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Thursday

Flat bench superset with rear delt flies 3 sets
Flat DB Fly superset with seated side lateral raise 3 sets
Decline Hammer strength superset with facepull 3 sets
Palms in cable extension 3 sets
Underhand cable extension 3 sets
Dip machine 3 sets

So strength still wasn't excellent but motivation felt much better. I had that drive again to push myself and plan for the next set. I'll take that feeling of motivation and drive even if strength isn't top notch. Had a really good pump in the chest too and I stayed away from upper chest movements to really cater to lower pec's. I don't know how to describe the one tricep movement I do but I grab the lat pulldown bar with the handles on the end where your palms face in. Then lock yourself in and do an extension sort of like a normal straight bar except your arms are flared out more and then at the end you can twist your wrist to really kill the squeeze. Overall one of the better workouts of the week and I've been sleeping pretty good.

Long weekend from work coming, I plan on training Saturday but I know the gym isn't open Monday. Going to try and get up to the lake to swim a bit if possible or maybe do some outside activities as well..

[guns01]

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if you are seeing improvements first thing in the am man you are on track. scale may not be moving and the workouts may not feel 100% great but we know the mirror doesnt lie. keep killing it man

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Wednesday

10 minutes HIIT cardio
60 crunches
5 minutes farmers walk
60 crunches
5 minutes farmers walk
60 crunches
5 minutes LISS cardio

Thought I got out of work late so I sort of freaked out on my way to the gym. Once I'm rushed, I sort of rush through everything so in order to get my HIIT cardio and heart rate at full blast I went with 10 minutes of HIIT. I've been breaking my cardio parts down into 5 minutes sessions each time but I got my HIIT out of the way and went from there. Increased my weight on the farmers walk but continued with 1 minute on and 1 minute off. Felt pretty good while I was in the gym. Still sweating pretty heavily when I'm doing work at the gym. I like that about Androcrine is when I'm working I'm really feeling a nice sweat and heat going on.

Last night in the mirror I felt like I looked like I made nice improvements even since the beginning of the weak. Maybe the 5 pumps a day is treating me better. This morning when I woke up I walked past my mirror pretty groggy and had to double back because I really looked lean, it's before I ate but I was impressed. I can't wait to workout tonight and hopefully will continue to see these changes on a daily basis.

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Monday

Incline bench 6 sets
Standing shoulder press with diamond bar 6 sets
Close grip press 6 sets

Dips 3 sets
Cable crossover superset with single arm underhand extension superset with side lateral raise 3 sets

Strength on the bench was crappy again. Figured after a few days off and some extra calories I would be good to go but it was a struggle, not as bad as last week but still not where my strength should be, especially without changing my diet at all. Shoulder presses were a bit better but not great, thought I was getting in the groove at that point. After my main 3 lifts I decided to do dips, sort of hit all the muscles I was training at one time. It's been a few weeks since I dipped so that felt good.

I think what I'm going to do Thursday when I train chest again is really pay attention to my form. I'm hoping I didn't fall out of form which is causing the strength loss so I'm going to really pay attention to make sure nothing weird is happening.

Other than that I looked pretty full in the mirror last night. My taper is improving as my waist looked more narrow and my arms and upper body looked pretty full.

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Thursday

Leg extension superset with lying leg curl superset with t bar row 3 sets
Leg press superset with pull ups 3 sets
Standing calve raise superset with straight bar pull down 3 sets
BB curl superset goblet squat 3 sets
Ez curl preacher curl superset with face pull 3 sets
DB hammer curl

Yesterday was awful. Got to the gym in hopes that I would feel good and even though it's volume day be able to increase the weights a bit. It didn't turn out that way, I just couldn't get going. I felt it during warm ups that it would be a struggle but hoped once I started moving some weight that I would snap out of it, but with no such luck. At certain point I figured why even be at the gym or I should just go and walk on the treadmill because lifting isn't going well today. I finished the workout and struggled to get through HIIT cardio. I just kept telling myself that I have 3 days off now so might as well not sissy out of the HIIT cardio. I even hurt my chest somehow, I wasn't working chest but had some pain, thought I was having a heart attack for a second. Still hurts this morning. Even though it wasn't the most intense workout, I was sweating like a mad man again.

