I ‘loaded’ on Friday-pancakes for dinner and idk how many fruit kebabs at a research event on top of my usual oats and bars
I probably peed at least a dozen times on Saturday and Sunday
You peed more because glycogen binds with water, and when your carbs arent high enough you burn through the glycogen and pee out the water. The fact that you peed so much on saturday and sunday means that was a completely ineffective load, because the carbs were too far out and not kept high enough to keep the glycogen.
The good news is that this will have negatively impacted your 1RM attempts.
Since i dropped my calories a few days ago I’ve been peeing non stop, its just a side effect. For me its a side effect that shows that I’m in the deficit I want, but a side effect that demonstrates you are not eating appropriately for your goals.
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That’s weird because I was definitely in a surplus
This is not a word you can use here.
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Noted
Instead of bumping calories by 100-200, you should be aiming to double your calories. Or stop counting any calories from fruits/vegetables … Maybe then you’d actually hit your 2000 calorie goal.
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I already don’t, never had 
Week 1: Day 1
Squat: 1x5-45kg, 2x5-55kg, 5x5-60kg
Bench Press: 1x10-30, 1x8-35kg, 1x6-40kg, 3x5-45, 6x6-40
- felt pretty crap going in (didn’t sleep well)- squat felt harder than expected but not hard to complete, bench press really worked chest- mentally harder than expected
Week1: Day 2
10x(1min-(5ovh press-55kg+10alt pistols+max highknees in rest of min)+30sec rest)
Rows: 3x10-45kg
- a bit tired going in but felt really good once I got going- intervals pretty intense and really worked shoulders and got HR up, rows pretty hard on back- back actually quite sore for some reason
Did you despite not sleeping well go in first thing in the morning, or did you seize the opportunity to sleep in and reschedule your workout to midday?
No, I figured that I trained feeling crappier so there was no excuse to not train. As a commitment device, I actually set up a meeting with my boss to discuss a new project at noon
The implied suggestion wasn’t to skip training, just postpone it to later in the day if that were an option.
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Yeah, but I’m a few years, it’s training at 6am or no training 
I figure I’d need to train myself- is this valid?
@Pinkylifting
I’m guessing you are referring to a future with children? It’s not an unsound reasoning that you want to acclimatize yourself to the schedule that you know you’ll have. But, at that point you will regardless be forced to adapt to the reality as it is. I don’t have kids myself, but have changed my training hours several times to adapt to life and while there is an initial slump, one adapts to it rather quickly.
Thus, seeing as you are afforded the opportunity to train at other times, then you have to balance what is most important to you right now, no? Is that,
- Being acclimatized to your future schedule
- Training when it is most optimal for you to achieve your goals. And optimizing your other time for recovery, so that you can supercompensate to the training.
Right now 2 seems to be more of an option now than it will in the future. I for one am very glad to have skewed my workouts later in the day if only for how much better the disks in my back feel, allowing me to squat and deadlift heavier.
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Do research papers count as kids
Joking aside- good point. However, although I technically have the time, the opportunity cost of not doing other tasks is greater… if only my bosses/professors were willing to start working at 6 
I thought Pinky was a dad, which is why I asked. Maybe I’m mixing people up.
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Is it valid that its train at 6am or don’t train? No I wouldnt say so, I always train in the PM after work.
Is it valid that you can establish habits now that you can take with you into later life? EH maybe, ish.
Not convinced that the long term benefit of possibly better habits counteracts sub optimal training timing, the resulting definitely sub optimal nutrition timing, poor quality workouts and the risk of burnout.
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Erm, why?
Counterpoint: make the most of the luxury of free time while you have it.
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Yeah, that’s a switch I have to make with nutrition too, the main thought that goes through my head when I’m debating increasing calories is. “Well, in a couple of years, I won’t be able to get away with eating so much so might as well practice ‘discipline’ “
You seem to want to inflict hardship on yourself for the sake of hardship.
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