Thanks for confirming. Really? I always figured my quads are kind of lagging behind compared to my hams/glutes.
Dude, my gaydar already exploded in the other thread. I’m not checking out your ass!
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Very understandable. I’ll use a mirror.
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Haha seriously, if you decide to get really lean, you’ll see what I mean.
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Right around that probably. Some great quads right there!!
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Always hard to tell, guessing you’re right there. I don’t get too wound up about it, in spite of weighing and BIA everyday, entering and averaging for the week, lol. I mainly use it to see a trend. Right now I’m trying to gain, so I see it creeping up a little and I know my calories are in a surplus, as desired.
Legs looking beefy (no homo)!
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Thanks guys! Seven to eight per cent to go then. I think. I’ll see if I like what I look like when I’m there.
What the hell @MarkKO 
why was I not included in the names asked for feedback?!? Does my opinion not matter at all here?!?
HA! Completely joking! Nice legs 
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Feeling vaguely more normal today. Still hungry, but no surprises there. Plazma is being a real lifesaver in training. Took some overtime so I decided to run DL and bench together today.
Today’s training
Agile 8
Deadlift
Two chest to bar neutral grip pull-ups between first three warm-ups. Very encouraged, it’s only this cycle I’ve ever managed to touch the bar with my chest. Up to three reps next cycle.
Warm-ups felt very snappy
0x412 lbs double overhand, grip gave out. I’ll get a double overhand 400+ lbs pull before long
5x412 lbs, under 6 RPE
3x445 lbs, 6 RPE - misloaded, should have been 467 lbs
1x522 lbs, 8 RPE
1x550 lbs, 9-10 RPE
All my work sets took under 20 minutes. I think that’s fast for me. Work capacity might be improving.
Oly shoes go on
3x2x286 lbs paused front squats
Time for bench. Kept the Oly shoes to see how they feel, which is good
5x90 lbs, 6 RPE
3x100 lbs, 6-7 RPE
6x110 lbs, 10 RPE
3x6x90 lbs, 7 to 8 RPE
20 pull aparts with rotation after each set
I like how simple my bench setup has become. It makes me more.confident. No putting myself in unnatural positions to improve leverages that probably aren’t as terrible as I’ve been telling myself. Just lie down, push into the floor, set my upper and middle back and go. I’m going to carry that across to BB bench next cycle.
Supersetted 132 lbs Fat Gripz BB shrugs/dips
3x20/12
Dip felt really easy.
Solid session. Seem to have gotten my head on again.
So you ventured off into the “rate my physique” sub?
edit: Checked your post history, didn’t find the thread, but definitely found some horrifying stuff like “running starting strength/the texas method until you get a 5X5 squat at 500 for someone who wants to build muscle”. I am not even sure you can get a 500X5X5 squat doing the texas method/madcow without getting really really fat.
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Yogi’s log. It’s gold @Destrength
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There weren’t enough "no homo, bro"s in the world to save that log. At first it started to get gay and I thought it was over, then it kept going and even became increasingly worse, and then it stepped up another level. Literally the only thing left for that thread is to move it to California and start growing grapes in it.
I blame olympic weightlifters for spreading their leggings fetish to the other iron sports. lol
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But you gotta admit, they are pretty sexy.
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Only the ones with good doping programs.
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Yes, exactly. And unless you have really fucking good leverages, you will also have to put on a decent amount of muscle to squat that amount of weight! Logic simply leaves the building when people form dogmatic beliefs.
Even with good leverages. I had found out recently I am supposed to have “good” leverages for the squat, (long torso, though I still have weirdly long femurs with like nubs for shins, so they might just cancel out) and just squatting does dick for my squat. Linear progression stuff for too long was literally the worst stuff I’ve ever done for my squat, and bench in my opinion.
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Yup. Shit like this is a long journey of overcoming plateaus by finding what works and discarding what doesn’t. Hell, I may not even think the same way after I gain another 100lbs on my lifts and I’ve been doing this for a long time.
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Which is the fun and also occasionally horribly frustrating part.
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Had some time to kill between finishing work and picking up my fiancee. Went to my work gym and did some incline treadmill walking:
24 minutes, 15 degrees, 3.7 km/h carrying a 26 lbs Bulgarian bag.
Stupid treadmill shut off after 24 minutes and I couldn’t be bothered to reset it.
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Starting to notice a few things about the adjusted caloric deficit.
One, I better get used to being hungry. I get the feeling that’s not going to change for a while. I can cope with it fine - hell, coping is too dramatic a word if I’m going to honest - but it is a definite new feature in my days.
Two, my overall energy levels are way down when I’m not active. When I’m training they’re fine, possibly because I’m paying a bunch more attention to peri-training nutrition. When I’m out and about it’s similar, but when I’m just sitting at work, holy wow is there a difference. Again, nothing that merits any dramatic description but definitely very noticeable.
Three, last night for the first time I noticed my waistline being visibly smaller.
Finally, my scale weight is going down. This morning I was around 211 lbs. Eleven days ago I was 213.5 lbs.
In terms of the adjustment, I’m doing well. The highest calorie day I had was yesterday, 2552 calories. The rest have been around 20 calories either side of 2500. Macros the same: not a day with over 55 grams of fat, although I’ve generally missed my 280 grams of carbs (mostly 240-270 grams daily), and protein I’ve kept between 210 and 230 grams daily.
I’m very, VERY glad I had that easy five month run-up to this. It let me figure out what foods I can rely on daily, factor in weighing portions into my schedule, figure out training nutrition, etc. If I’d gone straight to this it would have been pretty difficult to adjust I think.
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