The Princess Diaries: Volume IV

[LankedOut]

hence "little" big spoon. now i take back my offer. go cry tubby

Noooo! You can be the big spoon this time

[kbismadkool]

Noooo! You can be the big spoon this time

deal. yay well played

[favori12]

PRs for both of us tomorrow! lol im still glad i didnt take summer courses

so mean

I won't PR on anything except MAYBE curls/lateral raises but hopefully you'll PR on bench. Summer classes are so much easier than during the fall. That's why I'm getting three over with now so I only have 3 in the fall + I'll have a 4 day weekend every week for the second semester in a row .

[Galindo62]

How old are you? If you don't mind..

[favori12]

How old are you? If you don't mind..

I've mentioned it a few times but I'm 22 (no ****) and still can't make myself leave the teen misc + most of the guys here that I talk to are in college or close enough to it so I relate to everyone better than the fast-paced misc. I think Bon and I are the only two 22 year olds left lol.

[BulkInProcess]

Son I feel like I'm disappearing. Waist is at like less than 31 and arms will drop below 15 soon. Same strength as when I started cutting though. ****ing **** haha. I'm going to be smaller than I expected. Oh well. This will allow me to see whats going on now.

[favori12]

Son I feel like I'm disappearing. Waist is at like less than 31 and arms will drop below 15 soon. Same strength as when I started cutting though. ****ing **** haha. I'm going to be smaller than I expected. Oh well. This will allow me to see whats going on now.

At some points during your cut, you'll just feel like you're shriveling down to nothing, but soon enough you'll get to the point where you'll see muscle you never knew you had. Most people will feel like that when cutting.... you'll feel small as hell at times and muscular at others.


Monday 7/19:

Weight: 131.2 lbs


Decline Bench

TT: 2x3x165, 4x165 (strength is coming back up a bit, whoo)

Opposite workout of last time.... stronger on compounds but weaker on isolation exercises.

Some big kid asked me to spot him on bench today so I did so. He did an all out 245x3 w/ half reps the set before but I wasn't aware of this until my father told me (he lifted with me today). So I go to spot him on 275, unracked the weight after he counted down to 3, put it over his chest, let go after it was in place, he brought it to his chest and didn't bring it up and he says "you dropped it on my chest" as I was lifting the bar off his chest. I don't think I'm in the wrong here, but the dumb ass should've had control of the damn bar after it was put in place properly. Lesson learned, don't spot idiots with oversized egos that put way too much weight on the bar. I have no idea why he thought an all out 245x3 half reps equates to a 275 lb max anyway.

Complaint #2: Ditzy asians. I put my crap on top of a bench and go about 20 feet away to grab some DBs and two skinny asian kids thought my bench was empty for whatever reason and set their sh!t up there as I'm coming back with the DBs. I had to point out that my crap was clearly on the bench before I located them to another bench lol. Then they proceed to do about 8 sets of DB bench with 20 lb DBs with horrendous form. fuuuuuuuuuu just 1 more month @ this gym!

[LankedOut]

fuuuuuuuuuu just 1 more month @ this gym!

U mad? Not long until you get into a real gym.

[kbismadkool]

im glad to hear that your strength is coming back up.

lmao at dirty asians

idk if i can lift with you now, i need someone to actually spot me instead of just dropping weight on my chest

[rdrb]

So they were struggling with 20 lb Dbs?

[favori12]

U mad? Not long until you get into a real gym.

I'm happy knowing I'm that much closer to being done with this gym. After my deload next week, I'll only be lifting heavy @ my current gym for 3 more weeks until joining the PLing gym. O me so excited.

im glad to hear that your strength is coming back up.

lmao at dirty asians

idk if i can lift with you now, i need someone to actually spot me instead of just dropping weight on my chest

<3

I said ditzy asians not dirty. I'd only call them dirty if I caught them stealing my sh!t lol.

Haha I had my hands underneath the bar and everything and after the lift off I didn't end up touching the bar until I had to pull it off his chest. I even warned him that I wouldn't touch the bar unless he couldn't get it off his chest or if it was going downward instead of up.

So they were struggling with 20 lb Dbs?

Not too much although form was horrible and uncontrolled, but they did struggle a lot with the 40 lb ez-bar upright rows that they supersetted with.

