XXX666’s BodyBlog

Half of the title above is to get your attention but the majority of this blog is based upon a view point that you may not like.

We are all here for some reason.  Vanity, health, occupation, sports, etc….  So we all get the idea.  We are all going to reach a certain cross roads when we have to ask ourselves how far as individuals we are willing to go to get to the next level.  Granted some people just want to maintain BUT in order to maintain there is a need to change your stratagy.  Reps, poundage/weight, variations of movements *cables, machines, free weights*  You have an arsenal of tools that are available for body modification.  Imagine your body as a slab of metal and your a blacksmith.  You need to use a wide varity of tools to manipulate that slab of metal into a finished product.  As soon as your done swinging that hammer your work is done and you won’t progress but if you add more heat and start hammering that metal you’ll experience progress.  You have to manipulate yourself physically on a consitent schedule.  Some of us are here to make as many gains in strenght and size as possible.  This opens the gates to another dimension far beyond "body maintenance." Oh no!  I’m going to talk about that forbidden substance, lets call it "vitamin S."  If or when a person ever decides to walk down this path may I advise that you get informed.  Your local moron at your local gym probably doesn’t know jack about vitamin S.  There is a lot more to it than just stabbing yourself and popping pills!  Manipulation of your body’s chemistry requires changes in your living habits, eating habits and what you do at the gym.  Post usage is another animal.  Don’t fool yourself, I LOVE LAUGHING at the morons I see that blow up for 2/3 months the shrink down to nothing because thier gym perscription ran out.  Most of the time they are smaller in the end then what they were when they started.  I invite anybody to research recent pics of Dorian Yates; you may not reconize him.  Changing your body’s chemistry is a game of risk, don’t be lazy, read as much material as you can, study everything and don’t short yourself.

Personal trainers, most of you are walking jokes/contradictions of health/fitness.  Go to your local gym and take a look, most of them aren’t even in shape yet they are giving exercise advice to people.  Tip, the closer your elbows are to your ears the weaker the synergy of your torso muscles and arm muscles will be.  Keep that in mind when your benching!  If you want to see a bench go youtube Jeff McVicar or Gene Rychlak.  Your arms don’t work well next to your ears, sorry.

You want big arms.  Your triceps are 2/3rds of your upper arm, try giving them some attention too.  Arms are a lot more than curls.

Rear delts, you look funny without them.

Shrugs!  Its not how much weight is on that bar is how high you pull the bar and the correct position of your shoulders at the bottom position.  They are shrugs not mini squats, keep those knees bent a little but don’t be bouncing the weight.  Upright rows and High pulls are great for traps but you need to know how to do that right too.  Your 800 pound shrug doesn’t impress others who know what they are doing, maybe to the mindless fool who has no clue your a god; the rest of us think your a joke.

Deadlifts, love those vids of everybody rolling thier lower back.  Its not the quantity of the weight you move its how you move it.  The guy lifting less weight but using the correct form will pass you up when your laying in bed at home after having the discs in your lower back fused together.  Buy a good belt too, not for your lower back; belts help keep your intiestines from blowing out of your abdominal wall.

Everything about bodybuilding is self education and experimentation.  It takes time, with time you will gain experience and with experience comes progress.  Its a good idea for everybody to find out how your joints and muscles REALLY WORK, don’t listen to your average slim shady nymrob just because they have a few veins on thier forearm.  Most trainers don’t know crap either, if your trainer has a gut you may want to reconsider your self investment.  Does it even look like your trainer has picked up a weight in the past year?  Buy/Pick up multiple books and read, not just any exercise book either; start with a book on kinesiology.   

Good Luck! 

So i thought about writing a really long blog but since its creaping up on 11pm here screw that.  I’m still using chains with all of my compound movements, my strenght continues to increase even though my body weight reamains around the same.  I’ll continue to swing that hammer and slam my body into submission.

I smell bad!  I need to shave!  I am angry!

