Here is a happy man - he eats pizzas and pastries without worries, but he is in great shape 
Do you generally eat such foods often?
I only eat this type of foods. I burn way too much calories daily. When i was a full time fighter i used to burn around 9000kcal a day. Now when i joined the MMA team again, and am back in the cage, i have no chance to eat as much as i need to gain weight so i just eat most caloric dense foods and hope for the best.
My maintenance when i stay in bed is 3500. With gym session itās 4000. Now when i have some private clients in kickboxing or self defense, its extra 500 every hour. I usually have 2-3 of those. Add MMA training, some walks with my girl + the fact i need a surplusā¦i cant afford to NOT eat pizza every meal.
Also i hate to train full so i dont eat in the morning. I have my clients from 8AM, i train around 10-11AM so my first meal is around 1-2PM. I have to stuff all the kcals in. I also practically dont drink water. I only drink stuff with sugar in it.
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I would be so fat if I took your approach haha. But I have a desk job. I think I burn around 3500 kcals typically, but if I ate only high calorie dense foods and drank only drinks with sugar, I think I would consistently eat in a surplus.
I have this weird thing yea, i dont think i actually burn so much with the activity, its just that i somehow feel actually hot the rest remaining day and also night. I cant stop sweating like 4 hours after my MMA training or any sort if cardio. I believe my metabolism gets ramped up 10 times the normal person would, and there i just walk around burning calories like wood in a furnace.
Like i was in this slow-half ass recomp for a long time, and then i decided to fuck it and cut fast, before i start my blastā¦ So i just did extra cardio, ate cleaner and i basically woke up in my current leanness after like 6-7 days even tho i tought id need like 3 weeks at least and much more cardio and much cleaner diet.
Its also kind of weird that slow cutting doesnt work. I guess thats because my metabolism works when i do LOTS of work, but also eat A LOT.
If id do only some steady cardio and be in like 500kcal deficit, id be fat forever. Now when i do 2 hour MMA sessions, take a bit stricter diet approach, i can get lean in a week and when im there, i cant get fat anymore at all, unless i cut out all the movement thats not gym, and force feed fatty meats etc.
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Its been a few weeks since i am on 875mg of test and 700mgs of tren-ace a week.
My head felt kind of dull so i decided to measure my BP as i havent done that for a week or so. Was ready to see a bad one, butā¦ 122/60ā¦
So i remembered that this morning i got a pretty rough elbow to the head in training, so thats probably the reason i feel like this.
Anyways, what i noticed is that my BP is a bit lower on the days i do fasting and also have a lot of fight training, as i sweat more and lose water i guess.
Thats probably the reason i have no heart problems after my 2 year tren blast, and it seems that my BP is just very fine on these doses. I also feel no other sides. Its basically a bit of fasting and a loooooot of super high intensity cardio. Will see how this works out as the years go by but for now i feel very happy.
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@mnben87 you said taking taurine can help with backpumps you got from some gearā¦ how much and how/when did u take it?
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Iāve only tried it a few times. I canāt really say for sure if it works or not (for me, others do seem to think it works). My buddy that takes Taurine for pumps said start at like 3 grams pre workout (like an hour before). If that doesnāt help, move up a gram at a time. I think he uses 6 grams pre workout when on orals.
I think Vigorous Steve has a video or two out there, where he recommends 5 grams pre-workout to start. I donāt agree with everything he has said, but it does line up with what my buddies have said.
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No pump, didnt train at all today, full day of eating, end of the day after work, before bed. Just realistic look of me before i go to sleep at night. Weight was 253lbs in the morning. Biceps 17,5 inches or a bit over that.
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Did a 220lbs overheadpress for 5 reps today as my new PR.
Probably could have done 6th rep also, cuz i was aiming for 3ā¦ was shocked about the 4th, and the 5th i did pretty much with a āprobably wont happenā attitude so it did stick for a split second, but still went up good. Would have done 6 if id knew that i can try and would have started strong with the very first rep. Anyways, this wasnt really the goal, so im super excited as i did reset my OHP a month back, so this is only the beginning of it.
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Even tho i PRd OHP, for some weird reason my lower body lifts have taken a dive.
And today after doing a lighter day of deadlifts + FSL of even lighter 5x5 i got hit by the overtraining feeling of fever, painful skin and all that crap.
All i did for legs was 85% for 5 and 5x5 with a 65%.
I would be ok with this shit feeling if i would have PRed. But NO. I did reset the TM, i did the lower weight, i did the lightest day of the cycle.
For a while i have been wondering, how to gain some strenght in lower body without building muscle. The problem is that i am 255 with abs, and i have nowhere near the upper body size i would like. Which means if this continues like that i would be like 300 at least and that is not a good weight and i dont want it.
So i dropped all the assistance work for legs and just stick to 531 OG + FSL for legs and then this happens.
I think i will skip legs for like 2 weeks now, finish this cycle, then reset TMs even more and then i will start to do legs like once every 10-14 days, depending on how my schedule will be. I will do legs in a LillieBridge Method kind of way - Squat Heavy/DL Light or DL Heavy/Squat Light. So i will do 531 Deadlift with FSL Squats or the other way around the next time i train legs.
I think i wont need any deloads doing it like this, and i will use the extra day for some cardio or extra bodybuilding pump work.
Who knows, maybe my upper body will grow a bit better if lower body stops destroying my CNS.
Its been years already that deadlifting is basically destroyoing my life and even tho i love deadlifts and squats, i think i am done obsessing about them.
A small part of this idea came from @Andrewgen_Receptors saying that he doesnt deadlift for simmilar reasons, so i will give this a go.
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Did a PR of 350 x 3, then did my last single PR of 375 x 1 and then hit a yolo 405ā¦ Went better than expected, i could probably have gone for 415 or however that translates(190kgs) but i actually didnt feel good during the whole session, so imma take my new PR, believe that i had some extra left and just reset my TMs and train for a few months and aim for a 405 for 3ā¦
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congrats on the PR
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Just wondering 180 kg or 405 lbs? If it is the former, I think 405 is for sure there with how it moved.
Isnt 405 a four plate bench?
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It is if the bar and plates are 45 lbs each. If you use 20 kg plates (44 lbs roughly) and a 20kg bar it ends up at like 396 lbs. The US at least pretty much uses 45 lb bars and plates. Some places lb plates are rare, and most the stuff is in KG.
It moved fast though. You have 405 lbs in you.
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I might have fucked up then as i always tought we use same plates and 4 plates = 4 plates. To think of it it might make sense why in my home gym i cant lift what i can in a regular gym - i might have american plates there. Ill just not use lbs so i dont fuck up 
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In Powerlifting they use mostly calibrated KG plates. Even in the US. So I have to do math when I use KG plates. 1 kg = ~2.205 lbs.
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It seems that there could be the smallest plate difference to 405, yeaā¦ i guess ill never do an actual 405 because with kg plates its not really possible and my ocd acts up if im doing āsmall platesā
Congratulations. That is no joke with the length of your arms and leverage situation.
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Arms do look long and skinny as fuck in the video, yea Horrible genetics 