Thats great to hear shes joining in on your passion. My gf is contemplatinf joining the gym lol. Dont want to force herOriginally Posted by Gallowmere
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Thats great to hear shes joining in on your passion. My gf is contemplatinf joining the gym lol. Dont want to force her
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Arms later. Cant wait.
Had a few days of anxiety there. Feeling like id done something awful... ive been blasting my gyno with 40mg of nolva, wonder if it was that...
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10mg of levitra. Pump here we go
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My arms really need a day to rest. They still feel painfully numb from the torment i put them through lasy night during the workout.
But still im heading in to do back. Making an extra effort to keep the tension off the biceps.
Fat is piling on a little now. Went up a notch or two on my belts and my stomach is protruding a little more.
Gonna cut for summer. Wondering how much time to give myself for a nice slow cut
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Wide as a fuckin barn door tonight. Rods of steel going down my back. Felt awesome
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Arms chest and back are in bits. Great.
Slightly concerned that nolva is causing me eyesight problems. I will keep watch but its the prime suspect
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Take care everyone with the weather. Nightmare
Scotlands hefty bad at the moment - red warning where i am
Last edited by hollowedzeus; 02-28-2018 at 09:35 AM.
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Fucking mad eh. Lol lol.
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Horrendous. Motorways are shut. Hope its better up your way mate.
Am absolutely sick of the snow. Dogd are enjoying it though lol
Take care if youre out.
Last edited by hollowedzeus; 03-01-2018 at 02:55 AM.
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97kg getting heavy fast. Fat gain is piling on. Perhaps eating too much.
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Went out earlier lol lol. My brother got stuck on the M80/M876 yesterday. 4pm got in at 6am this morning hahaha.
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God sake. That would have been a long cold night. If i was at uni yesterday that would have been me getting in at 6am.
Went out earlier lol lol. My brother got stuck on the M80/M876 yesterday. 4pm got in at 6am this morning hahaha.
Thankfully i was off
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Away to melt some chest. Been unable to get to the gym from the snow but im back.
I am nearing 98kg. I will do a small cut at 100kg, possibly some carb cycling.
I want to lean up for july/august for a holiday so ill squeeze another bulk in before the cut.
I have some sarms that i had incase i had to crash my test last year. Will probably fire them in at some point this year.
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10mg levitra 200mg caffeine
Shoulders.
FUCKKKK
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Legs tonight
Am shit at legs. Cant get the intensity of other body parts in the slightest.
Calves and hamstrings are okay but any form of pressing with the legs just feels uncomfortable and i know in my head that i hate it so it doesnt help pushing to and beyond failure.
Legs will continue to let me down if i countinue to have this attitude
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Try squats, v squat, hack squat or lunges if leg pressing doesn't feel right. Make sure you have the right leg stance in line with your structure and hip width. Practise breathing and bracing it will make you a superman and if all this fails I'll come up and show you in person how to get tree trunks
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I did get alot better at bracing. That chris duffin vid you sent ages ago helped. The problem is im not lifting enough weight for bracing to be an issue lol.
I dont do normal deadlifts from the floor but if i went for a 1rp id get 180kg 185kg i reckon. I struggle with 80kg on the bar for squats. I have no doubt that my flat bench is more than my squat
Youd be embarrassed if people saw you training legs with me lol.
It sounds stupid and i just need to get over it because im making leaps and bounds on everything else.
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I'm going to help. When i get home I'll post something what will hopefully ignite the fire for legs and also change you mind set. If it doesn't work I'll come and i will film our workout. You'll need a week off work by the way
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I cant wait
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Zeus, Its doesn't matter what weight you are doing on squatting breathing and bracing will aid you so much, its also something what will come naturally once you have mastered how to do it. Forgot about using bracing only when going heavy because that's a mistake, you use it no matter what even when warming up with just the bar. Bracing will create a volume of pressure with your trunk and will translate into raw power and strength, you have to train your diaphragm and create this hard column going through your body and you will be amazed. I know your not a powerlifter but this practise will aid your performance and also help you to build bigger legs.
I also want you to stop doing 1RP in everything exercise you do, I know some guys will disagree with me but each to their own but wtf are you doing them for because all whats going to happen is injury and it wont build any tissue and we are not ego lifting so stop this silly practise because once you master certain things strength will follow and when you see guys doing 1rp you will be doing the same but hitting reps with yours so fuk them off imho.
