Continuation of project perfection...

[workoutSD]

hey Brian, I finally found and read your log/journal. The link on your main bodyspace profile page didn't work for some reason. But it worked from your blog...
Anyway, I found some steel cut oats to try out...Have you ever had them? They look much different, look more like wheat germ or something.

I've been pretty frustrated because my knees hurt real bad so I can't run or lift heavy with my legs Any ideas?
Later bro and happy belated birthday...

[Drivn2perfection]

Originally Posted by workoutSD

hey Brian, I finally found and read your log/journal. The link on your main bodyspace profile page didn't work for some reason. But it worked from your blog...
Anyway, I found some steel cut oats to try out...Have you ever had them? They look much different, look more like wheat germ or something.

I've been pretty frustrated because my knees hurt real bad so I can't run or lift heavy with my legs Any ideas?
Later bro and happy belated birthday...

I haven't tried them out before... I cant stand wheat germ haha.. I bought a box of it but it's just so plain. I'll have to use it when I'm cutting though.

Is it just sore pain from walking so much or something? If so I'd just stay off of them for a while.. otherwise, if it is a joint issue, glucosamine/chondroiton combination supps help the best for joint pain.

[Drivn2perfection]

A few updates on what's going on with me...

1. I started SuperPump250 for my preworkout instead of white flood for a while.
2. I forgot to take my kre-alkaline creatine before my workout today
3. I ordered Animal M-stak and will be starting that when I get it in a few days
4. I will be cutting starting in the first week of march just for a week or two to get ready for spring break

As for today...

**Biceps**
-EZ-Curl Bar- 135lbs x 3 sets x 10 reps

-High Cable Curls- 85lbs x 3 sets x 12/11/10 reps

-Inc. DB Curls- 50's x 3 sets x 10/8/7 reps (hard)

-BB Reverse-Grip Curls- 80lbs x 10/10/9 reps

-1-arm Preachers- 35lbs per arm x 3 sets x 10/9/8 reps
(right arm was significantly weaker in this exercise for some reason. Endurance is a lot higher in the left arm)

**Back**
-Assisted Pull-ups- (-65lbs) x 4 sets x 10 reps
(narrow overhand grip)

-Freemotion Machine Lat pulldowns(wide)- 160lbs per arm x 4 sets of 10 reps


Overall it was a good workout considering I haven't had any creatine in the last 3 days.

****Also... I will be taking new pictures for the site towards the end of this month on my bulking cycle.. I haven't had pictures up since Sept. 2007 and it's about time I updated them

[Drivn2perfection]

So today might have been quite possibly one of the, if not the, best workout I've ever had!! It was a leg/calf day and my numbers were through the roof on EVERY exercise... Also did some new things on calves! The numbers in parenthesis are how much more lbs I did over last week.

**Upper Legs**
-Narrow Stance Deep Squats- 285lbs x 3 sets x 10 reps (+5)

-DB Lunges- 80lbs per arm x 3 sets x 10 reps! (+5 per arm)

-Leg Extensions- 205lbs x 3 sets x 10 reps (+10)

-Leg Curls- 225lbs x 3 sets x 10 reps (+15)

-HyperExtensions- 65lbs x 2 sets x 10 reps (easy +5)

**Calves**

Did numerous things for calves and they were dead/pumped by the end!...

1) 3 sets of = 1 leg straight raises w/ 45lbs
2) 3 sets of = 1 leg bent raises w/ 45lbs
3) 2 sets of EACH of "3-way-calves" on standing machine
4) 2 sets of = 1 leg sitting DB calf raises w/ 100lb DB on knee. I did a total of (6) sets; 2 of toes pointed inward | 2 of toes outward | 2 toes neutral
5) Finished off with 5 minutes of stairmaster USING ONLY my calves to keep the pace. I didn't contract my quads or hammies to push the stairsteppers down. I split the 5 minutes equally up into 3 parts; of course with toes pointed inward / outward / neutral. It really gave them a good burn in all parts!


