SoMdHunter

Tonight was my chest and tri’s night. I had a pretty good nights sleep although food today was down just a bit more than I like for it to be on a lifting day. I was still anxious to get to the gym though. Work kept me exceptionally busy, but I managed to grab some serious protein (tuna and cottage cheese) just before getting to the gym. This may have hindered the stack from taking immediate effect. Even though strength was excellent, it took a bit longer than normal for the supplements to kick in.

Anyway, here is what I did tonight.

Incline DB Press 15x50 as warmups 10x60/ 10x65/ 8x70 (easy-heavy effort)
The 70lbs ties a personal best for me on the inclines.

Incline DB Flys 10x40/ 10x45/ 10x50 (moderate-heavy effort)

Flatbench DB Press 10x75/ 10x80/ 8x85 (moderate-muscle failure)
This represents a 1 rep increase at 85lbs, which is a personal best for me. I also had some intense pumps going to my pecs!

Dips 3 sets at BW x 15 reps per set
Supersetted with
Tricep Cable Pushdowns 12x150/ 12x150/ 12x155 (easy-moderate)

Rope Pulldowns 12x90/ 12x100/ 12x110 (moderate-heavy)
This wasn’t a personal best, but my triceps was extremely pumped! Combined with the pumps I had to my pecs, I felt huge in the gym. What a great feeling!

Hammer Strength Iso Wide Chest Machine 10x135/ 7x145/ 5x160 (moderate-muscle failure)
The 160lbs represents a personal best for me tonight! For those that aren’t familiar with this machine, the 160lbs is for each arm, meaning total weight being lifted is 320lbs.

Chest Press Machine 10x200/ 10x230/ 6x260 (moderate-muscle failure)
The 260lbs ties a personal best for me on this routine.

Closegrip Chest Press 10x160/ 10x180/ 6x200 (heavy-muscle failure)

Tonight I was feeling incredibly strong and had outstanding endurance. This was a 10 all the way for me! I had excellent endurance and lifted some heavy weight. I know there are others out there that warm up with what I think is heavy, but like I said at the beginning of this log, I don’t have an ego to feed. A lot of people can lift heavier, but I can match them for intensity and effort. And in my book, that is what counts.

Tomorrow will be leg and abs day, followed by shoulders on Friday. I also will have to alter my last week on the stack, but that won’t be until next week. I’ll explain further before then. Hope all the silent viewers are enjoying the log!

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SoMdHunter

Today was my leg and abs day. Food intake was really good today, and energy was up. I managed to eat me some eggs, cream of wheat, toast, cubed chicken and wheat crackers, chicken breast sandwich on wheat, cottage cheese, a banana, sweet tater, 3 mixed vegetables, 2 protein shakes and a partridge in a pare tree. Just kidding. I wanted to see if anyone is reading this.

After warming up on the hack squat machine, here is what I managed to do in the gym other than visit the men’s room.

Squat Machine 12x90/ 12x180/ 12x270/ 6x320/ 4x360 (easy-heavy effort)
The 360lbs is a personal best for me on the squat machine.

Leg Curls 12x80/ 10x90/ 10x100/ 10x110/ 5x120 (easy-muscle failure)
The 120lbs is another personal best for me.

Weighted Ab Crunches 10x60/ 10x70/ 10x80 (moderate-heavy effort)
For some reason this routine felt hard and more difficult to do.

Standing Calf Raises 20x250/ 20x300/ 20x250/ 15x400 (easy-heavy effort)

Leg Press 10x360/ 10x450/ 8x540 (easy-very heavy effort)

Leg Raises (aka Cap’n Chairs) 4 x 15 (moderate-heavy)

Hamtractors 12x195/ 12x210/ 12x225 (moderate effort)

Decline Situps 3 x 12 (moderate-very heavy)

Overall, this was a really good workout for me. For some reason the intensity just wasn’t there like last night, although the endurance was excellent. I also found the ab work to be tougher than normal. I’m not sure what is up with that, but I still had a good workout. On a scale of 1-10, I would give this workout a 8, maybe a 9.

I plan on getting in a shoulder routine tomorrow if I have time. But with my planned day, it all depends on when I get home. It may wait till Saturday, we’ll see.

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Fitnfirm

I think your doing great! Thats quite a leg workout ya know!!! My tummy is always a little stubborn on leg day because of all the pushing too. Keep rockin it!!!!! I want to hear about the shoulder workout My second fav exercise!!!!!!!!!!!

SoMdHunter

I managed to make it through the Tropical Storm Ernesto. Now all I have to do it clean up the damn mess it created! Only lost the internet for a few hours, and power wasn’t out much at all. But on the good side, we really needed the rain. Just not all within 24 hours. Anyway, on to the routine.

