Besides me: A vegan bodybuilders blog

[xveganjoshx]

Legs saturday

Warmup on bike 5 mins

Stretching warmup

Good Mornings
3 sets to warm up lower back/hams

Squats
135x12
190x10
205x8
225x8

Leg Press (went for depth more than usual)
540x10
630x10
720x6
630x10

Leg Curls
3 sets

The gym closed early, for the semester, so no legs until I get back home, which should be this weekend anyway.

[xveganjoshx]

P.S. When I get home for break I'm gonna hang out with Zack and he's gonna take some long overdue progress pics of me mostly naked. I'm excited. Sexually.

[pamela]

P.S. When I get home for break I'm gonna hang out with Zack and he's gonna take some long overdue progress pics of me mostly naked. I'm excited. Sexually.

So are the rest of us.

[Zack]

I THINK IM GONNA GET TO SEE XVEGANJOSHX IM SOOOO EXCITED OMG.

[DV]

So, the two of you are meeting up where? Did the rest of us know about this?

[Zack]

His parents live like an hour and a half away from me...

[DV]

He's a tease. He said he would be in Portland this month and never showed. Not that we had any specific plans. Take lots of pictures.......

[Zack]

I'm sure he'll be there eventually.

Him and his free flights.

[xveganjoshx]

LOL at me being a tease. I'm not a tease. I always perform....

Here are my plans for winter break:
Dec 19- Dec 21 Tucson AZ
Dec 21-Dec 27 Atlanta GA
Dec 28- Jan 2 NYC
Jan 2- Jan 4- Atlanta GA
Sometime between the 4th and the 15th- Portland, OR
January 15- Tucson AZ

Portland is not yet set. It depends who's gonna be in town, and more importantly, who can put me up for a couple of days. During that time period, if I'm not in Portland, I'd just stay in atl for a couple more days, though I will certainly make it out to PDX for at LEAST a long weekend. It all depends on who can put me up. I do dishes, pay for my food there, and sleep naked, so those are pretty good reasons to put me up.

[Zack]

I do dishes, pay for my food there, and sleep naked, so those are pretty good reasons to put me up.

haha

[xveganjoshx]

I trained Back yesterday:

Pullups
3 sets of 10

Pulldowns, elbows out, using the hands as hooks, focusing on lats
130x10
130x10
130x10

Seated Cable Row
2 sets with 1/2 stack

DB Row
100x10
100x10
100x10

BB Row
100 lbs 2 sets high reps but I hate the way these feel so I didn't do them with more weight

Deadlift
100x12
150x8
160x8
160x8

DB shrug
60's x10
60's x10
60's x10

BB shrug
155x10
155x10
155x10

Not bad, sub 90 min workout, felt good, looked pumped, drank alot of water. Went home, took 60 g protein, then fantasized about zack.

[robert]

How were the squats today?

Did shawty get low, low, low, low, low?

I look forward to training with you in a little over a week dude!

[xveganjoshx]

I was super pumped up today. A bunch of new pb's. COOL!

Bike warmup, good mornings, stretching

Squats to Parallel
135x12
195x10
215x8
230x8 PB

Deep Hack Squats
150x10
200x8
240x10
330x6 PB

Leg Press
450 (+ sled) x12 easy
630 (+sled) x 12 easy
810 (+sled) x6 PB
810 (+sled) x6 PB

Lying Leg curls
80x9
80x10
80x8

Leg extensions
80x10
110x 8
110x8

Seated Leg curl
90x8
90x8
90x8

Done in about 90 minutes. Could have been quicker but was BSing around and stuff.

I drew upon several people for inspiration during these sets. Troy is one of them. I thought of how he commented that legs are pretty mental, you gotta believe you can do it. That gave me motivation. I thought of zack and some others on the forum. I also thought of Ronnie Coleman, someone I draw upon alot. I was sayin "Time to go to war baby, time to go to war" before the 850 or so pounds leg press. I was so stoked to be able to do hacks too. I freakin love those. My gym doesn't have one, so whenever I have an opportunity to play with one I use it and go pretty damn deep. Legs are fun.

Gotta get those wheels bigga, they ain't big enough yet

[Zack]

810 solid ass pounds!

[kurtjs]

810 solid ass pounds!

DAMN!! Is that 9 wheels on each side? That's some heavy weight. Becareful Josh, you're going to have to buy some new pants soon for those tree trunks.