Anabolic Extreme MassFX Journal 03/08 sponsored by SBMuscle.com

[soxmuscle]

Wednesday, March 19th 2008

The Workout = None

The Supplements = 4 caps (3pm, 12am)

The? Thoughts = So I slept for the longest I think I've ever slept for yesterday, which goes to show how hard it was for me to wake up at 8AM every morning last week for work. I slept from some time around 3AM to 3PM. Probably took the 2 caps at more like 330 after I had a bowl of oatmeal, but still... I'm feeling less and less pain, another chest day today, and I'm not going to go heavy just for the sake of going heavy, I'm going to stay smart and do what my shoulder allows me to do (for the time being).

Write-up later, basketball all day, yes!

 

[workingatit43]

Nice looking lox sox sorry about the pain keep up the good work

 

[soxmuscle]

Trying to - got something special in store for today, hope my shoulder pulls through.

 

[workingatit43]

Trying to - got something special in store for today, hope my shoulder pulls through.

Give it hell bro

 

[soxmuscle]

Thursday, March 20th 2008

Workout = ME Bench; tried some new things out as I explained back on Thursday before I went. I didn't do a normal Maximum Effort day because I haven't allowed my shoulder to recovery properly maxing out once per week. Instead I opted for a lot of dumbbell work (which doesn't give my shoulder any pain at all) and it really paid off. Strong day today, was able to try out the Upright Rows again (something I hadn't been able to do a week ago with how sore my shoulder was).

Dosage = 2AM/2PM

Thoughts = To be perfectly honest, it's been hard to gauge whether or not this supplement is working because I haven't been able to see/make any gains on the bench because of my shoulder. With that said, I rack deadlifted 500 pounds two weeks ago, a weight I haven't held in my hands since... well since I took a leak earlier that morning. Jokes aside, at this point, it's a good (borderline, great) product, but not as much of a necessity as creatine is IMHO.

 

[soxmuscle]

Friday, March 21st 2008

Workout = DE Squat/Deadlift; Awesome workout here last Friday. Tried cable squats which I was new to, as well as this leg curl machine/hyperextension machine that just destroyed my lower back. I'm really starting to become a religious Leg Press user, mainly because I've been doing 20 rep sets. When you're able to gather your thoughts and breath at the top of the motion, it becomes easier to amass more reps with a heavier weight. Either way, 20 rep anything is brutal. Was able to do full on barbell curls without pain, same goes for shrugs. I'd really love to utilize the last half of this bottle of MassFX with a completely recovered shoulder so I can give SMMuscle a more accurate diagnosis of what I think.

Dosage = 2AM

Thoughts = I took only 2 in the AM because my friend came to visit and I didn't want to throw in 2 more later that night after I had already started drinking. Took only 2 in the AM on Saturday as well, which will probably be my "maintenance" dosage on days that I'll be drinking.

 

[soxmuscle]

Sunday, March 23rd 2008

Workout = DE Bench; Truly had a fun day yesterday. Didn't get started until late, but my 24 hour gym is made for that very purpose. I had the place to myself last night from about 9 to 10. Because it was so late in the night, I decided not to take anything before my workout. Usually, if I don't have NO-Xplode or some other type of energy/focus enhancer, I'll atleast go to the store and grab a coffee, but I didn't want to have a coffee that late at night. It was weird, I definitely noticed a huge difference in my own personal mental focus compared to when I'm using a stimulant or not, but it's good to know that I'm not 100% in need of a supplement boost preworkout.

Dosage = 2AM/2PM

Thoughts = I didn't even realize I made increases yesterday because I usually don't try to do that on my DE days, but I did heavier sets of 10 with skullcrushers, went up to 140 as planned with the band benching, and hit some very respectable numbers on the cable crossover (shoulders) that I looked up yesterday. Got a huge ME day today, lets set some PR's squatting!

 

[timdull2]

Sounds like things are going quite good for you, bro! If you really want to, you could probably up the dose to 6/ED. Take 2 pre-w/o and it should help you even more. Just spread the rest of the doses out like you have been doing. It'll shorten the length of the bottle, but that's up to you.

Any problems, let me know! Go hard, go heavy, and don't get hurt!! (Watch that shoulder!!!!!)

 

[soxmuscle]

Minus the shoulder, everything is grand. It's just that shoulder has a lot to do with weightlifting.

 

[soxmuscle]

Monday, March 24th 2008

Workout = ME Squat/Deadlift; had some funky numbers going today. I must've left my straps at home because I can't seem to find them, but I'm kind of enjoying training without them. I'm certainly not lifting as much weight, but my grip strength seems to be improving because of it, and it's only been a week since I've been back and haven't used them. Squatted pretty heavy today but wasn't able to touch the box with 315. The box I used pretty much made it so I was going ass to the ground, it was about half as high as a normal bench, so instead of going to parallel with 315 and busting out 3, I tried to go ass to the ground and see if I could do it. I'm not to disappointed with myself, 285 for three reps touching that damn box killed me, I almost didn't expect to get 315 which is probably why I gave up when I was hovering above the box. Oh well, next time. I also had 115 dangling between my legs and was able to get three reps doing weighted chins. As soon as I put that third plate between my legs though, I could only do the one that I did last week. I will say, that it felt lighter this week than it did last week. I expect to be chin-upping my body weight in no time. Everything else was great, took a little longer than usual but that happens when I'm waiting a couple minutes inbetween sets of Squats, SLDL's, Weighted Chin-ups, and Hammer Strength rows. I do half as much, but my maximum effort days last just as long as my dynamic effort days, not that there's anything wrong with that...

