General Overview

When it comes to paying my dues in the weight room, I love and hate each and every workout, each set, each grind. That’s how it’s supposed to be. You torment yourself until you want to puke your guts out. The frenzy you inflict on your body after a mind numbing effort puts you in a state of nausea and you feel like blacking out. And yet at the same time, you know you can’t look at yourself in the mirror if you didn’t do it, if you didn’t face the weights. Personally, it haunts me…

It’s not really a good thing to have a favorite workout, but face the fact, you do have one. Don’t fucking lie to me because we all have our favorites. You may hit the weights everyday all gung-ho and hyped up but there will always be one day where you wake up and say to yourself “Fuck yes it’s [insert body part here] day!” For me, it’s chest. Tell us what is yours and why.

Trainwreck and I combine our chest training with biceps. Why? For these few reasons:

1. Time. We have careers. By doing 2 body parts a day, we can have more days to do other shit.
2. The push and pull concept. Chest = push, Biceps = pull. Combining the two targets a more extensive workout very efficiently.

One thing to note here is: We complete each set with the last rep being the hardest and pyramiding upwards in weight as we progress to the next set. If you’re not doing this, then you’re just going for a ride. Seriously, I see retards and pretty boys in fitness centers lifting like as if they’re going for a walk in the park. If you’re not feeling the pain, the burn, the agony, it’s not working. Should you be one of these people, stop now and go look at boy-band websites. Your presence here and in the weight room all over the world disgusts me.

So we’re on break this week after about 3 months of lifting. Yes, you need to take a break periodically, either a planned one or when your body tells you to. Not listening to your body is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. You will either make no progress or even worse, injure yourself. There are times when you’ll have to pack your ego and pride into a bag and shelve it for a while to recover or rest.

When we start again this Saturday, we plan to take our lifts to a whole different level. Yup, you heard me right. Even when you’ve reached a plateau, a pit stop, a break point, there is always a way to go beyond the ordinary. Use your breaks to ponder on improvement, don’t fucking waste the time mucking around like a pansy. The work never stops, remember that. In our case, we’ve now found a gym, a hardcore no-frills one, and got ourselves a new supplement, the Animal Pak. So in terms of supplement, we now have:

1. Universal Animal Pak – Consuming one pack immediately after last meal prior to workout on workout day and one pack immediately after breakfast the next day.
2. Universal Shock Therapy – Consuming one serving 30 minutes prior to workout.
3. UN Ultra Whey Pro / ON Whey Gold Standard – Consuming one serving during and/or after workout and another serving the next day (between meals or before sleep).

As for our routine, I’ll cross the bridge when we get to it. Stay tuned…

-Zeus