She started out a little soft, then I told her to give’er back there, that I wasn’t here for pleasure but to fix my tweaked back. Then she started jamming away trying to find the tender spots to work out. She found a few good spots that made my entire backside twitch and then worked on a little hip psoas mobility. She said psoas and erector spinae were the main culprits on my left side, while my glutes were tight on the right. I love deep tissue massages, it is an enjoyable pain.
The dumbbells I bought (150lbs I think), they were advertised as 140lbs. A buddy went and picked them up for me. I just unloaded them into the garage and counted 7x10lb plates per side plus a 5. Looks to me like 150lbs (not counting the handle weight). No markings on them that I could see saying what they weigh. Either way, they are beasts.
That will likely be what I do once the dumbbells are at my house (once constructed). Currently just being stored with my other equipment and don’t really care what they weigh until I am going to use them!
I’ve been putting it in my omelettes too. I know some people aren’t a fan of cottage cheese, but I love it and it has pretty great macros too.
Haha, it seems that we have similar taste buds! This is a pretty regular meal for me as well.
Rear delt raises/flyes.
If there is one thing that could be taken away from my training log, I’m happy that this is it.
Thanks Mort. Diet has been pretty solid (minus this past weekend).
5th set seems to be working well for me, I’m excited to actually put it to the test and run a proper peak to see what numbers I can get on the platform.
The DBs are going to be great for rowing. Starting to do sets of 20reps on my 100lb DBs, so it will be nice to have the heavier stimulus for DB rows. Some Kroc rows are in my future!
I’m getting more consistent at taking my morning weigh-ins for tracking. I’m back to my new low of 218.2lbs this morning after the spike from the weekend.
I’ve been reading “The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped” - by Martin Berkhan, and started to employ some tactics from the method. I’ve been skipping breakfast and sticking to two meals per rest day and three meals per workout day (down from eating/grazing constantly throughout the day). This has made calorie restriction much easier for me. I’m a bit of an “all-or-nothing” dieter, which is why things like this or 5/2 diet are more up my alley than a 24/7 moderate calorie restriction.
Morning hunger pangs are becoming less and less noticeable (and this is only day 4), and the two large (~1150cal) high protein meals in the second half of the day seem to keep me satiated. This seems to be an easy way to control calories through the week, we will see what the weekend brings along!
I am playing in a charity pond hockey tournament which includes a meal and a drink from the local pub. I’ll consider those calories earned from playing hockey.
Hahaha, so true! It was borderline making me uncomfortable how much he loves himself, his horse is high. I wouldn’t go out and recommend buying the book to anyone yet (I’m only about half way through it, after scrolling past most of his intro about why he decided not to be an astronaut…jk), but it did put the idea in my head to try IF and helped wash away any of my pre-conceived notions of muscle loss from IF (whether truthful or not is TBD). I see it being a good way for me to restrict calories, but honestly there are also a ton of articles on TNation I could have just read to accomplish the same. It just happened that I stumbled on this ebook and it was the medium that led me to giving it a go!
Hmm… I’m intrigued. I know I’m not going to waste away if I don’t eat on a schedule like a bodybuilder. But I also admit that I’m at a stage where adding muscle is difficult at best and damn near impossible at worst. I’m paranoid that if I don’t get some protein in my body every four hours or so then I’m impeding my ability to grow. I know I won’t shrink, but I also won’t grow.
I might be able to do a twice a day 1000+ calorie meal. I haven’t been consistent with much of anything lately. I’ve been disciplined until dinner time. At that point, I eat a full meal of 600-800 calories and I’m still hungry so I go for something else. It’s easy to let the extras get away from me. And they’re always carbs.
Rear delt raises/flyes.
