Trimming Down In Size

[Rabid_Goose]

Good day, fueled it up with a medium pizza and a Litre of coke from Domino's yesterday.

Squats: Decided since they are stalled, I will be going the other 1/3rd to floor and go all the way down. Seemed easier out of all things hah. Also pushed my ass out to one wall and my stomach towards the other, made my last set easier.

115 pounds for 5 reps

135 pounds for 5 reps

145 pounds for 5 reps. Hard

145 pounds for 5 reps. Felt like 115

Incline DB

40 pound DB's for 5 reps

45 pound DB's for 5 reps

50 pound DB's for 5 reps

60 pound DB's for 5 reps. Lot easier then the train wreck that was last week.

Dead Lifts: Oh yea.

135 pounds for 5 reps

155 pounds for 5 reps

185 pounds for 5 reps

225 pounds for 5 reps. First rep was a bitch, but my back was bowing upwards, lined it up for proper form on the last 4 reps and they were tough, but 235 could have been done

Assistance:

Decline Unweighted Sit-Ups: 2 sets of 8. Letting my ab rest, felt like I pulled it, as I stated a few days ago. Instead of doing them unweighted, won't be doing them at all because I want it to heal up.

 

[Rabid_Goose]

Cutting out one serving of Flax Seed oil and one piece of bread, will take me down 250 calories. Going to see how it runs this week through it.

Cutting cardio out on Thursdays to give my legs a rest for Friday, and adding it to Sunday. Trying to figure out where to add Power Shrugs in, anyone have an idea of when I can through them in on a day? Dead lifts aren't enough trap work.

Also, I cut out my creatine about a week ago instead of taking it still, lost around 4-5 pounds of water weight. I thought only monohydrate did that? Oh well.

 

[Rabid_Goose]

Woke up almost two hours later, woke up at 2 when normally I'm in the gym by 1. I managed to get two things done for the time I was there, had to wait on bench and I was going to do my curls, someone had the bar and someone else had the DB's I would used. Would have done GP Rows but the other BB was taken also, really screwed up my down.

On a positive note, my grip on bench is now set at 12 inch grip, is that what a CGBP is suppost to be? I took my weight down 5 pounds on my 3RM from last week to do this and damn my Triceps are feeling it. My elbows are about a 75 degree angle to my ribs and I'll work on getting them to be tucked all the way in gradually.

Squats are now completley ATF, not 1/3rd Parallel or 2/3rd. I figured since everything was stalling, I would retract EVERYTHING and do it to the fullest. I actually amazed myself doing full ATF today, my weight still went up 5 pounds!

Squats:

115 pounds for 5 reps

135 pounds for 5 reps

145 pounds for 5 reps

165 pounds for 5 reps

180 pounds for 3 reps

145 pounds for 8 reps. I think my first two sets, I'm aSSuming they are suppost to be warm up sets, will be going down to 105 and 125 next week, I think I could do better at the end of my sets with more reps instead of pushing myself too early with a heavier work load then should be. Thoughts?

Bench Press: 12 inches apart

115 pounds for 5 reps

135 pounds for 5 reps

145 pounds for 5 reps

170 pounds for 5 reps

185 pounds for 3 reps

145 pounds for 8 reps. My triceps were so worked today, that I was having to rotate my hands on the steering wheel to block the sun out with the other hand because I couldn't hold my arms up for longer then 30 seconds.

NO assistance! Damn I will do them tomorrow before I run. Today was a great today, even though rushed.

I may be stalling out, but god damnit I'm still winning!

 

[Rabid_Goose]

Weighed in at 188 pounds, no loss in weight, but.

Calves - 16 Inches

Thighs - 20 Inches

Waist - 37 Inches

Chest - 39 and a Half inches

Bicep - 13 and a Half Inches

Forearm - 11 Inches

Chest grew a quarter inch as did my bicep. My waist and thigh both lost an inch. I re-took all measurements 5 times to be sure hah. I can see the loose skin, was afraid it was going to hurt my waist measurement. All measurements are done cold, not flexed.

