Kidvid's log starting Cinco de mayo, 2008.

[kidvid]

Workout Notes for Wed, May 7

Muscle Groups:
Back, Delts (again), Biceps, Traps

This workout wasn't quite as painful as the Monday chest workout. Took me about 50 mins or so to get through all the exercises. I have fairly weak arms, and with the chambered bar, I couldn't add any weight, and just did the bar for all 4 bicep exercises. Hell, I couldn't even do 20 reps my first set, and I'm guessing the bar weighs around 20 or 25 pounds! ha ha

Tonight, for my May 9th workout, I'm doing legs. Now this should be interesting.

 

[sugashane]

Re: Workout Notes for Wed, May 7

Muscle Groups:
Back, Delts (again), Biceps, Traps

This workout wasn't quite as painful as the Monday chest workout. Took me about 50 mins or so to get through all the exercises. I have fairly weak arms, and with the chambered bar, I couldn't add any weight, and just did the bar for all 4 bicep exercises. Hell, I couldn't even do 20 reps my first set, and I'm guessing the bar weighs around 20 or 25 pounds! ha ha

Tonight, for my May 9th workout, I'm doing legs. Now this should be interesting.

Don't worry about it, your strength will increase, we all basically have to lose our egos for a while, but it will be worth it.

 

[OMEGA]

Your Diet looks good, you can also blend OATs into you shakes along with the MILK

Dont get to caught up in perfect amounts on the ratios, 10% either way is CLOSE

 

[kidvid]

question about abs

My phase I email says to work out legs and abs as per the black swan principles. However, after reading the abs article, it says that I should only do them in the last 8-12 weeks.

Can I assume that was a typo and I *shouldn't* do them for a while?

 

[OMEGA]

You are in the main sequence so you can and should do them

meant when you decide to peak you do them

 

[str8nubin]

I wouldn't worry too much about simply doing the bar, by the time I get to biceps they've just about had it

 

[kidvid]

Weight Update

Monday, May 5, 191.7 lbs
Tuesday, May 13, 189.1 lbs
net change: -2.6

 

[kidvid]

Wed,May 15, Leg/Ab Workout

Last week, I did my leg workout on Friday, but that's not a good day for me to do it as I have time on Sat to do my 4th workout. So this week, I did my leg workout on Wednesday night.

Strangely, the weights I was able to use were about 20% lower than the weights I used on Friday, across the board for all muscle groups. Not only that, but I felt a bigger "strain" on the weaker half of my body than last time. As an example, during my Friday workout, I had 20 or 30 pounds on the smith squat bar, but this time, I had to pull all the weight off the bar, and just do the bar weight.

 

[OMEGA]

dont worry this is challenging so do not expect Linear progress right away

after a couple of rounds gains will start to follow a linear steady pattern, so long as you stay loyal to the WAY we lift and basics of diet and supps, it will all work out

 

[kidvid]

Monday, May 19, Chest/Tri/Delt

I arrived at the gym at 8:25Pm and started the lifts at 8:35PM. One thing I noticed, however, was that my reps were going so slow that each five-set exercise was taking me a whopping 15 minutes! When I concentrate on my form a lot, even if I try to count in my head, I end up doing a 5 or 6 second up/down movements. So what I tried was to just look at the clock and see what a 2 second movement felt like without counting. What I learned from this exercise is that if I just think about "controlled and moderate," while I do the rep, it ends up being about 2 or 3 seconds, on the up and down movements.

I'm thinking that all five sets of any exercise should take about 10 minutes max.

I'll take my weight in the next couple of days and post it.