WannaBe’s Last Year Of “DYEL?”

[wanna_be]

Yesterday: attempted leg day at the house. Let’s just say I’m done trying to do any kind of exercise that resembles a squat. I’ll add a leg day at the commercial gym and try and use a couple press machines as well as the curl/extension machines.

Today!
Back and…TRICEPS! @flappinit, see, I do sometimes implement the good advice I get in here

Lat pull downs
4 sets at 160lbs, just really focused on form and a good contraction/hold at the bottom

Seated iso lat row/pull down machine
2 sets with 170lbs of plates per side, first time using 170. Felt so damn good.
2 sets at 135 per side

Chest supported iso rows
Neutral grip 90lbs per handle, 4 sets to failure with the most epic mind muscle connection. Love these
Pronated - 4 sets with 45lbs per side. Need to up the weight on these. Might swap the order next time.

Seated Dumbell rear delt flys
4 sets to failure last was a drop set

Cable face pulls from the bottom
3 sets to failure
from eye level - 2 sets

Machine rear delt flys never happened. Popular machine today.

Seated dip machine
4 sets at 235lbs

Tricep extension machine
3 sets at 135lbs

Straight bar push downs
4 sets at 135lbs

Tried for more cable stuff but arms/elbows/shoulders asked me to stop.

Kinda diggin the back/tri. Looking forward to chest/bi’s. Only thing I’ll do different is my warm up once transitioning to triceps. I did a lot of really high rep low weight single arm tricep push downs to warm my elbow up and get blood in there, but it wasn’t enough. Gonna have to be a little more thorough from here on out.

[dagill2]

@wanna_be you’re a bad man baiting him like that. Are you not impressed with his massive 115lb pressing prowess?

[wanna_be]

No, I’d love to tell him that’s weak as piss and I’d be surprised if he doesn’t look weak as piss. I’m trying to be semi nice though lol a lot of people run there mouths on the internet but not in person, I run my mouth in person and try to stay kindish online as there’s no way to back my Shit up in person since everyone is from all over the world .

I swear though. If this dude looks like a Greek god with those “impressive” lift stats. I’m quitting lifting.

[dagill2]

I’m small and weak as piss and those lifts would be pretty weak sauce even for me. I’m genuinely confused why he was bragging about them.

[wanna_be]

Yea idk either man. Some people live in a different world. He has had a thread about “wooing” a girl on an online game, so he may indeed be a little off lol.
More power to him for his confidence though! I wish I felt good enough about my lifts to brag

[wanna_be]

Shoulders / chest / biceps

Seated DB OHP
75’s x 6. Looks like more time spent at 70’s lol
70’s to failure
65’s to failure
60’s to failure

Decline hammer iso bench
3 sets to failure

Seated machine iso OHP
4 sets to failure

Cable flys
Did them from the top, which I hate but I was working in with someone.
Basically kept working up to a final heavy set

Reverse pec deck
4 heavy sets to failure
Heavy for me on these is like 80ish pounds

Machine lateral raises
Idk how I feel about these… few sets though, nothing hard, just trying to figure it out

Cable single arm curls
5 sets to failure at 30lbs on the stack. Really really really focused on a great contraction and trying to use nothing but the bicep muscle

Chin up things for biceps
1 set to failure. Note to self, do these first next time

Cable V grip curls
2 sets, I was already fried

Pronated cable curl single arm tiny elbow muscle
4 sets to failure each arm at 15lbs

Dumbell lateral raises
Oh man. I love these. Went so hard. Worked my way up to 30’s from 10’s going to failure each set then moving up, followed by another set with 30’s then a drop set back down to 10’s. Swooooooole city

2 sets of light inclined Y raises

Seated/reclined a little leg press
4 sets of 12 at 315

Leg extensions
3 sets of 8-10 at 175

Leg curls
Ha. Pussed out, but I did do a lot of them warming up for the leg press machine

So this morning I woke up leaner than I ever have been in my life. I actually saw my lower abs (clearly, but tons of fat around them). I only had a protein shake for dinner last night and the stars aligned and it was magical. Never seen my lower abs before! They disappeared as soon as I drank something let alone ate but it was encouraging. Hopped on the scale at 206 this morning which is a 2020 weight PR (for loss) so that’s awesome! Still sooooooo much fat though. Guessing I’d need to be around 180 before I wouldn’t be considered over weight, which is stupid sad at 6ft.

