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^yup, you have to respect stimulants. Start at half doses, if you handle it, go up to a full dose. If you take a full dose straight up with no experience with it and force some crazy PRs, you're going to be messed up for a while. Lifters experience that post-meets when they are physically and mentally destroyed after the gruelling 1RMs. My experience with stimulants is that a few weeks into a diet you can take some and go to have a nap. But yeah initially you get pretty jacked, like with any new stimulant, its stimulant effect is strongest initially and subsides with use. But the fat loss effects of EC continue to improve over time. The appetite control it provides can also dissipate but you can bring it back by adding L-tyrosine. You're lucky in the states that you can buy pharmaceutical grade bronkaid though. It's all illegal here. Nanny state reprezent.

WEIGHT: 190 (174.2)
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: really good

- warm up

- depth jump @22" x 4,4

- squat 325 x 1,1,1,1,1; 225 x 12

- superset x 2
-- dip x 10
-- pull up x 5+5; 3+1+(2)

- cable ab pull down 140 x 10,10

- SVJ x 5

- SL SVJ x 5,5/leg
getting better at these.

- pogo x 10,10

legs dead by the end. not sure how i felt so good, i was out at a super fun party really late last night and did not get enough sleep.

feel, which is not ideal, i know. also today was the first time i've done them with the vest on. felt pretty good, fwiw.

my family's older dog, izzie, died this morning after getting progressively sicker and weaker over the last few weeks. she'd had tumor for a while and was mostly blind and deaf but up until a couple of weeks ago she was still spry, running to greet the door and wagging her butt as hard as she could to say hello. but then she pretty much stopped eating and that was that. my parents took her to the animal hospital this morning to have her put down peacefully.

she was 17.

rest in peace, izzie.

really sorry to hear LBSS :/

RIP

That sucks man, our lab passed away this summer at age 15. I use the gym as a retreat, music up and refuse to think anything negative.

Sorry LBSS. 17 years is a long time, so I'm glad you got to love that dog for a while.

i think this is the second time recently i've bagged a workout because of feeling dead. gonna give myself a pass today because of izzie but that's not a good habit.

also, added 3 more lbs to the weight vest last night, which i think is all it can take. not sure where the other 2 lbs are supposed to go, there are no more slots.

Eh, it's a terrible habit to bag a workout cause of feeling dead but nothing wrong with bagging a workout cause of sadness...  Sorry for you loss...   Positively happy to see you PR!  You are getting close - some small tweaks and you will be there.   A few tips...  What kind of shoes do you wear?  For your jumping style I think this is important.   Also, fine to occasionally take off the vest but IMO the best thing I did vested was the type of training I think I am "good" at...  Vested basketball and I always knew I was wearing it...  However, vested football and I forgot I had it on...  I really was able to adjust to move dynamically at a higher weight from doing football drills with it on, maybe for you vested ultimate or something else you feel really comfortable with? 

Here is a video of vested football... I'm slower... But I feel like I look like a big-torsoed fat guy playing football rather than a athlete slowed down with a vest. 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yI3QIzzWiU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yI3QIzzWiU</a>

- hip thrust 275 x 12,12
uncomfortable in the groinal region.

Most gyms have squat pads (those things people use to squat that adding padding on the back/neck).  While useless and dangerous for actual squats if you put in on the bar during hip thrusts it makes it 100x more comfortable.   In fact if you gym doesn't have a squat pad I highly recommend you invest in a high quality thick foam squat pad.  Makes glute thrusts more comfortable and is an absolute gamechanger for rear-leg elevated split squats.  Instead of propping your the laces of your shoes on a bench to elevate the rear leg you can set a bar low in a squat rack with the pad over it and place your rear leg on that.  Allowing your rear foot to rotate on the bar shifts the lift to your front leg and gives you range on motion from all the way down (knee almost touching floor) to close to hip hyperextension (additionally you can usually set squat racks for the optimal height for you rather than be forced to use a single height bench...