Ripped as Hell Training log <---A must follow

[adamarcher]

Hey guys just wanted to get this thread kicked off and going. This is going to be one hell of ride, and you're all more than welcome to follow along. I will be logging religiously over the next 12 weeks to try and get as much into this as I can. I'll try to get you guys my workouts, emotions, diet, cardio all of that good **** into one log on a constant basis. There is a ton of great guys/gals out there ready to whoop it on. Wish them all the best.

[brad23]

Subbed

[mcraig31]

Good luck man! Looking forward to seeing everyone's results!
subbed...

[MrsHH]

Subbed!

[Achuislemochroi]

Subbed! ^_^

[auntielingo]

Well, since the title says this one is "A must follow" I better sub.

[adamarcher]

Awesome thanks for the subs everyone! It's going to be a great journey. I'll try to sub to you all as well. Its definitely a must follow

[ggfusion]

Alright, a fellow Devil Dog OOH RAH! Good luck man I am sure you will do great!

[russ d]

I'm a fellow Devil Dog as well Good luck to you.

[jpetteway]

Good luck brother. Lets kick this thing in the ass
-Jay

[bherrod]

Hey guys just wanted to get this thread kicked off and going. This is going to be one hell of ride, and you're all more than welcome to follow along. I will be logging religiously over the next 12 weeks to try and get as much into this as I can. I'll try to get you guys my workouts, emotions, diet, cardio all of that good **** into one log on a constant basis. There is a ton of great guys/gals out there ready to whoop it on. Wish them all the best.

Looking forward to this RIDE..... Good luck on our trip to Hell! You are gonna do awesome!

[adamarcher]

Well as you all know we have to send in certain info to Tom and post things on a weekly basis. So I am going to give you my starting numbers and such. I will also post either pics, if I reach the post limit, or a URL to the pics.

Beginning Weight: 227

Last Week’s Weight: n/a

This Week’s Weight: 227

Cardio (how many days per week/minutes per day): 6xweek @ 30 mins a session

Protein grams you’re eating per day: 250

Carbohydrate grams you’re eating per day: 150

Fat grams you’re eating per day: 30

Body Fat +/- % for the week (optional) Guesstimate at around 18-20%


Tomorrow is going to be D-Day 1, we got shoulders to kick it off. It's going to be great, most of my 12 weeks will be solo HRT, but may mix in some partner'd. More to come tomorrow about all the good stuff.

[bherrod]

Ready to kick it off tomorrow! Love building those boulder shoulders! Get it!

[bluesurfer_17]

SUBBED broski! head to Going to hell and coming back an animal thread and sub as well. GET SWOLE!

[pumpedup86]

Looking forward to watching you progress good luck mate

[adamarcher]

I'm gonna post the link to my pics I took this morning, let me know if they work or not. I'll try to get my post count up tonight. Get out there and slay it today!
imgur.com/mBmGA,9WtuS,yP7r8#0
imgur.com/mBmGA,9WtuS,yP7r8#1
imgur.com/mBmGA,9WtuS,yP7r8#2

[brad23]

I'm gonna post the link to my pics I took this morning, let me know if they work or not. I'll try to get my post count up tonight. Get out there and slay it today!
imgur.com/mBmGA,9WtuS,yP7r8#0
imgur.com/mBmGA,9WtuS,yP7r8#1
imgur.com/mBmGA,9WtuS,yP7r8#2

Pic links not showing up bro. I know they will once you hit 50 post. You can also post videos then too.

[jeffersd702]

good luck

[adamarcher]

Pic links not showing up bro. I know they will once you hit 50 post. You can also post videos then too.

Alright thanks, I think those links still work if you just copy and paste them. But I will be trying to the 50+ posts ASAP. Thanks.

[adamarcher]

Alright I'm going to give you guys a break down of what I did today. For the reasoning of getting to 50 posts for pictures, I am going to break it up into a few posts haha.

[adamarcher]

Today I had shoulders I am sticking with the HRT Animal edition for bulking, are you guys doing the same cycle of workouts? Or different ones?

