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Originally posted by P-funk Thanks alot. oh and welcome to my journal 
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) I always trained hard in high school, however I partied hard also. Then about a couple of months be fore I turned 21 I decided to get serious about bbing so I gave up the party lifestyle in a quest fot hugeness. I quit drinking and any other sort of crap I was doing at the time and went into an all out bulk to put on size. This wa sno easy task having just turned the legal drinking age and all. I forced myself to not drink or party. I would go out with my freinds and stand there at bars and not drink anything but water. The bulk worked though. I packed on some mass and tipped the scales at 185lbs with about 12% bf. It was my senior year of college and everyone was artying hard and having a good time and I found myself getting miserable becuase I was forcing myself to live this strict lifestyle. I was even being talked into doing a show by some of the bber's at the gym I was training at. But during my last semester I started to slip a bit. I started parting a little more. then a little more. then forget about it....I was back to my old self PARTY ANIMAL. I gave up all hopes of doing a summer show and I even gave up lifting. For one whole year I consumed healthy amounts of alcohol, participated in recreational drug use and ate lie complete shit. However I could never stand a life of being sedentary so I still managed to run (sometimes hung over...sometimes still drunk as hell) 3-5miles a day. Throw in that during that year I tried my hand at being a vegetarian for 4 months and the outcome was terrible. I lost 30lbs. 30lbs that I worked so hard to get. I was 155lbs with no muscle tone. . Then last march (march '02) I got a membership to a gym in hopes to change my ways. I w/o but not really seriously, did lots of cardio and my diet was still kind of crappy. Then in late june I flipped and said "fuck it, I am ready to change my lifestyle, no more playing games." I scaled back on the drinking, got my training together and started to switch my diet back to chicken, tuna and brown rice
. . I am going to do this without using the traditional bulking style of gaining a ton of fat. Instead I am going to use mini cycles macro nutrient manipulation to control my fat levels as I slowly gain muscle. The cycles are not going to have any specific time range (ie bulk for 6 weeks, cut for 4). Instead I will bulk until I feel that the fat is coming on to much and then I will scale back on my carb intake and maybe lower my cals a bit until I feel that i have the problem under control. Once the fat levels are in check I will proceed with my bulk. This will also be a clean bulk to help keep fat levels down a little more. I am not a big supoplement guy, except for the usual (whey, EFAs, multivitamin). However, I will be throwing creatine in there, probably 4-6weeks on and then 4-6weeks off. I don't know how long it will take mr to get back to 185lbs. Hopefully before next winter. I don't know what will happen when I start pounding down some cals and good old muscle memory kickes in. One thing I can say is that during my 16week cut I was able to keep getting stronger until about the last 2-3 weeks. So I am hoping that my muscle memory will really get cookin' this summer.
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Originally posted by P-funk Oh yeah, by the way I have pics but I don't have time to post them so..when I come back next friday I'll toss them up..... |
| ahem...you forgot to mention your supreme motivation for returning to the BB'ing lifestyle |
What was that??
| How did you take the pics? Diposeable camera? |
| your pretty fuckin big man, judging by your pics your pissed and ripped 90% of the time, do you just go hard while you holiday or do you think that generally everything should be done in moderation? |
| Hey its about time seeing the man behind the knowledge. |
| What tha? Pics? Well it is about damn time. Oh, by the way, DP Jr.....what up wid dat Corona man? Glad you had a good time...now back to work with ya! |
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) and waiting to go to the airport to catch my flight back to my apartment in NYC. I am going to do chest today. After partying for a week and eating like crap I basically look like crap. So before I get into the actual bulk I want to do 1-2weeks of damage control. I don't know how much I will be able to lift after this week off. I will update the workout later tonight or tomorrow. The diet for the first week or two is going be lower calories/carbs so that I can get back to my clean eating. Then the cals will go up to a normal bulking level.| lol......What knowledege |
| I think you help out alot of people on here and your advice/knowledge is really good and people appreciate it. |
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Originally posted by P-funk Thanks alot. oh and welcome to my journal
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) while I was in cancun I had no access to a gym and even though I lead the no cardio revolution I figured how many times can I wake up and run along such a nice beach. So the cardio everyday probably led to some catabolization. Not a problem though. The strength will come back.
| hey fucker, how's the creatine bloat? |
| BTW, what i lack in promptness, i make up for in motivational skills |
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Originally posted by P-funk very true......looking at your ugly mug really gets me angry enough to grind out a few more reps each set.
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. but that is all I am allowed for carbs in this meal
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Felt good, still a bit hungry in between meals??? I don't realy want to start eating more cals than this......not because I am scared of over eating, I would love to eat more food but I don;t think my wallet would love it
| seems like you do alot of high rep work, do you believe using high reps is more beneficial ? |
| I'm telling you, you gotta do try and do a refeed over the weekend. You're hungy cause leptin is way below your setpoint right now. |
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Originally posted by P-funk this workoutwas difficult in a completly different manner than my ussual workouts. Instead of increasing intensity by adding resistance I increased intensity by altering my balance and stability.....more training like this to follow.......whether Yan likes it or not
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Originally posted by P-funk Well, Well,Well...public enemy#1 fancy meeting you here...........how was court? (PS that workout was killer.......next week though, actuall the next two weeks I am lowering the volume (for me at least) and going for more power. What do you think about that?) |
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. I am not going to count carbs or macros. I am going to just simply over eat. Probably a big bowl of pasta for dinner (I never eat pasta anymore and I am almost 100% Italian ) and I will also purchase a bag of jelly beans to munch on during the day. Maybe some dried fruit and other stuff too. I will post what I eat tomorrow. I know the food choices aren't clean (not even a close) but, well, this is a bulk and I need to get leptin levels up so I may as well go down in a blaze of glory.| Do people ever read this thing? |
lol ), and I'm impressed! |
Originally posted by Jodi Personally I would have picked swedish fish or Twizzlers instead of the jellybeans.
