No meat in the house last night.
Made 2 late grilled cheese sammiches + protein shake.
Had weird dreams and a rock in my stomach.
Good times… good times…
How ya doin’, Steely?
Shoulders looking wide man…
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
How ya doin’, Steely?
Shoulders looking wide man…
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Wassup CC?
Lateral raises, FTW!!
Speaking of you… I went back and found some of your posts about triceps. For some reason, I associate you with triceps. LOL!
I’m doin fine. Lots going on with work and kids and gym. I need to start making time to fix things around the house, but hey, my back is getting bigger and my bench is going up, so forget about fixing up the bathroom!
Always keep an emergency can of Spam in the cupboard.
Back Pt. II
HS High Row (rev grip):
1pps x 15
2pps x 15
3pps x 11
2p+25ps x 12 (some forced reps)
2p+35ps x 11 (" ")
HS Iso Row (high palms down grip)
2pps x 15
3pps x 15
4pps x 10
5pps x 7
5pps x 10 (some forced reps)
Low Cable Row (close neut grip):
180x15
220x12
240x10
Two Arm Cable Curl:
45x20
60x16
80x16
95x15
105x12
- Had to figure out what my weights were for the cable curls. My intention was 3 x 15-12 reps. Now I know… lol
Last Night (Wed): Treadmill x 30 min
Tonight: Shoulders
HS Shoulder Press:
1pps x 20
2pps x 15
3pps x 12
4pps x 8* !
4p+10ps x 3
3p+25ps x 8 (+1 spotted)
BB Shrug (strict, leaning, hold):
135x15
225x15
315x12
405x10
455x10
405x10
1-arm DB Lat Raise:
25x15
40x12
60x8 + 25x10
2-arms DB Lat Raise (Cutler style)
70x10
75x8
DB Front Raise:
40x10
60x8
DB Rear Delt “Skiers”
25x10
30x10
40x10
Finally tried out the new brick-oven pizza place in town from where the gym is. This is bad. Not the pizza-- the pizza is the BEST I’ve had in Maine, hands down. It’s bad 'cuz I’m gonna be eating a fuckton of it… OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!@!!!
Y’know, your shoulders have gotten kind of massive, there, Steely…
Big lifitng SD, hope you guys enjoy the holidays.
Progress pic from May 2008 to now (also posted in T-Cell “Before and After” thread. Went from fat-fat to skinny-fat to kinda-strong-fat-- LOL!!
Armz
w/u
HS Dip:
3p x 15
4p x 12
5p x 10
6p x 8
7p x 8, x5
5p x 13
BB Curl (28# BB):
Bar x 20
78x12
98x10
118x5 + 3 partial
EZ Skull Crshr (wt. doesn’t include ez bar wt):
90x12
100x9
100x10
1 Arm DB Pr.Curl:
30x12
40x11
50x10
55x10 (9+1 Left arm)
Cable Rope P/D:
x12
x10
x6
Merry Christmas!!
a 100 lb gain in 2 years. That’s some dedimicated eating. You’ve been the most consistent gainer on the board that I know of.
you’ve demonstrated to all a great dedication to gaining size and strength - me 'ats off to you!
Thanks dog and dca!
Still a long way to go yet-- I feel like I’m just getting started.
The dedication to food isn’t as fun as it would seem. Even tonight I’ve been nursing this 1 lb of steak in front of me for about 30 minutes. Maybe another 10 bites that will take another 20 mins or so…
Santa’s gonna be full tonight…
OMG-- this just in from the kitchen— chocolate pie and cookies for Santa!!!
Christmas: Off - Chinese food for din-din.
Sunday: Misc
A1: Seated Calves
1p+25 x 15
2p+25 x 15
2p+50 x 12
3p+50 x 11
3p+75 x 6
A2: Rev Cable Curl ( ‘m’ attachment )
w/u
80x15
105x15
115x15
B: Rev BB Curl
45x15
65x15
70x15
I’m in the IT biz. I develop software. Complicated software that connects big complicated databases to big complicated maps and graphics and models big electric/gas/water networks.
But I can’t use Facebook or, apparently and Ipod Touch or laptops that have so much software that’s supposed to ‘do stuff’ for you (eg. HP software). – LOL! Kids got hooked up with some serious electronics this year and I finally upgraded a 15 year old TV with a flat screen and a BlueRay/DVD player. The cord that connects them was 50 fucking dollars. The accessories are as expensive as electronics! I’m exhausted hooking them all up to the wall, to each other, to the wi-fi, to the Interwebz… OY VAY!!!
I’m going to go back to looking at dirt for a living…
I develop automation for controlling and gluing disparate software systems together. My kid is kicking my ass navigating through the various screens and capabilities of the new X-Box we have in the house. I feel like an idiot having to quiz him on where the frickin’ game library is in the menus.
Off.
GPP: Lots of shoveling snow today.
Damn Steely, that is some significant progress in a short period of time. Awesome work.
I design voice and data networks, but using my cellphone is overly complicated for me.
End-of-Year Bench:
w/u
135x10
225x5
275x1
315x1
365xFail
355x1 - PR+5
360x1 - PR+5
365x1 - PR+5
CGBP (1/2 Foam on chest)
225x12
245x12
275x7
DB Flyes/Stretch* + (1 arm DB Rear Delt)
25x12 + (25x12)
35x12 + (35x12)
40x10 + (40x10)
50x10 + (50x10)
- 30-60 second deep db stretch after set
Well, the goal at the beginning of the year was 405x1, but had a couple set backs, so I’ll take 365x1 and try to get to 405 ASAP. Don’t know why I failed the first attempt, but I suspect I didn’t control the bar down to my chest well enough and flared my elbows to quickly.
The next 3 attempts, I conciously kept as tight as possible, ‘rowed’ the bar down (thx MMeat) very slowly, touched and pressed. Bringning the bar down slow seems to mitigate fighting momentum on the way up (at least I think).
It felt good and my spotter said I didn’t even fight at my normal sticky point so I might have had a few more pounds in me. Test again maybe in 4-6 weeks. Sub-max for now.
Time to eat steak and watch the Eagles game!
very nice set of PRs there - a 50# jump was a bit much at first but you had enough in the tank to do 3-5# PR sucesses in a row finishing with the one you failed at!
Looking L.A.R.G.E. nice bench!
and huge progress
shoulders are indeed looking yoked
I make television for a living - spend all day with
a meter, a vector scope usually a camera and lens that
equals two new SUV and make it look like something
yet cant take a picture of my kid that isnt blurry
Working with any tech seems to backfire at home go figure.
[quote]soldog wrote:
very nice set of PRs there - a 50# jump was a bit much at first but you had enough in the tank to do 3-5# PR sucesses in a row finishing with the one you failed at![/quote]
Yeah, weird. I think it had more to do with my setup and poor technique on the first attempt. Was definitely in the tank, though.
Funny, last night was serious low volume for me with the max attempts, but man, I am SORE this morning (and I totally slept in a few hours)!