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in america, menthol =

yes, i know where it comes from and what it means. 

in colloquial american english, "menthol" refers almost exclusively to cigarettes. you would never say there was menthol in chocolates, you'd just say they were mint-chocolates or had mint in them or mint flavoring. the only other case where you might say menthol is in reference to a pharmaceutical product like mouthwash or topical analgesic.

harrumph.

I didn't know if "mint" was the right term. I remember playing Civ 5 that "mint" was a building of some sort, extracting gold.

1 August 2014

Bodyweight@session : forgot to check
Soreness : chest, lats, lower back, hamstrings, all 3/5
Injuries/aches : none

Home workout:

DB ARNOLD PRESS:
4x12@10kg each hand 

DB SHOULDER FLY:
4x12@10kg each hand ( +1 set )

BICEP CONCENTRATION CURL:
4x15 each hand @10kg ( +1 set )

HAMMER CURL:
3x15@10kg each hand ( +3 reps each hand per set )

SKULL CRUSHERS:
4x15@20kg ( +1 set )

SLOW TEMPO DB SHRUG:
4x20@10kg each hand ( +1 set )

^Fasted drinking is looking for big trouble, lol.

2 August 2010

Bodyweight@session : ~84.5kg
Soreness : very sore lats, little sore lower back
Injuries/aches : none

HIGH BAR FULL SQUAT:
10@70kg
10@75kg
10@80kg
10@85kg
-Tonnage  ( 3100kg / 6834lbs )

CHINUPS:
10@BW
9@BW+5kg
8@BW+10kg
6@BW+15kg
-Weak, back was still too sore/tired from doing deadlifts and rows ~36hrs ago.

DIPS:
11@BW
10@BW+5kg , ties [BW+5] reps 
8@BW+10kg , [BW+10] reps  ( previous was 5 )
8@BW+15kg , [BW+15] reps  ( previous was 4 )
-Awesome!

HORIZONTAL LEG PRESS CALVES 'RAISES':
10@495lbs
10@495lbs
10@495lbs
10@495lbs

That was the last gym session of the season! Gotta finish strong!!! 

Big summary coming up soon...

Damn... keep going, it looks good so far.

Reverse Hypertrophy (or should I say, Hipotrophy) ™

@raptor: thanks, yup, it's interesting, lets see what happens next.

@entropy: so this is what we will do? i will post in your journal that you are overestimating your bf and you will post in mine that i underestimate mine? Makes sense though, i bet the truth is in the middle.
Now seriously, i have this ( along with a few others ) visual bf guide downloaded and inspected. My body is weird, all the fat seems concentrated on lower abdominal area. It probably is not visceral, because i have done all those tests ( waist/hip ratio, standing vs lying waist ) and they indicate i don't have excess visceral fat. It is just how i am built. My waist is 3-4cm smaller at the shortest circumference, which is 3'' above navel. What i report is the largest circumference, which occurs just around navel. My muscle 'toning' currently is pretty much like the 15% pic, maybe better, but from navel and below it is like the 20%, maybe worse. Not bloated like the 25%, just 'love handles'.  From what i read ( not sure if myth or not ) , the older you get, the more you tend to concentrate fat in belly. And i am old. Being a social ( or a bit more than that ) drinker for 20+ years doesn't help either, lol. So maybe it is not that accurate to judge my whole body bf from that area. I doubt i am 17,5 or above as you say, but then again i could be, who knows. I don't care that much about the number per se, but more to continue improving: see the BI and online calculated bf readings and mirror test go down as i lose weight so i know i am on the right track.

My scale says that at 5'10" and 180lbs I'm at 24% BF.....


Its wrong obviously but the point is you can't judge body fat by this method or that and expect it to be accurate. Like my scale; if I diet down to 175 but don't lift, the scale says im at a lower BF%, but am I really? Did I lose only fat? Only muscle? A combination? This is why i say most methods are unrealistic ESPECIALLY visually IMO because everyone carries their weight differently. I think some call it aesthitics.