DB Shoulder Press 15x40 to warmup 10x50/ 10x55/ 10x60 (moderate-muscle failure)
The last 2 reps were assisted.

DB Shrugs 12x70/ 12x80/ 12x90/ 12x100 (easy-moderate effort)

Lateral Raise Machine 10x25/ 10x30/ 10x35 (moderate effort)

Shoulder Press Machine 6x200/ 8x180/ 10x160 (moderate-very heavy)
Told ya I would get the 200lbs this week, a new personal best.

It was at this point in the routine I noticed, I had pumps, pumps and more pumps!

Hammer Strength Shrug Machine 12x180/ 12x270/ 12x270/ 12x360 (moderate effort)

Lateral DB Raises 10x20/ 10x20/ 8x25/ 8x30/ 4x35 (easy-muscle failure)

Reverse Pec Dec 12x90/ 12x100/ 10x110/ 10x120/ 6x130 (easy-muscle failure)

Another excellent workout! I would have to give this one a 10 all the way! My shoulders and traps were really pumped and feeling good! Strength was really good, and endurance was excellent. I am convinced ALRI has a great stack on their hands. It appears I may be leaving next Thursday on family matters, so I’ll try to get in 3 more routines before then.

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DarkFalcon

Glad Ernie missed you guys for the most part! And loving the sig..

Fitnfirm

Congrats on the 200 lb presses!!!!!!!!!!!! :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

SoMdHunter

Thanks DF. Took until today to get the mess cleaned up though. Winds got over 50mph here, and some people got hit pretty hard. All I got was lots of debris. Man, I got leaves in my yard I have no idea where they came from.....don't recognize them at all! LOL!

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SoMdHunter

LOL! I cheated! I started at 200lbs and went down in weight instead of increasing it. Actually I kinda like doing it that way now!

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SoMdHunter

Couple of things I learned today. One, I am not a morning workout person. And two, I’m not a morning workout person. Today was a day off from work for me, and with the gym closing at 1:00pm, I had to get my routine in early. So after a breakfast of oats, eggs, decaf coffee, a banana, and my multi’s, to the gym my wife and I went. Here is what I did this morning.

Widegrip Pulldowns 15x140 warmups 10x180/ 10x200/ 10x200 (easy-heavy effort)
After this first routine, I was thinking….oh cr@p. This is not good. The weights felt very heavy and I had no energy.

Hammer Strength Iso Row Machine 10x135/ 10x160/ 10x180 (moderate effort)
Felt a bit better after this routine.

Widegrip Pullups 10, 9, 8, 7=34 reps
Talk about surprised!! 10 reps on one set was the best I have ever gotten on pullups. The 34 reps is also a personal best that I didn’t really plan on b/c I almost didn’t do this exercise.

Hammer Strength Iso Back Machine 10x180/ 10x180/ 10x180 (easy-moderate effort)

Preacher Curl Machine 12x160/ 10x170/ 10x180 (moderate-very heavy effort)

Seated Cable Rows 10x160/ 10x170/ 10x180 (moderate-heavy effort)

Standing DB Curls 10x30/ 8x35/ 8x40/ 6x45 (easy-very heavy effort)

Barbell Curls 10x65/ 10x65/ 10x75/ 5x85/ 12x35 (moderate-muscle failure)

This was another outstanding workout for me. The pump to my bi’s and lats was excellent, and endurance was way up. Strength took a couple of routines to get going, but I would still rate this routine as another 10! It is time to feed the muscles some protein and carbs so recovery can start.

I really haven’t had a day of rest yet since I lifted Sat and yesterday was spent cleaning up the back yard from TS Ernesto…..and I still have the front to get done. Tomorrow will be chest and tris’, followed by legs on Wed. So stay tuned, there are a couple of routines left yet.

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Fitnfirm

actually thats not cheating, thats smart! I do it too!!!!!! although I stay at the same weight all sets, unless they are toooooo easy.

SoMdHunter

First off, let me say this has been a real pleasure testing this stack by ALRI. This supplement stack certainly lives up to all the advertisement on their site. And with that, I will have to end this log 1 day short for a couple of reasons. The most important is I have a family matter that I must attend to, and will be jumping on a plane on Thurs. Secondly, I have a serious injury to the tendon in my left forearm. I did it last night doing curls, but really hurt it good tonight dropping the 85lb db's. I was trying to be careful and not drop them on anyone's toes/feet. I held on to them for too long on the way down and really hurt myself.
So, FitnFirm, sorry to end the log on a note like this, but I'm unable to do my planned shoulder routine tomorrow. After lifting 3 of the last 4 days as well as cleaning up from the T.S. I really haven't had a day of rest, which probably led to and eventually aggravated the injury. In any event, here is what I managed to get done tonight for chest and tri’s.

