Time To Grow (pics pg16)

It does indeed hun.  The pics, I feel, are a major part of any journal as I've said above.  There's no point people saying they look like "XYZ" and not showing it, plus it helps motivate and which steps to take next.

The more I look at the pics the more I see how I've improved.  My back is a lot thicker than before, I have a "v" shape (well kinda) even feeling like a blob, and my legs and calves I feel have inproved from my shape up pics





 

I was around 2 stone lighter on the above pics too.

Back/Rear delts and traps and calf’s:
Wide grip pull downs - Pg16 x10,12, P18x6 Pg14xfailure
Bent over BB row - 90kgx8,8,8,8
Partial dead lifts - Skipped
Close grip pull downs – Pg15x8,8,8
Bent over DB raise - 10kgx10,10,10,10
Reverse peck deck - 55kgx10,10,10,
Seated DB shrugs - 35kgx10,10,10,10,10,10
Session was fantastic, strength was well back up and so was intensity and I was grunting galore! LOVED IT!!  Got a call from work so had to skip calves but will be doing them wednesday.  Also left DL's as back is still a touch tender.  Such a turn round from last week.
Also from here on in I won't be posting about any form of "supplementation",  a boss at work walked passed today and said "you've got big quick, what ya taking"  in a half serious/joking way.  He's into training so will prob have guessed, but when I replied "nothing mate, just rice and chicken" he laughed and replied with "yeah right".
Work do have access to every site I go on so from now I won't be posting things about usage.

RACK

when I replied "nothing mate, just rice and chicken" he laughed and replied with "yeah right".

Surely you should have just told him to quit his Jibba-Jabba

Good practice for tanning up.

FPMSL - that is quality mate

Lmao Rack at your Mr T outfit!!!!!

Quality pure quality.

As for ya boss, if you remember my boss said the same thing to me when I was running my 3rd cycle. But he was being funny with me at the time anyway.

I just avioded the question so he asked again like 2 seconds after I laughed so I just said I dont use anything you carnt  buy from a shop and laughed again.

Anyway no idea why Iv rambled on about it tbh, I suppose I just wanted to let you know your not the only one and denying it when work is concerned is the way to go lol!!!

There's some better pics of the outfit on Facebook, also one of my porn tash before I shaved completely lol

Overlaid this morning even though I set my alarm for 15mins earlier than usual to help me come round. Once again I pressed stop instead of snooze. Anyway cardio was still done as usual thanks to good ol' Murphy bounding on the bed to drag my fat ass round the streets.

Day off today and I'm happy to see the bloat from sundays treat meal has subsided.

45mins cardio done this morning, although didn't get to sleep while late due to chatting with the VIP and was having bad nightmares too. Good job my dog is a strong little beast to help drag me the first few 100 meters of cardio.

Got delts and tris later and will be doing claves too as I had to mis them last session.

RACK

..was having bad nightmares too.

Me too ....although being a weirdo, I kinda like it

Mine was about ghosts and little children mate.  The little children bit scared me the most!!

Shoulders/Triceps:
Seated press 60kgx12, 70kgx10, 80kgx6, 60kgxfailure
Seated Side laterals 10kgx10,10,10,10
Seated DB press 25kgx12,10,10,10
Standing front raise with a straight bar 20kgx10,10,10

Straight bar cable press-down 50kgx10,10,10,10
Skull crushers 25kg (not inc bar)x10,10,10
Between bench dips BW+20kgx10,10,10

Trainer partner turned up for the first time in 2 months! I was pleasently shocked but it made for a far better session. More intense, form was perfect and I'm pumped to high heaven!
Dropped weight on skulls and elbow was fine even with very slow form.
Funniest thing was last time my partner was there he was 16 and half stone and I was 15st, now we've swapped places haha!!

Really struggling to wake up the last week or so and I'm constantly tired, prob due to growing?????? Cardio done this morning although was only 30mins as I was nigh on sleep walking!

Got my works medical today, this should be fun. No doubt I'll be told my BMI is too high, my BF% is too high, I'm not as fit as I was and I eat too much red meat. They never seem to say "well done for not smoking and hardly drinking" do they.......

Remember to take a sample.
They always seem to want a sample.
They get quite shirty if you forget your sample, although funnily enough they never seem happy if you take 'stool'
...no pleasing some people.

LOL!!!  I forgot about said sample but managed to squeeze half a cup out

Just had my works medical and here's the results

Height 177cm
Weight 105kg
BF% 16.7% (I think it's higher than that though)
BP 110/76
RHR 80bpm
Predicted VO2 Max 51.7
FVC 7.23 litres
Peak Flow 775l/min
Cholesterol 3.49
HDL 0.39
LDL 2.83
Triglcerides 0.6

Things seem to be going really well for you at the moment mate. Happy for you!

Nice and low cholesterol matey!

Thanks buddy, I don't believe the BF for a second though.  I've got myself at ~20% if not more.

I was going to comment re the cholesterol too, that is really good.
RHR a tad high for someone doing plenty of cardio?
On the other hand BP is also excellent as is the peak flow although I guess that's what having chest the size of a beer barrel will do. By comparison, at my last check I puffed out 560 and felt proud at my PB even though the nurse tittered at it and said it would be fairly good if I was a 14yr old girl and hinted that my chests were form over function

I've always had a high HR mate, never known why?  TBH though the cardio I do is low intensity.  I'd have liked to have had it checked when I was fighting to see how things changed back then.

Good VO2max for a man of your size!

Wish i had your cholesterol and peak flow too :)

Jimbo

Mate your weight doesn't half go up and down?!?! Have to say I far prefer the leaner you, I'm not convinced at the need to add so much fat to get the gains

Are you still going to be working with Paul - or is that something I imagined up??

Will keep an eye on what you achieve

Your missus is the spitting image of 2 girls from Leeds - 1 does my GF's hair, the other was a mate's friends girlfriend  (or something, i was pretty drunk when I met her).

Thanks Jim, I've always been fit-ish just don't look it lol!
 
Tony, I'm not a fan of the fat either mate lol.  I put about 10lbs on after my holiday and that's prob where most of the fat came from as I've not really put anymore (fat) on since then.  Obviously there's a bit of bloat due to supplements though.  I prefer the smaller look too.  I think I just rebounded more than I should have after soooooo long dieting for the holiday and my body just went into storage mode.
Yeah PSCARB is coaching me, and he's been the one keeping my head together the last few weeks.  This is the first time I've tried to do a bulk but it's so Paul can figure out just how I react to things.  Carbs got cut down a couple of weeks ago and weight increase has been very stable and steady as before I was just ballooning.
 
As for the GF, I'll have to nip to Leeds, I'm sure if I got drunk I could justify pulling either of the girls you've mentioned LOL!
 
Cardio done this morning and thought I'd swap the route, went back to the mahoosive hill and the back and calf pumps were viscious!!! Might be due to not having much water yesterday???

Body shape seems to be changin daily, my shoulders look a lot wider from 2 weeks ago, yes there's some obvious bloat but hey sh1t happens. My head is pretty straight again so not worried and it's only a few weeks til prep starts so gotta make the most of things.
Everyone at work keeps commenting how big I seem to have got and the old "I'm just eating more carbs and lifting heavier weights" line is keeping them at bay.

Looking forward to legs later as I can introduce my training partner to Leg Press PSCARB style. I wanna see him vomit LOL!!!