No Quarter's Journal

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:28:04 GMT

ORIGINAL: grantoiz

ORIGINAL: No Quarter

Alright alright, I've fallen off a bit. I'm backpacking through Australia right now, but did manage to drop into a gym for a day in Sydney (cost me 12$!!!) I did a pretty thorough full body workout.

Squats             3x6@225lbs
Deadlifts              2x6@225lbs
DB Bench             2x6@60lbs
Millitary Press     2x6@105lbs
Lateral Pulldown   2x6@165 (don't know if it's lbs or kgs or something else, I hate machines.)
Close Grip Bench   2x6@90lbs
Cable Crunch       2x15@200lbs

Bodyweight is 215lbs. Man it's hard to keep in good shape and eat well when you're living out of a backpack. The good news is I should have a new job within the week that keeps me in one spot for 6 months and also give me access to a gym full time.

dude thats awesome, how you finding australia? im travelling to australia on the 19th of december till the 20th of january to visit my buddy who moved there. i cant fukin wait! you go on your own? me and my mate are going up to sydney for news years eve some sort of party on a bridge lol!

I love Australia so far. It's seriously part of my goal in life to live here on day, it's got great weather and environments, is gorgeous, friendly and fun. Sydney is probably my most favourite city I've been to, so many things to do, such great views and places to relax, very friendly and safe. The night life can be great too. If the party is on Harbour Bridge you'll have one hell of a time, it's the biggest ****ing bridge I've ever seen and you have the two halves of Sydney on either side of you while looking out into the ocean in front and behind you. Sydney would be a blast for New Years!

RE: No Quarter's Journal (grantoiz)

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:21:29 GMT

ORIGINAL: No Quarter

Alright alright, I've fallen off a bit. I'm backpacking through Australia right now, but did manage to drop into a gym for a day in Sydney (cost me 12$!!!) I did a pretty thorough full body workout.

Squats             3x6@225lbs
Deadlifts              2x6@225lbs
DB Bench             2x6@60lbs
Millitary Press     2x6@105lbs
Lateral Pulldown   2x6@165 (don't know if it's lbs or kgs or something else, I hate machines.)
Close Grip Bench   2x6@90lbs
Cable Crunch       2x15@200lbs

Bodyweight is 215lbs. Man it's hard to keep in good shape and eat well when you're living out of a backpack. The good news is I should have a new job within the week that keeps me in one spot for 6 months and also give me access to a gym full time.

dude thats awesome, how you finding australia? im travelling to australia on the 19th of december till the 20th of january to visit my buddy who moved there. i cant fukin wait! you go on your own? me and my mate are going up to sydney for news years eve some sort of party on a bridge lol!

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:39:04 GMT

Alright alright, I've fallen off a bit. I'm backpacking through Australia right now, but did manage to drop into a gym for a day in Sydney (cost me 12$!!!) I did a pretty thorough full body workout.

Squats             3x6@225lbs
Deadlifts              2x6@225lbs
DB Bench             2x6@60lbs
Millitary Press     2x6@105lbs
Lateral Pulldown   2x6@165 (don't know if it's lbs or kgs or something else, I hate machines.)
Close Grip Bench   2x6@90lbs
Cable Crunch       2x15@200lbs

Bodyweight is 215lbs. Man it's hard to keep in good shape and eat well when you're living out of a backpack. The good news is I should have a new job within the week that keeps me in one spot for 6 months and also give me access to a gym full time.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:31 GMT

Legs Day
Squat                               4x6@215lbs
Stiff Leg DL                        3x6@185lbs
Machine Calf Raise               2x6@220lbs
Weighted Alternating Crunch 2x10@50lbs
Cable Rope Crunch              2x10@200lbs
Reverse Crunch                  2x5@10lbs

Upped weights on a few things succesfully. Added reverse crunches with a leg extension at the bottom, by the end of my ab workout these things are freaking hard!

215lbs.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:35:58 GMT

Pull Day
Deadlift               4x6@275lbs
Lateral Pulldown   3x6@170lbs
BB Row               2x6@155lbs
Alt. DB Curl         1x5@50lbs

Upped all weights successfully except Alt. DB Curls, which I got 2 more reps on. Bodyweight is 217lbs. Creatine's got me looking big and feeling good again.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:14:10 GMT

Push Day
DB Bench 6,5@75lbs
DB Shoulder Press 6,6,3@55lbs

Going to stay on 75lbs for the time being. Increased performance for the shoulders today. I'm going to start expanding this day next week and see what I can do that won't aggravate the wrists...find a Tricep exercise and add dips.

