DAY 11
killed it in the gym... Hit 6 exersizes 3 sets each for biceps and the same for my back..including deads..lifted heavy on every exersize and did most of them till failure..
Feel really good,, sort of sluggish at the beggining of the days but for the most part i think all the lethrgy and headache shit are subsiding.. May have been my body just getting used to all the supps and halo or could be going away because i upped my hawthorne berry and cycle support shit... Either way i feel good and hard..libido is stiil rockin..
I say this with all due respect, but maybe you SHOULD start following someone elses routine. Why? Because it is BLATANTLY obvious that this instinctive training you do, in which you train according to how you "feel", is completely fucking wrong!
Let me ask you a question, is the primary reason you train just because you like to go into the gym and bust your ass....or is it to make gains? If your answer is the latter, then you need to re-work your ENTIRE approach to training. You need to learn HOW to train to make progress...because you do not. You say that you "might" have gone a little overboard after training for 10 days straight. There is no not fucking "might" about it. How you "feel" doesn't mean a fucking thing...and you want to know how I can prove that? Look at your results! You have made some of the WORST progress I have ever seen for someone who has been training "seriously" (your words) for 5 years at 28 years old! You started this cycle in the mid-160's at 5'11...and that was
AFTER 5 years of SERIOUS training!!!! Are you fucking kidding me? Even though the proof of your failure is starting you right in your face...No, it has been beating you in the face for years...you are still not at the point where you are ready to make a change. You have now had at least 2 guys in this thread, who together probably have about 50 years of experience in this thing called BB'ing, give you very sound advice about how frequently you should be training. This advice is readily accepted by pretty much every "expert" in the world for someone who is at your stage of development (which is
raw beginner in terms of development), yet you say you will take their advice "into consideration" when it comes to your MASSIVE overtraining? NO...don't take shit into "consideration"...just fucking do it...unless, your main priority is not gains, but training just for the hell of it.
Isn't it brutally obvious that training according to how you 'feel" has led you astray? Don't even begin to blame your genetics either, because that is NOT the reason why you were only 166 lbs after 5 years of serious training. 18 sets ro failure for your biceps? how big are your arms? 15 inches? Do you REALLY think this 5 year "feel" program has been good to you? Your entire belief system is wrong. You need to start over from scratch, throw out everything you think you know, and learn how to eat & train for growth. If you had been doing things correctly when you started 5 years ago (and we don't even know how many years you may have been in the gym before you started "serious" training), you would have been bigger after only 6 months of training than you are now. In fact, many guys, when they know what they are doing, will add between 25-40 lbs of mostly lean mass in the their first 6 months of serious training. When I first began training "serious" at age 22 I jumped from 167 lbs @ 6'1 to 208 lbs....in 12 WEEKS! that is 41 mostly fat-free pounds. All drug-free, by the way. Why was I able to do this? I sure as fuck did not train according to how I felt, I trained according to what I needed....according to the tried & true principles that have been demonstrated to work for guys at my level of development for decades.
Regarding this whole "feel" thing (also called instrinctive training), the truth is that you do not have the ability to use the instinctuve trauning principle proplery (obviously)....and for some guys it never really serves them well, but for those who do implement it successfully, they typically have already reached an impressive level of development. In other wors, they already look like a BB'r. Before you can learn to train instrinctively, your body needs to know what proper training is...because it is only after years of doing things correctly, that you begin to pick up on the subtle clues your body sends you. Instrinctive training doesn't mean one day you walk into the gym and your body tells you that doing 50 sets would be bettr than the 12 sets you had previously planned on. Instrinctive training doesn't tell you that you should train 10 days in a row...because when you are TRULY hearing from your physical body (not your fantasy mind), it will never lead you to make changes that will harm your progress or lead you astray in any way. When you hear correctly, the changes will always be beneficial. You are nowhere even close to that point. What you do I follow your "mind's" thoughts, which does not necessarily have anything to do with what your muscular, nervous, or endocrine systems need, etc.
If you truly care about maximizing your progress more than you care about having "fun" in the gym, then you will begin a serous inspection into the massive amount of errors which are strewn throughout your program....and correct them. There is no reason for such a fucked up head of false beliefs after 5 years of training, especially because you are involved in the BB'ig community. You are making some of the same mistakes beginning BB'rs were taught to avoid for the last 20 years.
This post may have seemed harsh, but I am only thinking abou you. If you are still doing things this way after 5 years, it is unlikely anything but a kick in the ass will prod you into change.
