Wiffers - 2010 pics on pg 110 - whoop whoop

And thats 1000 posts for whiffin - more reasons to celebrate

Nice one

... and page 9 of my journal, means I can print out some more (I print it all out and have a little binder so I can look back at myself in a few years and think "what a fat b@stard")

1000 posts - crikey, shows how much time I must have spent on these forums

Let's go out and get drunk ... hang on, I don't drink at the moment

Took ECA at 60/600/150 - felt good, trained hard, dunno if I went up much as most of the weights increased. Hurt my wrist on mil press and now it hurts like hell. Not impressed.

Looking good though. BF monitor said I'm 20% @ 89kg, NO WAY have I gone up 2.5% in a week - shall ignore and try next week

Chest, Triceps, Shoulders

cable x over 3x8 (9,9,6@7 - up)
low incline db press 3x6-8 (9,9,7@35kg - same)
weighted dips 3x6-8 (6,8,4@35kg - up - I think)
mil press 3x6 (6,5,3@55kg - 1 rep down, but my wrist gave out after 3 reps, no idea why - hurts like hell)
skulls 3x8-10 (8,10,6,6@35kg - up loads)

Feeling good, can't wait til Friday - yeah!

Oh f**k, shagged my wrist

Dunno what I did yesterday during the military press, but last night I woke up 2-3 times in pain with my wrist from yesterday.

Today, can't even pick up my mobile with my rigth hand, hurts far too much.

Bandaged it up with a rules, which hurt like hell, will rest today and hope it's OK for tomorrow! If not, I'll have to just do abs and leave off til Monday. Bummer, I really wanted to gym!

God does it hurt, feels like when I fractured my hand (boxers fracture) hitting someone when boxing - funny thing is it didn't hurt as much last night, could have been ECA, could have been somthing else.

Ouch

I wanna cry

Sounds nasty dude - maybe it didn't hurt so much in the evening because you had aspirin in your system. Seems odd though that military press would do that, you must just have a weak wrist or something - hope it heals quick.

Think the ECA may have helped, I was wired!

My mum persuaded me to go to A+E as I need to get it better for Peru next week. Doctor said I've torn a/some ligament(s)/tendon(s) hurts like hell, hardly any movement, can't even pick up money (for some reason that motion hurts).

So tomorrow, situps without weights (1000??) and using the machine for my back, leave biceps I think. Still gonna gym though

Ouch!!

I am a sexy muvver!

Acne nearly gone, looking the best I have ever done, feeling big.

Loving it all!

Wrist getting better, will see what I can squeeze out at the gym tonight, will be VERY careful though

Lost loads of weight on endurance cycling holiday

For the last 2 weeks my diet has gone to sh1t and I have not been training upper body, this is because I have been doing an endurance cycling event for charity (kids with cancer), basically we had to cycle 380km (90km off road) across Peru from Cuzco to Lake Titicaca. This was mostly up hill, had lots of very steep gradients and extremes in temperatures (30 deg plus and dry mostly by day, rain, sleet, snow, minus temps by night). We had a day travelling, 2 days aclimitising (this was at high altitude - up to just under 4400, and so hard to breathe), 1 day warm up, 5 days cycling, 1 day travelling back.

As we were stuck with tour guides etc and had meals supplied I loaded with carbs before hand, and ate everything that I could possibly find throughout the 'holiday', I ate every few hours, and ate twice what others were, but still, I have come back smaller - I have lost around 5-6kg!!!

My muscles feel tiny. My wrist was fine until the last couple of 'off road' days

So - back to a perfect diet today, training legs as normal, and then the usual upper body routine is Wednesday and Friday

I just hope I haven't lost too much!

I also had a few drinks on a couple of nights, and too E for the first time in months at the weekend (x2) ... but now I start proper again. I've had two weeks off, and tried to be sensible, but now I must get big again. I saw my training partner yesterday, he was the same size, he now looks soooo much bigger, so back to it!

... continued

I'll get my BF measured tonight, should be interesting.

Oh, and my legs are VERY nice at the moment, loads of definition!

Looking in mirror in gym I lok well cut, but still not happy with my loss.

Apparently 84kg @ 18.1% BF.

ECA

Took 30/400/150 and felt wired, no appetite, but gonna eat loads anyway

Legs

leg press 3x10 (10,7@239.5kg - max+15kg, 10,10@224.5 - max - see below)
smith squat 3x6 (6,6,8@190kg)
smith calf raises 3x10 (10,10,10@130kg)
ham curls 3x8 (8,6,6@150lbs)

All down slightly, but understandable as I've lost so much weight in last week, bit p*ssed off, but gonna get it back in no time!

Leg press was annoying as I was going well, but gym manager told me not to stack weights on top, he stopped me half way through. Fair enonough I suppose, but annoying for me as I was doing great!

Totally shagged after gym, but enjoyed myself, can't wait till Wednesday. Don't like the fact that I've gone down, but that's the sacrifice of an endurance 'holiday'

Will be back to normal no worries

Really achy muscles half way through, and gonna have bad DOMS tomorrow, I can feel it!

About to eat like a horse, and go to town.

Good news is I'm still getting good feedback from people with comments like "you have pretty substancial arms, I'm jealous" for a bloke to say that to a stranger, it must be very hard. Plus all the girls at work kept poking them Saturday night - sweet.

Roll on course 2, cummon!

My training partner Marc is looking huge. Much bigger than me. Jealous!

Grip test

They have a grip test at my gym as a monthly challenge. Hold onto a chin up bar, andf see how long you can stay there.

