So here’s the post, as promised.
I’ve decided to give Biotest’s Surge Workout Fuel a try, which is kind of a big deal for me because:
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I’m a sugar addict, and I became kind of carb-phobic while trying to undo years’ worth of bad nutritional habits.
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I have an addictive personality, so I’ve wanted to steer clear of even just thinking I need supplements or a pre-/intra-/post- workout drink to achieve what I want to achieve.
But if you’ve been following along for the past 11 months or so, you know I’ve been working to undo the bad habits I developed while undoing bad habits—I’m now seeking balance, mentally and physically.
On top of that, I’m already using food (and typically lots of it!), creatine, ACV, cinnamon, fish oil, Vitamin D—and now Indigo-3G—to achieve my goals, so I’m giving Surge a shot too.
But I’m starting slowly: I only made 1/2 a serving of the Lemon Drop flavor today. I don’t normally drink anything, not even water, during my workouts, but I started sipping it during setup and continued throughout the workout. The taste was really quite good, but at some point it became sickly sweet to me and, to be honest, I didn’t even finish that 1/2 serving over the course of the 85 minutes that followed.
Even so, it made a difference. Maybe not with the squats, but I crushed the assistance today. Just absolutely crushed it all.
(For the record, I superset these moves with every set of the day’s lift: warm-ups, main work, and supplemental work. Also, today I was coming off an exceptionally horrible night’s sleep and battling a rare morning headache before the workout.)
Normally the second set of chin-up/pull-ups and the first set of dips are excruciating, but today I hit 14 chins on the second set with more in the tank, and the first 15 dips were a cake walk. Frankly, I probably could’ve smashed all of the first three pull/push/core assistance moves in 2 sets each—and maybe I’ll give that a shot next time—but I didn’t want to crash out for the remaining work, particularly those squats.
But now that I think about it, yeah, the squats were tough—it’s a 1s week, after all—but 285x5 felt surprisingly good and, let’s face it, 320 is 95% of my current TM, so of course that set is going to be hard. Likewise for an attempt at 250x20 following the programmed work—I mean, that’s just kind of crazy, right?
Anyway, I half-expected to crash out either during the workout or shortly afterwards. But here I am, several hours later, I still haven’t crashed, and there’s no reason to think I suddenly will at this point: Surge seems to have given me the fuel I needed, when I needed it.
This whole thing is an experiment for me, and I definitely don’t want to jump the gun. But I can tell you this for certain, even after just one workout: Surge definitely didn’t hurt!
My plan this week, such as it is, is to see how it affects some of my weight lifting workouts and some of my conditioning workouts. I guess I’m trying to find how I can best put it to work so that I get bigger and stronger.
Given that, tomorrow I’ll hit up some more before the afternoon sled push. As miserable as it sounds, I think I’ll try a continuous 10x50 yards again, as that’s been difficult for me to get through lately. Maybe it won’t be quite so miserable tomorrow? Guess we’ll find out…
So my friends, buckle up, ‘cause here we go!