yeah, they're not those roly poly babies that look like a beachball with limbs, they're just cute little guys that have a little chub to them

crawling is probably going to start within the next month, after which i will probably need to start drinking heavily

Hey man, kyleb's kid is just big boned.

Don't have kids myself, but that's quite correct based on the various kids of friends I've seen. Alternatively you can have them start drinking heavily.

2/28

Dips 5x10xbw

****, finally. I still feel like a weak little locobro though; adding weight next time

DB Bench 3x10x70
Probably still harder than it should be

Incline DB Bench 3x10x50
Pendlays 3x10x135
DB Front Raise 2x20x12.5
DB Lateral Raise 2x20x7.5
Facepulls 2x12x55
Cable Curls 20/16x32.5
Overhead Tri Ext 20/16x60

One more workout and then I get two days off; I'm pretty excited.

Skipped dessert last night, and apart from being a little more hungry this morning, no big deal, and I lost 0.6 pounds yesterday. Every time I skip dessert, I lose half a pound; IT'S SCIENCE. I'd probably lose more if I deep fried it in, say, 100 g of tallow, but baby steps.

3/1

Squat 5x10x155

Felt tougher than it probably was; I think I'm going to try moving up 5 pounds per workout and see if I can sustain that for a while.

Hammer Leg Press 3x15x160
Hypers 2x15xbw+15
Leg Ext 2x20x100
Leg Curl 3x12x80
Adduction 2x15x100
Abduction 2x15x100
Stand Calf Raise 2x20x50
Planks 3x30sec x bw+25

I'm so excited to have two days off this weekend; it's been a while, so I'm going to enjoy my rest.

I also purchased some BCAAs, which will cut down on the calories I'm consuming preworkout, and hopefully the overall amount I'm consuming per day. I got the unflavored stuff, and it tastes ****ing disgusting (and it really takes a lot for me to complain about the taste of any of this stuff). Luckily I've only got 29 more servings to go before I can buy more . . .

Nice progression going on here.

I've had the ON fruit punch and Xtend watermelon BCAAs, and imo the taste is:

ON fruit punch >>>>>>> Xtend watermelon

I got the ON unflavored

And thanks! Hitting 5x10x185 seems a long way off, but I think I can do it over the next few months. Once that happens, I might play around with adding in a little heavier weights half the time (a la your split), while trying to keep the volume work steady too.

Outside of the hit to my ego because of the tiny weights I bench with (because I blast my shoulders/tris beforehand), I'm liking this program, lol. The wifeacore has commented that my upper body looks bigger, and I'm losing weight, so I'm just concentrating on those parts.

ETA: 5x10x195 or 200 is probably the better goal, since hopefully I'll weigh that once I get there

3/4

Fell off the diet wagon this weekend; had some friends in from out of town and our wives went ape**** baking and cooking and ****; probably ended up eating ~7-8k calories over that two day period, but I'm back on the wagon as of today:

OHP 3x10x100, 1x8x100, 1x7x100
Bench 4x10x160, 1x7x160
Machine Fly 2x15x105
Machine Rear Delt 2x15x75
Cable Crossover 2x16x25
Front/Side Raise 2x10x12.5
Pro Tri Pressdown 20/16x65
Sup Tri Pressdown 2x20x35

No time for the curlz, dem gunz are sad

I've been working on my left scap a lot recently with the lacrosse ball and rumble roller, and it's starting to loosen up a bit, but there's still a significantly decreased ROM and level of strength when doing certain movements (rear flies, for example). I had the wifecore beat the crap out of it with the lacrosse ball tonight, and it feels a little looser; I'm going to start doing scap pushups too. Time to even myself out, because having my left side fail before my right all the time is getting old.

Took yesterday off because of a general lack of WIM; I think I'm going to experiment with lifting MWFSat and see if spacing the rest days out helps at all.

3/6
DL 5x10x185
Dimels 3x10x155
Hypers 2x15xbw+25
Closegrip Sup Pulldown 3x15x100
VGrip Horiz Row 2x20x70
Widegrip Pro Pulldown 2x15x70
Kroc Row 1x15x55
DB Shrugs 2x15x70
Planks 3x30sec x bw+25
Pallofs 3x10x25

Didn't really feel like going today either, but I WIMed it out and feel a bit better for it. Hopefully I can fight through this; spring can't come soon enough.

Maybe add something that you think is fun?

That workout (actually any light weight for a million reps) looks horribly boring to me.

I agree it's not exactly the most stimulating thing in the world, but I've been feeling better and looking better since I've been doing it (although a lot of the looking better is probably at least as much diet related). My workout buddy is going to be away on business most of the month, and I just need to WIM it up and get through my **** alone for the most part until he gets back; I don't get the amusement from trolling him about his cluelessness and random attacks of rage, so I'm just in a bit of a rut now.

I want to get all of my 5x10s up to reasonable milestone levels in the next few months (press 115, bench and squat 185, DL 225), and that's going to have to be enough for now. We'll see what happens afterwards, I guess.

