Dloves lifting log

[Dlove]

And setting it up in the safety pins so you start lifting a dead weigth from the bottom(same goes for this as ME).

I saw a clip of some monster from wsb doing this. I really want to try this thats where I think most of my power comes from. I saw one of Mules video where he has some special huge machine for GM's and that cool bar head goes threw

 

[mikea]

Its just really really inflamed mate! Just blasting too long!!! Did some BB arm stuff today and it killed me! (check my log)

Keep sending me vids man

Yeah man take the air in your stomach and push it out like you have a baby in there, that way you will get support on the spine from your stomachs side aswell!! Add a belt to that and master this, and notice how much more strength your lower back has deadlifting or my fav. is that it really helps explode from the bottom of the squat!!

Just took some strong antihistamines and im ready to pass out. Try the other variations of GM as assistance first as they will fuck you up if theyre done wrong. My pr with sumo stance rounded back is 3x 185kg and that was the time i squetted the most aswell. Oh and i like to do GM with the bar on offdays with as much rom as possible, has really helped me out in many ways.

 

[Dlove]

Tuesday Afternoon

Nice Pump today considering friday nights mishap with the busted bruised up knees.

Strength was up nice on the incline. I am having a little bit of a tough time getting a pump during my lift it usually comes after a good meal and relaxing a little kinda weird. I do notice that uping the intensity with the accesory work and not treating it easy has helped a little.

Incline BB Press-5 warm-ups, 5x205, 3x225 somehow up 20lbs in 2 or 3 weeks i forget gotta look back.

DB Press Seated-45x10. this was actually down a little for some reason.

JM Press-75x10 squeezed out more reps this week and the motion is way smoother. I thin I should be up to 85 by saturday at least im shootin for it.

Incline DC Chest Stretch-not real good today 40's for like 45 seconds. Had to drop the weight cause the shoulder was getting a little irritated.

Ab crunch on HS machine 3x20

Came home and captain crush was in the mailbox so I hit 10 reps with 3x with the #1. Im pissed I didn't order the #2. These captain of crush could add up so I am gonna order the gladiator grips. Same thing half the price. The ironmind catalog is sweet they sell some awesome stuff!

Hopefully these knees will allow me to pull some DL's on thursday but as of know it's not looking good. Maybe some isolated back work i dunno. Im gonna take leans suggetion and pick up some epson salt to soak in that stuff worked great for me last cycle when i was feeling pretty tore up.

 

[Dlove]

I found a really funny pic from about 4 yrs. back where I looked like my head was gonna fall off backwards pulling a 495x2. I definitely keep the head straight now,

BeyondMass

Check out my friends son with the panch and john chips shades, lmao. He's got some man boobies, 15 yrs. old.

I like looking back on these old pics to see how much ive grown over the yrs. Legs were sticks and no chest lickily that has changed a bit

dont fuck with the bull or you get the horns, lol

http://www.beyondmass.com/forums/attachment.php?postid=194989

 

[mikea]

Yo Dboy, you need to register with that, hook a brother up

When is my boardpress vid gonna be ready, looking forward to it!!

 

[Dlove]

Not a bad little rip today. I was exhausted and low on carbs before my work-out but still managed. I am getting straps online with more chalk and a belt tonight. My work-out today was a little off protocol because my knees are still fragile from last weeks wreck. Still blew the upper body up nice. Pissed no legs this week though. Squats are by far my favorite exercise, used to be DL. Pretty pissed my power rack doesn't go to the knees for rack pulls even with bars(no pins on HS rack) at lowest level.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

Rack Pulls unfortunately in Smith-5 warm-up's then 5x4 plates side, 4nquarterx5, then put 5 plates and lost grip way to soon on 2nd rep. My neck looked like it was gonna explode though I freakin love that. Veins raging threw neck, red as hell, lol love it! The bar on this HS Smith is massive. I griped the BB after and it felt pee-wee, dont know why they make it like that.

Lat-pulldowns 180x10 4 sets

DB Shrugs- fucked again since DB's only go 100, so did 100x14 for 3 sets. Traps lookin a good bit thicker and neck wide after this. Are gyms trainer asked me for juice today, lol, he's the fourth in two weeks. Im like guys talk to the extension clinic and told them im not on and they didn't believe me. I gotta say this new training has me looking like i did when i took gear. Anxious to see what happens when d-bols up in the mix.

Preacher curls 35 a side for 12

Called it quits after that my knees were getting a little sore. It's fucked up their yellow and purple I don't know ho I feel that hard. Hope to hit some board press saturday but new growth is coming in bigtime around the elbow from JM Press and has it a littlhe achey.

 

[Dlove]

Oh yeah mikey some of my accesory work is getting weaker while main compounds are going up, not sure why? I really dont care since the compounds are on the rise but just thought I would throw that out. Most pulldowns, DB military press and i forget the other.

 

[TheMilkMan]

Oh yeah mikey some of my accesory work is getting weaker while main compounds are going up, not sure why? I really dont care since the compounds are on the rise but just thought I would throw that out. Most pulldowns, DB military press and i forget the other.