With squatting its going to be hard to fully coach you without watching you squat and find out what could help you in this area , but let me just go through a few things with you. First you need to really warm up and don't go straight into squatting. You need to stretch your hams because these could be very tight which is taking your squatting line right out of balance which will cause injury or poor squatting so warm them up and stretch them out. I also want you to go through stretching your claves out and loosen them up. Also ankle mobility you need to get this spot on, so place your one foot around 6" from the wall and with your heal on the floor you need to bring your knee forward and get it to touch the wall without your ankle coming off the floor, if you need pictures of this I can send them. At first you will feel pain in your ankle and calve and you will be many inches away from touching the wall but keep with it slowing push and even place a weight on your knee and let it move it forward towards the wall, keep this up for a min at a time then relax and start over again, once you got one knee to the wall without pain swap legs and start again.
So, you have now hopefully stretched your hams, calves and increased your ankle mobility. This will take probably around 20mins or even longer. Now I want you to sit down into the hole of the squat naturally. Now look down and look at your feet and move them around and find a spot were they feel a lot more comformtable without them straining on your knees or hips, point the outwards, try pointing them forwards and just play around with this until you feel the right stance for your feet, now do the same with how far apart they are, try wider stance, bring them in to a middle stance and try narrow, but att all times keep your foot ankle placement what you feel best with. The stance will depend on your hip alignment, all this will help to put you in the best position with your levels hips and ankle to produce the best squatting posting without going out of your line for your body.
Also remember with bracing comes breathing and with this comes hand placement on the bar and also engaging the lats but trying the bend the bar over your shoulders/traps. You also need to make sure what feel best high bar squat or low bar squat again this is going to be best for you to line up but once you have fully warmed up and you have done all the above and I mean everything get some bar only squats under your belt and make sure your feet position, width, brace, breathing and back engagement is working like a machine. Once you have done all this start adding weight and squat with power and be confident, build the weight up slowly just get use to squatting and trust me. Infact I know before I gear from you again this has improved your squatting ten fold I know it.
Now, squat may well not be for you but I doubt it but lets say its not then pick your next choice - this could be hack, leg press, reserve v squat, lying squat machine or what ever your choice is but what ever it is go through the warm up and make sure your body is lined up to give the best performance it can and make sure you loosen up and make sure your warmed up to attack your legs properly.
I can't have it when you say you just cant train legs, have you seen some of these cunts in the gym and around with huge top bodies and no legs. What fuking clowns do they look like, fuking plastic cunty beach bodybuilder so don't become one of these all because you can hide your legs in jeans, you don't want to become a cunt so. You need to make sure you are fuelled for your legs, remember its halve your whole body in one workout so it does take it out of you so be ready and make sure you got enough fuel inside and attack your legs. Get that mind set, get that aggression flowing, don't fail, be safe and work those legs to the max. Ive just gone over a little bit and ive got more to contribute but come on you can do it. Do those compound leg movements and I just want to add one little thing, after your legs including hams and leg ex at the end grab a pair of db's and do some pivot lunges start light and work up and one leg at a time, by the time you are down you should be close to being sick or unable to walk if you don't experience any of these I am coming up to show you what hell is.
Hope that helps and don't ignore what ive said do it.
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Presses? Leg presses? ah ha ha ha....
SQUATTIN'
Down the road, in a gym far away
A young man was heard to say,
No matter what I do, my legs won't grow!
He tried leg extensions, leg curls, leg presses too.
Trying to cheat, these sissy workouts he'd do!
From the corner of the gym where the big guys train,
Through a cloud of chalk and the midst of pain,
Where the big iron rides high, and threaten lives,
Where the noise is made with big forty-fives,
A deep voice bellowed as he wrapped his knees,
A very big man with legs like trees,
Laughing as he snatched another plate from the stack,
Chalked his hands and monstrous back,
Said, "Boy, stop lying and don't say you've forgotten!
Trouble with you is you ain't been SQUATTIN!"
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I need a fuckin slap i do mate to tell the truth
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Just had to share it with you mate for your own good
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Technique wise can be a bastard to learn tbh but in the long run it is more than worth the investment...
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Its anything that involves pressing upwards. Squats, lunges, leg press.
Its a mental barrier that i cant get through.
Imo ive made a great improvment to my physique. Ive got alot bigger and almost 20kg heavier this year my dumbell bench went from 40kg db to 48kg. My shoulder press went up a few sets of db also.... everything i got stronger at.