As an aside, having the wifeacore beat up my left scap with a lacrosse ball (because I'm too much of a pussy to roll it out hard enough myself) has been working wonders. Whenever she hits one knot in particular under the scap, I get the same nerve pain that I've gotten for years on the front/top of my delt, so my suspicion is that a lot of my strength imbalance on my left side is the result of being all knotted up over there. Luckily she has no qualms about hurting me, so hopefully we can get this worked out and I can get myself evened out sooner rather than later.

3/8

Feeling a bit sick, so I decided to skip today . . . then it got to be around lunchtime and I felt better, so I went after work:

Dips 5x10xbw+5
DB Bench 3x10x70
DB Incline Bench 3x10x55

Left side weakness + the same nerve pain on the front of my shoulder occurred towards the end of every set on both exercises; I guess I have to stick with these weights until I get my shoulder loosened up enough to handle heavier?

Pendlays 3x10x135
DB Front Raise 2x20x12.5
DB Side Raise 2x20x7.5
Facepulls 2x12x55
1 Arm Cable Row 2x12x20

Concentrated on pulling the cable back with my scap as opposed to my shoulder/arm and really trying to feel the contraction on my left side especially; I think I did ok.

Cable Curls 2x20x32.5 supersetted with
Overhead Tri Ext 2x20x60

Glad I went, looking forward to knocking a workout out tomorrow around noon and relaxing for the rest of the weekend in my tiny loconess

ya i accidentally ordered Xtend watermelon somehow and its utter garbage, even though i think soulman says he likes it. the orange flavor is gr8 tho imo

Just received ON orange and I'll be trying it tomorrow; I think I'm going to try to just add the unflavored stuff to my regular three scoop protein shakes a little bit at a time to get rid of it.

ETA: Whenever I see a page or downtown post in my log, I always brace myself when I click because I'm so sure I'm going to be getting ultra-trolled. It's always nice to see that it's not the case

I think it's fine? Anything artificially sweetened will be never be om nom nom imo.

I am afraid of Jdock posts in my log. I roll my eyes and brace myself.

Blue raspberry is goat

Just reviewed my posts in this log. 98% troll-free.

Yeah no doubt, but at this point I'm like a battered wife: every time you move one of your arms, even if it's just to get a drink, I think you're going to hit me and flinch.

If you didn't make me so angry, I wouldn't have to hit you.

Q: What do you tell a Montecore with two black eyes?
A: Nothing, you've already told him twice.

3/9
Squats 5x10x160

Had a little GM in the last few reps of the final set; will probably repeat this weight next week.

Leg Press 3x15x160
Hypers 2x15xbw+25
Leg Ext 2x20x110
Leg Curl 3x12x90
Adduction 2x15x110
Abduction 2x15x110
Stand Calf Raise 2x20x60
Planks 3x30 sec x bw+25
Pallofs 3x10x25

I'm thinking maybe I need to up the reps on the Pallofs to 15 per set or so, but the weight seems about right.

3/11

OHP 3x10x100, 1x9x100, 1x7x100
Bench 4x10x160, 1x9x160

Moved my hands a bit closer together on bench to see how it felt (the smooth ring between my index and middle fingers as opposed to my index finger just outside the smooth ring) and it felt alright. I was worried it was going to feel a little too closegrippy, but it wasn't a big deal. I may stick with it for a while.

Machine Fly 2x15x110
Machine Rear Delt 2x15x75

Still not contracting my left scap very well on this side, may switch to some sort of one armed maneuver next week.

Cable Crossovers 2x20x25
Front/Side Raise 2x10x12.5
Pro Tri Pressdown 20/16x65
Sup Tri Pressdown 2x20x35
BB Curl 2x15x55
Stand DB Hammer 15/11x20

3/13

DL 5x10x195 -pretty smooth, had to regrip the bar once in the middle of set 4 and twice in the middle of set 5, but other than that it was all good

Dimels 3x10x155
Hypers 3x15xbw+25
Sup Narrow Pulldown 3x15x105
VGrip Row 2x20x70
Widegrip Pro Pulldown 2x15x75
Krocs 1x15x55
Shrugs 2x15x75
Planks 3x30secxbw+25
Pallofs 3x10x25

3/15
Dips 3x10, 1x9, 1x7 x bw+10
DB Bench 3x10x70
DB Incline 3x10x55 (lowered the bench to roughly a 30 degree angle and it took a lot of the shoulder out of it, felt better than previous days)
Pendlays 3x10x135
Front Raise 2x20x12.5
Side Raise 2x20x7.5
Facepulls 2x12x55
Stand 1 Arm Row 3x12x25
1 Arm Sup Pulldown 3x12x35
Cable Curls 20/16x32.5 supersetted with
Overhead Tri 2x20x60

Added some more single arm stuff to work on balancing out my left side, we'll see how it works out. Felt nice to finally isolate my left scapula a bit, hopefully between this and SMR I can get it loosened and strengthened up and working correctly.