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lol £5 a month is quality, having looked at uni gym theyre around £93 a year which is ok for when i go next year.

I wish i could drive it all the time though tbh, but the walking does me good, doesnt cost on parking (only council car parks nearby) but just the time it takes plus after a heavy workout walking back isnt ideal, driving tonight though and staying in so all good.

Yeah its great lol My uni gym is about £110 a year, but i just took the pay as you go package as i only use it on wed, as im back home on thur-sun.

Yeah i drive or get a lift.

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Average weekend as per usual, eating semi-decent and just resting along with working.

Today

10.30am - get up - Porridge + 6weetabix + green tea

11.30am - Protein shake

Walk to friends house (1.5miles)
run to gym (1.8miles)

Train
Chest/Shoulders/Triceps

Bench press
2x10 (80kg)
1x8 (80kg)

Incline press
3x12 (80kg)

Cable crossover
3x10 (35lbs)

Dips
2x10 (bodyweight)

Shoulder press
3x8 (25kg)

Laterla raise supersetted with front raise
3x10 of each @  10kg

Tricep pushdowns
3x12 (75 lbs/kgs not sure which)

Overhead extensions
2x12 (25kg)

Crunches
3x30 (bodyweight)

Run back (1.8miles)

50g whey

walk back home (1.5miles) - Chicken subway on the way

3pm - bowl coco pops

Out this evening for pub then clubbing most likely but got to be up @ 6 tomorrow so not too great but oh well.

Got a really good leg/back/bicep session in yesterday as well as walking to and from the gym, been out last couple of nights tho which isnt doing me much good ha, FAKE BLOOD this thursday too (which should be amazing).

Got a 3mile run to do later (including walking 2miles there and back to be able to do it!!!)

Did a closer to home run.

1.5mile timed run - managed it in 8.39 today, pretty happy with that, ****ed by the end, but improvement on last time, want to get it down to 8minutes as a goal for a couple of months from now, but just trying to knock a little bit of time off each time!!

good going! the quickest i have done the mile and a half run is 07.50, but that was some ten years ago now, average is about 9 mins now!!

Regards Leev



Pain is a sign of weakness leaving the Body

Hit FAKE BLOOD last night, absolutely insane music, shame about there being a fair few pricks out, but music and the night was insane (although getting very very drunk)

Resting for most of the day recovering, hitting the gym this evening though then resting again i hope for the working weekend ahead

Whats fake blood, a nightclub? What music they playing?

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Icemansoldier


Whats fake blood, a nightclub? What music they playing?

Nah, hes a DJ/Music producer mate, one of my favorite acts (if not my favorite) plays sort of dirty electro/electro/house etc - really really good though, fair bit of his stuff on youtube, best tunes are probably

Mars (also a gtronic remix that is class)
Cheap and cheerful
Stuck on repeat
Anyway you chose to give it
Look for the woman
Restless
I think i like it
fix your accent
the dozens
marina gasolina (fake blood remix)
Armand van helden (i want your soul) (fake blood remix)

Is sort of one of those artists you may either love or hate though tbh.

Same old for today, working, eating pretty well and just resting most of the time really.

Cool for you, but not for me i hate that type of music lol but everyones diff :D

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lol fair enough haha :)

Pretty much is all i really enjoy listening too, although dont mind a bit of 90's/Reggae/RnB/Rap/DnB/Dubstep, actually enjoy most things apart from metal!!

Anyway got a few pictures from the fake blood night, dont show a lot apart from a few of us dancing around!!

More on facebook - under Nathan Attwell

Got asked by about 5 different people if i had pills though which was quite funny, i didnt but was wearing a t-shirt that said LSD on it and was very drunk so may have been partly the reason!

