Uncle z road to redemption log

[samgraves82]

Sorry for crooked pix

 

[samgraves82]

I GOT A WHOLE FN WEEKEND OFF!! SO IM NOT DOIN A DAMN THING ASIDE FROM GYM AND I DON'T CARE !!!
Trained arms/shoulders today and it was just a sick nasty pump. Made some progress vs the log book but the pump, wow!! These rear delta full af

Somehow lost a pound over the week but then jumped up 3 over night. Im an odd duck!
My log book outside and it's rainy and cold here plus I'm just being lazy so I'll update later.
P.S. how does one gain 3lbs over night and wake up leaner and striated?

 

[maxmuscle1]

I GOT A WHOLE FN WEEKEND OFF!! SO IM NOT DOIN A DAMN THING ASIDE FROM GYM AND I DON'T CARE !!!
Trained arms/shoulders today and it was just a sick nasty pump. Made some progress vs the log book but the pump, wow!! These rear delta full af

Somehow lost a pound over the week but then jumped up 3 over night. Im an odd duck!
My log book outside and it's rainy and cold here plus I'm just being lazy so I'll update later.
P.S. how does one gain 3lbs over night and wake up leaner and striated?

I have an idea for ya! . No ones home so.....

Max
#redditdirtyr4r#hinge

 

[samgraves82]

I have an idea for ya! . No ones home so.....

Max
#redditdirtyr4r#hinge

This girl keeps my balls so.drained I can't even fathom porn

 

[maxmuscle1]

This girl keeps my balls so.drained I can't even fathom porn

I didn’t know, those are actual “girl” sites! Lol

Max

 

[samgraves82]

I didn’t know, those are actual “girl” sites! Lol

Max

Busted!!!
I've never once got on Reddit. I'm behind I guess

 

[samgraves82]

10/31 Legs
All I can say about tonight is , DAMN!!!
All the weights moved flawlessly, added 40lbs to hack squats and didn't sacrifice any reps, more reps actually, and the pump was, well, GD IT BURNS should explain it.
Funny side note. Right after my leg ext, Went to help my girl pull plates off sled for her conditioning work, pulled a 35# off took a side step and fell down cause legs just died
Seated ham curl
180×8/8/8

Hacks
4 plates × 10/8
Back off set
3pps×6(was supposed to be 8-12 but for the first time probably ever the burn in my quads made me tap out at 6)

Pendulum squat
3 pps × 8
2.5 × 8
2 pps rest pause 5/5/4 crawled to camera after this. Another first!

Leg ext
120×15/10
120# cluster set 5/5/3

2 sets of calves

 

[maxmuscle1]

10/31 Legs
All I can say about tonight is , DAMN!!!
All the weights moved flawlessly, added 40lbs to hack squats and didn't sacrifice any reps, more reps actually, and the pump was, well, GD IT BURNS should explain it.
Funny side note. Right after my leg ext, Went to help my girl pull plates off sled for her conditioning work, pulled a 35# off took a side step and fell down cause legs just died
Seated ham curl
180×8/8/8

Hacks
4 plates × 10/8
Back off set
3pps×6(was supposed to be 8-12 but for the first time probably ever the burn in my quads made me tap out at 6)

Pendulum squat
3 pps × 8
2.5 × 8
2 pps rest pause 5/5/4 crawled to camera after this. Another first!

Leg ext
120×15/10
120# cluster set 5/5/3

2 sets of calves

Hope your Halloween was good! No candy , of course! Hope you got a double burger or a steak! I did ! Lol. Keep up the good work

Max

 

[samgraves82]

Hope your Halloween was good! No candy , of course! Hope you got a double burger or a steak! I did ! Lol. Keep up the good work

Max

I snuck in a mcrib lol. I know they're terrible but I love em

 

[maxmuscle1]

I snuck in a mcrib lol. I know they're terrible but I love em

Remember when I made Homemade McRibs? Omg! I used baby back ribs, Mayo, pickles...so good! I think I have pics of it . Gotta love the classics!

Max

 

[samgraves82]

Remember when I made Homemade McRibs? Omg! I used baby back ribs, Mayo, pickles...so good! I think I have pics of it . Gotta love the classics!

