I don’t approach growth like that. I push my training hard and then eat enough to recover. I don’t aim to gain a fixed number per week, as I find my body doesn’t put on muscle at a fixed rate.
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I figured! I should’ve clarified that the only value it might have for you, from my point of view, is an objective measure indicating if the gain is surprisingly aggressive. But then with your habits I don’t necessarily see that happening.
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I want to see a 300lb Pwn inside 6 months!
At least then you’d guarantee recovery - no guess work needed, screw the lipids.
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@zeptrey I got it off amazon. Went with Cap barbell, as they were the cheapest and they were in stock. I only intend to walk/do light work with it, so didn’t need anything crazy.
@mr.v3lv3t Definitely a circus act getting it on, haha. I’ll be sure to report.
@Voxel Yeah, I tend to do it all by intuition. Same with the weight loss: weighed myself very infrequently. I’m pretty in tune with things: it’s just a question of abiding by the signals.
More weighted walks and daily chins/GHRs this morning. Squat workout later today.
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Mine is the same concept, but I’m far more willing to wrestle with the floppy load and velcro straps going everywhere than load it once it’s already on. It’s laziness without the payoff haha.
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Have started wearing my (40 pound) toddler on walks with my wife (who wears the 12-pound newborn). Big fan of the weighted walk. Will enjoy it for the next year or two. I also have a backpack that I can load with some change plates whenever the kids have both out-grown the harnesses we have, though 40ish pounds is probably about the limit there, too. An 80-pound weight vest is serious business…
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With all this talk about the benefits of low-carb, high-fat, what are everyone’s thoughts on some of the risks associated with that kind of diet? For instance, as I’ve been doing a lower-carb diet lately, I looked into the potential pitfalls of the diet and found that there are various studies that link high-fat diets with an increased risk of colon cancer. It seems that it might have something to do altering the bile in the stomach which leads to tumor growth. Thoughts?
How bad is it?
Is it one of those things where it’s like “Oh, eating bacon makes it 14% more likely that you’ll get cancer” but in actually translates that without bacon 49 people out of 100 000 will develop cancer and with bacon 57 people out of 100 000 will develop cancer (don’t double check those numbers, making the comparison from memory and can’t be bother to check what the actual fear mongering numbers were).
Anyway… More to the point, as far as I have come to understand, animals tend to store bad stuff such as toxins etcetera in their fat tissue. This is problematic given how a lot of farm animals are reared today and that overall it could very well be argued that being a living organism on planet earth right now as opposed to 800 years ago is far more likely to expose you to a bunch of pollution that just wasn’t around back then. Anything from heavy metals, to asphalt particles, you name it. And then there’s that notion that I don’t know if it has been confirmed or debunked that vegetables just a hundred years ago were more nutrient dense which would surely have an impact on the quality of the meat if this were true. Maybe lean meat and eggs is the way to workaround this.
To end the rant, if someone is healthy, not feeling like shit and they are progressing, and their diet is sustainable for them financially and socially I don’t see the argument for radically changing their diet. And another musing, live long enough and you’re probably going to get cancer. If you desire abs, and you find a pathway to abs that maybe makes that cancer develop 2-3 years earlier than it otherwise would have… might as well get abs. Wouldn’t it be easier to survive cancer if it develops 2-3 years earlier rather than later at any rate?
@ActivitiesGuy I remember carrying mine through Disneyland one their second birthday. 13 hours of carrying a squirming 2 year old: you can eat whatever you want after you do that, haha. Loaded carrying is always awesome. Will definitely see how 80 goes.
@J_Prufrock I definitely found through personal experience that you can adopt high fat/low carb and make poor decisions from there. I don’t think anything is inherently unhealthy about it, but I was living “too well” when I ran it. I was putting away a LOT of ribeyes and cheese and abstaining from nuts, seeds, and other more healthful fat choices. Part of it is I had decided that I had a sensitivity to nuts due to how they upset my digestion, but it turned out I was just eating a LOT of nuts in one sitting. Had no scale for portion sizes with them. Getting my weight down and becoming more mindful has allowed me to transition to a far more healthful approach to it.
LUNCHTIME WORKOUT
Buffalo Bar Squat
5xBar
5x140
3x230
1x320
REST PAUSE (12 deep breaths between reps)
6x390
3x390
2x390
1x390
6x340
3x340
2x340
1x340
6x300
15x230
2 MINUTE REST
SUPERSET (squat-hyper)
Belt squat 155
1x20
1x18
1x16
1x18
Reverse hyper 360
2x13
2x12
CONDITIONING
Hang power snatch-jump over bar-jump over bar-hang power clean-jump over bar-jump over bar-repeat w/115lbs
4:50
Notes: 90 seconds rest between supersets. The touch and go deads really worked me over the other day: been long removed from that style of training. Upper back/traps were lit up and fatigue was high, so I upped the weight on the workout so I didn’t have any expectations to live up to and just went for new reps. This went well: Devil’s Set (666). I’m squatting deeper these days from all the mobility work, so that’s cool.
