So drained and hungry. Grumpy AF so took an opportunity to nap and more blacked out than anything. Then woke ravenous, managed to pull myself back from an unplanned binge. To feel full hit vegetables. Ate a whole head of broccoli and a bit over a pound of sauerkraut.
One meal left, will fit everything necessary in. Go me.
I think I might have a skipload tomorrow. It’s been almost two weeks and my energy levels have been fucked for the last few days. Weight has stayed in the 182.6-184.8 lbs window and appearance has been in a good place. I don’t see how it’s bad idea, and I’ll shift DL to Monday next week to take full advantage.
That is some will power…and also like 100 calories so very well done!!!
Woke at 187 lbs, but looking good. No bloat, no softness, nothing. Weird. I’m guessing it’s vegetable weight.
I thought I’d chuck up a couple of pictures. It occurred to me I may be missing something because I’ve been rating my physique highly for a while.
Relaxed
Flexed
Shitty biceps
Less shitty triceps
Whatever this is
Plus these back and legs
Magnificent posing, reminds me of Lee Labrada
But I gotta say, you are looking decently crispy!
Thanks! I haven’t a clue how to pose really. I’ll take a class at some point, because I want to learn how.
Good to know it isn’t just me, though. I’m generally quite critical of myself but it helps having an outsider’s view - especially someone who knows about these things.
Skipload is now t minus three or four hours. Today it’ll be a bunch of nachos from our favourite place, then a bunch of tarts and cakes from my favourite bakery. I’ll look watery AF tomorrow but should be back to this morning’s look by mid week. If I’m not, I’ll know I need longer gaps between skiploads.
After today, I’ll hold off for about three weeks. I’ve got a regular day week coming up, then nights next week, then going to Melbourne for a long weekend with my fiancee. That’s two weeks from today. My metabolism tends to be sub-par during night shift so there’s no way I’d skipload then. I also wanted to avoid skiploading in Melbourne because I won’t be training - I’ll eat well but within my split and calorie budget. I’ll probably skipload next a week after the trip, so three weeks out from now. That’ll be three weeks out from meet day. After that, I’ll hold off and have my next skipload after weighing in a day before competing.
Skipload time
The chocolate and peanut butter brownie defeated me. It weighed about the same as a fractional plate. I strategically left it till last, but only got through two thirds of it. For the record: salted caramel eclair ring, cherry pie and banoffee pie were the other three.
Now that is a skipload!!!
I’m glad this is working out for you because it doesn’t work for me… at least not on this level.
I used to treat myself to a cheat meal every week or two. Unfortunately, I got to the point that it took me the entire week to recover. I’d put down 4000-5000 calories with my cheat meal. It was usually pizza and ice cream of some sort. One of my favorite (and cheapest) pizzas is Pizza Hut’s Meatlovers. Large, hand tossed crust comes in around 450 calories per slice. 8 of those and you’re well on your way… and of course I had to have my sweet tooth fix which was my Dairy Queen blizzard that’s over 1600 calories. I’d wake up the next morning feeling like I did back in college after a night of heavy drinking.
You have good taste. In college, if it wasn’t Panda Express, it was little cesears with garlic butter dipping sauce. Then I’d make the batter to the .88 cent brownie mix at winco and put that on top of a 1/2 gallon of ice cream. Sometimes if I was feeling uber patient, I’d bake the brownies for half the time, that way it was warm, crispy AND gooey batter.
I can’t even imagine how many calories I used to eat.
There are times that I wish I still lived in ignorance about calories and my food choices. My college meals used to consist of 6 frozen taquitos and salsa, 20 mozzarella sticks and spaghetti sauce, a large can of Bush’s baked beans, a random amount of pasta and half a jar of alfredo sauce… those were the good old days. No six pack, but I didn’t stress about food. Now I’m all educated and know better so there is often guilt associated with that crap.
It’s something I’m playing with at Jeremy’s suggestion (the guy I go to for nutrition advice now). Early days to tell how effective it is, but so far so good. I think it’s because on all other days I’m still eating really not much. I’m averaging something like 2420 cal/day.
Woke at 187.7 lbs, and looking waaaay less soft and watery than morning after last skipload. Some bloating around lower abs, not as sharp as yesterday, but that’s about it. Happy days.
I thought skip loads were supposed to be high carb low fat? Pizza should be a no go?
Even if that is with out the skip load that is probably still close to a deficit?
There are a couple of variations depending on what you need, usually processed carbs are the focus, but some fat is okay (emphasis should be on carbs anyway)
Hopefully I remembered this correctly, it has been a while since I read the principles
@BOTSLAYER pretty much. It’s mid range maintenance for my LBM.
Today’s training
Lazy lifter
Sumo DL, DL bar
Work up from 132 lbs in 44 lbsx3-5 to 60%, five pull-ups between sets - kept these neutral grip and at five to keep elbows happy.
2x346 lbs, under 6 RPE, double overhand
2x396 lbs, under 6 RPE, straps
1x445 lbs, 6 RPE, straps
1x495 lbs, 9 RPE, mixed grip - came out of position making life difficult. Mixed grip is not ideal for sumo. Noticed that paused sumo DL helped a ton when straining early on.
Decided to work back up in singles as nothing felt convincing
1x346 lbs, under 6 RPE, mixed grip
1x396 lbs, under 6 RPE, mixed grip
1x445 lbs, 6 RPE, mixed grip
0x495 lbs, mixed grip, missed, came out of position again - stupid mixed grip
Decided to try again with hook grip
1x445 lbs, 8-9 RPE, hook grip - OK, wow, hook grip on a DL bar works
1x445 lbs, 9 RPE, hook grip - yep, hook grip works
3x3x346 lbs paused off the floor, 6-7, 7 and 8 RPE, straps
Very happy with the discovery of hook grip working. No more fucking around with mixed grip for sumo.
Squats
5x2x275 lbs
10x2x286 lbs
Took 13 minutes.
Focused on positioning at the start, seems to work well. Kept working on acceleration into lockout as well.
Back raises with squeeze at top and slow eccentric
30 with footpads high
30 with footpads low
Band kneeling cable crunches, medium band
30, 25
Supersetted with
44 lbs plate raises
12, 10 - little bit too heavy, but lit my traps up
I must find out more about this skiploading.
Says the fatman.
Have you tried Pullups on swinging rings? They are slightly tougher but allows your elbows and arms to find their own path of movement. It may allow you to get more volume for Pullups while keeping your elbows happy.
