This Week in the O35 (pics/vids)

[melDorado]

Man, you guys make me feel so small!



Time for a couple of shameless selfies before they go stale. Trying really hard to bulk - I think I've put on a few good pounds over the past year. I'm nearly as big as I'd like, but I'm generally pleased with how I look. Big just may not be in my genes.

Doc you sure don't look small! Looking great I love the definition on your 'side abs' (serratus? Is that right?)
Over 35s are killing it, inspired by yall

[MissHolly]

Ive always been a girl with no hips or waist, literally a rectangle with limbs. I been hitting leg day really hard n heavy twice a week for a whole year now : low bar squats.. BB bridges..lunges.. RDLs & cable kickbacks.
Last week I split my tracksuit pants doing goblet squats which was embarrassing but progress! and here i am filling my jeans out properly at last. So pleased with my new booty.

Definitely not a rectangle! Looks like your hard work is paying off

[SuperZar]

Ive always been a girl with no hips or waist, literally a rectangle with limbs. I been hitting leg day really hard n heavy twice a week for a whole year now : low bar squats.. BB bridges..lunges.. RDLs & cable kickbacks.
Last week I split my tracksuit pants doing goblet squats which was embarrassing but progress! and here i am filling my jeans out properly at last. So pleased with my new booty.

Congratulations on your efforts, you look great!

[HoustonTXMuscle]

Have been off the grid since the week before Halloween, primarily due to my wife having 4 surgeries during the month of November and the fact that she was not released from wound care facility until the middle of January. Quit maintaining my journal here despite keeping my hardcopy up to date. During the past three months, I've managed to stay on track with my meal plans and the majority of my workouts. To start the New Year, I re-instituted a PHAT program. As I turned 75 years of age, three days ago I thought I needed new progress pics. Here's one taken during a rest period (bench curls) today.

[DocHoss]

Doc you sure don't look small! Looking great I love the definition on your 'side abs' (serratus? Is that right?)
Over 35s are killing it, inspired by yall

Thank you, melDorado! I believe those are the intercostals. The serratus are more like saw teeth (hence the name, like serrated) and are higher up in the shadows.

Ive always been a girl with no hips or waist, literally a rectangle with limbs. I been hitting leg day really hard n heavy twice a week for a whole year now : low bar squats.. BB bridges..lunges.. RDLs & cable kickbacks.
Last week I split my tracksuit pants doing goblet squats which was embarrassing but progress! and here i am filling my jeans out properly at last. So pleased with my new booty.

Maybe in the past, but you look great now - curves in all the right places!

Have been off the grid since the week before Halloween, primarily due to my wife having 4 surgeries during the month of November and the fact that she was not released from wound care facility until the middle of January. Quit maintaining my journal here despite keeping my hardcopy up to date. During the past three months, I've managed to stay on track with my meal plans and the majority of my workouts. To start the New Year, I re-instituted a PHAT program. As I turned 75 years of age, three days ago I thought I needed new progress pics. Here's one taken during a rest period (bench curls) today.

Good to have you back and hope your wife is doing well now.

Looks like you need to buy a new workout shirt every year

[melDorado]

Aw thanks for the nice comments guys. The bigger my hips and lats get there will be an illusion of having a waist too so nothing unfixable if I put the work in I now know.

[silverlightning]

Man, you guys make me feel so small!



Time for a couple of shameless selfies before they go stale. Trying really hard to bulk - I think I've put on a few good pounds over the past year. I'm nearly as big as I'd like, but I'm generally pleased with how I look. Big just may not be in my genes.

looking shredded Doc. what part of Cali you in? I'm in Socal.

[CHILDOFGO12]

Have been off the grid since the week before Halloween, primarily due to my wife having 4 surgeries during the month of November and the fact that she was not released from wound care facility until the middle of January. Quit maintaining my journal here despite keeping my hardcopy up to date. During the past three months, I've managed to stay on track with my meal plans and the majority of my workouts. To start the New Year, I re-instituted a PHAT program. As I turned 75 years of age, three days ago I thought I needed new progress pics. Here's one taken during a rest period (bench curls) today.

u do not even look 75, u look more like mid 50's. and i know ur wife well GET HEALED FAST

[anonymous]

Back to 4 plates for paused reps, no more mental block about my left hip at this point.



Now I need to get back to where I was last year

[Mark1T]

Man, you guys make me feel so small!

Time for a couple of shameless selfies before they go stale. Trying really hard to bulk - I think I've put on a few good pounds over the past year. I'm nearly as big as I'd like, but I'm generally pleased with how I look. Big just may not be in my genes.

Work pays off. Nice.

Ive always been a girl with no hips or waist, literally a rectangle with limbs. I been hitting leg day really hard n heavy twice a week for a whole year now : low bar squats.. BB bridges..lunges.. RDLs & cable kickbacks.
Last week I split my tracksuit pants doing goblet squats which was embarrassing but progress! and here i am filling my jeans out properly at last. So pleased with my new booty.