Dosage = 2AM/2PM

Diet = I wanted to add this portion today because I really slacked over the weekend, from about Thursday on. When I got back from break, I had a few things that I brought from home back to school, but I tried to stretch about 2-3 days worth of food into an entire week and I lost. I ate out at Chipotle, at Penn Station, at this local restaurant twice.. and let me tell you, I noticed a huge difference in terms of my performance in the gym. Thankfully, I didn't put it off and I was able to go grocery shopping tonight!

 

[soxmuscle]

Tuesday, March 25th 2008

The Workout = Plyometrics, cardio; So I've been looking into this Plyometrics routine and finally put it to work. I was tired, sore (from yesterday) but I was able to run a 7:13 mile as well. I started off at 7.5mph on the treadmill and when I realized that I wasn't pushing myself hard enough went up to 8.5, then 9.5, and then 10 for the final tenth of the mile. Next time I'll start out at 8mph and go from there. I'm hoping to improve my mile pretty drastically, is 6:30 by the end of the summer a reasonable goal? I think so. As far as the Plyometrics goes, everything was great. I've got a pretty nice starting vertical jump, I'm hoping to improve that just as much this summer. Ended the night by sitting in the sauna for a while sweating like a dog.

The Dosage = 2 @ 8AM/2 @6PM

Thoughts = I'm starting to notice some real rapid recovery times, way better than when I was using creatine in the past. Love it.

 

[soxmuscle]

Wednesday, March 26th 2008

Workout = ME Chest; great day, books in the car though.

Dosage = 2 @ 8AM, 2 @ 4PM, 2@2AM

 

[soxmuscle]

Thursday, March 27th 2008

The Workout = DE Squat/Deadlift; a little more fresh in my head - completed 20 rep squats again, this time 4 sets of 250 pounds on the leg press. Solid improvement. Also Hammer Curled for the first time in a while.

Dosage = 2 @ 12PM

 

[soxmuscle]

Friday, March 28th 2008

Workout = 12 oz. curls

Dosage = 2 @ 3PM

 

[soxmuscle]

Saturday = 2 caps
Sunday = 2 caps @ 2:30PM, 2 caps @ 12:30AM
Monday = 2 caps @ 9AM, 2 caps @ 11PM

So I've had two amazing workouts the last two days, but my shoulder continues to bug me. It's really unfortunate for myself and the people wanting to see if this product truly works because I really haven't been able to go up in weight as much as I would have had I been 100% the last couple of weeks.

I will say though, this product truly does "work." Not only do I believe I've gained strength, I saw myself do 405 cold (w/o straps) deadlifting yesterday when a little over a week ago I couldn't do that. I also saw me do 5 reps on the weighted chin-ups of 100 pounds when (if you look back at my journal) I wasn't able to do one full rep of 135 last week.

Also, while my pushing numbers have been lessened because of the injury, I'm finding that workout to workout, weights that I was doing only days earlier are suddenly easier to do. For instance, I hit 7 reps on a set of incline dumbbell press of 50 pounds, falling short of the "required" 10. I vividly remember that set. However, on Sunday night (after a weekend of drinking) I went in and hit 10 reps easily.

Another thing I'm noticing and probably the "best" (depends on how you interpret it) thing about it is that "Alpha-male" mentality that I had joked about since getting the product. I would be hanging out with my friends and I'd find stuff would come to my head that was just totally unlike me. My roommate would say something about some sports team and in my head my thought process was that of a close-minded prick as I immediately shot it off as if what he said was bullshit. Then I began to think about it (silently of course), about just how weird and uncharacteristic of me that reaction was. I'm probably a know-it-all about sports to some here, but I've always felt one thing about my knowledge of sports was that I was short and to the point (like Iain's penis) and that was why people loved to talk with me about sports. Going along with that feeling, I truly felt like many people have said about steroids, that you feel like a god amongst men, which to be perfectly honest isn't a feeling I enjoyed as much as I thought.

I'm going to finish up the bottle, give my true diagnosis of the product as I said I would, but if it was something I purchased with my own money, I'd have stopped taking it by now because of how well it's worked/done what it said it was going to do.

I've got a deep massage therapy here at 12:30, doing a little homework, hopefully will get a run/plyometrics in before the massage as well.

 

[soxmuscle]

End review of the supplement:

MassFX was a good product and I could feel it "working," I just don't think it helped me in the least at the gym.

It's hard to explain how it was working, if it didn't do anything for me in the gym. Basically, I was hornier, I was more insecure, and little things would irritate me that now wouldn't irritate me in the least.

I loved the confident feelings I had while on it, but again, I almost felt like I was doing things that I wouldn't normally do had I not taken the product.

I apologize for not sticking with this review, it's just the Alpha Male bullshit was too much for me.

Overall, the product worked. I could feel it working. I just simply didn't like the end result.