Except you’re conscious of it. That’s a big difference.
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Despite everything we literally walk on history. Some photos of ancian roman culture in Bulgaria. Unfortunately, almost lost .
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Those pictures are awesome. Wish more was done to preserve historical architecture like this in many places around the world.
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We live in a magnificent place. In the lands of Thracians, Macedonian, Celtic , Roman empire and Byzantium. Here it’s the earliest evidence of human symbolic behaviour ever found, in prehistoric caves with an approximate age of 1,6 million BP.
But as I said earlier , preservation and conservation needs money, not corrupted authorities and careless and poor people :(.
Plovdiv is european capital of culture 2019.
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One of the coolest places i have ever visited is Tulum, Mexico:
A lot of the pictures on the web don’t show it well though. Most are of the ocean from the overlooking cliff that Tulum is perched on. The detail carved into the rocks and the mathematical precision of the buildings is phenomenal. An experience I will never forget.
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Absolutely beautiful 
! I wish I’d have a chance to visit these ancient and exotic countries in Central America , I’ve been reading so much about these magnificent places but it’s pretty expensive for me now.
27.09.2019
**Rest day. **
1. weighted sit ups 4x10x15kg with a plate overhead
2. hyperextensions for glutes 4x20x15kg plate in hands
3. leg and hip raises decline bench 4x10
30 min. stationary bike
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28.09.2019
triple sets
1. bench press narrow grip (50,60kg warm up) 8-7-6x65kg (not my bench)
2. one arm dumbbell row 3x8x32.5kg each arm
3. rear delt machine 3x12
4. back squats (20,50kg warm up) 3x8x60kg
5. leg curls 3x12x40kg
6. cable upright row 3x10x40kg
7. lat pull down bilatelar 3x12
8. lying dumbbell triceps extensions 3x10x(2x10kg)
9. lateral dumbbell raises 3x10-12 x only (2x5kg) but this way
10. back squats 3x10x55kg
11. romanian deadlift with dumbbells 3x12x(2x27,5kg)
12. lateral dumbbell raises (again) 2x3kg
I started standart lateral raises with 10 kg dumbbells but my friend remind me to try this new style- little bent over and with supinated arm and my delts burned with 3-5kg
Tomorrow I will visit the second show of the national bodybuilding championship. Some pics of previous shows 2017 and 2018. It;s seems interesting but it;s pretty borring actually :).
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Your English is pretty near perfect. The only way I can tell it’s not your first language is that you haven’t become lazy like most native English speakers do.
I’m also loving the architecture, but you might have to wait until I’ve had more sleep for anything more insightful I’m afraid.
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29.09.2019.
Rest day
Our guy that we went to support was in his best condition, but unfortunately he didn’t have a good off season and he was the smallest of his group - almost 5 kg under the weight of the others. But nevermind- he dare to stand up on the stage.
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Some emotions yesterday. And a pic with my favorite guy in the classic group up to 170 cm. And my gym buddy who drags me in these activities.
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30.09.2019
Rest day.
Unfortunately I got sick after work - may be my appetite at lunch was bigger than usual so I got severe stomach pains, headaches and fever. After 4-5 hours lying and trying to fall asleep finally started to vomit and got relief. I was awful, but today I’m fine.
I will rest today also and I will do some kind of fasting 1-2 days. Phew …
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01.10.2019
Rest day.
After my unsuccessfull attempt for food poisoning, I did some kind of fasting - just 1200 kcal of food, But I didn’t feel much hunger and keep my energy.
02.10.2019
triple sets- deload
1. overhead press (17,5 kg warm up) 3x6x37,5kg
2. one arm row on seated row machine 3x8x45 kg each arm
3. hyperextensions 3x15x15kg plate in hands
4. trap bar deadlift (73kg warm up) 3x5x83kg
5. leg extensions 3x12x30kg
6. pec deck machine 3x12x50kg
7. 45 degree leg press machine 3x15x100kg
8. seated calf raises 3x15x30kg
9. cable low row 3x15x50kg
10. lying dumbbell triceps extensions 12-10-10x(2x10kg)
11. leg raises on roman chair 3x15
12. lateral dumbbell raises (supinated palm) 3x15x(2x5kg)
Not so bad, but not enough stamina.
