Can you improve your sleep? Decrease stress? Prioritize recovery? Train more towards a circuit style/giant sets?
Here’s some nutritional tidbits that you might have missed on the site,
And point 1 from this article could also help
(not a doctor!)
I’m visiting a doctor soon.
Maybe this is something I should have done long ago and not disregarded that 105 reading just because A1C was normal…
I’d wait to see what your new blood work shows. You’ve made a number of positive changes in recent weeks/months that I would think would improve your numbers. In addition to what you are already doing, the biggest change I made that improved my numbers was adding traditional steady state cardio. You’re already walking a ton though so this might not be something you need. Which is why I’d wait for your new blood work.
Yeah.
Not going to lie though, the last bloodwork was in 2018 (3 years), I just hope I can still recover it now and the new bloodwork doesnt become too much worse than the old one.
Although, with FBG of 105 and A1C of 4.8, it seems kind of contradictory.
FBG of 105 suggests pre diabetes, A1C of 4.8 is far off from pre diabetes and its a very good reading, why could this have been the case?
4.8 A1C is really good as you note. Who knows why your fasting blood glucose was high, perhaps you weren’t truly fasting long enough or it was a glitch.
Yeah, thats definitely stressing me out lol.
Damn I didnt remember I was at 105 FBG, I was thinking it was 99 or 100, but this definitely isn’t good.
Anyway I’ll see what happens, fingers crossed I can reverse all this shit.
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I was finally able to request a blood test requisition after convincing the doctor; they were not going to let me do the hormone tests but after some begging they allowed it. These are the tests they finally allowed:
Sugar - Fasting Glucose
Sugar - A1C
Iron - Ferratin
Vitamin - B12
Blood - CBC
Cholesterol
Thyroid - TSH
Testosterone - Free Testosterone
Testosterone - Total Testosterone
I couldn’t get them to give the SHBG or the complete panel, I’d need a very solid reason like no erection or something for that.
I’m most interested in the blood sugar ones and the testosterone ones. Planning to go this weekend or next weekend whenever a spot opens
Check out R Lipoic Acid. Been a staple of my supplements for a few years now, and I’m handling carbs like a champ.
Oh nice, I’ll check it out.
Do you also suffer (or did suffer) from insulin resistance?
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7 December 2021 - General stuff:
- Weighed in at 77.6kg lowest weigh in on this log again lol wtf
- Slept 6h6m
- Calories: ~3100, not making any drastic moves, but interesting weigh in
7 December 2021 - Legs Abs Workout:
- Barbell back squat - 3x5 with 215lb, I think I am getting close to getting the 2 wheels rolling on this soon…
- Leg Press - 2x12 with 190 lb on machine
- Leg extension - 3x12 with 205lb
- Leg curl - 3x12 with 135lb
- Hip abduction - 3x12 with 190 lb
- Standing calf raise - 3x12 with 310 lb
- Abs - N/A
I’ve seriously fucked up my lower abs I think, I will just not touch any ab exercise for a week then see, this is esp fucking me up on the weighted crunch machine, is there any other exercise or routine you know for abs that is effective and doesnt have some hernia-like stress on lower abs? I swear it feels like if I do some reps on that machine that I’m about to get a crazy hernia so I havent done abs in a while now
any machine for abs is trash IMO. hanging leg raises, ab roller/ab rollouts, trunk twists with cables, and weighted planks seem to do the trick for me - but my abs arent visible either so 
if the ab machine is giving you grief, i sincerely recommend switching to something else. let your abs heal and then find some alternatives - abs typically recover quick when not performing weighted exercises so increase frequency/reduce intensity to reduce risk of any potential hernia you might induce in yourself IMO.
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I’ll second hanging leg raises. Even ones with your knees tucked work.
Another option is the deepwater ab stuff. I still do it every once and a while.
60 second plank followed by 20 situps, 3 rounds with no rest. Take your time on the situps and really feel the plank. It’s super quick and simple but it works really well.
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Cool, Ill implement those after this pain is over, dont want to get into deep shit cause of something this stupid
8 December 2021 - General stuff:
- Weighed in at 77.7kg
- Slept 6h45m
- Calories: ~3100-3150
8 December 2021 - Back Biceps Workout:
- Underhand grip lat pulldown - 3x8 with 160 lb on machine
- T-Bar row - 3x9-10 with (35 + 45 plates) 80 lb
- Underhand grip row machine - 3x12 with 160lb, but controlled movement
- Rear delt flye - 3x15 with 115 lb on machine
- Supinated grip seated dumbbell curl - 2x12 with 35 lb dumbbell, 2x12 with 30 lb dumbbell, slow controlled and focus on eccentric
I’ve started feeling tired af these days but still able to push myself, maybe my sleep also isn’t on point and this ab injury is also kicking me when doing some of these back exercises. Still, will keep grinding and get this shit
checking in on my new favorite TV show. Supercardrives. Been 2 days what’s going on?
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Maybe he’s driving super cars or something
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Jesus Christ this log is insane. 740 log posts in just over 1 month. I’ve got just over 900 in mine, and I’ve been logging my workouts on and off since 2014… lol.
Maybe that’s because I treat training log as… a training log.
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Yep. Everybody is invested now.
But hey, no pressure @supercardrives. We aren’t trying to push you into anything you don’t want to do.
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Taking a bit of a break from logging on here.
I’ll be back, hopefully with some decent improvements…
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