Starting New Animal Cycle

[thael]

This is copied from my bodylog:



Starting my new log/cycle tomorrow so I figured I?d blog it! WHOO! Ok, enough excitement. On with the wall-o-text.

I?ve never tried the Animal products, but after a friend recommended them to me I read several reviews and logs on the forums. I?m going to be using Animal Pak, Animal Stak, and Animal Cuts. I?d prefer Nitro to the Stak, or Test because I?ve heard they help retain muscle while cutting, but I couldn?t find them at any of the 4 GNC?s I went to between my house and work. Hopefully the two won?t be self-defeating.

Ah well, should be interesting:
1000mg Fish Body Oils - 1 pills
1x Animal Pak multivitamin - 11 pills
2x Animal Cuts metabolizer - 18 pills
1x Animal Stak mass gainer - 7 pills
4x Optimun Nutrition 100% Whey shakes per day
25g Creatine Monohydrate daily for the first 7 days, then 10-15g daily for maintenance.

I?m going to be on a 4 day split routine. It?s just been picked at and adjusted over the last few months as I?ve been re-entering the world of weightlifting. If something works better for you, that?s perfectly fine. This is what I do.

Also, I do one warm-up set of 12-20 reps with a low weight. Usually 50% of what I did for my weighted sets the week before. I just do the reps as if I were using my normal weight to get the stiffness out of my joints.

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Monday - Chest / Upper Back
Dbell Incline Press 1?12-15 (warm-up), 3?8
V-bar Machine Rows 1?12, 3?8
Dbell Flyes 3?8
Lat Pulldowns 3?10
Pec Flys 3?10
Stiff arm Press downs 3?10
Tuesday - Biceps / Triceps
Barbell 21?s x3
Overhead Tricep Raises 3?8
Supinating Curls 3?10
Skullcrushers 3?10
Drag Curls 3?8
Split Rope Press downs 3?10
Wednesday - 1 Hour of Low Intensity Cardio
Thursday - Legs and Core (Abs/Lower Back)
Squats - 3?8
Seated Wrist Curls - 3?8-10
Dead Lift - 3?5-8
Standing Wrist Curls - 3?8-10
Leg Extensions - 3?10
Lying Leg Curls - 3?8
Cable Crunches - 3?10
Standing Calf Raises - 3?10
Crunches - 3xfailure
Seated Calf Raises - 3xfailure
Leg Raises - 3xfailure
Friday - Shoulders / Upper Back
Dbell or Military Press - 3?8
Shoulder grip pull ups - 3xfailure
Dbell Fly workout - 3?10 front, side, and rear
Lat Pull downs - 3?8
Bbell Shrugs - 3?10-12
Assisted Chins - 3xfailure
Dbell Shrugs - 3?10-12
Saturday - 1 Hour of Low Intensity Cardio

Sunday - 1 Hour of Low Intensity Cardio

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Now note, though I have workouts listed on certain days this is not concrete. If something comes up on Monday, for instance, I?ll shift the whole week back one day. If I?m feeling particularly beat after a Legs / Core day, which is not uncommon (because I try to break myself), I?ll push Shoulders / Upper Back to Saturday and just do my cardio on Friday instead. Just listen to your body.

I tend to alternate from week to week. So if I do dbells one week, say incline dbell press, the next week I?ll probably do incline bbell bench instead.

Daily Meal Plan
This won?t be an exact meal-to-meal listing, more or less the times of my dosages.

4:30am Breakfast - 1x Animal Cuts, 1x Fish Body Oils, 2 scoops ON Shake w/ water, 10g Creatine
9am Break - 1 scoop ON Shake w/ skim
11:30am Lunch - 1x Animal Pak, Lunch
2pm Lunch - Sandwich + Apple/Orange
3:30pm Preworkout - 1 scoop ON Shake w/ water, 5g Creatine, 1x Animal Cuts
4pm Preworkout - 1x Animal Stak
5:30-6pm Postworkout - 2 scoops ON Shake w/ water, 10g Creatine
6:30-7pm Dinner, Casein (Cottage cheese, skim milk, etc)

[thael]

I'll post my thoughts throughout the days as I try out these new supplements. I took my Cuts this morning when I woke up. It took a while to swallow the 9 pills, plus a tenth from my Fish Body Oils bottle. I've got my Animal Pak sitting in front of me. I'll take those with lunch.

So far I feel a bit warm, but I can't tell if it's my hoodie or the Cuts. :P

More later.