2020 Part 6: preworkouts & forums

[OT2000]

G Hughes is easily the best taste to price diet sauce company. I get their orange ginger and teriyaki marinade, the goat Sweet chili dipping sauce and the thai chili wing sauce.

[TheFugitive]

G Hughs honey mustard is my favorite, Sweet Baby Ray's sugar free is close too though.

I never tried Sweet Baby Rays sugar free, I'm gonna pick up a bottle for this weekend

[gbullock32]

I never tried Sweet Baby Rays sugar free, I'm gonna pick up a bottle for the this weekend

One of my top sugar free BBQ sauces, doesn't taste like a sugar free product, also one of the cheapest options.

[82ndAirborne]

Flavor Gang is amazing, but soooo expensive. It is hard to justify the price. That said, their sauces are god-tier for as low of cals as they are

[Jdot5]

sweet baby rays sugar free is legit. i been using it since April. not much of a dropoff between that n the one with sugar to me TBH ( i have both)

[Misctake7]

Flavor Gang is amazing, but soooo expensive. It is hard to justify the price. That said, their sauces are god-tier for as low of cals as they are

I've been obsessed with the Yummy sauce

[TheFugitive]

I've been obsessed with the Yummy sauce

Looking at Yummy, Mutant and Orange Dragon

[TMac26]

Hughes Polynesian Sauce is tay tays

[eatyourspinach]

G Hughes kinda looks like Dwayne Wade

[TheFugitive]

Happy 4th fellas

[82ndAirborne]

did this sub finally completely die? I hope you all are doing well, and getting in some good summer clang and bang...

did anyone happen to catch the new Top Gun? I thought it was really great.

[OT2000]

Awesome movie. Best in the last few years, easily.

[TheFugitive]

did this sub finally completely die? I hope you all are doing well, and getting in some good summer clang and bang...

did anyone happen to catch the new Top Gun? I thought it was really great.

Awesome movie. Best in the last few years, easily.

Still haven't seen this yet, hoping to this weekend

[82ndAirborne]

Awesome movie. Best in the last few years, easily.

Still haven't seen this yet, hoping to this weekend

glad to see you boys still alive and kicking around here

yeah the movie was amazing, I'll admit, I'm very close to natty comp lean so test is low and estradiol high, I cried during most of the movie, not just is there some dust in my eye **** either, like mascara running teenage girl scream cry lol.

[papi93]

Miss the supplement trading thread. Get something you don't like and trade it away.

[BenBlue]

eh ya'll still kicking? Good to see!

Anyone know where to order Phenibut these days? And will ship to Canada? My normal vendor has no stock, surprise surprise (n o o t r o p i c s d e p o t).

Edit: Ignore my dumbass, took all of 2 minutes on Google to find another provider. Good to go.

Who's still training hard? At 37 I'm still hitting new PR's. Pretty stoked about that, and absolutely loving the home gym life.

[Joe D]

eh ya'll still kicking? Good to see!

Anyone know where to order Phenibut these days? And will ship to Canada? My normal vendor has no stock, surprise surprise (n o o t r o p i c s d e p o t).

Edit: Ignore my dumbass, took all of 2 minutes on Google to find another provider. Good to go.

Who's still training hard? At 37 I'm still hitting new PR's. Pretty stoked about that, and absolutely loving the home gym life.

still training hard at 46, but training smart as well. At this age you want to lift heavy, but just enough to stimulate growth. Your joints will thank you.

[BenBlue]

still training hard at 46, but training smart as well. At this age you want to lift heavy, but just enough to stimulate growth. Your joints will thank you.

Prob some sound advice right there. If there was any silver lining in the pandemic and gyms being shut down (before I had my home gym), it forced me to stop training heavy for an extended period, and when I came back I felt so rejuvenated. Since then, been smart about my programming, actually prioritizing deloads, and not training for strength year round. I know I'll slow down, but I'm glad I haven't slowed down yet, and I know the programming is an important part of that.

