The NHE and ONE - cut and bulk

[Robboe]

Went and bought some much needed food instead.

Chest earlier. Good session.

Progressed and set new PB's on both sets of BB bench. ace.

Progressed on decline machine press.

Same weight for same reps on incline DBs. Progressed on cables.

Good fun overall.

And now the new MSN is seriously starting to piss me off.

That is all.

 

[kuso]

MSN seems to have rooted my IE too

 

[lina]

for your siggie....utterly disgusting, yet funny!

 

[Robboe]

Damn right. It had me in stitches for a good long while.

Did legs today, 9 sets in total. Progressed on everything.

Progression is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

And that's despite yesterday's foodage being a bit fucked up. I went to the Toon match vs Southampton. We sat in the heavens too. I forgot how shitty my vertigo is. The stadium is fucking huge.

Off to see the Foo Fighters very soon.

 

[Twin Peak]

Seems like you are progressing with every w/o. Nice. Food is good.

 

[Robboe]

Yup, yup.

Debating whther to cut for a few weeks at the end of this one, or wait till after christmas.

The Foo Fighters ROCK.

 

[Twin Peak]

How much have you gained? Can you see appreciable muscle growth? How long would you cut? How much would you look to lose?

 

[Robboe]

1. hard to say due to water/glycogen/food retention.

2. Yes, i am visibly bigger. Fuller too, since i started the carbs back.

Y'know, i never though i'd EVER use the phrase "fuller" or "fullness" to describe muscles, cause it sounds really dumb IMO, but it really is the easiest way to describe it.

3. If i cut next week, probably for 4 weeks max.

4. As much fat as possible and as little muscle as possible.

Over 4 weeks i doubt i'd lose any muscle.

 

[Robboe]

Delts/arms.

Everything progressed. Which is ace.

I am ace.

I'm pressing the 36's again for DB shoulder press. That's like 80lbers for you Yanks. (Is an 'american' a 'Yank', or just people from NY? I've never been sure). Anyhoo, that's dangerously close to the weight i'm incline pressing right now (the 40's), but then again, my shoulders have always been strong as hell.

Diet schedule was fucked up as per usual like every monday. I stayed at Uni late to sit in a microsoft seminar thing on .NET. It was quite boring but i got some free software for my trouble.

Anyhoo, i treated myself to a chocolate bar (nestle double cream, as usual) after training, as well as one of those new milk/white chocolate Aeros that are currently available. They're well nice.

 

[Twin Peak]

Whats an Aero?

I Yank, if short for Yankee, generically refers to people from the Northeastern part of the States. In particular, southerners call northerners Yankees -- dated to the civil war. New Yorkers epitomize Yanks in modern times especially since we are home to the New York Yankees.

 

[Twin Peak]

Originally posted by The_Chicken_Daddy
Everything progressed. Which is ace.

I am ace.

Damn! You keep it up and in a couple of years you'll be lifting the same weights as me!

 

[Robboe]

Originally posted by Twin Peak
Whats an Aero?

chocolate bar with bubbles of air in it.

 

[Yanick]

I fuckin love those Aero things. Although they're not called Aero's over here, but its the same concept. Man its my favorite chocolate (not like i would say no to any chocolate that is).

Rob, your shoulders are hella strong! 80's on the shoulder press, thats friggin awesome. I can currently press 50's, maybe. I haven't done presses in a while though.

 

[Robboe]

Weird how my shoulders are a bit stronger than yours, and yet your bench blows mine away. You must have shorter arms.

Anyhoo, a birthday of a good friend of many years falls on this here day, so a meal followed by clubbing tonight it shall be.

 

[kuso]

TCD....are you think to volunteer as a tester for 1fast400 this time?

 

[Twin Peak]

I think Mike asked for people who haven't used PH/PS in a while. Else I would have volunteered myself!

 

[kuso]

Opps....must have missed that bit.

 

[Twin Peak]

You should volunteer yourself!

 

[kuso]

Yeah, but I`ll be off for probably 4 or 5 weeks at Christmas......and can`t take these goddies to Oz...they are very illegal.

The other thing.....I`d like to know what I`m putting into my body.

 

[perfecto]

everythings illegal here

 

[Robboe]

Well, by the time he could send anything over here once he's made his descision i'd be off PS for about 4-5 weeks.

I did send a nice little paragraph about how ace i am in general, but i dunno if i said anything about me being ideal for testing some mystery stuff.

I did, however, include the fact that me being abroad may make such a transaction a bit more complicated for him, since he's not gonna actually derive any money out of it.

Maybe he'll appreciate my honesty

I'm not expecting to be selected though.

 

[Robboe]

Ok, back dayeeeeee.

Progressed on everything, except chins maybe. I wasn;t sure whether i'd get the chinning bar so i did a heavy set of WG pulldowns (and progressed. Ace.), but then the bar was free and so i did some and matched my work sets from two weeks ago. Make of that what you will.

Everything else went up. I weighed myself 4lbs heavier today from last week, but i imagine the water retention from tuesday's semi-piss-up is to blame. I'll re-weight myself on saturday and see.

No cutting till after christmas either. I've got too much on w/ Uni to be concerned about that.

 

[Yanick]

Originally posted by The_Chicken_Daddy
No cutting till after christmas either. I've got too much on w/ Uni to be concerned about that.

I can relate with you on that one Rob.

School has been kicking my ass lately.

 

[Robboe]

My calories are up and down and all over the place right now.

Some days i'll eat all meals, others i won't.

It's sort of an attempt at damage control during this time period.

 

[Twin Peak]

So this is a conscious decision of calorie cycling?

 

[Robboe]

Sort of, yeah.

Chest workout day was awesome. I progressed on every exercise. Every set in fact.

I even did 7 reps on the incline DB's with the 45's! I'm well proud of myself. Hopefully the gym will get some magnetic weights so i can increment the weight slower than 5k per DB (since they jump from 45-50-55-60, and then by 10 per DB after that up to 90). That's a big jump when we're getting that heavy.

 

[kuso]

Congrats on the progress

How many days on ONE does this make?

 

[Robboe]

I finsihed up a two week cycle of ONE over two weeks ago haha.

This is all me, baby.

 

[kuso]

Shit!!!! Thats even better then......are you about to start the second cycle now?

BTW....how long did it take to arrive for you?

 

[Robboe]

I'm glad you pay attention to this!

I don't think i'll do another cycle till the new year.

And it took about 3-4 days. Very good service from Mike McCandles.