Friday, March 20, 2009

Weight: 166.8 (+4.8)
Waist: 33.25 (-.25)

Feeling bloated which is my best guess for the large jump in weight, although my waist did decrease so who knows.

Workout was pretty brutal. Went at the last 2 pairs of exercises pretty hard and almost lost my pre-workout meal. May have been the fact that I added a tbsp of almond butter to my usual rice cakes and whey. Form on cleans is coming together, may take some video and use a software program at school to break it down frame by frame and see what I can improve. Upped the difficulty on inverted rows by elevating my feet on a bench and adding a stepper to split squats for a deeper ROM.

There are these 2 guys that work out at the same time me and my friend do, twin brothers he's dubbed before and after because one of them is in shape and the other seems to be just starting out and seems like a before image of the brother. Feels like they try and compete with us because they do exercises we performed after we are done with them.

Cleans - 95/5, 105/5, 115/5, 125/5
super set w/
Incline Bench - 135/8, 155/8, 165/8, 175/8

Inverted Row w/ feet elevated (5 second negative) - body/5/5/5
super set w/
DB Split Squat - 25/5/8/8

Seated DB Shoulder Press - 45/10, 55/10, 60/10
super set w/
1 Arm Row to Hip - 50/10. 55/10, 60/10

10 min cool down on treadmill

Monday, March 16, 2009

Weight (from saturday): 162 lbs (-2 lbs)
Waist: 33.5 (-.25")

Gonna bump up the CHO by 15 g and add 5 g of fat.

Sick training today. Killed last week's squats numbers and got a killer pump all around. Did a couple of new exercises today and the change up was great. The negatives on the chin ups were killer and my lats were smoked by the time I got to inverted rows. Finished up with a nice 9 min stroll on the treadmill since my heart rate was racing.

Squats - 3 warms, 315/5/5/4
superset w/
Close Hand Pushups (3 second negative - Body/10/10/8

Chinups (10 second negative) - Body/3/2/2
superset w/
1 leg bench butt kicks (for da glutes) - Body/10/10/10 (each leg)

DB Reverse Lunges - 20/10/10/10 (each leg)
superset w/
Underhand Inverted Rows - Body/10/10/6

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

3/10 Heavy Day 4

Sick workout, wasn't too pumped about it heading into it but after squat warm ups it was on! Nailed 3 plates on squat for 4 solid sets and kept it going through the rest of the workout. Word!

Squats - 3 warms, 315/3/3/3/4
SLDL - 2 warms, 295/3/3
One Arm Rows - 2 warms, 80/5/5
CG Pulldowns - 1 warm, 180/3/3
Barbell Curls - 1 warm, 85/3/3

Monday, March 9, 2009

3/9 Heavy Day 3

WORD!! Hitting 225 for reps was a short term goal I set back in November after the Yorton and I crushed it today. 4th set felt stronger and smoother than the first set did and I couldn't believe how fast it went up. I was short on time so I dropped flat db presses. Focuses on form and hitting reps on everything else and that was accomplished as well.

Bench Press - 3 warms, 225/3/3/3/3
Side Laterals - 2 warms, 35/3/3
Front Laterals - 1 warm, 30/3/3
Triceps Press downs - 1 warm, 170/3/3
One Arm Triceps Extensions - 1 warm, 40/3/3

Friday, March 6, 2009

High Day 2

Weight - 164 (+.6)
Waist - 33.75 (-.25)

Dropping inches off the waist and going up in weight, doesn't get much better than that! It just feels like there is no stopping me every time I get in the gym. Squats were nice and smooth and had a killer pump in my back after pull ups. WORD UP!

Squat - 3 warms, 255/8/8/8
Leg Curl - 2 warms, 90/8/8
Pull Ups - body/8/8/5/5
Rows - 1 warm, 215/8/8
Alt DB Curl - 1 warm, 40/7/5
Calf Press - 1 warm, 160/10/10

8 min cool down on treadmill

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

3/4 Strength Day 1

Asteroid stack is in full effect! Weights keep moving up and I'm still hitting my target rep ranges. Kicked it up today and took 3 scoops of Jacked along with 1 gram of B.A. Finally got some Xtend and threw in a scoop with my pre-wo cocktail and drank 3 scoops during and post workout. Got a killer pump as usual and had the get it all cost attitude. Kept the same weight on side laterals from the last strength workout but the reps were much smoother and more controlled. My bench has always sucked and to be making the current progress as quickly as I am is unbelieveable

Bench Press - 3 warms, 185/8/8, 190/8
Inc DB - 2 warms, 75/8/5
Side Laterals - 2 warms, 25/8/8
DB Shoulder Press - 1 warm, 65/8/7
Tricep Extensions - 1 warm, 75/8/7
Rope Press downs - 1 warm, 100/8/6

5 min cool down on treadmill