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10-04-2013, 11:08 AM #4721
Pre-workout meal
1 1/2c cooked rice
8oz ground chicken
Delts n traps today
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10-04-2013, 11:09 AM #4722
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10-04-2013, 11:17 AM #4723
Glad to see you posting again and that its nothing serious. Question on your kidney function, I had a similar problem 6 months ago. They told me to stop what I was doing or I would kill myself. I done some research, and like you stated, muscle mass has a lot to do with creatnine ratios. I believe it has something to do with muscle "waste" what ever that is. I looked at some big guys and their's was around 2.3! Which is basically 4stage kidney disease for most folks. Mine was 1.6, they told me it was high. They diagnosed me with CKD, i thought to myself "bullshit....That was when I was 10lbs heavier, I dropped down weight and got it down to 1.3. So with that done, I told myself I was not harming my body by taking in excess amounts of protein, food, creatine, so on.
On the other hand, the blood in the urine I never had. That is probably related to a kidney infection as you said. I believe you said you had an ultrasound done, I did as well and they said they were fine. Hope your's was the same. Keep posting great info! Enjoy following your thread.
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10-04-2013, 11:45 AM #4724
I don't really know what they are going to do regarding kidneys, just I have to go and see a specialist and have some tests. My creatine levels have always been high but I found it funny because they looked at me and said its due to your muscular size lol, I smiled and thought YES lets turn heads lol................
Thanks for the input most interesting
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10-04-2013, 11:46 AM #4725
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10-04-2013, 11:54 AM #4726Originally Posted by marcus300
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10-04-2013, 11:55 AM #4727
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10-04-2013, 11:56 AM #4728Originally Posted by Java Man
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10-04-2013, 12:00 PM #4729
My kidney and liver numbers were out of range once. I had to carry around a container and collect my urine for 24 hrs. Then ultra sound. The nephrologist said your fine. Your dr was over reacting. Creatnine level high but I was told that's based on a 160 lb man. Who doesn't lift. So again fine.
Just my experience.
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10-04-2013, 02:03 PM #4730
Ive also experianced something simar to this. Around a year ago i was getting a really bad pain in my chest, felt like it was in my heart. It got unbearable so i got took to hospital in an ambulance. They thought the lining around m heart was swollen and after further tests said my kidneys wernt working proply and my creatnine levels were high. They asked if i take drugs which i dont so tney were clueless until i mentioned steroids and they just blamed that straight away. They didnt have a clue! Anyway got an echo on my heart and it was ok then got put on a drip to flush my kidneys out and let me home after a week. I went to see a specialist who said that taking creatine can affect a blood test and show that kidneys arnt functioning proply when they actually are.
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10-04-2013, 02:48 PM #4731
Yes, totally my experience also Cape. First it was blood work out the ass, then it was ultrasound, then I had to 24 hour test which you know about peeing in it for 24 hours and I had to place mine in the fridge. it was weird, they said I had "some" protein in my urine but nothing out of the ordinary. I believe the more muscle mass you carry, the higher your number is going to be. I mean hell, we aren't your average "breed" of men walking into the doc's office with are shirts tight lol.
I am jealous of Marcus though, I didn't get the "must be your size" comment lol, maybe one day for me.
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10-04-2013, 02:59 PM #4732
That's the problem with medical tests. All of the numbers are based on an "average" - a sample of random people in the general population. If you ask me, those people have one foot in the grave, not us. This is why I get copies of all of my test results and go over it with my doc. So I can ask him specific questions about people who train with weights and carry a lot more lean mass than the "average" half dead McDonalds dweller.
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10-04-2013, 03:03 PM #4733
Thanks everybody for the kind words about my progress. I can't quote them all because it would be a huge post. You guys are cool.
It means a lot coming from this crowd. I was waiting for the "yeah but you're still kind of fat" comment because that's what is in my head lol. I suppose the day any of us thinks we've achieved perfection is the day we start on the path to being "average" so I'm glad I'm hypercritical. In a healthy way though. I don't contemplate what a shell of buckshot tastes like over it - it's motivational
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10-04-2013, 03:06 PM #4734
Lmao and I know they use the obese cuff to take Marcus' blood pressure
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10-04-2013, 03:12 PM #4735Originally Posted by Java Man
We all start somewhere and we all have a goal in mind. Becoming the inspiration for even just one other person is a great thing. Keep up the great work.
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10-04-2013, 03:13 PM #4736
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10-04-2013, 03:19 PM #4737
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10-04-2013, 03:21 PM #4738
I think this would be a smaller version of Marcus.
Planet Fitness TV Commercial, 'Big Girl's Workout' - iSpot.tv
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10-04-2013, 03:31 PM #4739
Ha, a MUCH smaller version of Marcus. And I hate everytime I see anything about Planet Fitness. It just makes me wanna throw up my last meal. They really get under my skin, im sure everyone feels this way. It would be hilarious if we all just went in there and picked those tread mill up end over end yelling and screaming lol!
