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Originally Posted by guns01

ok here is the disclaimer on this log. i have been doing this for a very very long time and i started my guinea pigs with the basics from cycle to diet. with that said i dabbled them with 300mg test only for a very long time until i moved them up slowly. i do not advocate what they do but they started at the bottom on everything and worked their way up to what they currently do.

as of friday i was 290lbs on an empty stomach and i am hovering between 9-10% every other week. i havent broke 10% for the duration of the off season. we are gunning for early qual for the spring shows so i dont burn out dieting like last years but wink wink they just opened a show on my side of the country that hasnt been here for 8 years and i really want that title. it is only open to certain veterans and i really feel good that i could win it with ease. but then again the master's nationals and na's are on my radar big time.

feel free to jump in here ask questions, add comments and enjoy the ride for this up coming season

What's up man. I just saw this. You are a big damn guy, 290?? How tall are you? Just curious. I figure you started this before everything, this past spring, got canceled.
You are shooting for the Masters nationals in July now? Are they having the nationals in Niovember this year? I figure they probably cancelled it.
Ì have to read more but I see there are a lot of things you do, that, just luck, I never had to. Somehow, 20 years later I still dont think I'll need to. Fasted cardio, cardio in general. Most I ever did was 30 min 4 X a week.
That is what is really most important, no one can just do what you do or what I do or anyone else and expect it to work. Especially a precontest prep, has to be tailored to each individual. People have this idea that if they are going to compete they HAVE to do fasted cardio for an hour a day or whatever. It's so not true, if I did that I would burn so much muscle forget it. Its great to follow someone more experienced to get an idea. When it comes to yourself you need to take time to figure out what works for you. You
can cut the time this take considerably by using a GOOD, EXPERIENCED coach that REALLY knows what hes doing. They are so few and far between it's not easy to find. It's easy to find guys who will claim to be what I described. 90% of the time they are not.
Anyway, I told you u may do same contest in July depends how my legs react. Will not be near your weight class though.

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Originally Posted by pgc640

What's up man. I just saw this. You are a big damn guy, 290?? How tall are you? Just curious. I figure you started this before everything, this past spring, got canceled.
You are shooting for the Masters nationals in July now? Are they having the nationals in Niovember this year? I figure they probably cancelled it.
Ì have to read more but I see there are a lot of things you do, that, just luck, I never had to. Somehow, 20 years later I still dont think I'll need to. Fasted cardio, cardio in general. Most I ever did was 30 min 4 X a week.
That is what is really most important, no one can just do what you do or what I do or anyone else and expect it to work. Especially a precontest prep, has to be tailored to each individual. People have this idea that if they are going to compete they HAVE to do fasted cardio for an hour a day or whatever. It's so not true, if I did that I would burn so much muscle forget it. Its great to follow someone more experienced to get an idea. When it comes to yourself you need to take time to figure out what works for you. You
can cut the time this take considerably by using a GOOD, EXPERIENCED coach that REALLY knows what hes doing. They are so few and far between it's not easy to find. It's easy to find guys who will claim to be what I described. 90% of the time they are not.
Anyway, I told you u may do same contest in July depends how my legs react. Will not be near your weight class though.

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brother i started this log many years ago as a matter of fact and if you start at page 1 up until now you will see some crazy changes in mindset and approach. i have learned a ton along the way. actually got on with a top tier coach 2 years ago and gave over every aspect for the most part. i know what i am doing but i tend to second guess and not want to pull the trigger on changes i know should be made. actually has taken me a long way in much shorter amount of time

anyway i just finished this national level show and i will roll into the masters nationals most likely for next year. all the other national level shows are still on sched to go on as planned. they moved the masters down to orlando this past week and the regular nationals are in miami still. the team u is still set for october in jersey but it is up in the air. we contemplated continuing on into the masters this year but since i have been going since feb, i feel like my body needs a break plus my doc wants to clean me out and get me healthy before i fire up this off season. so i have to dial back and heal up

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TweetDamn you are like - 1% body fat.
Great work!
And the log is great also.
I have been eating a lot of jasmine rice also we ended up with 2 large bags.

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TweetGreat job brother! Based on the pics I saw you looked amazing! Getting better every show.
Of course I wasn't there but from the shots, I had you at least one placing better. The lineup was pretty stacked, Your conditioning was top notch.