You look great.

Have been off the grid since the week before Halloween, primarily due to my wife having 4 surgeries during the month of November and the fact that she was not released from wound care facility until the middle of January. Quit maintaining my journal here despite keeping my hardcopy up to date. During the past three months, I've managed to stay on track with my meal plans and the majority of my workouts. To start the New Year, I re-instituted a PHAT program. As I turned 75 years of age, three days ago I thought I needed new progress pics. Here's one taken during a rest period (bench curls) today.

Excellent build.

Back to 4 plates for paused reps, no more mental block about my left hip at this point.



Now I need to get back to where I was last year

Nice. Nothing halfway about that.

[Jbizzlechizzle]

Back to 4 plates for paused reps, no more mental block about my left hip at this point.



Now I need to get back to where I was last year

#beastmode

[jdtemple]

Back to 4 plates for paused reps, no more mental block about my left hip at this point.



Now I need to get back to where I was last year

Wow. Great squatting!

[JimmyJonny]

Back to 4 plates for paused reps, no more mental block about my left hip at this point.



Now I need to get back to where I was last year

No doubt about depth on them !!

[pharmamarketer]

Back to 4 plates for paused reps, no more mental block about my left hip at this point.



Now I need to get back to where I was last year

Damn. That is one of the only ATG squats, with that sort of weight, I have ever seen. That is incredibly impressive.

[induced_drag]

Doc....really awesome conditioning. Im jealous!

Halfway.....you should change your name to "All the way!" with those squats. Great to see you are feeling good.

I posted this in the June cutting thread, but figured I would drop it here as well.
Cut is progressing well on this front. 7 weeks in. I was not planning on posting any pics till I get in decent shape, but I snapped a quick one at the gym tonight. Was not a leg night believe it or not. Just being warm (and the fact that I ate a banana before I worked out) got my veins popping. Figured I would snap a quick one.

[MoldyGopher]

Excellent!

[hmmmm16417]

Back to 4 plates for paused reps, no more mental block about my left hip at this point.



Now I need to get back to where I was last year

dang! how can you go that low? my hips feel like they are going to explode sideways if i even attempt that low LOL

[anonymous]

dang! how can you go that low? my hips feel like they are going to explode sideways if i even attempt that low LOL

I do mobility work for 30 mins then goblet squats before even squatting the bar, and having half an inch of bone cut out of my left hip last year helped

My right hip is still impinged but my mobility is a little better now the left moves freely

It's mostly knee travel not hip mobility , when I squat to a box I can't go lower than a 10" box

[melDorado]

Wow your depth puts me to shame squatting, and I needed that with me getting cocky comparing myself to the curtsey squatters in my gym lol. Good job!

[EjnarKolinkar]

Wow. Great squatting!

X2

Good to see you recover so fast

[ntrllftr]

Health issues (not an injury and nothing too serious) and other life things got in the whey the past 18 months. Main reason for my absence. Feeling great the past three weeks. Not back to my 10-12 rep of 225 but I'm getting back there for sure!!!

[soccerdad5]

Biggest I have been in this off season at around 216. Was doing 600 g of carbs this week and will do the same next week then cut back. Carbs have done me good but will continue to monitor weight. Don't want to get too far out of shape because it will be rough when prep for my contest comes around.

[MissHolly]

Health issues (not an injury and nothing too serious) and other life things got in the whey the past 18 months. Main reason for my absence. Feeling great the past three weeks. Not back to my 10-12 rep of 225 but I'm getting back there for sure!!!

You'll be back to it in no time. That looked effortless, GJ

Biggest I have been in this off season at around 216. Was doing 600 g of carbs this week and will do the same next week then cut back. Carbs have done me good but will continue to monitor weight. Don't want to get too far out of shape because it will be rough when prep for my contest comes around.

Looking thick! In a good way

[StressMonkey]

Health issues (not an injury and nothing too serious) and other life things got in the whey the past 18 months. Main reason for my absence. Feeling great the past three weeks. Not back to my 10-12 rep of 225 but I'm getting back there for sure!!!

Made me smile reading that. You did make that lift look easy!

[TouaregV8]

Huge arms, you should def get onstage.

Thanks, brother. July 11, 2015.

[TouaregV8]

Pic taken last Saturday @ 242lbs.

[anonymous]

Pic taken last Saturday @ 242lbs.

Dem legs!

[Jbizzlechizzle]

Dem legs!

Hell yeah, right? My left knee has been giving me fits this week. Arthritis is acting up, but it didn't stop me from getting some front squats in today. The O35 rocks...

[bodyhard]

Pic taken last Saturday @ 242lbs.

WTF? Damn dude those aren't legs those look like tree trunks! Massive tree trunks!

[EB68]

Haven't posted in here for a while. Here is from today's Leg session.
Squats@225/SLDL's@205 supersets for 10x10
Here is sets 8, 9, 10 (90 seconds rest between sets)