Cortisol. . hormone released when your stressed/ during training/run down etc . . catabolic. . breaks down muscle tissue and uses it for energy (worst side affect among many) . . not nice
well id say thats defo happening to me… ended up going down to my work last night to pick up wages. got home at 3am, was up out of bed today at 9. totally wreaked and feeling really ill so i didnt train today. on the way home last night i bought half a chicken cooked rotisserie style. looked like a fucking caveman walking home with a chicken and ripping it apart… 
but today 
[quote]thosebananas wrote:
well id say thats defo happening to me… ended up going down to my work last night to pick up wages. got home at 3am, was up out of bed today at 9. totally wreaked and feeling really ill so i didnt train today. on the way home last night i bought half a chicken cooked rotisserie style. looked like a fucking caveman walking home with a chicken and ripping it apart… but today :([/quote]
whats wrong with loking like a caveman? 
ah its only a bit of chicken it wont kill you!
ah take a few deep breaths calm yourself down and get some sleep . . dont worry about the cortisol thing . . . or you’l get stressed about it and produce more!! haha
i think im just run down… hitting the sack before 12 tonite… just home from seeing dara obrain. was tre bien. ill be hitting gym at 11 tomoz and i wont be out of bed anytime before 10.
playing rugby this weekend… wat should i do about energy for it… carb load? powerade? relentless, something stronger?
cheers
Scott
also as im playing rugby on saturday… and wont be doing the olympics session. should i combine shoulders and olympics tomorrow? or do shoulders tomoz and olympics on sunday (only thing is ill prob be wreaked?!)
awful day nutrition wise… amazing day in the gym
12.00am wake up
15.45 2 HOT-ROX, 2 Norateen, multivit
16.00 workout
theve brought in a new scale, old one went to 300lb, new one only goes to 120kg, and im still heavier, dont think by much
5x5 military press 60kg supserseted with 5x5 pull downs 130lb
only had to push press on last 2 reps of last set
DID OLYMPICS AFTER! kinda went for maximums and down again, dont no why, just felt strong and angry and wanted to throw big weights about. this is all from memory so it mighnt be 100% accurate.
60kg Snatch 3sets 4reps
70kg Snatch 2 sets 2 reps
80kg Snatch 2 sets 1 rep
70kg Snatch 1 set 2 reps
60kg Snatch 2 sets 3 reps
70kg Clean and Press 3 sets 3 reps
80kg Clean and Press 2 sets 2 reps
85kg Clean and Press 2 sets 1 rep
80kg Clean and Press 1 set 2 reps
70kg Clean and Press 2 sets 2 reps
80kg High Pull 3 sets 4 reps
90kg High Pul 3 sets 2 reps
110kg High Pull 1 set 2 reps
115kg High Pull 1 set 1 rep
100kg High Pull 2 sets 2 reps
80kg High Pull 3 sets 3 reps - 10 secs rest
110kg Deadlift 3 sets 4 reps
140kg Deadlift 2 sets 4 reps
160kg Deadlift 2 sets 1 reps
170kg Deadlift 2 sets 1 rep - previous PB - first set i failed, changed grip to alternate grip
180kg Deadlift 2 sets 1 rep
190kg Deadlift 1 set 1 rep _new PB
200kg Deadlift 1 set 0 reps - failed by about 3 inchs, stopped half way up my thigh
190kg Deadlift 1 set 1 rep
160kg Deadlift 1 set 2 reps
140kg Deadlift 1 set 4 reps
110kg Deadlift 1 set 8 reps
Deadlifts felt so much easier while using the alternate grip
60kg Sumo deadlift upright rows (SDUR) 2 sets 3 reps
70kg SDUR 2 sets 2 reps
80kg SDUR 2 sets 2 reps
60kg Hang clean 3 reps then 3 reps push press (complex) 2 set
70kg Same as above 2 sets
60kg Snatch 1 set 2 reps
70kg Snatch 1 set 2 reps
70kg Snatch 1 set 1 rep
50kg dumbells farmers walk, 2 x 40m
17.30 finish
Pretty intense workout, soacked in sweat and knackerd. i pretty much did this because every thing else was being used and the only thing that was free was the deadlift platform. and everybody else in the gym were a bunch of posers giving me the “fatboy get out of our gym” look. so i thought id go abit mental. blew of some steam and probably 2 kilos of sweat!
17.45 - 2 scoops promax, 5 g creatine in water
19.00 500g chicken, half an onion, chilli powder, tabasco and some herbs
thriled about the PB on Deadlift. im back where i was (with my lower body) before i got injured. and im nearly there with my upper body! 
Now thats a workout! nice lifts! especially the Olifts! nah i wudnt bother carb loading just some lucosade with some promax mixed in ith for the extra protein half hour . . .before during/half time and after the match. . . thats my suggestion anyway . . bounce the olympic bar off the posers head! get some more norateen into you and go in there like a head case and run amuck. . . . . .
