Westside, Kiwi's and Training OCD!!!! welcome to my world...

lots of tools in the muscle building box mate .. trick is knowing when to change things up and use a new "tool" ... looks like you know though :)
don't think i've ever been so stressed but just trying to keep on top of it at the mo

That weight gain sounds crazy!!! Although when I ran an Epi cycle I blew up to 17 stone, though that was in about 4 weeks rather than 4 days!!!

(It was mostly water weight though )

well thats the thing i dont look like ive lost much, if any condition.. i think im still around 14%bf.. veins in the inside of the biceps are v pronounced too!!!yay! :-)

hope things calm down soon marsbar mate.. but yeah, i dont think things need t change just yet, but im gonna implement some extra stuff in now and again..

RIO- yeah, by stoppin the arms there it doesnt bring the chest in to play too much.. just like doin a partial bench rep, so helps make my 'strong range' part of the bench rep even stronger by strengthenin the tris..
floor presses are somethin i will do v soon, but gym was too busy today and no spotter either..

i am feelin the extra weight t be hoinest.. water retention in the lower back causing some big pumps, and im out of breathe a bit easier too but this will be down to the compounds rather than the extra weight i reckon.. will be addin in some steady state cardio soon.. just a couple sesins a week.. maybe even a swim or two!!

Cheers bud .. hoping that things can only get better from now on but its been a few days of highs and lows so not getting my hopes up to much.  Floor presses are hard .. really tax the triceps and made harder by having to really slow down at the bottom so you don't tw@t your elbows on the floor

yeah im lookin forward to usin them t be honest!!
wil be somehtin new and somethin to aid in bench strength i hope!!

seems to be the time of yr for things like this mate..
i know i react very strangely to the weather.. i get seriously down if the weather stays sh*t for a while... and then anythin on top of that i just seem t not be able to deal with anymore!!
these next few wk are gonna be fairly w@nk tho.. so i will be diggin deep in the gym t get passed it all!

good man .. don't let the bastards grind you down :)

Marsbar


Cheers bud .. hoping that things can only get better from now on but its been a few days of highs and lows so not getting my hopes up to much.  Floor presses are hard .. really tax the triceps and made harder by having to really slow down at the bottom so you don't twat your elbows on the floor

Lol - the first time I tried floor pressing I tried to get some bounce on the go at the bottom of the movement and ended up almost crushing my elbows on the floor!!! I've since learnt that correct technique dictates you lower slowly, pause at the bottom, drive back up.

thinkin of trainin today too-
think it will go somehtin like-

deads/ racks- heavy (ish)
weighted pull ups- heavy and light work
BB rows- heavy ish
Db row; for reps- light
EZ curls- heavy (ish)
pinwheel curls- reps

somehtin like that anyway..

may swith up the way i do DC.. they have another otion whih is to pretty much do push, pull legs etc.. think i may go with that for a while as this would be more suited to addin in some strength based stuff.

this will work somehtin along the lines of-
according to DC-
mon- back width, back thickness, bis and forearms
tues- chest , shoulders and tris
thurs- quads hams calves
friday- same as Monday.

following monday would be push day, tues would be legs, thurs would be back, fri would be push again.. and so on!!
but im likin the day inbetween each sessin at the moment, so i may stick to day on day off! but with the same set set up as the balove in terms of muscle groupings and in that order etc

ok so back from the gym..

RACK DEADS- worked up to;
-190k- 2 x 3reps --- no straps
-210k- 2 x 3 reps --- straps on
-230k- 1 x 1 --- felt heavy and lower back extremely pumped, bit twingy too.

POWER SHRUGS-
140k- 3 x 8

WEIGHTED PULL UPS-worked up to;
BW+15k- 1x5
BW+20k- 1x4
BW+25k- 1x4

BB ROWS- worked up to;
130k- 2x6

DB ROWS-
50k- 15,10 --- each arm, done L,R,L,R, no rest in between

DB CURLS-
26k- 1x7

DB PINWHEEL CURLS-
26k- 1x9

SEATED HAMMER STRENGTH PREACHERS- 1 ARM;
30k- 1x9

arms were so pumped that i dint need many direct arm sets at all, finished them off easily with 1 working set of all the exercises.
the Db rows were great, gonna kepe these in, i think it was good mixing the low rep BB rows wi some higher rep none stop DB rows, got the air in my lungs a bit too which was good!

great session overall.. i felt MASSIVE :-),  and strong today, although i do fel i have a 250k rack pull in me.. think i need t start stretchin every day cos my lower back is playin u slightly, think my hammies are much tighter than they shuold be!

Very strong session mate, well done, 230kg rack dead, feck me!!! lol

cheers dude.. yeah felt a like a good sesh today!
ive just topped it off by havin a mini buffet for tea..
me and the 'mrs' made, pizza, pork pies, sausage rolls, cheese ppickle and pineapple, carrot and dip and nachos etc, and then ive just annihilated half a 6" cheesecake.. feel fat as f*ck now but sod it.. its a one off!! ill make sure the next wk or so is a v strict one!!
dint have some of the stuff id normally have in a buffet.. e.g. meat etc, but she wanted me to eat 'normal people' food :-) haha... feels godo tho!!

lol at the normal ppl food hehehehe

good session!
nice n heavy

yeah im gonna slowly blend my sessions into heavier ones, more strength oriented!

cheers guys

dyskee- lol.. u know wat i mena tho yeah??
normally my kind of buffet would be, chicken wings, burger, steaks, jacket spuds and pasta etc.. the gf has a different idea tho! :-)

you have me beat on bent rowing!

Bulky: 1
Mrmm: 1

haha.. im sure u'll be there tho mate.. i went for it cos i was huting down some low reps.. mind u.. i BB row like dorian, so upper body is far from parallel to the floor... sure i read somewhere u'r more parallel in ur form??

well..
im thinkin of knockin the cycle on the head.. r maybe at least just runnin epi on its own, at a lower dose.. i just generally dont feel that well!1
my stomach has got a bit wierd today again, and it feels like my kidneys are a bit sore!! im gettin a kind of ache in that area.. but i really cant tell if it is that or not tho... im gettin pretty hefty back pumps, and my lower back is pretty sore too, i.e. injury sore.. only slightly tho!! so i cant tell whether it is in the kidney area or not..!

so im thinkin of knockin everythin or just more o the stuff on the head, only have about 20 epi caps left anyway i think, so might try this and just see what happens! and the sore stomach hasnt been helped by the fact that ive slightly strained my obliques yesterday... :-(

any thoughts on my proposed knockin on the head?>??

Solid work. Power shrugs rule!

yeah bro , i got ur point cause ur type of buffet is surely my type