I also measured my arms this afternoon, down .5”. So that’s sweet. Really excited. Looks like the loss program I’ve been working on is starting to work. Might get bored with making them small and work on growing them soon, idk.

[wanna_be]

Went to the gym, walked on the treadmill whilst sipping the latest greatest heart attack in a can hoping for some motivation to be a side effect.
Did a Few sets of lat pull downs then went to my favorite lat row thing machine and got called Into work. Apparently people’s lights are out and they are being extra needy and want them back on. So, goodbye back and tri day! I’ll see you again soon, sincerely wannabe.

[wanna_be]

Ended up working all night last night, mostly in the rain . Got a few hours of sleep then had a productive day, then napped for a couple hours and woke up and gymed.

Seated DB OHP
2 sets with 70’s
2 sets with 60’s

Seated iso machine bench
First time using this machine and I really really like it. Did a few sets to failure at 150lbs. Felt great

Seated iso hammer OHP
Stole some stuff from the contest prep thread and did 4 seconds up and 4 seconds down for as long as I could using only 25lb plates per side. 3-4 sets, can’t remember. Felt good though

Seated DB reverse flys
3 sets to failure

Reverse pec dec machine
3 sets to failure

Lateral raises
Couple sets standing, then a couple sitting, then a couple standing

Preacher curl machine
Few heavy low rep sets

Cable curls SS with chin ups
Few sets, nice burn

Low weight high rep single arm cable curls
Few sets

Elbow muscle thing curls
Few sets to failure

Finished up with a set of scapular hanging pulls

[kleinhound]

Who we talking about here? I’m now intrigued haha

[wanna_be]

Bopolean or how ever you spell it

[kleinhound]

Hahaha. Oh right.
Yeah he’s started like 8 threads in a day?

[wanna_be]

Yea he’s so wild

[kleinhound]

Like either a troll or fully unhinged

[wanna_be]

Good back and tricep workout today

Lat pull downs - it’s a double cable machine, so this time I used two single grip handles and pulled close to my body like @flappinit suggested. Felt really good!
Worked up to a set at 195lbs on the stack then 2 more working sets at 160

Seated iso hammer lat row thingy
2 sets with 170lbs per side
2 sets 135 per side.
Next back day I’ll bump up to 185 per side

Seated chest supported iso row
Mixed it up and did pronated rows first, as suspected I was able to move more weight on these putting them first vs after neutral grip rows
4 sets with 90lbs of plates per side
3 sets neutral grip with same weight
I can feel my back growing with these!!

Seated rear delt flys
3 sets to failure

Reverse pec deck machine
1 set, these were a little painful today so I stopped

Body weight dips
22
11

Machine seated dips
3 sets to failure at 235lbs

Seated tricep extension machine
3 sets to failure at 135lbs on the stack

Cable push downs
2 with the rope
2 with straight bar

Standing calf raises

Band pull a parts and a set of hanging scap pulls to keep something healthy

[wanna_be]

Wooooooooo gurllllllllllll

Great workout today, gym was paaaaacked so didn’t get the order I normally do or the machines I normally use, but still killer workout.

I’ll do my best to remember what I did and in what order, idk why, but I will

Seated dumbbell OHP
70’s x 10
70’s x 8
65’s x ?
65’s x ?

10 reps on the first set is my “time to move up” weight/rep but damn 75’s are so much heavier! I just need to make the switch and stay there.

Seated iso hammer chest press machine
2 sets at 155 then a giant drop set
Pump was intense. Atleast 45psi in my titties. For sure.

