Hey Jay, contest prep in Afghanistan, huh! Wow, impressive. Thanks for serving!

My offseason has gone well so far, but I need to make a few more improvements before beginning my prep in June so I can whoop some butt in NYC!

Train hard for your NPC show. I've done some state and regional NPC shows and placed, but there is only so far I can go with the NPC. The Team U isn't really that natural. Good luck to you!

Whats the name of it? I am always down for a great burrito. Especially at a place I have never eaten before. I go to cbus every now and then.

North Star. The bomb! Lots of organic food and fresh veggies. The burrito had brown rice in it, homemade honey bbq sauce, spinach and peppers.

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LEG DAY:

I pulled out all the stops today. James and Greg looked at me in fear before we started as I said we were doing all sets to failure including some walking lunges.

Squats 315 x 12, 325 x 8 x 7
A2G Hack Squat Drop Set 270/180/90 - No idea how many just pumped them out
Walking DB Lunges 50 for 2 sets across our gym down & back
SLDL 275 x 16, 285 x 11
Seated Leg Curl Drop Set 95 x 13, 45 x lots of painful reps

Greg nearly refused to do the second set of lunges and James kept saying he had to puke. Both survived. Sue smashed her legs with us, but did tons of different stuff. She is looking all ripped up!!!

What a great day!!!

Got a few pix. Camera ran out of batteries.

Greg doing his hacks nice and low:



Sue leg pressing while James squats:



James and me hitting the hacks:

Yup, she better be as she has to kick some butt at the NPC Natural Ohio next weekend! She was definitely looking flat cuz of carb-depleting since her cheats on Saturday and Sunday after the show.

She should do REALLY well next weekend.

Hardcore...most definitely! Now Chris, is there really any other way?

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Make up day for rear delts, traps and calves. Why not throw in some bis too since mine suck and it has been 4 days since I last hit them. No more holding back. All working sets balls to the wall beyond failure!!!

Barbell Curls 100 x 11, 105 x 8, 75 x 12ish
Across Chest Hammers 35 x 8, 30 x 8 - very little rest between sets
Incline DB Curls 32.5 x 11 x 9
^----> immediately followed by Alt. DB Curls with 20's squeezing as hard as humanly possible
Standing DB Shrugs 120 x 15, 125 x 12 x 10
Bent-Over Laterals 35 x 11 x 10, drop to 25 x 10ish
Shoeless Standing Calves 140 x 13, 150 x 11 x 10
Donkey Calf Drop Set 270/180/90 = mega calf pain

James is on sabbatical till next Thursday as he is due for a break and next weekend begins his contest prep. Greg was working. So, it was just me and my new training parter....Mr. iPod. He kicks ass!!! My workout was trancelike. For those who dig rock music, here is the start to my hardcore SFW playlist. Tool was nowhere to be found on iMusic and there was no new Slipknot, WTF!!!

Adema Giving In
Alice in Chains Would
Alice in Chains Man in the Box
Atreyu Becoming the Bull
Audioslave Cochise
Avenged Sevenfold Almost Easy
Buckcherry Crazy Bitch
Chevelle Vitamin R
Chevelle Send the Pain Below
Deftones Hole in the Earth
Disturbed Down with the Sickness
Disturbed Stricken
Drowning Pool Tear Away
Evanescence Bring Me to Life
Flyleaf I'm So Sick
Flyleaf All Around Me
Foo Fighters All My Life
Godsmack Awake
Godsmack Keep Away
Incubus Circles
Incubus A Certain Shade of Green
Killswitch Engage My Curse
Korn Coming Undone
Korn Thoughtless
Limp Bizkit Counterfeit
Linkin Park Don't Stay
Linkin Park Lying From You
Marilyn Manson Beautiful People
Metallica One
Metallica Enter Sandman
Mudvayne World So Cold
Mushroomhead Sun Doesn't Rise
NIN Closer
NIN Burn
Pantera 5 Minutes Alone
Perfect Circle Judith
Powerman 5000 Free
Puddle of Mudd Psycho
Rage Bombtrack
Rage Killing in the Name
Red Hot Chili Peppers Warped
Saliva Your Disease
Seether Gasoline
Sevendust Denial
Shinedown Heroes
Soundgarden Outshined
STP Sex Type Thing
3 Days Grace Never Too Late
3 Days Grace I Hate Everything About You
Velvet Revolver Slither
White Zombie Electrichead Pt. 2
10 Years Wasteland

ohhhhh RICH! not when it comes to youuuu MMMMMMMMMMM

Stop now goodskie. You're making me blush.

Gotta give 120%.

Yeah during posing class today, she was looking AWESOME! I am very psyched for next weekend. Hard to believe she was at an offseason high and dropped 19 lbs precontest.

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Today, was an off day. Walking hurts, stairs are brutal. My calves are in a world of hurt and my traps are killing too. Soreness is spread all around nicely.

Grabbed some drinks out last night for the first time in a while. James had his last hurrah as he begins his prep next weekend for the INBF Hercules pro qualifier in June.

I am looking forward with training with Mike Davies on Monday and Tuesday. I respect his work and no-nonsense approach. Additional feedback from knowledgeable resources is always needed.

When you have the energy, I'd love to hear about em. I just did pullovers for the first time this past week too. Liked em, but it wasn't 100% comfortable, shoulder-wise.