Dta1984's First Run with BP

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:35 pm

Thanks Rob I will try one of those this afternoon!

Day 12 Feast

Weight 165 (+4)

I might do workout #3 later today, if not tomorrow. Still feel great, Weight is slowly creeping up. I haven't noticed any excess fat gain either (even though I am just + 4lbs).

Calories yesterday - 2985, protein - 195

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 3:20 pm

Wow just made one of those shakes! Pure awesomeness! What a much better way to enjoy my protein shake and load in the calories. I made #12 from that link (milk, protein powder, PB, bananna).

RobRegish · Post by **RobRegish** » Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:37 am

Glad you enjoyed it..

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:50 pm

Day 18 Feast

Weight 164.5 (+3.5)

Ok, I have alot of updating to do. First, here is my workout #3 from last week.

Feast Workout #3

2-3 reps

BB Bench - 180 x 3
DB Pullovers - 60 x 3

EDT Block #1
Incline DB Press - 50 ea
BB Rows - 115
- total of 6 sets. Reps went (5, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5 ) for DB Press, and (7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 6) for BB Rows for a total of 71 reps.

BB Squats - 170 x 4
SLDL - 135 x 4

EDT Block #2
BB Curls - 75
Overhead BB Tricep Extension - 55
- total of 6 sets. Reps went (8, 7, 7, 6, 5, 6) each for a total of 78 reps.

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:59 pm

Feast Workout #4

6-8 reps

BB Bench - 165 x 7
DB Pullovers - 45 x 8

EDT Block #1
Incline DB Press - 50 ea
BB Rows - 115
- total of 6 sets. Reps went (7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5 ) each for a total of 71 reps.

BB Squats - 160 x 8
SLDL - 135 x 8

EDT Block #2
BB Curls - 75
Overhead BB Tricep Extension - 55
- total of 6 sets. Reps went (8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6) each for a total of 84 reps.

I should have upped my EDT Block #2 weights last workout. Not sure why I looked over that. Final workout I will make sure to up them.

Overall, I am feeling great. It is amazing the pump I get from this workout. My chest and arms look and feel amazing after working out. Naturaly, I am not very vascular, but I have been seeing nice veins in my forearm and bicep lately.

As far as changes, I notice my upper body (lats, chest) do seem to be fuller and looking larger. I know my weight hasn't changed too much, but I will take a final picture along with measurements on day 30 or so to compare.

I am going to incorporate an ab routine on my off days from now on. Weighted cable crunches, along with some other small exercises.

xxtotuxx · Post by **xxtotuxx** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:26 pm

Glad to hear you're seeing progress! That's what keeps me motivated. The mirror and the results.

Subbed and will be watching this.

RobRegish · Post by **RobRegish** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:45 pm

So awesome to see this... thanks for sharing!

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:16 pm

Thanks guys!

Day 20 Feast

Question, I am doing workout #5 today. The book says "WORKOUT #5 Attempt new 1RM" Is the new 1RM on the big lifts (bench, DB pullover, squat, SLDL)? I would assume I do the EDT block workouts normal.

dropthebeats · Post by **dropthebeats** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:43 pm

Attempt your 1RM for the bench and squat. For the two stretching exercises (db pullover and rdl) you should do you 5RM. I got that out of the book, so you should be good to go.

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:26 pm

dropthebeats wrote:Attempt your 1RM for the bench and squat. For the two stretching exercises (db pullover and rdl) you should do you 5RM. I got that out of the book, so you should be good to go.

Excellent thank you!!

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:22 pm

Feast Day 21

Weight 163 (+2)

Since I am at day 21, I am going to taper my calories again. Going to go down to 2700 or so.

Didn't get workout #5 in last night, as my spotter was unavailable. Instead, I just did a shoulder/ arms workout since I was itching to workout. Felt as great as always!

RobRegish · Post by **RobRegish** » Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:47 pm

Great move, great news

dta1984 · Post by **dta1984** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:58 pm

Forgot to post this from the other day.

Feast Workout #5

1RM

BB Bench - 200 x 1 PR
DB Pullovers - 55 x 5

EDT Block #1
Incline DB Press - 50 ea
BB Rows - 115
- total of 6 sets. Reps went (10, 8, 8, 7, 7, 7 ) for DB Press, and (8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 ) for BB Rows for a total of 95 reps. Huge increase!!! (from 71 reps workout 4)

BB Squats - 200 x 1 PR
SLDL - 145 x 5

EDT Block #2
BB Curls - 80
Overhead BB Tricep Extension - 75
- total of 6 sets. Reps went (6,6,6,5,5,7) for Curls and (5,5,5,5,5,7) for OH Press for a total of 67 reps

Wow where to begin. My prior bench max was 195 last winter, and I was using a pre-workout caffeine supp, which I felt gave me a substantial increase in all my lifts at the time. When I stopped using it, my lifts did go down, and never peaked again until now. Not to mention the time off lifting I took to do P90X. Now, just using my ECDY, i was able to succeed that!! Wow. My only problem was the bar was about 1" from my chest during the 1RM, but none the less.....awesome.

For squats, I never focused on heavy squats for some reason before. I think 180 was the most I ever repped on the bar. My 1RM of 200, I felt like could have been maybe 10 lbs more. I had full range of motion and everything.

Even my EDT block #1, my reps increased by 24 total reps between the two exercises.

I think I am on day 25 of feast, and I am going to continue for another 10 days at least. I go on vacation Labor Day weekend, so that may be a good stopping point. We will see how it goes.

My only complaint thus far, is that it took me 25 days to do 5 workouts. Maybe all the rest is what helped me feel so strong. I will focus on just 2 days max rest on the next workouts.

I will have to re-read some of the book to figure what workouts to do next, as it is a little fuzzy.

RobRegish · Post by **RobRegish** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:39 am

FANTASTIC work!

Now tell the world please