I’ll give it a try tomorrow, but from a training perspective, does my breakdown make a difference?
I’m sure someone else can answer this better than myself, and I don’t really want to give you some bullshit answer, but yes, we can assume there is a training difference. Dan John is a smart dude. If he says to do it a certain way, I’d do it the way he says.
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Week1: day2
Time: 42min Strength movement: pistol squat with kB
- didn’t feel too bad physically, but mentally felt crap going in, managed to get three rounds with the 50rep set today so I guess that’s progress. The pistols were slower than press so overall, I think I improved
Push-ups: 2x5/side lever push-up, controlled 1 arm eccentrics- 1x3/arm
Also, I don’t feel physically hungry, but I feel like plopping down on the couch and mowing through pounds of grapes . Is that normal?
Sounds like you feel hungry
Out of genuine interest, do you know what that feels like? Is it a feeling you regularly have?
I think? When I’m hungry, I’m thinking of food without seeing it and my stomach growls.
This morning, I actually didn’t feel like eating at all, then I opened the fridge for some water, saw the grapes and it felt like a switch flipped
My default status is “I could eat” and when I’m hungry, it’s “I want to eat.”
This is how I would describe being absolutely starving, not just hungry.
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This is the state in which your body tells you there is a problem. Ideally you should eat before reaching that state.
I’m just glad to see that you’re doing this as a conditioning plan instead of a challenge.
Upon seeing you take it up my initial thought was “No, not in one day… 
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Even I’m not THAT stupid 
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Rest day
Pistols: 5x5/leg-25lbs
Hspu: 3x9w/3 sec negatives
30min weighted walk-25lbs
- lower body pretty sore but felt mentally worse than anything, pistols hard but easier to complete than expected, hspu worked shoulders, weighted walk got hr up, felt good
Why are you calling that a rest day?
A rest day is when you eat and sleep and don’t exercise
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Rest day from swinging
No. The program calls for 2-3 days OFF per week.
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When I mentally want to have more food and still have calories left but my stomach disagrees should I “finish my calories “ or not
@Pinkylifting I take back what I said about keto not being viable for me… based on how I feel, I’d had no problem sticking to a “1200” cal diet eating salmon head and veggies
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Not sure I’m the best person to ask but I’ll try to respond. There are bigger more successful people here.
I think that the answer is “it depends”. Gastrointestinal distress is biofeedback that might be worth listening to and ultimately it’d be a judgement call. There are a few things I’d consider.
- Eating bigger is an acquired skill and sometimes you just have to suck it up and continue to eat
- Do you have other meals left in the day? Can you spread the calories across those meals?
- If it’s your final meal you can move the calories to the next day. It’s better to get a good night’s sleep
- Can you save those calories as left-over and seek out something calorie dense to get the calories in? Liquid shake for instance.
What exactly do you mean with disagrees? Here’s the bar I set for myself: diabolically difficult to continue eating and/or causing gastrointestinal distress (e.g., diarrhea, gastroesophageal reflux, nausea, etc.) I’d also to make a note of what I ate. If I repeatedly end up in such a situation it’s presumably time to switch out something in the meal to something more calorie dense. Or reduce vegetable intake.
Why are you talking about keto?
In the short term you should try and finish what you can but dont hurt yourself.
In the longer term you should realise this is why we keep telling you, again and again an again, that you cant keep eating mountains of veggies and other food with ow caloric density when you are struggling to get your calories in.
You CANT keep eating like your on a diet if you are trying to gain weight.
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There was a brief conversation about dieting on the flame free thread and I said I’d get fat on keto because of my propensity to overeat meat.
Last night was more of this… turns out I have three more stomachs for fruit . Based on intuitive eating principles though, I probably should have stopped
People like myself should not use intuitive eating principles because their intuition has been shown to be faulty with regards to food.
In my case, I get fat.
Feel free to add a System 1/System 2 rationale and framework around that if you wish.
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