I started off with 3 warm up sets of Seated BB Press to the front.
Set 1: Bar
Set 2: 10 lbs each side
Set 3: 25 lbs
Set 4: First working 55 lbs each side
Set 5: Final working 65 lbs each side

Sets felt pretty good, I was doing the 8+6 method. Ended up only getting 5 on the last set, felt good on my 5 count on the negative.

[adamarcher]

I then went into seated DB side lateral raises.
1 Warm up set of 15 lbs.
Set 1: 30 lbs 8+6, kicked my ass. I could barely hold the weight up for longer than 3 seconds tops. Real hard movement to get any kind of weight into it without incorporating tons of traps.
Set 2: 30 lbs 8+4, dropped down to 20 lbs for +4 more of slow controlled decent. I feel like I may need to check myself next week on this movement a little more to get straight into the delts and not so much the traps.

[adamarcher]

Then went on into Front BB raise. Not a big fan of the BB, I prefer DB fronts a lot better. Not really sure why, just do.
Didn't perform any warm up sets, felt like my shoulders were already on fire enough as it is.
1st set: 70 lbs 8+4, I barely did the 8 pretty much the last 4 killed me. Decided to drop to 60 for the 2nd set.
2nd set: 60 lbs 8+6, felt real good, went much slower on the decent than the 1st set.

Went into some stretching movements afterwards to try and stretch that fascia. I really do need to work on my stretching, I have limited movement in almost all of my muscles.

Done with shoulders time to move onto Bi's and forearms.

[adamarcher]

BB curl medium grip width.
Performed 1 warm up set of only the bar, followed by another warm up set of 10 lbs each side. I'm not a big fan of BB burls, unless its the ez bar. I sometimes feel like it hits the front delt a lot for me rather than my bi. But that all changed when I went into do my +6 slow count negatives haha.

1st set: 25 lbs, grueling and kicked my ass got 8+6 but the last 3 were pretty much me leaning back hucking it up there and then going down slow.
2nd set: 20 lbs each side, got 8+6 but it felt like it was a much better set than the first one.

[adamarcher]

Next up, Reverse BB curls. I usually don't do these too often, but holy **** I love them. I felt like I could just feel my bi growing all over. It felt really isolated onto the outside of my arm ( damn you would think being a personal trainer, I would memorize these muscle names a lot more :S ) Either way, it felt hella good, tons of plump pump all over.

1st set: 70 lbs 8+6 felt just amazing, killer blood pump.
2nd set: 70 lbs 8+6 again just great movement.

Went ahead and stretched out my bi's a little bit before moving onto forearms.

[adamarcher]

Well at least my post count is climbing little by little haha.

Last but not least forearms. Wrist curls reverse and straight on.

Performed reverse first of 40 lbs BB, felt very awkward and more of a limp arm exhuastion rather than muscle exhaustion, if that makes any sense. Never really been too big of a fan of wrist curls. Did another set of 30 lbs 8+6 afterwards.
Moved onto not reversed afterwards, a much cleaner movement I think. I actually feel I didn't go heavy enough on these, I'll remember that for next time.
1st set 50 lbs 8+10
2nd set 60 lbs 8+6.

Afterwards I stretched my forearms for sec and then jumped on the stairmaster for 30 mins @ level 5. I am considering splitting up my workout and cardio with about 4 hours in between, not sure yet though. At the end of the workout and cardio, I was drenched lol. Good day, good opener for this challenge.

[adamarcher]

And finally my diet outline for the day goes something like this. I have decided I am going to do intermittent fasting during this challenge. Fasting from 5 pm to 1 pm the next day, daily. 20 hour window pretty much. I am for the most part going to consume the same thing every day, minor mixes here and there.

27.7 ounces of chicken breast.
12 ounces of sweet potatoe.
1 1/5 cups brown rice.
1 tsp olive oil.

According to my calculations that hits my macro for the day. Ready to rest up and kick off legs tomorrow!

I am really interested in what cycle of HRT you guys are doing, go ahead and leave comments if you would like.

Semper Fi brothers.

[brad23]

Yeah those 5 count negs are a b**** lol.

[jacopsaj]

Congrats on getting subbed bro! Good luck man!

[adamarcher]

Yeah those 5 count negs are a b**** lol.

Oh yeah they are haha.