You’ve been hitting it hard, and your right… you gotta roll with it when your feeling good. I did lots of twoadays in contest prep and loved it. Training session in the morning and a Conditioning sesh in the evening.
Hopefully you wake refreshed and ready to attack again. When do you thing realistically you’ll pull the 500? I’m admittedly ignorant to how fast these things progress…
I’ll be trying it on the 22nd or 23rd. I think I can get it right now on the deadlift bar. My previous best was 500 on the power bar and 545 on the deadlift bar.
How long have you been on the new pump supplement? Could you just be retaining some extra fluid?
I’m not strictly following LeanGains at all. I’m skipping breakfast and not eating until noon. I’m trying to do a better job of eating more protein and less carbs. That is the extent of it, and fat seems to be melting away at a pretty steady rate for me!
I’ve only taken that supplement two or three times now. I don’t take it every day. I save it for workouts that actually use muscles in which I like to feel the pump!
I’ve also started creatine again so I expect to see some water retention from that. I started pounding the creatine last Thursday or Friday so the change from Sunday to Monday was a surprise. I was 224.0 today. I think I’m just full in the morning. I’ve successfully hit my IF window the last two days which is 1230pm - 730pm. I’ve been eating two big meals and I suspect the evening one is just filling me up more than usual.
I’m struggling to get enough protein each day. I have to drink a double protein shake to even get to 1 gram per pound of body weight each day. I enjoy eating, but I like variety, too. I could eat more chicken to get more protein but it’d be nice to mix in some red meat (burgers, steak, roast), but too much of that will just end up being too many calories. I don’t know how the leangains guy does it.
95% lean, maybe?
Also, I don’t know who the leangains guy is, but I cook most of my food in a slow-cooker and then a lot of the fat ends up… there. It’s not as perceivable with say 95% lean beef, but with a whole chicken it’s rather striking.
95% lean is lame! I like ribeye and t-bone steaks. The fat is what makes the cuts tasty. 
And who doesn’t love a good burger?
I can make these things fit into my diet, but not if I need 350 grams of protein. The leangains diet sugggests 60% of your calories be protein. I just don’t know how to do that without drinking most of it.
Yeah, that’d be tough. But 2-3 shakes I think is okay. Here’s a daily meal plan that tallies in at 400g protein with two shakes (4000 calories though, but a lot of that is cause by the salmon)
400 grams at 4000 calories. Perhaps I could adapt it to 280g and 2800 calories…
It’s good to see the Mountain Dog drinks a good portion of protein, too.
It’s very coincidental that you shared that. Earlier this week, I watched Meadows’ shoulder session and back session and adopted quite a bit of it. I guess I’m turning into a fanboy.
Been listening to some mind pump podcasts recently, Meadows is a guest on one, very interesting.
SQUAT
135 x 5
165 x 5
195 x 3
225 x 3
255 x 1
285 x 1
DEADLIFT
205 x 5
255 x 3
295 x 1
335 x 5 singles
SMITH INCLINE 1.5s
115 x 10, 10, 8+2
I guess the creatine is working well. I’ve been getting stuck at 6 reps on the third set.
DB LAT RAISE DROP SET
20 x 15
15 x 10
10 x 10
5 x 20
Running short on time so just ran this.
DIPS
BW x 12, 12, 9
Trial and error here… the verdict is still out as to whether or not this hurts my shoulder. I kept the reps pretty shallow and emphasized my chest.
When you replace SGSS with reactive pump I’ll second the fanboy remark 
with all this talk of Meadows it sounds like you are becoming a bodybuilder J ???
I’ve been touting Meadows for two years! Get on board, everyone!
I kinda forgot about Meadows. I ran a program of his a while back - might need to give him another shot. Feel like it’d help with my upper body training.
Hmmmm. Haven’t read about reactive pump, but I have seen Scott McNally’s muscle sets (I think that’s what they’re called…).
Where have you been??? That’s my entire goal for the foreseeable future. Bigger upper body muscles and a decent deadlift.
I blame T-Nation. I haven’t seen much of his stuff on here… or maybe it showed up when I stopped reading the articles.
Alright, I read a little about this and there’s no danger of me adopting that method. For starters, I don’t buy Plazma.
Mate I have been here in the background just quietly watching. I heard you say you wanted an upper body like a bodybuilder but what I saw you do was deadlift every day, lowish volume on upper body movements (compared to my old bro split days) and talking about fasting and how your abs looked.
I am a simple guy and all this confused me and made me forget what i heard.
Ok, fair enough. 
Deadlifts are my favorite and will always be there. I’m loving the daily stuff but three program is coming to an end. Once I reach my goal I’ll have to keep my word and try it on squat.
The nutrition plan is to eat at maintenance and see what happens. I’m still not tracking my food so there’s a decent chance I’ll be eating a surplus.
