Team IIFYM: Bill & Eric's Excellent Adventure!

[ErickStevens]

Pre-Post-Holiday-Cut Noods







Weight is 197.8 in these pics. Hoping to get to 190 or below before my birthday (March 12).

[mattjansen]

Great progress bro! Enjoy Christmas and no doubt you will get to 190 by your Bday

[vitornoob]

Great Eric..How much time between the profile pic and those?

[ErickStevens]

Great progress bro! Enjoy Christmas and no doubt you will get to 190 by your Bday

Thanks brah!

Great Eric..How much time between the profile pic and those?

A couple weeks.

[deltpecx]

Are you saying it isn't loud enough? I can hear it just fine

Solution: turn up the volume.

I heard every word you said.

I've had this glitch happen before.
If I view the video later it works fine.
I heard everything today.

..and yes I did have the volume up yesterday...

How's that bicycle shop job offer looking?

Merry Christmas!

[Slovation]

<---------- fapping.

Dude you dont hold much in the glute region.............not that I was looking/staring/fantasizing. Looking solid, tight, thick, moist, tender, delicate, yoked and all around finger licking good. Legs are also looking meaty.

inforericsmeat

[ErickStevens]

Sheikolov #29 - Week 3, Day 3

Squats
225 x 5
275 x 5
315 x 5 (2x)
335 x 4 (5x)

Bench
215 x 4 (8x)

Good Mornings
5 x 5

DB Flies
5 x 10

Notes

- Hip flexors were tight as fuuuuuu from Wednesday. I think those deficit deadlifts did them in.

[Frankdaddy]

I think you would do really well on a specialized routine with focusing on your limbs only with the use of a lot of compound movements. I know it sounds crazy, but that is just my opinion. I would also not focus on a lot of strength lifting with the compound movements. Just my 0.02 cents.

[HunterCML]

Strong chest Erick. You might want to do Smolov Jr for bench for a could months.

[ErickStevens]

I think you would do really well on a specialized routine with focusing on your limbs only with the use of a lot of compound movements. I know it sounds crazy, but that is just my opinion. I would also not focus on a lot of strength lifting with the compound movements. Just my 0.02 cents.

You kind of read my mind. I've spoke about this with Berto and that's kind of the game plan. I'm going to keep training for strength for the next couple months till my March 24th meet then we're going to go the hypertrophy route. What exactly did you have in mind?

Strong chest Erick. You might want to do Smolov Jr for bench for a could months.

brb pulling your 1RM for 17

[HunterCML]

brb pulling your 1RM for 17

Where's the vid of 420x17 ?

[Frankdaddy]

I think sheiko is great and everything but not always necessary for everyone as far as bodybuilding goes unless we are kind of stuck with certain aspects. Take what I say with a grain of dingleberries, but just an idea. I think it will be a total mind frig but I think not focusing on core exercises that you need to support the core as much would be ideal and a lot different rep range with the main compound lifts than you do now, but maybe not as much sets/focus with them either. I think a version of the power hypertrophy split with a single day focused on your weak area, which it has always been arms for me so I always hit arms on mine. Keeping the frequency might be a good idea, and some power movements on the power days, but not very high volume. Then really focus on hypertophy training and high volume with low volume on the compound lifts. Maybe some light high rep squats, hacksquat or leg press or split squats, leg extensions, and a lot of lunges with some stiff legged deadlifts, legs curls seated and or laying. Just an idea. Honestly I think it would be the best appraoch and still a dcent one for gaining some strength wise, but as far as competitive bodybuilding goes if that is your goal, I would focus a lot more on training the limbs and less core/compound lifts, but yes that would suck. LOL

On a side note, I love the power/hypertrophy split with a weak point day extra.

[determined4000]

I think sheiko is great and everything but not always necessary for everyone as far as bodybuilding goes unless we are kind of stuck with certain aspects. Take what I say with a grain of dingleberries, but just an idea. I think it will be a total mind frig but I think not focusing on core exercises that you need to support the core as much would be ideal and a lot different rep range with the main compound lifts than you do now, but maybe not as much sets/focus with them either. I think a version of the power hypertrophy split with a single day focused on your weak area, which it has always been arms for me so I always hit arms on mine. Keeping the frequency might be a good idea, and some power movements on the power days, but not very high volume. Then really focus on hypertophy training and high volume with low volume on the compound lifts. Maybe some light high rep squats, hacksquat or leg press or split squats, leg extensions, and a lot of lunges with some stiff legged deadlifts, legs curls seated and or laying. Just an idea. Honestly I think it would be the best appraoch and still a dcent one for gaining some strength wise, but as far as competitive bodybuilding goes if that is your goal, I would focus a lot more on training the limbs and less core/compound lifts, but yes that would suck. LOL

On a side note, I love the power/hypertrophy split with a weak point day extra.

