Andy
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Yesterday was great as it was the first day my Mrs was up from Liverpool for the week/NY, even if delays on the trains cause me to miss a meal, it’s all good, I’m not going to cry about it.
We went to Six by Nico as our Christmas present to each other, and then a few drinks in Glasgow which was nice as she only got 1 day off of prep, so that will be her until the end of April.
That works for me though as I’m looking to lock in until the day I decide with Nick if 2025 is going to be the debut year in the pro league.
As I mentioned, I feel a little more confident with the kind words/feedback from my mate Greg, but at the same time I know there’s plenty of work to be done.
I won’t be checking in this week due to the week of training, but I already look and feel better!
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That 2kg isn’t going to be fat, it will just be water and gut content.
If you’ve wiped the slate clean and you know you’re not going to eat anything else off plan, then I would move forward with whatever your plan was to increase food as part of your push up.
I’d be more concerned that a dropping back down to try and get rid of the 2kg may only spur on further binging episodes.
Even if you increase your food, that weight will most likely still fall off, assuming you’re not going for some mad increase in food right from the get go.
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So 2nd day of the week off, and I’m starting to notice usual indicators of fatigue fall off;
– I’m not falling asleep without warning as much.
– Concentration is much better.
– I’m not taking 3 hours to get out of a chair.
– I actually feel rested when I wake up from sleep.
– Appetite is slightly better, although, I am still consuming 6000cals so it’s nothing to shout home about.
– I look rounder and fuller.
I’ve said this a million times but I really do need to make the Christmas-NY week a week off, regardless of how I feel. There is something about waking up on the 2nd ready to go!
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Merry Christmas everyone!
A very chilled one today, I took meal out my plan for my Christmas dinner. I usually just see how I feel when I wake up in the morning, if I’m going to semi follow my plan or not, and today I just felt like not thinking and prepped 5/6 meals. Last year I didn’t, it just depends.
Also, my mum’s Christmas dinner isn’t the best haha, so I really don’t feel like I’m missing anything anyway.
I hope everyone had a great day!
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A brilliant push session with Greg Taylor at Warehouse in Aberdeen today. It’s always good training with guys on Greg’s level as you can bounce ideas and thoughts off of each other. Usually Greg rinses me in push sessions, but it was pretty close this time, which is good because I’ve worked damn hard to bring my chest/shoulders up!
I also got him to have a look at me PWO, even though he’s one of my best mates, he’s still very honest in what he see’s so it was good to get some really positive feedback from him today, it kind of put my mind at ease as I feel a bit like I’m in my head too much with the 2025 season, and I’m usually quite headstrong.
Anyway, class session all round!
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Now that the entire pro schedule has been released, Nick and I have picked the shows we’re going to go for IF I choose to compete, which we’ll decide on the 29th of March (P-day)
26/10 – EVLS Pro
09/11 – Romania
23/11 – Spain Pro
The spacing between all of these allows for travel disruptions etc, but those are the 3 I’m looking at.
I’m not naive, I know it’s going to be a long hard road to being pro winning standard, and I’m more than willing to climb that road, however, I also don’t want to get last call out in my pro debut.
I’ll be down at the shed late January, so hopefully I can get an honest bit of feedback from the big dogs that day.
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Fake Christmas completed with the family today. We tend to have a fake Christmas before the big day so that we can get everyone in the same room as most of us do our own thing on Christmas. I swapped out 1 meal for the Christmas lunch, and I didn’t go overboard. It’s just meat and veg at the end of the day the day. . .
I don’t see the fascination with Christmas dinner, it’s the stuff we eat every day with a bit of gravy on it, everyone needs to calm down haha.
Nick and I have agreed for me to take Christmas to NY off training, just to allow my body to be nice and fresh going into the new year.
The entire pro schedule is up, so I know exactly what I want to do IF I compete! I’ll touch on that tomorrow.
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I haven’t used EQ since 2018, for no reason really other than I like the test/primo/NPP combo.
I’ll only use EQ with a client if they like it/want it to use it, and I’ll start at 200mg.
However, like Sas said, I’d probably just increase your test and/or mast.
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Blood Work 13 weeks in to my push is in. I’ll just note markers that were out, everything bar the following results were in or above range (in a positive way).
