Yesterday I realized something, I’ve lowered my calories to low, I’m losing weight easily now but I’m tired and weak. I went down to lift last night and struggled with my warm up weight, it was super heavy feeling and pushing through 10 reps drained me.
I’ve decided to take this week off at the gym, finish the week off with my current diet and come Monday up the calories to a maintenance for a few weeks to repair my metabolism.
Today I played hooky from work, I’m pretty sick of it, every day there is worse that the previous one and I’m just so ready to be done with telecom. I’m ready to move on.
It’s always hard to stick to my diet when I home but so far today I’ve done fairly well, lunch blew out my carbs, I had a sub but it was early enough in the day that it doesn’t matter. I’ve gotten to the point now where I no longer have cravings for carbs no matter how many I eat when I shouldn’t be.
Today is just ugh! I’m really not in the mood for much. I’m studying my ass off at the moment for my ACSM test, I was having a hard time in the anatomy section of the book, wasn’t really following along so I turned to the internet, youtube kicks ass. I found an entire semester of anatomy 130 from Berkeley on youtube and have been watching that, haven’t gotten into the part that will help me but it’s interesting, well I guess it’ll all help.
Diet today, see every other day for the life of this thread and you’ll know where it’s at.
TGIF!
This weekend was ok, did get in some work, eat pretty well and pulled 220lb on the scale. I’m pretty banged up today from volleyball of all things, tweeked my back jumping it’s just sore and will hopefully be ok this afternoon. I also reinjured my already banged up elbow, I jumped up to block a spike which twisted the elbow weird, this morning when I woke up I couldn’t bend it for 20min. Guess I’d better bite the bullet for an MRI or what ever they do to look at such things.
This week starts a new chapeter, harder work more dedacation gotta keep pace with Mr. Blazen.
Oh SON OF A BITCH!!! There are big wigs in the office today so they brought in BBQ for the floor, I love BBQ and it smells awesome! I will not break, my diet today so far is spot on and I’m not going to F it up for some sugar filled, high carb crap. (I’m using an old Jedi mind trick on myself) BBQ is so full of bad fats and carbs, these office whales can have all they want and I’m sure they will.
BTW diet for today:
5:00a
2 HRX
5:30am
2 LCMD
1 scoop of Power Drive
1 fiber
1 multi
2 fish oil
1 potassium
1 magnesium
I’m changing up my workout a bit…again…I’m pretty banged up and figured this is a good time to focus on technique and really use the muscles that are supposed to be used in each lift.
I’m going to stick with the 4 sets but change the reps to 10, basically keep the same WO I’ve been doing just make it a little more hypertrophy.
Last nights workout was the shit, best session in a bit. I lowered the weights a bit and did a few more reps, I decided on 8 instead of 10 and loved it.
Squat
225lbs 4X8
ROM DL
185lbs 4X8
Leg extensions
140lbs 4X8
Calf raise
body weight 4X15
Leg curls
FAIL
For some reason when it came time for leg curls I got light headed with a ripper headache, CNS?
THOUGHTS
Squats- I’m still working on getting ATG, I did figure out that I wasn’t releasing my right hip which caused me to lean forward, this has changed the game as I was able to go considerably lower just not ATG. My glutes and thighs certainly noticed the difference this morning.
ROM DL- I still don’t know about these, it’s weird. I feel like I’m lifting with my back no matter how hard I focus on pulling with my hamstrings, that being said they are sore this morning.
Leg extensions- regardless of what anyone says about this lift it blasts the shit out of my quads better than any other exercise.
PWO-
2/3 serving Surge
Dinner-
8oz pork chops
8 small sprouts
prebed-
1 tbsp PB
5:00am
2 HRX
5:45a
2 scoops LCMD
1 seving Power Drive
1 serving fiber
2 fish oil
1 multi
1 potassium
1 maganesium
keeeep pumping man… I think everyone has different needs in terms of lifting… obviously Squats are an overall body workout with stabilizers and such… but if you’re going to blast your quads leg extension… yeh that’ll do it.
