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Hello I am magnakaser and this was my old log. But forget about that dumb nonsense. I only managed to increase my deadlift max by 75 pounds in 3 months and my bench by NOTHING. I failed that toxx and got banned, but kept on' liftin. Just this week I finally had REAL bench gains and completed my old bench toxx so I decided it was time. I discovered the power of EATING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT BECAUSE I AM A TINY MAN and NOT LIFTING LIKE A CRAZY PERSON 7 DAYS A WEEK it seems to be working out alright. For reference, this was me a long time ago when I was a tibetan buddhist monk:  I weighed just abou 50kg at that time. SUCH A FATTIE. I started lifting just about a year ago because grad school was hard and I needed an escape. This made me angry 129% of the time, but I often wore pink shirts and flexed in mirrors:  Probably about 65kg and from April or May... who knows, really! Then in June I moved back to the place that will most definitely be where I will grow old (but not that old) and die, The Glorious and Harmonious People's Republic of China (Inc. Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong and that place that Nepal thinks is Nepal but they are wrong). I found a gym, and it was a terrible gym, and I wasn't eating enough, and I was doing work like 29 hours a day. I'm pretty happy I managed to not have lose what meager gains I'd made this summer!  This is from July! Still 65ish kg probably! Anyway, my schedule is a lot more open now, I'm in a new city (STILL  ) and I have a great gym and cook all the time now, so I finally started to get some GAINS.  From a couple weeks ago and a couple days ago, respectively. In this log I will cook, and eat, and cook, and eat... then cook, then eat some more... then cook... then I might even lift a heavy thing or four! I started doing Alfalfa 4 a bit over a month ago and saw the quickest gains I've seen in a while, so I'm gonna stay with it for a bit. STATS: (All measures imperial unless otherwise noted) Height: .008459 furlongs Weight: 68-70kg Bench: 155 Squat: 225 Deadlift: 145kg (1RM), 275 (for reps) Curl: A Chinese girl at a club one night x 4 OHP: My coworkers fat baby x4 No idea what my 1RM on Bench and squat are at the moment! Goals: Get fat and eat food and lift some heavy things. Hopefully I'll be lifting some heavier things by the end of this log!  According to my calculations, I have a 655lb total with the BIG THREE. I'm going to aim to make it a solid 750lb by May 1st. I started to freak out about not meeting this or that lift amount in my old log, which lead to me ignoring squats for a bit... but never again...During that time I also hope to gain weight and get generally more swole, but everyone who has a specific weight-numbers toxx here seems to go insane at some point due to whatever macros are (  to me) so I'm just gonna weigh myself for MYSELF and share it with you guys, but it is a meaningless number. oh god oh god if I dont break 71kg one week soon....Anyway this log will have lots of pics of me and the food I eat and complaining about the air quality in China and more pics of stray cats I see around town. If you hate carbs or spicy food you will also hate this log! Magna Kaser fucked around with this message at Nov 21, 2012 around 16:19 |
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This is going to be a good thread. Welcome back, mang. 
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 09:14 |
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Hey let's start this RIGHT NOW! Oh also here is a fitocracy link so you can follow me and prop me (I will not follow or prop you):Fitocracy Today was shoulder and triceps day! Weight: 70kg Attitude: Well-rested Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press: - 20 lb x 5 reps - 25 lb x 5 reps - 30 lb x 5 reps - 35 lb x 5 reps - 40 lb x 5 reps - 45 lb x 4 reps - 40 lb x 5 reps Seated Barbell Military Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 85 lb x 7 reps - 85 lb x 5 reps - 85 lb x 5 reps Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 105 lb x 7 reps - 105 lb x 6 reps - 105 lb x 6 reps Reverse Triceps Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - gym was completely empty today, no one could help me unrack more weight :* Lying Barbell Triceps Extension ("Skullcrusher"): - 40 lb x 5 reps - 55 lb x 10 reps - 60 lb x 10 reps Dumbbell Side Lateral Raise: - 15 lb x 8 reps - 12 lb x 10 reps - 12 lb x 10 reps - 12 lb x 10 reps Triceps Pushdown - V-Bar Attachment: - 40 lb x 10 reps - 60 lb x 10 reps - 70 lb x 10 reps - 70 lb x 10 reps Arnold Dumbbell Press: - 25 lb x 5 reps - 35 lb x 5 reps - 35 lb x 5 reps Standing One-Arm Dumbbell Shoulder Press: - 30 lb x 5 reps - 35 lb x 5 reps - 40 lb x 5 reps Cable Rope Overhead Triceps Extension: - 40 lb x 10 reps - 60 lb x 10 reps - 70 lb x 10 reps - 70 lb x 10 reps Pull-Up: - 4 reps - 3 reps - 2 reps - 6 reps || assisted || 16 lb fito2sa I hate shoulders and triceps day! I wish every day was deadlift day. It is the One True Lift. Breakfast: 3 Jiangrou Baozi, 2 eggs Lunch:  KUNG PAO CHICKEN (Peanuts/Chicken/Spicy stuff/green onions) Califlower/Broccoli Quail eggs (12) Rice I did not finish the rice I am a bad bulker Dinner: Hot pot!!!! Here is a cat I see on my way to school:  I aspire to live in a strawberry some day. Magna Kaser fucked around with this message at Nov 21, 2012 around 09:22 |
