Hiya,
I’m very busy at the moment, that doesn’t mean I’m slacking, though.
I’ve made some decent progress and look forward to the photo updates.
Now it’s cardio time: Audiosurf - Prodigy Out of Space - YouTube
Morning!
I’m getting visible changes in body composition on a daily basis, now. Two cardio sessions a day are paying off big time! Who’d u thunk it?
The belly inches are dropping, but my bodyweight is fluctuating like a fickle bitch.
My strength is going up, but that’s no surprise at all, since I’m training suboptimally in training loads, training frequency and training volume. The stimulus seems to be enough to keep the muscle, though. I’m averaging about 3-4 lifting sessions a week, each one about 55 min. That’s about 18 % of my total weekly training time.
Besides, I’ve found lots of trigger points in my forearms which are responsible for a big part of my wrist pain. Battling pain with pain is a nice change of pace.
I can’t say it often enough:
THIS.
IS.
CARDIOPOLIS.
Off I go to indulge in this bodybuilder’s sin.
Had 63 min on the stationary this morning.
My endurance is going through the roof.
I’ve been quite the endurance athlete in my youth and I’m looking forward to get there, again - this time in buff mode, though.
Hey, you guys!
I’ve made some good progress, especially in the butt area. As crazy as I sometimes seem: I won’t post photos of my lean and mean butt…unless you provoke me, that is >_>
Apart from my leaner glutes, the most changes have occured in the pec and love handle areas.
First, some comparison shots:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4821/w3ig8.jpg
And here are a few shots that showcase my weakest areas in terms of body fat distribution: da pec and da lowa belly fat.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2236/addpt0.jpg
I’m sure that I’ll finally get that bodybuilder look after those areas will be - to a certain degree - lean.
Yesterday, I’ve felt kinda worn down and planned a refeed for today, but now, after finally getting enough shut-eye, I feel better, have a slightly higher body temperature and decided to cancel the refeed. Since my wrists are feeling better, I hope I’ll be able to include some direct arm work in about 4 weeks or so. It’d be a pity to not let those guns grow to their full potential.
On a side note: I haven’t felt small, yet. I guess that’s attributed to the fact that I’ve been a low-carber for the last 3 years and thus not used to having big fluctuations in my muscles’ circumferences. My flexed bicepses are at 17.3 (right) and 17.1 (left) inches each.
Btw, I’ve already hinted at it, yesterday: I’ve given much thought to getting back into endurance training. If my knee’ll hold up and get better, I’ll start to train for a traditional 18 km (about 11.25 miles, I guess) run that’s taking place in december. Since I won’t ever be able to reach my full potential in bodybuilding (injuries), but still want to compete at something and actually be good at it, that’s the thing I’ll give a shot at. If everything goes according to plan, I’ll be lean and mean by august 2008 and thus start training for the run in september 2008.
Now, it’s cardio time.
Ok, folks.
I’ve talked about not feeling small although I’m on a diet in my last post: well, guess what? I went against my plan and had my carb-up on saturday (it was a lot of hard work and almost no fun) and stepped onto the scale on sunday. Well, talk about a 4 lbs weight increase. I looked and felt somewhat fuller and took a photo for comparison reasons. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Neither the tape measure of my flexed bicepses (19 inches right, 18.8 inches left).
Yep, it’s only water, but damn! It makes quite the difference. Needless to say that yesterday’s lifting session was very intense.
I so wish I wasn’t a carb-sensitive guy.
Cardio time!
Cardio.
I feel very slugghish today, so: no lifting, only a steady state cardio session.
Some random thoughts:
having looked back over my lifting years, today, I realized that I’ve never really bulked.
The first 4 years had been spent stuffing my face with anything edible. Then I had embarked upon getting lean and entered a circle of getting lean, (re-)injurying myself and getting not-so-lean.
True, I’ve built some muscle over my last 3 low-carb years, but I look forward to being lean, to settle at that shape for quite a while and then to slowly and sensibly bulk.
For the first time ever.
The bike beckons.
[quote]FattyFat wrote:
Morning!
As is clearly obvious from yesterday’s photos my pecs are lagging behind big time.