Max

I do remember actually. And some orange chk that resembled panda express but better

 

[samgraves82]

11/2 push day
So today the pump was super good but the work itself was very underwhelming. No progress anywhere but at least didn't go backwards. Feeling a bit beat up if I'm honest. Bodyweight is holding steady at ~195-196 lbs which is a loss in my opinion.

 

[samgraves82]

Had a deload week this week and I needed it more than I thought. Had extra time off from work too, no weekends and only 50 hrs last 2 weeks. I'm so ready to go back tho lol. I need a heavy bar and I need it now lol. Here check ins from yesterday

 

[samgraves82]

11/12
Sorry I've been behind posting lately. Just been trying to work on some things in personal life before I lose my shit and pull a multiple homicide/suicide while burning down this town. Ok, that's extreme lol.
On a serious note, my stomach finally turned on me and I ate till I puked yetserday. Couldn't even look at food rest of day. Got 5 of 6 meals down today tho.
Gym was pretty good today, all week really.

 

[samgraves82]

11/13 Legs
Everything was perfect tonight. More reps on every exercise. 3 extra total reps squatting and a rep every set after or more.
Not by choice, but I did have an extra day off yesterday so maybe that helped.
Seated ham curl
180×9/9/8

Squat-
315×10/7
225×10(woops, this the only set not improved)

Pivot leg press
4plates +20lb × 15/12
Muscle round 4/4/4/4/4/8

Smith machine Bulgarian split squats
95×8/8
1 cluster set

Calves
3.sets seated valves

 

[samgraves82]

11/15 push
Today was a juicy one.. didn't have time for pix tho

Incline BB press
255×8
235×6(gotta gauge this back off set better)

Hammer shoulder press
115ps×10
90×ps×10

Hammer flat press
100ps×12
90×10 drop to
1ps×19

Dips
45×12/12
Bw muscle round 4/4/4/4/4/8

Rope pressdown
50×12/12/10

 

[samgraves82]

11/16 back/hams

Close grip pulldowns
150×12/8
130×11

BB row-
275×10/9
225×10

Hammer low row
3.5pps × 8
3 pps ×10
1 cluster 5/5/5/3 w / 2.5 pps

Deads
405×5(took it easy ish so didn't aggravate back again)

Ham curls

 

[samgraves82]

Legs 11/20
Purposely slowed down all my reps, especially negatives. Hurt my isolation stuff but thats ok.
Seated ham curl
2×8/8×165
150×8

Hack squat
2×11/9×4 plates per side
2 plates × 12

Pendulum squat
3 pps × 8
2.5 pps × 10
2 +10 pps x rp set 14 reps 5/5/4

Leg ext
2×12/10×105
Cluster set 90lbs × 5/5/2(shit the bed bad here )

3 sets seated calves-. No rep counting just went to failure with 2 plates. Approx 20/15/12

 

[samgraves82]

Check in pix AND "before" pix for this cycle. Got the okay to start and I'll be running all EP gear
750 sust
300 deca
50 anadrol injectable(for now)
2 IU gh is what been cruising on and nothing was said about gh. Didn't think to bring it up. May see about upping to 4 but we'll see. It'll be a.m. upon waking either way.

 

[samgraves82]

11/26 upper muscle rounds
Wide grip pulldowns
100×4/4/4/4/4/9
120×4/4/4/4/4//6

Hammer low row
2 pps × 4/4/4/4/4/4 barely made it
1.5pps(70lb per side) × 4/4/4/4/4/3

Hammer incline
1.5 pps × 4/4/4/4/4/3
55 per side × 4/4/4/4/4/3

Machine press(used squat/pendulum machine)
25×4/4/4/4/4/4
15×4/4/4/4/4/3.5

V bar press down
140 × 4/4/4/4/4/5

Gotta remember to flare my lats out looks so much better when I do

 

[samgraves82]

11/22 upper loading/lower pump
So as you can see yesterday was my first day trying fortitude training. I can already tell I'm gonna love this. In a lot of ways it's semi close to what I been doing. Not counting tempo but all reps are significantly slower. For suck a few sets I was pumped like a mofo. My legs were still trashed from Saturday leg session and started to cramp on first pump sets so I just quit while I was ahead. Loading on them is tomorrow so we'll see how that goes since I'm still slightly sore and a bit stiff. I believe I squat tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to match last squat session but I highly doubt it with the new tempo, but that's ok.