Also taking a break from the diet this week, kind of. Still eating all my food but I may be eating extra servings of bread. Big week at work this week and I have to be fueled for it, no way around it.

 

[poysyn]

Wow..you look great in the pictures above. I think you are definitely retaining a lot of the muscle you had under the previous fat as your chest is definitely sticking out nicely. Congrats on the weight loss..pretty soon you will be bulking again

 

[Rabid_Goose]

Wow..you look great in the pictures above. I think you are definitely retaining a lot of the muscle you had under the previous fat as your chest is definitely sticking out nicely. Congrats on the weight loss..pretty soon you will be bulking again

In high school I had a 8 month lifting spree, had a Home Gym for Christmas. All the blocks together totaled for 293 pounds and I was benching that for two sets of 5, then three sets of 10 for 180. Then three sets of 15 for 150, and then three sets of 20 for 60 pounds. Although the weights were wrong, I think my chest grew and I'm somehow going off of that. Yes, I know I lifted wrong back then also lol.

Ya, if I can keep losing an inch a week, I'll probably be done in 4 weeks giving that this week isn't a diet week. Goal is January 22nd to stop cutting and goto Maintenance level but we'll find out and see what happens.

Edited: Never mind, cannot get it to upload. Will try to figure out why, it was of when I weighed 225 or so'ish pounds in August of this year compared to now. I'll try it again tomorrow.

 

[Rabid_Goose]

Good day, missed 5th rep on bench. Maybe I could have done it, no Spotter so I didn't want to risk it since 4th rep was so hard. I didn't want to have to bounce it off of my chest or only bring it 3/4ths of the way down, if it isn't a full rep I'm not going to do it or count it.

Squats:

95 pounds for 5 reps

115 pounds for 5 reps

140 pounds for 5 reps

160 pounds for 5 reps

180 pounds for 5 reps. Woo still ain't stalled. Maybe in two weeks my squat will pass my bench.

Bench Press:

95 pounds for 5 reps

115 pounds for 5 reps

145 pounds for 5 reps

165 pounds for 5 reps

185 pounds for 4 reps. I'll repeat it again this Friday or Saturday. I have to go into work an hour and a half early, we'll see when I can do it

GP Rows:

95 pounds for 5 reps

115 pounds for 5 reps

125 pounds for 5 reps

145 pounds for 5 reps. Stopped here because I noticed I'm pulling the bar to my nipples and not my upper/mid abs. I think I'm hunkering down to close to the ground and I guess I've been doing it all along. I'll watch some videos again tonight see what I'm doing wrong and all that. I'm sure it is a minor tweak I need to make.

Assistance:

No Weighted Abs, letting my lower abs repair from apperntly straining them.

Hyper Extenions - 2 sets of 6 reps with 25 pound weight to Forehead.

 

[ZGzaZ]

Rabid, you're doing great man! I'm happy to see all the progress, btw your weight loss in your pictures is very impressive! keep up the hard work and dedication.

 

[The Shadow]

Going to switch my HIIT from 3mph one minute, 6mph next minute and go like for for 25 minutes to One minute 15 seconds at 3.5mph, 45 seconds upto 12mph. Hoping it saves my legs for squats, and be able to go longer with barley any loss in pulse rate.

GREAT JOB MAN!!!!


Keep it up like we talked about

 

[Rabid_Goose]

Rabid, you're doing great man! I'm happy to see all the progress, btw your weight loss in your pictures is very impressive! keep up the hard work and dedication.

Well this week I am going to attempt a full clean 7 days till Sunday. Attempt, I'll probably have a burger or something haha. I wish I had the gains you were getting, hopefully in February I'll be bulking, I want to get to a 34 inch waist, maybe 32, not sure exactly how low I can go with my frame.

Going to get up earlier then usualy Shadow and do a nice little 15 minute walk after my weight sessions this week. See if I lose any more off of the waist and throwing in the things you mentioned on Thursday/Saturday.