Overall my workout was mind-blowing to say the least. I was very impressed with how I did! I haven't even received my Animal M-Stak that I will be taking. It might be due to Gaspari's SP250, or also I've been trying to eat more calories the last couple of days to keep anabolic. Either way, my workout was amazing and I look forward to doing chest/tri's/abs tomorrow with hopefully amazing results!

[Drivn2perfection]

Just wanted to let everyone know that I did workout today and also yesterday... work and school have made it hard for me to find a sec to post my workouts... I work in 30 min and have to eat/shower b4 doing that so I will post updates asap... Also will be starting up on Animal M-Stak on sunday... Keep in touch to see how it helps out my routine

Thanks!

[Drivn2perfection]

Not that anyone reads this, but today was my off day of lifting. I went into the gym and just did a moderate calf workout and did some random shoulder exercises...

ANYWAY, I am starting up on Universal's "Animal M-stak." I will be eating as much food as my stomach is physically able to handle in a day. I haven't seen much for weight gains and I figure the only reason why is because I'm simply not eating enough calories... I sleep well and workout just fine I'm starting to take food and whey shakes into work to eat while I'm there haha! But I'm very excited for M-stak. I love how it's all natural and still allows me to train "like an animal" and get the most out of every day I workout!

In case any of you have lost track.. I'm going to eat 4k calories a day or more... and then take the following supps...

-ON's 100% Whey ---------> 3 times a day
-Gaspari's SP250 ----------> Before workout
-CL's Purple Wraath --------> During workout
-Scifit Kre-alk creatine -----> Before workout
-Universal Torrent PWO -----> Directly after workout
-Animal Pak Multi ----------> After meal before workout
-Animal M-stak -----------> 45 min pre-workout (after pak)

Tomorrow is leg day keep posted.

[Drivn2perfection]

Since I was very weak and tired yesterday, I took the day off and did legs today instead. I haven't been able to eat enough food lately and it's been hard to get enough calories to maintain a positive balance. I got a decent workout in today, but lowered the amount of sets due to the intensity of my workouts. I think I will begin to do acclimation sets for a new routine and instead of doing 3 failure working sets for each exercise, I'll just do one hard hard set to failure per exercise and do that set to a much higher weight.

Today...

-Wide Deep Squats- 320lbs x 3 sets x 10/10/8 reps

-1 Leg Press- 240lbs per leg x 2 sets x 10 reps

Superset of...
-Standing Leg Curl FM- 70lbs per leg x 2 sets x 12 reps
w/
-Seated 1 Leg Extension- 115lbs per leg x 2 sets x 10 reps

-Lunges- 65's in each hand x 2 sets x 10 reps

Closed out with 12-14 sets of calf exercises in all 3 varying foot positions to get every angle... and then closed out with 5 minutes of calf contracting only stairmasters, 1.5 min per angle of the foot or so.

[Drivn2perfection]

Today I decided to change up my workout since I've been overtraining and have been getting sick a lot. Anyway, Today went very well and I didn't feel like a train hit me after the workout!


Tri's/Chest/Abs

Tri's

-CloseGrip Bench (EZcurlBAR)- 155x10, 195x10, 235x13

-1-Arm Extensions- 35per arm x 10, 55x10, 65x12

-Tri Kickbacks- 25perarm x 10, 35x10, 45x10

-Rope Pushdown- 75x10, 95x10, 115x12

-1-Arm Pushdown Cable- 45x10, 60x10, 75x11

Chest

-Flat DB Bench- 40'sx10, 60x10, 80x14 (wow)

-Inc. BB Bench- 95x10, 135x10, 170x13 EASY!

-Machine Flies- 130x10, 175x10, 235x11

Abs just did some random stuff like I always do, making sure to hit every part of the abdominals

It was a good workout!

[Drivn2perfection]

Today was Biceps/back and the second day of my new routine... minus warmups, here are the numbers...

*Biceps*
-Standing Narrow Grip EZ-Bar Curls- 95x10, 120x10, 145x10

-High Cable Curls(per arm)- 60x10, 80x10, 100x9

-Inc. DB Curls(per arm)- 35x10, 45x10, 55x10

-Reverse Grip BB Curls- 45x10, 65x10, 90x10

-1 arm Preacher Curls(per arm)- 30x10, 40x10, 50x10
(Right arm is a little weaker on this still)

*Back*
-Pullups- First 3 sets were assisted with 55,45,35 help.. 4th set was body weight for 10 reps with help. All were close grip overhand.

