Weighed myself yesterday in the evening. The scale said 82.2kg which corresponds to 180lbs. Beginning to see abs definition. Looks really good provided the lightning is aced.
Keep seeing CT saying that you should gain strength/mass when you are cutting. I assume he means just a little bit. I also saw him say, in a livespill, that you should hold your strength levels as a minimum. I feel like I’ve gotten a bit weaker the last few weeks, and I’m sure it is cuz of reduced bodyweight.
How do these two things add up? Gain a little strength to compensate for reduced bodyweight, which makes percieved strength unchanged maybe? Is my cut moving too fast? I don’t have time for slow.
Had a workout yesterday that was the suxx!!!111
I ate too big a meal before it, and brought toxic people with me to train. My own fault.
Have been eating too much junk today too. Thinking I need to only keep really boring foods in my house. I don’t think I will get tempted by “that extra scoop of oatmeal” in the shake.
I have taken up running for cardio now. I never liked the threadmill, but now that summer has finally decided to swing by (we had 6 months of winter) think that it is time to help my body lean out, as I’m not the most disciplined human being in world dietry-wise. I do seem to get leaner despite that fact, and thats also what the scale has been telling me.
I ran 3km yesterday and 4km today. I don’t time it, my only criteria is that when I come home, I have to feel like lying on the floor. And thats after a 2 min cooldown. After cathing my breath, I stretch the legs a little.
Tried NO-explode last friday, and had an amazing effect from it. It was almost like doing a small line of speed.
Ordered some.
Started doing abs today as outlined by CT. They hurt after the session, so I’ll bet that I’m in for a hell of DOMS tomorrow.
As expected my abs hurt from the abs program, but surprisingly so does my abs and triceps.
Bought some vibram fivefingers. Trained in them and felt great about it.
I have begun using NO-xplode from BSN this week. Took it monday and felt blown away after 45 min. Now I just feel a bit more energetic.
I recently wondered what actually made a difference In my training so far. The essentials if you will. This is what I have come up with.
Youtube - Nobody have ever instructed me so comparing videos of technique has been very useful to me.
Reading CT’s articles which finally made me stop searching for a perfect program and start searching for perfect principles.
Supps:
Dymatize choclate protein powder (with enzymes to digest lactose) - Made a world of difference
Creatine
NO-xplode
Stopping focus on calorie counting and start focusing on meal timing. Now dieting is not even hard and I still get to eat junk a couple of times a week.
Most important: Using your body is an experience. Not the means to an end.
New favorite biceps exercise: Wall Curls with ez-bar.
Perfect for extending sets! As I tire out, my ROM shortens. So I might pick a weight that allows me 12 reps with full ROM on the first set. I still shoot for 12 reps on the subsequent sets, but I might not get full ROM on all of them. If I do, the weight is not heavy enough. Drop weight when unable to achieve contraction at all.
Vibram Fivefingers. Lifted in them for over a week now. Took my first run in them tonight, as I was getting frustrated with energy from sitting down and writing too much on an assignment today.
Some first impressions:
-LOL my feet are PUMPED with blood!
-That thrashed my calves!
-No joint soreness even though I didn’t warm up.
-You really gotta mind how you strike the ground with your feet.
-With the previous in mind; Running felt more like praticing a skill this way.
-And because of that; It was more fun than usual.
Please keep in mind that I may be deeply, deeply colored in my opinions from reading “born to run”.
Might go for one more later tonight.
Starting the 60 day PLP challange today. Gonna be fun. Exited to see what it will do to my body 
Ok totally forgot that I gotta go to a music festival for 7 days in 36 days. So I’m changing the PLP challange a bit.
Increments are now 2 reps/day until I reach 70 reps. Today is 14 reps
At 22 reps PLP yesterday.
Got 20 reps pullups after immediatly after my main session. Pretty good. Could be awesome to do 25-30 reps when I’m done with the program. I think I will restart it with some weight added afterwards.
An update over the days gone since last log update: On the 26 reps day in the PLP program i got all of them in one set! NICE!!!
I have begun splitting it into sets now though. On 38 reps today.
My biceps looks bigger and also more peaked!
I’m getting a lot of compliments for my physique these days! I look much better than some of the guys from my work who is uses gear. It’s odd to think that they envy me, when I’m lifetime clean
The skin at my arm pit is stretching = Bigger lats 
I love you PLP program 
More veiny now. Roughly same level of body fat.
Got a headache while doing the last rep of preacher curls in a set today. Thinking it might be blood pressure related. Need doctor to look at it.
Awesome workout yesterday!
A bit tired from workout today. But I’m gonna chill for a couple of hours to gain more motivation.
I don’t follow the program of HPMass anymore. The principles from the program has taught me a lot though, and I still follow them along with CT’s theories of how different mucles should be trained. But I got bored with the program. Along with boredom came stagnation, so now I need to adhere to those principles while tried new stuff that interests me. For example: How come I have never seen the fabled overtraining-animal?
This is my current plan that I have been following since monday:
Day…
- Upper body Press
- Upper body Press
- lower body Press
- Upper body Press
- Upper body Press
- Lat/biceps
- lower body press
Oh and I’m doing the PLP program too.
What do I want from this: To find out how much I can take before getting injured or burned out. So that is why I add 1 more wave each press day (starting from 1). At the end of week 3 this will leave my upper body pressing at 12 waves and lower body at 6. After week 3 I will have a recharge period and then go at it again for another 3 week till I hit 16 waves on upper body pressing. CT said that the more you train without exceeding your limit for recovery, the more you will grow. I wanna find that limit.
For pressing exercises, for lower and upper body, I use a total of 3 exercises. Front squat for lower. Dips OR military press for upper. It hurts my motivation for train when I switch pressing exercises within a session, so fuck that noise.
Also something new is going on with my workout nutrion. Getting shakes with 100g prot and 50g carb peri-workout.