With all of that said I will be taking the next 3 days off from the gym. I'm going out of town for the weekend and I'm going to not pay attention to my diet on Saturday, do a reefed type of day and just give myself the freedom to get in some extra calories to hopefully recover but also to rev. up my metabolism.

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Wednesday

5 minutes HIIT cardio
60 crunches
5 minutes HIIT cardio
60 crunches
5 minutes HIIT cardio
60 crunches
5 minutes cardio (farmers walk)
60 crunches
5 minutes LISS cardio

So last week I added an extra sprint to my cardio routine. By the end of my third HIIT interval I'm usually pretty tired so I wanted to try something new, instead of doing two 5 minute intervals of plain walking I grabbed some kettle bells and took them on the treadmill with me. I did 1 minute on and 1 minute off for the 5 minute timeframe, so like 3 times I walked with them. I used light weight and it wasn't super hard, still after a minute you get some burning going on and it just up's the intensity a bit. Abs were on fire yesterday as well and seem to be kind of sore this morning.

I weighed myself last night, I'm down 1.5lbs however I'm not sure I totally buy into it. I don't weigh myself all that often so for weight to show that right after I weighed myself a few days ago is probably water and sodium related.

I have been sleeping really well this past week, my guess is coming off of the stimulants, my body is resting much better. I am noticing that I'm more hungry than I was. Yesterday right after I ate breakfast I felt hunger, then again after my second meal, and I'm usually hungry after the gym but driving home yesterday I felt like I was starving.

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Tuesday

Flat bench 6 sets
Shoulder press 6 sets
Skull Crusher 6 sets

Hammer strength press superset seated DB side laterals superset rope extension 3 sets

Kind of a run of the mill workout. I didn't get to do exercises that I had planned and nothing super impressive. Might have squeezed out an extra rep here or there but nothing spectacular. Felt the bar moving easier but once I hit the rep number I usually fail or come close to failing on I got the same difficult experience. I wanted to do incline press and standing diamond bar press's but equipment was taken when I got there so I went with what I had.

Tuesday is a LISS cardio day, I don't do long bouts of cardio but decided to turn it up by doing farmers walks instead of just walking on a treadmill. It was an interesting experience, first I tried to use these huge buckets the gym has filled with cement and they cemented a handle it them but I kept smashing my knee with the buckets as I walked so I turned to the DB's instead. I didn't get my heart rate up to where I would had I done HIIT but it was slightly harder than my normal LISS cardio. I didn't fail from exhaustion at all, it was mostly grip that gave out first, which I'm sure will improve as I go. My forearms, biceps, and triceps all got some weight pump from doing them as well which felt good, it was almost like from being in a stretching position for an extended period of time that when I was done blood filled in the muscle.

Didn't really like what I saw in the mirror this morning. Feel like I'm going hard and it was just whatever, however on my way to work my body feels like it's more lean and my arms filled in the shirt pretty good so maybe I'm just being negative from what I saw this morning.

[guns01]

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I wish...I've been locked in at my weight for a few weeks now, I'm brainstorming ways to get things going again....maybe a huge reefed day or some time off from the gym, this weekend I'm going to the city so i'll probably accomplish both

if i were putting a bet on it i would put my money on that if your weight isnt moving. take those days off and eat up man, then right back to making progress. plus its fun and tasty haha

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with your training and activity levels man you should be getting honed to the bone yg

I wish...I've been locked in at my weight for a few weeks now, I'm brainstorming ways to get things going again....maybe a huge reefed day or some time off from the gym, this weekend I'm going to the city so i'll probably accomplish both

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Monday

Seated DB curl 6 sets
Squat 6 sets
Lat pulldown 6 sets

Leg press superset with t bar row superset with double high cable curl 2 sets

Ran out of time fairly quickly and I'm not exactly sure how. I worked pretty quickly I thought. I wasn't taking long breaks between sets and figured I would of been able to get more work in. Either way I had a good workout. The bar on the squats was moving quicker than it had been. It wasn't slowing down for like 2 extra reps from where it usually starts to stick a bit. Even the lat pulldown weight was pretty impressive. I put on a weight where I would normally get 8 reps and 12 seemed easier than the 8 reps did previous. I also felt like I could of stayed in the gym longer last night. It was hot and I was sweating but I didn't feel totally spent at the end.

