Jason’s BodyBlog

  Cals Fat Carb Prot
Real Gains from Universal ( 133 gram )  523 5 75 45
SteelEdge from Athletic Edge Nutrition ( 1 serving )  82 0 15 0
Milk, calcium fortified, cow’s, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 2 cup )  180 0 26 18
Real Gains from Universal ( 88.6 gram )  349 3 50 30
Elite Whey, Banana from Dymatize ( 1 serving )  112 2 3 23
Dextrose by NOW ( 5 tablespoon )  180 0 48 0
Egg, whole, fried ( 2 large )  181 14 1 12
OSCAR MAYER, Ham (chopped with natural juice) ( 1 serving )  52 3 1 5
Bread, white, made from home recipe or purchased at a bakery, toasted ( 2 thick slice (3-3/4" x 5" x 5/8") )  315 6 55 9
Cheese, processed, American or Cheddar type ( 1 slice (1 oz) )  95 7 2 6
Turkey Subway 6" Honey Oat with Cheese ( 2 serving )  760 17 108 48
Game meat, deer, cooked, roasted ( 3 oz )  134 3 0 26
Beef jerky ( 1 cup, pieces )  369 23 10 30
Enchilada with beef, beans, and cheese ( 4 enchilada or enchirito )  966 49 97 41
Milk, calcium fortified, cow’s, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 1 cup )  90 0 13 9
Micellar Casein, Pure - *********** ( 1 serving )  110 1 0 25
Total  4498 133 503 325

Week 6/ Day 1

Comments
Glad to be back to work. Long weekend. Saturday I had to get up at 6am and go to work. There was a hazardous waist recycling program going on from 9am to 12pm for people to just drop stuff off for free. We’ve been doing a lot of equipment upgrades so I filled up the truck and brought it all over there. After that I went home and I put in the vanity and vanity top, faucet, Medicine Cabinet, Lights, and new outlet. Put trim around the vanity and sealed it up. Also, got outside for a little bit and did some landscaping. Really nice day outside.

Sunday I had to get up at 6:30am to go walk for the March of Dimes. It was a nice walk starting out through some nature trails then ended up going through part of the city to go back to the starting point. It was a long walk though, 8 miles, and by the end the sun was just baking everyone. I ended up with a really good sun burn and wind burn. After that I got home and finished putting on the top caps and most all of the trim for the stair case. Needless to say I didn’t do any GPP work on Sunday after the 8 mile walk.

So, I didn’t get to sleep in like I normally do on the weekends. After the walk my hips were really sore and still are this morning. It hurts to raise my legs. I was able to wake up okay this morning mentally but my body didn?t want to move. Also, woke up with a slight temperature this morning but it wasn’t to high so I still went into the gym. I think it’s just from the long weekend and lots of sun.

Energy level after waking up: 1 still asleep/passing out/puking and 10 exploding
1

Energy level once in the gym:
7

Energy level after workout:
2

Time to complete workout:
37m

The Workout

DE Bench
Bench @ 60% 4 different grips
12×2@165

Supplemental Work
Mid Pin Presses
1×3@225, 245
1×1@275 PR!!

I moved through the DE Bench work pretty good and quickly. Then I went into some Sup work with the Mid height pin presses and started to slow down. I was just going to hit 255 for three again but I noticed this slow down after the second set and got kind of peeved about it so I decided to load up the weights and just hit a PR for 1. It went up pretty smoothly too but doubt I would have been able to hit it for two. I paused on top thinking about it but told myself it’s not an ME day and didn’t want to miss.