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welcome back. i see you put 5kg into your arms 
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 13:46 |
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Arms, food, Asia? Following  I'm curious, are you bigger than most people you see? In terms of height and/or mass. Because that would be weird but maybe kind of cool too.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 15:51 |
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Following for angry mirror shots and continued documentation of strawberry cat.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 15:53 |
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Car Stranger posted:Arms, food, Asia? Following Not in height, I'm a shorty on every continent! Young people in China these days actually got enough food, so I'd say I'm a little below average to average. Most guys from northern China I see are probably about 5'9-5'10 and I see plenty of people closer to 6 feet, while southerners tend to be a little shorter on average. People over about 40 tend to be a good deal shorter since they grew up in relative famine. These two swole as poo poo 50 year old dudes in my gym barely break 5 feet but can do muscle ups in reps of 10 so.... I am a lot more "massive" than most people I see, I guess？ There are a lot of guys at my gym (I go to the fancy people gym where they actually maintain the equipment and keep the place clean) who are super into hypertrophy and are p drat huge, though.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 16:12 |
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Norse Code posted:Following for angry mirror shots and continued documentation of strawberry cat. Seconding this. Possibly thirding it, also. Magna Kaser posted:Young people in China these days actually got enough food, so I'd say I'm a little below average to average. Most guys from northern China I see are probably about 5'9-5'10 and I see plenty of people closer to 6 feet, while southerners tend to be a little shorter on average. Fascinating! My only (extremely tenuous) link to China is that my mom, who was a honcho at the Red Cross, went there to speak at an earthquake preparedness forum in the '80s. With her were another Red Cross employee and a radio news anchor. All three of them were close to 6 feet tall, and red-haired. They got stopped constantly by people wanting to take photos with them because they were so huge and oddly colored. 
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| # ? Nov 21, 2012 17:27 |
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i too aspire to live in a strawberry
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I went to a party yesterday and ate real turkey and pumpkin pie it was amazing. I have been moving so much I have pretty much missed thanksgiving the last 4 years, so this was a nice change of pace. I easily ate one bajillion calories yesterday, so it was a good day. I had a half of a cheesecake, pretty much a whole pumpkin pie, ?????? turkey and ??????????????????????????? mashed potatoes and 2 beans. Let's see how much I weigh today! 70kg! Yay, same as it ever was. Time to eat butter by the stick! Today was back day Barbell Deadlift: - 135 lb x 5 reps - 185 lb x 5 reps - 225 lb x 5 reps - 245 lb x 5 reps - 275 lb x 3 reps - Actually all singles w/ no real rest time except when adding weight, but that looks dumb when I log it that way. Loaded up 300 but grip was dead. Should buy chalk. One-Arm Dumbbell Row: - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - grip was shot and couldnt hold 70  Seated Cable Row: - 70 lb x 7 reps - 70 lb x 6 reps - 70 lb x 7 reps - 70 lb x 6 reps - gym hassome weird row machine I like more than cable rows Lat Pulldown: - 125 lb x 9 reps - 125 lb x 6 reps - 125 lb x 5 reps - pause rest Arch Back Good Morning: - 65 lb x 6 reps - 85 lb x 6 reps - 95 lb x 6 reps - 105 lb x 6 reps - These felt good today. Pull-Up: - 6 reps - 5 reps - 5 reps || assisted || 16 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 16 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 16 lb Ab Crunch Machine: - 137.5 lb x 8 reps - 125 lb x 10 reps - 125 lb x 10 reps - 125 lb x 10 reps Face Pull: - 130 lb x 10 reps - 130 lb x 10 reps - 130 lb x 10 reps fito2sa I like deadlifts. I really, really need to get some chalk though. Next week I'll start deadlifting while standing on a bosu ball like a real pro. Foods: Breakfast: 4 eggs Lunch:  Some spicy chicken and pepper thing, Mapo doufu, rice and 6 shengjian bao. They are basically fried little breads with a bunch of meat inside. They are usually good, but the ones pictured were not good at all. Walk home from gym snack: 3 eggs Dinner: I have some pork so I'll make sweet and sour pork maybe. Or maybe bamboo and pork. It will probably be stir fried and have pork. Cat:  Strawberrycat finds a bunch of boxes.
