[quote]sloh wrote:
I’m just going to do the best I can with it. If that means bringing the training down to 3 days a week, so be it. I can still progress on a split of legs, back/bis, chest/shoulder/tris.
Not all rotations are that bad either.
I can get by on a lot less sleep than others in my class. I average on 5-5.5 hours, so I’m not too worried. I could ease up on studying and sleep more but I’m really gunning it to stay top 10% in my class b/c I want to keep my options open as far as specialties go (anesthesiology, pathology, emergency medicine are what I’m considering right now)
I had a lot of people tell me I wouldn’t be able to keep up with this hobby when I was going to start school. Not only am I able to make time for it right now, I’ve pretty much crushed every course so far. I think if you really want it, you’ll find a way to make time for it.[/quote]
Good shit man, it will be interesting to see how I fair with this once I start dental school in 2 years. Unfortunately I can not get by with 5 hours of sleep. Less than 7 consistently really kills me.
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Then you are screwed. They make those classes more competitive by the year.[/quote]
With that said, my coach doesn’t want me to get too out of shape. I’m thinking around 175 lbs and then diet down for a contest in December. My coach thinks I can do really well at the NPC Excalibur, and then he really wants me to do the Jr. Nationals after. We will see though, school is still my main priority right now, not competing. I’d like to push the weight as high as I can but at the same time, it’d be wise for me to stay within 25 lbs of contest weight. It really depends on how my body reacts.
Training wise, I’m really trying to be smart about my form while going as heavy as I can keeping reps in the 6-10 range like always. I feel my mind muscle connection for back and chest has improved quite a bit over the past year. I only started doing weighted pullups halfway through my offseason last year, and this time I’ve got it in right from the beginning. I think that exercise alone has helped my back development tremendously. I am stronger now at my current weight than I was the last time I was at this weight, so that’s always a good sign things are coming along.
Diet is around 3500 calories, and I eat very clean. Approx 370g protein, 240g carbs, 130g fats. This keeps me gaining at around 1 lb a week. That’s not to say I don’t believe in dirtying up the diet a bit in the offseason to get your calories in, but 3500 calories is nothing for me…especially compared to the past when I was eating around 5200 to maintain 195-200 lbs.
Sorry, didn’t notice someone else asked about training.
I think if you scroll back a couple pages, I’ve talked about training before.
I do a 5 day split…chest, back, rest, arms/calves, legs, shoulders/traps, off with abs thrown in on off days and at the end of some of my training days. I used to do back the day before chest, but I noticed that sore lats didn’t help with balancing the weights on chest day, so I changed that. Yep, I train chest on Mondays hahahaha
It’s primarily centered around free weights…the basics. I don’t really do anything fancy or out of the ordinary. I just make minor tweaks to the angles or how I perform the reps so that I can feel it hit the muscle the hardest. Example is only going halfway up on presses for shoulders/chest. Some people feel barbell rows more at a 45 degree angle, I feel them when I’m almost completely hunched over 90 degrees, so I do them that way. There are some machines I really love though…hack squats, machine preachers, leg presses, seated cable rows. Other than that, everything is pretty much with dumbbells and barbells.
I’m a creature of habit, so I basically find 3-5 exercises that I feel work the best for me for each body part and do the same exercises in the same exact order every single week. I don’t rotate exercises out and in unless I feel they are better than the ones I have at the moment. I used to love t-bar rows, but now I feel barbell rows more, so I don’t do t-bars anymore.
Thought I would throw up an update. School is busier than ever and I start hospital rotations in a couple months. Training/diet has still been consistent