[urbanlifter]

I know I'll slow down, but I'm glad I haven't slowed down yet, and I know the programming is an important part of that.

Good to see some forum activity, outside of my usual 'Workout Equipment' section which has also slowed over the years LOL.

Programming is crucial, I've made so many changes since I got serious and joined the bb.com forums back in 2008. From Bodybuilding, to Powerlifting, back to Bodybuilding and now doing my own hybrid version of 'PowerBuilding'. Have ditched things like deadlifting which caused more pain than it did good, I now view that as a high risk / low reward movement for muscle development so the programming has changed quite a bit there. Military press as well, moving those days over to more isolation movements and less heavy compound barbell work. Chest and Legs haven't changed much, although I'll say since I added a belt squat machine to the gym I've started rotating on leg day to give the old spine a break. Can see that eventually being a total replacement for heavy barbell squats some day, just not quite ready to give that one up

[BenBlue]

Good to see some forum activity, outside of my usual 'Workout Equipment' section which has also slowed over the years LOL.

Programming is crucial, I've made so many changes since I got serious and joined the bb.com forums back in 2008. From Bodybuilding, to Powerlifting, back to Bodybuilding and now doing my own hybrid version of 'PowerBuilding'. Have ditched things like deadlifting which caused more pain than it did good, I now view that as a high risk / low reward movement for muscle development so the programming has changed quite a bit there. Military press as well, moving those days over to more isolation movements and less heavy compound barbell work. Chest and Legs haven't changed much, although I'll say since I added a belt squat machine to the gym I've started rotating on leg day to give the old spine a break. Can see that eventually being a total replacement for heavy barbell squats some day, just not quite ready to give that one up

Those are all good moves I think dude. Personally, I'm still all about heavy compound movements. I don't ever want to stop deadlifting! hahahah but that's just my personal preference, and I've found regular deloads, and training blocks focused on hypertrophy (not doing strength year round) is keeping me feeling good. That said, I'm trying to be mindful of the fact that this might change for me as I continue to age, and I'm aware that I'm prob towing the line at this stage in life.

I'll see how my body does over the next few years, but I am still chasing numbers on my bench and deadlift. I hit a 505lbs squat earlier this year, which I was REALLY stoked about. My lifetime goal was 500. That said, I want to hit a 600 dead, and earlier this year I pulled 565 conventional, so a bit of ways to go there. My bench is the one where I think I set my sites too high; I'd love to hit 400 before calling it a day, but I've really struggled to see any significant jumps there. Haven't yet passed 345.

I'm rambling, but I guess I'm just hoping to git a few more PR's before stepping away from PL style lifting. Hopefully the better programming will give me a handful more years before I stop seeing progress.

[superhuman67]

Good to see you guy's still loving to push that iron cause for me it's something I don't wanna ever
stop doing and at 54 yrs old I've definitely have had to lower the poundage cause of my rotator cuff
tear 5 yrs ago but I still try to keep the intensity up when I train. I've definitely lost some size because
of not being able to push heavy which sucks but I'm still carrying mostly muscle and looking lean and
mean.

[JayLS1-327]

Good to see you guy's still loving to push that iron cause for me it's something I don't wanna ever
stop doing and at 54 yrs old I've definitely have had to lower the poundage cause of my rotator cuff
tear 5 yrs ago but I still try to keep the intensity up when I train. I've definitely lost some size because
of not being able to push heavy which sucks but I'm still carrying mostly muscle and looking lean and
mean.

I stopped working out totally and now keep healthy with weight loss teas and Oprah's gummies.

[Misctake7]

Who's still training hard? At 37 I'm still hitting new PR's. Pretty stoked about that, and absolutely loving the home gym life.

Good job Ben! Keep killing it!

I competed back in April. Had an excellent rebound phase, lots and lots of all time PR's, however I may have overdone the cookies a bit too much lol. I'm currently in a R&R phase and about to come to the end of it. I had a week long trip to Mexico in which I didn't train and ate a bunch. I'm shedding the water this week and maybe 2-3 weeks of a lower calorie intake to get some fluff off and then will be pushing the offseason growth phase. Working with Justin Harris who is a fantastic coach.

