Is this because of your meet?
In one. It’ll mean meet day is my first day pulling in two and a half weeks or so, so I’ll be fresh AF. Plus it means I can knock off a last heavy squat on Monday which means I won’t have anything heavy on my back until meet day.
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Woke at 189.2 lbs, which I’m sort of confused by. Looking OK though, no bloating or softness I can see. Maybe a little soft, but nothing that jumps out. I guess maybe I’m holding water from having had a bit more salt than usual yesterday?
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Still trying to figure out why I’m heavier today.
Here’s how my mind works: check mirror, think I look OK. Remember I’m heavier, decide to check mirror again in case I missed something. Check mirror. Try really hard to see something wrong and fail. A bit later, check mirror again, still confused AF because I can’t see anything that jumps out as noticeably lost. At worst, I’m a bit softer than three days ago.
So, yeah, confused. Trying to see where I could have slipped up yesterday and eaten something I didn’t know I ate. The only thing I can come up with is that I did eat more salt: Vegemite for the first time in a while, then taro and beans as carbs for dinner which had quite a bit more salt than I’d usually have.
Calm the fuck down, lol! I often swing as much as seven pounds day to day. Slam water and wake up at 183 tomorrow.
All is well!
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I really should. Thanks @The_Myth.
Snow Whites stepmum ain’t got nothing on me!
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You sound like one of those kids in the beginners section of afraid of getting fat again 
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I could get all offended, but yep, spot on.
I’m never going to lie about or hide my insecurities because I accept them as part of who I am; and I suspect they’re a part of why I’m reasonably successful at what I set out to do.
I seem to run two personalities at once: the insecure, paranoid idiot who pops up periodically and the methodical, patient and largely unflappable relatively arrogant SOB who is in charge of things.
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I lost 5 lbs from bedtime to waking up. I think I woke up to pee twice but not 5 lbs worth. The body is weird. We’ll never fully understand it.
And yes, it’s probably the salt. I think my sunburn caused my body to retain water (or something) because I was 225 lbs the morning after. Again, strange things.
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I was listening to Dr Karl on the radio yesterday and he was saying that fat is mostly lost through your mouth. As in you breath in 80 Litres of air a day and expel 81 Litres carbon dioxide (numbers are arbitrary).
I don’t know much about that but I’m definitely going to research it more when I get the chance.
It’s true. There were several posts here quite awhile ago that got a lil out of hand.
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Today’s training
Lazy lifter plus shoulders
TM is 231 lbs
Work up from bar in 22 lbs x3-5, 20 pull aparts between sets
3x159 lbs, under 6 RPE but messy AF
3x187 lbs, under 6 RPE tidied right up
1x209 lbs, under 6 RPE
4x231 lbs, 9 RPE
Reality kicked in around here that refeed aside, the week has caught up with me. Decided to can backoff sets and dips and do minimal other assistance.
Did the following pretty much as a circuit
DB rows
13x150 lbs, straps - no workup, decided to have a go. Felt surprisingly good
Lat pull-downs, feet back and pause on chest
20x77 lbs - essentially failure, stopped when I couldn’t pause on my chest. Really good lat pump
Bis/tris
Strict seated incline curls 20x25 lbs
Long rope pushdowns, 23x44 lbs
No way I was going to do sprints but wanted to do something to spike my heartrate.
100x44 lbs KB swings in two minutes 33 seconds
All this took just under an hour and 10 minutes.
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Don’t. Pretty sure you realized my response of
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Don’t. This is why your log is so interesting and informative.
Keep it coming bro, and keep taking advice and criticism with the humor that you have demonstrated in the past. It’s really good shit.
Question - are you going to compete at 198 (90kg) or 181 (80kg). If at 181, do you have a cut plan? When do you weigh in, etc…
I’m curious.
FWIW, the last few weeks my weekly average has been 183 @13.1%. Today I woke up at 187.2 and 13.5%. A few hours ago I was 185.2 @ 13.3%
Mirror bro, mirror.
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Don’t be offended. I wish I posted enough for people to call me out when I feel fluffy.
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@The_Myth @dchris that was a remarkably poor choice of words on my part. I rely on you guys to be honest and call me out when I’m being an idiot.
I never took anything the wrong way at all.
Went to to the doc today because I felt like absolute horseshit coming back from the gym - and had a face to match. My fiancee has been telling me I look like a zombie for a while and I finally saw it today.
My logic was that because my strength seems to be coming back and I’m not losing scale weight it’s possible feeling drained like I have been the last couple of weeks isn’t - or isn’t entirely - linked to being low on calories. Plus, it feels a bit different to when I was at the tail end of Phase I. I doubt it’s the depression either, because I feel pretty good in those respects, definitely in a pretty good place mentally.
Got my blood pressure checked, both sitting and standing and it came back pretty much identical at 120/95 or thereabouts, with a 75 bpm resting heartrate. Doc seemed happy with that. She sent me off to get some blood work and a urinalysis done. The only thing she mentioned as a possibility was EBV. I should know Monday, apparently.
On the plus side, if it is EBV all I need to do is harden up and push through until it clears. It’ll just feel like shit for a while, and pretty much all the heavy work is done for the meet bar one heavy squat next week (heavy bench isn’t that taxing compared to squat and DL).
So, yeah, spent a large chunk of today asleep. Hopefully I’ll sleep tonight.
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At 181 lbs - unless today isn’t an aberration, I walk around close to 185 lbs most of the time, so 181 lbs is within easy enough reach. It’s a 24 hour weigh in, which makes life much easier. I’m planning on sweating it out, I have access to a sauna and a steam room at work.
If my post refeeds are anything to go by, I should be back to ‘normal’ weight within two or three days. Oh, and I had a thought about this morning’s weight: possibly a bunch of salt from the refeed was just sitting in my gut and took a while to be absorbed, hence being heavier two mornings after instead of one morning.
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Here are the week’s highlights
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Are you trying to summon the powers of Chuck Vogelpohl with that beanie?
A little, maybe. Mostly I’m trying to avoid my own powers flying out my ears to escape the cold.
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Oh yeah, it’s winter in Australia. Weird how that works.
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