....except legs. Ive stayed the same or went backwards.
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I wouldn't pass a chance to train with marcus
for making the effort easier I grunt a lot, I think my head would explode if I didn't grunt loud enough. Screw what the other guys think you gotta train the legs
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Me neitherI wouldn't pass a chance to train with marcus
for making the effort easier I grunt a lot, I think my head would explode if I didn't grunt loud enough. Screw what the other guys think you gotta train the legs
Theres wee girls that come straight from school that probably squat and press more than me. I dont think making a racket with 80kg on my back would look cool at all lol.
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Had to abandon my session tonight due to a severe headache. I will be discontinuing nolvadex in an attempt to stop this.
I can only hope its not a clot or something
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New diet starting monday. Gonna try cut back the fat.
Eating maintenance ish 2500 - 2800
500g chicken
80 oats
500g brown rice
6 eggs
500ml milk
2 scoops protein
257p
232c
61f
2500kcal
Sample day
Going to use cardio to create a deficit
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Not forgot just give me couple of days my man
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We all have lives outside the forum big man. No problem
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Cant wait to start peeling the fat off. Going to spend my cardio time improving my fitness.
Hopefully i will improve my sprinting and be able to run 4 miles without dying.
Going to go ahead with the diet posted above for as long as it works then ill have a bash at carb cycling again. Try and figure it out this time
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Thank you for taking the time to write that up.
Just to clarify, i dont do one rep maxes. Just took a guess at what they would be.
My warmup for squats at this moments is a small 2 or 3 minutes quick ham, quad, calf , adductor and abductor stretch. Obviously pure shite compared to what needs to be done.
Im very very tight in every muscle. Ive neglected proper stretching and mobility work. I can barely hold the bar in a high bar squat due to my shoulders not being supple enough... nevermind a low bar.
Ill attach a pic at the end showing my leg development over half a year. Its not the best. Ive essentially been training hit (as close as i can) for everything else and dilly dallying for legs.
Ill do a full write up of my next leg session.
Going to look out pictures of the stretches you mentioned aswell as the pivot lunges. Ive saw you post about them before.
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Bit thicker but not good enough.
Mental attitude towards legs needs to change
Mental attitude during legs needs to change.
I struggle to spark the adrenalin like during shoulders or chest. Its missing and i need to find it
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Please excuse the underwear in the 2nd photo.
Must be a low t thing. Myers had somethinf similar in his photo ages ago lol
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Getting into the training zone mentally is hard work, I've been approached many times via pm on this subject and ive talked a lot about it within my diary thread but it is extremely hard and probably has hard to learn as learning how to train how I've described throughout this thread.
First let me try and get this across about the mental side of training.
When you see Dorian speak or train you can see he is mentally as well as physically strong. Many of the top Pro's seem to have this ability to have this mental focus to train to the level what is required to stimulate those fibers what seem to grow the biggest. I really do think its something what can be learnt and by perseverance we can get this mental focus and use it to its fullest. I've always had the motivation to train and get big and nothing in my life would stop me but I did have to learn how to release those feelings to train to a level were i wanted to get to. Over time I got the mental edge to train to true positive failure I don't know why but its something over the years what came naturally to me and I've mentioned many times within this thread how I try and get into this zone. For me we all have our little things we do to prepare ourselves before one of those working sets what is going to test us mentally as well as physically, I feel this is an individual thing what you have to find what works for you.
For me I think about certain things what have happened to me in my past what ignites my adrenalin and releases an inner aggression what I can only state as unstoppable. I talk to my inner self and take away everything around me, I am alone and only can hear my inner voice speaking and I drift to a time and relive an event in my mind like I am there again, the feelings what I felt at the time I feel again, the atmosphere I feel around me exactly like it was, I relive the exact circumstances at that moment and how I felt after and this completely isolates me from the outside world and I am stuck in the past reliving an event. At a moments notice I can come straight out into this rage and channel these emotions into the working set with the adrenalin flowing and my inner voice shouting at me. I also use another method which works for me also, I can also concentrate and watch myself doing the working and yet again take myself out of the situation I am in and go through in my head what is about to happen and I can trigger the inner aggression. I know I want it so much, I know I have to take myself to places were my body has not been before, I know its going to hurt but I kind of like that knowing I am about to inflict pain onto myself, this again ignites all these feelings inside of me that make me feel unstoppable and no one could out lift or train with the same intensity as me. That's what I feel when I am in this zone I know no one can come close I truly believe this and with that positive thinking I can take myself to failure and beyond. That's the two ways what do it for me.
