RJ is going for the Borzov look.
upper body work wasnt the reason why you gain weight, look at your diet if i remember correctly you ate a ton.
Mort, I’d like a big upper body again, but I feel it weighs me down too much.
Tamfb, I still eat a ton, but my weight only varies a lot when I reintroduce upper body work. Hell, dinner tonight was 30 chicken nuggets, 32 oz of Gatorade, 2 Hostess cupcakes, and a sizable turkey sandwich. Yesterday I ate a half pound of slow cooked beef and an entire pepperoni pizza. Still, I eat like this and my weight stays steady unless I start lifting enough.
EDIT: Then again, who knows. Maybe I’ll get my 15.5" gunz back and strut around all summer without a shirt. I certainly looked better a while back. 
Even with a lower volume/maintenance approach to upper body work i.e. 2x2, 3x2, 3x3 etc something relatively low volume, you still think you’d gain 5-10 pounds?
It all comes down to diet, maybe if the addition of the upper body work and cut out the crap from ur diet cupcakes, pizza, etc you won’t gain the excess weight.
Just my opinion though, take it as you will 
RJ thinks he is 5% eating crap, no need for him to diet.
Cortese, you’re right, but I love food. I eat when I’m hungry and the more I train, the more I eat. Food is my real weakness. I think I might go back to upper body at some point, but I’ll never be able to kick my eating habit.
Shaman, I was around 5-6% BF before I went from 170 to 200+. Since then the lowest I’ve dipped is around 8% and I sit at 9-10% on any given day. But yeah, that’s been all on junk food.
30 chicken nuggets…wow…haha
Well drop to 6%. 10% @ 200 = 20lbs. Drop 8lbs of fat (and whatever water that will include as well) and keep strength. There you go.
Hard to do when you eat 30 nuggets and drink 50oz of gatorade.
Shaman, like tamfb said, that’s hard to do when you eat like me. I know I need to clean up my diet, but I like junk food. With the way I eat I’d fit in better with shotputters than with sprinters.
As things are, I’m happy with my weight and strength. My weight’s staying constant and my strength is going up. As long as it stays that way, I’ll be fine.
its fucking hard to cut weight in canada during the winter, its a pain in the asshole.
bevolution!
January 4, 2008
Macrocycle 17 - Accumulation Strength Block
Microcycle 5 - Nanocycle 1: Lower Body Fatigue
Mag/Dur An-1//An-2[/b]
Current Condition:
I was going to wait until Monday to train again, but I felt so good I decided not to put it off. Still feeling strong and I haven’t been sore in days.
Warmup:
Some RW drills
Workout: Rotation Style
(Rotation A: )
14" Box Rebounds
3 x 15 reps, 180 sec. rest
Hang Power Snatches
3 x 2 @ 162 lbs, 180 sec. rest
REA HF Abs
3 x 5 reps @ 25 lbs, 180 sec. rest
(Rotation B: )
16" Step Ups
2 x 16 (8 per leg) @ 160 lbs, 180 sec. rest
Good Mornings
2 x 8 reps @ 160 lbs, 180 sec. rest
Cooldown:
150 Bouncing Lunge Stretches (per side)
150 Bouncing Good Morning Stretches
150 Bouncing Calf Raise Stretches (per side)
50 Shoulder Dislocates
Notes:
Everything was really easy today. I’ve never handled 160+ so easily on snatches and the supplementary work went down without a hitch as well. It looks like I’ll be coming out of this accumulation blocks a lot stronger and most certainly with better work capacity.
Yeh better work capacity with weights not on the track.
It’ll transfer over once I start adding the track volume.
Your a genius, I’m soaking in everything and if you break 11sec this yr I’m gonna hired you as my personal speed coach. I’m serious!
lol beef mode!!
Nah, it’s always been like this. If I break 11.5 this season he owes me a Dan Pfaff DVD set. I’m looking forward to it.
I’ve got one indoor 100M meet at the end of February and I intend to claim my prize then.
EDIT: I put in the wrong month. Fixed now.
I thought that deal was for last summer?
You said if I broke 11.5 in two years time. I hit 11.66 last year and intend to blow it out of the water this year. I’m just busting your chops though. I don’t really expect a DVD set, though it would be nice. :rolleyes:
New deal, if you beat davan then you get the pfaff set or CF products. I gave you 5 meets to hit 11.5 and you never did. 