Sorry for not posting in a while, been really busy.
Yesterday official weigh in was 229lbs, thats a total of 15lbs gained so far. I’m sticking with ending my gaining on new years, this last month I’m going to eat for two, flat F’ing eat, anything and everything within reason, I want to try to maximize this last month of gaining, probably just get really fat but I don’t care, come the first of the year I diet down to sub 10% body fat, sitting around 13% now. I’ll diet this time until I have NO gut.
Fridays training was lost, to many commitments this weekend.
I tell ya, I’m feeling strong as hell just in day to day life. The other day I was at Dicks sports looking at some of the exercise equipment, walked up to a pull up bar to see if it would flex when I hung on it, without even trying pulled myself right up, didn’t even realize I’d pulled myself off the ground. Helped a buddy moved some heavy furniture last night, never broke a sweat while he was huffing and puffing all the way.
I haven’t felt this good in 10 years, thank you T-Nation.
Good stuff man… have fun eating for 2, you can count that as eating for you and me…
I decided to start CF 7 days behind the current WOD so I can see what misery is ahead of me, rather than waking every day and saying, “fuck my life.”
I wouldn’t worry about gaining fat, for us fat fuckers it happens… even after all this training we can’t fight off the fact that eating more than we need results in fat storage…
However, look on the bright side, your bench, squat, and DL should take a hefty leap up until you start cutting
If you can add any muscle it’ll also make life much easier when you start cutting in January…
Breakfast slept late:
apple
10oz burger
1/2 sweet potatoes
2nd meal
3 eggs
2 sausage patties
3 pancakes
3rd meal
8oz steak
30 almonds
4th meal
SURGE Recovery
5th meal
8oz steak
1/2 cup sweat potatoes
I F’d up my back at the gym tonight, stepped wrong with 245lbs on my back, not much weight it was my second set up squat. I was re-racking the weight and don’t know what happened exactly, just a dull tight pain in my muscle right above my glute. I tried to finish squats but it was pretty sore.
It was a fair workout, I’m going to need to warm up more, you’d have thought I’d learned my lesson on that. Thursday I’ll be doing reverse hypers first to get the back warmed up a little more.
Thanks man. I’m eating every 2-3 hours mostly clean and drinking only water, except for morning coffee. I know what you mean about eating shit, ever eat something bad and feel like crap afterward? It’s amazing how things I used to love now make me sick when I eat them.
Been a crazy day today, got up to cook my first meal and the Foreman grill croaked, SOB’s only 3-4 months old, I do use the piss out of it but still. Then my LCD monitor for my desk top computer died??? That’s only a couple years old, I’m wondering if we had a power surge or something?
Skipping school tonight, it snowed and I’d rather not get out in it.
I’ll be lifting tonight around 7p and will post that and food tomorrow or later tonight.
I really think my bar weighs 55lbs, I’ve thought it for a long time now but haven’t weighed it. Every time I lift at home I don’t lift as much or the weight feels considerably heavier. I got through it though, had my wife spot me, she did great.
Diet:
Breakfast
10oz burger
apple
1/2 cup sweet potatoes
I didn’t prepare as well as I could have so my diet was a little off.
Breakfast
10oz burger
1/2 cup sweet potatoes
8oz milk
2nd meal
8oz sirloin
almonds
3rd meal
double 1/4lber with cheese
4th meal
4 eggs
2tbsp PB
8oz milk
No training yesterday, I did shovel the driveway that was a decent workout.
Had a 2nd interview yesterday and meant to eat before I left for it but got caught side tracked shoveling the drive and ran out of time to eat, so thats where the double 1/4lber comes in.
Low box squat 50-60% of max 45-60sec rest
245 10x2
Chest supported row
60 4x8
glute ham raise
3x8
ab pull downs
70 5x10
Another solid workout, everything felt great. Doing the reverse hypers first really made a difference in warming up my back, felt fine through all sets. I love box squat, it really blasts the quads, the tape doesn’t necessarily show growth but they sure seem bigger.
