[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
maraudermeat wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Man - this gallon of milk per day stuff is WORK. 6 16-ounce glasses and a quart of kefir so far, plus some regular food. I can manage it if I do a pint an hour - then I still have room for food.
what’s your reasoning behind drinking a gallon of milk a day?
Extra calories/protein without buying supplements.[/quote]
Is that a money thing or a personal preference thing? Or, is it your personal preference not to spend money on supplements? Or…never mind.
I couldn’t do that much milk. But my dairy intake is reasonably high if you include milk, cheese, cottage cheese and yogourt. 50-75g of whey a day.
[quote]giterdone wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
maraudermeat wrote:
DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
Man - this gallon of milk per day stuff is WORK. 6 16-ounce glasses and a quart of kefir so far, plus some regular food. I can manage it if I do a pint an hour - then I still have room for food.
what’s your reasoning behind drinking a gallon of milk a day?
Extra calories/protein without buying supplements.
Is that a money thing or a personal preference thing? Or, is it your personal preference not to spend money on supplements? Or…never mind.
I couldn’t do that much milk. But my dairy intake is reasonably high if you include milk, cheese, cottage cheese and yogourt. 50-75g of whey a day.
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I like milk and I’m cheap. I seem to have no qualms about spending 5 bucks on 2 gallons of milk as opposed to spending 120-175 on 25 lbs of whey protein at a whack. I don’t have to worry about shipping time either. $5x15 buying sessions = $75/month though, so monetarily it’s a win. 1 gallon of whole milk works out to 2560 calories with 128 grams of that being protein. That’s a head start for me and with regular meals puts me in the 4000 calorie range per day.
If I ever get above 200 lbs, though, it’s just not going to be efficient to drink that much milk and will need to switch to some form of supplement again.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
My last triple has me as elite on erx. [/quote]
Yeah - exrx.net has been criticized as having low standards.
Which (to follow a wild hair) leads me to believe that there’s an optimal bodyweight for strength performance far above the ordinary and that I ain’t there yet.
edit: Not meaning to say you aren’t elite, but that advanced rating might not be that high a poundage.
Started reading your log just yesterday. Nice numbers! I just skimmed through the posts so if you have a minute could you give me the Readers Digest version on your last training cycle, i.e splits. etc… Thanks and keep up the good work.
[quote]jimg21 wrote:
Started reading your log just yesterday. Nice numbers! I just skimmed through the posts so if you have a minute could you give me the Readers Digest version on your last training cycle, i.e splits. etc… Thanks and keep up the good work.[/quote]
Overhead push
upper body pull (various)
squat/DL variation
each done for 1-3 sets of 1 followed by one set of 5. 3-4 times a week or every other day. eat a lot.
I was concentrating on getting my overhead press up and had dropped any bench pressing but for incline press. On zerchers and DL’s I was moving towards doing one top set and then doing assistance work (GM’s and RDLs) for two sets of 5. I counted cleans and snatches as upper body pull and alternated those wit standard BB and DB rows from session to session. I did triceps and biceps stuff as well, because I’m vain, but I needed the extra triceps size since I’m an arm presser.
It was working pretty well for me for about 4 months without a real break. But ANYTHING works if you eat and rest enough.
Next cycle I’m reducing it to a single top set followed by 1 set of 5 and adding deloads lasting 2-3 sessions after 12 lifting sessions and see if I can keep the gains rolling. I rotate lifts like crazy too, doing 4 different lifts in each category in 4 sessions. 3 cycles of that lets me know if I’m getting stronger or not.
Hope that helps or is at least interesting. I think that the way I do things is not necessary, really, but I get bored easily and this keeps my attention.
[quote]jimg21 wrote:
not complex, just lots of hard work. Thanks for posting[/quote]
I don’t know. Half the time I have no idea what he is doing…except lifting more weight than me
No matter what I want to try, and call a program, I am likely to find some variation of it in one of your logs. I can get your take on it, from experience, and think better or worse of the idea.
Thanks, DCA.
Just finished uploading the lift vids for my virtual meet.
Here’s what I posted:
SQ 315,340,355
BP 225,245,255
DL 415,445,475(f)
I think all except the last lift were good, couldn’t get the bar past my knees. I went conservative because I was more interested in a total than PR’s, but as it turned out this was really all I could do. F’in Hepburn. Hell - the total will be a PR (if I get one) since I’ve bombed out of the two live meets I’ve entered.
My son was running the camera - his first time - so my concentration was definitely off, but I’m pleased to have done it, whatever the judges have to say on the lifts…
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
PeteS wrote:
My last triple has me as elite on erx.
Yeah - exrx.net has been criticized as having low standards.
Which (to follow a wild hair) leads me to believe that there’s an optimal bodyweight for strength performance far above the ordinary and that I ain’t there yet.
edit: Not meaning to say you aren’t elite, but that advanced rating might not be that high a poundage.[/quote]
I agree with you here. I think it is too low, but I do like thinking that according to someone’s (low) standards I am elite.
