Jay "Rage" Bednar's Muscle Pharm Supplement Log

[JCB Rage 17]

What's up my fearless iron warriors?

So these last couple months, Ive been recovering from a shoulder injury (little bit of AC separation, little bit nerve damage) and Ive been using the Muscle Pharm arsenal to help me get back in the game and believe me, I wouldn't back to this point this quickly without the absolutely sick formulas that MP puts out. Right now, my body weight is about back where it was at 250, but my strength is almost there (lower body at about 80%, upper body at about 70%) but that is expected with my injury, and for not touching a weight for 12 weeks. Assault is THE best pre workout on the market, hands down, and believe me, Ive tried alot of them. An instant swell of energy is felt immediately after taking a dose of Assault. I also can't believe how strong I feel during my workouts. Im almost to the point where if I dont have my assault, i will postpone my training until i do have it. I wont train without the stuff. Combat powder is an excellent, high quality protein. Even on days where I cant eat alot due to my schedule and I have to substitute a few shakes in, I dont get all stringy as with some proteins. I stay full and hard. I love this stuff. Tastes great too. Bulletproof is a Godsend, simply put. Its sometimes hard for us bodybuilders to sleep through the night, and you how important sleep is for growing. I sleep like a baby with this stuff, wake up feeling refreshed and ready to kick some ass. The formula is excellent here as well, no way your muscles wont recover overnight with this stuff. So anyways i just love these products and needed to show some love back to them. Ill be keeping a post of my workouts here so you can see the amazing results I get with Muscle Pharm Products.

Thursday, Oct 22, 2009: Legs

Pre-workout: 1 scoop assault, 1 scoop combat powder, 1 apple, 15 oz gatorade

Squat:
Warm-up: 45 x 10
135 x 10
225 x 10
315 x 5
405 x 5
Set 1: 495 x 10
Set 2: 585 x 8
Set 3: 496 x 10
Set 4: 405 x 10 (close stance)

Seated leg press (1-leg):
Set 1: 175 x 10 each leg
Set 2: 175 x 10 each leg
Set 3: 150 x 12 each leg

Alt. 1-leg ext: (these are done on an ext with seperate arms for each leg, the resting leg is held at full ext while the other leg completes a repetition.)
Set 1: 60 x 10 each leg
Set 2: 70 x 10 each leg
Set 3: 70 x 12 each leg

Kneeling Leg Curls:
Warm Up: 50 x 15 each leg
Set 1: 90 x 15 each leg
Set 2: 110 x 15 each leg
Set 3: 110 x 15 each leg

Lying Leg Curls:
Set 1: 125 x 15
Set 2: 125 x 15
Set 3: 125 x 15

Talk you you guys soon! DESTROY EVERYTHING!!!

-Rage
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[punksurfer024]

585x8???? nice work!!!

[JCB Rage 17]

Back with another successful workout fueled by assault. I hit Biceps and it feels great to be regaining full function in my left bicep (my shoulder injury caused some nerve damage that affected the functioning of my left bi, tri, pec, and lat). Ive been taking it real light with all my upper body exercises, but the functioning is great. So here is my Bicep workout from Sat. Oct. 24, 2009:

Preacher Cable Curl:
Warm up: 50 x 15
95 x 15
110 x 15
Set 1: 140 x 15
Set 2: 150 x 12
Set 3: 155 x 12
Set 4: 160 x 10

Alt. DB Curls:
Set 1: 35 x 15 each arm
Set 2: 40 x 10 each arm
Set 3: 40 x 10 each arm
Set 4: 40 x 10 each arm

Lying Cable Curls: (These are done by lying on a seated row machine bench starting with arms straight down and curling the bar up to your chin. Almost like a lying down version of doing barbell curls with your back against a wall.)

Set 1: 60 x 15
Set 2: 75 x 15
Set 3: 90 x 10
Set 4: 90 x 10

Flexes: (These are done on a cable crossover machine. Set the handles at the top and grab one from each side as if you are going to do cable crossovers for chest. For these stand upright and mimic as if you are performing a front double bicep pose, bringing the handles from outstretched arms in towards your head from both sides.)

Set 1: 20 x 15 (on each pulley)
Set 2: 25 x 15
Set 3: 25 x 15

Overhead Curls: (These are performed on a lat pulldown machine. Grab the bar underhand and a little inside shoulder with. Keeping your elbows pointing straight toward the ceiling, flex your biceps and pull the bar behind your head. These are a great finisher for biceps and require little weight to feel a burn.)

