Yup, im back....again

Been a funny few months.. in summary

Split up with Wife
Started seeing new lady
Broke finger
Damaged RC
Tendonitis Flared up badly
Hardly trained
Drank a lot of Stella
Ate a lot of pub food
Dropped 10kg in bodyweight
Dropped a jeans size

Things are now as close to normal as theyve been for a while, im over the injuries so time to get back on it, so without further ado..

Back/Biceps

Deadlift - 70kg x5, 110kg x5, 150kg x5, 190kg x3, 230kg x2, 250kg x1, 260kg x1, 270kg xF.
Bent Over Row - 70kg x10, 90kg x10, 110kg x8. 130kg x5, 150kg x3
Dumbell Rows - 50kg ea x10, x8, x6, x4
Dumbell Shrugs - 50kg ea x10, x10 x10
High Pulls - 70kg 5x5
Lat Pulldowns - 70kg x10, 90kg x10, 100kg x8, 110kg x6
Zottman curls - 12kg ea x 10, x8, x6
Close grip preacher curls - 20kg x10, x8, x6
Hammer curls - 16kg x10, x8, x6
Machine crunches - 60kg x20, x15, x12

Notes : Seems ive not lost a lot from my deadlift at least, i guess at 110kg thats actually a PB as my actual PB is 275kg @ 122kg. Good to be back and feel the blood pumping again.

Mark - Was just going to send you a PM this morning and you post this!

Really good to see you back mate.

Mad Rows and Deadlifts!

Hope all the rest is normalising as can be

Yeah, good to see you back fella and hope things are sorting themselves out for you.

Not lost too much stregnth!

You missed out playing on guitar hero!

Welcome back mate!

Marks1972 wrote:Yup, im back....again

Been a funny few months.. in summary

Split up with Wife
Started seeing new lady
Broke finger
Damaged RC
Tendonitis Flared up badly
Hardly trained
Drank a lot of Stella
Ate a lot of pub food
Dropped 10kg in bodyweight
Dropped a jeans size

Things are now as close to normal as theyve been for a while, im over the injuries so time to get back on it, so without further ado..

Back/Biceps

Deadlift - 70kg x5, 110kg x5, 150kg x5, 190kg x3, 230kg x2, 250kg x1, 260kg x1, 270kg xF.
Bent Over Row - 70kg x10, 90kg x10, 110kg x8. 130kg x5, 150kg x3
Dumbell Rows - 50kg ea x10, x8, x6, x4
Dumbell Shrugs - 50kg ea x10, x10 x10
High Pulls - 70kg 5x5
Lat Pulldowns - 70kg x10, 90kg x10, 100kg x8, 110kg x6
Zottman curls - 12kg ea x 10, x8, x6
Close grip preacher curls - 20kg x10, x8, x6
Hammer curls - 16kg x10, x8, x6
Machine crunches - 60kg x20, x15, x12

Notes : Seems ive not lost a lot from my deadlift at least, i guess at 110kg thats actually a PB as my actual PB is 275kg @ 122kg. Good to be back and feel the blood pumping again.

Nice to have you back Marks

Nice to see my favourite journal whore back in t'game.

Glad things are looking up for you now! What you weighing and kudos on the 10g BW drop!

Welcome back to the game. Sounds like you've had a lot on your plate!

Also good to see you're still a beast... I have a lot of work to do!

It takes a real man to dine on Stella and pub grub and actually lose 10kg.

I think in general my calorie intake was way down, i went from eating 5-6 good meals a day to 3 sometimes only 2 crap ones, kept up some supplemention in the way of daily adam multivit, zma as it helps me sleep and ginseng as it gives me a general feeling of wellbeing and was expecting the weight loss to be pretty much muscle, but looks like ive kept my strength, cant argue with my waiste size being down and even having the shadows of visible abs so who knows

Good to have you back Marks. Sorry to hear about your troubles mate, hope things settle down for you.

I doubt the break will have done you much harm, & dropping the weight has to be a good thing - I'm sure you can get the strength back & stay lighter.

Welcome back big fella

Sorry to hear about your split mark. Must be a difficult time.

Glad to see your still a filthy journal whore. This must be about number 9

Cheers all,

In all honesty things are pretty stable now.

Its been 3 months since we split and were both seeing new people so were moving on.

Bit late on this update as ive been away this weekend, lounging around in the parks of Ely in cambridgeshire drinking overpriced Hoegarden with new lady

Friday 28th May
Chest/Triceps/Shoulders

Incline DB press - 30kg ea x20, 36kg x12, 40kg x8, 44kg x 5
HS Decline Press - 80kg x12, 120kg x10, 160kg x6, 80kg x10
DB Flys - 20kg x10 x10 x10 x10
JM Press - 60kg x10, x10, x10
DB Extensions - 18kg ea x 12, x12, x12
Seated DB Side raises - 12kg ea x10, x10, x10
HS Shoulder press - 80kg x12, x10, x8
Bench Dips - BW x10, BW+20kg x10, BW +40kg x8

Notes : Tidy little session, nothing too heavy, protecting my shoulder and elbow a little, no major difficutlies.

thats good to know, Kids all ok?

Not got any mate And bloody glad of it at the moment, we dont own the house, no major assests to argue over really (she cant drive, so the cars a given) and no kids.. so its probably as straight forward as these things can be.

Marks1972 wrote:Not got any mate And bloody glad of it at the moment, we dont own the house, no major assests to argue over really (she cant drive, so the cars a given) and no kids.. so its probably as straight forward as these things can be.

[i thought you did] well thats a heck of alot better then as you say - the worse is when kids are involved Id suspect.

So I take it you are in the process of moving out etc?

Be a while before we can afford to seperate properly, ie live in different places, things are ok for now tho, im away at Michelle's a fair bit, shes at her boyfriends for a most weekends, both at work during the week rarely see each other due to work n stuff, im at the gym, she goes to her sisters a lot.

Kinda why we split up tbh, its fairly easy now as we were living seperate lives anyway

Marks1972 wrote:Be a while before we can afford to seperate properly, ie live in different places, things are ok for now tho, im away at Michelle's a fair bit, shes at her boyfriends for a most weekends, both at work during the week rarely see each other due to work n stuff, im at the gym, she goes to her sisters a lot.

Kinda why we split up tbh, its fairly easy now as we were living seperate lives anyway

That must help alot then. Sounds like you feel it was the best decision overall which must be a good feeling although some pain at first.

yeah definately the right thing for both of us long term. For one, she wanted kids and i didnt, so shes free to crack and squeeze out a few puppies before she hits 40

So bird wise, have you traded up?!

hehe i cant answer that without feeling like a total c**t











....but yes

Bloody hell. Just shows that you didn't need all that extra weight, you're still a beast.