Woke at 224 lbs, looking soft and pretty bloated. Dinner was big and salty, and I ate a bunch over the day too so not surprising. Actually, I kind of expected to be heavier TBH. Didn’t expect the bloat. Go figure.
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Jesus christ, you will be a big man. You going for 272 or whatever that weight class is now?
@Destrength call it the 275 lbs class (125 kg), but I’m shooting for 264 lbs bodyweight because I’m pretty sure that’s what I’ll need. I didn’t think I’d get to 220 lbs not being a lard-arse. I’d didn’t think I’d get to 220 lbs non-fat this quickly. Ergo, I need to be bigger. If I keep this rate of gain (4-5 lbs per month) and it stays at the current muscle:lard ratio, that’s nine or so months and I’m around goal weight.
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Sounds like it’ll be delicious. I assume you are cutting afterwards?
Not unless I have to. I want my total. What I look like comes a distant second. I have zero issues carrying a power belly around as long as my numbers justify it.
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Mark what work are you going on conditioning outside of your lifting? Have you considered the impacts of carrying that extra weight on flexibility and conditioning?
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Yesterday’s training was 5x3x258 lbs DL, so not really worth mentioning
Today’s training
Pull-ups (8) and hand release push-ups (8)
Wide grip bench press (pointer finger on ring)
10xbar
8x88 lbs
2x25x126 lbs - kept sliding up the bench, second set was suckful. Pec pump was insane
Skull crushers
10x88 lbs
2x10x77 lbs
Lat pulldowns
10x143 lbs
2x10x154 lbs
DB rows
2x20x100 lbs
DB lateral raises
4x12x25 lbs
Plate raise
25 total reps with 33 lbs
Plank
Meant to be three minutes. Was actually three minutes rest/pause
Done in an hour and 10 minutes
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@simo74 bar walking the dogs nothing. All I need is to be able to keep the pace during my training, which TBH Greg’s programming kind of ensures with those horrible short rest sets he loves; and I’m determined to keep my sessions well under 90 minutes, which means I push my pace on the assistance work. We do enough bodyweight work that I’m confident I’ll keep that side of things going well too.
As long as my increased weight is more muscle than fat, I’ll get stronger. My mobility isn’t an issue that I’m concerned about, and I make sure to safeguard it. It’s not like anything I do places much of a demand on me to be particularly mobile, so I’m good.
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Nice workout. I’ll try and beat it tomorrow…
Are you allowed to superset the movements at all mark? I find that let’s me cut sessions down considerably… As long as it’s smart pairing too it wouldn’t or shouldn’t affect performance.
Delt raises and lat pull downs
Skull crushers and db rows for example
If you’re trying to cut time
Unless I completely misunderstood the post…which is very likely. I don’t eat meat you see so my brain don’t work good
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Yup 
@kleinhound
No, I’ve got no issue with the time. Unless I’m a lazy prick I’ll take under 90 minutes and that’s all I need to keep within.
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Lol, I’m usually in and out in less than an hour.
Guess our results reflect the different approaches.
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Woke at 222.9 lbs, all bloat and softness gone. That’s with a 4200ish calorie day yesterday, just much lower salt
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You do less stuff though @The_Myth.
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That’s what he means.
Not that there’s necessarily a correlation between how much stuff you do and how that impacts your results. I also eat probably double what @The_Myth eats.
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Yeah, it isn’t how much you do. It’s how much quality work you do and recover from.
When you start pissing coca cola, it’s best to pull back. ;)
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There fixed that for you.
This just reminds me I have to eat more!
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I wouldn’t go that far, although we had sushi for lunch and when I had finished my two trays I ate the wife’s tray, because she ended up not liking it.
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Lol, doing sushi ‘like a boss’
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