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though, what is it ??(I should know that )
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Originally posted by P-funk Nike Girl....thanks for the read and the compliments. If you have any suggestions please offer them up....don't work to hard. |
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Originally posted by P-funk But once I start eating it I get a terrible stomach ache and can't finish them. |
| Just speculating here, however, if you're having digestive problems with the (~90-99% sugar) candy, why wouldn't you substitute some super high GI foods? (e.g., fruits or fruit cocktails in syrup....something less extreme.) |
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Originally posted by P-funk I do use high gi carbs instead sometimes....it all depends on how i feel, what i crave..my re-feed can go either way. Sometimes pasta, sometimes candy, sometimes rice or oatmeal, sometimes ben and jerry's frozen yogurt and sometimes cereal...It just depends on my mood at the moment I am in the store buying then food. What ever catches my eye first. |
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.....you're starting to sound like DaMayor....Jeeze. The next one will be better.
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Originally posted by P-funk Stop bitchin???? It is what I do best and after all this is my journal.......more rants to come i'm sure.
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| Is it more important to you to keep your form as strict as possible without unwanted movement or assistance from any other body parts.. Or do you let your form slide a bit and cheat a little for the sake of increasing muscle mass and moving some heavier weight? What do you guys do/think?? Opinions please!! |
| Jodi, what happens when you get pissed off, lol, do you squat like 300lbs?? |
No but that is how I manage 225 last week.
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Originally posted by P-funk 225lbs, way to go.....how was the form on those? |
anymore and it would have been sloppy.
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) and protein during my workout. Why did I do this? Basically, just for shits and giggles. I purchased a small bag of pixie sticks and a small bag of smarties this morning to have in stock for my carb ups when I start my mini cut (starts this sunday). So I just decided to have fun and do the old insulin spike. Since I don't have the supplemental form of dextrose around, becuase I never use the post w/o spike, I used smarties and pixie sticks wich are pure dextrose just with artificial flavoring anyway. ) But about 1hr later I was still hungry. so what did I do? I went to bed hungry ........grrrrr.....need more food. )
) so I have no way of knowing what my weight is. I did weigh myself earlier in the week at another gym and I was 158lbs. If I had to guess I would say I am pushing 160lbs, maybe even over it by now. I will discontinue creatine for my cut so that i can drop water and see what I have left. My vascularity has actually gotten even better during this bulk, which is cool. I don't think I gained that much fat because my waist line really has not changed (my pants are still huge on me ). So I want to see if I gained any muscle. .
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| can't wait till this three week mini cut is over so that I can go back to eating normal cals |
You just started today your in trouble.
| You just started today your in trouble. |
.....My hunger is off the hook but mentally I am prepared. I waited until about 10 min. before my second meal, a time when I am most hungriest, and went to the store and stood in front of all the oatmeal raisen cookies with $10 in my pocket (ready to make a purchase). I stood there for about 5 min., until i just couldn't handle it anymore and then I just left with out buying anything. That is when I know I am ready to cut, when metally I can handle my hunger in front of a possible cheat.......I love putting myself through pain
I'm glad somebody's got some will power around here.
). . I can't remember my exact meals but I had 2100kcals with about 66g carbs and protein somewher in the mid 200g's, the rest being fat.....no cheating over here
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| I'll update my workout tomorrow since I have to go to the gym and then go right to bed to wake up at 3am again |
| I know the feeling. I have to be at work for 4 am so I get up at 2:30 AM every morning. And look its 9:45 PM and I'm still up |
.| God, that is the worst. It is so hard to fall asleep early enough to get 8-9hrs. And it is even harder to flip your days around so that you can go to bed and wake up at that hour. Especially since my days are so inconsistent. # days a week I have to be in at 5.30am (which means i get up at 3am) and then the other days are like afternoon shifts. I have been up since 3am today. Last night I tried to go to bed at 5pm. I laid there for so long. I didn't get to sleep until about 10.45pm. I feel so damn catabolic. I am about to take a nap since my day is done . |
I was on 3rd shift and I couldn't handle that so I'm glad I have these hours they are soooo much better. I don't think I could handle the swing shift that you have.
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| I hope you work into that swing shift better than I did. I won't lie its hard thats why I'm working at 4 AM now, I couldn't handle it mentally or physically. |
. Tomorrow I have to be up at 3am again but today I didn't have to be up until 8am so it messed up my sleep pretty bd. I need to get to bed soon but i am not tired. Ah well, I'll probably be fired in a couple of weeks anyway.......and this is only my first week at this place | I live in the best area, really. 35-45 mins from the ocean/beach (depends where you want to go. 35 mins. from Boston, 90 mins from the mountains. Its really beautiful here. Hey didn't you go to school in Boston? |
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Damn, sounds like you are in a prime location. I did go to school in boston but I hated boston while I was living there. The people are to snotty and stuck up and the clubs are boring and the all close at 2am.....how lame. But looking back on it now I guess it isn't all that bad. Plus some of my favorite resturaunts are up there, in china town (pennang and pho pastuer). Where you live sounds really nice though, outside of the city. I'd like to live up there too, it is really pretty, especially out in western Mass. and up through vermont and maine. Maybe, after I get fired from this job I'll just move up to maine and live out my dream (to be a complete hermit ala henery david thoreau, live off the land and fish and just chill out and read.......ahhh the life ) |
I'm not stuck up though but then again I live in NH. I don't know maybe I am stuck up and snotty You think 2 AM is bad its 1:30 in NH
| Why do you anticipate that you are going to be fired already |