I hope to compete again, but I don't know if that's in the cards. The girlfriend just finished grad school and we may start a business. Engagement, wedding, buying a house, and moving are all in the short term plans for us. So if I'm able to really improve and dedicate my time to growing properly during all the craziness, then I'd like to give another show a try. Now that I'm 34, I think a local show would be fine and if I cannot win my class, then I'll just redirect my priorities while continuing to love training.

[TheFugitive]

Im still sipping on BCAAs

[TheFugitive]

Good job Ben! Keep killing it!

I competed back in April. Had an excellent rebound phase, lots and lots of all time PR's, however I may have overdone the cookies a bit too much lol. I'm currently in a R&R phase and about to come to the end of it. I had a week long trip to Mexico in which I didn't train and ate a bunch. I'm shedding the water this week and maybe 2-3 weeks of a lower calorie intake to get some fluff off and then will be pushing the offseason growth phase. Working with Justin Harris who is a fantastic coach.

I hope to compete again, but I don't know if that's in the cards. The girlfriend just finished grad school and we may start a business. Engagement, wedding, buying a house, and moving are all in the short term plans for us. So if I'm able to really improve and dedicate my time to growing properly during all the craziness, then I'd like to give another show a try. Now that I'm 34, I think a local show would be fine and if I cannot win my class, then I'll just redirect my priorities while continuing to love training.

I always kept myself in very near competition mode, but never competed

[TCWoody]

Im still sipping on BCAAs

As soon as vacation time comes around I'm hitting the beach and sipping on pina colodas

[BenBlue]

Good to see you guy's still loving to push that iron cause for me it's something I don't wanna ever
stop doing and at 54 yrs old I've definitely have had to lower the poundage cause of my rotator cuff
tear 5 yrs ago but I still try to keep the intensity up when I train. I've definitely lost some size because
of not being able to push heavy which sucks but I'm still carrying mostly muscle and looking lean and
mean.

Good job Ben! Keep killing it!

I competed back in April. Had an excellent rebound phase, lots and lots of all time PR's, however I may have overdone the cookies a bit too much lol. I'm currently in a R&R phase and about to come to the end of it. I had a week long trip to Mexico in which I didn't train and ate a bunch. I'm shedding the water this week and maybe 2-3 weeks of a lower calorie intake to get some fluff off and then will be pushing the offseason growth phase. Working with Justin Harris who is a fantastic coach.

I hope to compete again, but I don't know if that's in the cards. The girlfriend just finished grad school and we may start a business. Engagement, wedding, buying a house, and moving are all in the short term plans for us. So if I'm able to really improve and dedicate my time to growing properly during all the craziness, then I'd like to give another show a try. Now that I'm 34, I think a local show would be fine and if I cannot win my class, then I'll just redirect my priorities while continuing to love training.

I always kept myself in very near competition mode, but never competed

****in eh boys, glad to hear everyone's still fighting the good fight.

[sloop]

Still around, still hitting the weights 3-5 times a week. These days my main focus is on running, weights secondary. A lot of my time in the gym is on preventative work, not "bodybuilding" per se.

[DASBUNKER]

Still around, still hitting the weights 3-5 times a week. These days my main focus is on running, weights secondary. A lot of my time in the gym is on preventative work, not "bodybuilding" per se.

Thinking of doing this change myself, just played some hoops after some time and was gassed badly almost immediately.. scary chit, gotta face I'm washed af lmao

Currently 5'11 220lbs but at what cost? lol

[Misctake7]

Thinking of doing this change myself, just played some hoops after some time and was gassed badly almost immediately.. scary chit, gotta face I'm washed af lmao

Currently 5'11 220lbs but at what cost? lol

I'm also 5'11 but feel small as hell when I hit 220lbs. Do HIIT on the stair stepper 4 times a week and you'll build that endurance up quickly.