Awwh thank you Maschy and Deja! That is exactly the aesthetic I am going for. I am glad you approve. Hopefully swimming will be the extra push I need to get a little leaner so I can see what I really have cooking and what needs help before I decide where to go from here. A few years ago I didn’t have a clue how to get results and now I am happy to have discovered squatting and deadlifting
Snapper and lil, damn it, yall are right!! I am just getting back to where I was with my squats before the meet. Failing 230 really put up a mental block for me and there is no way I am going to bust through it if I keep fearing the heavy weights.
Swimming today:
200yard w/u
2x200yrd IM drill
800yrd free-had planned on doing this twice but it got really boring
4x100yrd IM order
200yrd cool down
foam rolling and stretching
Easy, but I think I needed a recovery workout. I was feeling all stressy and wound up and heart was kind of racey. There were old people and children all over the pool that I had to dodge. They are lucky I was not in kill mode.
Here’s a funny thing about the calves or “cows” as my bf calls them, Monday was actually my first time training them in my life. They have always been that size. I wonder if it has to do with my body type, or if swimming in high school helped develop them?
I’ve heard calves are genetic, but I’m not sure what to believe. I read recently about calve types too though, so I think I just have the larger ones that insert closer to the ankle. I really need to get on the ball with training them though because I’m afraid I might strain one.
I’m going to train calves and arms every other training day now at the end of my sessions just because I have been neglecting to train either.
So today was bench day on my new routine, but my spotter injured his wrist. So naturally I decided to deadlift instead which is The Best Lift To Do Without A Spotter. First, though, I did dumbbell bench press.
Dumbbell bench press:
barx10x2
35x8
40x8
45x6x4
30x10x5
Deadlifts:
135x5
185x3
205x3
225x1
235x6 I wanted 7 SOOO bad but I would have died if I pulled the bar up one more time
215x3x3 perfect reps
185x8-shitty grip starts to fail
135x10x2-grip is failing. Why is my grip so shitty? Other than I have teeny hands.
Dips:
6xbw
weighted:
3x10
3x25
2x35(had to try)
3x25
7x10
I was so hella tired at this point
dumbbell curls
20x8
15x8x2
I freaking hate it but I was all wound up from the deadlifts. Something I “caught on” to today was to make sure the plate was completely motionless and had stopped swinging before I went down. To do this I tightened my traps as tightly as possible. I know dips are a pec/triceps exercise but I always feel them a lot in my traps and lats when I add weight. Anyway, “getting” this helped me to do those reps even though I was fatigued.
Press:
barx10
65x5x3
85x3x3-harder than before so sue me but I lost some fat even, yes, actual weight on the scale
80x6
75x9+3(clusterfuck)
At this point my shoulders actually were fried
chins:
8xbw
weighted chins:
5@10lbs
3x3@20lbs
alternate grip:
3x2@15lbs
3x2@bw
dumbbell rows:
60x5x3
50x8x3
35x20x2
lat pull downs
calves
curls
Hey I read a book on carb cycling and now I know EVERYTHING about it am I am an expert on it. Basically I want to stay anabolic on the days I train by eating lotsa protein and carbs. Then I wanna eat at a deficit on the days I don’t by cutting out carbs and shit. Especially shit because it is not very nutrient dense. The gist is that I just need to keep doing what I’m doing but eat more protein probably which is good news because I have at least 4 tubs of whey and a tub of casein I need to get through. I am more relaxed now because I realize it is not necessary to be anabolic every second of your life and it can actually be beneficial and lead to fat loss to be catabolic on non training days. I’m going to do this and just quit stressin you know because stress will kill you dead faster than osteoporosis which I also don’t want. Word.
Training last time:
Squats:
Worked up to a max double at 225. Probably for shit. My max effort at 225 should at least be for 3 reps, but I think my CNS is a little detrained from my deload week. Ugh I should never deload squats it is so bad for me.
Training today
Squats:
barx10
135x5
185x3
205x3x2
Bench:
barx10x2
95x6x2
125x3x6
dumbbell bench
40x8x3
My shoulder finally feels right to bench again, I was happy I didn’t lose much strength there.
I also got some awesome cotton spandex blend tops and mini skirts today which looked good on my back and behind and made me excited to be alive.
Haha ok I need to wash them first so they shrink a lil! I was having problems finding skirts that looked good on me until I figured out I just need to get them either really flippy and flowy with a nice drape or really tight and clingy and flexible now. Anything in between that’s stiff or cut in an A line or falls below the knees looks really unflattering. Anyway, your avatar pic is sexay woman.
Number 1, your legs are too hot to hide behind anything that falls below the knees.
Take pictures of you in the tight and clingy and flexible… for progress pic purposes
your max squat max is amazing owlie! seriously!! for all the cutting you’ve done you should be really proud…but MAN…does fucking cutting freaking suck!
I’m glad you got your head around it and i hope the carb cycling works for you-- so you don’t get that cutting lame strength sapping retardation!! --or at least not as bad. I am old skool and food brained and still think no matter what, any type of dieting to reduce is going to stall out anyones abilities!
But you are doing wonderfully STILL! such an inspiration!! :)!
[quote]owlie wrote:
Hey I read a book on carb cycling and now I know EVERYTHING about it am I am an expert on it. Basically I want to stay anabolic on the days I train by eating lotsa protein and carbs. Then I wanna eat at a deficit on the days I don’t by cutting out carbs and shit. Especially shit because it is not very nutrient dense. The gist is that I just need to keep doing what I’m doing but eat more protein probably which is good news because I have at least 4 tubs of whey and a tub of casein I need to get through. I am more relaxed now because I realize it is not necessary to be anabolic every second of your life and it can actually be beneficial and lead to fat loss to be catabolic on non training days. I’m going to do this and just quit stressin you know because stress will kill you dead faster than osteoporosis which I also don’t want. Word.[/quote]
