The Mature thread

[Donny]

I wouldn't eat it for all the tea in china.  I don't eat any red meats and things like that make me feel sick in my stomach just thinking about it. 

i like meat but i think i could do without it. my father was a Butcher and as a kid i went Saturday mornings with him and helped clean up. I could not slaughter animals and from what my father told me in the old days it was brutal. maybe this is why i like animals today.

[booty]

i like meat but i think i could do without it. my father was a Butcher and as a kid i went Saturday mornings with him and helped clean up. I could not slaughter animals and from what my father told me in the old days it was brutal. maybe this is why i like animals today.

I have always thought to myself that I would never have a relationship with a butcher.  I just find it cruel and barbaric to slaughter animals and the smell of the blood on a persons hands would turn me off.  It turns me off even thinking about it. 
My father used to hunt deer when I was little and I think this is what turned me off eating red meat.  I would see him bring home the dead deer and just all the cleaning up of the dead animal etc..blood.  I went pure vegetarian when I was a child, even refused to eat chicken.  The only thing I would eat was fish/oysters/scallops etc.  I started eating chicken when I was older but to be honest I could give it up no worries. 

[Donny]

still love haggis...just got to catch one...

[Primemuscle]

If I had to kill what I ate, I would starve. I lived on a farm when I was a kid. My cousin butchered a young steer. I ate the meat, but I hadn't watch him butcher it. When I was older, my parents had a small "gentlemen's farm" where they raised two pigs among other animals. The neighbors complained about the pigs because they were loud and, well, because they were pigs. Anyway, they had them butchered. I actually help the fellow butchering them. What I remember most was that they "jumped" out of the wheelbarrow after they'd be shot and were supposedly dead. They were dead, it was just their muscles twitching. I don't remember eating the meat. I probably blocked it out. I eat meat today. I just don't think about where it came from.

[njflex]

chest workout
fdb press 60x12,75x10,80x10,85x7
smith inc x3
inc flye 45,50,55 12/10/8
dips x2 15 reps per set
flat smith x3 finish 8/8/15 pump set

tris
pushdowns x3 stack machine 130x15,140x12,150 x9
seat tri dip x3
lying tri extension 30lb dbells x3 12 reps
cable kick back x2

abs

[Donny]

so today i will train shoulders....

Abs double crunches and flutter kicks( leg raises with an alternative motion)

TRISET:
standing barbell press 4x10
side laterals 4x10
bent over laterals 4x10
I will finish off with alternate Dumbbell press as i feel i can hold my arms further back and hit my delts more centrally.. safer than behind the neck press.3x10
I will go to the local school tonight and do some sprints.

[booty]

What's a double crunch Donny?  Maybe we call it something different here.

[Donny]

doing a reverse crunch(rolling the knees to the rib cage) and a crunch(rolling the rib cage to the pelvis)

[hrspwr1]

caught some kind of cough/cold, been feeling down the last few days. forcing myself to go to the gym after work tomorrow, got to do something, tired of feeling like dogcrap.

[Donny]

caught some kind of cough/cold, been feeling down the last few days. forcing myself to go to the gym after work tomorrow, got to do something, tired of feeling like dogcrap.

take a lighter workout.. donīt be tough on yourself. better still mellow out at home,eat well and come back refreshed.

[njflex]

back tonite'
chins x3 12/12/12
tbar row machine x3 2.5 plates 12,3plates x10,4 plates x6
wide bar low rows x3
hammer reverse pulldowns x3 2 plates per side x10,2 plates and ten x2 8-10 reps
single arm cable row did them like pulling lawn mower chord old style mower lol x3

weighted hypers x3 12 rep sets

bi's
cable curls with small straight bar x4 15/12/10/10
bi cep db curl 35,40,45 10/10/8
seated concentration curls dbell elbow on inside leg 30,35,40 ,,10/10/8 with cheat,,,

abs

[Donny]

back tonite'
chins x3 12/12/12
tbar row machine x3 2.5 plates 12,3plates x10,4 plates x6
wide bar low rows x3
hammer reverse pulldowns x3 2 plates per side x10,2 plates and ten x2 8-10 reps
single arm cable row did them like pulling lawn mower chord old style mower lol x3

weighted hypers x3 12 rep sets

bi's
cable curls with small straight bar x4 15/12/10/10
bi cep db curl 35,40,45 10/10/8
seated concentration curls dbell elbow on inside leg 30,35,40 ,,10/10/8 with cheat,,,

abs

no training for me today...hypers i have not done in a long time. do you find them better for your back?(i think you said one time that you had an injury)

[booty]

caught some kind of cough/cold, been feeling down the last few days. forcing myself to go to the gym after work tomorrow, got to do something, tired of feeling like dogcrap.

