WhiteDragon's masochist journal

[whitedragon]

Day 1: Legs and Abs
Diet has been good on track with my normal diet will start Omega's tomorrow after I have all of the details.

Workout sucked. Felt like a weak child. By the third set of leg presses started to get light headed already. Calves were cramping on the second go around of sets. Weights for Squats were as follows, please no laughing, I'm usually good at these:

1. 90 on bar could only hit 12?
2. 90 again on bar hit 10?
3. 90 again hit 10 reps easier.
4. 100 on bar hit 7 no problem
5. 80 on bar hit 9

Not used to the short wait distances and the leg presses thrashed my legs. Next time will be better as I usually adjust to new workouts quickly. Will adjust weights accordingly. Intensity was high, felt sick after the workout, which is new to me.

Amazed by how much not the range affected me. I'm used to going all the way down and all the way up, I never realized how much the slight pause all the way at the bottom and top made things so much easier. Really focused on flexing legs and abs for various exercises and that made a huge difference. First half of ab workout made the light headedness worse, had to stop in the middle for a few.

Overall good stuff, I've got a long way to go, but I look forward for the journey.

 

[OMEGA]

Excellent start!

in about 2 weeks you will get used to it and look substantially different you will start to change, just EAT clean.

 

[Virtuoso]

No worries man keep it up.
This project is gonna be like a marathon not a sprint.
BTW still haven't worked out tonight but I'll get on that

 

[Pat_McCrotch]

I had the same problem my weights sucked ass and couldnt not always get the target reps but was w/in about 2-3

 

[OMEGA]

This project is gonna be like a marathon not a sprint.

ALL of you are laying the foundation for some serious results.

 

[whitedragon]

Day 2.

Legs feel really nice today, I'm walking a little funny. Weights still feel very heavy. I'm noticing that if I really concentrate on the muscle I can feel the right rep range. By the time I got to the DB presses I felt it more in my tri's than chest, not sure why, I was trying to concentrate on my chest, but then again it was numb by then. It felt good though on the cables. Here were my weights for chest.

30lb DBs only hit 18, next time will use 25 to hit rep range
30lb DBs 15, felt right
35lb DBs 10, felt right
35lb DBs 7, felt like I could have done with 40s
25lb DBs 14

Weights for shoulder presses, wasn't sure of rep range for the 6 sets so I did 25,15,10,7, drop 25% burnout, drop 25% burnout.

30 on bar, 25
30 on bar, 12
30 on bar, 10, could have gone up
40 on bar, 7, think I could have gone up more too
30 on bar 11
20 on bar 12

Omega, is it normal to notice that I feel strong during my set till about 10 reps and then I feel a real quick drop off in strength? Also, is it expected to not be able to move the weight up much? Normally a set of 25 followed by 15 I'd expect to increase the weight, but not anymore.

Overall, good stuff, although I'm getting strange looks from other people in the gym when they see how much weight I'm using

Diet it still clean.

 

[whitedragon]

Day 3

I hurt.

I hurt more than I have in a very long time

Today was good, although not as tough as leg day. Weights for One Arm DB rows were as follows:

25 pd DB 12 reps
25 pd DB 13 reps / my grip was giving out and I was having more problem with my forearms than weight so I put on straps. I blame the pulldowns for this.
30 pd DB 10 reps easy
35 pd DB 7 reps easy
25 pd DB 18 reps

I didn't feel my back too much doing these compared to the lat pulls so next time I think I'll try the Hammer Strength row. Shrugs were cool, and the lat raises slow with tension felt great. Curls had a nice deep burn.

I never did too many pump workouts always more of a strength thing so this is a huge change. I'm liking it though. I'm getting a lot of weird looks at the gym, mainly by women since we're using about the same amount of weight

I'm very excited about my body getting more used to this type of training so that the weights can start moving up since my muscular endurance at the moment is killing me. The constant tension plus slow movement is brutal. I love it

Kick ass workouts Omega!!!

 

[Virtuoso]

Good things... I'm getting my shit ready for day 3 tonight

 

[whitedragon]

Day 4: Legs and Abs

I still can't go up and down stairs right. My legs are still sore, but rain or shine legs are twice a week and even though down here in Florida it's sunny there ain't no sunshine in the gym.

On the plus side I don't feel that bad, my body is starting to adapt better to the workouts. On the down side my sets would crash hard on my legs and even though I would be ok the first couple of reps. Monday I thought to myself, 1, 2, 1, 2, today it was ow, ow, ow, ow. This would quickly get followed by shit, shit. Weights for squats:

50 on bar 16 reps
70 on bar 9 reps
100 on bar 8 reps
110 on bar 7 reps, I could have done more weight with this!!!!
80 on bar 9 reps

I hope my legs recover by Monday

Diet is still good. Today we had a lunchtime meeting where they brought in lots of pizza

I resisted though. Ate my chicken and cried a little on the inside. Anxious to see Omega's diet. I'm hoping he has some planned cheats in there, because at the moment I'm trying to go till Thanksgiving without any.

 

[whitedragon]

Did chest and tris again today. I'm still sore from Tuesday so I had the same problem with the immediate burn that would kill. Here are my weights for the DB press.

25lb DBs, 25, burned good
30lb DBs, 15, need more weight
35lb DBs, 10, need more weight
40lb DBs, 7, need more weight
30lb DBs, 10, ow

Focused a lot more on squeezing my chest and I felt these a lot more than last time.

Shoulder Press

30 on bar, 25, again, big burn
30 on bar, 12, shoulders on fire
40 on bar, 10, need more weight
50 on bar, 7, need more weight
40 on bar, 11, severe
40 on bar, 10, brutal

I'm getting the feel for these workouts more, I think by the next go around I should have the weights just right

Diet still good, no cheating. Tomorrow's my big sister's birthday and we're having a surprise party for her at a nice Italian restaurant so I will be having a cheat meal.

Have a good weekend everybody!!!