A Burning Desire to turn Iron to Gold

[musclepump]

What kind of weights are you using? During this cut, are you using anabolics?

My strength is about all the same so far; I do mostly free weights and I love sticking to the basic big lifts: Bench, squats, deads. I do rows, one arm pulls, barbell and dumbbell curls, skull crushers, lunges, etc... I don't touch many machines. I think the only one I use is the pec deck which I'm only using to try to bring my chest into more symmetry.

Nope, no anabolics. Closest I might get is Clen; I thought about IGF-1 and decided to pass on that.

 

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Oh dear... I tried one of those "Lean Cuisine" packs thinking it had a decent nutrient profile so it'd be ok; holy fuck, I don't care how healthy (or not) it is, those things taste like fucking cardboard.

 

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190

 

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189

 

[Double D]

Oh dear... I tried one of those "Lean Cuisine" packs thinking it had a decent nutrient profile so it'd be ok; holy fuck, I don't care how healthy (or not) it is, those things taste like fucking cardboard.

Oh you are so right! Those damn things are aweful.

 

[musclepump]

Oh you are so right! Those damn things are aweful.

I have complete taste aversion to them now. Can't even look at them in the grocery store.

 

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188

 

[musclepump]

Good workout today. I hit chest/bi's/tri's. I do a lot of one-arm stuff for chest because I think the right side of my chest is smaller than my left, so I'm aiming for symmetry there.

Chest was flat bench, incline bench, flat single (right) dumbbell press
Biceps were standing dumbbell curls, standing dumbbell cross-over curls, and hammer curls with dumbbells
Triceps were push-downs and dips

Also hit calves. I'm hitting calves every day now leading into the contest; I figure it can't hurt, they aren't growing with any other method.

 

[P-funk]

for the calves, try doing a 3 count pause at the bottom of the rep. most people pause at the top during the contraction. the tendons in the ankle are very good at returning elastic energy since that is what they do all day as we walk. Pausing at the bottom will cause the elastic energy to disapate into heat and then you will have to work a lot harder to overcome the static interia of the machine.

 

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186

 

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I have so many fat burners I got over the last year that I figured I'd use for this diet, but I haven't touched them yet. I've used two sample pills over the last three weeks of Stacker2, and that's it. I have this theory that if you start with thermogenics too soon, your natural metabolism will slow. Because of that, I haven't gotten on any--haven't needed them. I'm always wondering when I should add them in.

Right now I'm only doing cardio three times a week, 20 minutes a shot.

 

[musclepump]

Chest, bi's and tri's today. Everything still feeling good; weights are still relatively heavy. All is well on the homefront.

 

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184

 

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186... wtf? Diet still in check, workouts as usual. I'm thinking I may just be holding some water from something I ate.

 

[musclepump]

Wow. Too much tuna!

I've been eating meals at 500 calories a pop. One of my meals is Tuna; but there's not enough in one can to make up my calories, so I have to eat two cans worth along with some pickle chips to mask the flavor. Man, that's tough to choke down.

 

[musclepump]

I'm starting to do cardio 5 days a week now, 20 minutes a day. Cutting back calories another 200 on Monday.

 

[musclepump]

I'm looking better every day it seems, but I'm not getting any lighter. Not that I'm worried about that; I have to drop 16 pounds to make weight and we have 10 weeks to go. Cake walk.

 

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Went to the doc's today for a physical and they're checking my Test levels, so that'll be good info to know.

 

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Test results came back at 340. Not good. Not happy! Now my doc needs to prescribe me some HRT

 

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180

 

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STILL 180. Now I'm a little worried. I've been stuck here for awhile, even after ramping up the cardio and further cutting calories. Hmm...

 

[musclepump]

Leaving in a half hour to go to Vegas to play in the WSOP. I've got my packaged tuna, protein pudding, muscle milk powder, etc... packed and ready to go. If they search my bags, I'm going to have a lot of explaining to do! Thermogenics, vitamins, the whole nine. A mini-GNC in my carry-on's

 

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About 177 now.

And I'm off to California in the morning.

 

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176

 

[P-funk]

how many more weeks?

 

[musclepump]

how many more weeks?

Six

 

[musclepump]

I'm about to start that Herbal stuff that's in beta from Rob. I'll begin that tomorrow and we'll see what happens. Hopefully it's the ultimate get-shredded formula.. you know, like how MuscleTech advertises all of their products

 

[musclepump]

Today's workout felt like hell. Chest and biceps and everything felt twice as heavy. Ridiculous. Incline bench felt like I was trying to push a building off of me; curls felt like I was trying to lift a MAC truck. Not cool.

 

[musclepump]

Starting DiMaggio's beta Herbal product today. We'll see how it goes.

 

[joesmooth20]

Starting DiMaggio's beta Herbal product today. We'll see how it goes.

let us know how that goes. i'm thinking about using it next cut.