There's that flu going around.  I hope you feel better soon, so maybe take a couple of days to rest up.

[Donny]

There's that flu going around.  I hope you feel better soon, so maybe take a couple of days to rest up.

there was a bad flu here too...lucky i never caught it.

[booty]

there was a bad flu here too...lucky i never caught it.

It's predicted to hit Australia. 

[Donny]

It's predicted to hit Australia. 

hope you donīt get it Karen because of your nose...

[booty]

hope you donīt get it Karen because of your nose...

Well I think I already got it last time it was here because I hardly ever get sick and I remember getting this flu that I couldn't shake.  And I had a lot of mucus in my nose and it was going down the back of my throat and I lost my voice completely for two weeks.  Anyway after being sick for a month and having no voice for two weeks i went to the doctor and he said lets get you sorted.  And I went on course after course of antibiotic and that was for sinus infections which I just couldn't get rid of.  So I believe that it was that flu which got me into the situation with the nose/sinus blockage.  Because I have always had this nose and never had any issue with sinus etc until I got that flu.  I would already have immunity to it since I got it last time and I clean my nose out daily with the air flow bottle so I would never get a build up ever again.  I am not worried Donny.

[Donny]

so time to have fun itīs Arm Day.
Jumping rope as always to warm up and i will do Abs:

Bend to opposite foot Dbsī2x20( warms my lower back up for sit ups)
lying leg pull-ins (knee ins ) 3x30+
Incline bench sit ups 3x20+  I will SUPERSET them both after the knee ins my Abs really work harder on the Incline bench sit ups and i use a small motion just going back far enough to keep tension on the Abs.
Note: i almost never use weight on Abs.

SUPERSETS:
Barbell close grip bench press 2x6-8  with
Barbell curls   2x6-8

seated Db curls 2x6-8   with
incline french press(ez bar) 2x8-10

Barbell concentration curls 2x10-12 (not an ex for heavy weight)
lying 4x4x4 DB curls 2x12 (also an ex where i have to concentrate and correct form is important)

forearms:
preacher reverse curls ez bar 2x15 SUPERSET
barbell wrist curls forearms on knees  2x15 ( OPENING THE FINGERS )
 I will finish off with pinch grips with a smooth plate.

[Donny]

This is knee ins then sit ups on my smaller bench...

[njflex]

cool donny,,,,

delts
shoulder db press
side laterals
rear delt lying on slight incline face down on bench
cable upright row i used handles instead of bar
cable side lateral no handle just cable hook attached came from across body and elbow up angled down on top of movement hits side delt different a tad lol,,,,
total 15 sets

traps smith shrug front and rear 3 front 2 rear..reps and squeeze 12 reps each set

calves standing calf raise

donny favorite forearms took advice from the wrist curl thread the rope curl did overhand grip then lower then flipped to underhand grip
great pump on inner forearms sick vascularity.then i did cable behind back lower to fingertips then flex at top wrist curls

[Donny]

I will over the weekend make a rope device... I keep saying it. i dropped the volume because i am now training 5 days a week and really going for Quality reps and feeling it. on the 4x4x4 curls..i was nearly screaming.. i really did the reps conttrolled.

[booty]

Good workouts guys.  I will train tomorrow and get mine up. 

[njflex]

I will over the weekend make a rope device... I keep saying it. i dropped the volume because i am now training 5 days a week and really going for Quality reps and feeling it. on the 4x4x4 curls..i was nearly screaming.. i really did the reps conttrolled.

ITS AWESOME PUMP ,,,I LOVE THE OLD SCHOOL PICS WITH 25 LB PLATE ,,,10 AND A 5 I'M HURTING,,,

[Donny]

ITS AWESOME PUMP ,,,I LOVE THE OLD SCHOOL PICS WITH 25 LB PLATE ,,,10 AND A 5 I'M HURTING,,,

yes...you know i find the cable side lateral you do very intresting.. yes i can picture that...

[njflex]

yes...you know i find the cable side lateral you do very intresting.. yes i can picture that...

CAN BE DONE WITH DUMBELL TO HOLD IT TO SIDE OR PELVIC AREA INSTEAD HAVING DUMBELL GO UP KNUCKLES UP ITS DUMBELL TOP FINISHES FACING UP KNUCKLE FACES FOWARD.