MuscleTech® $50K Transformation

Leg presses, 405 x 10 reps (8 plates - I’m counting the sled as 45 lbs., but have heard friends call it zero and 100 pounds. Split the difference.)

Leg Press, 8 plates x 10 reps

Palms-in Incline dumbbell rows 60’s x9, 65’s x9

Sixties:

Palms-in Incline Dumbbell Rows, 60's x 9 reps

Sixty-fivers:

Palms-in Incline Dumbbell Rows, 65's x 9 reps

Incline DB bench press 65’s x4, 50’s x9

No current video for that exercise, but my YouTube page offers a vid of inclines somewhere on there.

Check it out: http://youtube.com/user/curtjames

DB upright rows 35’s x9, 9

Dumbbell Upright Rows, 35's x 9 reps

Wishing everyone success, progress, and the feeling that this has been time well spent!

Post by: curt_james

It was a bad week, and a bad time to have a bad week. Damn! I really messed up and probably won’t post ‘after pics’ but I’ll stay at it so… you never know.

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Thus far my transformation has been growth and strength based. I looked at the calendar and saw that we all were about six weeks out on Friday the 31st. I started my cutting program that day.

I’ll be all over the West Coats the next few weeks and I’m not sure I can be as diligent as I’d like to but, if nothing else, I’ll be motivated to do a decen job of holding it all together and not letting my body go completely to hell.

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But what it has been has been fantastic.

My weight loss has been slow and it’s also been hampered by my own fears of looking like a stick man. Last year I went on a weight loss program and lost about 30 pounds. I liked that I dropped a lot of inches from my waist, but I was entirely too skinny. I lifted and gained back my weight along with some of those fat inches, unfortunately.

Anyway, using Hydroxycut, I thought I’d go from this…

to this…

That has NOT happened! (No fault of Hydroxycut as I really haven’t been too severe at my calorie-cutting.)

Regardless, I couldn’t do one unassisted chin before the contest, but now my strength has increased to where I’m doing a handful. Almost two handsful!

Chin ups, bodyweight x 7 reps

Chin ups, bodyweight + 5 lbs. x 5 reps

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The first video is for March 14 & 16, right before I chose to enter the contest. Bodyweight is just a touch over 227 and my lifts are weak! I has been trying to hit 230 through high-rep training and as you can see in the vid my form is pretty horrible!

Bench = 315
Dead = 475
Squat = 385

After this video I started to Grow, I’ve been focusing on the Big Boy lifts, mastering both form and strenght, here’s a video of me Squatting 365×20 and then Stiff Deading 365×10:

Here’s some vids at around 255lbs:

Press Behind Neck = 185×10
Barbell Row = 275×8
Bench = 315×6

http://s295.photobucket.com/albums/mm131/SavageMuscles/?action=view&current=AdayTest.flv

And here’s a sort of Progression Video of packing on mass and working with heavier weights.

Please sub to my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/ronastrahan I have a lot more hardcore training videos and colorful fitness commentary on the way.

-Ronald A. Strahan
bodyspace.com/savagemuscles

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