Seated iso hammer OHP
2 sets to failure with 45’s
2 sets to failure with 35’s
Used intensity techniques or what ever. Forced reps and partials and what nots to go past failure

Dumbbell rear delt flys
Just 2 high rep sets

Reverse pec deck machine
Walked up the stairs to this machine 19 times. Never used it but did some kind of cardio circuit trying to use it

Lateral machine raises
2 sets to failure at 60lbs on the stack

Cable Face pulls
2 sets from the bottom
2 sets eye level

Lateral raises
Pyramid up then drop set down

Seated OHP machine (non iso or hammer)
3 sets with super light weight and high reps. Figured there might be something left of my shoulders. Turns out there wasn’t, but it was fun watching people stare out me in amazement while 30lbs on the stack was stapling me

Chin ups? ( the bicep ones)
2 sets to failure doing some slow negatives and partial reps towards the end

Single arm cable curls
Super concentrated curls using 30lbs on the stack
Few sets to failure each arm

Cable V curls
Few heavy (for me, 110lbs) sets to failure
One pump set to failure

Pronated elbow muscle thingy curls
Few sets to failure

Leg press
Worked up to 350lbs and then back down, hamstring was doing this weird popping thing like it was hanging up on one ting in the tmiddle of the tendon thingy, so didn’t go balls out

Leg extensions
Few sets to failure

Leg curls
Nawww bruh

Standing calf raises
Went until it hurt using 90-100lbs (idk) and then did some more until major cramp

My concubine stayed over last night and informed me as I was getting Into bed in my skivvies that I was looking swollerer in ma shoulders, front and back, and she could see more of my abs. Feels good mane.

Also had a guy at the gym ask me for pointers, pretty sure he was in better shape than me, so not sure if he was trying to get charity points for being nice to the skinny fat guy or what, but I’m gonna tell myself he was mirrin hard.

Saw a dude who looked like he was chiseled out of marble. Like insane. He had striations errrrwhere. Caught myself checking him out a few times, mostly no homo.

I might no what a hernia feels like. Hoping not, I’ll know more later

Gonna go home and eat some boiled eggs and down a proton shake with 1.5 scoops of the most anabolic/cheapest stuff out there #gainzzzz

[wanna_be]

Progress photo. Lighting is pretty unflattering for everything but my traps lol, dey like this lighting . Realized I haven’t taken any progress photos in a while. I think my upper body is back to where it was last year, legs still missing size but I’m also not dead lifting or squatting, or hell, doing anything that resembles a leg workout

[wanna_be]

Poor sleep last night and just all around wore out. Told myself today was a mandatory rest day. Then I got to thinking… I had a bad lunch, I go on call tomorrow and may not be able to workout much, and I’ll have my kids this weekend. So, I forced a half ass workout.

Performance was what was expected on most lifts. Kept the sets to 2-3 instead of the usual 4ish.

Tried a seated cable row machine with neutral grip attatchment, really felt it in the very bottom of my lats, which was nice as I don’t usually feel that area so strong.

Triceps felt good today. Managed ~20 dips on my first set with strict form. I think I could do a few more of it wasn’t so awkward for my wrists.

I probably didn’t make much of a dent into the progress tonight, but surly didn’t go backwards lol.
I really need to clean up my diet. Been searching for the right meal I can prep that catches my fancy. I’m one of those picky fatty’s with not much discipline, so it needs to taste good . Wish I could afford to meal prep steak everyday.

[wanna_be]

Got off work early and felt good so hit the gym

Seated DB OHP
75’s x 6-7 (can’t remember, but it’s one of those)
75’s x 5
60’s x ~12
60’s x ~10

Cable rear delt fly’s
4 sets to failure per side
First time using these and I loved them!

Seated iso hammer OHP machine
Multiple high rep sets using 25’s per side
Did some 5 second up, 5 second down stuff, did some pausing at different points, and just did some straight sets.