First 2 im at the front with my hand in the air, on the 3rd one im slightly to the left pointing at the camera (black t-shirt guy anyway) - bloke with the laser glasses is one of my best mates and a few other mates positioned around the same area (ie - kid with stripy(ish) grey top with lines and blue writing - kid next to me on first 2 pics with hands in the air - kid with black top and pink underneath on 3rd pic next to laser glasses man - a few more too but not so easy to spot - great night anyway)

Little mix i made if anyone fancies a listen - house/electro/dub/trance

Only about my 5th one and changeover at 6.45mins lets it down, but done without headphones so a lot of guesswork as well as knowing the timings of some songs.

Anyway give it a listen if you like.

mix4.mp3 - 38.73MB

LSD T-shirt? No wonder you got asked for pills!

I like the mix, quite house-ey.

Jimbo

Formerly 'lil_jimmy'

yeah is very housy lol (not sure on what the spelling of that should be ha) isnt great though, just made another one but is a lot more electro house orientated will upload it some other time, is a lot better but i didnt try so many complicated things with it, a few bits and bobs but just getting the basics right is the best start i think rather than do what i do and try to over complicate things!!

Yeah well the LSD t-shirt probably didnt help ha but does stand for last state of dance (well thats what it says) but like people are going to take notice of that bit!!

Todays Gym session:

Chest/Shoulders/Triceps

Very busy gym today so used dumbbells for everything

Dumbell bench press
3x12 (31.5kg)

Incline dumbell press
3x12 (25kg)

Chest flyes
3x10 (17.5kg)

Shoulder press
3x12 (20kg)

Lateral raise supersetted with front raise
3x10 of each @ 8.5kg (****ed at this point)

Crunches
3x35 - bodyweight

Rope pushdowns
3x10 (65kg) - still ****ed

Leg raises
3x30 - bodyweight

Also ran to and from the gym - 3.3 miles each way and played a game of football so pretty ruined to say the least :)

Got a massive legs/back/biceps session in yesterday, was a real killer, doing that before goign out prob wasnt the best idea either, today is my full rest day, fancy going for a run but will be better just to rest most likely as runnign to and from the gym again for next 2 days.

Anyway yesterdays session!

Leg press
3x12 (155kg)

Calf raise
3x20 (110kg)

Leg curl
3x12 (70kg/lbs not sure which)

Leg extension
3x20 (60kg/lbs again not sure which!)

Bulgarian split squats
3x10 on each leg @ bodyweight - legs f8cked by this point couldnt face any weight

Deadlift
3x12 (100kg) - felt pretty easy

Inverted rows
3x20 (Bodyweight)

Lat pull down
3x10 (60kg)

Seated row
3x12 (120lbs)

Crunches
3x40 @ bodyweight

Hanging leg raises
3x30 @ bodyweight

Hammer curls
3x12 (17.5kg)

21's
Made into 30's @ 25 kg

Absolutely ruined by the end of it, fortunately had the car to get back home.
Followed by 40g whey + 40g malto

Just recieved my order of gaspari myofusion which i cant wait to get into, got a bit more of my sci-mentor stuff to get throguh first though.

Also if anyone could give me a heads up on this.
I dont really want to get much bigger and am eating around maintenance calories (a bit less to cut slightly) but some of my weights im lifting are feeling quite easy now, such as deadlifts at the weight im doing, but dont want to increase them too much as am happy with my size now, maybe add a few lbs but nothing drastic.

I know adding size is mainly down to diet, and that probably seems like a stupid question, but would do you guys think? Increase the weight still and eat how I am, or keep the weight as it is?

Holy shi* huge session mate! I bet you were fooked after lol good job you had the car, i wouldnt fancy walking a few miles after legs lol

What flavour of myofusion did you get mate? I might get some in choc soon.

Surely if you eat around maintenance lifts shouldnt increase as quick as if you were eating more than maintenance, you wouldnt put on as much size anyway, you maybe use higher reps. If your eating maintenance and weight is going up then you will put on size too. Maybe lift the same but take less recovery time so you wont be able to lift as much. Up to you quite a dillemma lol

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yeah exactly thats what i mean man cant work out what would be best, im doing a set of reps then about 45secs rest then going again, i try to steam through my workouts.

