I see what you mean
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You fat manlets are just jealous 
Sounds like, outside of the physical change, you really underwent some learning through this process, which is the BEST reason to take this stuff on. I dig you taking up that walking. It’s so huge.
And you and I are like evil twins, because I have NO torso whatsoever. This could very well explain our differences on deadlifting.
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Before and after is quite the change, and even more impressive that it was just 19 days. ~2 lbs a day seems a bit aggressive, but clearly it worked.
Also ditto on all the torso length comments. My wife (5’5) and I (5’11) are basically the same height sitting down, but my legs are 6 inches longer.
I am curious then, does that make squatting feel pretty natural for you?
Yup, it’s the bit I actually enjoy, like working out a puzzle, trying stuff and seeing what works even if it’s a bit extreme or unnecessary, it’s why I’ve made improvements to the blood markers, not because I’m super worried about my biomarkers, but more to see how I am can change things, and the impact it makes.
Well as long as we can meet in the middle over meat and eggs it’s all good!
Yea I’m just a weird deadlifter, it’s just not a movement that I gel with, but I’m stubborn!
Again one of those areas where you’ve had a massive impact - just by pointing out that 10 min post meal walk drops BG levels, and it clicked, I’m just completely inactive, no wonder my hba1c isn’t dropping I’m not using my body for what it was designed for - moving! Reclaiming humanity!
Thanks more like 0.5lb per day, still aggressive, particularly given I didn’t have a huge amount to lose, could easily have done this and more over 6 weeks and not felt any struggle but the experience was part of it.
Speaking of which I’ve realised how much this impacted my mood after one full day of eating, my mood is so much better!
Breakfast was overnight oats (and lots of) 50g protein (50/50 whey/casein)
Lunch: 7 large eggs & tin of beans
Snack: 50g protein (50/50 again)
Dinner:
This x2 - that’s a quarter pounder with cheese, bacon X 2 and egg with the usual onions lettuce and tomato in a cheese topped role, with piri piri mayo, the chips were beef dripping triple fried (only a single lot of chips, but 2 of the burgers).
This was absolutely hands down the best burger I’ve ever cooked myself, probably helped by my 19 days of lack of calories but nevertheless it was absolutely amazing.
Going back to Pwns previous comments about a cheat meals, this is absolutely a “dirty” meal from my new eating perspective, but the only thing that I’d really take out was the chips and bun to make it pretty much a regular meal, so my “cheat” is what would have been a regular meal previously, and I loved it, not feeling deprived at all, feel like a king!
My lifetime max squat is 190kg, regular deadlift 180kg, sumo 205kg, the gap between my squat and dead is oddly small/nonexistent, which is usual, so I’d guess so squatting more natural, but I’m finding that I’m still working on making the squat feel better, still a newbie!
Today’s walk ended up being 4 miles, was walking dogs with a friend, lovely walk, not a challenging one.
Now very full sat here watching Ireland smash France at the 6 nation opener (this post better age well)
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Once in awhile I can actually do math.
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I hadn’t done the conversions. For comparison, my max squat is 120kg and max dead also 180kg. Leverages are interesting.
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Welcome back!!
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Thanks, +4lb this morning
Better get some lifting done and make the most of it!
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Awesome transformation man! Looking very jacked thre. Time to build up some more mass now or maintaining?
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Thanks Koe, back on the gain train now!
…which is good because my appetite has come back in a massive way.
Breakfast: overnight oats & 50g protein
Elevenses: leftover quarter pounder with cheese (no bun) and 4 eggs
Just gone 11 and I’m still hungry.
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Spent the morning doing jobs, one involved lump hammering 4 Inch posts into very tight metal holes above shoulder height, unfortunately this was agonising for my elbow, not yet taken NSAIDs but definitely time to, might consider more renegade science experiments on myself and get bpc157, it’s not going away and it’s inhibiting life as well as lifting now.
Also out this evening and short on time so fully butchered this session.
With my elbow hurting gripping a single plate was now even an impossible task, so wasn’t sure how deads would go.
Deadlifts: 60, 80, 100kg x 5, 120, 140kg x 3, 160kg x 1 (harder than expected and it wasn’t grip), 140kg x 12
Decided to drop the weight and rep out, fight another day.
Lat pulldown: 80kg X 20, 17, 15 - done as fairly big ROM partials to keep tension 100% of the time.
BB rows: 60kg x 2… Elbow agony.
Called it, annoyed and in pain.
