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Thursday

Trap bar deadlift superset w/ DB curl 5 sets
Leg extension superset w/ seated leg curl 4 sets

Jump rope superset w/ knee down lat pulldown and vertical leg press 3 sets
Jump rope superset w/ close grip lat pulldown and bb curl 3 sets

Wanted to see how the deadlifts felt on the hand and it was nice. I couldn't really force my palm into the bar which was fine. I got a little messed up when a young gun asked to work in with me. I wouldn't usually superset with a deadlift but he was taking awhile between sets so I didn't have the long rest I was doing the curls. But because he was working with me, we went pretty heavy, especially for the trap bar. I feel like the trap bar is super stable at lower weight but at heavy weight becomes unbalanced a bit and that's probably my grip strength but the nose starts to dive down a bit. The rest of the workout was good though, I was glad to isolate my quads and hams on a machine since I haven't done that in awhile.

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Wednesday

Side lateral raise 4 sets
Reverse peck deck 3 sets
Flat bench 4 sets
Decline hammer strength 3 sets
Alternating underhand/overhand extension 7 sets

Jump rope superset w/ cable fly, seated machine press, single arm underhand extension 3 sets

Not good not good. Like I mentioned I jammed my thumb the night before playing ball. My thumb is fine, the pad/palm at the bottom is purple and in pain. Some of the movements, it didn't really affect but others was extreme pain. Flat bench because of how the bar was laying really hurt and had an impact on the weight. Because of this I did go lower in weight but also slower in tempo. Overall it wasn't a bad workout but sort of zapped the motivation to really put the workout over the top. I made the best of what I could based on my purple palm.

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Tuesday

Basketball

So basketball was supposed to end but it was due to work. I don't know if the guy who has access to the gym found a job where he doesn't have to work nights or whatever but it continued. I jammed my thumb twice in 2 weeks ago about a month ago. It hurt real bad but was getting better, sometimes when I grab something it still hurts. Well last night I jammed it again. The palm section under my thumb felt like it was going to get super swollen. This morning it's not swollen but it's still pretty painful.

We had 7 players per team last night so we had to take more breaks than I would of liked. But my buddy wore a fitbit and it said he turned 830 calories. So assuming I moved in a way that was close to him, I'll take that calorie burn everyday.

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Hope that headache is gone for you today?

Yeah it sort of went away later that day a bit. I think a good nights sleep mixed with foam rolling and lacrosse ball rolling really helped

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Monday

Squat 4 sets
Box squat 3 sets
T bar row close grip 4 sets
T bar row wide grip 3 sets
Wide grip BB curl 4 sets
Close grip BB curl 3 sets

Jumprope superset w/ wall balls, straight bar pulldowns, and weighted crunch machine 3 sets

Quality workout, started off a little slow but got going. My knees were bothering me with the squat so even though I went a little heavy the reps weren't what I wanted. That's why I started doing box squats. After that I figured I'd keep the same movement for 7 sets and just switch up hand positions or whatever in order to change it up a bit. I enjoyed the workout and was happy with what I got done. It was super humid so I was sweating like crazy as well which felt nice.

So I continue to think I look better. Someone made a comment on Sunday about looking sort of fat but I think I was just bloated because yesterday and even this morning I look a lot better. But that type of comment alone sort of refocused me to increase intensity.

[BABY1]

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Hope that headache is gone for you today?

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Saturday

Arms

Farmers walks

Sunday

Basketball

Saturday was a rough day for me. I woke up with a pounding headache, I got out of bed with intentions of the gym and fell back to sleep on my couch. I just felt like crap. I did end up getting to the gym later in the day but it was tough. I did some arm work but nothing crazy and ended up doing a bunch of farmers walks. I figured it was slow, steady, and still pretty tough. I threw in some facepulls and YTI's incase it was tightness in my neck causing the headache. I'm usually the first person at the gym on Saturday, right at 8am when it opens but I didn't get there until almost 11am this week and it sort of threw the rest of my day off as well.

Basketball was good, hot and good. I was able to get in some swimming afterwards which felt nice as well

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Thursday

Standing shoulder press 4 sets
Hammer strength press 4 sets
Close grip bench 4 sets

Jump rope superset w/ Chest fly machine, push down machine, and side lateral raise 3 sets
Jump rope superset w/ rear delt flys, db kick backs

I saw on a site where they were talking about unbalanced bars and lifts. It looked like they had plates clipped at the end of the barbell instead of in the middle. I tried that on the last set of shoulder press and it was the same but different. The weight itself didn't feel any harder and in some aspects easier. From the chest up until my nose it felt really easy and the movement felt more explosive but at the top it felt like a regular standing press. The rest of the workout was good though, the hammer strength numbers were up a lot from the last time I used the machine, extra weight and extra reps. I had a decent but not great pump throughout my whole upper body. When I was done with a movement the pump felt real good but it wasn't a lasting feeling.

