I am currently planning to complete the Velocity diet in November, following a powerlifting competition.
I’m curious about training intensity on the diet, however. I’m competing as a way to get back in to lifting after a hiatus more so than to break records, so a slower month of strength gains in return for lower body fat (and a potentially lighter weight class) is fine with me, as long as I don’t go backwards or kill myself.
I’m following the westside barbell conjugate method. Dumb idea to do the diet in tandem?
Cardio is currently a walk through hills (Texas Hill Country if familiar) or taekwondo (have done other martial arts in the past, am going through the belt progression with my 4 year old daughter…. And improving kicks immensely.)
Thanks.
I’m on TRT at 200mg per week and Sermorelin, so recovery in general is a bit easier than natural.
I did my normal training for the 4 weeks, and did fine, and @T3hPwnisher trains harder than me and has held a similar diet (in concept) for months. You may even find you feel better with all the protein. I say go for it.
Fine-Tuning the Plan: You’ll learn how to customize the Velocity Diet to fit your personal needs better.
I do use Sermorelin, and it’s advised to wait a minimum of 1 hour after your last meal to inject, ideally two, so I would have to skip or reorganize the pre-bed shake.
I realize from an IIFYM perspective reorganizing shouldn’t be a problem, but also understand some diets are timed to specifically take advantage of a hormonal or metabolic process.
Any thoughts here? I could try to time shots between dinner and pre-bed but have a young family with varying evening activities so it’s not always within my control.
In this regard, I’d say the option of using Surge Workout Fuel in place of a serving of Metabolic Drive would be the right RX if one REALLY wants to drive the training intensity. Surge is just wild!