The Grind...

Training Over 35 Lifter
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Well I’ve finally digested my Coach’s instructions. The diet plan is pretty interesting; I used to think I was on the cutting edge… clearly NOT! Some highlights:

  • More carbs than I’ve had in years.
  • Carb and calorie cycling.
  • Intricate, multi-ingredient protein and carbohydrate blends a la trueprotein.
  • More FOOD than I’ve eaten in a very long time.
  • Fun stuff like chia seeds, hemp meal, coconut flour, and flax meal.

Holy crap, I’d better get shopping and stock the pantry! Anyone know where I can buy chia seeds? :wink:

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[quote]Canada_K wrote:
Well I’ve finally digested my Coach’s instructions. The diet plan is pretty interesting; I used to think I was on the cutting edge… clearly NOT! Some highlights:

  • More carbs than I’ve had in years.
  • Carb and calorie cycling.
  • Intricate, multi-ingredient protein and carbohydrate blends a la trueprotein.
  • More FOOD than I’ve eaten in a very long time.
  • Fun stuff like chia seeds, hemp meal, coconut flour, and flax meal.

Holy crap, I’d better get shopping and stock the pantry! [/quote]

Holy crap, if he has you eating that much for dieting, he’s probably going to work you to death and a half.

Well, the holidays are coming up, just watch for the Chia Pet informercials.

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A funny quote from my coach:

“Remember you’re a bodybuilder, not a powerlifter.”

BWA HA HA HA HA HA!

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Meaning what? He’s going to rap your knuckles if he catches you squatting? “Ve do not vant to build a beeg butt!!!”

745

Chia seeds and hemp? Is this coach wearing tye dye or somethin’?

james

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I AM PISSED…

…mostly at myself.

Today was to be day one of a new, very advanced and very aggressive phase of my training. Day one of my PROGRAM! It’s the kind of stuff that requires relentless commitment and 100% compliance. I was excited, and charged, and ready to give 'er s##t.

I blew it. Through a combination of lousy circumstances out of my control, and less-than-excellent management of circumstances that were under my control, I blew it.

Training was 100%. Honest to God, I can actually put my hand on my heart and say that today I trained at 100%. That’s not a statement I make lightly, and I take a lot of pride in it. Today I did everything I could possibly have done in the gym.

In the kitchen I probably got 50%. I didn’t go hog wild on carbs, sweets, or calories over Thanksgiving. But all the advanced nutrition from my coach didn’t happen. I held on to the basics, but the high-end stuff went out the window. WHY? Because being a great son, great husband, and great dad had to come first. Which meant being a great bodybuilder came a distant fourth. Which means if I’m actually serious about being any kind of bodybuilder AT ALL, I have to manage this with world-class acuity and organization.

My excuses… some of them are even good:

  • I had to run 3 solid weeks of safety meetings all-day every day which wiped me out.

  • Right after that I went on a week 12-hour shifts for maintenance work at my plant. This left me precious little time for anything after work, including wife and kids…

  • Right after that I jumped ino the car to travel 6 hours to join my wife and kids for Thanksgiving with my mom and MIL. For the next three days I was on someone else’s turf, someone else’s kitchen…

  • In the midst of all that I’m trying to execute a new training and diet program, vastly different from my old ones.

Talk about setting myself up for failure.

I am not looking for validation, or sympathy, or comfort, or to be told I did my best. I am not looking for anybody to tell me I’m wonderful.

I need to vent. I am angry. I was unable to execute, and as a consequence blew the first day of my commitment to myself.

Things will have to improve. And the thing that still causes me greatest frustratration is that I can’t even make a fresh start tomorrow. I have to grit my teeth through another day of sloppy execution, and then scramble on day 3 to make things better. What a ridiculous gong show.

I will do better. I’ll let anger drive me. I’ll take comfort knowing I got an exceptional workout, and passable nutrition under my belt. Tomorrow I’ll likely be facing the same. Wednesday, I can start claiming victories.

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Rant over ??

Look though—you trained at 100%, having only ever achieved that a couple of times myself when i thought ‘thats it–thats the limit’ that is excellent.

New programme of diet=complexity–and you still got the basics right despite a hard work schedule and being a great dad,

I’d say well done son !!.

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Calm down!! Get ahold of yourself!!!

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The Thanksgiving reference really threw me and made me drool!
Inspired to see you vent your frustrations, then come back at it!

750

Today is day 3 and I remain pissed. I’m still seething that I’m scrambling around like rank amateur. Today is the turning point. Planning, shopping, and food prerp is th order of the day. I will NOT waste another minute of this opportunity!!! I can hardly wait to see how I’m going to explain my dietary fuckery to my coach on my weekly rpeort.

Null - You’ve no IDEA how frustrated. But thanks for the kind words.

Cav - I laughed out loud. Although perhaps I’m offended that I’ve been bitch slapped.

Nurse - Yeah, thanks for trying to perk me up. I’m still pissed off an likely will be until after I complete tomorrow’s workout and manage to execute a full day of following the diet plan.

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BREATHE CK!!! Gather yourself, you’ll be fine. You’ll get in the groove soon enough.

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Today’s thought

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You’re welcome, thought you could use a little chuckle. And if you think you don’t deserve bitch slapping, great! You still have your pride, and you should be proud. You’ve achieved a great deal and will go on to do more. You have the discipline to make this work.

And I’ll bet your coach understands how the holidays can clobber your diet.

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One day at a time Big K. Did someone say slap.

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Turn that anger into a positive bro…turn that anger into enthusiasm…which Im sure you will

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you got thru it right?

crazy work
big fam shindig

and you trained-

Its day 3- just the start
few road bumps on the way
no big thing

757

Well, I wasn’t exaggerating when i said I gave Monday’s leg workout 100%. The DOMS over the past 2 days was ridiculous. Actually the DOMS started before I was even done the workout, which is never a good sign. Anyways, it got bad enough that my muscles hurt even when I wasn’t moving!! Gay porn stars don’t suffer this level of butt spasm.

F##K!

Deadlifts today were a joyous experience. They were followed by a bunch of exclusively ass-building exercises… I was unprepared (gay porn references are probably appropriate again). I predict I’ll end up with the world’s perkiest badonkakonk this side of the holy trinity of slut-dom, the Kardashian sisters.

I’m in a FANTASTICALLY better head space. Yesterday I was able to gather up all the remaining ingredients and supplements for my nutrition program… INCLUDING chia seeds. So while days 1-3 may have only been 75%, today we’re pushing 90. That makes me happy. Thanks all of you for the smacks to the head. I both needed it and appreciate it.

My next challenge is getting through the food. I had 2 liters of fruit/whey/oatmeal at 4am, 2L of Surge through the workout, and now my belly is bloated and I’m supposed to stuff down a monster breakfast. How do you massive-eaters do this?!?!? I suppose that’s why guys like Matty and Pete are built like monsters and I have a the willowy figure of a ballerina.

Onwards!

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Can we call you ‘sweet cheeks’ now ? or are you going to aquire a gay porn star stage name ?

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Did you say you had 2 liters of Surge?

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Let’s hope you don’t turn out like me. I eat more than Bulldog, but all the food just builds up in my gut. I feel like I have a distended belly, but the upper body and arms of a ballerina. Sigh.

Then again, maybe if I trained like a gay porn star . . .