 

[maxmuscle1]

11/22 upper loading/lower pump
So as you can see yesterday was my first day trying fortitude training. I can already tell I'm gonna love this. In a lot of ways it's semi close to what I been doing. Not counting tempo but all reps are significantly slower. For suck a few sets I was pumped like a mofo. My legs were still trashed from Saturday leg session and started to cramp on first pump sets so I just quit while I was ahead. Loading on them is tomorrow so we'll see how that goes since I'm still slightly sore and a bit stiff. I believe I squat tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to match last squat session but I highly doubt it with the new tempo, but that's ok.

Late do this! Beat it !

Max

 

[samgraves82]

Late do this! Beat it !

Max

Like a rented mule

 

[samgraves82]

11/27 lower Muscle rounds
Well this night wasnt as bad as I thought it may be but those smith Bulgarian split squats were fuckin brutal in the moment. Never have I done legs and my calves be what were hurting so bad.

 

[samgraves82]

11/29 upper load/lower pump
Let me just say off the tip, my calves were fuckin pissed when I got to the calf raises today. I purposely skipped one leg exercise because they just weren't ready but now I regret it cause they feel fine tonight, aside from gd calves . It won't happen again tho!! Caught myself by surprise a couple times today doing bb rows and rack pulls. I thought, with 12 being top of rep range, 405 would be plenty bit at rep 15 my lungs collapsed I'm pretty sure. I looked back at old logs and hell I pulled 500 for 12 during prep so I'll start with that next week and see what happens.

BB rows
225×12
245×11(dunno how the hell I got 11 more reps. Not uncommon to get "stronger" on 2nd set but I figured 8 at best. IT MUST BE THE GOLDLINE INJECTABLE ANANDROL

RACK PULL (BELOW THE KNEE. LOWEST HOLE ON RACK )
405×12

FLAT DB PRESS(you've seen me get plenty more reps but not with this tempo)
100S×10/7

DB PRESS
60×12/9

LOWER PUMP
LEG EXT/SEATED HAM CURL SUOER SET
25/20
30/25

STANDING CALVES
27 REPS

 

[samgraves82]

12/1 lower loading/upper pump
I was supposed to do 2 sets of squats but an argument sort of happened and my head was elsewhere so I didn't do it so I didn't hurt myself. I'm still a bit paranoid about my back.

Squat
335×8

Leg press low and close (in hind sight should've made that lost set up here)
5 pps +10lbs × 14

Smith stiff leg deadlift
225×12

Adductors/abductor super set
120×12/120×12(the abductor hurt my hips for some reason)

UPPER PUMP
machine pulldown SS w/ pec deck
120×22/20
75×23/20

Machine preacher SS w/ rope pressdown
40×20
60×25

 

[samgraves82]

12/3 upper muscle rounds
Last exercise was supposed to be skull crushers but I was already running late so just grabbed a cable and pumped the shit outta Tris real quick

 

[samgraves82]

12/4 lower muscle rounds
Hot damn the pendulum squat murdered me took me 6-8 mins to finally get back on my feet. Also, just couldn't get what I wanted out of hammer preacher curls so added some DB curls in since had the time. I'm fine doing preachers with a low cable but free weight just messes with my elbow/arm too much.

 

[samgraves82]

12/6 upper load lower pump

Smith incline press
235×13/8

Flat BB press
235×9

DB row (had to get a feeler set cause been a while hence the 8/10 instead of 10/8)
80×8/10

Reverse H.S. shoulder press(this is easier on shoulders right now. Been flaring up a bit again)

Leg press
2 pps × 32

Leg ext ss w/ seated ham curl
75/22 and 75×25

 

[samgraves82]

12/11 upper muscle rounds
Sorry I got off track a couple days. Had a shitty reaction to some meds I was put on. Nothing serious just nausea, appetite loss, and somewhere between shitty and no sleep. We back tho.
Did get a good session in and no loss in progress . Finally got my exercise selection down for the new fortitude program and weights pretty much dialed in so that's cool.