[favori12]

Friday 7/23:

Weight: 131.2 lbs


DB Rows

TT: 3x10x100 (slow)

Tricep Pushdowns

TT: 12x65 (easy), 12x72.5 (2 rep PR) (fairly easy)

Tricep pushdowns were probably the highlight of today's workout, mainly because I haven't done them in at least about few months and they were fairly easy today. I'm pretty confident I can add weight next time I do them.

The best part of today's workout though was lifting with KB . He forgot his memory card so no vids lol. Unlike what he always says, he's not fat at all but at the same time he definitely appears to have enough mass to benefit from cutting. It was a fun day though and we were in the gym well over 2 hours lol. As for a smaller highlight, when I was doing upright rows I saw a slight vein in my bicep for the first time horizontally crossing my main bicep vein haha. Good sign that I'm getting a bit leaner, but I may need to up the cals for a week or two to get my metabolism functioning better.

[kbismadkool]

oh hai

haha you were so happy to find that vein lol

DB Rows for you were too easy lol

sorry about the memory card again. i didnt know!

EDIT: am too fat!

[xHoward]

You are way too swole for 131lbs haha.

I must have missed your previous log entry and I have to say those stories were hilarious. I really don't like spotting people when they're going for one rep maxes and such.

I have to say I really think tricep PDs are an underrated exercise.

[favori12]

oh hai

haha you were so happy to find that vein lol

DB Rows for you were too easy lol

sorry about the memory card again. i didnt know!

EDIT: am too fat!

Haha yeah you have no idea how much I like seeing a vein or striation I've never seen before lol. It took me a year and a half until I could see my first forearm vein and since then I've wanted to see even MOAR.

I'm just trying to do everything I can to make DB rows hard since I only have 100 lbs. As of right now I'm just doing them slow and with as much ROM as possible, although it's a bit harder to do that when I approach 15 reps.

I should've IRL negged you anyway though for forgetting the memory card. Either way, you're f'ed next time .

There were quite a few fat/skinny-fat guys in my gym today and you were far from one of them lol. Once you lose a small layer or two of fat though, BOOM striations and veinzorz. @ 12% body fat you'll look a lot more like me and 10% is supposed to be a HUGE jump from 12% when it comes to looking cut.

[kbismadkool]

You are way too swole for 131lbs haha.

he doesn't look like 130lbs

[favori12]

You are way too swole for 131lbs haha.

I must have missed your previous log entry and I have to say those stories were hilarious. I really don't like spotting people when they're going for one rep maxes and such.

I have to say I really think tricep PDs are an underrated exercise.

Hehe I'm curious to know how much KB thinks I weigh lol.

Ha I rarely ever spot anyone and last time I did it was only 95 lbs so that was fine. I'm not spotting idiots anymore though lols.

Me too, they're a great exercise imo. I noticed overhead DB extensions carried over extremely well to them as well. I think I added about 20 lbs to my pushdowns after going up a lot on pushdowns and I noticed the different in size as well. They're fairly easy to move up in weight on as well imo.

[kbismadkool]

Haha yeah you have no idea how much I like seeing a vein or striation I've never seen before lol. It took me a year and a half until I could see my first forearm vein and since then I've wanted to see even MOAR.

I'm just trying to do everything I can to make DB rows hard since I only have 100 lbs. As of right now I'm just doing them slow and with as much ROM as possible, although it's a bit harder to do that when I approach 15 reps.

I should've IRL negged you anyway though for forgetting the memory card. Either way, you're f'ed next time .

There were quite a few fat/skinny-fat guys in my gym today and you were far from one of them lol. Once you lose a small layer or two of fat though, BOOM striations and veinzorz. @ 12% body fat you'll look a lot more like me and 10% is supposed to be a HUGE jump from 12% when it comes to looking cut.

hahahah oh favori. veins are the **** though so its understandable.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU lol. brb jerking up the weight cause i cant do them slow



hahha but they were all bigger then me but yet once im lean ill be happy and hopefully decent looking.

brb getting mauled by your dog.

brb leaving your sister at the gym lmao. that would have been priceless

[favori12]

hahahah oh favori. veins are the **** though so its understandable.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU lol. brb jerking up the weight cause i cant do them slow



hahha but they were all bigger then me but yet once im lean ill be happy and hopefully decent looking.

brb getting mauled by your dog.

brb leaving your sister at the gym lmao. that would have been priceless

Hell yeah!

