I don’t think it was soy that was the problem back then. I looked at my past training logs and how I ate all wrong…would consume like 90-100 grams of protein and thought that was fine. Didn’t follow a proper training program and so on. Wasn’t tracking calories and just ate randomly.
Keep in mind, I have an allergy to whey…so drinking milk will do more harm than good for me. I mostly use soy in my tea. Just like a few tablespoons. I actually use almond milk, since it’s low calorie. Any negative effect seems pretty marginal to me. This reminds me of focusing a lot of attention on something that probably makes 1% different…if even that.
He does, but he expects it to be reasonable cardio - 30-40 minutes of easy work or 15-20 minutes of hard work. Much more than that will start to eat into your ability to recover from your training sessions. It sounds like you’re doing longer sessions than that.
For instance, I use a homemade tire sled for my hard cardio, and if I do more than 2-3 15-minute sessions with it per week, my training will suffer. My “easy” cardio has to be walking or weight vest walking for 30-ish minutes. Anything more and my training suffers.
If you really over-do it on cardio, simply eating more won’t help you. Your nervous system and hormones won’t be able to recover. Just make sure you’re being smart about your cardio.
It’s me cycling at a low to moderate pace though while I watch YouTube on my TV. To burn the 400 calories usually takes me 70 minutes or more, because I’m not cycling at a crazy pace or anything. I find it more important these days to do regular cardio since we’re all in quarantine and the usually walking and physical exertion of going to work, doing stuff, etc. is no longer there. I’m just getting around a lot less these days, since you’re confined to your house.
I could easily replace the soy milk. I mean there are so many alternatives out there these days. I’m going to try cashew milk and see how I like that. Still have soy milk I want to finish off, but maybe I won’t buy anymore…I’ll think about it.
Last cycle I did 117.5x12 for bench and today I did 115 x13. If you calculate out the max rep it is essentially the same. Shouldn’t my bench be going up from cycle to cycle? Hope I’m not being annoyingly concerned. Just want to get a sense of whether I’m on the right track with bench.
Those retreat things are a once a month thing. Maybe next time I’ll do it when I don’t have to workout the next day.
On Wednesday I’m scheduled to press 92.5 lbs for my AMRAP. Last time I did 10x. Curious to see if I beat that. Aiming for 11. If I hit 10 only probably need to assess things further. Deadlift I’m expecting good progress and squat is still light. But my bench has always been a struggle.
You’ve not gained much if any BW since the start. If you want to become stronger you have to eat more.
You fasted the day before, you can do that if you’re in a caloric surplus, because your muscles will be full. When you’re eating to little fasting will drain the power especially on higher rep sets.
Pwn said it, listen to him he is wise, take a look in his log.
You do a PR top set and then a 5x5 FSL for TWO lifts every day.
Then you do a ton of assistance, you’re really under eating.
You are young take advantages of it, when you train hard eat big.
I’ve been going over your workouts, everyday you do either bench or OHP and everyday you do either dips or push ups, you’re pushing you delts and chest really hard, do some smaller exercise for triceps only as your push assistance.
You do a bit of chins and that’s it for back work.
I feel like dips are a tricep exercise. I could do skullcrushers. I do curls twice a week, which is probably not a good idea. I will replace one of those with DB rows.
The meditation/fasting day thing is something I do once a month, but I’ll try to schedule it differently next time. But yeah, that’s important to me so I won’t stop it and once a month shouldn’t matter that much.
My man, I really don’t even know what to do with this sentence. There are people that can’t do dips (and for a time, I was one of them) from shoulder injuries or something of that sort, but if you don’t fall in that category and are just brushing dips off, you’ll reap the appropriate benefits. Brushing dips off is also like brushing off Jim and a lot of really big people too, but we don’t even have to go there right now. Dips are, to some people, thought of as the single most effective exercise for chest hypertrophy.
