Gracias Pete!
I am thinking about maybe doing a round of shoulders and legs to bring up some size on them before I return to Power Lifting.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
Just a quick update on the diet. Down to 203 pounds and 13% body fat. I am a little worried that I am getting too small now and will talk to John about it. Hard to tell if it is my “Big Orexia” or if I do need to take a break from the cut and start to build for a little while. My goal was 10% BF but I never thought I would have to drop below 200 pounds to achieve it. Strength still feels pretty good although I have not gone for a heavy single in awhile. I put up a Body Space tracker over at bb.com with some progress picts if anyone is interested. I would appreciate your feedback. I don’t want to lose so much I look unhealthy…
Thanks!
Colin
It’s always a trade off.
I would try to get to the 10% still and then go back to adding muscle. That was the recommendation in one of the articles here to cut to 10% and bulk till you hit 15% and then cut again…
You have made great progress.
I’d like to see your cutting plan/diet. I’m trying to do the same goal, get to 10%.
Thanks for your feedback 2Busy, Let me check with my trainer and see if he would have an issue with me sharing the plan with you, intellectual property and all. I’ll let you know.
I agree with you. I think I’ll stick to the plan and get to the 10% and let the weight fall where ever it is going to end up at. Hell putting weight back on is easy…lol
i’ll echo the security route. That and healthcare specific IT skills are pretty huge.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
Thanks for your feedback 2Busy, Let me check with my trainer and see if he would have an issue with me sharing the plan with you, intellectual property and all. I’ll let you know.
I agree with you. I think I’ll stick to the plan and get to the 10% and let the weight fall where ever it is going to end up at. Hell putting weight back on is easy…lol[/quote]
Thanks!
LOL, I know ALL too well it’s easier to add weight.
What kind of Health Care IT? Like application prgramming? I think I am going to go back and do the CISSP . It shouldn’t take me long to get the basic certs out of the way since I have done routing and switching before and was pretty decent at it. I just need to bone up on the new stuff.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
What kind of Health Care IT? Like application prgramming? I think I am going to go back and do the CISSP . It shouldn’t take me long to get the basic certs out of the way since I have done routing and switching before and was pretty decent at it. I just need to bone up on the new stuff.[/quote]
I think the Heatlh Care IT has more to do with HIPAA compliance.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
What kind of Health Care IT? Like application prgramming? I think I am going to go back and do the CISSP . It shouldn’t take me long to get the basic certs out of the way since I have done routing and switching before and was pretty decent at it. I just need to bone up on the new stuff.[/quote]
HL-7 programming, EMR’s, LIS systems, report writers, I’m in healthcare IT right now and I see tons of room for growth.
You can even bring in security stuff into it.
CISSP will be good
[quote]2busy wrote:
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
What kind of Health Care IT? Like application prgramming? I think I am going to go back and do the CISSP . It shouldn’t take me long to get the basic certs out of the way since I have done routing and switching before and was pretty decent at it. I just need to bone up on the new stuff.[/quote]
I think the Heatlh Care IT has more to do with HIPAA compliance.[/quote]
sadly it does
DAMN! Colin just checked out your diet thingy on BB.com, awesome work man!
I would really be interested in knowing more about your diet as well if you get the okay to share it.
No problem, I can tell you it is a low carb zig zag approach with a cheat day every 7 days. Soon asi I hear back from John I will share more.
Just wanted to chime in here and give Colin some public props. He’s seriously the man. Most of my clients get very good results, but very, VERY few people kill it like Colin. Just fantastic.
As for the diet, it’s pretty simple, at least in explanation. I use cycling approach, where Colin eats considerably more carbs and total calories (and a BIT more protein and fat) on training days. On non-training days, it’s lower.
The specific numbers are based on my calorie formulas, which I detailed in my “5 Principles of Radical Fat Loss” article here on T-Nation.
Obviously, the more i know about someone the more tweaks I can make, so Colin’s diet is more specific than those formulas alone; moreover, each month the diet gets tweaked based on 1) progress and 2) just knowing more about Colin.
He definitely gave me hell about the training program when he first saw it, but as you can see he put his nose to the grindstone and executed =)
Colin can field specific questions, but I’m happy to answer as well.
John, How does your coaching work? I submitted a form off your website, I’m interested in more information. I was reading your article that you were referring to and the workout guide there is every day. Do you implement a different program for the loading? or do you just carb load in a window around each workout?
[quote]John Romaniello wrote:
He’s seriously the man.
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Truth, brother.
The MAN!!!
Steely, I’m not the man, how can I be the man when You’re the man!!!
Seriously though it has been nice not having to do anything but do it. John been doing all my thinking for me. All I have to do is not be a pansy and push myself…
Wicked, I get pre-work out carbs and post work out carbs and the rest of the meals are P&F meals. The thing I really like was the free foods, or veggies. I would just load up on them and I am never hungry. I use protein powder occasionally when I didn’t have time to do any meal prep. After the first month I got to work in a cheat meal every two weeks and then after month three I can have one every week if I want. Sometimes I won’t even take the cheat because I don’t want to pay for it the next day, lol…
[quote]wickedfool wrote:
John, How does your coaching work? I submitted a form off your website, I’m interested in more information. I was reading your article that you were referring to and the workout guide there is every day. Do you implement a different program for the loading? or do you just carb load in a window around each workout? [/quote]
The coaching is a monthly custom program; so each month you get a custom designed diet and training program.
Everything varies based on physique and goals, but in terms of something like a carb load or cycling approach, the carbs always surround weight-training workouts.
John, thank you for your feedback.
I need to do some more reading from your website and articles.
So a well meaning trainer told me at the gym yesterday that it was a good thing I lost the weight and gave up the heavy lifting because I was getting older and older people need to not push it as much. (Things wearing out you know) I told her she was full of shit and that I didn’t “Give up” on the heavy lifting, just changed the goal for a little while.
Yes an untrained person should work them selfs slowly into a lifting program but to avoid pushing your body to it’s limits is a waste of time in the gym. When my 70 year old father started lifting he totally reshaped his body and was making significant gains because he was busting his ass in the gym. He started wearing sleeveless T shirts, it was awesome. I also told her to look up Bob Young’s last dead lift attempt on the inner webs. I think he pulled over 600 in his mid 60’s.
I may not be as good as I once was but I am good once as I ever was!
She was probably just trying to fuck you.
That’s normally what I assume when girls talk to me, regardless of content.
Well done!