Rodney’s BodyBlog

Well the bulking was going great as of Monday. Legs didn’t get sore until hours after the workout. I felt really good. Then Monday night caught a fever at work, got light headed and almost blacked out. That Tuesday (yesterday) woke up and hadn’t eaten since 6pm Monday. On gatorade,crackers and tylenol the whole day. Around 12:30pm realized I wasn’t going to let this sickness stop me. At 3pm went for a 2+ mile run and sweated the fever out. Stomach was another issue. Ended up hitting the gym excessively hard, felt great aftwerward, but body wouldn’t fall asleep until 7:30am Wednesday (today). Woke up at 10:30am (today) for a total of 3 hours of sleep. Weird thing is I felt refreshed and had to stop myself from running another 2 miles due to bulking. Also, I don’t have an appetite, so the weight gainer has been crucial.

Sorry for the incoherent thoughts and rambling sentences, but short on time.

 Rodney.

Ok gang,

Last week was very ruff. I had exams galore, study sessions till 4 and 5 in the morning, and forgot to take my lunches on several occasions. Friday was my first time back in the gym, and i felt great. Left tired but accomplished, and also improved some. My max bench now stands at a modest 235, but thats not my one rep max. My one rep max will probably be somewhere around 250, give or take a few pounds.

Monday starts my "two week clean bulk". We’ll see how well this goes. I’m going back to eating like a gerbil, nothing but whole grain bagel and chicken breast for breakfast with oragne/grape juice and glutamine. Salad and chicken for the rest of the day, and throw in a little whole grain rice here and there to make sure I don’t die. Also, I bought the BSN Trumass and CellMass(dropped the HPCEE-I can take the taste but CM has given me great results).

The workout is on a 4 day split. I’m focusing on Chest and Legs on Days 1 and 4 and will work the other groups on days 2 and 3. From the reading that I’ve done, I decided to modify my calf workout. I plan on do doing low reps but ridicuoulsly high weights. Also, I plan on doing negatives(not sure if that’s what its called. It probably isn’t.) I’ll actually contract my calves as if doing the rep, but actually holding it for 15 seconds. This will be in addition to doing reps. Day 2 and 3 wil focus on a mix of abs, arms, back, and shoulders/delts. I’m hoping to add a 5th day, but that’s a little up in the air at the moment. Toss in my move to Orlando and work, its like I’m still in school.

Hey everyone,

As you may or may not know, I’ve finally uploaded several pics of myself. So far I’ve received very positive responses. I haven’t been able to go to the gym at all this week, mainly due to finals and the fact that the gym is closed. Next week starts my 2 week “clean bulk”. There is probaby a technical term for it, but I don’t know and probably won’t look it up (due to lack of time and not just plain ignorance.)

The plan is to go back on my ultra strick diet of chicken and lettuce (really haven’t deviated to much from it) and supplement the needed calories with weight gainer (and sweet potatoes-thanks cbkennerly)

My workout is going to probably be in the early mornings between 6am-7am, meaning Ill wake up at 4:30 to eat, 5:30 to take my creatine (Higher Power CEE) and then hit the gym hard. I’m gonna do the high weight, low rep when it comes to every body part except my abs. The muscles started to stick out more than my chest (I work abs twice a week.) I plan on working on a 4-5 day split, depending on my schedule. The plan is to hit the groups that need the most work, mainly my legs and chest.

I also have a partner now(he’s really there for motivation, as our workout regiments are totally different.) With heavier weights I wanted to focus on technique, just to avoid injury. I plan on killing my calves.

Oh yeah, I titled this Murphy’s Law because I declared war against it this week. More on that to come later.

Sooooo…..

I got an invitation to meet some of the our schools top corporate partners. They range from CEO’s of multi-national corporations, accounting exectutives, recruiters, HR directors, and so forth. Sounds great right? Well I just happen to be scheduled to work during the time of the event (I only found out about it on Tuesday, the event was scheduled for Thursday, which is today.)

 I put in a request to have this time off at work, but no one approved it. Well, they didn’t approve it until I was already at work! ARRGGGHHH!!! Man, do you know how upset I was! I guess the reason why I’m so upset is because I enjoy networking. At one point I was horrible at it. I was the guy sitting in the corner trying his hardest to be invisible. I was extremely shy. However, all that changed when I went to a conference in St. Louis, and had NO CHOICE but to network. Man I never knew how well I could converse with people I have never met. Turned out a few of those individuals were Presidents of organizations! I’m a news hog so I’m up on almost all of the current events from Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, China, Japan, England, Cuba, and of course, the good ol’ U.S. of A.

Well, for a bodybuilding update…

I’ve been in the gym consistenly this week, and have started implenting the heavier weight and less reps routine. So far nothing to noticeable, but I do see slight improvements. I did a groin workout on Monday when I worked my legs, and on Wednesday could not walk upright. Not that it hurt, but that the area was EXTREMELY sore. I realized that I was hunched over and walking in a deformed manner. I had to actually use ICY HOT it got so bad. BTW, that was one of the most painful and least pleasurable times of my life. Lets just say that area touches another sensitive area and the HOT kicked in and………:(

I’ve noticed that my strength has increased overall when it comes to lifting, which I guess is good.  I also lost 3 more ilbs but kept my size up (decreased fat?). Also, the veins are starting to be more noticeable in my lower abs(yeppie!). Guess that’s what comes from an ultra clean diet.

Just a note? Anyone got any good calf muscle workouts? I’m trying to to get them bigger without running track again. Any advice is welcomed.