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Dinner turned out well. Should have made rice though I am really bad at this whole eat a lot thing. About 2lb of pork tenderloin (which I marinated for a few hours in a mixture of dark vinegar, dark soy, potato starch, sesame oil, and tequila), half a head of 莲白 which is some weird cabbage-like vegetable I'd never seen before moving to Sichuan, 2 potatoes that I fried up beforehand, an onion, some green peppers and some mushrooms. Ended up being really loving good, which is why I'm sharing it. This isn't really a Chinse dish but I used a pretty traditional Sichuan cooking style to make it.  Ate it all.
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| # ? Nov 23, 2012 12:28 |
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Barbell Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - 95 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 145 lb x 3 reps - 140 lb x 3 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps Barbell Incline Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 4 reps - 115 lb x 4 reps - last three pause rest Dumbbell Bench Press: - 50 lb x 3 reps - 45 lb x 12 reps - 45 lb x 10 reps - 45 lb x 10 reps Machine Chest Fly (Pec Deck): - 100 lb x 5 reps - 87.5 lb x 10 reps - 87.5 lb x 10 reps - chest press machine Dumbbell Flyes: - 20 lb x 10 reps - 20 lb x 10 reps - 20 lb x 10 reps Bent-Over Rear Delt Raise: - 12 lb x 10 reps - 12 lb x 10 reps - 12 lb x 10 reps Preacher Curl: - 65 lb x 9 reps - 65 lb x 7 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - pause rest Concentration Curls: - 25 lb x 7 reps - 25 lb x 7 reps - 25 lb x 7 reps - 25 lb x 7 reps Reverse Barbell Curl: - 25 lb x 10 reps - 25 lb x 10 reps Pull-Up: - 5 reps - 5 reps - 3 reps - 3 reps - between stuff Weighted Decline Crunch: - 25 lb x 10 reps - 30 lb x 12 reps - 30 lb x 12 reps - 30 lb x 12 reps fito2sa pffft. Today was the polar opposite of last week. Last saturday I went out, drank a ton, woke up early, felt great and had a really good workout with PRs everywhere. Last night I went to bed early, slept a lot, woke up and felt real bad and didn't make it to the gym till like 3:30pm blah. On my way home I bought some purple potatoes cause hey things that shouldn't be purple but are should make me feel better. Cause I'm all bad and lazy today I just made a curry,  But everything got all purple!  Then when I tried to make it green curry it turned into brown poop curry. Still tasted ok though.
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| # ? Nov 25, 2012 12:48 |
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Barbell Squat: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - 95 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 155 lb x 5 reps - 155 lb x 5 reps - 185 lb x 5 reps - 185 lb x 5 reps - bad squats Leg Press: - 300 lb x 10 reps - 350 lb x 10 reps - 405 lb x 9 reps - 405 lb x 8 reps - 405 lb x 7 reps - last three pause rest Seated Leg Curl: - 70 lb x 10 reps - 110 lb x 6 reps - 100 lb x 10 reps - 100 lb x 10 reps Leg Extensions: - 130 lb x 10 reps - 140 lb x 10 reps - 140 lb x 10 reps Romanian Deadlift: - 45 lb x 6 reps - 95 lb x 6 reps - 115 lb x 10 reps - 115 lb x 10 reps - 115 lb x 10 reps Seated Calf Raise: - 210 lb x 12 reps - 210 lb x 12 reps - 210 lb x 12 reps fito2sa Did not sleep well at all last night and felt really bleh and stiff today. Squats were really hard and while I did do a few at 225 I don't think they came anywhere low enough to count. Now time to pass out!
