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Chest and Triceps – Early morning start
Decline Bench Press
20kg x 30
60kg x 8
80kg x 8
100kg x 2
100kg x 2
60kg x 20 – fractionated
DB Incline Bench Press
22kg x 8
28kg x 8
32kg x 8
Cable Crossover
15kg x 16
20gk x 16
Cable Tricep Pushdown
40kg x 8
50kg x 8
60kg x 8
60kg x 8
60kg x 8
Had to be up at 5 to get to the hospital this morning for my nursing module. Really didn’t feel like training and I have a stomach virus which is messing me over.
Weak as hell.
No hormone production -> Massive weight loss…but not the good kind.
Yates Row
20kg x 8
60kg x 8
100kg x 8
140kg x 7
Lat Pulldown
55kg x 8
75kg x 8
100kg x 8
100kg x 7
Cable Seated Row - close grip
50kg x 8
70kg x 8
100kg x 8
Machine Bicep Curl - single arm
10kg x 8
15kg x 8
20kg x 8
Barbell Curl
40kg x 8
50kg x 8
50kg x 8
Not a bad session.
In physiology today we measured our bodyfat using a variety of methods – mine ranged from 6% to 33%. Funny to see just how inaccurate various methods are.
I also found out that bathroom bioimepdence scales only measure bodyfat for your lower body and the hand held ones only do upper body. You can get ones that do both (it has a stand with handles on it) though but it’s still probably inaccurate.
I also found out that my weight is now 86kg. Which does make the fact that I’ve maintained most of my strength while losing 10kg quite impressive but it also means that I’ve lost a heck of a lot of weight due to my endocrine problems and my arms are down to 16″ from 17″
Ruined my entire day.
Back Training – Felt Good Being in the Gym For a Change
Haven’t really trained much in the last 2 weeks, medical problems and what not demotivating me. Today I forced myself to do it and it turned out to be quite a good session.
Amino Acids May Not Be Worth It For Increasing Growth Hormone
A lot of supplement companies claim that taking various amino acids in various doses and combinations has a massive effect on growth hormone. They go as far to say that if you use product X just before bed you can double your growth hormone secretion and gain the massive benefits of hyperplasia.
Two studies show that while an increase in growth hormone is possible, it may not actually have any affect at all!
Best Wishes To Jay Cutler
Jay Cutler, 4 time Mr Olympia, had his bicep repaired last week.
Best wishes Jay, and a speedy recovery!
4 Time Mr O.
Legs Day – Parallel Box Squats
Today was legs day and since I’m flying out to uni tomorrow, I didn’t want to overdo it. Plus with my hormones the way they are I don’t want to end up overtraining and elevating my cortisol too much.
Back and Arms Day – Spoke to the Endocrinologist Too!
The endocrinologist wanted to ask me if I was taking L-Tryptophan supplements. When I told him I wasn’t he didn’t really believe me (for some reason; it’s an amino acid nothing special). He seems to be under the impression that I have chronic joint pain for some reason and due to my high eosinophil count he thinks I have Eosinophilia–myalgia syndrome. That’s basically an illness where you have too many eosinophils and you have joint pain. As a result he wants to send me to a rheumatologist – there’s absolutely no reason for that so I need to get in touch with him again and explain to him that I don’t have joint pain. If I did…how would I be lifting the weights I am?
Just My Luck The Doctor Rang When I Wasn’t Home – Chest and Shoulders
Just my luck though, I delayed going to the gym for whatever reason, when I’d been out the house for 10 mins my endo rang and said he needed to speak to me urgently. I can’t imagine what it would be about, I only had an FBC done yesterday and I doubt it’s been processed or that it’s shown anything mad.
He’s worried about my eosinophil levels being consistently high – which suggests that I have blood parasites or a tape worm or something of that nature. Odds are I don’t; monocytes are elevated as well. Maybe I just have a gigantic cold all the time.
In my experience with the NHS – if something is wrong they won’t ring you. If everything’s fine but the doctor thinks something’s wrong because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about – they’ll ring you and call it urgent
Legs and Abs – Hard to find a decent spotter
Training on a 3 day split is really killing me, every other day seems to be legs day. I suppose it’s good because I’m starting to enjoy legs again and squatting.