How's your dating life going, raynor

not bad thanks for asking lol.

Not as much time for the ladies as I'd like...but I get by lol

Stories please!

lol I think this is the wrong place for that sort of thing buddy - sorry to disappoint

would you think it'd be stupid to get most of your protein from shakes? read that this guy has like 5-6 shakes a day and hes 5'6 200 lbs so it works for him lol. unless hes trolling. what do you think about it? i'd probably trust you over him :S

its just protein shakes are cheaper, and quicker to have. i take too long to eat and hate eating. i'd much rather shakes than meat! but i'll still eat some eggs/chicken/mince every so often. ofc i'd be eating carbs and shit with the shakes.

This post was edited by ILoveMetal on Jul 27 2011 05:05am

What do you recommend as a warm up b4 a 1rm attempt?

Do you have a % scheme? (Pretty ironic using a 1rm % scheme while trying to find ur 1rm :P)

I was thinking like

Y= WEIGHT

Yx10reps light set
Yx5reps medium weight
YX1reps (Probly where u wld do a noraml 3rep weight with)
Yx1reps (again with normal 3rep weight

then try maxing out....?

You can definitely get your protein from nothing but shakes - however your body will lack the COMPLETE amino profile from a wide selection of sources. To combat that, you should get a protein blend such as Optimum Nutrition Pro Complex - which has a huge blend of proteins which in turn give you a much more complete amino profile. Many vegetarian bodybuilders see great success with that routine - however your digestive system eventually will "repent" if you follow what I'm saying. It's okay to do time-to-time, but for a permanent diet change I would not advise it.

Hey buddy...

well the best way to do this that I've found over the years is the following:

Go a long warmup set (15-20 reps) with deep stretching and slow controlled motions to get the body ready for the lift.

Take 2-3 minutes after that "warmup" set to get mentally psyched up. Loud music...psychological torment...caffeine...whatever you need do it.

To calculate where you need to start from, take approximately 60% more weight than you can do for 12 reps. Example, if you can bench press 225 for 12 reps, you would be able to do 315 for rep. Use your phone calculator if the braincells are overstimulated with thoughts of destroying the universe.

Prepare for the actual lift....get into position, make sure you have your spotter(s), and clear your mind of all thought right before the lift. Give it everything you have. If you complete the rep easily enough that a second can be achieved, you need to attempt it again in 5-6 minutes of rest - but this time with another 5-10% more weight depending on how you feel.

If you fail, figure out how badly you failed...did you have a miss at the very top of the rep right before lockout? If so, it's safe to say your max is literally only 2.5-5 lbs lower than what you were doing. If you failed on the way down with the rep, you probably need to lose about 20-25% weight.


Hope that helps!

ECA stacks, your opinion?

Hey Raynor,

I was wondering if you were familiar with the beep test (or 20M shuttle run test) is good to do for my cardio every day.
It is a short workout but I love it. I am currently cutting but I would be doing this for speed/endurance and increasing my V02 max (of which this test is designed to estimate)

I have it measured outside in my backyard so I do it outdoors which is also nice.

Thanks.