I know guys who listen to music and crank it up and get into the zone, I know guys who walk up and down thinking about the set and getting into the zone, I know guys who want to be slapped which I've done in the past which instantly releases the fighting instinct which allows you to lift more than you would if you weren't in the zone. The problem is with some guys is learning how to get into this zone, its all about mind control and taking yourself away from where you are and talking to your inner self and produce these feelings. Some people can't do this and it needs to be learnt over weeks/months just like training to true positive failure like we do with HIT. Ever watch Branch pre working set how he gets himself into the zone, you can actually see his eyes change and his whole demeanour into this animal what looks unstoppable, same with Dorian and many others they all have the ability to get into this zone and recruit those tough fibers what only get activated when your at failure and beyond.
I do watch Youtube videos many times before I go training because this for me motivates myself and helps me prepare for what I am about to do in the gym. I know some of you feed of this thread before working out because I can tell with what you say before and after you train, its all about motivation, dedication and having the mental focus to keep positive and have that inner drive. We all have been under a BB with some serious weight on thinking to yourself I am going to fail this, you even say to your partner watch me I think I am going to struggle with this one and guess what happens???? you struggle and the set is a waste of time. We all have been there and ive been there many times in the past thinking this way trying to break into new areas without having the positive mind set or approach what it takes do accomplish this.
Learn how to train your mind and you will develop further not only mentally but physically aswell. I've read a lot of mind control, self help books and I am trained in areas to help direct and open peoples minds. I really enjoy NLP which helped me when I was going through times of trouble in my mind and I couldn't focus on anything. You have to learn this behaviour if it doesn't come naturally, but simple steps and trying what works for you will point you in the right direction were you to can get into the zone what will help you develop further in your training.
ARE YOU TRAINING HARD ENOUGH?
I've had a few PM's about training and cycles and one thing what shines through to me is that a lot are not training hard enough they dont fully understand how to train correctly. We spend so much time designing cycles and eliminating sides we think we have the perfect environment to grow into something what looks like it was carved out of stone but after 15 weeks of these super cycles most are pming me asking how can they stop the gains sliding away. We assume members are training hard enough and intense enough but in reality they aren't. I see alot of members just coasting through their training sessions and doing a set number of reps and sets and think the diet and AAS will transform them into a living god but all what happens is the gains slide away and they end up going back on gear to get some kind of size back.
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 FUKING 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
The mind set you walk into the gym with goes a long way. Releasing the inner aggression so its controlled when lifting the weight is the key to maximizing gains and stimulating growth. Control your mind and you will have the best chance at exploding out of your skin. Find what works for you to get into this zone, sit silently, listen to music, think of a time what really makes you angry or do what ever it takes to get yourself in the zone to lift to your max. This isn't easy to master but once you do the rewards are outstanding. The mind is a very powerful thing and everything starts within the brain so train your inner self to get into the zone. When you watch most of the pro's train you will see them in the zone, its a natural thing what comes easy to them. Think about this next time your about to do your working set
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.
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Figured since i already had a headache id take 20mcg of clen this morning to clear my head.
Lolol
A 2 hour journey out of the house turned into all day... and as result ive not brought all my food.
Good start to the cut....
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Haha, I found that venturing back into my love of JRPGs works fantastically for my cuts. I’ll start diving into some old Final Fantasys or Xenos and the next thing I know, I completely forgot to eat for six hours. Smash in some chicken boob really fast, then forget for another few hours.
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Im a pretty avid gamer. Canny resist the xbox.
Always makes it hard to eat.
More a fps guy myselfim starving and its only day 2 of the cut. Mindset changes everything lol.
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Fuck that yohimbine nearly took me out this morning. 45 mins fasted cardio. Hr was at 180 for a bit then scalef it back to 155 about half way
Constand cold shivering and skin tingling. That was fun.
Going to the gym later on to do shoulders also so i think i might have some extra carbs. Im fuckin STARVING.
Trying yo get a quick effective cut in. Before i go back to bulking. Ill make it as efficient as possible to ensure im not doing it for too lol. Although im dying for a sandwit h right now i will go home and eat eggs (worst food on the planet)
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