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

defo helps keep blood pressure down as well for me 

weight gain this week was 1.4lbs, which is just about perfect. might not sound alot, but at that rate im betting that there is some muscle going on. 

im looking at where i am right now, if i can keep going the way i am, i will have a very competitive package for the u90kg class come late summer next year.  and i reckon in 2-3 years time i can sculpt a title winning physique.

watch out everyone, im coming!

Great to see you so motivated

Your attitude has completely changed for the better from 12-18 months ago!

cheers guys!

when i did leeds a few things changed, i turned my self critisism into a positive approach, rather then a negative reason not to do things.  Im still very self critical, BUT im using it in a whole different way (i believe it was yourself james, that said i needed to do this quite a while ago.)  I achieved what was once my goal, to step on stage.  And i gained a new goal, which is to take a british title.  Doing leeds has also had a dramatic effect on my physique, it has helped me start on a transformation.  Out of my ten years training, nothing ive ever done has come close to the changes competing has brought.

As it's been mentioned about mate, you're new approach to thinking is fantastic.  Somthing I hope to do next year. 

With the weight gain I'd say that 1.4lb is a good solid gain, not much fat if any will be put on with that gain.

chest tonight.

incline bench DB press
30kgx25
47.5kgx18
47.5kgx19
47.5kgx17
47.5kgx13

flat bench flys.
15kgx15
15kgx15
15kgx15

incline bench BB press
100kgx15
110kgx12
100kgx12
80kgx12

Pec deck
60kgx12
60kgx12
55kgx11

cable crossover
3sets, 10 reps, lowish weight (cant remember)

5 sets of crunches for abs

3 sets of hyperextensions on ball.

job done, chest nicely cramping everytime i move! haha  good session!

I think as james said your attitude has completely changed since that first post you did one evening about doing a show,so you can do it and you will.
Daz

cheers daz!  i want to be on that stage at no less than 85kg, if its physically possible for me, then i will do it!

cardio tonight, was going to do an hour, but i stopped at 50 minutes.  Knees are feeling sore for some reason.

Hope they are ok tomorrow night, im training quads for the first time since my comp, and squats are my weapon of choice for tomorrow

legs tonight.  i wont call it a 'session' as it wasnt !  Having not done squats for nearly 3 months, training since my comp has been focused on bringing the teardrop up, so quads havent been trained.

I cant believe im going to post up the training from tonight. its rather embarrasing!

squats.

bar x 30
60kgx20
100kgx15, then rest paused to get to 20.

after that i had the worst case of jelly legs ive ever had!  so-

100kgx8
60kgx20

erm, thats it. 

i can bench way more than i squat.  oh dear.  hold on. . . . .  wait, im a bodybuilder not a powerlifter who gives a fcuk! haha

weight will shoot up over the next few weeks, and quads have got some good growth in them, i can feel it. 

But, as im training with a prolapsed disc, trapped nerve in the neck, sore knees, and a hernia, im certainly not goint to be pushing the weight purely for the ego!! 

dazette

Good on you mate.  Have back issues myself so I understand where you come from - hence I tend to stick to leg pressing and hack squats.  Tonite I did some DLing for the 1st time in ages - SLDL and only was doing up to 100kg for 20 - I used to be doing 2.5x that weight. 

But who cares?  I want muscle, not a number NO-ONE will ever see.

finally have time to update this!

friday was shoulders and tris.  Once again, trained with my lass, whos a great training partner, just gets on with it, and does the work.  Much better than most guys!  pretty strong on the shoulder press as well!

anyway, this is my journal lol

shoulder press.
40kgx20
70kgx15
85kgx15
85kgx14
85kgx12
60kgx23

rear delts
4 sets in pec deck backwards, 12-15 reps

arnolds.
30kgx12
35kgx10
30kgx9
25kgx11

lat raises
15kgx 12  3 sets

shrugs
47.5kgx18
47.5kg x 21
47.5kgx16  and static hold for as long as possible

tricep pushdowns,

5 sets, cant remember the numbers, but lots of reps.

saturday was my mates stag do, so a night out round newcastle, 22 of us in total.  And i had a drink for the first time in nearly a year.  was weird really, i drank quite alot, and didnt really get all that drunk.  not that i really wanted to anyway.

can say for certain though, that it will be a very very long time before i drink again, if i ever do.  just dont see the point in it.

also, i remember someone introducing themselfs, and asking if i was dazc off muscle talk.  no idea who it was though! 

this morning, i have a stinking cold, so training is on hold for tonight, untill it gets better. i could easily train through it, but from experience it prolongs recovery by quite a while, and no growing is going to happen while ill, so rest it is

I hope you haven't caught my sniffles !

I'm not one for drinking either to be honest, I just can't be @rsed half the time. I went out on Saturday to a friend's 30th and I only had 3 drinks.

Get better soon.

keep the cardio up mate it will help in the long run. i feel like stopping mine but dont want to blot out to much. what exercises are you doing to bring up your teardrops.  need to work on this area aswell. a very insipiring journal.

titch84


keep the cardio up mate it will help in the long run. i feel like stopping mine but dont want to blot out to much. what exercises are you doing to bring up your teardrops.  need to work on this area aswell. a very insipiring journal.

hi mate!  whats happened to your journal, was looking for it the other day?  maybe it was just a couple of pages back, i was a bit lazy! haha
 
im finding it hard to target teardrops to be honest.  since my show i was only doing teardrops hams and calfs, to try balance the legs.
 
i was doing leg extensions and some hack squats.  But after squatting the other day, they were more sore than they have been in ages.
 
Im going to pre-exhaust them with leg extensions before squatting from now on, and hit leg extensions again after the squats to really hammer the crap out of them!
 
you decided on your next show yet?

not really been updating my journal not a lot to report training hard and and doing my lean bulk, show wise still thinking about it aiming to do one of the bnbf maybe july or august but will deceide about feb time.

Hope you are better soon mate.  I'm feeling like death atm and would be surprised if I was training before end of the week based on how week I feel

everyone seems to be getting ill atm, just glad i'm over it now and can focus on training - hope you're better soon bud.
other than that everything looks good.

have you tried "sissy squats" for the tear drop? also 1 and a 1/4 reps on squats?

great to read your new drive and determination mate, totally different person to the start of the journal.

keep at it mate, when you thinking of taking post rebound pics?

Incredible Bulk



keep at it mate, when you thinking of taking post rebound pics?

there were some a few pages back mate!