Nah, lots of out of shape guys today in the gym. You'll look a lot better when you lean out.

Lol I was jerking 100 lbs when I started but I'll be jerking more once I go heavier in the next gym. You'll surpass me on DB rows in no time though.

Haha I was actually surprised how good she was being. I find it funny that we almost did leave her there and she just ran out bitching.

Btw, how much do I look like I weigh irl ******? I never have the opportunity to ask this irl and it would feel gay doing so haha. O me so curious

[kbismadkool]

Hell yeah!

Nah, lots of out of shape guys today in the gym. You'll look a lot better when you lean out.

Lol I was jerking 100 lbs when I started but I'll be jerking more once I go heavier in the next gym. You'll surpass me on DB rows in no time though.

Haha I was actually surprised how good she was being. I find it funny that we almost did leave her there and she just ran out bitching.

Btw, how much do I look like I weigh irl ******? I never have the opportunity to ask this irl and it would feel gay doing so haha. O me so curious

haha we will see.

hahah not at all, considering i dont do them

lolol thats true, i found the argument over fudruckers to be funny as well

hah though im a horrible judge, i would say 150.

[xKyle10]

I realized today that I'm officially delusional in some way or another lol. If you guys remember my rant/b!tching about how small/skinny I felt the other day in the gym, I felt the total opposite today lifting around the same people . I felt as if I had the second to third most impressive physique in the gym today when just the other day I felt skinny as hell. I'm not sure what to think anymore lol.

know what you mean by that...i think a lot of time how swole you look depends on your attire. i got these wifebeaters which are a size too big for me and they make me look small but if i wear a medium cutoff or something i look swole, the tighter the better for the most part, brb ordering small wifebeaters lulz. also depends on the time of day and how much water and **** you are retaining but overall its a bigasss mindgame

I submitted my recent progress pics to IA for a bf% estimation and I'm at 12%, which means he previously underestimated my bf% by 1% since I lost a bunch of fat in my legs before losing any on my upper body. This means I should have close to a 25" waist by the end of this cut and hopefully will start to look cut up once I drop below 12%. All the experienced guys say you look 10-15 lbs bigger once you drop from 12% to 10%, so I'm getting anxious to get there soon.

lol 25" waist holy ****...youre gonna be able to hold a 10 lb plate next to your waist and its gonna be bigger than it fuuuuu

also, i think i understimated my bf% a few weeks ago and im now closer to 11% or so since my abs/overall definition and vascularity is popping a lot faster and abs when flexed are pretty crazy, starting to see the lines more when relaxed. still waiting for the big drop where i look bigger though, its gonne be so relieving to just be done. i only started doing the cardio last week seriously and its definitely making a huge difference too

I haven't gotten all the facts together so im just going with what IA has posted in the Warrior Diet thread. But its 4-5 meals a day. 3 super small meals(protein and a fruit) during the day and a couple hours before bed, you eat a super huge meal. More details are in the book which im too miser to buy.

There are enough diet critique threads on IA's that you can read em and understand 95% of the concepts though.

im pretty sure the Warrior Diet can also be just one meal a day, I talked to a guy a while back on here who i got an interview for simplyshredded and he said he uses the warrior diet. i don't think i'd be able to stick to it mentally though lol
the link for his diet is down but he said it worked very well for cutting IIRC
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=120853941

At some points during your cut, you'll just feel like you're shriveling down to nothing, but soon enough you'll get to the point where you'll see muscle you never knew you had. Most people will feel like that when cutting.... you'll feel small as hell at times and muscular at others.