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Thursday

Leg press 4 sets
BW pull ups superset w/ db curl 4 sets
Wall balls superset w/ close grip lat pulldown superset w/ goblet side steps 3 sets
Rope leg pull thru's superset w/ EZ bar curl 3 sets

Jumprope superset w/ high cable close grip row superset w/ outside hip machine 3 sets

I wanted to do some extra volume on my legs. I feel like I haven't hit most of my aspects of my legs in awhile. It's been a big movement and more quad/ham work. But I got to the gym and both squat racks were taken. I went with the leg press and my knees were sore, the leg press didn't help. I'm not sure if the angle of the seat played a role but my knees didn't feel great while doing the press. After that the rack opened and I did some pull ups. I was able to tell I didn't do pull ups in a bit because it was a struggle. After that the workout was great, yeah it was lighter and supersetted but I got my heart rate up and did some things I've wanted to do. My goal for basketball is to get my hips to open a bit and get my side steps quicker. So that's why I used that hip machine and did the side steps. No problems there and I went real heavy on the lat pulldowns since the pulls ups were less than stellar.

I feel and look a bit more lean. Nothing mind blowing but I think the Iconogenin is really kicking it. They say laxo products are great for the joints, I take a joint supplement already but hasn't really helped the knees. I do have (spelling) osgoof slaughters so I think I can take all the products in the world and it still wouldn't really help that type of pain.

[Young Gotti]

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Triple up on those fluids and keep on having fun.

haha oh yeah this morning I'm in the restroom every 5 minutes....my supervisor was making fun of me for having to go so often..but I need to replenish

[BABY1]

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Triple up on those fluids and keep on having fun.

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Tuesday

Basketball

Basketball might have been the hottest day of basketball yet. The air was super stale and you can tell no one was at the school the whole day because there was no air traveling through the basketball court at all. What made it worse was we get there at 730, then start at 745. So we have 15 minutes to warm and get a sweat going before we start. However the person with the key got to the gym, forgot the key and had to go back and get it. So we basically started right from the start and breaking a sweat for the first time during the game is rough.

Anyway I was sweating worse than I had before. Basketball on Tuesdays is over though, the person in charge had to take a job at night so we wont be able to play unless something changes. He mentioned still playing on Sunday but I already have a game on Sunday which is a bummer. I've enjoyed playing twice a week but on a good note it allows me to get back in the gym and lift on a normal schedule again.

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Monday

Side lateral raise 4 sets
Incline bench 4 sets
DB behind head extension 4 sets

Jumprope superset w/ flat bench, seated shoulder press, and V bar extension 3 sets

Felt nice to get back to a more normal routine again. Everything went well and the weight I was moving wasn't too bad, maybe could of went up a little here or there but still felt like it was a quality workout. I struggled with the jumprope though, I don't know if my legs were tired from basketball or if my rhythm was just off one way or the other. I left the gym feeling good though.

It's been a week since I started Iconogenin and it's having similar effects on me that it did when BPS made the product. I'm getting a nice leaning effect. I don't know how much fullness I'm seeing because it could be that I look leaner so the muscles are more defined and look more full because of it. I don't feel any more full just look it a bit in the mirror. I love this stuff for the recomp effect and hopefully it continues to get better and better as I have a second bottle even to take me to the end of summer.

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Last week

Haha I was off from work during the holiday week so I didn't get near a computer. However I still got my workouts in. Did some basketball, tennis, gym, walking, and swimming. It was an eventful week. I wanted to relax since being off from work but that didn't really happen. I felt like I'd go to the gym in the morning and then I'd have to hurry up and get ready to go to someones cookout or party or whatever was going on.

So my diet probably wasn't the best but I felt like I def didn't overeat. Just the food choices weren't the best. Because I felt like I was rushing around I would load up on calories during a meal but I wasn't eating many meals. Some days I'd have a snack and then go to a party and eat one more time the rest of the day.

Got a tan though which is always good.

[BABY1]

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Enjoy your Wednesday off