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Today I had doms in my chest and biceps and quads and butt and it was wonderful how doing anything at all was really, really painful. Yay. Walked around for like 10~ miles today cause the AQI was only 110 (UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE INDIVIDUALS), down from 190 (UNHEALTHY), and I wanted to walk instead of subway-ing or bus-ing. This may or may not have anything to do with the fact the last time I was on the subway a dude pooped on it. Oh . Here is a calf. It is mine, I thought it looked weird when I was doing leg press yesterday.  Here is a food, it is also mine. I marinated the chicken in some korean plum wine, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, kiwi, and sesame oil for a while then just did another sichuan stir fry thing with cashews, mushrooms, broccoli and some random leafy thing. It was p good. But then I forgot I was supposed to carb up tonight so I had an emergency snickers and purple potato bun.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2012 16:35 |
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God damnit, this looks amazing and now I'm super hungry even though I just ate
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| # ? Nov 27, 2012 16:37 |
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Yessssss. Following for the food.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2012 16:45 |
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Standing Dumbbell Shoulder Press: - 20 lb x 5 reps - 30 lb x 5 reps - 35 lb x 5 reps - 40 lb x 5 reps - 45 lb x 6 reps - 40 lb x 5 reps Seated Barbell Military Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 85 lb x 7 reps - 85 lb x 4 reps - 85 lb x 3 reps - last three pause rest Reverse Triceps Bench Press: - 45 lb x 10 reps - 45 lb x 10 reps - 65 lb x 10 reps - 95 lb x 8 reps - 95 lb x 8 reps Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 8 reps - 115 lb x 4 reps - 115 lb x 3 reps - last three pause rest Lying Barbell Triceps Extension ("Skullcrusher"): - 45 lb x 10 reps - 55 lb x 10 reps - 55 lb x 10 reps - 55 lb x 10 reps Side Lateral Raise: - 12 lb x 12 reps - 12 lb x 12 reps - 12 lb x 12 reps Cable Rope Overhead Triceps Extension: - 60 lb x 10 reps - 80 lb x 10 reps - 90 lb x 10 reps - 90 lb x 10 reps Triceps Pushdown - V-Bar Attachment: - 70 lb x 10 reps - 100 lb x 10 reps - 90 lb x 10 reps - 90 lb x 10 reps - 90 lb x 8 reps Seated Bent-Over 2-Arm Dumbbell Triceps Extension: - 30 lb x 10 reps - 30 lb x 10 reps - 30 lb x 7 reps - i dunno what it was, some triceps machine I did as a finisher, using this as a placeholder fito2sa I can't move my arms! Yak jerky was on sale today.  Yay. I love yak jerky.
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Today was one of those days where a workout goes really, really well. Barbell Deadlift: - 135 lb x 1 reps - 135 lb x 1 reps - 135 lb x 1 reps - 135 lb x 1 reps - 135 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 245 lb x 1 reps - 245 lb x 1 reps - 245 lb x 1 reps - 245 lb x 1 reps - 245 lb x 1 reps - 275 lb x 1 reps - 275 lb x 1 reps - 275 lb x 1 reps - 285 lb x 1 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - All singles cause hex plates, but no real rest between sets. Last set was not singles cause I was all high on deadlifts and wanted to keep deadlifting. My shins do not thank me for this. One-Arm Dumbbell Row: - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 8 reps Lat Pulldown: - 135 lb x 8 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 4 reps - pause rest Face Pull: - 130 lb x 10 reps - 130 lb x 10 reps Arch Back Good Morning: - 45 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 95 lb x 8 reps - 115 lb x 8 reps - 115 lb x 8 reps Pull-Up: - 6 reps - 3 reps - 5 reps || assisted || 16 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 22 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 22 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 26 lb - First set was the first thing I did in the gym, others were after everything else. Weighted Decline Sit-Up: - 10 reps - 10 reps - 35 lb x 12 reps - 35 lb x 12 reps - 35 lb x 12 reps fito2sa When I got that 285 up the staff girl who swipes people's cards (There's a seldom used back entrance to my malltop gym in the back by the weight area) clapped excitedly. It was pretty weird. Today's workout was very, very fast. I didn't time it, but I got to school about 45 minutes earlier than I'd expected so the whole thing was 40 minutes or less and I was nice and ready to pass out on that decline bench. I may or may not have spaced out in the shower for a long, long time. I should note, since I neglected to in the OP, I switched from sumo to conventional for deadlift a few weeks ago and have been slowly working my way back up. This is a pr for conventional stance, and 10lb onto my total lifts! Foods: Breakfast: 2 Jiangrou baozi, 3 eggs Lunch: 1 Double Bacon Burger, 1 Double Cheeseburger Snack: Cashews and quail eggs Dinner: Pork+Bamboo stir fry and some Kungpao Chicken Snack 2: More cashews Today I woke up and could not see out my window. I live on the 17th floor, and this was not a Good Thing. AQI was well above 200 (VERY UNHEALTHY) for most of today, so that was fun. Someone asked for some pics of China somewhere so who am I to deny you.   Yeah, walk over those loving wires. Probably safe. Probably.  I can't wait for China to be done. Also that is not fog, that is pure, unadulterated pollution  Taking a few days off from lifting as I am going on a trip to some small village. I'll hopefully upload some less-gross pictures for you all to see what the parts of China no one lives in look like. It tends to be nicer Magna Kaser fucked around with this message at Nov 29, 2012 around 12:36 |
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My roommate just saw me and said, "Wow, you look thinner!" I am the worst bulker!!!
