You shouldn’t be looking “flat”. Maybe not cut, but “flat” you shouldn’t be. Extreme low carbs leads to a flat look. How many carbohydrates are you eating?
If you are not ripped, you won’t get much info carb loading now.
What is the upper limit of your class? And what is the upper limit of the lighter class than yours?
Actually, you cannot allow that to determine most anything about the contest prep. You need to be as cut as you can be, regardless if you are at the bottom of your weight class.
Take a look up the post. I’ve been logging training and eating since beginning of January.
I picked the weight class going off how I looked last year before I started eating again. I wasn’t super lean but we took a guess on how much more fat would have to come off.
Again. First attempt at this so really concrete plan unfortunately.
You look incredible in the pic btw.
Thanks for your input.
Thanks, but I had just got the flu and was as flat as I had ever been. The photo date was fixed and had to be done that day. It was taken in Tampa, FL, about 4 hours drive from my house. He wanted to do an article about my wife.
Legs
Seated single leg extensions 4x15
Seated two leg extensions 3x15/1x12
Seated calves 6x15
lying leg curls 4x15
adductor machine 4x15
abductor machine 4x15
ab machine 6x15
Cardio
40min AM fasted treadmill
50 min dog walk
Workout was tough today. Energy low. Was thinking of adding in some carbs but I think i will stay the course for now. Weight is coming off good and i would rather be ready a little early and be able to feed into the show than be guessing what to do the last week.
Cardio
40min AM fasted treadmill
40min PM treadmill
Scheduling 2 rest days now per week. Pretty low energy at the moment. Not much pump in the gym.
May start Velocity diet in the next week or so, My only issue is that this whole diet has been based or very low carbs and if I start the shakes I will be 60g of carbs just from shakes alone. Not sure if this will mess me up or not or if this is good for contest prep?
Thinking of switching to a PPL training split. Thoughts?
Push 1
pull 1
legs 1
off
Push 2
pull 2
Legs 2
off
You had seemed committed to your (very) low carbohydrate diet.
Are you second guessing your diet, or this a planned (or realized) change?
You post what exercises you do, but you don’t mention the weight.
My question: Are you losing strength?
If you are losing significant strength, adding carbohydrates is a good strategy, IMO.
Strength is way down. Just doing what I can in the gym right now.
Not second guessing diet. Planned on adding in the v diet before I even started. That’s what I’m second guessing.