. It’d just make that massive wall of text look even more messy if I have to have be writing “times x reps” every other post.
If people want their stats updated in that thread, they’re gonna have to post them anyway - I’m not lurking in everyone’s log waiting for PRs lol 
I saw you got some new squat PRs the other day Lorez, go ahead and post them if you want to.
So yeah, good luck with your squat tonight Rattle, sorry if that^ came off a little moody, but half the people who post in that thread are posting rep PRs, or doing their presses seated, or have already hit all the weights COUGH Bauber COUGH and it makes tracking it all a bit difficult.
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
30/1/2014 Special Day
Today marks the first day in my life I weighed 200lbs (AM after piss/shit before food).
I know it’s nothing really in the grand scheme but still a touching moment for someone who started at 136-138lbs.
Benching laters.[/quote]
Lol I started at 135 as well. I just posted a similar picture in my log (I’m 198), and it’s always funny to me how similar in build we are haha
But you’re much stronger so FML
Seriously though, good job on the PR’s in bodyweight and lifts.
4/1/2014 Heavy Box Squat
100k x 5 reps
120k x 3 reps
140k x 3 reps - No belt PR
Belt on
150k x 1 rep PR
160k x 1 rep PR - Cam fell down so no vid
170k x 1 rep PR - yas, only 10k away from my 2014 goal lol
Doing high rep work tomorrow.
[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
30/1/2014 Special Day
Today marks the first day in my life I weighed 200lbs (AM after piss/shit before food).
I know it’s nothing really in the grand scheme but still a touching moment for someone who started at 136-138lbs.
Benching laters.[/quote]
Lol I started at 135 as well. I just posted a similar picture in my log (I’m 198), and it’s always funny to me how similar in build we are haha
But you’re much stronger so FML
Seriously though, good job on the PR’s in bodyweight and lifts. [/quote]
You are looking good, we are very similar but I am your shorter, fatter, hairy counterpart lol.
I wouldn’t say I am stronger, we are similar in the lowerbody for sure. Upper body is a mixed bag tho, I saw you are struggling with your bench and I was going to leave some advice but I feel rather afraid to in other peoples logs these days.
The advice was just to simply do it, stop over analysing tech critique from everyone and just get your head in the game and do it. I feel that you are with the bench like I am with the squat, its more of a mental block than a physical or technical one that is stopping you from moving up the weights. I mean this in the sense you may put yourself down too much for your capabilities in the bench, like you have lanky arms and shit. I may be way off base though, I just dislike people going crazy over technique cues when it will likely only result in minor gains.
damn man how’d you get so big so fast, you but on like 30 - 35 lbs over the period of this log, gratz man! some real decent numbers your putting up aswell, there goes my hoping to have some chance of getting them B.U.L.K.I.N.G challenge numbers before anyone else… you dirty jock!!! 
[quote]GarageGymK wrote:
damn man how’d you get so big so fast, you but on like 30 - 35 lbs over the period of this log, gratz man! some real decent numbers your putting up aswell, there goes my hoping to have some chance of getting them B.U.L.K.I.N.G challenge numbers before anyone else… you dirty jock!!! ;)[/quote]
The secret is to diet down to skinny runt levels so as soon as you smell carbs you balloon up in size!
Meh you and I are fairly neck and neck for it tbh (between you and I tho) upper and lower body movements are pretty much the same. Except for you are better at getting more reps at the 70-85% range, hell everyone seems better at getting reps than me lol.
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
The advice was just to simply do it, stop over analysing tech critique from everyone and just get your head in the game and do it. I feel that you are with the bench like I am with the squat, its more of a mental block than a physical or technical one that is stopping you from moving up the weights. I mean this in the sense you may put yourself down too much for your capabilities in the bench, like you have lanky arms and shit. I may be way off base though, I just dislike people going crazy over technique cues when it will likely only result in minor gains.
[/quote]
This is extremely helpful. Thanks man!
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Lol, different music for different stuff. Classic music like Chopin just gets me really calm and focused.
[/quote]
Tell me you watch/watched Dexter?[/quote]
I’m afraid not… I don’t watch many TV shows, I started Breaking Bad a year and a half ago and just finished season 4 lol.[/quote]
That is funny because one of the main characters (an FBI analyst) says the same thing about Chopin and upon his recommendation another main character starts to listen to it during her workouts. I believe it was Nocturnes OP 9 No. 2 they listen to. After that episode I tried lifting to Chopin but it wasn’t enough to drown out all the other noises of the gym. [/quote]
That’s funny you posted this; I’ve found a new appreciation lately for classical music and thought of training to it too. I think some songs work better than others though. If you haven’t heard it, try heavy deadlifts to the 3rd movement of moonlight sonata by Beethoven. That gets me fired up!!
5/2/2014 M Press/Shoulders
Did this early afternoon and doing legs later on tonight, did it just so I could train with some old Uni friends.
Was not unenjoyable because I had eaten nothing at all and I tweaked my neck.
M Press
60k x 5 reps
65k x 5 reps
70k x 5 reps
30k x 15 reps x 3 sets
35k x 12 reps
37.5k x 12 reps
Tricep Pushdowns S/S Kettle bell raises/presses
Medium Band x 15-20 reps S/S 7.5k kettlebell x 15 reps & 15 reps x 5 sets
Your pressing makes me sad.
[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:
Your pressing makes me sad.[/quote]
Quit being such a girly man and put 70k+ over your head already.
Saying that, my neck is so bad right now I can’t do legs tonight lol. Wil have to be tomorrow.
