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I go to Mexico .. I come back and hal0's exposed?!? WTF
What pisses me off is that I actually believed that type of physique was attainable naturally. I feel so gullible
Anyways! I've been partying my ass off for the last 2 weeks. Lifts are down 20%, and I'm down nearly 10 lbs (165) yet I feel fatter than ever.
Made some new years resolutions: no weed or cigs, 405 squat & deadlift for reps... Currently 2 sets of 2 at 315
I need some opinions on this, some guy at my gym has this, and wears it his whole workout [ Fitness Avenue ]
I want to buy it for weighted chins + dips, but I've been told if i walk around in it too much I'll put a ridiculous amount of strain on my back + joints. Could it be useful or should I just stick with a weight-belt.
I also cant help but feel like fiddy cent wannabe with it on
I do use a belt, but it's one of those things you gotta take on and off, cuz you can't really do much with a 45 swinging around your waist. Where-as the vest you can have on the whole workout, I figure if I do cardio + bodyweight exercises (pushup, pullups, dips, box jumps, etc) with the vest on it'll definitely burn a lot more calories and give more "explosive strength". I could even do incline walks on the treadmill with it on, which would be an absolute killer for calves. Kinda like doing a big farmers walk.
sounds like you've got enough ideas to give it a shot!
and fwiw, as for walking around the gym with it being hard on your body, military brahs walk around all day every day with 50-75lb rucksacks like it aint no thing.
Was gonna post this in my training log .. but it didn't let me spoiler and the article is fairly lengthy >>>
Just read this article .. about 2 more hours stuck in this library then I'm going home and going to the gym, and if ANYTHING gets in my way I'm going to fucking kill it. Feeling unstoppable.
Spoiler!
I'm sure many of you have seen this article time and time again. But for those who haven't it's probably the only motivation you'll ever need. Whenever I am having a bad week etc, I read this. I hope that many of the bro's who haven't seen this before will use these words for motivation when the chips are down.
What Seperates us from them
"So, what are you doing for a living these days?" Bob asked me. We're sitting on the couch at one of those tedious holiday get-togethers, you know, the ones where you're supposed to be nice to family members you never see except during major holidays and funerals. I think Bob is my wife's brother-in-law's second cousin or something.
"I'm the assistant editor and a writer for Testosterone magazine," I say. Bob looks at me with a blank expression on his face, as if I'd just told him I sell handmade testicle warmers beside the freeway and was looking to open franchises across the nation.
"It's a bodybuilding magazine," I say.
Blank expression. Deer caught in the headlights. Ronnie Coleman doing trigonometry.
"Oh," Bob finally says, "I heard you were, like, one of those bodybuilder guys or something. So, what's that like, you know, working out every day and stuff? I just don't have time to lift weights all day, but I have been meaning to get rid of this beer belly." He takes another sip of beer. "What do you suggest?" Sip.
At first I was a little offended. I wanted to grab him up and say, "You can't tell I'm a bodybuilder?! Look at my ass! Now, if that's not a nice round squat-built piece of sirloin, I don't know what is! You think that comes naturally? I can crack walnuts with this puppy! Wanna see? Huh, punk? Do ya? Do ya?"
Then I realize this just might cause a scene and could cost me several Christmas presents. I was planning on returning any presents I got and using the money to buy a power rack, so I didn't want to jeopardize this gift getting opportunity. I also realized that old Bob probably had a certain preconceived image of a bodybuilder and I just didn't fit that image. I'm not gorilla huge; I weigh about 205 at 5'11" right now. (When I first started lifting I was a pudgy 159, so that's not too shabby.) Also, I wasn't wearing clown pants, a fluorescent string tank top, a hanky on my head and one of those little fanny packs. And isn't that what real bodybuilders are supposed to wear?
