I recently posted a pic saying that I want to bulk up and the overwhelming response was to wait til after November so I can easily make weight for a competition.
What I plan to do is to see how much water weight I can loose in roughly a 48hr period and then train afterwards so I have an idea as to how much I can safely gain before the comp rolls around and not have my performance negatively impacted.
The plan is for first weigh in to take place on Friday the 18th of August around 1pm and the second at around 11am on Sunday the 20th, training to take place at 12.30pm on sunday.
Here’s what I intend to do…
From today til next Thursday drink 5 litres of water per day.
On Friday, get up and have breakfast as usual and then go training. Weigh in and record this weight. Hit the sauna for about an hour.
Have a PWO shake after training and a small meal about 5 o clock, Protein shakes at about 8 and 12.
Saturday morning just have a protein and small amount of carbs shake. THen hit the sauna for about an hour. After that have maybe 500mls of water, then a protein shake about 4 and that’s me done for til sunday after weigh in. I’ll probably pop some vit C (about 4g) around 6pm on Saturday too.
Is this a sure fire way to guaruntee muscle loss or should I be ok?
Doesnt sound like a bad experiment to me but some things sound weird. The weigh in just an hour and half prior to the lifting?? is that how the comp is set up?? Many are 24 hours?? Id make this as close to the comp as you can.
another thing id try and limit the fasted, water loss time as short as possible less time for muscle loss etc and easier recovery. here read this gem
I weighed myself before training at about 12.30om. I was bang on 91kg.
After training I had a protein shake and carb drink.
Had some pasta and meat about 4pm. Then a litre of water between then and 12pm. I also had 2 protein shakes and a pint of milk.
Tomorrow i plan to have chicken sandwhich for breakfast. A shake about 2pm, vit C about 6 and then nothing til after weigh in on sunday morning. This should be interesting.
[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:
what weight are you trying to make 90 kg’s? So does that mean you have to be UNDER 90 or AT 90… or whatever weight you mean?[/quote]
If I’m 90kg on the dot then I can compete in the 90kg class.
I got straight outta bed this morning and hit the gym, no food, no liquids.
My weight… 87.8kg. Down from 91kg on Friday afternoon. That’s a loss of 3.2kg. I’m actually shocked I lost that much without having to get in a sauna or do any cardio.
After I weighed myself I slammed a 600ml bottle of lucozade (similar to Gatorade). Then on my way to MaccyD’s I drank a litre of water. I had 12 “chicken” nuggets in McD’s and a large Coke.
I then went back to the gym and re-weighed myself. I was back up to 89.6kg already (keep in mind that was after about 20-30mins).
I then lifted (DE bench day, really high volume, about 30sets) and there was no real drop off in performance. I worked up to about 95% for a single after 8sets of 3 and a double with 85% and while it was hard, it was highly possible, coulda probably doubled it.
After training I was back up to 90kg. I’d say I’m at 91 now tho.
So to summarise;
I dropped 3.2kg in les than 48 hours
I put back on 2kg in 30 mins
And the best part, there was no drop in performance.