Weight is 218lbs! Unfortunately my bf is slightly higher than it usually has been over the course of this journal, and some of it is creatine water weight. I've got to start eating lean as hell foods and get myself back up to what I want to be. I want to lean down while maintaining/building strength. A wholesome diet around maintenance calories should do this.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:38:07 GMT

Legs Day
Squat                               4x6@205lbs
Stiff Leg DL                        3x6@185lbs
Machine Calf Raise               2x6@200lbs
Weighted Alternating Crunch 2x10@45lbs
Cable Rope Crunch              2x10@200lbs

Forgot that I was suppossed to do 215 on squats today. Oh well. Good day.

Weight is 215lbs.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:58:12 GMT

Pull Day
Deadlift               4x6@265lbs
Lateral Pulldown   3x6@160lbs
BB Row               2x6@145lbs
Alt. DB Curl         1x3@50lbs

10lbs added to Deadlift and BB Row successfully. Early Failure on DB Curls

Weight is 215lbs

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:44:41 GMT

Push Day
DB Bench 6,6,5@70lbs
DB Shoulder Press 5@55lbs

Rotator cuff was feeling a bit off, so I went until my first set of failure and then called it quits early. I hate the lack of progress on this day but most of my injuries tend to come out of this day so I have to tread lightly.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:36:28 GMT

Legs Day
Squat                               4x6@205lbs
Stiff Leg DL                        3x6@175lbs
Machine Calf Raise               2x10@200lbs
Weighted Alternating Crunch 2x10@35lbs
Cable Rope Crunch              15,10@200lbs

10lbs added to Squat and Stiff Legged Deadlifts successfully. 50lbs added to Cable Rope crunch semi-successfully.

I've been visiting family in ontario for the past 2 weeks or so. Was going to go to the gym, but it was 8$ to drop in for a day and I had no vehicle, meaning the gym trips would cost me about 10-15$ a day, no thanks!

Anyways I came back again all fresh and rested and ready to go. I was going to do the same leg day as last time since it's been awhile but at the gym decided to up the weights a bit. Looks like the time off hasn't left me too far behind, although I'm seeing a bit of a belly forming when I sit down, too much chips, cake and beer!

Noted that my wrist is feeling much better but there's still a hint of pain if I twist it all the way around. I'm going to keep wrapping it and hope it'll get stronger instead of getting hurt again.

Bodyweight is 213lbs

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:14:34 GMT

Pull Day
Deadlift               4x6@255lbs
Lateral Pulldown   3x6@160lbs
BB Row               2x6@135lbs
Alt. DB Curl         1x6@50lbs

Note that today my preworkout supplement was 2 caffeine pills + 2 ephedrine pills + 10gram creatine monohydrate on a nearly empty stomach. I felt loaded, I felt violent, I felt dangerous. I got some food in me then went to the gym. Added 30lbs to deadlift, 20lbs to BB Row, and 10lbs to Lateral Pulldown. Finished all sets completely.

Used my wrist wrap again, and it seemed to hold up nicely on the wrist straining deadlifts and DB curls.

Bodyweight is still 213lbs.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:17:50 GMT

Push Day

DB Bench Press 6,6,4@70lbs

I used wraps on my wrist today which felt much better. My shoulder was feeling off so I stopped after failing on bench.

Bodyweight is 213lbs.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:58:25 GMT

Leg Day

Squat                    4x6@195lbs
Stiff Leg DL                   3x6@165lbs
Smith Machine Calf Raise 2x6@225lbs
Cable Crunch         22@150lbs
Decline Full Situp            10@bodyweight

Been in San Francisco, feels good to be back in a weightroom. Weight is 212lbs, added more weight to squats and stiff leg DLs successfully. Wrist is still sore, I'll have to wrap it or something for my other days and hope for the best.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:02:26 GMT

Push Day

DB Bench Press 4x6@65lbs
DB Shoulder Press 3x6@50lbs

Weight 210lbs

Holy weight drop. I think it's a random fluctuation

I upped the weights 5lbs at least.

Wrist is still hurting so I didn't do any triceps exercises to futher aggravate it (skullcrushers seem to be what did it last time). It was still a little sketchy doing the above two exercises.

RE: No Quarter's Journal (No Quarter)

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:15:44 GMT

Leg Day

Squat                    4x6@185lbs
Stiff Leg DL               3x6@155lbs
Uni Leg Press Calf Raise 2x6@135lbs
Cable Crunch           20@150lbs

Turns out my right wrist is hurting again. So much for feeling good. I was feeling particularily uninspired and weak today but I pushed through. Didn't go hard on the weights because of my lack of mental clarity and recent reocurring wrist injury.