Bob continued to sit there drinking his Natural Light, smoking a cigarette and waiting for an answer, oblivious to the fact that he'd come this close to seeing some serious walnut- crunching ass power. I tried to figure out how I could explain to the average guy what the typical T-Man does and why he does it. How could I get him to understand what it is we do, how we feel, how we live? So I took a deep breath and told him something like this:
"Well, Bob, I guess you could use the term bodybuilder if you really need a label for what it is we do. Most of us actually don't stand on stage and compete, though. We lift weights and manipulate our diets so that we'll look good naked. Sure, it's healthy too, and we'll probably live a longer and more productive life than the average guy, but mostly it's about the naked thing. Truthfully, it goes beyond even that.
"Let's be honest here. We do it because of people like you, Bob. We look at you sitting there with your gut hanging over your belt and we watch you grunt and groan just getting out of a chair. Guys like you are our inspiration, Bob. You're better than Anthony Robbins, Bill Phillips, Deepak Chopra, and Zig ****ing Ziglar all wrapped up into one. We love it when guys like you talk about not having time to exercise. Every time we see you munching on a bag of potato chips, you inspire us. You're my shot in the arm, Bob, my living and breathing wake-up call, my own personal success coach.
"You want to know what it is we do? We overcome. We're too busy to train, too, but we overcome. We're too busy to prepare healthy meals and eat them five or six times a day, but we overcome. We can't always afford supplements, our genetics aren't perfect, and we don't always feel like going to the gym. Some of us used to be just like you, Bob, but guess what? We've overcome.
"We like to watch 'normal' people like you tell us about how they can't get in shape. We smile and nod sympathetically like we feel your pain, but actually, we're thinking that you're a pathetic piece of **** that needs to grow a spine and join a gym. You smile sheepishly and say that you just can't stay motivated and just can't stand that feeling of being sore. (For some reason you think that admitting your weaknesses somehow justifies them.) We listen to you ***** and moan. We watch you look for the easy way out. Because of people like you, Bob, we never miss a workout.
"You ask us for advice about diet and training and usually we politely offer some guidance, but deep inside we know you won't take our advice. You know that too. We smile and say, 'Hope that helps. Good luck,' but actually we're thinking, 'Boy, it would suck to be you.' We know that 99% of people won't listen to us. Once they hear that it takes hard work, sacrifice and discipline, they stop listening and tune us out.
"We know they wanted us to say that building a great body is easy, but it just isn't. This did not take five minutes a day on a TorsoTrack. We did not get this way in 12 short weeks using a Bowflex and the Suzanne Somers' 'Get Skinny' diet. A good body does not cost five easy payments of $39.95.
"We like it that while you're eating a candy bar and drinking Mountain Dew, we're sucking down a protein shake. You see, that makes it taste even better to us. While you're asleep we're either getting up early or staying up late, hitting the iron, pushing ourselves, learning, succeeding and failing and rising above the norm with every rep. Can you feel that, Bob? Can you relate? No? Good. This wouldn't be half as fun if you could.
"We do it because we absolutely and totally get off on it. We do it because people like you, Bob, either can't or won't. We do it because what we do in the gym transfers over into the rest of our lives and changes us, physically, mentally, maybe even spiritually. We do it because it beats watching fishing and golf on TV. By the way, do you know what it's like to turn the head of a beautiful woman because of the way you're built? It feels good, Bob. Damned good.
"When we're in the gym, we're in this indescribable euphoria zone. It's a feeling of being on, of being completely alive and aware. If you haven't been there, then it's like trying to describe color to a person who's been blind since birth. Within this haze of pleasure and pain, there's knowledge and power, self-discipline and self-reliance. If you do it long enough, Bob, there's even enlightenment. Sometimes, the answers to questions you didn't even know you had are sitting there on those rubber mats, wrapped up in a neat package of iron plates and bars.