Some big kid asked me to spot him on bench today so I did so. He did an all out 245x3 w/ half reps the set before but I wasn't aware of this until my father told me (he lifted with me today). So I go to spot him on 275, unracked the weight after he counted down to 3, put it over his chest, let go after it was in place, he brought it to his chest and didn't bring it up and he says "you dropped it on my chest" as I was lifting the bar off his chest. I don't think I'm in the wrong here, but the dumb ass should've had control of the damn bar after it was put in place properly. Lesson learned, don't spot idiots with oversized egos that put way too much weight on the bar. I have no idea why he thought an all out 245x3 half reps equates to a 275 lb max anyway.

definitely agree on looking small some times and big others, ****s with the mind

also, lulz @ the kid ego lifting. i was actually spotting this kid at my old gym a week or so back who had like 275 on but he has retard strength and is huge for his age and he easily puts up 315+ but his form was iffy as **** kept looking like he was gonna drop it and just racks it way too fast

The best part of today's workout though was lifting with KB . He forgot his memory card so no vids lol. Unlike what he always says, he's not fat at all but at the same time he definitely appears to have enough mass to benefit from cutting. It was a fun day though and we were in the gym well over 2 hours lol. As for a smaller highlight, when I was doing upright rows I saw a slight vein in my bicep for the first time horizontally crossing my main bicep vein haha. Good sign that I'm getting a bit leaner, but I may need to up the cals for a week or two to get my metabolism functioning better.

lucky bastard, i wanna lift with kev

ive had that same vein you are talking about for a few weeks now and it gets more prominent each week, feels sick seeing that **** pop on curls



k im caught up in here nao

[favori12]

haha we will see.

hahah not at all, considering i dont do them

lolol thats true, i found the argument over fudruckers to be funny as well

hah though im a horrible judge, i would say 150.

Well when you do them eventually they'll come up fast!

The argument was actually over Goodfellows and they have awesome burgers lol. I guarantee you I'll be eating there tomorrow.

Sweet!

know what you mean by that...i think a lot of time how swole you look depends on your attire. i got these wifebeaters which are a size too big for me and they make me look small but if i wear a medium cutoff or something i look swole, the tighter the better for the most part, brb ordering small wifebeaters lulz. also depends on the time of day and how much water and **** you are retaining but overall its a bigasss mindgame

O hai Kyle!

That's true, it really is a big ass mindgame. I think a lot of it depends on your mood too. Getting lean really does make a big difference though and I'm seeing it more and more.

lol 25" waist holy ****...youre gonna be able to hold a 10 lb plate next to your waist and its gonna be bigger than it fuuuuu

Haha, I think I would need a 15" waist to do that

also, i think i understimated my bf% a few weeks ago and im now closer to 11% or so since my abs/overall definition and vascularity is popping a lot faster and abs when flexed are pretty crazy, starting to see the lines more when relaxed. still waiting for the big drop where i look bigger though, its gonne be so relieving to just be done. i only started doing the cardio last week seriously and its definitely making a huge difference too

Haha, I think I would need a 15" waist to do that

Sweet! The difference between 11% & 12% is pretty big so you're probably there like you say. Keep it up!

im pretty sure the Warrior Diet can also be just one meal a day, I talked to a guy a while back on here who i got an interview for simplyshredded and he said he uses the warrior diet. i don't think i'd be able to stick to it mentally though lol
the link for his diet is down but he said it worked very well for cutting IIRC
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=120853941

Wow no way in hell could I do that... I'd be so full halfway through!

also, lulz @ the kid ego lifting. i was actually spotting this kid at my old gym a week or so back who had like 275 on but he has retard strength and is huge for his age and he easily puts up 315+ but his form was iffy as **** kept looking like he was gonna drop it and just racks it way too fast

Damn that's scary! I would hate to spot 315 with iffy form.

lucky bastard, i wanna lift with kev

ive had that same vein you are talking about for a few weeks now and it gets more prominent each week, feels sick seeing that **** pop on curls


k im caught up in here nao

Drive a few hours to Jersey

You seem to be losing fat pretty fast which is good. Feels really good to notice fast progress like that too. I'm stalling pretty hard and I think it's because my thyroid isn't functioning nearly as well as it could be. I think after upping the cals for a couple weeks I should be good to go.