I think my body is adjusted to V-diet… and the HOT-ROX for sure.
I really really reallly really hope this v-diet works out… i stepped on the scale this morning and frowned. I gained weight.
I’ll chalk it up to water… need to keep on keepin’ on… I want 225 for real by my cruise date now… so that means i need my scale to read 217-219… yikes thats a lot.
[quote]Blazin wrote:
keeeep pumping man… I think everyone has different needs in terms of lifting… obviously Squats are an overall body workout with stabilizers and such… but if you’re going to blast your quads leg extension… yeh that’ll do it.
I think my body is adjusted to V-diet… and the HOT-ROX for sure.
I really really reallly really hope this v-diet works out… i stepped on the scale this morning and frowned. I gained weight.
I’ll chalk it up to water… need to keep on keepin’ on… I want 225 for real by my cruise date now… so that means i need my scale to read 217-219… yikes thats a lot.[/quote]
Glad to hear the V-diet is going well for you, been following you thread in the V-diet forum. You’ll reach your goal, I got faith in ya. The weight gain has to be water, I can’t see how you’d have gained weight on the V-diet, just not enough calories. Keep it going, you know I am
Mid week weigh in 223lbs…WTF? Hopefully just water, cannot believe I could gain 3lbs in 4 days. No HIIT last night, mowed the yard and a few other things needed doing so I skipped it.
5:45am
2 scoops LCMD
2 fish oil
1 multi
1 potassium
1 magnesium
Today I call around to see if there are any local gyms who’d hire part time trainers who have no experience and are mearly studying for their certs, shouldn’t be a problem.
BTW I’d mentioned a bit ago about a training opportunity I thought might be coming my way, not going to happen, sometimes people are your friends when face to face but turn out to be full of shit when they don’t have to answer their phones. Fuck’em.
Sorry to hear about your gain I think I’m gonna end up weighing in at the same weight as you by the end of next week… I’m following but I’m beginning to think I have a seriously high BF%… but then I question that thought as I only lost 10lbs my first week…
Who knows… I’ll just say I can’t wait to get back into CF… I’m getting really bored with standard weight lifting… and the addition of CF or similar workouts has really increased my overall endurance and functional strength which is the most important thing to me… I’ll never be a world class body builder… and I really don’t want to be… I just want to look good naked
Keep up the good work man… your diet makes my mouth water.
[quote]Blazin wrote:
Fug man… I hate people like that…
Sorry to hear about your gain I think I’m gonna end up weighing in at the same weight as you by the end of next week… I’m following but I’m beginning to think I have a seriously high BF%… but then I question that thought as I only lost 10lbs my first week…
Who knows… I’ll just say I can’t wait to get back into CF… I’m getting really bored with standard weight lifting… and the addition of CF or similar workouts has really increased my overall endurance and functional strength which is the most important thing to me… I’ll never be a world class body builder… and I really don’t want to be… I just want to look good naked
Keep up the good work man… your diet makes my mouth water.[/quote]
Yea man that dudes a punk, what ever it is what it is, that’s why I didn’t post publicly about the situation I thought it might go down this way. What comes around goes around.
Well I know we’re supposed to be competing here but I do hope you catch me, for you sake, truth be told I hope to win in the end but a tight race will keep me motivated.
Last nights work out pissed me off! I appear to be getting weaker by the day, top it off I measured my arms which other than my wast was the only places I measured prior to dieting, anyway I went from 18.5in arms to an even 15in? So I’ve lost 3.5in off my arms and 6in off my waste? WTF??
Decline bench
185lb 4X8
Bent row
95lb 4X8
Incline
135lbs 4X8
straight arm pull down
90lbs 4X8
toes on bench push up
4X10
one arm lat pull
90 4X8
So the decline was alright, it hits my chest better than any other lift.