Want to increase my lifts, but without eating enough then that will be harder, but then my lifts wont go up, but if i want them to go up mroe im thinking ill need to eat more and therefore put on mroe size which i dont really want to do!!

yeah was so glad i had the car after doing all that.

Got 1 choc and 1 strawberry, itching to use them but may as well finish what ive got currently before opening them, got a muscltech sample in vanilla so will see what thats like too!

switch to strength training? reps no more then 6 but obviously use HEAVY weights, tend to grow less drastically then on a hypertrophy routine eg, use 5x5 instead of 3x12.
Base your lifts around the big 3 with little isolation work, check out jack5rs, T0NY's and iiank's journals for advice.
and just carry on eating big!

Yeah im no pro, maybe post a thread in the forum mate.

1 choc and 1 straw class! Open them! lol Let me know what their like mate....when you open them, just them sitting their unopened would annoy me, just teasing lol.

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yeah is annoying me, but have got 2 tubs open at the moment (dont like sticking with 1 flavour, gets boring) so will run them out first then open them.

si1990


switch to strength training? reps no more then 6 but obviously use HEAVY weights, tend to grow less drastically then on a hypertrophy routine eg, use 5x5 instead of 3x12.
Base your lifts around the big 3 with little isolation work, check out jack5rs, T0NY's and iiank's journals for advice.
and just carry on eating big!

Good point there mate, never even thought of strength training, have done it before but didnt get the size gains i was looking for at the time!

Could be a good idea though mate, wil have a think, only thing that holds me back is i really enjoy the 3x10/13 rep range but cheers for the input, will have a good think.

naththebeast


yeah is annoying me, but have got 2 tubs open at the moment (dont like sticking with 1 flavour, gets boring) so will run them out first then open them.

Exactly what i do mate, 1 tub just gets sickining when you have 2+ shakes a day of it. So i now like to have two choices too.

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Dont know if this helps but i hear myofusion in choc and straw is the dogs bollocks

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yeah thats what ive been hearing mate hence why i bought it, heard so many good things about it and got it on multibuy with a mate and worked out at £28 a tub so cant really complain at that with free postage too.

Ill give them a review when i try them anyway, got another few weeks of my current supply now, but mate needed some more so thought id order now to get the multibuy savings

Cool mate, i look foward to hearing what its like, thats if i havent tried it first

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Kind of agree about aiming for strength more.

To be honest your quite strong, especially in the high rep range i.e. you barely go below 6-8 reps. This type of routine is clealry working for you hypertrophy wise.If you want to aim for strength the drop the reps, get rid of some of the isolation work and focus on the compounds, 3x5, 5x5, 4x6 rep scheme etc. Depends on what you want really. I'd stick with your current clean diet if you don't want to add any more mass.

Just my 2 cents!

Jimbo

Formerly 'lil_jimmy'

yeah thats the lines im thinking of jim, have always been aiming for things but now am quite happy with my size so dont really know where to go lol, looking to cut a little bit more so 6pack is always on show as sometimes it doesnt seem as prominent as others, then will just be looking to maintain really and maybe up the weight a little

Just had a look at your pics mate, you look lean!!

Wish I could gain and be as lean as that.

James M


Just had a look at your pics mate, you look lean!!

Wish I could gain and be as lean as that.

All comes with time and effort mate, keep working hard and eating well and you'll get there, tbh i think im slightly lucky in the fact that that my diet is pretty poor but still amke good progress (i drink way too much and dont eat as healthy as i should) just put maximum effort into my training.

Cheers for the comments though man, still trying to improve that little bit more though (as always)

@ Ice

Just tried some of my friends' myofusion and is pretty damn nice, was expecting it to blow my mind after the reviews though and sort of taste exactly like yop or soemthing, still tasted very very good though and one of the best tasting shakes ive tried (if not the best)

Also tried my sample of muscletech nitrotech which was also very very nice, however due to the price wont be purchasing a tub.