Whatever I desided to deload in reps for the basic exercises.
Today a little bit more food and 1800 kcal , my stomach is fine now , but I will proceed step by step with the food for couple of days. I haven’t feel sick in the stomach for a decade
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03.10.2019
triple sets
1. pull ups neutral grip 3x8
2. chest press machine neutral grip for triceps 3x12
3. legs and hip raises decline bench 3x10
4. seated leg press machine narrow stance (70kg warm up) 3x15x90kg
5. leg curl 3x12x40kg
6. upright row EZ bar 3x8x28kg
7. lat pull down bilateral 3x12
8. rare delts machine 3x12-15
9. hip trusts (70kg warm up) 3x6x90kg
10. leg extensions unilateral 3x10 each leg
11. calf raises on seated leg press machine 3x12x90kg drop set 3x12x70kg
12. hip trusts 3x10x70kg
13. crunches 3x20
14.Cable Y raises 3x15
15. triceps push downs rope 3x10x30kg
Very good workout, whole this in an hour, just no phone and FB. Average strenght even caloric restriction.
There were time, in the past when I trained with much cheating and sloppy form of basic exercises and I deluded myself that it’s save and effective. But this ended a couple years ago. These days I’m focused on the right form of the exercises and the FROM and the result is out of limits. I’m stronger, tougher, more durable than before, more masculine,and I work hard over my disbalances.
Now I’m so sad and angry when I see 95% of the guys in the gym just try to kill themselves or at least to mutilate themselves with so poor and so wrong and so dangerous form of performance that even I feel hurt…
Ignorance is blessing…
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Your friend looked great!
Ahah you do all of that in less than an hour? It must be super intense! Lots of volume! I think if you were to deload you should cut a bit of volume rather intensity? Unless you feel the weight you’re using are really heavy.
Well yeah form is really important if you want results. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever cheat but yeah… I mean if you’re bigger than most of the guys there it’s because you’re doing something right 
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Oh, no, not intense at all. I do it in triple sets so the rests are 3 times less that rests after every set and I choose just one basic exercise and two much lighter. I can do some cable exercises , crunches and other shits even without a rest between them.
Sometimes yea, it;s helpfull to move a little more weight and to feel yourself a little stronger. and to put some stress on the muscles.
BUT in general you just delude yourself. Muscles don’t work properly and (as I know now) only
magnify the problems with bad technique and muscle imbalances. And if it continuoses for years it leads to an injury almost inevitable. I’ve seen this in every gym all the time and it’s ugly.
I mean if you’re bigger than most of the guys there it’s because you’re doing something right>
Well, I’m not agree here. It depends on many things- the right genetics , right ‘‘supplementation’’ and pure luck sometimes. The biggest guys I know have many health issues, injuries etc, they just don’t declare it publicly.
I don’t know how it’s in your gyms but here it’s not popular to train legs at all, so 90% of the big guys have huge arms and shoulder and chicken legs , they don’t squat ‘‘because of the knees’’ and don’t deadlifing ‘‘because of the back pain’’ and so on… Pathetic :).
When I mean a sloppy form I mean a sloppy form.
DON’T try this, pls. :).
Deadlift 2013
Barbell row- SO FUCKING WRONG
Of course you’re right. But sometimes using a bit of body english on rows or shoulder raises or whatever shouldn’t be a problem. I like the idea of cheating only to make the exercise more difficult, not easier. And yeah, should only be used from time to time.
Meeeh these are only excuses. Of course not everyone can become huge even with perfect nutrition, training and recovery. But most people are full of excuses. Personaly I know that I’m not better because I eat garbage ahah I should change that.
Yeah the fishing rod deadlift… I did that too ahah
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Deadlift wasn’t great.
Rows were fine, you kept the core tight, the BB over midfoot and got you elbows past midline. Nothing wrong with them.
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Like squatting a bit high. Holy hell it makes it so damn hard.
Well, I’m totally disagree. This is may be the worst performance of this exercise. Fortunately, I don’t have any injury of this shits, knock on wood :).
How so? Deep squats are so much harder than anything else. :). And the half squats are very dangerous for knee tendons and lumbar area.