haha, yea i'm looking forward to it.

and it's not peter pan-ish to get pissed when you fail to best an exercise, that's determination, motivation, and expectations. it's not like i'm running around the gym crying becuase of it.

oh, i actually havent seen that

GREAT WORKOUT TODAY!!! Tore the hell out of the gym today. Which is surprising considering I got 4 hours of sleep last night and was napping an hour before my workout. I dont know, I just knew after my disappointing showing with front squats on monday I had to beat the crap out of my quads. Threw another 50 lbs on my 6-10 rep set and got 8 solid reps with 730. The widowmaker was unreal though. Stepped up 20 lbs. to 520 and hit all 20 reps. I've never hurt that bad before, it was great and I almost cried when i stood up after resting my legs up on the plates, i fell over trying to take a step. one of the fitness center attendants asked if i was alright, but I didnt hear him and my buddy said i was ok. I dont think i could stand for 2-3 minutes, it was great.

biceps were also great, stepped up to 90 lbs. on my bb curl for 20 RP reps and got a great squeeze at the top with good negatives. In the zone today I guess. Either way, it was the leg workout of dreams.

OH! AND I weighed in this morning at 173.2 lbs!!! That's up over 2 pounds since the last time I checked a week ago! Just for fun, I weighed myself postworkout like I used to do and was 178, +2 pounds from my highest weight ever, so record weight baby! Yea! Shirts are starting to get tighter across the chest and in the armpits, a very good sign!

Well, I'm officially taking my first cruise on DC. As such, I think it's time for some measurements, which I was a little apprehensive about to say the least.

Calves: 15" +0
Forearm: 12" +.5
Thighs: 22.5" +1
Biceps: 15" +.5
Neck: 15.25" +.25
Waist: 31.5" +1.5
Chest: 39" relaxed +1
Lats: 43.5" spread +3!
Shoulders: 45" relaxed +?

Needless to say, I'm excited to see that lat measurement move up! My morning weight is now 173.4 lbs too. Picture updates will come as soon as I get some batteries...

You alive? Or, did you retire from bodybuilding already?

Lol, i'm alive. But with this cruise going on there really isn't anything to update in the ol' journal i still am not in the least bit hungry and it's really starting to hurt my eating habits as I can't eat as much as I want and I certainly am never motivated to eat period.

Once you start hitting the gym again, your hunger should improve some. If all else fails get some black hole.

seriously considering it, especially since i've got about a day of melting point left and I'm gonna try out all those free supps from the ONBF. This is definately impairing my progress as i've already lost a pound or two.

Back to blasting! Feels good to push myself again after that cruise. Weights are not down surprisingly, I'm using whatever weight I hit before my cruise and either matching or besting it in reps. So i'm very pleased with that. Hopefully this will get some new growth going. thanks for caring rich

Youve made some pretty damn good gains Bryan. Keep up the hard work!

Wow, I haven't been on in quite some time but you have made some amazing progress Bryan. If you hit your 200 lbs goal you will be carrying some serious muscle and Im sure continue to do well in competition. Congrats, and good luck in the future.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate that.

Well friday I had a pretty great leg day. Said fuck it to the smith squats and went back to squatting in the power rack. At the time, I didn't feel like I'd pushed myself to the limit, but i've been absolutely destroyed in the legs all weekend, which is something that hasn't happened in a long time. Felt GREAT! Not to mention that despite having not gone balls-to-walls in 5 training sessions, all my weights were up to par and actually my free squats felt like I could have bested my previous weights, but I had to guess at the weight since I've not free squated since starting DC.

Also, I think i'm gonna ditch the DC calf training of doing 15 second stretch-holds between rep cause I really dont feel like it's getting the job done. What I DO feel is getting the job done is higher total rep rest-pause sets (ie. triceps and back) so I'm going to switch over to 20-30 rep rest-pause sets for calves and see how the next blast session goes.

Appetite is still piss poor. This is starting to concern me. This could be a really good test for Black Hole, someone who's appetite is suffering rather than people who were already eating like a hoss. Gonna have to order soon anyway. That's all the update.

yea the calf workout for DC doesnt work for me either

well i took about 12 pics tonight and they all are just coming out shitty. Apparently whenever i use the self timer on my camera everything in the picture is in focus except me. So i had to up the brightness/contrast/sharpen the photos a bit, these were the best I could salvage (I hate that my quads look better now than they did at the show
)

visibly wider back? (yeah i know these are the same comments as in my MP review, but i figure that will get lost quick)

Sad to say, I had to place my first order elsewhere today. I just couldn't pass up a chance to save $14 on a 3 item order.

But it's official, I will now be putting my faith in Black Hole to save me from my appetite-less mire. C'mon black hole! I've come to the conclusion that the reason for my suffering appetite is probably a weight limit. I guess my body just hits this weight of 173 and is like "ok, this is enough, now stop it."

Your legs do look fuller and more separated. Keep hitting that legs and back hard and you will be a force!