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| # ? Nov 29, 2012 13:23 |
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Eat way more cashews, and those adorable quail eggs. JEsus christ, that's NOT FOG?!
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| # ? Nov 29, 2012 16:41 |
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When I first came to America, I was amazed to see an actually blue sky like kids are taught it is. Before that I had only seen the sky in shades of white or grey or maybe a pale attempt at blue at best. What I am saying is gently caress China air.
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Nendil posted:When I first came to America, I was amazed to see an actually blue sky like kids are taught it is. Before that I had only seen the sky in shades of white or grey or maybe a pale attempt at blue at best. What I am saying is gently caress China air. That's true, but some places are nice.  View from my old apartment. I miss that place... the buildings only stop 'cause the ocean starts.   Sunnycat. Today I ate everything including a gigantic yak leg which I completely spaced out on and ate in it's entirety before thinking of taking a picture, OOPS! Went several hours out of the city where I saw where the 2008 earthquake happened. Walked around a lot  Not smog this time, just a rainy and foggy day. Air quality out there was actually pretty excellent.  School that was hit by the quake.   Supports to hold the school up in it's hosed up state. It's a very weird, but kind of interesting memorial. A bunch of students and teachers died here back when it happened, and this memorial actually has a giant terraced wall with ivy covering it about 20ft high on all sides so that the residents who don't want to see it don't have to, I guess. What is also weird is all the tourists taking smiley pictures with peace signs all over the place next to it. They did the same thing next to the mass grave exhibit at the Nanjing memorial too. Seems really, really wrong to me, though.   More misty mountains. I really like the geography of Sichuan. Very green, very high altitude, lots of mountains and rivers and valleys and even a few glaciers. Also there are supposedly like 10 pandas out in those mountains somewhere... maybe... If I'm here and have time later I'd love to go hiking through it for a while. I went on a horse trek with nomads a few years ago, that was cool, but since we had giant yak herds we stuck to more grasslands and less crazy mountains.  Bonus chinapic. Keeping warm on a cold and rainy day. Magna Kaser fucked around with this message at Nov 30, 2012 around 17:40 |
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So much yak ITT. Love it. Want very much to eat yak jerky. Also, thanks for fascinating pics.
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| # ? Nov 30, 2012 17:40 |
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These pics are so gorgeous! It looks like such a pretty area. I definitely want a pic of a yak leg next time. ALSO:  Sunnycat, good cat.