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Originally Posted by Pushtoday

Great job brother! Based on the pics I saw you looked amazing! Getting better every show.
Of course I wasn't there but from the shots, I had you at least one placing better. The lineup was pretty stacked, Your conditioning was top notch.

thanks man i appreciate it. if it wasnt for my injuries i think i could really make a hell of a push but i have to play the cards i am dealt haha. only ting i will say is i think i could have been a touch dryer and posed a little crisper. few factors out of my control went into that one. i am def over the moon with the package i put together though and how well i actually did and the pics and vids we got dont do justice. some of the ones we got in the hotel and outside even blew me away.
we need to get you up there at masters nationals for you to do some damage man

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Travel Day

Meal 1
6oz sirloin
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 2
6oz turkey
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 3
6oz sirloin
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 4
6oz turkey
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 5
6oz sirloin
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 6
6oz turkey
1.5 cups jasmine rice

supps
1 vit c with every meal
1 b complex with every meal
1 dandilion root with meal 1 3 and 6
100mg provi
50mg winny
20mg halo
60mcg clen
50mcg t3
10mg cialis
40mg nolva
12.5mg aroma

2 gal water

so i flew out around 11am and arrived around 4pm. we landed and headed over to the hotel and i had a meal and touched up on some of the water i missed on my flight and then headed down for check ins. stood in line for about 2 hours which sucked. got all checked in and then ate every 2 hours until bed time. i did take a 30 min walk before my final meal and posed before bed. that was pretty much it for the day of travel, with nothing to awful crazy going on. flight was jam packed with no empty seats and the media is full of shit when it comes to the amount of people traveling. i was in one small air ports and 2 major air ports. so even though damn near everything is closed down, their are tons of people traveling all over the place. they didnt take our temps anywhere we went and we were only questioned about the rona at the small air port that were departed from. absolutely nuts and bs across the board on how everything is portrayed

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Day Out


Meal 1
6oz sirloin
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 2
6oz turkey
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 3
6oz sirloin
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 4
6oz turkey
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 5
6oz sirloin
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 6
6oz turkey
1.5 cups jasmine rice


supps
1 vit c with every meal
1 b complex with every meal
1 dandilion root with meal 1 3 and 6
100mg provi
50mg winny
20mg halo
60mcg clen
50mcg t3
10mg cialis
40mg nolva
12.5mg aroma
25 dyazide before bed

2.25 gal water

Day prior to stage. slept like absolute garbage thursday night. i am pretty sure i woke up about every 30-45 mins and i was up at about 4am for the day. i forgot all my sleeping supps so that damn sure didnt help and i was in a ton of pain on top of that. so i started eating at around 6am. took pics and posed prior to meal 1. we would have a meal pose for 10 mins about 45 min after each meal and then do a 10 min slow walk about an hour and ahalf each meal. did a light upper body pump workout about mid day and posed with my posing coach twice. so pretty much a full day of relaxing and filling out while drying and keeping insulin sensitivity going. also added in an additional 500mg of berberine to help also. the carb uptake was working very well so we had no need to add in any log this go round but had it at the ready. i literally was tightening up and filling a little better each meal, so no extra help was needed. went to pharm and got some valarine root for the night and took 5g when i normally only take 3 haha. friday night pain kicked in even more but still had no water issues with my feet and calves but knees back and both shoulders were super fucked up and had me pretty concerned.

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Show Day


Meal 1
6oz sirloin
1.5 cups jasmine rice
Meal 2
2 blueberry nutrigrain bars
1 blueberry nutrigrain bar about every 20mins prior to stepping on stage
bout 1/3 can of dill pickle pringles 20 mins prior to stepping on stage
4oz water with am supps as soon as i woke up
cialis 1 hour prior to show
sipped water every time i pissed and i was pissing about every hour or so after wake up
clen was cut in half today and i have no idea why it was still in. i need to ask
had 1/4 cup of black coffee as soon as i got up also


supps
1 vit c with every meal
1 b complex with every meal
1 dandilion root with meal 1 3 and 6
100mg provi
50mg winny
20mg halo
30mcg clen
50mcg t3
10mg cialis
40mg nolva
12.5mg aroma
25 dyazide before bed

lucy leblue dieter's tea. i had 2 bags thursday night. 2 bags mid day friday and another bag friday night. i have a tendency to back up when loading so we use that both to help keep stuff moving through my digestion system and to help drying as well. it is actually pretty good stuff