I have seen most people get the best results following this template:
beginners-->SS followed by an U/L or P/P/L

After that--> Whatever they find enjoyable and challenging

[buckeye185]

legs are absolutely huge, great job man.

[wrkoutfrq]

hell yeah Eric lookin solid. you ought to have no trouble making 190 before your birthday (which coincidentally is only 2 days before mine )

[determined4000]

r. morris= dead man walking

still got your paper bag?

[jaredmus]

eric, nice side chest shot hammies are dropping man. Keep it up happy holidays

[CHRIS925]

hammies are dropping

no joke

[lostkings]

i wonder if erick had any self control this christmas, let's all hope he overcomes this disorder of binging on single days eating over 10k calories. we pray for you erick

[ErickStevens]

i wonder if erick had any self control this christmas, let's all hope he overcomes this disorder of binging on single days eating over 10k calories. we pray for you erick

You mad?

[ErickStevens]

Deload - Legs

DB Goblet Squat
50 x 15
60 x 10
70 x 10
80 x 10

Buglarian Split Squat
BW x 10 (2x)

Romanian Deadlift
135 x 15 (2x)

Notes

- As you can see I decided to hop into a deload a week early. I was experiencing a lot of the tell tale symptoms of fatigue (loss of appetite, loss of motivation, loss of strength, sleep issues, cold-like symptoms after every workout) and I've been at this long enough to know when I need a break. My elbow has been bothering me a lot lately but surprisingly it's more during pull stuff than pressing stuff. This week will be pretty light and easy in the gym but I'll probably be doing more GPP in adddition to a lot of LISS and stretching/foam rolling. No back squatting or deadlifting this week either.
- My next split will be WSBBish: Lower ME/Upper ME/GPP Day/Lower DE/Upper DE/GPP Day. Sunday will be a complete rest day.
- Christmas was awesome. I got a Power Rack and some new KBs! I used some gift money to purchase 350lbs of bumper plates as well.
- I'm ready to hop back on the diet train and get lean!

[jiveinhere]

Good to see you took your deload when you felt the need for it rather than just when you had it scheduled. I think the same thing is a pretty good idea for refeeds.

Also, just noticed that quote by Peter Wason in your sig. Motherfunking genius quote lol! Will defs be using that in the near future

[TigerStealth]

excited to see how WSBB works for you, I've been curious to give it a dedicated run. BTW great hamstring hang on the side chest!

[CHRIS925]

WSB? let's hold hands.. I'm foreveralone here

[wrkoutfrq]

- Christmas was awesome. I got a Power Rack and some new KBs! I used some gift money to purchase 350lbs of bumper plates as well.

hella jealous can't lie... especially about the bumpers. i'm gonna ask for a set and a rack for my graduation present so i can have a pseudo home gym while getting my PhD

[buckeye185]

hella jealous can't lie... especially about the bumpers. i'm gonna ask for a set and a rack for my graduation present so i can have a pseudo home gym while getting my PhD

what field are you pursuing a PhD in brah?

[wrkoutfrq]

what field are you pursuing a PhD in brah?

Biology, but my research focus is on Ecotoxicology, specifically with reptiles and amphibians. my Master's thesis is examining the effects of maternally transferred mercury on the physiology of baby snakes

[bornfrompain]

in on this! subbed to see how you eat/prep IIFYM style for future reference

good shit, brah!

[SideSteal]

In on this and taking notes.

[ErickStevens]

'Sup guys! Hope the holidays are treating everybody well. I've been deloading this week and implementing a little GPP here and there. I busted out some TRX Training on Tuesday and today I hit up some Tabata KB swings with my 50lber. I'm looking forward to finishing this agonizingly boring week up and starting WSBB to start 2012 off.

My weight is right around 200lbs which means I gained ~6lbs over the past 6 weeks of my diet break. Normally this might be a cause to panic for some but I want to put something in perspective here. Coming off my contests last year I gained 36lbs in the same time span. o_O

I've got my new macros from Berto and they're much nicer than I expected: 265/175/80. Higher protein was my suggestion but Berto thinks I'm the best I've ever been metabolically. I plan on cutting aggresively for the next two months and hope to drop 10-12lbs of fat in that time. My diet break benefited me greatly psychologically because now I'm ready to give 100% to this cut. Then after that it's time to improve with a slow and steady gaining phase over the next 10-12 months.

Since Billy seems to be happy and busy, I'm going to start a new solo log dedicated to following my improvement phase over the course of 2012. I'll kick that bad boy off on New Year's Eve with a 2011 retrospective.

Hope everybody is doing good, see you in the new log!