Incline DB Press 12x50 warmups 10x60/ 10x65/ 9x70 (easy-very heavy)
I don’t know why I didn’t get that last rep for an even 10. Brain fart I guess.

Incline DB Flys 10x40/ 10x45/ 10x50 (moderate effort)

Flat Bench DB Press 10x75/ 10x80/ 8x85 (moderate-muscle failure)
It was while dropping the DB’s that I hurt my arm. Actually it is the tendon that is irritated.

Tricep Pushdowns 12/150/ 12x150/ 12x150 (easy effort)

Rope Pulldowns 10x100/ 10x110/ 10x120 (moderate-very heavy)
The 120lbs is a personal best for me on this exercise.

HS Iso Wide Chest Machine 10x135/ 10x135/ 8x135 (moderate-muscle failure)
I was starting to run out of steam by now. Try as I may, I was quickly tiring.

Dips Machine 10x230/ 10x250/ 20x200 (moderate-very heavy effort)

Chest Press 10x200/ 8x210/ 20x160 (moderate-very heavy effort)

That was it for the night. On the last two exercises, I decided to lower the weight and increase the reps to as high as possible. I really had a great pump going, and if it weren’t for my arm, it would have been a pretty incredible workout. As it was, it wasn’t anything special. The supplements did their part, and even though my heart was in it, my body simply wouldn’t cooperate.

I’ll try to do a summation and recommendations on this stack before I depart. To ALRI and their entire staff, I would again like to say thank you for selecting me as a tester! You have yourself a winner on your hands, and you can tell’em I said so!

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SoMdHunter

Throughout this log, I tried to keep everything as constant as I could to eliminate variations. My food intake consisted of a high protein diet, with moderate carbs and fats, while attempting to keep my sleep the same each night. With that, here are my thoughts on the stack.

The N’Gorge is certainly an excellent CEE product. The capsules are easy to swallow and certainly easy to identify since they are blue and white. At times, I found myself not drinking enough water while on this stack. The result was obvious; constipation like you wouldn’t believe! So for those thinking of taking N’Gorge, or any CEE product for that matter, make sure you get enough water throughout the day.

As for the PRIMED, I eventually got used to the taste, which I think is a distraction for the user. Sorry, but the watermelon taste just doesn’t taste like any watermelon. I would strongly recommend ALRI see about altering the taste to something a bit more appealing. How about a Cherry, Raspberry, Orange or Strawberry flavor? I think those would rock!

One other change I would make is the container size. I found I had to loosen the contents with a fork before using the scooper it was packed in so tight. Just something to maybe think about.

PUMPS
I’m one that enjoys getting the “pump” to my muscles. I guess since I easily get that feeling, I use it to judge how intensely I’m working my muscles. By day 6, the pump was in full force! The N’Gorge was certainly doing it job, there were numerous times I left the gym feeling much bigger than I really am.

INTENSITY
This is one area that I feel ones mental attitude, physical fitness, amount of sleep and food consumed has a lot to do with. All the stars need to align, and when they do, the intensity of the workouts can be incredible. During this log, I found I was feeling better and more “primed” for the workouts (no pun intended). Certainly this can be contributed to the “PRIMED” supplement!

STRENGTH
Strength increased really well for me while on this stack. I set at least half a dozen personal bests. I was up 10lbs on wide grip pulldowns; up 20lbs on the T-bar rows; doubled my reps in 1 set on wide grip pullups; added 5lbs on flat and incline DB presses; up 10lbs on leg curls and added 25lbs on the squat machine.

ENDURANCE
The first thing I noticed on this stack was the endurance, which started to kick in by the 3rd day. As this log continued, endurance seemed to be my “yard stick” by which I gauged everything by. I really enjoy giving it everything I can at the gym, and yet being able to leave with energy to spare.

RECOVERY
For the most part, recovery was really well for me. I was ready to go by the time I got back to the gym, even on those days I didn’t get as much sleep as I would like to have had.

CONCLUSION
This is an excellent stack for someone wanting to kick up their intensity level a couple of notches. There were numerous times I took my workouts to “failure”, which for me was to the point I could not do another rep. I really don’t mind taking my muscles to failure. It allows me to judge any strength gains. With this stack, I increased weights or reps across the board. Overall, I would rate this stack a full 9.5 on a 1-10 scale. The only thing I would improve would be the taste, but I guess I’m one of those that wants their cake and eat it too!

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Vegetarian - ancient Indian term for bad hunter.