Set 1: 40 x 15
Set 2: 50 x 15
Set 3: 40 x 15

[JCB Rage 17]

Shoulders; Sun. Oct 25.

Today started off a little weak as I was feeling alot of pain in both shoulders where my pec tendon inserts, but the more sets I did, the better I felt.

Lateral Raises:
Warm Up: 15 x 15
25 x 15 (Here I was feeling the pain alot, so I kept my raises and military press real light.)
Set 1-4: 40 x 15

Seated DB Military Press:
Set 1-3: 75 x 15

Shoulders were really hurting here, so I decided to hit rear delts.

Bent over Laterals:
Set 1-3: 25 x 15

Pec Dec Rear Delts:
Set 1: 100 x 15
set 2-3 115 x 15

My shoulders felt a bit better after this so I decided to burn them out.

Machine Shoulder Press:
Set 1: 165 x 50
Set 2: 165 x 25 (little rest)
Set 3: 165 x 25 (little rest)
Set 4: 165 x 35 (did this set after my combat powder and simple carb shake.)

It felt like a step back today, but I was able to get a good pump in the shoulders with the last few sets. I think I will start shoulders with rear delts from now on because that seemed to help relieve the strain on my pec tendon.
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[JCB Rage 17]

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009

Back:

Machine Low Row: (Supersetted with) Hammer Strength Iso Pulldowns:
Set 1: 175 x 15 85 x 12
Set 2: 205 x 15 85 x 8
Set 3: 235 x 15 75 x 10

Wide Pulldowns: (with these I really concentrate on getting a massive contraction in the lats, I dont need much weight at all, i just totally take the biceps out of it, I've experienced the best gains with this method)

Set 1-4: 115 x 15

One Arm Seated Row:

Set 1: 90 x 12 each arm
Set 2: 90 x 12 each arm
Set 3: 105 x 12 each arm
Set 4: 105 x 12 each arm

Straight Arm Pushdowns:
Set 1: 35 x 15
Set 2: 42.5 x 15
Set 3: 42.5 x 15
Set 4: 42.5 x 15

Freemotion Iso High Rows:

Set 1: 110 x 15
Set 2: 110 x 15
Set 3: 110 x 15


As I said with Wide Pulldowns, Ive found that my back grows best when I keep the weight lighter and focus on contracting to the max with higher reps. Everyoneis different and this seems to work for me.
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[Gregry]

Looking good mate, I take Muscle Pharm Assault and it is fantastic. Almost out of my tub so ill finish that off, have a break then get back on it good luck with your recovery

[jdaynger]

awesome !keep sharing.

[JCB Rage 17]

Originally Posted by Gregry

Looking good mate, I take Muscle Pharm Assault and it is fantastic. Almost out of my tub so ill finish that off, have a break then get back on it good luck with your recovery

Yea bud, its awesome. Thanks for the support!

[JCB Rage 17]

Originally Posted by jdaynger

awesome !keep sharing.

Appreciate it, will do.

[JCB Rage 17]

Hey Whats up everyone, been a bit since I responded so I just wanted to highlight the last couple of weeks. But first off I want to make sure that if you haven't tried the new Banana Cream flavor of Muscle Pharm's Combat Powder, you get your ass over to the store of bb.com right now and pick up a tub. This stuff is so good, one of the best protein flavors I've ever tried. Anyway, Making really good progress with my shoulder, the only thing that I seem to still have is an adhesion (or multiple fascia seized together). It makes for a super tight pec minor and front delt. Other than that, Ive been feeling good. My strength is really picking up now. I bench pressed 315 for the first time since I've been back from my injury, and got it for 8 easy reps. I've been doing alot of light stuff. I guess you could say I had a mental block on bench press for using more weight, didn't want to re injure myself. So I was happy to get three plates back on, I know its not alot of weight at all, but its a positive step in my recovery. Also, last week I deadlifted for the first time in about 2 months and it went great. Here was my deadlift workout: 495 x 8, 545 x 5, 585 x 4, and 605 for a single. This is the most I've ever done raw (I've done 700 with a deadlift suit) and I could have done more with each set but my grip is what it used to be when I was powerlifting haha. So the strength is definitely going up, earlier I hit Seated DB Military press with 105's for 3 sets of 10, prolly could have gotten 15 on the first two sets, just still nervous to really push it with upper body, so I stopped at 10 to avoid getting shaky and throwing my shoulder out. So now we're updated now and I'll get back to you with the next workout! TRAIN INSANE!!!