More effort in the compound = less energy in the tank for the accessory I would think.

An old guy at the gym told me one time, "We're more like cars than people think. When you have a full tank of gas in your car, there's no reason to drive it around the block before a long road trip. Just get to it and start driving."

He was really talking more about excessive warm-up sets before max efforts and pre-exhaustion work. But I think it kinda makes sense.

 

[Dlove]

pre-exhaustion work. But I think it kinda makes sense.

You decided to stop back Milk, J/K. How's the new place? The chica move in yet?

Hey I was just talking to one of the town cops in the gym about this pre-exhaustion work-out. Well he was talking about it for himself how he liked it. I also got a chancee to meet and talk quite a bit with a former WWF wrestler then IFBB Pro Mike Q. down in SF. He talked a good bit about it as well and how it shocked new growth in his muscles.

Mike Quinn also has a cool program calls it Ballistic training it's lifting slow and strict one week then speed work next week then rotate.

Pre Exh. sounds interesting but one thing I love about all these warm-ups before max lifts is it's really helping me from not getting strains and tears and shit like that. My muscles always seem to feel real fresh and strong for my next session. I wouldn't rule out this pre-exhausting method down the road just for a month or so.

How long do people work-out pre-exhaustion like that? It seems like it might be real taxing and can't be done a while?

 

[barnzy7]

Pre Exh. sounds interesting but one thing I love about all these warm-ups before max lifts is it's really helping me from not getting strains and tears and shit like that. My muscles always seem to feel real fresh and strong for my next session. I wouldn't rule out this pre-exhausting method down the road just for a month or so.

Dlove I love the 5-6 sets of warm ups too, I dont have any pains any more and I feel much better throughout and after the workout. Same thing with the Extreme stretches, glad you guys got me on those

 

[TheMilkMan]

You decided to stop back Milk, J/K. How's the new place? The chica move in yet?

The new place is awesome my man, I'm loving living by myself right now. At college it was cool too, but living with roommates could be a little annoying, 4 different personalities... I'm sure you could imagine.

The lady friend is moving in tonight actually. She is driving down with her mom after she gets out of work. It should be a very interesting adjustment.

 

[TheMilkMan]

Hey I was just talking to one of the town cops in the gym about this pre-exhaustion work-out. Well he was talking about it for himself how he liked it. I also got a chancee to meet and talk quite a bit with a former WWF wrestler then IFBB Pro Mike Q. down in SF. He talked a good bit about it as well and how it shocked new growth in his muscles.

Mike Quinn also has a cool program calls it Ballistic training it's lifting slow and strict one week then speed work next week then rotate.

Pre Exh. sounds interesting but one thing I love about all these warm-ups before max lifts is it's really helping me from not getting strains and tears and shit like that. My muscles always seem to feel real fresh and strong for my next session. I wouldn't rule out this pre-exhausting method down the road just for a month or so.

How long do people work-out pre-exhaustion like that? It seems like it might be real taxing and can't be done a while?

I think actual pre-exhaustion work has is role in BBing, but not in powerlifting at all. The idea is to tax the major muscles in order to focus on bringing up specific areas of the body or muscle group. I think it's useful if for some reasons you're so advanced that it makes sense, but in general, 90% of people out there don't really need to do much pre-exhaustion.

The idea in powerlifting is to get stronger each and every workout and pre-exhausting the muscles only creates a situation in which sub-optimal strength can be used.

I guess what I meant about warm up sets was this... If you are shooting for 2 sets of 5 at 315lbs, get there as quickly as possible without jeopardizing your muscle/joint health. For example, rather than doing:
135 x 15
185 x 15
225 x 10
275 x 5 and then going for your sets... Stretch out your chest, loosen up your joints, and do something more like:
135 x 10
185 x 5
225 x 5
275 x 2 and then get at the sets...

I'm just a firm believer that it's very easy to tax your body more than you mean to and the next thing you know, you're going to be giving a sub-optimal effort.

I'd like Mikea to chime in because he is the PLing authority around here right now.

 

[Dlove]

I'm just a firm believer that it's very easy to tax your body more than you mean to and the next thing you know, you're going to be giving a sub-optimal effort.

I'd like Mikea to chime in because he is the PLing authority around here right now.

I dunno Milky im finding the more I do this and the stronger I get the more warm-up's I like doing. I don't know if I have been recording right but lately there sometimes 7 warm-up's and 3 me sets. I like some thoughts on the 3 me instead of 2 me sets?

I know this might sound wack but couple months down the road i wouldn't mind trying some serious shit like 8 warm-ups maybe 9 then 2 or 3 me sets balls to the wall. Followed by 3-4 sets of accesory work fast reps at 12, then boatload of ab work. Call it a day that. The thing with these warm-up's is it seems to take tax off the body sounds weird I know. But it's like doing sets 50% me your not out of breath muscles are loose and then ready to hammer out your 5/3 rep max. Ive been hitting some 2's lately. Man I gotta say Im sorry I said unfortuanletly rack-pulls were in the smith I feel amazing today hard much harder than before and no goodies to shoot or pop for now, lol. The smith kept nice motion pulling from just below the knee but dude i do need straps.

