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A'ight, it's Tuesday which is a push day for me. I'm going to go a bit higher rep today than I usually do, but I'm still going heavy.
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Nah, I actually had to workout.
Ok, before I go any further, I thought it would be the time to announce that I'm the father of Anna Nicole's kid. Yesterday, I did one of my famous extremely low carb days. I had a moderate carb breakfast and then did without for the rest of the day, hence the rest I took last night. Today has been quite the contrary, and my body is supercompensating today by storing every ounce of glucose I give it. I'm not as scheduled on my carb intake as I was in Iraq, simply because the demands are different and my time isn't as regimented as it was there. Now, it goes by how I feel and what I see in the mirror. I'm at a point right now where I'm only piling lean body mass on (it's almost Summer in TX). I'm doing it without fat gain, and I have some target numbers in my head that I want to achieve. Those who knew me back in 03-04 remember that I used to be obsessed with low single digit bf all the time (5-7) and now I feel much better at 7-9, though I'm in the 10-12 range right now. I have no desire to compete, as my goals really coincide with my business and the opportunities that come along with it. I've been blessed with the opportunities lately to speak at health and wellness related functions, clinics, etc so obviously I want to take advantage of those things. The workout... I decided to forego the heavy flat benching today to let my shoulders and elbows take a break. I warmed up forever. Flat DB Bench (kept the rest at 60-90 secs) 100x15x3 100x12 (3 second hold at the bottom) 100x12 + xreps Incline DB Bench 100x10x5 -No tricks, just controlled (2 sec neg maybe) Incline Jones (locked to Smith) There's a reason I did this. It's something I kind of throw in on occasion that's similar to an x-rep and a few other things. I lower the weight down really slow, crank 5 full reps out (controlled), hit 5 1/2 partials and one full and repeat until I can't move it anymore. I was only doing this with 225, but I did 4 sets. Tore it up. My shoulders are tight as hell, so I did some cable flyes (I know, I don't do these). It was more for the stretch, extremely light weight (80lbs x 15 x 3) I even did 2 sets from the bottom of the stack (flyes from the ground maybe?). These provide a nice stretch... At this point, I was f'n starving, so I broke open a 32oz Gatorade and threw 15g of BCAA in it and started sipping it. Suppressed the hunger quite nicely. Moved on to a few sets of laterals. 35x15x2 40x15x5 30x20x3 Ok, a few, 10, whatever. I figured since I wasn't pressing today, the shoulders would love this. Plus, I was going extremely slow and guiding it down nice and easy. I think I nearly threw up on about set #6, but I kept chugging. I finished up with some light rotator cuff work and some static stretching. Now my shoulders and traps are so full of friggen blood that it sucks sitting here and typing. When I take as much Ornithine, Arginine and Lysine as I do pre-workout, the pumps physically hurt, especially in the smaller groups such as the triceps and delts. Even my biceps are full of blood. Sub 2 hours is pretty short for a chest workout for me, but since I didn't need to take long breaks between heavy benching, it wasn't too bad. On another note, I walked directly into the corner of my leg press (the seat part) and that metal drove straight into my gimp knee (yesterday). Man it hurts. I laid on the ground (no clients were here) and I just said f*ck, f*ck, f*ck like 1000 times. It isn't as bad today, but bruised. My preworkout meal was at 8:30am (I started working out at like 10). I had black beans, spinach and a moderate sized chicken breast. Probably 85g of carbs. Normally, the spinach would be out in my pre meal but it looked good so I ate it. lol I had a big breakfast and a light snack prior to the pwo meal. I had the gatorade and bcaa and now I'm finishing my first post drink. In an hour, I'm going to down a couple of chicken breasts and then have 2 more at like 3 with some veggies. I have a little break now, may go outback and smoke a Cuban cigar... lol Questions? Comments? Criticism?
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A comment...good call with the cubans! If you are going to smoke a cigar, you gotta do it right. No black and milds here.
As usual, I look at your workouts and could only imagine what my body would do to me if I tried to do that kind of volume. It literally scares the you know what out of me. Good lifting bro. Ok, well here is a question. Lately (the last 6 months) my back gets tight constantly. I mean, I can simlpy arch my back and it cracks like 10-12 times a day. At night I cant lay completely flat because it is so tight, and I cant breath very well either. I sometimes have to stretch for like 20 minutes before I can lay down, and even then, I am not comfortable. SO stretching isnt really helping, I was considering a visit to the Chiropractor, do you think that would be a good call? I know you go quite often, but does this sound like something he could help me with. Thanks for your input. Kepp up the hard work.
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Nah, I had plenty of fuel pre-workout. I think mine was due to low cals yesterday. I like a during workout drink most of the time, which totally alleviates that issue.
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Also, if my workout has gone a bit longer than I like, then I'll drink a bit more of it. I don't religiously drink one like I used to, it really just depends on how I feel and if I need the fuel. Whatever doesn't go down goes into my post-workout drink, which is normally a bit more than most people take down anyway. LOL - normally, my breakfast is typically 720-800 calories, my pre-workout meal is about 1000 calories and my post-workout is meal is about 750-850 cals.
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Very interesting log here! Lot's of info! Congrats on your success and keep reaching for that brass ring!
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Thanks narc, My old journals used to have everything in them. Whenever I write articles in my blog, I'll probably post them here as well. CubanChick, There are plenty of Mexican girlies here, can't say that San Antone has a huge Cuban population. Know any? b
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no questions. Just wanted to add that was a nice light chest workout. Keep the joints healed and you can move forward.
Don't mention food in your post  I'm dieting and any mention of food is "unhealthy". I'm keeping my cals at 2100, and losing weight. That seemed like a lot of lateral work.
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That was a lot of lateral work, but by design. I had to take a step back on the chest to move forward because my elbows and wrists just feel the use. The shoulders actually feel good while I'm doing the laterals, and I wanted to get some blood into them. I typically don't do a lot of direct shoulder work, so every once in a while I'll load up on them. I don't know when the last time I hit the shoulders directly with 10 sets, especially after a ton of benching movements, but since the chest was so light, it wasn't a big deal.
My diet is pretty dynamic and I just go by the mirror and the tape. I pretty much quit counting exact cals a long time ago, but I always have an idea of where I'm at. I just listen to my body - if I'm hungry, I eat. If I need energy, I up the carbs. If I feel like I'm not recovering, I'll take a look at my proteins and supplement with the essential amino acids I may be lacking accordingly. I did buy a biophotonic scanner for my studio (nearly 6k for the f'n thing) so I can keep an eye on my antioxidant levels). I think I mentioned before they were surprisingly low, but I think that had something to do with the flu spell I had. They're going up pretty quickly. I had blood work done the other week and my hormone levels were nice and high. I did have some platelet issues a few months ago, but it must've been something mild because they went back to normal.
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So tell me about megadosing with BCAA's, im intersted. It seems like you said something about this b4.
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