Diet
breakfast
10oz burger
1/2 cup sweet potatoes
2nd meal
big ass omelet with spinach and mushrooms
3 whole grain pancakes
Lunges:
50db 1x5 per side
35db 1x8 per side
25db 1x9 per side
BW+25plate 1x10 per side
Reverse hypers:
30db 3x8
bar roll outs:
3x15
This program kicked my ass! I found out I have weak some seriously weak areas, for instance lunges, I suck at them, seriously weak. I was supposed to do 10 reps per leg, couldn’t manage to pull it off. I need to work on them.
I’d never attempted a good morning squat before, they’re…interesting. I was pretty impressed I managed to get as high as I did. The weight wasn’t that heavy in the squat part but the good morning part was rough, I think I could have gotten more weight but didn’t like my form which I didn’t want to F around with.
That’s some crazy heavy shit man… Maybe we have a different understanding of goodmornings or something… I can’t even fathom putting 315 on my back and bending over with it… without falling right over…
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That’s some crazy heavy shit man… Maybe we have a different understanding of goodmornings or something… I can’t even fathom putting 315 on my back and bending over with it… without falling right over…
Good work…
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Thanks man, it was heavy as heck for sure and I didn’t do them as well as the guy in the video but close. Thats why I stopped, my technique was…rough on the good morning part, the squat was just fine.
The program calls from ball push ups instead of what I call strap push up (straps hanging from the ceiling with handles) worked out from home last night so I didn’t have all the stuff I need.
Diet:
breakfast
10oz burger
almonds
2nd meal
8oz steak
bagel
2 tbsp pb
8oz 2% milk
3rd meal
8oz fillet
almonds
4th meal
Surge
10oz burger
4 slices of bread
5th meal
2 tbsp PB
4 eggs
Pretty much the same diet I’ve had for awhile. This is a shit ton of food and I forgot to weigh myself this morning, I’m sure I gained some weight.
This was just a workout, nothing special, I was in kind of hurry to get through it. Had a final and wanted to do some last minute studying prior to taking it.
Next week is the last week of this program, well the actual training, the following week is maxes and rest. I’m pretty sure I’ll get my squat goal (400lbs), my bench goal (300) is iffy, I’m sure I’ll get close. I believe I’ll leave the decision of how long to keep gaining on if I reach my goals.
military press
20lb band 1x20
5lb band 1x50 as fast as possible
ab pull down
140 4x15
Tried SURGE Workout Fuel tonight, fruit punch, not sure if the stuff really works or if it’s a placebo effect or what but I had tons of energy tonight. Had I had a spotter I could have gotten a lot more weight on the bench but with no one home doing heavy bench scares me.
Over all a damn fine training session and the SURGE Workout Fuel sure seems to be the real deal, unfortunately I won’t be training again until Monday so I won’t have chance to try it again until then.
Also got some chocolate Surge today, that’s a nice change from the regular flavor.
232lbs this morning. I’m struggling with the weight gain, totally mental, I’m very worried about getting fat. I’ve never had “abs” so it’s not like the 150lbers worried about their club gear not fitting.
I’m going to end the weight gaining Jan. 1 regardless of my maxes. I’m really ready to get rid of the gut forever.
pull down abs
5x15 I forget the weight, didn’t write it down???
Was supposed to do good morning squats but there isn’t room in my “cage” to do them properly so I went with regular squats. Tried to get 350 tonight but was lacking between the ears.
This was my second workout with SURGE Workout Fuel, I will say it gave me great energy. Before my workout I was really feeling sluggish and had almost fallen asleep on the couch so it helped get me going.
Woke up this morning and my elbow feels like it’s broken? Anatomically (and showing off my newly learned knowledge:)) The olecranon process feels like it’s cracked?? Guess I should go to the Dr. but it won’t be until after the first of the year.
I’m more than ready to start getting this fat off me, I’m getting uncomfortable at times, I don’t understand how I ever got to 300lbs.
haha