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10-04-2013, 04:45 PM #4740
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10-04-2013, 04:53 PM #4741
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10-04-2013, 05:44 PM #4742
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10-05-2013, 02:12 AM #4743
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10-05-2013, 02:17 AM #4744
Pictures don't lie so you need to look at he transformation you have done. If you was under my wing I would say your doing everything right. Your losing bf slowly while increasing your muscle tissue - one of the best ways to lose some bf is to increase muscle mass so keep motivated and dedicated. Remember don't drop bf so quickly otherwise you risk of losing muscle tissue, do it slowly by tricking the body into burn fat as fuel so it doesn't eat away at your tissue. What ever your doing is on track just think what the next 12 months will look like
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10-05-2013, 02:25 AM #4745
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10-05-2013, 02:30 AM #4746Originally Posted by marcus300NO SOURCES GIVEN
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10-05-2013, 02:47 AM #4747
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10-05-2013, 03:34 AM #4748
Repost for someone
I can't emphasize enough how important it is to find the right training protocol for your body to grow. You have to try many training routines and find which one you respond best to. We also need to get in the right mind set when we walk in that gym, you going there for one purpose and if you don't push your body beyond what its capable of doing your not going to grow bigger. You want to be leaving that gym feeling like you just done 10 rounds with Tyson in his hay day. You have to go through the pain, you have to push and pull the hardest you have ever done before, you have to push your body to places where its never been before and push past the pain every single time you go in the gym.
Overload your body to a state were its screaming for you to stop and no matter what you couldn't do one more rep even if your life depended on it, if you don't train in this fashion your not training hard enough. Do you want to be bigger than anyone else, do you want to turn heads and do you want to have that monster size what no one else has got then if this is the case stop fvcking around in the gym and stop going through the motions and push past your limits and use methods what take you to hell and back.
I train that hard my eye balls shake and I find it hard to focus, I mentally prepare myself and think of things what make me angry and I push that last rep out no matter what. I kind of like the pain in certain bodyparts and I can push past it into a world of total hell, I feel like I am on fire and I swear I can feel the blood surging through my veins into the muscle what I am working. When I've done my last working set I know I cant perform another rep even if someone had a gun to my head and said you'll die if you don't do another rep, I know I've come to my limit and the sick thing about this is I actually enjoy it., I dream about it, I think about it and I cant wait to get back in the gym to do it again. Its like I'm self harming because the torture I go through is extremely painful but I know this is what I have to do to maintain what I've got and to build those extra few lbs of tissue. This is what separates the normal guys who look like they go to the gym to the fuking monsters what walk this earth
Now are you training hard enough? ask yourself can you train harder because if the answer is yes your restricting your gains and wasting money and time. Why spend all that money on gear, gh and food when your not attacking your body like you should be. Think about it and make your next workout like your going to war with yourself.
To get bigger thicker muscles you have to progressively overload your body with more weight or increase intensity to a point were your body as no alternative but to grow bigger to compensate the continuous overload it is under..
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10-05-2013, 03:48 AM #4749
repost
With HIT training we are specifically trying to stimulate a certain type of muscle fiber. We have different muscle fibers in the body and once you know how to train certain ones and the importance of making these grow you can design the ideal training routine to suit your goals. We are all aiming to add muscle tissue and we have to put ourselves under stress by progressively overloading our bodies so they have no alternative but to grow. All muscle contraction starts by nerves being activated, the stronger the nerve signal the more forceful muscle contraction can be applied to the lift. The nerves first get activated by the brain and this is where the mind muscle connection comes into play. I am always saying that you must get yourself in the right mind set for the working set, there are many ways to do this and ive explained many ways in my thread how I go about doing it, but the stronger the mind before the working set the better contraction and force can be applied to the muscle fibers. We can all do 10 reps with a certain weight but you can also really think about those ten reps and really activate the contraction in the muscle and work that muscle to the max and those reps will feel completely different. This is what separates a lot of people so before I move on really think about how you do reps and work that particular muscle to its max. I've seen many members saying they are doing so many reps with a certain amount of weight but I can say I bet a lot aren't really activating that muscle group to the max. Remember everything starts from within your brain, your inner self and how you go about attacking that working set. You have seen how I describe the zone I get myself into just prior to my working set and this is the zone you need to be in to fully work those muscle fibers to the max.
We are after activating the motoneurons within the network of nerves which is the signal for the muscle to contact, we have many different sizes but we are only interested in the large motonerurons which activate the large muscle fibers. We have slow switch and fast twitch fibers within the body and we are all made up of different amounts, that's why some of us grow bigger and faster and others struggle growing big thick muscles. Usually the guys who struggle with adding slabs of tissue on their frame are the guys who have more slow twitch fibers than fast, and the guys who are more genetically gifted with bodybuilding are the one who have more fast twitch. But either way you need to activate the fast twitch fibers and give yourself the best chance of building bigger larger muscles.The slow twitch ones are the ones what are more suited for endurance and are very resistant to fatigue the aerobic type athletes have a higher amount of these fibers over fast twitch.