-FM Lat Pulldown(per arm)- 160x10, 160x10, 160x10, 180x11

Was a good workout... I may have to push it up a notch

[Drivn2perfection]

So as of yesterday, I got another cold/ sore throat crap and congestion... this is the 5th time this winter... The last one I got over in 2 days or so, so I'm hoping I'm feeling better by tomorrow, because I'm supposed to do legs again today but I doubt that will happen.

[Drivn2perfection]

And no... I'm not talking about the song in my post title... I have had a cold for the last 2 days; and I decided to go in today and see how it felt.

I started off doing narrow stance deep squats and then lunges... and they were AMAZING... but after that I got sick to my stomach and sent myself to the toilet for 15 minutes to see if I was going to hurl.. After sitting for 25 minutes, I decided it was time to call it quits and go home and rest before work tonight... here's what I DID DO...

-Narrow stance Deep BB squats- 195x10, 250x10, 300x13!!!!

*300lbs for 13 reps is a very good number for how good my squat form is!!

-Lunges w/ DB's- 50's x 10, 70's x 10, 85's x 10 Hard but good


I got sick after that...

Hopefully tomorrow is a different story...

[Drivn2perfection]

FINALLY got back into the gym today to try my luck with being sick the last couple of days... and it went pretty well

**Chest**
-Flat BB Bench- 185x10, 225x10, 270x10
-Inc. DB Bench(per arm)- 60x10, 75x10, 100x11
-Dec. DB Bench(per arm)- 60x10, 75x10, 100x11
-Machine Flies- 215lbs x 3 sets x 12/11/9 reps
-Cable Flies- 85 per arm x 3 sets x 12/10/9 reps

**Triceps**
-French Curls- 70x10, 90x10, 100x12, 105x9
-1-Arm Reverse Pushdowns(per arm)- 30x10, 45x10, 60x10, 60x10

*Abs and calves were done at the end of the workout for about 30 minutes or so. I cooled down with 3 sets of bodyweight dips It went well! Now I'm tired and full from my weight gainer shake.

[Drivn2perfection]

So I did back and biceps yesterday, and today is my day off... Due to lack of readers I'm not always going to have the time to post up workouts ... I will continue to put them up when I can.

[Drivn2perfection]

I'm not going to post my full workout since no one really reads it... But you just have to know one thing

I did wide deep squats first today and I got to my final set and did...

335lbs x 13 reps

My goal was to find a weight I could do 10 times on the final set of the acclimation, but I did more than I thought I could. Next time I do this workout I'll be pushing the weight up to 345 or 350

[Drivn2perfection]

Havent posted for a few days.. Just thought I'd throw this out since It was the highlight of my workout today...

Narrow Deep BB Squats= 310lbs x 14 reps

We're talking no cheating, deeper than deep throat, squats with about 6 inches between the feet. I was shocked!

[Drivn2perfection]

As of the 3rd.. I got the bad strain of flu virus and I did something to my lower stomach region. I'm unsure whether it's being caused by the flu or I did something to it while working out.. I"ll be back into the gym hopefully by sunday or monday....

Gotta love being sick all winter....

[Drivn2perfection]

Today was my first day back into the gym.. I did abs/shoulders/chest/tris... This seems like a lot, but I was doing lighter weight and just did sets of 15/8/5 reps for every exercise I did and took very minimal break times... This week is going to be a lighter intensity, as will next week; being that I'll be on vacation for spring break.

After that, look forward to some serious weight movement, and hopefully weight gain along the way... The goal for 240lbs is in sight!

[Drivn2perfection]

Just an update.. I will no longer be tracking workouts in here due to the fact that no one is reading them... I also had a 3 week period, just now, where I had the flu and couldn't lift. Today was my first day back and will be hopefully the first of many great workouts to come as spring rolls in!!! If any of you do want to read how my progress is going; go to my blog on my bodyspace.