Dude, if you want to claim fat status I’ll need you to do better than this.
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I’ve been much fatter. My guess (with broken scales) is around 200lbs there, I’ve been up to 240lbs I believe, about June last year.
Hmmm.
Fine, I’ll let you claim honorary fat status based on prior achievements.
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Work for today:
20mins uphill treadmill walking.
Much harder than it should have been.
Yesterday saw me do the 2020 push up challenge, as per @Pinkylifting post. Unfortunately 2 sick kids meant I only managed to squeeze 1000 in, so count that as a big old fail.
Today I also decided that the “whole foods only” diet can go suck a big one. It makes me miserable, takes ages to prep and doubles my food bills. Hatched out a plan I know I can follow happily forever because I have done before and that also fits macros fine, without using many protein shakes. It’s also flexible if I feel I need more or less calories to hit my goals. That’s a win.
I will also reintroduce the “prep week” for MMS, because I’m clearly in pretty sucky shape and nursing a touchy back, I could use all the help I can get to prepare.
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What sort of food prep were you doing? When I prep my meals for the week,
Each meal is usually between $2 and $4 (£1.20 - £2.40). Just buying subway is more expensive ??
My plan was averaging 2500 cals daily across the week, all meat and veg and coming in to £45 for just my food which is about double what I had been spending, albeit with a much lower protein powder use. It was a metric tonne of veg, plus a decent chunk of meat.
My new plan allows for some bread and grains, costs noticeably less and most importantly, doesn’t make me hate myself. I’ve used a very similar plan to lose weight before so I know it works long term. It may not get me ripped, but that’s not the aim for this part of the year anyway.
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Sounds like you have a solid plan.
Hope so. Just have to keep the goal the goal and not let the T-ransformation turn my head.
Last year I let the challenge distract me from slow, steady progress and drastically break from good habits that were working. I got much quicker results for about a month, while the novelty was there, then lost them all when my willpower and the novelty wore off. Came out in similar shape to before with no ingrained habits to fall back on.
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This is the secret to long term success. Find something that works and then slowly plug away at it. If you can stay the course then this year is going to be a good one.
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This is how all my previous successes have come. You’d think I’d learn the lesson by now, but I still get stuck in bus bench mentality.
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On any other day putting up a thousand push-ups would be considered a great achievement. Good effort
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Congrats on the PRs! Funny how 2.5kg on the OHP can make the lift feel so heavy
I honestly think it was just a bad set up, because 62.5kg was really straight forward. If I’d gone again, pretty confident it would have gone up. No biggie.
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Ahh gotcha. Looking forward to you getting it
This is only for people don’t work for a living.
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Probably no more max efforts for at least 6 months, so don’t hold your breathe. Next target is bodyweight by the end of the year. Everything else between now and then is just a means to an end.
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I’m sure I could force myself to do it, but I’d be incredibly unhappy and disappointed when I didn’t come out looking like Jmaier or Jackolee in 6 months time. On balance, not worth it.
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Work for today:
5 x 10 fat man pull ups on O-rings.
This is definitely going to be my go to back exercise I think. Can really feel it in my back, which is rare for me.
Try and get to the gym later, depending on how quickly I can get everything done.
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Work for today:
Front squat:
5 @ 50kg, 55g, 65kg
Bench:
5 @ 60kg, 70kg, 80kg
5 x 10 @ 60kg
Complexes:
3 rounds of:
- 3 rows
- 3 powercleans
- 3 front squats
- 3 military presses
- 3 back squats
- 3 "good mornings
All @ 40kg
Squats:
1 x 30 @ 40kg
Notes:
- This was a very gentle introduction, and probably needed. Back still isn’t 100%, knees are clicky as fuck and elbows are still angry from the push ups challenge.
- Had this done in less than 45mins without really pushing the pace at all.
- Front squats suck. I really dislike them, even at weights that light. Having said that, I feel they may be really useful in teaching me core stability. I may learn to like them over the next 7 weeks.
- Good Mornings, as always, suck. Not in an uncomfortable way, I just can’t get the hang of them.
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SSB will teach more stability IMO. If you’ve got access to one, of course.