"Want to lose that beer belly, Bob? I have a nutty idea. Put down the ****ing beer. I'll tell you what, Bob. Christmas morning I'm getting up real early and hitting the iron. I want to watch my daughter open her presents and spend the whole day with her, so this is the only time I have to train. The gym will be closed, so I'm going out in my garage to workout. You be at my house at six in the morning, okay? I'll be glad to help you get started on a weight training program. It'll be colder than Hillary Clinton's coochie in there, so dress warm.
"But let me tell you something, Bob. If you don't show up, don't bother asking me again. And don't you ever sit there and let me hear you ***** about your beer belly again. This is your chance, your big opportunity to break out of that rut. If you don't show up, Bob, you've learned a very important lesson about yourself, haven't you? You won't like that lesson.
"You won't like that feeling in the pit of your stomach either or that taste in your mouth. It will taste worse than defeat, Bob. Defeat tastes pretty goddamned nasty, but what you'll be experiencing will be much worse. It will be the knowledge that you're weak, mentally and physically. What's worse is that you'll have accepted that feeling. The feeling will always be with you. In the happiest moments of your life, it'll be there, lying under the surface like a malignant tumor. Ignore it at your own peril, Bob.
"Don't look at me like that either. This just may be the best Christmas present you'll get this year. Next Christmas, Bob, when I see you again, I'm going to be a little bigger, a little stronger, and a little leaner. What will you be? Will you still be making excuses? This is a gift, Bob, from me to you. I'm giving you the chance to look fate in those pretty eyes of hers and say, 'Step off, *****. This is my party and you're not invited.' What do you say, Bob? Monday, Christmas morning, 6am, my house. The ball's in your court."
Okay, so maybe that's not the exact words I used with Bob, but you get the picture. Will Bob show up Monday? I don't know, but I kind of doubt it. In fact, Bob will probably take me off his Christmas card list. He probably thinks I've got "too much Testosterone," like that's a bad thing. I think Bob is just stuck in a rut, and as the saying goes, the only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.
The way out of the rut is to make major changes in your life, most of which won't be too pleasant in the beginning. The opportunity to make those changes seldom comes as bluntly as I put it to Bob. Most of the time, that opportunity knocks very softly. What I did was basically give Bob a verbal slap in the face. You can react two ways to a slap. You can get angry at the person doing the slapping, or you can realize that he was just trying to get you to wake up and focus on what you really want and, more importantly, what it'll take to get it.
If you're a regular T-mag reader, I doubt you need to be called out like Bob. But maybe you've caught yourself slacking a little here lately. Maybe you've missed a few workouts or maybe you started a little too early on the usual holiday feasting, like, say, back in September. Just remember that the time to start working on that summer body is now. The time to get rid of those bad habits that hold you back in the gym is now. You want to look totally different by next Christmas? Start now. This isn't because of the holidays or any corny New Year's resolutions either. The best time is always now.
Christmas day I want you to enjoy being with your family and friends. I want you to open presents, sip a little eggnog and have a good meal. But if your regularily scheduled workout happens to fall on December 25th, what will you be doing at six o'clock that morning?
I wouldn't really say that. I've been chubs my whole life and shortish (5'10). Although I have some pretty good definition on my upper body and legs, my invisible 6pack is ....invisible. I can never force myself to diet properly. I love food too much.
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Props .. thats sick. Wanna post up your workout sched? Impressive numbers
Yeah I'll post it up in the other thread that RRxtar made
And also can I get a invite into that private gentleman club?
__________________ "Son, someday you will make a girl very happy, for a short period of time.
Then she'll leave you and be with new men who are ten times better than you could ever hope to be.
These men are called Pilots."
__________________ "Son, someday you will make a girl very happy, for a short period of time.
Then she'll leave you and be with new men who are ten times better than you could ever hope to be.
These men are called Pilots."
Picked up MP Assault today after hearing great reviews. No regrets purchasing, energy was clean and didn't give me a cracked out feeling. Blue arctic raspberry flavor but I don't like the blue dye that remained on my tongue
Shoulder/legs was great, had endurance and was able to lift from beginning to end of my workout.
