Good to know. I still laugh about drinking the butter. I am a lover of food. Whenever i finish a steak, i lick the plate, so i am not above it. But drinking butter or grease not really my jam right now
Is it possible to be on cut during deep water, or you just dont worry about it because it is about recomp?
Yeah maybe just cut the fat from the recommended 1 gram per pound to .5 grams per pound and keep some carbs around training. I really like fruit Post workout, especially pineapple then go back to low/no carb for the rest of the day.
3/31/25 weight 231
Meal 1 6 oz brisket 264
Meal 2 10 oz brisket 440
Meal 3 11 oz brisket 484
Workout
Bench 135 1x5
225 1x2
215 1x8
185 3x12
135 2x20 (close grip)
Tri presdown 35 3x15
Curls. 35 3x12
Post workout protein. 170
Meal 4: 13 oz ribeye, 10.5 oz steamed brocoli 976
Total calories 2334
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4/1/25 weight 234
Workout 1
Rows 225 5x5
Widegrip pullups 3xfailure 6, 6, 5
Facepulls 35. 5x25
Meal 1: protein powder, biotest superfood 180
Meal 2: 8 oz smoked brisket 352
Meal 3: vienna sausages, mixed nuts, protein bar. 860
Meal 4 steak 18 oz. 1062
Total calories 2444
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I am in deep water
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Outstanding dude! Enjoy the book?
If I am being honest, I felt it slapped me in the face with trying to give me motivation.
I am one of those sick fucks that needs motivation to take a rest day in gym, so unnecessary to try to motivate me. However, i like the program. I think it will give me a decent grip workout also. My workout for deadlifts is 245, which is pretty light. Excited to see how 100 reps feels and if i can remain double overhand through all 100. I usually dont hook til 405.
Todays workout was deads then squat, and it was sexy. I was worried i wouldnt finish, but i caught on to ten reps about halfway through the workout. I HATE more than 3-5 reps on squats, so that is what gave me excitement to try this
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Walk up to deep water and punch it in the fucking mouth
I dont know if I am severely underperforming on my 1 rep.maxes for the lifts, but so.far everything is pretty easy. The first 3 sets of the 10x10 are tough, but then my body gets used to it/shakes the laziness and it is just ho hum.
I am sore, but i was expecting brutality. I suppose i will finish beginner as is, but i feel like this is a bit pedestrian
No: that’s the whole point of the first 2 weeks. You don’t WANT it to be hard. If it was, there’s NO way you’d make it through weeks 5 and 6.
You’re going to be cutting your rest times in half while still doing 10x10 squats and 10x10 deadlifts. It’s going to suck. And intermediate even moreso.
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Ok. Good. Today i was doing bench and it was like a broomstick moving. The last set, i just did closegrip and did as many as i could.
I am excited as shit for the deadlift though. I have never did that type of volume
How did you determine the weights to use for bench? It’s not like the 10x10 movements.
I did same thing. I dont have an incline bench, so i did straight accross and added a tricep workout at end. What weight should I use?
But the push press workout was kinda ridiculously low too. I think i must be terrible at maxing or something
Oh yeah, 70% of your 10RM is WAAAY too light for the bench workout. The bench isn’t a Deep Water 10x10 workout. I would use a weight that is challenging to complete within the prescribed sets, then aim to reduce the rest times from 4 to 2 minutes while also employing double progression.
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Thanks. I find the program fun and it is going to get me out of my box. Just need it to challenge me.
I did a really fun LP on bench one time. So you take a weight you can do for 20, then knock some weight off, maybe 20-30 pounds. On the “monday” you do 4 sets (5 reps, 10 reps, 10 reps, then a set of 20) if you complete, add 5 pounds next week. If not, try again next week. Give yourself a little runway.
On the “friday” you do a weight you can do for eight, and do 5 sets (1,2,3,4, then 5+) if you get 6 or more on the plus set, move up 5 pounds next week. If not, repeat.