Assistance Work
Front/Side/Rear Delt Combo
4×10@20

Close Neutral Grip Lat Pulldowns
1×10@180
3×6@220

B/W:197
B/F:15.6

  Cals Fat Carb Prot
Real Gains from Universal ( 133 gram )  523 5 75 45
SteelEdge from Athletic Edge Nutrition ( 1 serving )  82 0 15 0
Milk, calcium fortified, cow’s, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 2 cup )  180 0 26 18
Real Gains from Universal ( 88.6 gram )  349 3 50 30
Elite Whey, Banana from Dymatize ( 1 serving )  112 2 3 23
Dextrose by NOW ( 5 tablespoon )  180 0 48 0
Oats, raw ( 2 cup )  622 10 109 26
Beef jerky ( 1 cup, pieces )  369 23 10 30
Turkey Subway 6" Honey Oat with Cheese ( 2 serving )  760 17 108 48
Egg, white only, raw ( 4 large egg white )  66 0 1 14
Orange, raw ( 1 large (3-1/16" dia) )  86 0 22 2
Mixed nuts, NFS ( 0.5 cup )  438 40 15 12
Tuna, fresh, baked or broiled ( 10 oz, boneless, cooked )  434 11 1 77
Olive oil ( 1 tablespoon )  119 14 0 0
Rice, brown, long-grain, cooked ( 1 cup )  216 2 45 5
Micellar Casein, Pure - *********** ( 1 serving )  110 1 0 25
Milk, calcium fortified, cow’s, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 1 cup )  90 0 13 9
Total  4737 128 539 363

Well, I guess bodyspace does say beta. Can’t change my body stats right now but I’ve pleasently broke over 197 this morning.  I can’t wait to hit my 200lbs milestone. I would have never EVER believed that I’d ever weigh that much. Never in my wildest dreams. It still seems wrong to me some how that I’ll be 200lbs. Coming from being 135lbs out of college. CRAZY!!!

B/W 197.6

B/F: 15.8%

Week 5/ Day 4

Comments
I hadn’t touch the bathroom remodel in a little while so did some work on it last night. Finished up the backwall and all the walls and texturizing is done. Ripped out the old vanity and sink. Will put a new one in tonight and maybe the new medicine cabinet and lights. Then there will still be some new outlets to put in, tile parts of the wall, tile the floor, finish off the closet area.

Hips were still sore last night so I did some walking up and down the stairs with some weight in my arms to try and losen them up. I decided that after it felt fairly nice while bringing down the old sink top. So, I went back up with it and back down with it several times for about 15minutes. It probably weighed about 25lbs. This morning the hips were ready to go. My triceps are slightly sore this morning. Not an all out DOMS but still there.

Energy level after waking up: 1 still asleep/passing out/puking and 10 exploding
1

Energy level once in the gym:
9

Energy level after workout:
3

Time to complete workout:
35m

The Workout

DE SQ/DL
Box Squats @ 57%
10×2@230

Assistance Work
BB Lounges
4×8@135

Hypers
4×8@35 w/ 5s hold on top

Hanging Leg Raises
4×15

Seated Calf Raises
5×6@140 w/ a good pause on top of each rep

B/W:197.6
B/F:15.8

Cals Fat Carb Prot
Real Gains from Universal ( 133 gram ) 523 5 75 45
SteelEdge from Athletic Edge Nutrition ( 1 serving ) 82 0 15 0
Milk, calcium fortified, cow’s, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 2 cup ) 180 0 26 18
Real Gains from Universal ( 88.6 gram ) 349 3 50 30
Elite Whey, Banana from Dymatize ( 1 serving ) 112 2 3 23
Dextrose by NOW ( 5 tablespoon ) 180 0 48 0
Oats, raw ( 1.5 cup ) 467 8 81 19
Chicken, with bone, NS as to part, broiled, light or dark meat, NS as to skin eaten ( 4 large piece (yield after cooking, bone removed) ) 872 50 0 100
Chicken, with bone, NS as to part, broiled, light or dark meat, NS as to skin eaten ( 4 small piece (yield after cooking, bone removed) ) 332 19 0 38
Game meat, deer, cooked, roasted ( 6 oz ) 269 5 0 51
Macaroni, whole wheat, cooked, fat not added in cooking ( 1 cup, cooked ) 173 1 37 7
Chicken, breast, with or without bone, roasted, skin not eaten ( 4 oz, boneless, cooked, skinless ) 183 4 0 34
Alfredo sauce ( 0.25 cup ) 63 4 4 2
Bread stick, soft, prepared with garlic and parmesan cheese ( 1 large stick or slice ) 220 9 28 6
Mango, raw ( 8 oz yields ) 104 0 27 1
Micellar Casein, Pure - *********** ( 1 serving ) 110 1 0 25
Milk, calcium fortified, cow’s, fluid, skim or nonfat ( 1 cup ) 90 0 13 9
Total 4308 111 406 408

