daz's offseason journal fresh from the brits and stars. stars pics pg 308!

kitty


Sorry to hear you've not been well. Can be a tough time after competing as the body can just give up and that's when you're susceptible to illness.  And don't get me started on the weight gain after a show!!

definately something, its a long time since i have been ill, and i dont think anything has ever kept me out of the gym for this long!
 

flick161


Good luck back in the gym today

SMASH SMASH from me!!

cheers flick!

training tonight! yeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh babbbbbbbbyyyy! 

was hard work though, the strenth was there, but the endurance wasnt! but im so happy to be training, didnt know what to do, so shoulders got it!


shoulder press

30kgx30
50kgx30
85kgx21
85kgx18
85kgx11 dropset onto 50kgx12

lat raise
15kgx 15, 3 sets.

arnold press,
30kgx12  (taking it easy as breathing was very heavy)  2 sets.

shrugs 47.5kg  3 sets 30 reps.

tricep pushdowns
50kgx15
45kgx15
40kgx15
30kgx15
25kgx15
15kgx14


Job done!  feels so nice to have aching muscles!  im going to train every day this week, just to break myself in gently!  lmao, then back to my 5 day  the week after.

Incredible Bulk

dazc
 
im intending on doing some serious growing in december !!  woo hoo!  lol

 
kick the tyres and light the fires
 
looking forward to seeing how you get on

very driven at the moment, so i will do as much as my body can physically achieve! 
 
back 'on' today as well, so should see some good growth :-)

Nice workout! Way to go!!!

I'll be aching with you mate. I trained last week but only all over body with light weights. Did first split today and could feel the cramp in my triceps as I was training them LOL!!

haha i was getting that too kitty!  between sets, if i tensed my tris, they were going nuts with cramp!  i was laughing my socks off to myself in the corner, must have looked a bit strange to other people in the gym!

cheers flick, so good to be training again, thats just a little taster compared to the volume of the workouts that i will be doing in the coming weeks :-)

Wooot Woot .. all aboard the RAAAAAAAAH train

Inspired by your back routine I finished off my back session a couple of days ago with a 'pump-set' of straight arm pulldowns.....Good God...my lats have been on fire since!

Glad you are back at it!

ReRaise


Inspired by your back routine I finished off my back session a couple of days ago with a 'pump-set' of straight arm pulldowns.....Good God...my lats have been on fire since!

Glad you are back at it!

 
me too!

nice one mate!  in a few workouts time, try pre-exhausting your lats, by super setting straight arm pulldowns with normal lat pulldowns!

Welshy


Wooot Woot .. all aboard the RAAAAAAAAH train

yeeeeaaaaahhhh!  may even do cardio tomorrow night! :-)

Jammy sod (re going back on).

I'm off for another 2 months.  Mind you, my endurance has suddenly sky rocketed so all good!

Papa Lazarou


Jammy sod (re going back on).

I'm off for another 2 months.  Mind you, my endurance has suddenly sky rocketed so all good!

rather you than me mate!  its a nice feeling to know that i will start growing again!

I bet.  Mind you, enjoying being off.  No pins or the like in me.  That said, when im back on, i'll be like a pin cussion with all the aas and peptide and slin LOL

Well done Mr D!!!! Nice training!!!

Glad to see you back at it mate!

Also, nothing feels better that the first jab of a cycle!!

right, so the dates for the ukbff shows are out, i now need to decide what to do.

I really want to do at least 2 shows next year, BUT i need to spend as much time gaining mass as possible, so dont really want to do them to far apart.  The fact i want to do late shows, rules nabba out (the categorys dont suit me anyway).  what do people think of doing 2 ukbff shows in the same year??  does it look desparate and a bit wrong?  or can they be considered shows in their own right, even though they are all qualifiers?

shows i could potentially do- 

5th sept- leicester
19th sept-birmingham
26th sept-leeds

the leeds is my home show, and the one where i would have support, and the one i really want to do.  but if i just aim for that one, then it rules out doing another, unless by some remote chance i qualify for the brits.  Could travel to one of the other ones, and use it as practice for the leeds i suppose.  But still not sure what people would think of someone doing two qualifiers? i know people do it, but im not sure what i think about it?

what do people think??

anyway, while i mull it over, im off to smash my legs to pieces  :-)

well legs have been done! not posting the numbers or training,as it wasnt very much at all!!

have twinged lower back a little, pushing too hard on squats, then going onto SLDL.  Lower back has given problems for years, think it will have to split squats and SLDL onto seperate days again, as doing them back to back is proving too much for the back

Aww shame about your back, look after it dude

I think there's nowt wrong with doing two shows for them at all, they're such a big organization, you'd be mad not to!

With regards to your back, do you do any specific lower back strengthening without weight such as back extensions or hypers?

flick161


I think there's nowt wrong with doing two shows for them at all, they're such a big organization, you'd be mad not to!

With regards to your back, do you do any specific lower back strengthening without weight such as back extensions or hypers?

two shows it is then, unless lots of people suddenly say i shouldnt! haha, now that leaves another decision, as close together as possible, little gap, or big gap!
 
i do hypers occasionally, i know i should pay more attention to the little things but im ashamed to say i often forget!
 
I also have exercises given to me by rachel (shes a biomechanics tutor) that im supposed to do, but i kind of only remember to do them when its hurting as well!