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| # ? Nov 30, 2012 17:43 |
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Barbell Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 95 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 145 lb x 4 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps Barbell Incline Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 7 reps - 115 lb x 4 reps - 115 lb x 2 reps - pause rest Dumbbell Bench Press: - 30 lb x 5 reps - 45 lb x 10 reps - 45 lb x 10 reps - 45 lb x 11 reps Dumbbell Flyes: - 20 lb x 10 reps - 15 lb x 10 reps Machine Chest Fly (Pec Deck): - 75 lb x 10 reps - 75 lb x 10 reps - chest press Preacher Curl: - 25 lb x 10 reps - 75 lb x 8 reps - 75 lb x 5 reps - 75 lb x 3 reps - pause rest Concentration Curls: - 30 lb x 5 reps - 25 lb x 7 reps - 25 lb x 7 reps - 25 lb x 7 reps Reverse Barbell Curl: - 30 lb x 10 reps - 30 lb x 10 reps - 30 lb x 10 reps fito2sa Also did some ab circuit thing but had no idea how to log it. Welp, learning that apparently taking two days off from lifting, eating a ton and sleeping a lot does not help my bench gains. Need to go back to the drunken sleeplessness of 2 weeks ago... 145x4 ain't bad though. Weighed in at 68kg today  My roommate said I looked thinner yesterday too so I ate a million Birthday Cake flavored Oreos last night. It did not work I guess. (BUT THEY ARE DELICIOUS)My roommate joined my gym, which is nice. Now I have a dedicated spotter.  They opened a McDonalds on the 2nd floor of the building my gym is in. This might be good for bulking? That Thai place is awesome but is way to pricey, I wish I could eat there more. Now a real problem might be this:  Oh no, the machine is sick! The note says that Smith Machine is resting today and will hopefully be better soon. Also that working out harder will make it harder to get sick! This is a problem because my gym only has one bench and one smith machine. I go in the midmorning or early afternoon or on weekends when it is a ghost town, so I usually have no issue getting the bench. This is especially easy since everyone uses the smith machine to do everything, so the incline bench, bench and squat rack are more often than not free.... with it broken this might change... Hopefully that Kool-Aid man gets better! Todays foods: Eggs: 12 Chicken: Many Peanuts: Manyx3 Rice: A lot Tomatoes: A few Fried Rapeseed: Uhhhhh.... Baozi: Not enough Hot peppers: the most bonus： http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A765O7Or_Nw workout music Magna Kaser fucked around with this message at Dec 2, 2012 around 11:47 |
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So I got to procrastinating and was browsing a bunch of other logs and saw that people who are eating like 5 calories a day probably ate more than me because I always forget to eat, so... Emergency late night bulk. One thing I like about China is that it's so drat convenient and everything is 24 hours....
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| # ? Dec 2, 2012 16:53 |
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Barbell Squat: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 95 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 155 lb x 5 reps - 165 lb x 5 reps - 195 lb x 5 reps - 225 lb x 5 reps - 195 lb x 5 reps - 185 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 225 was uglyyyyyy Front Barbell Squat: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - 95 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps Leg Press: - 300 lb x 10 reps - 345 lb x 15 reps - 345 lb x 8 reps - 345 lb x 5 reps - last three pause rest Seated Leg Curl: - 90 lb x 12 reps - 95 lb x 12 reps - 95 lb x 12 reps Leg Extensions: - 140 lb x 12 reps - 140 lb x 12 reps - 140 lb x 12 reps Romanian Deadlift: - 45 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 95 lb x 6 reps - 115 lb x 6 reps - 135 lb x 6 reps - 135 lb x 6 reps Seated Calf Raise: - 200 lb x 12 reps - 200 lb x 12 reps fito2sa Leg day. Today's Air Quality Index was  359, Extremely Hazardous. Wooooo!!!225 was really, really ugly and hard. I had a friend watching, though, and he claimed I got down low enough on every rep, at least. I woke up this morning to a text that my 8:30am class was cancelled so I just rolled over and slept till about 11. Brunch was 5 rice balls, 4 eggs and 2 baozi. PWO was discounted for quick sale sushi (I will soon die), 2 bananas and some cashews. Walking up the stairs after taking the subway was the harder than any of those lifts, though.
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| # ? Dec 3, 2012 08:31 |
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Do you have any butchers near you? You should be able to buy 两斤排骨 for under 30 kuai or so. Just 炒排骨，加上：番茄，大蒜，香菜，酱油。 Stir-fry it all together and you have a delicious storable meal for a few days.