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Get some torso reduction surgery, it will boost your dead by 10 or 20 kilo. And get you to squat something close to parallel.
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Possibly my next log title
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Definitely use it!
Couple of small wins this weekend, went out for an evening with friends, we had food, very limited menu (literally loaded fries, pizza and wings) was going to have fries and wings and despite only 3 items in the menu and it being a Saturday night, they’d run out of fries - crazy, but a total win for me, double wings instead (then finished off about a quarter of the Mrs pizza) - then had piece of cake, first time in months, it was made by one of my friends who’s a fantastic baker but turns out it totally was not worth it - did nothing for me, which is great because my tastes are obviously changing, got home and ate more meat and veg.
Last night I got the baby to bed and realised I hadn’t got the daily walk in, dark cold and tired, no excuses - got straight out 2 miles pushed the pace and made sure to hit some decent hilly places.
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FM w5 D1 - bench 3s
Poundstones - 20kg X 100 - 75 unbroken the elbow sleeves add a little challenge.
Tendon was angry until about rep 35, then got the memo.
Conditioning:
Emom (what else): 5 press-ups, 5 chin ups, 5 squats x 10 rounds
Closer to a warm up than hard conditioning - was intentionally taking it easy on myself, I was mentally battling to get myself training today, seemed like a good excuse to sandbag the conditioning… Yea…
Bench:
60, 70kg x 5, 77.5, 87.5kg x 3, 97.5kg x 15
Happy with that, hip joint cramped up early on, so lost my leg drive and ended up dancing my legs around for a few reps, fortunately at this weight I could get away with that, recover and finish strong, last rep was probably pretty ugly definitely a grinder but wanted to get a decent performance in now I’m fed, still managed to get dizzy at the end of that, so there was definitely some strain going on, and definitely 0rir.
Gs1:
DB Inc (middle): 35kg x 12 x 3
Sandbag to chest, squeeze and hold: 75kg x 3 sets
Hand back raises: 10 x 3
Wrist cuff facing away cable curls: 20kg x 12 x 3
That’s me done for the day, heads not in it, but got all the important bits done, made some progress and did it even though I didn’t want to, chalk that one up as a win overall.
Bodyweight 200 tus morning, look fuller not fatter so that’s good.
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Random updates:
Work has been busy (I manage a small team and lost a team member last year and had another go on paternity leave for a while and another leaving at the end of the month, so covering 2 roles and doing my own, fortunately interviews coming up next week but that means training new staff, which means about 6 months of additional training, mentoring and shadowing! That was a long rambling bracket) - this meant I missed two walks in a row, not on!
To rectify I got up earlier yesterday and got my walk in before work, so no excuses and this morning I decided to walk to the early morning prayer meeting, except I saw I was late as I left the house so I ran a mile in rain gear and walking boots (and some wind and rain!), walked back, so a couple of miles of movement this morning. Get it in early then there’s nothing in the way to stop you.
Weight 202, flying back in quite unusual for me, but I’m also eating like a horse, 90% of it decent, the other 10% is actually fine, but just not up to my new desired standards, hit up quite a bit of bread yesterday (a function of poor prep and time management in my personal life) also mixing carbs and fat together and ate a some brownie that my daughter made, but that was worth it.
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Switching sessions and squeezing in the OHP session whilst I’m at the fire station.
FM w5 d4 ohp 531
Conditioning:
Mixture of sandbag over shoulder & Burpees, medicine ball slams, and sandohp clean to shoulders squat/lung etc. 10 mins of hard work and even harder breathing.
Ohp: 40, 50kg X 5, 57.5kg x 3, 62.5kg x 7
Last rep was rps10 for sure. Disappointing performance - not confident the weight is what it says it is and all different bars stands etc so who knows, it’ll be better next cycle I’m sure.
GS:
DB seated press: 30kg x 10 x 3 sets
Ring pull ups: 8 x 3 sets
Hands back raise: 8 x 3 sets
Tri seated oh DB ext: 7.5kg x 12 x 3 sets
Done.
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Do you have a planned real whilst on duty or is it just a case of trialing between calls ? Are you the only one in the squad training or do other guys get involved ?
I’m on call only but on Thursday we drill together, as there’s an ok gym I’ve just been tagging extra conditioning on after drill, as it’s generally time I’d just chill and chat, no one else has joined me yet, but last summer a few of us did some outdoor conditioning circuits, so I might get some joining me at some point.
Tonight was tacking on a whole session not just conditioning, because this week has been so chaotic that I’ve barely trained so this was just keeping my head above the water!
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