Also watched this and got really motivated to do shoulders today.
how do u guys cook ur chickeN? I have so much..loadd up from costco in the states. Been outdoor grilling for the past 2 months but honestly starting to get sick of it..before that I was using the george foreman,, kinda sick of that too.. baking is convenient but taste is meh.
how do u guys cook ur chickeN? I have so much..loadd up from costco in the states. Been outdoor grilling for the past 2 months but honestly starting to get sick of it..before that I was using the george foreman,, kinda sick of that too.. baking is convenient but taste is meh.
add some spices to change flavour
I just got my creatine and assault sample, how much water should i be drinking a day? Already drink around 5L without creatine
and is the scooper for the assault supposed to be for the half serving or full serving?
__________________ "Son, someday you will make a girl very happy, for a short period of time.
Then she'll leave you and be with new men who are ten times better than you could ever hope to be.
These men are called Pilots."
__________________ "Son, someday you will make a girl very happy, for a short period of time.
Then she'll leave you and be with new men who are ten times better than you could ever hope to be.
These men are called Pilots."
solid shit dood, planning to video my DL this weekend gyms getting new plates and equip..... did u use to play CS competitively? i swear i knew u if u did
how do u guys cook ur chickeN? I have so much..loadd up from costco in the states. Been outdoor grilling for the past 2 months but honestly starting to get sick of it..before that I was using the george foreman,, kinda sick of that too.. baking is convenient but taste is meh.
To add flavor --> take pan and cover it in tin foil. Olive oil + salt + pepper + assorted herbs on it. Chop up some broccoli, asparagus, red onion, carrots (potatoes if you want, but I can't unfortunately ). Make a bed for your (assuming frozen) chicken breasts to sit on with the veggies (make sure you toss 'em real good in the olive oil and salt/pepper/herb mixture).
Take a teaspoon or two of butter and rub it into the chicken breast. Add more herbs (Mrs. Dash's herb and garlic rub, or montreal chicken rub) to the buttered breast. Find a lemon (or two) and roll it, cut it into circles, place on chicken. Cover everything in tin foil (keeps moisture in and keeps splatters from making the inside of your oven looking like shit). Bake as per instructions on box. Done deal!
That's how I used to eat them when calories and me were like I still do a cut back version of the above, but it just doesn't taste the same (still good though). BTW a good amount of chicken juice should come out, and it helps marinate your veggies/potatoes and tastes amazing.
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Where do you guys buy your heatpacks? Lowerback is hella sore after squatting. Tried foam rolling but still sore. Posted via RS Mobile
if you have a GF .. she owns an electric heatpad. They hug it for hours on end during certain days of the month
i shoulda saved it lol BB.com deletes anything related to roids... pretty much says all professional bodybuilding is how much GH / insulin / Tren u can afford.... training is irrelevant and diets are only used pre-contest.
was posted by a bb with a pro card / amateur card i believe
__________________ "Son, someday you will make a girl very happy, for a short period of time.
Then she'll leave you and be with new men who are ten times better than you could ever hope to be.
These men are called Pilots."
Where do you guys buy your heatpacks? Lowerback is hella sore after squatting. Tried foam rolling but still sore. Posted via RS Mobile
You can buy reheatable gel packs with the back wrap for about $15. Another alternative being the electric heatpads (Softheat brand) for $25 (just the pad) to ~$45 (with the backwrap). Should be able to get these from a pharmacy. Just took a look at the shelves in my store for a price quote.
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). Make a bed for your (assuming frozen) chicken breasts to sit on with the veggies (make sure you toss 'em real good in the olive oil and salt/pepper/herb mixture). 
I still do a cut back version of the above, but it just doesn't taste the same (still good though). BTW a good amount of chicken juice should come out, and it helps marinate your veggies/potatoes and tastes amazing.
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