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Hit chest today, pretty decent workout for a restless night after hockey.

Tomorrow is back day...get that T-Bar loaded! :ze

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Which grip do you use on the t-bar, Admiral? I've been quite partial to the close/natural grip. Do you cycle through the different grips?

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Shoulders last night. Nothing spectacular, felt ok. Went home, ate, then went out and smoked a My Father (Pepin). Wasn't bad, but wasn't great either.

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I do, Dokk.....I think they all hit the back differently, and I am all about keeping the muscles "confused". I just try to keep as much stress off the biceps as I can with each different grip.

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Cool. That's what I figured. I alternate between cycling all grips and hitting the close on the T-bar and then using a wider (shoulder width) grip on regular bent-over barbell rows.

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I vary the width on my barbell rows as well, find it hits me in different ways like that as well.

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Deadlifts tonight for me. Might go heavy dont know yet.

I agree with Tom on the switching up for grips. Hit some heavy set with your strongest grip, then mix it up a bit. I love doing that with pull ups. After I've blasted out my sets, I will do 2 or 3 with a super wide grip, really busts up my rear delts, and gives a good stretch.

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my gym doesnt have a tbar :mad:

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I love those super wide pull-ups, Frank...really tears it up. :tu

Olympic bar, a close grip pulldown attachment, and a corner. You can even just grip the bar just below one of the sleeves if you don't have an attackment....Old Skool!! :D

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I like those better than using the machine version. Not only is it old skool but it makes your lower back get some work too from stabilizing the weight. :tu

Busted out some knee level rack pulls. Was fun because I can use more weight than I can pull from the floor. 645x2 was final set. Then I finished off with a stop by Wendy's on the way home. :tu hahahaha

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Baconator?? :dr :r

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:dr

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15 mile jog today...slow steady pace...on target with the training :wo Hope everyone is having a great weekend..

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Glad to hear all is going well with the training Bao.

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Back at it tomorrow afternoon. Chest day :tu

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started working out again last sunday, then did tue, thu, sat, and going again tmrw. Been keeping it up and it's been hard. Especially after the first 2 times where i was so sore i could barely move. Just did some cardio and full body weights for muscles /wipe brow :p

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It gets better with consistency, those first couple workouts back are killers when it comes to recovery....good to see you are getting in the groove.

I am off the gym today, thank goodness after the back-to-back hockey games last night. Back to the battle manana.

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A couple of hockey games got you down there big tom??:fu
hahahhaa

Decided to get my workout for monday done today due to some family stuff going on tomorrows. lame. anyways, workout went well, still coughing and hacking up goodies.no Wendy's today, pasta later.

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Lots of double-shifting after my misconduct (my penance, LOL), but if today had been a scheduled workout day, I would have been there. :fu

Sorry to hear the crud is still lingering, Frank, I hope that chit is gone for you soon. I didn't have any Wendys either, but I had an 8 egg white chili omelette, 8 slices of bacon, an english muffin with peanut butter, hask browns for breakfast.....4 ginormous chicken tacos for lunch.....whole wheat chicken and sun dried ravioli with red pepper sauce for dinner....and I have some chicken Italian sweet sausages for my late night snack before midnight. :dr

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That sounds glorious.

I wish I wasn't trying to drop weight right now.

I had a rice cake and banana for breakfast..... :(

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I would be homicidal. :r

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yah.... I eat a small breakfast/lunch and then usually have a bit more for dinner after lifting

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I skip breakfast on lifting days (can't lift with solid food in my stomach).

I eat a big lunch....a bigger afternoon snack....a biggerer dinner. Then I really start eating. :r

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by starving yourself?

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I don't lift until afternoon, so a smaller breakfast/lunch works for me and then after lifting have my biggest meal of the day

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Makes sense....I get up, take my Aleve, enter the Asylum while it kicks in, then hit the NO before I leave.

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have you tried superpump? I'm really liking it so far ( have taken in the past) but seems to work better than WF did for me and it works/tastes alot better than NOxplode

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shoulders and back today...been consistent at the gym for over 2 and a half months now..feeling good at the gym but not losing any weight..even with all the cardio I do. :confused:

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I haven't tried it yet....never had much luck with Gaspari products, but I got a free sample from bodybuilding.com and I will give it a try on Tuesday (back day).

If you like it, I found it on NetNutri.com for $29.95, more than $9 cheaper than bodybuilding.com

http://www.netnutri.com/browse.cfm/4,2051.html

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Found it for $31 online and then went to the supplement warehouse here with the price and picked it up :tu

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for $31?:confused:

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Supplement Warehouse has brutal customer reviews. I just found it for 31 at FitRx right down the street from my house...so if I like the sample, I will give it a try.

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there website?

The store is about a mile from my block so all I do is find the lowest online price, show it to them, and get what I want without having to wait for shipping for that low price

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Jim, did you get it for $31?

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yah.

if there is a lower price, they would match that..... it was just me too lazy to find it.

supplement warehouse themselves sell it for $38

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not trying to be a PITA but could you get me a link? I may have found the place to replace BB.com :)

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bulknutrition.com

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Yes, the website, sorry for the confusion. The on-line company's average rating is 1.3 out of 5 stars. The storefront would be fine for me, but I wouldn't order from the site.

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for the store near you, I too rather go pick it up then wait for days.

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yah...the only reason I use the storefront is I'm impatient and hate waiting for shipping

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thank you :tu

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The store is the same as the warehouse? I will be going there tomorrow AM I am out of supps :(

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I think so

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I thought you went there to buy the superplode

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You have to break yourself of the habit of judging progress based on what a scale says Bao. Unless you compete in something that forces you to be in a certain weight class, try to avoid using the scale.
I would look at everything else first, then maybe maybe the scale. Also remember you could be holding water at odd periods of time causing the scale to be a mis-read.
I would look at things like, overall well being, your health, body composition. I highly doubt that by eating good, jogging like a mofo, and following a weight training regime that you are by any means out of shape. If by some freak chance, everything is clicking but you are a freak and are still the same body comp wise, than some diet tweaking may be the answer.

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Tasty stuff there Tom! Been on the double shift before due to...stuff....;)

Id would also be killing people and stealing their lunches lol!

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this morning I had TWO rice cakes and a banana :tu WOOHOO

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Worked arms and chest realy hard the last two days in a row, been the first time I was able to hit the upper body this hard since I finished my physical therapy. Feels damn good though to finaly have the next morning feeling back in the muscles, that feeling like I had a good workout for two days straight.

Now to try a little harder to drop the weight gained by sitting on the couch and being fairly inactive for almost 4 months.

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Hit the elliptical hard this morning. Looks like I'm set to repeat last weeks TWRF schedule for lifting, with cardio everyday (though I missed both days this weekend). Will weigh in tomorrow and see if I've lost anything in the last week....


Edit: One quick funny thing about today. Got to the gym and was ready to rock out to some metal. Clicked on the iPod and it was electronica and alternapop. DAMMIT! :fl :r