Record - 2:35 by gym manager (who isn't bulky)
2nd - 2:02 (I didn't know this until I let go, so next time I'll try harder)
3rd - 2:00 - me :o)
4th - 1:30ish

... so I'm happy with that, let's beat it next time. I only stoppped at 2 mins as I knew 2:35 ws unobtainable, and my mate had 1 min and I wanted to double him.

... interesting to see what you guys get ...

hi m8 are those smith squats to good depth? good weight if they are

We have a pin on the machine that we go down to. Basically when we're at the pin our thighs are parallel to the ground. At 190kg I can go even lower, at anything above it gets difficult! Is that OK?

I'm tempted to keep at 190kg and go below paralel - what ya think? 210kg is my record for reps (before my cycle dammit)

Any idea how they compare to 'real' squats - we have no squat rack so can't safely try that at my gym

im having to use a smith for squatting too, think you should stay at parallel as its already putting you through an unnatural plane of movement, and i know my back rounds like **** if i go below parallel

others may disagree.....

smith squats dont compare to free squats really, sure they will work your legs but free squats work your whole body cos it has to take the load and balance it

as long as you dont do what these french guys were doing in the gym the other day, piling on about 170kg and doing 2" squats and screaming on every rep

Not at all mate - proper parallel. Rather get technique than add weights because it'll get me bigger quicker

I'm not a bicep boy, don't worry!

Tonight should be an interesting one ...

I still have a bit of dioherrea from holiday,a nd still don't weight much (84kg), my wrist still hurts in some positions and I have severe DOMS in my legs from Monday. I did a few chin ups Monday too as I wanted to 'get back into it' - just 4x10 @ BW ... my lats hurt from that still - 2 days later.

Gonna have to work my routine around my wrist, and expecting weights to drop. But whatver happens gonna have mega mega DOMS on Thu/Fri, I know it.

Gonna hit the ECA/CEE and see what heppens

I've only had two weeks off, and this has been from injury and a endurance fitness 'holiday', but I still feel sooooooooo weak - hopeully I'll be back to beefcake in a couple of weeks. It doesn't help seeing the size of my training partner

OKay, taken ECA at a low dose og 30/400/150

Still very tired after losing so much weight cycling, also wrist still hurts, so my routine has to be dramatically changed in order to prevent making my wrist hurting. But I'm gonna train dammit, no matter how many things I change, I'll try and keep routine as close as possible, and if weight hurts, I'll do more reps/sets and cut the weight. Also eating big and clean to make myself better.

Today I couldn't do heavy cables, incline dumbbell press, heavy dips, military press or skulls, so basically the whole routine has changed ... so I'll use one like this in the mean time until my wrist is better, then train like never before to get my strength back. I'm not being stopped by a torn tendon, although it's VERY frustrating so lower weights etc ...

Chest, Triceps + Shoulders - Revised programme due to wrist injury

cable x (8,5@6, 10@5 - bit painful on wrist)
chest press m/c alt grip (5@175lbs, 5@155lbs, 5,5@145lbs - no strength today)
dips (4@22.5kg, 12,12,10,7@BW - weighted hurts, was on 35 - still no strength)
shoulder press m/c (3@105lbs, 6,5@85lbs - need to have a weird grip as otherwise it hurts wrist)
rope pull down (11@55lbs, 5@65lbs, 6,7,4@60lbs - skulls VERY painful)

Abs

50,60 crunches on bosu @ 30kg.

Basically, I'n very demoralised, my training parter has grown, I've shrunk, weak from cycling, bad wrist so I can't train properly to get fitness back. My plan is to be back to normal by end of month (2-3 weeks), need to take it easy on my wrist and have some sheer determination.

How people cope with broken arms and things and have months off, I don't know. I couldn't bear it

Hopefully back/biceps will be easier with less substitutions ... hopefully

keep goin wiffers mate, your strength will be back in no time !!!!

Congrats on the cycling mate !!

Cheers Wild Boar, I know I'm bigger than "the average guy" ... just after months of continual improvement, a drop in weight is unbearable.

I suppose, at least I've raised £3000 for charity ... and so long as I'm mended by my next course - it'll all work out.

Thanks for the support dude

Wrist hurts this morning ... not as bad as it has been, but much worse than yesterday.

If I'm going to carry on training upper body (and I want to) I'm gonna have to change my routine further. Maybe stopping cable x and adding the pec flye resistance machine, and changing grip on shoulder press.

Injuries suck ass!

Today on ECA 60/600/300
86.5kg @ 19.3% BF - apparently
Wrist a bit better, but still hurts in gym

Back + Biceps - with wrist injury

wide grip pull ups 3x6 (pull ups hurt, so did wide grip, 3x6@BW)
chins (as I couldn't do pull ups, 2@15kg, 4@10kg, 6@BW - very weak)
dead lifts 3x6 (6,6,6,6@130kg - mate forgot straps, so dropped weight and added reps, no grip left)
supline rows 3x8 (12,9,9@BW - wrist hurt a bit, but really got back)
db curls on inc bench 3x6-8 (6,6,5,4,4@17.5kg, 8@15kg - very slow and controlled, wrist hurt so lower weight more reps)
shrugs (pathetic as no grip, and lots of kinds hurt my wrist, will probably do with legs on Monday)

Despite having to do alternatives, a good workout, still had pump on Sunday (workout Fri PM), ached afterwards - didn't drink all weekend and ate/slept well.

Now I feel bigger again, weight going up, lifts going up, gonna be back in it soon. Hopefulyl wrist will get better, will go careful on Wednesday, but Monday is legs so can push it loads.

I'm back in the game

Oh, have a slight back injury, sorta behind my shoulder, in my lats (wings), under my armpit. Every now and then, for no reason a sharp burning pain, I think it's muscular . Will monitor ....