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| # ? Dec 3, 2012 13:54 |
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Curved posted:Do you have any butchers near you? You should be able to buy 两斤排骨 for under 30 kuai or so. Just 炒排骨，加上：番茄，大蒜，香菜，酱油。 Stir-fry it all together and you have a delicious storable meal for a few days. I actually don't like 排骨, I'm super white and don't like a zillion little things with bones. I can do big ribs, but those are big ￥￥￥￥￥!!!! My roommate always looks at me weird when I buy a whole chicken or rabbit and spend about 15 minutes cleaning them and getting rid of most bones. She just gets her giant murderman cleaver out and chops the gently caress out of them, bones'n'all! This is a big reason why I seldom eat out, outside of baozi and a few quick PWO things. That and the excess 花椒 (I love the 麻辣味道 but really hate the whole numbing thing, and any dish here when you eat out will have a literal 斤 of it in every spoonful) now that I'm in Sichuan make eating way too hazardous! Do you know what the blue stuff is on the outside of a lot of the pork cuts? I assume its some thing leftover to mark the animal since it's on the skin, but it always turns me away from buying it for some reason even though it's probably nothing. Thankfully 鸡胸 is really cheap here and is my staple, costs about 12-15￥/斤 compared to like 30+ for thigh or legs. Bizzarro-butcher land! I really should start making things more en masse, though. Given my current bulking plan I'm eating pretty much the whole wok of food when I cook it, where before I'd space it out to like three meals usually... Usually it's 2-3 chicken breasts, a whole head of 莲白, a ton of 香菇, some 青椒 and 莴笋 with a bunch of 大蒜， 干辣椒 and 花椒 for taste. I should use more 番茄, though. 番茄炒蛋 is my go-to late-night snack. I stay away from 香菜 since I'm one of those people who can't stand it's soapy disgusting taste.
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| # ? Dec 3, 2012 14:57 |
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Goddamn this is a cool log and it makes me miss living in China's capital city, Taipei. 
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| # ? Dec 3, 2012 16:07 |
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SHOULDER TRICEPS DAY Standing Dumbbell Shoulder Press: - 25 lb x 5 reps - 30 lb x 5 reps - 35 lb x 5 reps - 40 lb x 5 reps - 45 lb x 7 reps - 45 lb x 5 reps Seated Barbell Military Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 90 lb x 7 reps - 90 lb x 4 reps - 90 lb x 2 reps - pause rest Close-Grip Barbell Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 9 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 3 reps - pause rest Reverse Triceps Bench Press: - 45 lb x 7 reps - 65 lb x 8 reps Lying Barbell Triceps Extension ("Skullcrusher"): - 60 lb x 10 reps - 60 lb x 10 reps - 60 lb x 11 reps Dumbbell Side Lateral Raise: - 15 lb x 10 reps - 12 lb x 12 reps - 12 lb x 12 reps Triceps Pushdown - V-Bar Attachment: - 90 lb x 12 reps - 90 lb x 12 reps - 90 lb x 12 reps Cable Rope Overhead Triceps Extension: - 60 lb x 10 reps - 70 lb x 10 reps - 80 lb x 10 reps - 80 lb x 10 reps fito2sa Also did an abs thing yesterday while not doing work like I should have been. I have a big problem getting heavier dumbbells over my shoulders. I generally clean them up and that works alright but for some reason with 50 I got issues. I'm super bad at getting them above my shoulders while seated. Any tips for this? I feel like I could regularly crank out 50lbx5 sets if I could clean them better. Anyway, today was fun day in the life of a grad student because I got a positive and encouraging email from my adviser. If you are a grad student you know how rare these are. If you are not, know that the relationship between a grad student and their adviser or PI is akin to that of an abused dog and their malicious master. The dog only wants to please their master, and does various things (Many of which involve making GBS threads or peeing places) in attempts to make their master love them and give them praise. The master, however, does not like the dog making GBS threads everywhere and calls the dog stupid, bad, dumb and other generally nasty things in hopes the dog will learn from its mistakes and do better in the future. Well, I finally did better. Go me. This caused me to go into a glee-from-praise induced fugue and write all morning. I missed breakfast and nearly missed lunch and the gym! I was halfway to the gym when I realized I hadn't eaten in about 16 hours so I got a treasure trove of Chinese 7-11 goodies:  Two Baozi (One pork and cabbage, one BBQ pork), 4 eggs (Two pictured, I gobbled two down almost immediately) and 4 fantuan or rice balls. They're filled with various meats. I think I had one curry chicken, one pork and one Then I worked out and got an e-mail about setting up an interview for a paid internship I applied for a while ago. Everything's coming up Also ate 5 McDoubles after my workout Magna Kaser fucked around with this message at Dec 5, 2012 around 12:23 |
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For the shoulder db presses, you could try getting them up with leg drive while standing, and then sit down very carefully. Also I wish chicken were that cheap around here, but out in the 农村 the butchers really only have pork. Chicken is either available live and whole or irreverently hacked into bits.