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Pardon the intrusion, and I know you posted this a while back, but I’m curious as to what is making you thing your pecs are lagging behind “big time” ? Maybe it’s just the shot, but you look reasonably balanced to me.
(feel free to mock me if I’m making a fool of myself)
Not at all, darwin.
My pecs used to be bigger and stronger, that is all. Just take a look at that side chest photo of march 2007.
If something is smaller than it used to be while other things in relation to it stayed more or less the same size, that something is lagging behind.
Now: cardio.
I just had a great lifting session and all in all logged 82 min of cardio, today.
Day by day my form is improving; my health, too. I just don’t get why I weigh more than 200 lbs; last week I was at exactly 200 lbs. I guess it must be water, although I look pretty un-watered. Muscle it can’t be. And neither do I have digestive problems.
It seems you can only trust the mirror.
Well, we’ll see.
Fatty over and out. -.-
Guess what I’m gonna do now?
Surprise, surprise: cardio.
Training is going good.
Some wrist issues from bad keyboard and mouse ergonomics and writing LOC after LOC. Trigger point therapy to the rescue!
Since my ankle is getting better, I’ve replaced one of my two daily cardio sessions with HIIT; my progress is skyrocketing ever since.
But my weight is slowly climbing up and my waist is getting tighter. I’ll post some photo updates this weekend. For now, check out the teaser (right before today’s morning HIIT session) above.
On a side note: it’s a cool thing that my muscles look thick in carb depleted mode. Can’t wait to finish this diet to up my carb intake a little.
Check out that rippling fat :)) lol…looking good man. Personally, I’d be surprised if you needed to drop down below 180 to see your abs. You’re carrying a good bit more muscle mass than gustavopacho did at the same weight (though you don;t have his ungodly proportions) and youre a little taller.
No photos this weekend. I ended up getting a flu and it shows.
Yes, Mr. Tsvangirai, the fat’s rippling and crackling, as it befits a good steak. Let’s hope I’ll manage to get a good tan this summer.
I’m not sure about not needing to go sub-180 to see my abs. I’ll go as low as necessary; I just weigh in once a week and use the mirror and tape measurements as the sole progress metrics. As long as I don’t end up losing muscle, it wouldn’t even bug me to end up at 160. Luckily, I’ve never been very obsessed about my weight.
Fatty drags his hairy ass to bed, now.
Still got the flu.
Don’t expect an update before the weekend after next.
Ah, contrary to my last post, here’s another post. Just wanted to point out how cool The Police are live on stage!
Recently, I had the opportunity to see them live and I’ve been blown away. That old boys know how to drive a crowd and - damn! - they still kick ass! I guess that had been my first and last opportunity to see them live and it was worth it. I’ve already had known Sting’s live performance, but I had never seen Copeland or Summers on stage and - wow! That Copeland guy beat his drums like a dervish and Summers’ guitar game was cool as ever.
True to Sting’s standards, all songs had been tweaked a little (if you know his “All This Time” album of 2001, you know what I mean). Cool thing!
Here are some impressions for your delectation:
Message In A Bottle:
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic:
King Of Pain:
Can’t Stand Losing You:
And how could I forget?
Roxanne:
And how does all of that pertain to my training?
New songs!
The last few days I kept doing moderate steady state cardio in the morning to check if I’m fit again for training duty.
This morning I was ready and did a HIIT session.
Generally, my HIIT sessions are simple.
This is the general schedule:
-warm up for 5 min while steadily increasing the velocity up to v_ss at resistance r (there are only 8 resistance levels and I don’t know how they translate to concrete metrics; so, this is a rather relative metric)
-6* [ 1 min at about 1,3*v_ss at (r+1) + x min at v_ss and r ]
-cool down for 2-3 min down to about 0.75*v_ss
Tonight I’m going to do a 30 min steady state cardio session while tomorrow will be a lifting day.
Feisty Fatty had a great training, albeit he wasn’t able to beat his last one on account of a severe lack of sleep for a few days, high temperatures and today’s HIIT session.
But, alas: training feels good.
HIIT in the mornings, steady state cardio in the evenings, lifting three times a week.
Damn, that works.
I need to take more care about my sleeping patterns, though. 3-4 hours a night are just not enough. After a few days/nights like these my idiocy usually shows in my lower belly area.