another pretty bad night of sleep. again pain was a mother fucker and i guess i was pretty anxious or having nightmares again because on top of pain waking me up i was waking up all freaked out and heart racing. i didnt pack my cpap machine so that didnt help to much either but i hadnt used it for the last 4-5 days because my allergies have been acting up and i didnt want to use any anti histamines or put anything new into what i was already doing, so i just opted not to use it this close to show time. got up around 4am again and meal 1 went down at 6am. we posed last time at around 8am. i was able to chill in my room feet up until got the call down to move over to the ready tent. now this is where it got nasty. so they called us down and put us in an outdoor holding tent pretty early in the am and it wasnt to hot but we were in there for a couple of hours. of course as always they had us touch up tans and put on the sheen way to early, so i was standing on my feet for about 2 hours prior to going out. the heat kicked in about 45mins before going up and i had to have a poor lady with me the whole time in the line up fixing my tan to keep it from running and streaking. the tan company sucked ass compared to who i usually use but she did one hell of a great job. so since the wait was so long and to keep my gut as small and tight as possible, we pulled the protein out of my meals except one and just had a nutrigrain bar every 20 or 30 mins with a little bit of pb.
that was about the extent of my run up to and onto stage. i am super happy to both have been able to compete with all the crap going on and even with all the rules and restrictions they put in place just being able to do it was a success. coming in better this year than last was a win in itself and i appreciate the guy that put it on because i know he both had to jump through some crazy hoops and lost his ass off money wise not being able to have any spectators coaches or vendors present. so my hat goes off to him for sure.

so even though i know i work my ass off and i have no quit in me even though i like to complain i will say this was a grueling prep that may have been my hardest. i have been going since feb and with them moving dates and the uncertainty was a serious mind game the entire time. the diet wasnt hard and i didnt have any real issues with hunger at all until the last couple days and the loading days i was starving my ass off but the prep diet wise was smooth. the training on the other hand def tested my mental strength. that's where i really had to dig super deep and i feel age is starting to let me know what's up. i am ready to get back after it though haha.

so i know everyone wants to know how i ended with my epic feasting haha. well, the city we went to was a complete and utter shit hole to say the least. top that with the rona bs and it made it even worse. so the only place that i had recon out before hand was prammanti bros famous sandwiches. i had a double meat super stack capone sandwich from there. then for the remainder of the day i had 12 peace love and little doughnuts a small mac and cheese with bacon bowel and a pb brownie. that was it for show day. got back yesterday and went in and hit 40 mins of cardio and then had maybe 2-3 slice of bacon cheese burger pizza and a couple slices of taco pizza with a couple chocolate cookies. today i am taking my wife to the cheese cake factory for our anniversary which was on show day unfortunately and have a couple other pastries and maybe a hot dog or 2. tomorrow i will roll back into reverse dieting and clean it all back up again. that's the plan, i have to ramp training is now being ramped back down. i am pulling supps back for doc appt and bloods in the next two weeks for my hormone and health stuff and cleaning everything up so i can get back underway as soon as possible.

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Originally Posted by jolter604

Hope that you get better sleep man and I will be back to see how the diet change go's.

got maybe one or two more free meals today and then back on point tomorrow. training and stuff starts back today. back to the grind

TweetWhat an epic run/adventure...
Thanks for sharing it with us. I’m glad you’ll be able to get back to some kind of normalcy...again great job brother.


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Originally Posted by Pushtoday

What an epic run/adventure...
Thanks for sharing it with us. I’m glad you’ll be able to get back to some kind of normalcy...again great job brother.


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thanks man, glad to have you in my corner for drive and support here. it's much appreciated

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back/cardio

mag wide grip pull downs 85x10 100x10 120x10 140x10 160x10
rope face pulls x10/6
one arm lower lat pulls x10/4
cable pullovers x10/6
40 min incline treadmill

done for the day. nothing crazy or fancy here at all kind of same idea as last week. now we are just trying to recover and pull all the water off the joints and heal them up before getting crazy. so training will be legs push pull arms and 6 days of cardio as we ramp down. may take a week off at some point in a couple weeks then go back wide open. the week off may or may not happen depending on how i feel. joints are def beat up pretty damn good right now and i am holding an ass ton of water pretty much all over. been having a pedilyte packet every day since the show trying to flush and replace all my electolytes again. once water comes off i will drop that out. pumps are insane right now with all the nasty glycogen i have put in over the last couple of days but the reverse diet fired up this am. all good feeling pretty good but still fatigued and ran down a bit. sleeping really well now and sneaking a nap in the last two days. hopefully i will be bounced back all the way by this weekend. this waking up at 4am every morning for no reason is getting old.


meal 1
2 whole eggs
4oz sirloin
3/4 cup jasmine rice
2 cups spinach
meal 2
8oz turkey
3/4 cup jasmine rice
1 cup green vege
meal 3(pre)
2 scoops whey iso
1/4 cup cor
1tbl spn pb
intra
1 scoop recovery factor x
1 scoop hbccd
10g creatine
10g eaa
meal 4(post workout)
2 scoops whey iso
1/4 cup cream of rice
meal 5
8oz chicken
6oz red potatoes
1 cup broc
meal 6
6oz turkey
3/4 cup jasmine rice
sugar free jelly
meal 7
8oz sirloin
6oz purple potatoes
onions and mushrooms