Now thats a workout! nice lifts! especially the Olifts! nah i wudnt bother carb loading just some lucosade with some promax mixed in ith for the extra protein half hour . . .before during/half time and after the match. . . thats my suggestion anyway . . bounce the olympic bar off the posers head! get some more norateen into you and go in there like a head case and run amuck. . . . . .
i was thinking of taking a double dose of norateen on saturday… what u reckon?
i like the anger of more test!
cudnt be fucked carb loading either… dont have any carms in the house and im broke. lol
powerade or lucozade?
the match on saturday is meant to be against a shite team so i cud see myself being able to hit the gym on sunday. thinking of doing the rest of the shoulder workout that i missed? or do u think i should rest?
im thinking or seeting myself some targets… by the summer:
Deadlift - 230kg
Squat - 160kg
Bench - 120kg
Reasonable?
yea defo if u stick to it and stay injury (and cortisol) free haha
did 220kg today actually. . chuffed with myself considering im only 72 kg think i rounded my back a little too much tho. ive been doin a butt load of rack pulls good mornings and stiff leg deadlifts lately to try and increase it cos in fairness its shite compared to my bench and squat.
. got a DEXA scan aswell today for free and im in the highest percentile for bone mineral density and lowest for bodyfat lol . . happy with that. . there’s some useless info for ya
DEXA? lol… weel done. hopefully ill be hitting higher numbers soon. not feeling so sore atm, prob will in the morning. i got some heavy lifting at work tomoz… gotta move 8 boxs of rollerblades. each weighing roughly 80kg. from 3 storys up to the ground and load them into a van. its me and some tiny guy so im assuming im doing most of the work. will be a good workout considering there is no lift lol
also just home from work… felt peckish on way home… got 20 chicken mc nuggets?! good choice or bad choice?
emmmmm prob a bad choice! should have a few cans of tuna/packs of ham at home waiting for that situation!!!
lol… i thought it was better than a burger…
just had a very drunken weekend. a few mates from back home flew ion and surprised me for the weekend/st paddys. got royally smashed last niight and saturday. back on the horse tomoz again. apart from the vast amounts of guiness and other drink i didnt really deviate from the diet… meat was all i ate.
im a bad irishman. . only had 2 drinks all wkend ha. was in rome with the girlfriend eating steak all wkend meself. . (ok ill admit it had carbonara one day . . had to be done ‘when in rome’ haha)
but yea just put it behind you and get back on the horse. .
if the diet was half decent and you kept hydrated one wkend isnt gonna mess you up too much. .
you train at all?
apart from the usual lads wrestling etc no i didnt. last session was on thursday.
tut tut tut! and if it was guiness im sure it was awful… been out in rome myself with the rugby team, gud banter but expensive.
yea i was there for the scotland v italy game! (dont tell the girlfriend) ‘lets go into the irish bar for food. . . oh look the rugby just happens to be on’ hahaha
good buzz. . thought the prices were reasonable until the last day when i got hit wit a whopper bill in one of the recommended restaurants! . . good food though so i was ok with it
i hope you won the wrestling matches!? power snatch one of your mates out de window or something ha
i was benching one of them… was awkward as fuck… and i squated with one on each shoulder!
kinda like… “im so strong i can bench you!” drunken challenges! lol
been away a while… i blew up my computer somehow. got it back today
been continueing with the 5x5 3 on 1 off 1 on 1 off scheme…
been going well and im getting stonger, enjoying the olympic lifts alot.
from tomorrow im thinking of starting the VDiet.
i have a few reasons for this:
the scottish rugby season is basically over.
we get off for a 2 week holiday on the 4th april, im staying in halls at uni but everybody else is going home, im thinking this will make it easier during week 3 and 4 as there will no one here to hinder me, and i assue these weeks are probably the hardest
i want to strip fat fast.
im bigtime strapped for cash, but i have 2 bottles of HOT-ROX, multi vit, norateen and 10 pounds of protein.
i want to be able to “see” my progress, as opposed to feel a more harder body
cut now for 4 weeks and the 2 week transistion, then go back to a low carb diet like before.
thinking of pretty much staying on my split but changing it up slightly:
monday - Chest/back/triceps
tuesday - legs/core
wednesday - off
thursday - shoulders/biceps/complexes
friday - off
saturday - olympic lifts/complexes/grip
sunday - off
i weigh about 290 now. i want to be at 250 after the 6 weeks.
this might shound ambitious, but i have ALOT of fat to lose
over the 2 weeks break im working 95 hours, all of it walking about the streets. so thats the NEPA sorted for week 3 and 4. for week 1 and 2 im going to go for a 30mins walk around glasgow everyday along with the walking of my job, im roughly doing 20 hours a week at the minute.
gonna start a log tomoz, and photos etc tonite. weigh in. and then photos and weight every wednesday morning before food and water etc.
going to do the one solid meal a week idea. been inspired by gus. and i basically want to save my life before i hit 20. want to lighter then my weight in stone. im 20.7 stone now and only 19. 18 stone is the target. i reckon that will make a huge visual difference.
any thoughts?
nepa = sorted. . . what sort of protein you have?? promax/ whey is not suitable for the v-diet. need micellular caesin Metabolic Drive ot syntha-6 does the trick . (although syntha-6 is a little high in carbs as far as i know)
its alot of weight but very achievable. . sounds like a plan. . fish oils??? FLAX???