Bent rows I’ve decided do nothing for me, I’ve tried 3 or 4 different variations and last night tried super low weight with the best form I could muster and still didn’t feel like I did anything.
Incline- F this lift, it to does nothing for me, this is where I wish I lifted at a gym, the hammer strength incline kills but BB incline I’m unimpressed.
Straight arm pull downs, another lift that I cannot seem to master which is why I added in the one arm lat pulls, now that’s an exercise that hits the target. I’ll be doing these for a bit.
I have a hard time exercising my back and chest therefore Wednesdays are not my favorite days. More variation is needed.
Food log for yesterday:
8am
1/4 lb turkey burger (I think I got a box that has been thawed and refrozen, I threw my luch away yesterday because this one was so freaking nasty)
15ish almonds
11am
2 HRX
11:30a
salad-
half cup chicken
half cup turkey
2 cups mixed greens
2 tbsp sunflower seeds
1 tbsp bacon (real not bacos)
pinch green peppers and onions
2:30p
1/4lb turkey burger (this was the last one from the previous box so it was cool)
15ish almonds
PWO
1 serving Surge
dinner 6:30ish pm
5oz talapia(SP)
6 small brussell sprouts
pre bed
1.5 tbsp peanutbutter
5:00am
2 HRX
5:30am
2 LCMD
1 Power Drive
2 fish oil
1 multi
1 magnesium
1 potassium
2 ibuprophin
[quote]dday wrote:
Last nights work out pissed me off! I appear to be getting weaker by the day, top it off I measured my arms which other than my wast was the only places I measured prior to dieting, anyway I went from 18.5in arms to an even 15in? So I’ve lost 3.5in off my arms and 6in off my waste? WTF??
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Hey you know what they say, a 15" toned arm looks 10x better than 18.5" arm that looks like the green concoction from Robin William’s “Flubber” haha.
I wouldn’t sweat it man… if you think you are getting weaker… I’d say maybe eat a little more… I told you I lost weight eating 12-16oz of meat… us big guys can get away with that I think… In my mind here are metabolic increasers: LOADS of protein intake, HIIT, NEPA, Eating frequently, Working out in general, Lots of water, and oh yea a little thing called HRE
What decreases metabolism… lots but specifically in that equation if you were to eat bigger meals (more calories) it would decrease as would not consuming enough total calories…
but allt he other factors combat the large portions I was eating(as I was still eating 5 times+ a day)
So I say, fug it… eat lots of meat and smile… maybe you’ve slowed ur metabolism down by not eating enough…
and You were talking about a clean bulk… so start eattttttting bud!
[quote]Blazin wrote:
dday wrote:
Last nights work out pissed me off! I appear to be getting weaker by the day, top it off I measured my arms which other than my wast was the only places I measured prior to dieting, anyway I went from 18.5in arms to an even 15in? So I’ve lost 3.5in off my arms and 6in off my waste? WTF??
Hey you know what they say, a 15" toned arm looks 10x better than 18.5" arm that looks like the green concoction from Robin William’s “Flubber” haha.
I wouldn’t sweat it man… if you think you are getting weaker… I’d say maybe eat a little more… I told you I lost weight eating 12-16oz of meat… us big guys can get away with that I think… In my mind here are metabolic increasers: LOADS of protein intake, HIIT, NEPA, Eating frequently, Working out in general, Lots of water, and oh yea a little thing called HRE
What decreases metabolism… lots but specifically in that equation if you were to eat bigger meals (more calories) it would decrease as would not consuming enough total calories…
but allt he other factors combat the large portions I was eating(as I was still eating 5 times+ a day)
So I say, fug it… eat lots of meat and smile… maybe you’ve slowed ur metabolism down by not eating enough…
and You were talking about a clean bulk… so start eattttttting bud![/quote]
What do you think about a short mini bulk, like 2-3 weeks increase my calories by 500-800 calories and then go back on the diet, kind of a metabolism booster? I’ve been debating this for a bit now. Also today I increase my NEPA walks by 15min to add another 1.25hrs a week? Too much to absorb at the moment.