Seated iso chest press machine
3 sets to failure using 150lbs on the stack. Love this little machine. I feel more pec on this than anything else

Dumbbell rear delt flys
2 high rep sets with 10’s

Machine lateral raise
I keep trying this machine but I think I’m officially writing it off, just can’t feel anything and it’s a pain to get into and out of

Dumbbell lateral raises
Worked up to 20’s and did a few monstrous sets with all I had. The lighting is good in there and you can really see the middle delts working. Very satisfying watching it lol

Cable V curls
Worked up to a set to failure at 110lbs, then 100, then 90, then 80.

Cable elbow muscle thingy curls
Few sets to failure each arm

Single arm cable curls standing sideways
Did a few sets, but they were probably wasted energy. My arms were so pumped it was hard to even tell if my bicep was working

I feel like I’m leaving out something but idk what it is.
I also got invited to dinner from a longtime friend I haven’t seen In a while so it was the perfect excuse to skip legs . Already regret it lol now time for some anabolic chips and salsa

Edit: 5 minutes after bragging about messican I got called out for work . Atleast I’m good and wore out now

[wanna_be]

Just had the best back workout I think I have ever had. Truly an epic workout

Lat pull downs (2 cables with handle on each)
4 sets to failure with as strong of a contraction at the bottom as I could muster. Felt so damn good!!

Seated iso lat row
3 sets to failure with 170lbs per handle
1 set to failure with 135 per handle
Man, I really do love these

Seated cable row with single hand attatchments on each cable
3 sets to failure keeping elbows nice and close to the body, really felt the whole lat working on these. Think I used 135lbs on the stack

Cable cross over rear delt flys
3 sets to failure, not the best mind muscle connection on these today but could still feel it alright

Seated chest supported iso rows
4 sets to failure pronated wide grip 90lbs per hand
1 giant set to failure (21ish reps) neutral grip

Cable face pulls
2 high (40ish) rep sets to failure

Reverse dumbbell flys
2 sets to failure

Reverse pec deck machine
2 sets to failure

Body weight dips
24.8 (soooo close lol) reps!!! New PR for dips!!

Seated dip push down machine
3 sets to failure with 235lbs on the stack

Tricep role push downs
3 sets to failure, 100lbs on the stack

Reverse grip tricep push downs
2 sets, high reps low weight

Seated Tricep push down machine
2 high rep sets to failure and beyond

Finished with some hanging scap raises.

I wish every workout was like this. My whole back felt so damn meaty and I could feel the muscles I wanted to work, working beautifully. Very much enjoyed it

[wanna_be]

Shoulder tit bicep day
Took my TRT shot yesterday in my shoulder and it really messed with my workout today. So tired of pinning my ass but everything else just hurts. Might try ventral glute thing idk.

Seated DB OHP
75’s x 7
75’s x 6
70’s x something to failure
70’s x something to failure lol

Seated bench hammer Iso machine
2 sets to failure at 150lbs
Then Worked up to 1 low rep set to failure at 195lbs on the stack

Seated iso hammer OHP
Used 25’s per side and did a couple sets of 4 second sip and 4 seconds down to failure, did for both pronated and neutral grip

Reverse pec deck machine
2 sets to failure

Cable rear delt body cross over things
2 sets to failure

Seated OHP machine
60lbs on the stack, did one set pronated to 50 reps as fast as I could go, short rest to another high rep set to failure doing neutral grip

Face pulls from eye level, mid, and low

Dumbbell lateral raises
Worked up to 30’s then back down, these were very painful for my left shoulder (injection shoulder)

Single arm cable curls
Couple sets

Chin ups
2 sets to failure

Cable curls with V attatchment
110 x 4
120 x 4
130 x 4
150 x 4
160 x 4
Started thinking about a bicep blow out and took it down a notch
Major drop set starting at 90, dropping 10 pounds on the stack at failure and no rest, ended up wanting to cry at 40lbs and called it

Single arm Tiny elbow muscle curl things
3 sets to failure