CK – 3672 U/l which is about 1000 higher than it usually is, however, I did get my bloods done almost immediately post session as that was the only time I had available.
ALT – 79.2 U/l this always floats around the 70-80 range for me.
HDL – 0.72 mol/l this was actually in a good spot (1.2) after my health phase, and I usually see this drop when using primo, it never really gets lower than this.
Prolactin – 430.3 mU/L a touch higher than where it usually is mid-cycle, but I’m not seeing any prolactin sides.
Test is always through the roof, as is free test, but that’s a given.
There was nothing overly concerning though, so we press on. I’ll get them done again in 12 weeks time.
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A very busy NTD as I’ve tried to get as many online clients in for sessions as possible, so I’ve not had a chance to breath today, but I’m away to take 2 weeks off from the gym floor, so it’s all good.
Calve is nowhere near as bad as the right one was when I pulled that, so that’s good. Hopefully I’ll be able to train my legs at 100% on Tuesday.
I’m still yet to decide if I’m going to take a deload across Christmas-NY, I was just having a look at my physique there, and other than being tired all of the time, I’d say everything is feeling good, but I’ll take things as they come.
I can’t wait for shoulders tomorrow!
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A underwhelming leg session today, I pulled my calve AGAIN, this time my left calve.
It was the exact same sensation as the previous pull 3 weeks ago, so at least I know it was just really bad cramp, but it’s frustrating nonetheless.
I’m going to sub in the hack squat instead of the BB squat going forward. This issue has only ever happened with BB squats.
Anyway, here’s how it went. . .
Prime PL lying leg curls – 15, 12, 10 + dropset
Leg extension (rest pause set) – Pick a weight you can get a comfortable 15 reps, pause for 45s rep to failure, pause for 30s, rep to failure, pause for 15s, rep to failure, pause for 5s lean forward and perform 15 partials (I let my training partner decide how many to do here).
BB squats – 15 – 12 – 10 – 9 and then my calve went. . .
SL leg extensions (a bit of a waste of time) – 15, 15
Cybex seated leg curls – 15, 15, 15
Decline bench crunches
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All of a the above. . . GH has a positive impact on sleep, not the opposite. Saying that, could there have been something else leading up to the time you went to bed that could have impacted your sleep? Caffeine, overstimulated from TV/phone etc?
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A great chest/shoulder/bicep session today, I decided to train at Performance Gym in Irvine just to get out of Glasgow and train in a different environment. The gym is amazing, probably the closest thing we have in Scotland to an Ultra Flex.
They have the Nautilus PL decline chest press which I’ve always wanted to use, so I subbed that in instead of the Prime PL press. . .
Seated cuffed cable flys – 1 working sets, 12-15, 1 back-off set, 15-20
Incline DB press – 1 working set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 12-15
Nautilus PL decline chest press – 1 working set, 8-12, 1 cluster set 4 sets of 5 w/ 10s rest
Peck deck – 2 working sets, 20
SA standing cable side raises – 3 working sets, 20
SA standing cable rear raises – 3 workings sets, 20
Standing iso-lateral cable curls – 3 working sets, 15-20
Standing EZ-bar cable curls – 3 workings sets, 15-20
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I find yohimbine goes from no anxiety to lots of anxiety in a 10mg shift. If you’re seeing anxiety sides on say a low dose of 5-10mg then, as those have mentioned above, don’t bother with it. If however you can tolerate a low dose then keep it in. My personal limit is 30mg before I start to feel weird/anxious on it.
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A solid back session logged yesterday, and a very chilled out NTD today. There was a great atmosphere in the gym on Saturday with a lot of the gym’s hardest trainers all training at once, so it was a super one. My SI joint is still off and it feels like it’s pulling me to the one side, so I’ve not done heavy deadlifts in weeks, but regardless those sessions have still been excellent.
I checked in with Nick yesterday at 280lbs. We both agree that the look has come on leaps and bounds in the past few months, and there’s no point in changing anything at this moment in time.
Close grip lat pulldowns – 1 working set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 12-15
Conventional t-bar row – 1 working set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 12-15
Chest supported t-bar row (upper back bias) – 1 working set, 8-12
SA DB rows – 2 working sets, 8-12
SA Nautilus row – 1 working set, 8-12
Prime rear peck deck – 3 working sets, 12-15
Deadlifts – 1 working set – 12
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