Anyway the myofusion stuff is definately worth getting as tastes fantastic (just not quite as good as i was expecting, but then amybe i set my hopes way too high after some of the reviews) looks a great product anyway looking at the labelling and ingredients etc

Thanks for the heads up mate, think i might get some choc, was that your choc or straw you tried or both mate?

Yeah i know what you mean by all the hype and all it not tasting wow. Looks solid.

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tried both the choc and strawberry, my mate wasnt too keen on teh strawberry so asked to try my choc which he like (was the best choc protein ive tried tbh - but not rly a  fan of choc anyway) so have swapped and now got 2 strawberrys ratehr than one of each, may have to order another tub in though cos dont want just strawberry.

Got any other good suggestions, been looking at the MP MAX stuff as thats meant to be tasty, also looking at syntha6 but is a bit pricier, just looking around though really.

LETS GO ELECTRO.mp3

Link for my new electro-house mix - a few well known tunes in there as well as a bit of a muck around for the last 15mins or so doing random stuff, well happy with the first 50mins or so though!

Normal weekend really, lots of work, no training (bar loads of walking), relatively good eating, wrecked for saturday evening, not enough sleep for sunday work an recovering sunday evening, nothing changes.

Getting back on properly over the week though, goign to leeds to visit on thursday and friday so diet may be a bit harder then but shouldnt be too bad i hope, will bring some shakes with me then just eat relatively well at other times.

Not planning on going out this week either, bar a little gig on wednesday but isnt anything major, will need it in preparation for next week though with 2 birthday celebrations and MAJOR LAZER next thursday which should be insane, all UV painted up.

hey, cool thread mate, but one thing that ive noticed is you eat barely any carbs, apart from 1 portion of porrige and flapjack.

are you still managing to gain weight? because your diet is my cutting diet!

or is your goal to lean up?

Cheers man, yeah am cutting at the moment so eating a few less carbs, upped them a little now though, need to drop again slightly, starting my diet again properly on monday.

Am quite happy with my size now, am around 14stone10 maybe a bit less @ 6ft2 1/2 and dont really want to get much bigger, ideally want to cut a bit mroe fat so lots of cardio at the moment then just maintain that and maybe improve little bits here and there just see what happens really¬!

naththebeast


tried both the choc and strawberry, my mate wasnt too keen on teh strawberry so asked to try my choc which he like (was the best choc protein ive tried tbh - but not rly a  fan of choc anyway) so have swapped and now got 2 strawberrys ratehr than one of each, may have to order another tub in though cos dont want just strawberry.

Got any other good suggestions, been looking at the MP MAX stuff as thats meant to be tasty, also looking at syntha6 but is a bit pricier, just looking around though really.

I see mate, im getting some choc me thinks. Im more of of straw man, but i hear choc is fab.

You already know about boditronics dont you, they have sweet and dull flavours, by dull i mean not too sweet and not too dull, doesnt make sense does it lmao, you know what i mean though lol. Think i might get some cocanut in of boditronics too to use with myofusion.

What about unflavoured mate? Gotta say i got it off mp a few years ago and it was pretty much tasteless now it tastes worse, i need to add a good 4 teaspoons of nesquick to 3 scoops in 300ml water, tastes slightly better in milk.

Syntha is way more expensive than the rest isnt it, too expensive for me anyway mate, but think its the shizzle tastewise.

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Yeah i want to try syntha 6 but the price is a little steep, may go MP max stuff as thats meant to be pretty good!

Personally i think the strawberry is a lot better than the choc mate, but then im not really a fan of chocolate, hardly ever even eat teh real stuff so....

Also with boditroincs its strange, i used to think their products tasted amazing, and they still taste good but dont seem to taste as good as they used to, maybe i got used to the flavours or something, but as you said a little dull or something.