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Don’t drink the wine it’s too strong. taken in Cancún, Quintana Roo by @littledave.98

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7 months ago

A slideshow of low quality photos from this weekend because I have no patience.
Slide 3 will tell you all that needs to be said about the mission of this prep. 2.5 years ago I prepped for 24 weeks to come into a show where I took almost dead last in every class I competed in. It was the most embarrassing day of my entire life. I drove from 3 hours from Baltimore to Pennsylvania just to stand on stage for 5 minutes and drive another 3 hours home because I didn’t make it to finals.
When that happened I told myself if I didn’t come back and blow my previous look out of the water that I’d be a failure. @mrstretcharmstrong picked me up while I was down and we spent 2.5 years building and refining what I brought to the stage yesterday. My goal yesterday wasn’t a placing or a trophy. It was to redeem myself from that disaster 2.5 years ago and prove that I’m worthy of doing this. Yesterday I got to stand on stage at finals with the 3 other best open bodybuilders in the show. If you would have told me 2.5 years ago that I’d be doing open bodybuilding I’d laugh. Most fun I’ve ever had in my life yesterday and you already know @mrstretcharmstrong and I are not remotely finished. On to the next big goal.
Will be posting more later.
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#bodybuilding #fitness #gym taken in St. Augustine, Fl. by @littledave.98

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2 months ago

Coconut in hand, responsibilities on hold.
(Ship did not sink 😮‍💨) by @littledave.98

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6 days ago

My primary chest day last night after a lovely 12hr shift. Getting shit done by any means possible.
Reintroduced the incline smith after my first choice was being used. I don’t know why I ever stopped, it felt so good to the point where it’s goin to have to stay. Don’t mind me doing pathetic weight here. It’s going go up fast.
As of right now I’m putting the same attention to my chest as I am to my legs. Training hard, heavy, and 2x a week.

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#bodybuilding #fitnessmotivation #fitness #gym #explorepage✨ taken in Gym Downtown - Orlando by @littledave.98

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18 days ago

Nothing pretty here, just training my ass off (literally). This is bodybuilding. This is the most exciting part to me. Thinking all day about the weight you are going to lift and then actually doing it. Going into this session I wanted to RDL 4 plates with clean form for minimum 7 reps. Before I even did the set it was already done. 7 reps or I’m a failure until next Monday when I try again.

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#bodybuilding #gym #fitness taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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25 days ago

An honest week 6 rebound update. Couldn’t be happier with the result.
If you know me you’d know that my stomach is a bottomless pit. If I didn’t care about how I looked I’d be a professional eater of some sort. The issue with that is that I don’t have super lean guy genetics. I have to fight tooth and nail to stay in shape and that’s exactly what I’ve done here.
The last 6 weeks I’ve had a few incredibly small off plan meals and no alcohol/going out. I’ve treated the post show period like I did all of prep.
Going forward my coach and I are going to shut the rebound down for now and get into a cruise phase, as we’ve already started tapering off all the PEDs.
Food of training days is upwards of 5k calories and low days are still very low around 3.5 calories. We will likely hold food here for the entirety of the cruise so we can have another rebound like effect when we start blasting again till the end of the year.
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#bodybuilding #explorepage✨ #gym #fitnessmotivation #fitness taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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a month ago

The only 4 exercises per week that I’m doing for my back during this rebound.
I’m gonna use this as an opportunity to go over some misconceptions I see with back training across the younger crowd these days. I see a lot of guys and girls doing these super slow 5 second negatives with incredibly light weight across their entire back workout. If you think a couple slow pathetic sets on a one arm pull down is going to put some meat on your back I’m terribly sorry but you need to go back to the drawing board.
I’m not saying these slow movements don’t deserve a place in our programming. I typically start with a nice controlled pull down to get my lats firing before I get into the good stuff. At some point you need to move some fckn weight, even if that means throwing a little body English in there (be smart). I like a good mix of slower isolation movements, and a big heavy hitter like a barbell row or deadlift variation.
Don’t be afraid to pick up some heavy s**t.

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#bodybuilding #gym #fitness #fitnessmotivation # taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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a month ago

In the trenches last night after a 12 hour shift and 5 hours of sleep. Made it happen no matter what.
My just needs to come up just as much as my legs. This is my primary chest day of the week. I’ll be smashing these movements over and over again every week. Ironically I love chest day but it’s one of my weakest links for sure. Not for long though.
Followed these up with a little bit of Tricep work as well.

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#bodybuilding #fitnessmotivation #fitness #gym taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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2 months ago

Bodybuilding and life.
Week 3 of the post show rebound with a few more to go before we pump the breaks a little bit, and push hard for size before going back into prep.
Life has been great and I’m slowly getting acclimated to “normal life” again, but no crazy off plan meals, alcohol, and no getting fat!

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#bodybuilding #gym #fitnessmotivation taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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2 months ago

Week 2 of this post show rebound update followed by some Chest and arms from yesterday.
So far I’ve nailed this post show phase better than any other. This part is arguably harder for me than the actual prep diet because the short term goal of stepping on stage over with, but you can’t go back to eating off plan or else you will turn into a big fat slob incredibly fast.
Right now I’m just a few pounds over stage weight. Most of which is coming from fully restored glycogen and some water.
I’m currently nailing this so let’s see how lean we can stay while adding as much new tissue as possible. This is gonna be fun.

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#bodybuilding #gym #fitness taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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2 months ago

Leg day number 2 of the new training split for this rebound phase.
I’m not gonna lie this session buried me. Obviously with the goal being to add size to these legs the volume is more than I’m used to so I will definitely acclimate to this over time. This was absolutely brutal though. I think the “I love leg day” crew is full of s**t tbh 😂. Not when it’s this hard.

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#bodybuilding #gym #fitnessmotivation #fitness taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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2 months ago

What can be done in just 6 months. A little extra motivation for you incase you haven’t locked in yet.
On the left December 2025 on my annual Cancun trip (photographer definitely didn’t get my good side). I was pushing 300lbs here but I was also purposely off my game. I had back to back long trips in December. I knew prep was coming in 2026 so wasn’t training 100% and my diet wasn’t 100% either. Looking back I didn’t see anything wrong with that but I certainly could have managed that better. Knowing this I’m holding myself to a higher standard when we get to the holiday season because we are wasting no time getting back on stage.
The key here is that yes I was out of shape in December, but when my coach told me that we are starting prep I didn’t think about it. I just did what he told me to do. If coach wanted 30 minutes of cardio 5x a week then that’s what I did. I never considered not doing it. Same thing with the diet. If my coach told me that I could no longer have my Saturday night off plan meal then I was done with it.
Treat yourself and your body better. I promise you it feels incredible.
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#bodybuilding #fitnessmotivation #health taken in Orlando, Florida by @littledave.98

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