That smile emoji is a bit disconcerting
Not everyone can be taught…
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This sums it up pretty well.
I’m not doing anything special and I am an open book on my methods. “Compliance” is the magic.
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So basically just push through…
Nope. Not in the slightest.
I am genuinely confused.
When my gut is off, everything goes out the window. When your gut is off, you do hard squat/conditioning workouts
Anna, based off our previous conversations up to the this point, if you had to guess what I would suggest the issue is, knowing that the answer ISN’T “just push through”, what do you think I’d say?
I’m not asking to be a jerk: I’m genuinely curious if I’ve been conveying the message I THINK I’ve been meaning to convey.
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If it were any other issue I was complaining about, I imagine you’d say something along the lines of “eat more”, which is why I don’t tag you anymore
idk about this issue
Last time I complained about not wanting to do a workout, I was told to do it anyways and ended up having an amazing workout
That wasn’t me that said that.
I will still say to eat more here. That is the solution. The irregular approach to nutrition is going to continue to hamstring you. If you want to know “how I do it”: that’s how. I bury myself in training and dig my way out with a spoon. I don’t have limits or allotments: I eat to recover from my training. I don’t weigh myself unless I have an actual competing coming up where I need to make weight, and, in turn, I don’t care what my weight does outside of competition. What I care about is the results I see in the training facility.
And because I’m consistently eating to recover from training and to meet my goals, I’m in such a primed state that, even on an off day, I can still put out great effort and fall back on all the good stuff I built along the way.
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The problem with these two movements is they are way too technical and it’s easy to lose a few pounds on if one isn’t constantly practicing them.
Get stronger - worry about weight later. It’s much easier to gain strength and a little bit of fat (maybe) than it is to be too lean (you are) and try to build strength. All you are going to do trying that is fry your CNS.
Sound like hokum, but my cousin literally trained so hard in caloric deficit that he had a mental breakdown and had to spend four days in the psych ward.
Edit: for reference my cousin is the 205lb class record holder in the raw deadlift for wisconsin.
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@anna_5588
And, from memory, every person who did advise you to do that, also advised you to eat to recover from it.
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I never claimed you did. If I recall correctly. I didn’t tag you.
Point taken though
I did not say you did either.
Glad the point was taken. You must forgive me, but I do not believe it will be implemented
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Just to pull something out of the Flame Free Thread:
You just did a workout that, at face value, is more difficult than a Deep Water Squat day by orders of magnitude. Please note how much people like @T3hPwnisher or @flappinit or @boilerman had to eat to get all the gains they could out of a session like that and act accordingly.
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Your point is spot on
If i tried a 10x10 squat workout at 70% RM (for me this would be about 300 lbs) I would likely eat close to double my normal calories for the day. The sheer volume of muscle in the legs demands huge fuel when subjected to punishment like that.
One common theme among athletes across all sports is that most of them love to eat (and for good reason).
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And along with this, you will find many also HATE to eat, and it’s because they do it SO much that it’s a job.
But absolutely none of them are afraid to eat. The fear is not eating ENOUGH
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Exactly this. My old MMA buddies and I used to go to “The Trough” (aka Golden Corral) post workouts and have competitions to see who could eat the most. High Octane sessions need High Octane fuel.
We would often eat until the point of feeling sick in preparation for the following days 3-4 hour training session.
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And there was no guilt, remorse, self punishment, emergency fasting or damage control to follow. No room for any of that.
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Exactly. We were trying to become machines in the gym/cage. The only thing I wanted to feel after a workout was hungry and sucking wind.
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Hear that. I am at the point where I am getting hungry in the middle of training, haha
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