The New Jersey Experiment

[thedunhill225]

I hit a high of 295 or so. Dropped down to 270 or so for my wedding in september. Have not trained but for a cpl weeks since (around end of October/beginning of November). In December I was around 280-285 and decided to eat less. Dropped down to the high 220's by enf of January. Currently in the mid 230's.

March 1st The New Jersey Experiment starts!!!

Objective:
Regain lost muscle ASAP

Duration:
8 weeks
Wanna see what this old body can actually still do in a short period of time.

Location:
My Garage in "Dirty Jersey"
Ill post some pics but current equipment includes the following-
Power rack
Dip rack
Vertical smith
Free motion leverage leg press
Plate loaded fly machine
Plate loaded lat pulldown/seated row
Various attachments
Lots of wts
Heavy bag
Speed bag
Recumbant exercise bike

Yet to come-
Hammer pullover
Hammer low row
Dumbells
Trap bar


Ill post up vids and pics as soon as I get started.

Peace

[trucelt]

F*ck. Geez I miss my old garage gym....here's the trick, put the little guy in a car seat, crank up some soothing music and start blasting. Get your workout in and spend time w/your son!

[thedunhill225]

F*ck. Geez I miss my old garage gym....here's the trick, put the little guy in a car seat, crank up some soothing music and start blasting. Get your workout in and spend time w/your son!

Well the "plan" is that cause of the wifes hours, I am gonna workout when she gets home, give her an hour or so of just mommy/son time.

I just look at him and am amazed.

[TLopez]

Congratulations!! 1st child Dun?

[thedunhill225]

Congratulations!! 1st child Dun?

Yes sir! Thank you!

[thedunhill225]

To continue my first post. What will make this somewhat interesting for me is that I will not be returning to my trt. I will be doing this while having low testosterone. Its for personal reasons and someday I may return...almost sure I will return... to using doctor prescribed hormone replacement but not for a good while. So I will. E seeing how my brokem down old body responds to training with miniscule ammounts of testosterone floating around.

My training split will be evolving over the two months. The first week, which I may not even really count will just be 2-3 whole body workouts to break back into training. Then plan is to start a 4 day a week 2 way split:
mon and thurs=legs, back and bis
Tues and friday= chest, delts and tris

Keep form perfect, include some super slow work, 1-3 sets a body part, only really care about the number on deads and a pressing ex (prob incline smith) and though I will strive to get stronger and increase the load on every ex I know that if my deads and a compound press keep going up that I will be adding muscle..

When the 4 days become to much I will drop to three with the same split, if that becomes to much I will drop to a 3 day with each part hit once a week.

Peace all.

[thedunhill225]

Ok since I am starting up next week I measured the lill arms....sad. rt was just under 17 and left was 16 and 3/4. Wt today was 238 I think. .. yea I have gained a few pounds the last cpl weeks-why? Its hard to watch what I eat while taking care of a newborn and getting an average of 3 hours sleep a night (I really am not in ghe mood to prepare anything when I'm that tired and changing a dozen diapers a day! Lol. Also tend to graze a lot more...can't really prepare a meal and sit down and eat it so I have been just grabbing what I can when I can. Anyway my lill man is 3 weeks now and sleeping 'better' at night and I can count on an hour or so nap everytime he has a good meal so the food part will be easier for me now ..I hope.
Anyway enough ramblings, gyms not done but its done ENOUGH and rest and food aint perfect but they are good enough

Peace
C-ya next week.

[trucelt]

Don't worry about the perfect'ness if your diet ....just enjoy/survive/enjoy this crazy time. When I was younger I could get by on less sleep but man I was tired for 6 months when the baby came. If you don't mind me asking how old are you?

[thedunhill225]

OLD.... turned 43 yesterday. Physically outside of my back injury and my shoulders I really don't "feel" any different than I did 10-15 years ago. I joke about it and still wait to "feel old" but I just don't really.

Oh and yea man... I am enjoying every second! I waited a long long time for this and never wanted anything more. I got no problem saying that I have had tears running down my face just from holding him. Now we are giving ourselves up to two years to try and have another :-D

[RedSkull]

I wonder how many "get" the title reference?

I wouldn't, if it wasn't for far too much browsing cyberpump circa 99 lol.

[trucelt]

Arthur jones...the colorado experiment?

[thedunhill225]

Some reference videos for anyone that has not seen them-

Me a year ago at 255

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiap...e_gdata_player

A cpl months later and about 20lbs heavier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OB8...e_gdata_player

And 6 months or so ago at 295... right before I stopped training pretty much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxSq...e_gdata_player

Yea I looked best at 255 but now I just wanna see what I can do in a cpl months without even using trt.

All starts on monday!

[RedSkull]

Arthur jones...the colorado experiment?

That's what I was thinking.....

[thedunhill225]

Yea. I think I'm one of the few people that believe it really did happen. An over dieted genetic freak that uses gear and is just regaining lost size...yea I believe it could happen.

[BB85]

Congrats on the little one Dun. My first is 8 months old now and, although it's cliche, time really does fly by. I'm with Truce, I AM young (27) and can usually get by on little sleep, but the first few months I was basically a zombie. Rest assured....he WILL sleep eventually....