Week 5/ Day 3

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Yesterday was the off day. I wasn’t feeling to hot in the afternoon. Headache and just felt like I was getting a tempurature. My right hip was really sore by the end of the day too. It hurt to lift my leg straight up. My body will only handle those dealifts with an offset for one more week and that’s it. After today’s ME bench and Monday’s DE Bench doing pin presses I feel really beat up. Both of those exercises, pin press and dl with offset, are probably the hardest on the body out of anything I do. I’ll need a deload week after these two weeks.

Energy level after waking up: 1 still asleep/passing out/puking and 10 exploding
2

Energy level once in the gym:
8

Energy level after workout:
4

Time to complete workout:
42m

The Workout

ME Bench
Low Pin Presses
1×3@bar, 95, 115, 135, 165, 185, 205, 225
1×1,miss@255PR!
1xmiss@270
1×1@245

I almost had the 270. I got it about three inches up off the pins and just couldn’t get it passed that and get a lockout. Looks like some four boards after next week.

Assistance Work
Lat machine Pulldowns
1×12@157.5
3×5@217.5

Seated Cleans
4×8@30

DB Tricep Extensions
1×15@25
3×10@30

Laying legs straight out in a V situps (have no idea what else to call these)
1×15
1xfish flopping around
Decided to get as many out of the first set as I could as I knew the second set would just be horrible.

Kneeling Ab pull-downs
3×15@150

B/W:196.4
B/F:15.6

To me the ME day is all about the PR but I have to keep in mind there are two main goals for a ME day.

1)Hit the PR!!! even if it’s for 5, 3, 2, or 1 rep or even if it’s for volume.
Like if I hit 365 next week for what I did as a PR this week and still miss at 395 I’ll go back down to say 350 and get a rep or two in to bring up the volume from what I did this week.

2)Hit at least three reps at and above 90% of your 1RM. My max at the DL is 385 and 90% of that is about 345. I hit 345 twice, once sumo and once conv. Then hit 365 sumo. If I had missed 365 then I would have went back down to say 345 or 350 and hit one more rep to make that three reps above 90%. Now, I believe I noticed that Louie Simmons mentioned that you should hit three attempts above 90% in which a miss is also concidered an attempt. So that means I got in 4 reps above 90% today according to that. I like to make sure I get in reps and not count the misses. It’s worked for me so far but as I get into heavy weights I might think differently. 

Everything seems okay now with the blogs. ME SQ/DL day tomorrow. I am so looking forward to it and was thinking about all weekend. I know I’ll be thinking about all into tonight and hope it doesn’t keep me up thinking about it. I haven’t done pulls in a while and plan on doing some deadlifts with about a 3in offset. I would say off a platform but with sumo deads that I do the gym doesn’t have anything I can use. So, I use 25lbs plates to make the offset. These are tough, really tough, but unlike the very low box squats I did the past few weeks I actually really love these for some reason. Doing these for the next few weeks for three reasons now. First, I need to do them as it’s been about four weeks since I’ve done a pull. Second, they will help with the lift off the floor with the regular deadlift which is my goal for this cycle. Last but not least, I love them and I told myself I’ll be doing exercises I want to do this mini-cycle.

My PR on these right now is 345lbs. I’m hoping to break it but by how much we’ll see. I’m thinking that those very low box squats will help with this also. I really want to break 400lbs on my next 1RM attempt in four weeks.