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





 

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

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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.

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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.

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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!!!

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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.

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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.

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..was having bad nightmares too.

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

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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!!

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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.......

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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.

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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

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

Nice and low cholesterol matey!

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

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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

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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.

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Good VO2max for a man of your size!

Wish i had your cholesterol and peak flow too :)

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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).

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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!!!

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

The only real plus of a very high intensity exercise is standing and watching someone else do it.
Good times
...unless you haven't done your set.

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I'm going to get my set over and done with mate then sit back in rapture seeing my cousin turn green LOL!

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Quads/Hams and calf’s:
Leg extensions - Pg14x15,15,15,15
Hack Squat - Pg14x8,8,8,8
Leg press - 195kg PScarb styleeeeee!
Lying leg curl – Pg10x8,8,8,8
Stiff leg deads - with DB – 32.5kgx8,8,8,8
Seated calf raise - 120kgx20,20,20,20,20
THE FUNNIEST LEG SESSION EVER!!! My cousin, who is also my regular(ish) training partner has started back this week after a bout of illness and silly shifts at work. This was his first leg session in 2 months. Warmed up fine, hack squat fine, then we got the Leg Press PSCARB style. I went first so he kinda knew what to expect, I dropped 10kg from last week and made sure form was spot on the money. I got out gasping, and walking like James Cann after Cathy Bates has found him walking about and my cousin laughed. About 2 minutes later he was on rep 45 and looked like this

I was in absolute stiches! I was counting down the 10seconds between sets while chuckling and forgetting about the pain in my legs while he was struggling. He eventually finished a few reps short, fell out of the leg press and just muttered "I feel like I've been abused!"
How I did hams and calves after I'll never know as I couldn't stop laughing at his face. The only thing that topped it was seeing him walk, or trying to walk down the stairs after!!!

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Hi mate, sorry I haven't posted for a while, I have been mad busy over the last week.

Medical stats look good, how did they measure your BF%?? Callipers? I haven't a clue what my RHR etc is, been considering the Orgin (sp) test for a while now.

Had another bash at the PScarb leg presses and failed miserably again.
I ended up doing:
180kg x 10  
180kg x 10  
180kg x 8 
180kg x 8  
180kg x 8  
180kg x 8  
180kg x 6 
180kg x 5 
180kg x 5 
180kg x 5 all with 10 secs rest - it was brutal. Love it and hate it at the same time.


What weight do you do hack squats? I am new to them and find them ridiculously difficult.

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The did the BF with electrical impedance (SP?)  I still don't believe it but as said I'm not gonna argue with sub 20% LOL.

With the leg press, go for 160kg to start with mate, I started on this a few weeks ago and this week did 195kg.  It's getting used to doing 60 reps that's the worst bit.  Once you know what you're in for it's easier to guage to weight.

Hack squats are around the 100kg mark, I think, I'll have to check the plate on the machine.  Again start off light and get ass to the grass but without bouncing back up.

Not been around last few days as I've been mega busy. Went out saturday night but the less said about that the better, was one of the waking up moments and saying "WTF!"
Trained chest and bi's sunday and felt great, still have DOMS in them now.
Head's all over at the min due to not sleeping much, cardio will have to be done tonight as I forgot to set my alarm last night.
Weight this morning is 16st 9lb.

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Back/Rear delts and traps and calf’s:
Wide grip pull downs - Pg16 x10,10, P18x8 Pg14xfailure
Bent over BB row - 90kgx8,8,8,8
Partial dead lifts - 130kgx8,8,8 (left last set see below)
Close grip pull downs – Pg15x8,8,8

Bent over DB raise - 12.5kgx10,10,10,10
Reverse peck deck - 55kgx10,10,10,
Seated DB shrugs - 35kgx10,10,10,10,10,10

Standing Calf Raises - P14x10,10,10,10,10

Seemed to have a lot more focus in the gym again today, and reps/form were far more diliberate, if that's the right word to use. Dead's have been re-intorduced although left the 4th set out as didn't want to over do it. Managed to add a little more weight on though so pretty happy.
One worrying thing that seems to be getting worse though is my loss of appetite, I'm having to force food down. I'm still supprised though at the weight gain even though I'm not eating a massive amount.

