Recent Posts by TXAggie2008

Well woke up this morning to do my cardio (not fasted) and I have a few comments to make about the gym.  Maybe it's just my gym, or maybe it's an epidemic.

First I use a different gym to do my cardio because the machines are nicer and they have plasmas to watch. My lifting gym is much more 'dungeon' and seemingly geared more towards bodybuilders and hardcore.  This gym I do my cardio at is soccer mom/fitness/club gold's.  The cool thing about it is the cardio is elevated a story above the weight room so while i'm walkin on the treadmill I can view what is going on down in the entire weight room without anyon even knowing I am watching them.

The first thing I noticed were the trainers.  I know some of them and a few know their stuff, but it really seems like a revolving door with the trainers...in one day and out the next.  This one lady, obviously overweight, (and I applaud her for joining a gym in an effort to lose weight) hired a trainer she figures is gonna help her get in shape. However as I watched them train he was showing her wrong form on exercises, and then would actually talk/laugh with her DURING her sets.  I could not imagine talking...let alone joking...in the middle of my sets of anything.  She was not using very intense weight, but still don't you think you should be focused.  This lady is spending her hard earned money on a gym and trainer in order to get in shape, but is she really getting anything out of it?  Funny thing happened as I was leaving.  She pulled out in front of me and we were exiting the parking lot at the same time and right before the exit she turns into Sonic to get a post workout meal....I seriously laughed to myself in my car.  Whatever little calories she just burned at being consumed back immedietly and more so.

Well I guess that's my semi-rant for the day...I just hate to see people waste their time and money and get frustrated when they don't have any results.

I'll be back later for shoulders and calfs.

I really love hammerstrenght machines.  Especially the chest and back ones.  I feel like they can give you a great workout when your not using free weights.

Did my high intensity cardio today.  I'm starting out slow so I dont kill myself.

I have a park next to myself with huge hills so I went to the steepest one and did sprints up it.  I jogged for 5 minutes and stretched to warm up.  Then I started at the bottom and sprinted until I couldn't and then finished the rest by walking...walked back down while catching my breath for about 3 or 4 minutes...i'm really outta shape here...I know this isn't techincally HITT, but sprinting up that hill killed me, even though I only did it three times.  Also it was weird my legs started to get pumped at the end. haha.

Today is one of my carb up days to 300 woohooo.  Did back tonight

DB Rows

I did about 5 working sets making my way up to 130's for 6...nothing crazy still protecting my back

Lat pull downs

4 sets with a drop here...focused mainly on squeezing and feeling the back and getting a good stretch at the top.

Superset: Machine lowerback rows w/ Machine pull overs

4 sets here again with the squeezing

standing barbell curls

only did 2 sets to failure with the 45lb bar but got a great pump outta it.

Food is on track today and felt good in the gym. weighed at 224.8 this morning and am 15 1/2 weeks out from the Shredder. will get pics asap

Tonight did Chest and a little triceps.  Of course the gym was packed being the begining of January but I still got most of the machines I wanted.

Incline Hammer Strength

2 warm ups

4 working sets, 1 drop with the heaviest set being 360 (4 plates on each side) for 6 and dropped down to 180 for 12

Decline Smith Press

4 working sets focused more on feeling the squeeze of pecs more than anything

Incline DB Flys

4 sets of 12-15 with again squeezing the crap outta the chest at the top.  Only went up to about 50's here for last set.

Cable Cross Overs (altho I dont actually cross over)

This exercise alwasy gives me a great final pump with 3 sets and a quick drop on the 3rd.

Tricep Pushdowns

I only did one set here but it was a triple drop...90-70-50 with reps being 15-12-10 after a 20 rep warmup with 80

Felt good today.  Was happy with the heavy first set and the great pump I had as well.

Well even though I've been a sometime poster on these boards it hasn't been until recently that I hired Dr. Joe for my next show.  I wanted to wait till I finished school before I did another one and now that I am done I have decided on the same show (different organization) that I did for my first competition.

 It will be NPC Texas Shredder in Austin on April 25th ( I think there is something else going on that date too), promoted by Dave Goodin.  I've had the chance to talk with him and some other judges after my first two shows and they said I needed to come in harder or more grainer as one judge put it.  I think with Dr. Joe I'm on the right schedule.  He's been super super helpful and supportive to answer all my questions that I have sometimes on a daily basis.  I began my 'official' contest diet on January 1st but I cleaned up my act about a month before with some cheating going on through the Holidays.

I figured why not ressurect this thread as now I am an official part of Team K and share my progress and get any valuable insight anyone may want to share.  My lower back still suffers occasionally so I'm nervous about deads and squats (even tho I did some squats last night), but I dont think that will hinder me too much.

Anyways, today woke up did my 30 minute of cardio and had the day off from work so just been eating and relaxin some.  Going back tonite to do back and biceps. Macros are on for the day and when all is said and done I will be at around 255p/205c/40f.  

Just for comparison here are shots from my first two shows about a year apart, and then this year hopefully much better.

haha my name is Dave.  That is a fitting description of Rob Zombie..at least everything before his last album which i thought sucked royally.  I absolutly hate when bands have a great thing going and then change their sound completely because they want to 'grow' and end up sounding like utter crap.  Case in point: Linkin Park, Rob Zombie, Powerman 5000 *altho their latest single sounds more like the good stuff they got popular with, the list could go on. 

My favorite part on This is Absolution is when they slow it down and he sings and each time there is a more prominent screaming behind the singing.  Also, on that song 'When darkness falls'...awesome vocals during the singing.

 Eye of the storm rock too!

 BTW here is my bodyspace for more info if you are interested and up to date pics: 

I'm looking at doing some NPC natural shows in 2009.  Most notebly the NPC Shredder in Austin put on by Dave Goodin, The Texas State Natural Championships, and the Lackland Classic in San Antonio.  These are Team Universe qualifiers.

 I'm just wondering if anyone here has any experience in the NPC natural shows.  How much do they differ from actual natural organizations shows compared to NPC non tested shows.  Are they as rigorous in the drug screening, do they look more for ripped competitors or mass?  Just trying to get a little information on how these go in terms of the natural orgs.

I don't know if I would consider Zombie death metal.  He's definetly heavy metal, but isn't death metal usually alot alot ALOT of screaming with double bass kick drums and all out thrashing? (not my fav).  Zombie is hard, but he has a distinct sound that isn't a whole lot of crazy screaming...some but not the entire way through.  Look up the band "As I Lay Dying" - songs: Through Struggle, 94 hours, and Forever.  That's what I would consider death metal.

 Side note I just installed 4 speakers, iPod deck, 2 amps, and a 10" sub in my car...and hooolllyyy crap...this music sounds absolutly amazing on it...ESPECIALLY Killswitch Engage...their song 'This is Absolution''s intro is ridiculous...I have to readjust my rearview mirror constantly from the abuse it takes.

here is a video I took at hte Rockstar Mayhem Festival of Indestructible.  The song they wrote for the troops.

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if that doen'st work here is the link: 

Haha Sean I will have to almost agree with you.  The live show they put on is sooo sick.  Theory of a Deadman was really great last night.  The crowd was lame, but the band kicked ass.  Here is my List of bands seen

• Weird Al
• Snoop Dogg
• Linkin Park
• Korn
• Theory of a Deadman (2x)
• Breaking Benjamin (3x)
• Disturbed (2x) - best band ever live and studio
• Trapt
• Blindside
• Shinedown
• Powerman 5000
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Slipknot - one of the best live shows ever
• DragonForce