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Dallas Journey to the Olympia : Day 1

Day 1: August 16, 2015

Intro

Welcome to my Journey to the Mr. Olympia. This is going to be a look inside every aspect of the last 5 weeks of my prep. My daily thoughts, how I am feeling physically and mentally and how from a quantifiable perspective of training, cardio and diet how we are approaching every variable on a daily basis. Thank you guys for following along with my journey as I am quickly approaching the Olympia stage! I cant wait to touch down in Vegas in just 4 short weeks!

Daily Notes

We are now in the final phase of this year's Olympia prep. Travel is done until after the Olympia and camp will be set up and fully established in Boca for the remaining 4 weeks until Matt, Jordan and myself as well as the rest of the Redcon1 team heads out to Vegas.

One of the biggest things that helps me mentally throughout prep is taking progress pictures often. Not only for myself but also for Matt and I to review and insure we are on the right track. I also am often comparing this years pics to last years in terms of the day to date to monitor the progress I've made over the past year and I am excited about what has taken place.

The goal is to really push the conditioning over the next 3 weeks so diet changes as well as changes to cardio have been made to start this week and you will see that as follows below!

Diet for the Day: What I Eat!

Macros: 55 Fat / 320 Carb / 430 Protein

Meal 1 - Pre Training Meal

2 - whole eggs

200g - egg whites

35g - Isotope (Whey Protein)

120g - oats

Intra training sip on / during / way home

Breach (bcaa no carbs)

1 Serving of Total War - on way to gym

Meal 2 - Post training

90g - Cream of Rice

65g - Isotope (Whey Protein)

Meal 3

224g - Grass Fed Sirloin steak cooked

300g - Yukon

Meal 4

224g - Chicken cooked

210g - Jasmine Rice cooked

75g asparagus

Meal 5

112g - Sirloin Steak cooked

112g - Chicken cooked

150g - Yukon Potato cooked

30g - avocado

Meal 6

2 - whole eggs

300g - egg whites

90g - Chicken cooked

75g - Asparagus

Cardio

40 min AM upon waking

30 min PM following meal 5

My Training

Exercise 1: Superset

1A: Adduction

INTO

1B: Abduction

Aiming to get a hard set of 15 - 20 on each reaching full contractions on each rep. Once we can no longer get a full contraction the set is done.

4 rounds

Exercise 2:

Lying leg curl - Using a modified 21's method.

7 Top half contraction reps

7 Full range of motion reps

Finishing up with getting as many bottom half reps as possible out of the stretched position.

3 sets

Exercise 3:

Barbell RDL's - Done off of a platform to increase the stretch component out of the bottom of each rep.

Working as heavy as possible here with the intent on the hamstrings and not allowing the lower back to take over.

3 Working sets no less than 12 reps

Exercise 4: Superset

1A: Barbell Glute Bridges - 2-3 second holds on each rep at contraction

INTO

1B: Walking Long Stride lunges - never fully locking out onto knees

Glutes are a focus for Dallas for the Olympia so within our exercise selection we are choosing movements that directly hit them as well as have carry over to other major compound movements.

3 sets of 10 each.

Exercise 5:

Standing single leg leg curl - Alternating sets which is essentially 3 sets in 1. This is a type of rest pause as we are doing 3 sets in 1 alternating between left and right legs until all sets are complete.

1 working set comprised of 3 mini sets within the 1 working set.

Stretch - Hamstrings

Calves

Giant set

1 - Standing Machine Raise x 15 - Full stretch and 2-3 second hold at contraction

2 - 45 degree angled press focusing on the stretch primarily x 20 reps

3 - Seated Calf Raise x 10 reps 5 second hold at stretch and contraction on each rep

4 - Bodyweight standing calf raises to failure.

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