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I'll give it a go on the lower weight then, it's a killer isn't??

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everything seems to be takin shape fella...
sounds like the sessions are fairly grueling too :-)

  

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@Tuffy, I still get nervous doing it but it's great watching someone else suffer haha

@Mr.M, things are going well thanks mate.  Would like to drop some bloat/fat but all that will come.  Sessions are getting more intense as the time goes on so can't complain at all.

45mins cardio done last night, about 2 hours after last meal.
Think my appetite issues are down to a stomach bug, woke this morning feeling very very sick.
Forgot to mention, took a few measurements the other day.
Calves 17in
Thighs 27in
Arms 16in

Arms need some serious work but my saving grace is that they're pretty short.

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Calves 17in
Thighs 27in
Arms 16in

Arms need some serious work but my saving grace is that they're pretty short.

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There's a bit of unwanted flesh around them mate, but inches is inches lol

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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!

lol - nice thinking

Reckon you should aim for the shape up one way or another, will be good to keep on track with

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Hey mate training seems to be picking up some nice momentum so keep with it.
 
Loving the volume too, must be feeling the burn lol!!!!!!
 

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@Tony, I think I'm going to go for the shape up mate.  I won't be starting prep until week 3 of it but I liked being in the last one and it is really good for keeping motivation up.

@Taz, I think I'm finally, fully over the flu I had the other week so feeling much better.  As for the burn, the pumps I'm getting atm are gruelling but I love them.
 
Cardio done again last night and finally got a morning session in today. Had a proper mardy night last night, was in a foul mood and to top it off I dropped my phone in the dog's water dish! Cue a huge mushroom cloud over my head! Managed to dry it out on the rad all night and it works fine this morning so got a smile back on my face.

Still not much appetite though but hoping this returns next weeks.

Delts and Tri's later so looking forward to that!

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You'll be in another mood when you get in and find your dog wants his phone back.

Good call on doing the shape-up.

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Are you entering the shape up Mr Jed?

Shoulders/Triceps:
Seated press 60kgx12, 90kgx8, 90kgx6, 80kgx8
Seated Side laterals 15kgx8,8,8, 12.5kgx8
Seated DB press 25kgx12, 27.5kgx8,8,6
Standing front raise with plate 25kgx8,8,8

Straight bar cable press-down 50kgx10,10,10,10
Skull crushers 30kg (not inc bar)x8,8,8,8
Between bench dips BW+20kgx10,10,10

Strength seemed to jump today and I'm pretty pleased with it. Totally wiped out after the session and really don't feel like being back at work but hey, it's gotta be done. Seem to be gaining pretty well as stretch marks on my shoulders are coming along, don't have them anywhere else so happy.

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Had the worst night sleep ever last night. Didn't drop off til about 4ish, alarm didn't wake me either so have had a rush on getting to work too. Soooo glad I prepped food last night.
Bloat seems to be coming down nicely which I'm pleased about but stomach is still all over, hoping this goes next week as I'm looking at my meals and just not wanting them.

Got some nice DOMS in delts and tri's so am pleased with yesterday's session. Can't wait for legs tomorrow, is it wrong I now look forward to leg training and the sickness inducing exercise that is Leg Press PSCARB style????

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Are you entering the shape up Mr Jed?

Hmmmmm I am tempted but not sure.
March seems a bit early to be cut or a bit late to bulk to.
On the other hand it is usually a very good motivator so maybe I should join you in bulking the first month and cutting the second two? Call it body re-comping or somesuch. Would be even more motivation if we get a bit of a head to head going

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