The only drawback yesterday was that I was super tired all day. Maybe it's because I'm off the high stimulants and my body needs to adjust but I couldn't wake up even though I slept really well. Hopefully I get back to feeling normal again.

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with your training and activity levels man you should be getting honed to the bone yg

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Saturday

Leg extension superset with seated leg curl superset with weighted back extension 3 sets
Goblet squats superset with straight bar pull down 3 sets
Vertical leg press superset with close grip lat pulldown 3 sets
Ez curl close grip 3 sets
Ez curl wide grip 3 sets
Double high cable curl 3 sets

So I'm done with Hydroxyelite, wasn't sure how the workout would go without the jolt from the stimulants. But I had a pretty good workout, I felt super warm the whole time even though it was still in the morning and not totally hot out yet. I was dripping sweat something fierce. I also tried my hand at farmers walks between some of my bicep work. I may do farmers walks on Tuesdays and Thursday to get fat burning fired up again. I left the gym and went home to cut my grass. By the end of that I just felt gross, like I had been sweating for an extended period of time and really needed a shower.

I have to say it felt nice being able to drink a coffee again after almost 2 months and also had a can of diet soda which felt good. Yesterday I woke up with the intensions of doing some work around the house but I just felt so worn out. Not really sure why I felt that way but for the life of me couldn't get the energy to do anything at all. I could of used some extra sleep this morning as well.

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Thursday

Flat bench superset with rear delt fly 3 sets
Flat bench superset with seated side lateral raise 3 sets
Peck deck superset with DB high row 3 sets
Overhead rope extension 3 sets
Overhand ez bar extension 3 sets
Underhand ez bar extension 3 sets

Chest press machine superset with shoulder press machine superset with dip machine 3 sets

Yesterday was a tough one. I was teaching a class all day at work which isn't a big deal other than it was really warm in the classroom (at least for me), I was sweating all day and just felt gross. Some of the class though I was nuts but other said it was hot. I was instructing and then running around whenever anyone had a question. So by the time I was out of work I just felt wiped out. It's a common feeling and then I get to the gym and snap out of it. I didn't this time, my strength wasn't where it should of been, even on volume day I was disappointed with my bench, that's why I did 6 sets just to see if I was tight or whatever and would snap out of it but I never did. Didn't want to push the issue and just load up weight to see if I could overcome the feeling so I stayed in a range where I was struggling to get between 8-10 reps. Got a nice overall pump in the gym though. And was sweating like crazy even though I wasn't moving impressive weight.

So the last few days I've been warmer than usual. Maybe it's the addition of androcrine or maybe something else but I break a sweat faster and feel like I sweat more, at least this week. Last night I also looked and felt really full. Especially in my arms, felt like it was the middle of winter and I just had a big carb meal even though my carbs are low right now. Hopefully that sticks around.

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Wendesday

5 minutes HIIT
60 crunches
5 minutes HIIT
60 crunches
5 minutes HIIT
60 crunches
5 minutes LISS
40 roman chair leg raise
5 minutes LISS
40 roman chair leg raise

Felt really warm yesterday. All day at work I was sweating and at the gym I was sweating really bad. Not sure if it's the Androcrine or if it truly was hot. No one else at work really seemed to notice. Either way I had a productive cardio session, I threw in an extra HIIT set just to help increase intensity and my lungs felt like they were burning by the end. I have been doing crunches between each cardio bout but I'm mostly feeling a burn in my upper abs, decided to throw in some leg raises for good measure.

Have a bit of elbow funk going on. When my elbow is bend it feels like something is pulling. It's not total pain just an odd feeling that I'm not used to. Maybe I did something to it while doing close grip presses.

I'm done with Hydroxyelite on Friday and I think after cardio yesterday my body was finally trying to tell me, enough stim's for a bit. I'll still use them but nothing to this level for the remaining summer.

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that's some pretty sweet squat work man. i have to do the same thing on drops myself from time to time. no big issue for me doing it that way