[xKyle10]

You seem to be losing fat pretty fast which is good. Feels really good to notice fast progress like that too. I'm stalling pretty hard and I think it's because my thyroid isn't functioning nearly as well as it could be. I think after upping the cals for a couple weeks I should be good to go.

about time its going good lol i stalled for a week or two due to a vacation and not strict dieting. everything is pretty solid now. 1900 or 2k seems a bit low even for your weight, so the refeed might do you some good.

also, forgot to mention this but recently ive put a lot of faith in scivation products and saw you ordered some quake so im really interested in how that works for you. also have you tried solution 5 yet? i have xtend and definitely going to stick with it, check out this article aswell its pretty sweet: http://www.strengthandscience.com/wordpress/?p=61

i recently just bought two 5 lb tubs of their whey too if youre interested here's a link for that aswell (prices were 5 bucks/tub lower but shipping is very low and stays the same despite the weight): http://www.muscleandstrength.com/sto...y-protein.html

[favori12]

about time its going good lol i stalled for a week or two due to a vacation and not strict dieting. everything is pretty solid now. 1900 or 2k seems a bit low even for your weight, so the refeed might do you some good.

also, forgot to mention this but recently ive put a lot of faith in scivation products and saw you ordered some quake so im really interested in how that works for you. also have you tried solution 5 yet? i have xtend and definitely going to stick with it, check out this article aswell its pretty sweet: http://www.strengthandscience.com/wordpress/?p=61

i recently just bought two 5 lb tubs of their whey too if youre interested here's a link for that aswell (prices were 5 bucks/tub lower but shipping is very low and stays the same despite the weight): http://www.muscleandstrength.com/sto...y-protein.html

Good sh!t. I'm going to ask IA what I should do, but it's most likely going to involve eating more for a couple weeks.

Yep, I rarely use any pre-workout stims but I decided to compare samples I have of superpump, 1MR, and quake. Out of all of them, quake was the best since it wasn't extremely powerful like 1MR and it helped me focus more than the others. If you're not sensitive to stims like I am, you might like 1MR better. Superpump was the worst, as it just made me jittery early on and crash early.

Wow, that whey is damn cheap. I may purchase some

[olibeast]

I'm stalling pretty hard and I think it's because my thyroid isn't functioning nearly as well as it could be. I think after upping the cals for a couple weeks I should be good to go.

iirc, doesnt IA have you carb up at the weekends? i take it you consume more calories on these days than you would during the week, or are you jus messing around with macros?

anyway, i would of thought the carb ups would be enough to keep your metabolism high?

[favori12]

iirc, doesnt IA have you carb up at the weekends? i take it you consume more calories on these days than you would during the week, or are you jus messing around with macros?

anyway, i would of thought the carb ups would be enough to keep your metabolism high?

Yep, I have one carb up day per week now (used to be two). Right now I consume 2200 cals on carb days and ~1900-2000 on non-carb days. I do have very little carbs most of the time though and I've been dropping the cals more and more so I guess that caught up with me. I should be back on track soon enough though.

[olibeast]

Yep, I have one carb up day per week now (used to be two). Right now I consume 2200 cals on carb days and ~1900-2000 on non-carb days. I do have very little carbs most of the time though and I've been dropping the cals more and more so I guess that caught up with me. I should be back on track soon enough though.

did IA tell you to drop a carb up day, or did you decide to do that youself?

[favori12]

did IA tell you to drop a carb up day, or did you decide to do that youself?

Well I told him I was going to focus on cutting more, and he said in an older post that with the type of diet I'm doing that 2 carb days is better for a recomp and 1 carb day is better for cutting. So I just did it by myself pretty much. I never even told him how many carb days I have though but I will next time I call him.

[olibeast]

Well I told him I was going to focus on cutting more, and he said in an older post that with the type of diet I'm doing that 2 carb days is better for a recomp and 1 carb day is better for cutting. So I just did it by myself pretty much. I never even told him how many carb days I have though but I will next time I call him.

oh ok. was gona say, i would of thought thats a bit odd him reccommending to drop a carb up day on your cut while your are as lean as you are.

[favori12]

oh ok. was gona say, i would of thought thats a bit odd him reccommending to drop a carb up day on your cut while your are as lean as you are.

Yeah it was all me lol. Getting below 12% is pretty hard for me though so that's the main reason I dropped it. It's obvious that lowering the cals isn't doing much and lowering them more would be a bad idea, so getting my metabolism back up will fix things hopefully.