Fast twitch muscle fibers are the ones we are concerned with activating and working. There are two types 2a and 2b. The type 2a ones are fibers which get activated when doing higher reps ranges lets say more than 12-15 reps, they are also the fibers what come into action around the 6-12 rep range. Type 2a fibers when activated correctly can grow in size and this is what many people tend to activate and see growth from when they start training. The type 2b fast twitch fibers are the ones what I adore lol these babies are the foundations of building bigger thicker muscles, if you activate these correctly they can grow tremendously in size and grow about 4 times the size of the 2a fast twitch fibers can, so you can see these are the ones what make the difference, but stimulating both type 2a and 2b fast twitch is getting the best out of both worlds but my personal aim and priority is to stimulate the type 2b fast twitch fibers and seriously breakdown these to get me some serious size on my frame.
What's the best way to stimulate the 2b fast twitch muscle fibers I hear you asking, well ive described it all the way through my thread but let me go over it again so you understand how important it is to have the right mind set what I speak of all the time and what kind of stimulation is needed to activate these tough fibers. Usually during a set of about 6-12 reps the type 2a are activated, you know the sets were your repping away and start struggle a little bit and rack it and move on. In basic terms your not going to true positive failure (I can go on and on what true positive failure is but trust me it takes along time to push your body to this limit and a lot of mental dedication its an advance training protocol) now if you took your set to true positive failure and you cant do anymore this is the time when the type 2b fast twitch fibers are activated, once you activate these fibers this is the best potential to really make your muscle grow bigger and thicker.
You will grow with normal sets and reps with modest intensity but if you want serious growth than you have to take your working set to true positive failure, this means using a weight what is heavy enough to make that working set very difficult and then going past true positive failure. Remember the type 2a fast twitch do all do all the work until you get to true positive failure then the type 2b come into play and these are the ones what produce the biggest gains in muscle size. You have to progressively overload your body each time you train, this means add more weight (or reps until you can add more weight) to stimulate growth, you also need to make sure your activating the type 2b fast twitch fibers which only get involved when you go to true positive failure. Your rep range needs to be between 6-12 reps at the failure point, I prefer around 6-8 reps range at failure. This is why its wise to have a partner when trying to activate the type 2b fast twitch fibers because you may think your going to positive failure but you wont be you need that reassurance of a partner who can just take that small amount of weight of the bar at true positive failure so you can mentally get past this sticking point. There are many advance protocols what you can use to get yourself to true positive failure which I've discussed in my thread.
HIT training will activate the tough type 2b muscle fibers and going to true positive will recruit all the muscle fibers which will give you the best chance of some serious tissue growth. Using advance training protocols like drop sets, rest pause, forced, negatives, supersets and even partials can be used to further your beyond failure training to help you activate the type 2b fast twitch fibers.
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10-05-2013, 05:15 AM #4750
Cardio this morning with arms, really great the cardio session got heart rate up and felt the blood flowing hard.
Then onto arms did
Straight bar cable pulls x2 hard set
Ez curls same as above
Db curls
Tricep rope pulls really slow and controlled
Then single hand rope pulls for the inner tricep head no need fir heavy weight but felt great
Behind the head db raises
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10-05-2013, 05:35 AM #4751
Basically with Marcus reposting those last 2 he is saying look you dumb som bitches listen to me I know what I'm talking about. Why are you not listening to me. Arrrrr
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10-05-2013, 05:36 AM #4752
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7omW/planet-f...-girls-workout
See if this one works Marcus.
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10-05-2013, 05:38 AM #4753
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10-05-2013, 05:39 AM #4754
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10-05-2013, 05:52 AM #4755
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10-05-2013, 05:57 AM #4756
LOL no i'm not, I've been speaking to a couple of guys in pm and wanted to bump certain posts for them to read. You lot are leaping ahead with gains and leaving me behind errrrgggggggggggggggg
Having 3 days rest from the gym and carb loading lol..........yes you heard me right slowly slowly wins the race, also my body needs cals
shave your beard off
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10-05-2013, 06:01 AM #4757
Yes I do aswell but I also do the single D ring pushing on the cables and throw my arm out at the bottom and it really hits the outer head
Nice, use what ever you can to get your head in the right mind set. You have all the tools and never forget the biggest tool is your brain/mind set pre doing your working set. Never fail, release the adrenalin and lets stimulate those tough muscle fibers what produce thick big muscles
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10-05-2013, 09:13 AM #4758
Alright damn it. I have had 2 full weeks of lower intensity training. I have had 6 days off out of 14. May I please go and kill some shit starting Monday morning? I'm coming into the 5-6 week of this little cycle. Things are starting to happen. Am I cleared for takeoff ?
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10-05-2013, 09:17 AM #4759
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10-05-2013, 09:21 AM #4760
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