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Approved Log My First Log - Cleaning Up and Locking In Before Blast Off
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@Frogger Solid update bro.....keep killing it.........
Not many updates this week. I did a decent amount of bodyweight exercise and averaged about 20k steps while away and I hit a nice chest and arms session with a buddy I hadn't caught up with in a few years on Monday in his gym. My shoulder is feeling way better but I'm still going to take it easy with vertical pressing to make sure it recovers properly. I got home from interstate on Tuesday morning and have spent most of my time since then in the garden, including my first go at concreting to put in the supports for what will be a living garden fence with plants growing up a lattice. Carrying a few hundred kg of concrete one bag at a time down a narrow set of stairs wasn't the highlight of the day.
As for physique stuff, my weight is still sitting around 83-84kg. I'm not focusing on keeping calories super low as honestly I'm happy going into the blast with a gradual calorie increase from the point I'm at. Vascularity in my arms is still increasing, with some horizontal bicep outer forearm lines showing at rest. With a slight pump I can even follow my delt veins all the way down into my forearms now.
Planning on getting back into the gym tonight but it seems I'm rapidly coming down sick. I thought I had some hayfever in the morning but now I'm getting nausea and overheating on and off. Hopefully it ends up being nothing and I can go move some heavy stuff. Unless I end up being properly sick I'll be off to get bloods after work on Monday and then it should be time to bump up my dosages. The game plan lifting wise is to lower my overall volumes and significantly increase the load on my working sets across the board. Still haven't recieved a surgery date, just a confirmation that I'm on the waiting list.
As for physique stuff, my weight is still sitting around 83-84kg. I'm not focusing on keeping calories super low as honestly I'm happy going into the blast with a gradual calorie increase from the point I'm at. Vascularity in my arms is still increasing, with some horizontal bicep outer forearm lines showing at rest. With a slight pump I can even follow my delt veins all the way down into my forearms now.
Planning on getting back into the gym tonight but it seems I'm rapidly coming down sick. I thought I had some hayfever in the morning but now I'm getting nausea and overheating on and off. Hopefully it ends up being nothing and I can go move some heavy stuff. Unless I end up being properly sick I'll be off to get bloods after work on Monday and then it should be time to bump up my dosages. The game plan lifting wise is to lower my overall volumes and significantly increase the load on my working sets across the board. Still haven't recieved a surgery date, just a confirmation that I'm on the waiting list.
If you're sick, be careful not to get sicker. Throw up some pics after training and some training updates. @Frogger
Yeah I came down sick as hell. Barely got any sleep last night because of it and sneezed my throat raw which has brought on a cough too. I'm just glad a fever hasn't come on (yet).
Dont train, you need to increase vitamin intake and vitamin C and D intake with multi vitamins.
I'd say I'm 90% past the cold/flu that came over me late last week and just dealing with the left over mucous and raw throat so I trained this morning before work. It feels like it's been forever since I've been to my gym and they've put some new equipment in too. My shoulder is feeling far better but I'm still avoiding anything that threatens to make it flare up again for the time being. Blood pressure is sitting in a great range at the moment with an afternoon reading of 120/70. Weight is pretty stationary at 83-84kg which I don't have a problem with as I mentioned a few days ago.
31/3/25
Chest + triceps (+ a bit of biceps for a pump)
Dumbbell bench - very low incline
15x20kg (warmup set)
10x30kg
10x40kg
10x40kg
15x30kg
My first time putting the 40kg dumbbells up for bench I believe. Getting your own weight in DBs into position isn't the easiest thing in the world. Pushing the weight was easier than getting it into position by far.
Cable Crossover - I'm not sure how accurate these weights are. This setup feels lighter for a given weight than the pulley set I'm used to
10x20kg
10x30kg
10x40kg
10x35kg
10x25kg
Tricep pushdown - rope
20x20kg
10x30kg
7x35kg
10x25kg
Dumbbell curls
10x15kg
10x20kg
10x17.5kg
10x15kg
10x12.5kg
Dips - chest focus
10
10
11
End of session
Pumps were definitely there but weren't amazing and I'm putting that down to still being a bit sick. I'm pushing the start of my blast by about a week so my body can fully recover from the cold before I get my bloods and then it'll be a go. I've attached a couple of pictures below but you'll have to forgive the terrible lighting and angles (doesn't help that I'm pale as hell too). The side profile is just to show I'm not quite as fat as the first picture might look. Definitely not in the best shape of my life after missing a good chunk of training due to travel and illness, but not in the worst either.
31/3/25
Chest + triceps (+ a bit of biceps for a pump)
Dumbbell bench - very low incline
15x20kg (warmup set)
10x30kg
10x40kg
10x40kg
15x30kg
My first time putting the 40kg dumbbells up for bench I believe. Getting your own weight in DBs into position isn't the easiest thing in the world. Pushing the weight was easier than getting it into position by far.
Cable Crossover - I'm not sure how accurate these weights are. This setup feels lighter for a given weight than the pulley set I'm used to
10x20kg
10x30kg
10x40kg
10x35kg
10x25kg
Tricep pushdown - rope
20x20kg
10x30kg
7x35kg
10x25kg
Dumbbell curls
10x15kg
10x20kg
10x17.5kg
10x15kg
10x12.5kg
Dips - chest focus
10
10
11
End of session
Pumps were definitely there but weren't amazing and I'm putting that down to still being a bit sick. I'm pushing the start of my blast by about a week so my body can fully recover from the cold before I get my bloods and then it'll be a go. I've attached a couple of pictures below but you'll have to forgive the terrible lighting and angles (doesn't help that I'm pale as hell too). The side profile is just to show I'm not quite as fat as the first picture might look. Definitely not in the best shape of my life after missing a good chunk of training due to travel and illness, but not in the worst either.
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@Frogger you actually leaned out during your sickeness bro i like the abs but going bavck into training start doing more cardio too get the lungs moving and push it
Cardio will be back on every session once I beat the last of this cold/flu. My gym just put in new cardio equipment that isn't 20 years old and flogged out so that'll be a great change
new cardio machines are the best they feel good too bro
The old treadmills weren't just shaky, they were poorly designed from the start. I'd end up skinning my knuckles on the control panel most of the time I ran on them.
I believe they've also got an inbody scanner (big standing unit, not an impedance scale) to unveil soon so we'll see how accurate that is soon hopefully
i had shaky ones as a BB gym bro lol
over in Indiana i see a few good gyms these days shit is falling apart
You won't go wrong with this type of training. Very good high volume. I like it.
Bro, you push in some big weights
but I want to see some red meat pictures.
but I want to see some red meat pictures.
