Giraffe's MuscleTech Clear Muscle 12 Week Journey

[giraffe123]

just wait til the gainz train hits you brother

I feel like my arms are getting bigger and that I'm slimming down a bit. I'm not upset with my weight being pretty steady because I feel like the recomp is going pretty well. Also hitting legs hard. Sorry I probably haven't been updating as much as I should, but I'm still tracking my workouts so I'll put a few up now. Didn't get to lift today or yesterday due to work, but I had a solid sesh on Saturday. Posting up now

I'm also 5 days into the second bottle of CM. So far I feel like it's working - excited to see how the next couple months treat me!

Once I finish this next bottle, I'll remeasure and post pics as well to hopefully show a bit of a transformation

[giraffe123]

Friday I hit leg day with a bunch of heavy squats (for me)

Walked 2 miles to start/loosen up and then hit my sets

225 x 4
275 x 5
275 x 5
275 x 6
275 x 4
295 x 2

Leg Press
4 sets of 6 at seven plates each side. I made sure the reps were slow on the decline of the sled and tried to explode coming up

Does anyone else love to hate leg day? It makes me feel sick, and I can barely walk after.... but that makes it worth it.

Straight leg deadlifts with 135
3 sets of 6

Leg Extension with single leg
110 x 5 for 3 sets each leg

Hypertrophy calves again. Used the smith machine and loaded up two 45s on each side and stood on a 2x4 to get a more full ROM

[giraffe123]

Saturday I also hit a hard chest/tri day because I knew I wouldn't be working out Sunday or today due to work

Last set of heavy lifts for that week

Bench Press
135 x 5 warmup
245 x 5
255 x 3
265 x 2

Incline Press
175 x 5
195 x 3
215 x 2

So there's a chest exercise I do where I put two 10's together in my palms and squeeze... and slowly push them away from my chest. I did that for 3 sets of 8 reps. I feel like it really isolates my inner chest by my sternum. I don't know how to better explain it, so if you don't get it, I could post up a video sometime

Chest flies on machine at 135 pounds
4 sets of 7


Triceps - underhand bench press to isolate triceps
135 x 8
155 x 7
175 x 4

Skullcrushers w/ preacher curl bar and 25's on each side
3 sets of 6

Single arm triceps extensions w/ 30's
2 sets of 8

[giraffe123]

Tomorrow after class I'll be lifting with an old gym partner and his friend. Gonna try to get some cardio in and hit back and biceps!

[giraffe123]

Started out in the gym today with 2 miles of slow running (10 minute pace) because the gym was packed

For back, I did 3 sets of wide grip pullups until failure

Bent over barbell row w/ 185
8
8
6

Lat Pulldown
160 x 10
160 x 10
140 x 12

Seated Row w/ plates
45 + 25 each side for 3 slow sets of 12

Preacher curl w/ 25 and 5 on each side
2 sets inside grip x 12
2 sets outside grip x 12

Incline dumbbell curl w/ 30's
3 sets of 9

Isolated dumbbell curl w/ 20
2 sets each arm until failure

[llahhsoj]

I feel like my arms are getting bigger and that I'm slimming down a bit. I'm not upset with my weight being pretty steady because I feel like the recomp is going pretty well. Also hitting legs hard. Sorry I probably haven't been updating as much as I should, but I'm still tracking my workouts so I'll put a few up now. Didn't get to lift today or yesterday due to work, but I had a solid sesh on Saturday. Posting up now

I'm also 5 days into the second bottle of CM. So far I feel like it's working - excited to see how the next couple months treat me!

Once I finish this next bottle, I'll remeasure and post pics as well to hopefully show a bit of a transformation

I'm glad the recomp is going well man. Keep up the good work!

[giraffe123]

I'm glad the recomp is going well man. Keep up the good work!

Thanks a lot!

Is there anything else you'd like from me in the log? Feel free to let me know what else I can be doing for y'all

[emergency]

have to love going to failure! makes for great pumps and gains.

[llahhsoj]

Everything going okay man? You are supposed to update once a week at the minimum in case you forgot.

[llahhsoj]

Thanks a lot!

Is there anything else you'd like from me in the log? Feel free to let me know what else I can be doing for y'all

Meeting your 1 post weekly requirement would be great.

[emergency]

Meeting your 1 post weekly requirement would be great.

looks like our friend here has not been active in almost a month hoping all is ok

[NEBinAK]

Looks familiar

He will probably respond to email, that's what I had to do when he logged for us

[llahhsoj]

Looks familiar

He will probably respond to email, that's what I had to do when he logged for us

That is unfortunate. If you can't meet one post a week, you shouldn't even apply. Some take our kindness for weakness.