Belt squat is figured out pretty well. Based off comments on the video, some folks are a bit confused, but I’m not doing this as a new squat variant but more as a leg press substitute. I just want something that focuses on the quads, so a shorter ROM and some forward lean seems to be doing the trick.
Conditioning moved well. Glad to get back to it.
Working nights this week, so schedule will be screwy. Going to try to get my pressing workout in tomorrow morning.
In nutrition news, I may be moving away from Fairlife this week. All the great pumpkin spice flavored stuff is in stores, to include the “Light n Fit Pumpkin Spice yogurt”. I did a 1 for 1 comparison with the Fairlife, and for 80 calories worth I’m trading 1 gram of carbs and 1 gram of protein, so I took the milk out of my post workout shake, mixed together egg whites and yogurt, and it was amazing. For pre-workout meal, I cut the milk out of the cereal and just mixed it with egg whites and it worked really well, and left more room for my rice crispie treats.
I may actually make “egg whites and yogurt” a more permanent thing when this is all done, since I get more protein and fewer carbs out of the yogurt traditionally. Really just digging how much the egg whites fit wherever I need.
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That’s because your food choices are insane, so eggs fit everywhere (did I read that right, egg whites in breakfast cereal?)
With the drinkable ones, there is no smell or flavor. It’s honestly like milk mixing in.
Edit: Also @flappinit threw some Greek yogurt on some half turkey/half grass fed beef tacos and it hit the spot. Good looking out.
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AM WORKOUT? I did this after coming home from the night shift
GIANT SETS (chin-press-abs)
Weighted NG Chins
5x50
5x95
1x140
2x1x165
2x140
Axle strict press
5xAxle
5x66
5x156
3x176
6x196 (ultra mega grinder)
Log clean and press away 155
1x11
Standing ab wheel
6x10
GIANT SETS (weighted dips/DB press odd sets-BtN press/dips even sets-DB lateral raise-pull apart)
Weighted dips 100/DB press 50s
1x12/failure
2x9/failure
BtN Press 115/dips
3x10/failure
DB lateral raise 15s
3x13
3x12
Band pull aparts
3x13
3x12
Kroc rows 105 (w/rest pause)
1x25+5
Notes: 90 seconds between giant sets. No rest between first 4 giant sets of main work. Definitely need to walk the TM back, but I was really pleased with how hard I fought for the final rep of 196: haven’t done that in a long time. Everything else went pretty awesome. Kroc rows keep getting better: think I’ve finally cracked them. Came into this falling asleep and found energy as I went.
More glamour shots. No “doing the Dave” here: hard posing.
This is “stupidly low carb” pumped. Be interesting to see what I could do with some water/sodium manipulation.
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When does training earlier and training later become the same time? Philosophical conundrum!
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Yep, just checking by to see the occasional 400 lbs buffalo bar squat and 200 axle press for reps. Yep.
Also you look like a mean killing machine. Amazing!
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Looking good mate. We wanna see a back shot though 
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@Voxel Dates and times get SO confusing living this life, haha. But at least I tend to sleep better being so exhausted.
@aldebaran Much appreciated dude, especially for your use of rounding, haha. Helps keep perspective.
@simo74 Thanks man! If it wasn’t such a pain I’d get more full body shots. Back definitely seems to be growing with my current approach.
Got in my daily chins and GHRs today. Chins are staying at 30, and GHRs worked up to a sett of 20. Really appreciating the time I’ve spent on them.
Gotta give @flappinit another shout for the greek yogurt/sour cream swap. You legit have salvaged so much of my favorite foods. Sour cream was pretty much a universal food lubricant for me. I’d always buy the huge tubs of it. Today, I was able to recreate a favorite dish of ours: jalapeno popper quiche. We got this at a local bakery where we used to live that closed down, and it was delicious. Made the diet version with egg whites and chicken and turkey sausage, tons of jalapenos, and then the greek yogurt. Worked fantastically well.
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You’re probably aware of how much you’ve contributed to my training - just glad I can contribute a bit here.
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It’s absolutely appreciated, especially since I recognize how stubborn I am whenever someone suggests anything to me, haha. One of the big reasons I never sought out coaching. But when a good idea gets through all that, it’s very much appreciated. And one of my favorite parts of your log was watching you document the food you ate to reach your goals, haha.
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I don’t think you’re stubborn, to be honest. I think you’ve spent plenty of time doing what other people have suggested and are at a point where you know what’s best for you, and what you respond to. Not to mention, I think you’ve saved yourself from some stuff by ignoring cues.
I can’t tell you how long I was intentionally locking my shoulders down on everything, thinking that was healthiest, only to find out that everything moving in rhythm causes way less issues and makes you stronger. Your press has a giant ROM and your scaps move in motion with everything, which is a habit of yours because you just pressed weight the way humans were meant to press it instead of forcing things.
My piano teacher used to say, practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent. I had to unlearn and then relearn how to press without messing my shoulder up. Unlearning and relearning takes way longer than just learning.
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