Pikey's progress

splinter

How much you get your 50 fillets of chicken for?

Think I need to start wholesaling or something and getting organic chicken.

FAT BOY

nice one pikey m8.

on the subject of hamstrings what do you do for them and do you change it for a show.

Pikey

The Organic free range chicken was £40 for 25 breasts which is 25 fillets, I also got 60 free range eggs and 400gram of fillet steak so £58 in all, which isn't bad for organic free range chicken but then I must be the butchers best customer. Have a word with a local butcher mine was only to happy to give me a good price for a regular customer buying a lot of meat.

For hamstrings I always do leg curls and single leg standing leg curls, off season always after leg press and sometimes stiff leg dead lifts. Pre contest I usually change to training hamstrings first body part on a separate day to Quads and will warm up then use stiff leg dead lift, leg curls with toes pointing out and then single leg standing leg curls, reps will also increase to 25 upwards.

I always try to tense the muscle against the weight and get maximum squeeze
I think it’s fair to say hamstrings are my worst body part, which is because prior to competing I’d often not bothered training them properly maybe only doing 4 sets or so of leg curls just moving the weight sooner than feeling the movement as I find leg curls etc pretty boring… and if you only ever flex up face on to a mirror you don’t notice them…

FAT BOY

thanx m8
hamstrings tend to be a negleted bodypart thats for sure . i was just looking for a differnt take on them . do you think they respond better to higher reps like calfs

Pikey

In general I always prefer a higher rep range for legs, I find I respond better to 20 reps and upwards.

splinter

If you do enough weight though which has you screaming on 10-12 reps then thats probably more suited.

Otherwise your going more toward endurance then pikey.

10-12 optimum for sarcomere obliteration!

Pikey

Not for me, I prefer slow reps and squeeze and keep going my legs respond better, I have been training on 12s recently just trying for more mass, I guess it depends if you are after detail or mass...

Pikey

As it’s Sunday I thought I’d update the journal, I don’t think I bothered last week – I must get back into the habit...

I’ve been eating clean now for a couple of weeks and low and behold my appetite is back big style. I don’t know how this works but I swear I eat more dieting. Cheats have been Wednesday night 18 pieces of garlic chicken tikka and Saturday teatime I’ve had 400gram fillet, some wedgies and mushy peas, I know not exactly diet food. Other than that I’ve been good till tonight when after spending the day at a health spa we’ve come home to find in the goodie bag thy gave us some Green and Blacks dark chocolate and ginger. Cracking way to chill out for the day, get some brownie points with H and me skin feels all smooth too ;-)

So diet this week past week and next week
0730 – 10 egg whites, 100 gram oats in water and 1 grapefruit
10:30 two scoops of Extreme protein
1300 200 gram chicken, salad, 200 gram baked potato
15:30 two scoops Extreme protein
1700 200 gram chicken or Turkey breast, 60gram basmati rice and half a cup of veg
Train 18:30 – straight after Whey protein
20:30 – 21:00 300 gram fish, 150gram backed spud and some veg

Wednesday and Saturday cheats are planned; I’ll swap wedgies for baked spud in the next week or so and drop the mushy peas. Depending on what my condition is coming on like I’ll also drop the chicken tikka.

I’ve been struggling get my back off of the bed for a few weeks not wanting to jinx myself but I think after about 8 weeks I’ve finally shook this cold off, and feel a lot better so back to cardio every day too...

Gym wise
Monday is Biceps and shoulders
Tuesday – Leg day
Thursday back
Friday chest and triceps

We’re having some nutty intense workouts but then we need to…

12 weeks out so I hope I can pull my shit together and qualify.

FAT BOY

its all good m8 glad your feeling better

Tall

Morning Mate.

How come you get rid of the Egg Yolks?

And do you have the Protein Powder in Water or Milk?

Whats your current conditioning like?

Are you having your main meals 'dry' (i.e. without sauce etc) or do you have a bit of sauce/gravy on them?