100 face pulls with mini band superset between squats
BB shrug 5x20 at 215
Superset with
5x5 various grip chins at BW+30
BB OHP 10x5 at 110
Hit the halfway mark, and I’m feeling really good. Just picked up a dozen eggs from the store and one lb of stir fry beef is defrosting as I’m typing this.
Press is feeling the strongest it ever has, I’m loving it. Weighed 213.4 today before lifting, so I’m back up a few lbs. I think I can reach 215-218 by the end of this.
Going to a wedding today and then heading out of town on Sunday morning until Tuesday, or even possibly Wednesday early afternoon. Going to have to push back BtM for a few days (and maybe even recover a little bit!!!.. I’m feeling a little beat up haha).
The plan is to hit week 4 day 1 on the day I get home. Thankfully the weight won’t be as heavy as it was this past week, but pretty damned close. I’m somewhat concerned because I’m going to the Adirondack mountains to my cabin, where every day amenities are non existent so it will be very difficult to just bring up 4 dozen eggs and 8lbs of ground beef. I’ll just try to eat as much as I can at every meal we cook and make the best of it. I don’t want BtM to take over the weekend.
It’ll be the first time in probably 5 years my entire family has been up there together, all significant others and children included (even our little twerp dog is coming!). I’m super excited.
I might come back having lost weight, but I have full confidence I can make it through without an issue and be able to re-gain any weight lost over the weekend.
Came back from vacation Wednesday night. It was fun, but very active. Chopping wood, lots of hikes and walking. Ended up weighing 209 on Wednesday night, so down a few lbs from the previous weigh in. I had a few things to take care of before lifting yesterday so I started late and wanted to get a big dinner in before bed. I was totally wiped after the press sets so for time purposes I pushed off the remainder of dips until today. Hitting day 2 tomorrow and day 3 on Monday.
Finished up the remaining 120 dips tonight and went out for Mexican, got 4 mole beef enchiladas, an empanada, half a torta and a serving of rice. Super good.
Immediately upon the first deadlift I felt like I was right on the cusp of cramping in my hams and glutes. I was extremely gentle with the deadlifts trying my best not to rip them off the floor. Made it through everything ok.
Painting the outside of the house and building new shutters all day today. Have a busy day planned tomorrow, yet again. I can’t wait until I don’t have plans on the weekends.
I am ridiculously happy it’s 5’s week. Work has been kind of intense as it’s been hot and humid the past few days. I’ve been having a difficult time staying hydrated and also cramming enough food into my gut for recovery. I’m basically filled to the brim from 6:45am until I go to bed and it’s getting extremely uncomfortable. Weighed 212 today before lifting.
Coming up to the last couple weeks of BtM and I’m excited it’s coming to an end soon. I’m feeling fairly beat up and am just so sick of eating. My diet has been pretty great considering life circumstances, and I’m kind of locked into a rhythm with it. This was the part of the program I was most concerned about as far as being successful. Just have to keep it up another two weeks.
It seems as though my weight has plateaued around 212 or so, and I don’t see myself adding a whole lot more food at this point. Meal timing has definitely been the most difficult hurdle, and I’ve been finding myself bingeing at night just to get all the eggs and remainder of beef in. I kind of brought this upon myself because I don’t want to have 6 eggs and a pound of meat in my stomach while up on a roof in 90 degree heat, it just sounds like a recipe for disaster (and an opportunity to have to eat another six eggs and pound of beef).
I want to start getting a rough idea of what I’ll be doing after BtM, and it will absolutely involve calorie restriction. I just can’t sustain eating this much to maintain weight.
@T3hPwnisher had suggested conjugate, which I have yet to start reading up on, but absolutely plan to. From the little I know about it, it seems like a great idea because of the frequent changes. It makes sense to create the neural adaptations to express strength over time, but not enough to be able to reach true proficiency and get close to “max”, especially while in a deficit. I walk a fine line between being in a deficit and recovered enough to lift and being in a deficit and in pain, low motivation etc.
As of now, the plan is to get down to high 180/low 190 by the end of summer and then build back up the same way I have been for the past year and a half. I’m hoping to be reaching 220 by the end of next spring.
For a simple intro to conjugate, check out this article
Or this one
Or version III on Joe DeFranco’s website.
The “issue” with conjugate is that it’s not a program but a collection of principles to base your training around. It absolutely works, but you have to understand how to make it work for you. Having something like those 3 programs can make vectoring easy, especially for the short duration of a diet break between programs. Brian Alsruhe also has some conjugate style programs that would work.
A break from the high volume lifting and eating will have you champing at the bit in short order. It’s all for the good dude.
Used to do commercial and residential, now am leaning towards commercial and industrial/process.
Not really a build project but I have done a bit of work at a federal building and lately a decent amount of work at a few NYS and county correctional sites.
Wow, I had no idea. Thankfully I know the warning signs for all of the terrible stuff. I’ve had very bad heat exhaustion/illness and it’s no joke. Probably the worst pain I’ve been in in my entire life. Lady at the ER said I was very lucky.
Don’t worry about me dude, you just keep doing your thing.