Last night I had to prepair to go out of town today so no WO or HIIT. I brought clothes to work today so at lunch I can get in some HIT work.
Dinner at 54th street
9oz steak
ceaser salad
misc veggies
I woke up extra early (4a) this morning to get a 30min NEPA walk in, got some coffee and prepaired to wake up and roll. I get done with my coffee and BOMB, the whole house shakes, FN thunder, it was raining like a bieoch outside, no walk this morning or sleep, greeeeeaaat.
I was running behind due to all the last minute crap I had to load in the car and take my dogs to doggie prison for the weekend so breakfast was late. Couldn’t imagine how late I’d have been had I not gotten up before the chickens.
5am
2-HRX
6am
2 scoops LCMD
and the usual pills
8:30a
3 eggs
3 medium bacon
Work is busy as hell again today so I’m not sure if I’ll be back here today.
So this weekend was great, we visited my aunt and uncle 2hrs north of KC, it was a nice break. Played in my first golf tournament, I didn’t play great but had a good time and did contribute so that made it better.
Diet was just so so, not bad not great, didn’t eat McDonalds or anything just found it really hard to keep it carb free, clean just not low carb.
Plenty of exercise though. Wasn’t home Saturday to do the official weigh in but weighed in this morning at 222, which sucks.
This week I’m going to run the stairs across the street weather permitting, basically 5 days of HIIT and see what my weight looks like Saturday.
11:30am
salad
2 cups misc greens
1 large egg
pinch onion
1/4 cup chicken
1/4 cup turkey
bit of green pepper
vinager olive oil dressing
2:30p
1/4lb turkey burger
15ish almonds
Did another HIIT/NEPA at lunch.
30min total
here is what I did, I mentioned the liberty memorial before and showed a picture of the stairs. I ran up the stairs 8 times in 20 min, with a 5 min walking warm up and 5 min cool down. There are appox 6 stories worth of stairs, I ran them as hard as I could with a 1.5 min walk in between each lap. Pretty tough, IMO. My goal is get 13 trips up the stairs by the end of the week.
It’s a beautiful morning, I woke up, those are always the best.
Training last night
Squat
235lbs 4X8
Rom DL
185lbs 4X8
Leg extensions
140lbs 4X8
calf raise
Me 4X15
leg curls
80lbs 2X8
I’d first like to start off by saying my leg curl machine sucks ass, when I lay on it I crush my nuts and I cannot adjust it to a comfortable position that hits the target, it pretty much blows.
Squats- ATG!!! Finally! I actually went so low a few times I cranked the bar off the pins. It was a nice feeling to finally get that low with a good squat. I could do a lot more weight but I’m going to take it slow so that I get the form mastered again. 90% of my reps were solid but there were a few questionable ones in there so the weight won’t go up much.
Rom DL
I just don’t get these, no matter how hard I try they just don’t seem to hit the target, the only time they have is when I do them one leg at a time, so if I can remember next week will be single leg.
Leg extensions
Same as it ever was, these work best for my quads.
Calf raises
I need to rig up a way to do these with weight, just haven’t exactly figured it out yet.
Dinner last night:
grilled chicken salad, it is what it sounds like, a medium chicken breast with a bunch of lettuce, some cheese and honey mustard.
Convince me that my V-Diet pictures arent totally worthless…
I think the lighting and distance of the camera are adjusting the ‘softness’ of my skin…
I noticed the biggest difference is up on my shoulders… before neck looked non-existent from behind… now I look less upper back dominant… I guess…
230 this morning… but thats still only a total of 9lbs of loss overall I really want to lose another 5-10 on this diet… if I don’t I’ll be upset at mediocre results… why does everyone else see such dramatic changes… who knows.
I think I’m gonna end up weighing in at the same weight as you by the end of next week… I’m following but I’m beginning to think I have a seriously high BF%… but then I question that thought as I only lost 10lbs my first week…