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| # ? Dec 5, 2012 11:44 |
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Deadlift day. Barbell Deadlift: - 135 lb x 5 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 185 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 225 lb x 1 reps - 255 lb x 1 reps - 255 lb x 1 reps - 255 lb x 1 reps - 275 lb x 1 reps - 275 lb x 1 reps - 275 lb x 1 reps Rack Deadlift: - 135 lb x 5 reps - 155 lb x 5 reps - 185 lb x 5 reps - 225 lb x 5 reps - 275 lb x 5 reps Arch Back Good Morning: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - 95 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps Lat Pulldown: - 130 lb x 10 reps - 130 lb x 5 reps - 130 lb x 3 reps - pause rest Seated Cable Row: - 80 lb x 8 reps - 80 lb x 4 reps - 80 lb x 3 reps - pause rest One-Arm Dumbbell Row: - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 65 lb x 6 reps - 50 lb x 10 reps Pull-Up: - 6 reps - 4 reps - 2 reps - 5 reps || assisted || 22 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 28 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 28 lb - 5 reps || assisted || 28 lb - First set was after deadlifts but before any other stuff. Others were altogether after rows/lat pulldowns/etc Face Pull: - 140 lb x 11 reps - 140 lb x 11 reps - 140 lb x 11 reps Body Weight Glute Hamstring Raise: - 15 reps - 15 reps - 15 reps fito2sa Also did an ab circuit which kills me embarrassingly quickly. So I've been told rack deadlifts are dumb and I shouldn't do them. Probably won't, really. I've never really liked them. My problem on higher weights seems to be locking out. My last rep at 275 today was a bit slow, but I got there. I don't seem to have any problem getting off the ground. I'll take vids next week to make sure my form isn't terrible. I do feel like I could have done more weight, though... but I guess I was SUPER DUPER LOUD doing deadlifts today and got told to quiet down. Kind of killed the momentum I had and made me super self conscious. Oh well.  Whoops I hosed up resizing that, oh well! Ate that pwo. It was pretty OK. Here are cats that lived in the dorm I lived in for about a week before I decided I didn't hate myself quite THAT much, 
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| # ? Dec 7, 2012 09:08 |
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i will accept these cats but i miss strawberry cat
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| # ? Dec 7, 2012 09:17 |
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Bench day beautiful day! I hate this weather about as much as I hate bench press. Barbell Bench Press: - 45 lb x 5 reps - 65 lb x 5 reps - 95 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 135 lb x 5 reps - 145 lb x 4 reps - 140 lb x 3 reps Barbell Incline Bench Press: - 95 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 8 reps - 115 lb x 5 reps - 115 lb x 4 reps - pause rest Dumbbell Bench Press: - 25 lb x 8 reps - 35 lb x 8 reps - 45 lb x 12 reps - 45 lb x 12 reps Dumbbell Flyes: - 20 lb x 12 reps - 20 lb x 12 reps - 20 lb x 12 reps Chin-Up: - 4 reps - 4 reps - 3 reps - wow i am really bad at these Flexed-Arm Hang: - 25 sec - 19 sec - 15 sec - chin up mode, done before curlin' reps Preacher Curl: - 75 lb x 4 reps - 55 lb x 13 reps - 55 lb x 9 reps - 55 lb x 7 reps - last three were pause rest with way too little weight Concentration Curls: - 25 lb x 6 reps - 25 lb x 6 reps - 25 lb x 6 reps fito2sa I hate bench press! Failed 150 and 155. Whoops! At least Huang Fei Hong Spicy Sichuan Peanuts are always there for me.   Eatin so many peanuts.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2012 08:46 |
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Magna Kaser posted:At least Huang Fei Hong Spicy Sichuan Peanuts are always there for me. God drat it I loving love these!
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| # ? Dec 9, 2012 08:49 |
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Secret Asian Man posted:God drat it I loving love these! Probably China's greatest contribution to mankind.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2012 09:00 |
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Haven't had a good dump in a while and I forgot to eat again so I had some late night dumps. Good dumps.
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| # ? Dec 9, 2012 15:53 |
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That view is so pretty! I wish I could eat spicy food (to us Minnesotans or just me, black pepper is spicy!), those peanuts look really good.
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| # ? May 21, 2013 23:47 |
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I would like to dump with you 
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