Funny thing to is my diet has been shity burger king, candy, lol, milkshakes crazy shit anything in sight pretty much. I love my pop rocks and big leauge chew and swedish fish, I do eat good meals however.

Milkdog you should just try it once and see how it is maybe. The squat day is a little punishing but I love it. Maybe try it incline bench 6 light warm-ups' really helps good form then slam 2 sets 90%me you might like it brutha.

 

[Dlove]

Side note everyone needs to see The Hangover tonight it looks great. Mikea probably alredy got it over in wonderland, Nice!. He says theatres are bad ass there. They get flics before us too, Im ptretty sure.

 

[leanbody]

Funny thing to is my diet has been shity burger king, candy, lol, milkshakes crazy shit anything in sight pretty much. I love my pop rocks and big leauge chew and swedish fish, I do eat good meals however.

Dude - I can't believe you admit this in public! Unless u have a god like metabolism and are hella lean, drop that shit or you'll be in deep do-do when you're my age! Imean come on - you know what swedish fish tastelike - it's not like you're getting tastes of the finest Swedish fish in the world - they are gummie bears for godsakes!

There - i'm done with that rant...And the pre exhaustion thing - I did that for almost 2 years and made some slow progress, but I've gotten much better results in the last few months with 5x5 or westside. Just my opinion. If you do the Pre Exhaustion thing - don't stick with it more than a few months, max.

burger king...

 

[Dlove]

YES. I thought that would rattle it up. I dunno lean I do like to endulge myself and I also have the misses who is a bad influence she has a rapid fire metabolism. I somehow burn it up too but I take a thyroid pill so that helps me get away with it Not on cycle I love to just eat anything i like good candy-buds off all strains, lol

 

[D-]

YES, YES, LORD YES, the candy-buds are GREEATTT!!!!!!!

 

[leanbody]

Man you're making my hungry - i might have to make some brownies....

 

[Dlove]

Decent day today. It was hard even going to the gym the weather so nice outside. Got stronger on bench today but man weirdest thing happened. After a set of 405x5, yeah lol, 225x5 I got up off the bench and had a crazy pinch nerve rocketing volt of pain down the side of my neck into the traps. Shouldn't had done those damn DB shrugs on thursday. Kinda of like I got electracuted, lol. I really tensed up before my set and had my back arched more than ever, maybe that was it. Hopefully it's only temporary.

I di have much better form today, I liked bringing the bar as low as possible to upper abdoman real slow then explode up and back. Grip was pinky around the ring, elbows tucking in as I lower the bar. I definitely forsee better #'s on the way the better PL form gets. Kinda embarrasing talking PL style form only working with 245, lol but whatever. Didn't have the 13 inch cut 2 board and no-one to hold the board s it was straight flat. BTW shoulders, triceps still felt fresh no rips and tears thanx to form. But this volt/pinch nerve pain down the neck isn't pleasant. Gonna try to see if are local masseuse who massages racee horses is around. Shes incredible with deep tissue massages bitch has got some strong hands. No happy ending though, lol, wouldn't want it anyway shes butch.

SATURDAY

Flat Bench-10x135, 6x155, 5x185, 5x205, 4x225, 5x225, 4x245 maybe 2 left in the tank, then decided to do a burner again 12x135 slow super strict felt good. Next week shooting for 265x3 should get it but it's a big jump.

JM PRESS- up 10lbs hit my goal today 10x85, 10x85, 7x85, these are really paying off arms finally forming a little horseshoe

Incline DB Flyes-10x30, 10x35, 10x40 almost broke the mirror again fuckin rubber DB's are ridiculous they bounce like bouncey balls. I just set them down now can't drop them.

Called it a day back my neck was bothering me a little. I think the volume from last session was to high.

Laying out getting sun now loving it. Sierra Nevada micro-brew company has a booth at the ski resort today headed there in a few. Cut it back to beer this weekend then done.. No more sweets burger king, beer etc.. next week. I just got off the phone with my friend juniour from Miami he makes my boy spanky look weak. This guy is a tank ex-NY city firefighter and former PLer. He said his yr. long cycle he just did was Test E 250mg's week, 5iu's growth, 50mg's anavar 8 week 8 off, .25 arimidex, HCG. When I knew him before he was almost as wide as Cutler couldn't imagine him now he's 43 and still growing and going strong. Just thought id share that.

 

[leanbody]

Hey D great log - be careful w/ that pain - If I were you I'd do legs for a week & make sure it's healed whatever it is - plus you can do isolation arm exercises. In my recent experience when I try to "work thru" something like that it gets worse. Also take some ibuprophen (4 tabs) 2 times a day for a few days - that will reduce any inflammation you have there. IMO - better to be safe than sorry - u don't want to end up taking a month+ off...

PL style is real interesting - I want to get more into than - have to watch some more You Tube vids. JM's look good - those are killer!

Glad to see you're blowing off BK! - now go eat some chicken & brown rice - LOL