with strength and couRAGE

[DanTheMan]

Just found out I won the promo, so a quick shoutout to J-Dawg, URep and everyone else at universal/animal pak for choosing me. I'm choosing the Pack. I'm stoked to have a chance to be one of the first to get Animal RAGE and from what I've heard from the testers and the pros, it's gonna be one hell of a ride!

[smoothballer]

Nice! Do it up big time!

[Mr. Dead]

Second...!!!

[DanTheMan]

Nice! Do it up big time!

yessir! no doubt

I'll be stacking this with my regular Animal Pak and Animal Flex-- I'm slowly cutting right now-- my nutrition is pretty much on point and I"ll be doing AM fasted cardio and then my regular workouts later after noon

[DanTheMan]

Subbed...!!!

good to have ya mr.d!

[J-Dawg]

Awesome. Looking forward to hearing how ya like Rage.

[Universal Rep]

Get ur Rage on brother...

[freighttraindane]

Subbed in here for sure

[DanTheMan]

WORKOUT 1

Corporate accidentally sent me the powder but I ain't complainin-- this stuff is intense... today was my first scoop out of the rage container. I dont mind the taste, but if you don't take the shot quick enough after shaking it up there's some sentiment at the bottom but it ain't bad. The taste was pretty potent but it definitely made me wake up.

Drove down to Daytona for spring break with a couple of buddies but of course I had to get in my leg workout. I felt the rage within 10 minutes and it was a hell of a leg day-- notable 315x12, 315x8, then 365x3x3-- ain't too shabby for sittin in the car for about 8 hours. ever since my cutting my squat has gone down a bit but that's to be expected, but rage defintely helped get me through my heavier sets

I also did snatches, 135x3x2 and on legpress I did one leg with 8pps (4 on each side) for 3 sets. Then I supersetted front squats with stiff legged with 135/185 for 3 sets and without a doubt I've been waddling on the beach for a while. Wakin up to do some cardio (maybe) and then back to the Gold's gym in daytona. will update then

[DanTheMan]

quick concise workout today-- it was arm day so I super set close grip bb with bb curls, skull crushers with close grip preacher curls, weighted dips with reverse ezbar curls, and one arm over head db with seated incline db curls.

I didn't take Rage on an empty stomach-- took it about 15 minute after eating because we woke up late, had to get a workout in and hit the beach at a decent time! haha. I definitely would recommend taking it on an empty stomach-- it took til about my 2nd set of my first super set to kick in-- but I was definitely focused throughout and had a sick pump. I usually don't get too sweaty on arm workouts but today idk if I was moving faster or what but I was pretty drenched and was pretty vascular too.

[DanTheMan]

oh and mentionable PR's for me was 115 standing bb curls with strict-ish form (for atleast the first set of 8 haha) and two 45s + 25 on weighted dips and 225x3x8 on close grip bb benchpress

[DanTheMan]

solid chest day today-- had a good pump but I'm not used to working out with just one meal in me but you do what you gotta do when the beach is calling your name!! Rage is hitting me hard and fast and I love benching with it-- did some heavy bench work before I started my full chest workout-- hit 275x5, 295x3 and 305x1 with pauses on all of them. Bench used to be my weak point in my Big 3 but it's slowly creeping up. did some incline DB with moderate weight, 3x8, some cable crossovers, then some burnouts on reverse bench. workout took about an hour and 15, still pumped from the gym so we went to go play beach volleyball. dominated of course haha

[DanTheMan]

did a power/ballistic day today, with deads, snatches, power cleans, hang cleans, and then some pulldowns for my weakass upper back-- hah

actually had a pretty solid breakfast today so I felt real good, took rage about 5 minutes out from the gym, took my PWS (preworkout shit) and got fired up for some heavy deads. notable 365x8 405x5 405x5, 425x2x3 and 455x1. I tried 475x1 but missed it. I was also double over hand with straps, i forgot my chalk back in georgia and had to get used to it since i pull over/under but it was all good. snatches went up to 135x2x2 and hangcleans to 185x2x3.

Repped my iconic animal T today and that started up convo especially with me pulling at this lil Gold's gym we're lifting at and I like how the weights and iron ties people from all over the country-- met a guy from Austria who competes IPF and was so curious about USAPL and we talked for a good minute-- he was surprised that raw lifters like me actually exist in a qualified sanction and especially surprised by the weight some raw lifters can go up to. he's 3 weeks out from a national meet and wanted to lift togther and for me to watch his dead form before I had to leave daytona but we're out tomorrow morning. also all the old guys in there loved striking up conversations, saying they don't see any youngin's lifting like me and my friends do(a mix of collegiate athletes, bodybuilders, and powerlifters). made us all feel real good that we're putting a statement in for the younger generation

[DanTheMan]

finally back in Georgia, got back last night, well rested and first workout back at the university's gym-- got there at 5:10, figuring out they closed at 6! Was supposed to be shoulder day but I just didn't have time... so I giant setted some arms. crazy focused, no one was in there and I got work done. giant set was close grip preachers, skull crushers, one arm overhead tricep, and incline DB curls. then had time to do 2 sets of tricep pressdown drop sets along with wide grip cable curls 2 sets dropped. helluva workout for 40 minutes. had to get it in.

[DanTheMan]

shoulders today felt really good... front delts were bothering me a bit so I opted to behind the neck bb preses and they were awesome.. really high volume today and was focused throughout. rage again on an empty stomach just gets me in the zone within 10 minutes, if that.

[ToSo]

shoulders today felt really good... front delts were bothering me a bit so I opted to behind the neck bb preses and they were awesome.. really high volume today and was focused throughout. rage again on an empty stomach just gets me in the zone within 10 minutes, if that.

"Rage again on an empty stomach just gets me in the zone within 10 minutes, it that." Awesome. Same goes for me, depending on how empty my stomach is sometime I start feeling in within 5 minutes.

[DanTheMan]

"Rage again on an empty stomach just gets me in the zone within 10 minutes, it that." Awesome. Same goes for me, depending on how empty my stomach is sometime I start feeling in within 5 minutes.

yeah man. I noticed that even if I do eat before, it only takes a coupla sets of warm ups to feel that certain surge of adrenaline that rage has gotten me all worked up about. i love it

[DanTheMan]

Leg day...

Went a little crazy with legs today... so much volume but it was freakin' awesome. intensity for some reason was through the roof-- I was working out 4 hours later than usual but damn it was a helluva time.
squats were sets of 10 at 135, 225 for two sets, 275 for two sets, 315 for two sets... tried 365 but wasn't gonna hit that for ten hah. dropped back down to 315x8, then 225x12... then to one legged leg press with 4pps each side for 2sets of 8 for each leg, hammy stuff and then auxillary work ending with drop setted leg extensions... legs were out of control tonight, had to document it haha

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good lord i love this stuff

[DanTheMan]

deadlifted today cuz my friend need some work on em, not smart after that leg workout! haha but it was a pretty intense workout. kept reps around 6-10 didn't go past 365 tho. pullups pulldowns low cable rows. short and sweet, very focused and concise

[Jay]

good stuff..