Have you ever counted how many times per week you are asked, "how do i get arms like that?" or "what do i have to do to look like you?"  Honestly it really gets annoying.  15 years of busting yourself in half gets you this.  Commitment gets you this.  Sitting on your rear infront of the TV watching reruns of the simpsons and the family guy doesn’t get you this.  Do people seriously expect you to take the hour or longer to tell them what you do, how you do it and then answer more of thier questions?

Gossip, like previously stated, if you don’t know the facts don’t talk smack.  Don’t ask people you don’t know if this steroid is good or how to use it, its called reading give it a try.  Definately don’t ask somebody you don’t know if you can buy from them, WTF is that anyway.  I could seriously put canola oil into a bottle and sell it as my "home brew" to some of these morons.  If i was on anything is sure as hell wouldn’t risk selling you any. 

Anyway enough with my rant, yes I am angry.  Been using chains on about every movement I possibly can, my power has increased a lot.  I’m very pleased but i’m running into the problem where i may need to get another lenght of chain.  Looking for Navy/Coast Guard ship grade chain is a real pain, finding it has been a challange.

How could I train with the volume i achieved and walk out the gym door feeling like i did nothing????  Snatches, clean-n-press, over head presses with chains and several isolation movements.  Nothing, not even a cramp or slightest pump.   

New method of attack……….

Today i got a nice email from the site’s admin asking me where my ever so popular "bodyblog" hasn’t been updated.  Somedays i don’t have anything to say, get over it admin,

Okay, sometimes you need to re-invent your routines and attitudes you bring into the front door of your gym or into the room/space you work out in.  Doing the same thing repeated gets stale, your body gets stale when your mind gets stale so you are in constant need of change.  Your duration of change will vary but it was time that i changed a few things.  I’m still starting off my workouts with some power lifting.  I started using chains which gives me a constant increase in resistance throughout the entire range of motion.  I have also begun to superset more.  "and thats all i got to say about that"

I went to bed extra early only to have the dog wake me up around 12:30am, for no reason either he just decided he wanted to go outside and sit there.  So I ate in light of not being thrilled about being awake.  So I forced myself out of bed at 5:30 to put he last coat of poly-seal on my boat trailer, the same boat trailer with less than 1000 miles on it and started to rust, amazing.

Monday was shoulders, started things off typically with some snatches then cleans-n-press follwed up with chains on overhead presses and the dumbell work.  I often wonder if people realize how important strong traps and rear delts are in keeping your shoulders together, by that i mean not ripping rotator cuffs and other crippling damage.  Funny how most can bench and squat but thier traps and rear delts suck.

Tis the season for doush bags to flood the gym, not put thier shit back and spend all thier time doing more BS than actual training.  This isn’t like planting a garden and watching it bloom in a matter of weeks, i’ve been torturing myself for over 15 years now; find a genie if you think it will happen over night.

Off to the kitchen for b-fast then on the beltway for work, which reminds me I need diesel for the truck so I need to go get raped over the fuel station first.

Affliction?  Why is everybody afflicted lately?  I’m really entertained by the UFC fans walking around in thier skulls, fire and tribal grafic shirts; none of them have run more than 10 feet since they have been a kid let alone lift anything heavier than a bag of crap they bought at wal-mart.

I watched Rambo about 6 times this weekend; loved every minute of it.

 So this past week i made up some lifting chains due to the fact my pansie commerical golds gym doesn’t support the diabolic head cases like myself.  *I miss you Iron Works and South Side Barbell*  I’m going to try and find heavier linkage, i like it.

Chains………………

Today was bench/chest day, all chain pyramid work.  I got the same stupid question several times, "what are the chains for/what do those do?"  This prompted me to answer with the most smarta__ answer i could possibly think of: "to scare the hell out of you", "so you would ask me stupid questions" and the one that didn’t go over very well "so you know i’m the superior animal in this gym."  I miss my old gyms back in New Castle PA, no such commerial gyms were within 50 miles of that hell hole.  You couldn’t find a 5′8" 150lbs kid that thought he was huge, they lifted at the YMCA or stayed home with thier sand filled weider weights from walmart. I didn’t have to carry in chains from my truck into the gym, the gym already had it.  Hippy commerical attractions are a joke.  

I made some chains…….