[quote]MattyXL wrote:
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You know your coach is going to be mad that you took time out of your eating schedule to make babies… just saying. 
Your having twins? Well I mean your wife is but still…
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oh…right.
thanks DJ.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
I’ve been away lately because I’ve been distracted. It appears I’m having my fourth child…
… and my fifth.
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Maybe you should have worn…
DUUUUUUUDES!
So I’m at work today, and I’m just a little bit bitter about it. After pushing hard for 2 hours I’m taking a brain break. Thanks to all of you for the well-wishes, back-handed compliments, and outright bitch-slappery. To be clear, getting pregnant was intentional. The “buy-one-get-one-free” deal in getting twins was not. So in six months (or less!) I’ll be a father of five.
Holy sh##balls.
Last week my coach assigned me to “active recovery” which is functionally a week off before the diet starts hard. SO I ain’t lifted in over 7 days. I was eating as per my standard “non-lifting day” diet, which is basically 5 meals a day of just meat and veggies… not a single carb in sight. Two of those days I was also to fast until supper time. So far I’ve dumped 10 pounds. I know most of that is water, glycogen, and probably 2-3 pounds just from clearing out my colon. And the fasting was a breeze. I got my first carb carving yesterday night so I had a dinner roll, and it’s gone.
I’m excited for the next phase. I really, really, REALLY like being lean, so for me this is the fun part.
Holy ###ing ####. I just dropped $600 on supplements as ordered by my coach to carry me through to contest day.
It’s time to throw off the slightly depressing, self-obssessed, and overwhelmed tone of my last several posts. It is time to get back to the AWESOME!!! And nothing says AWESOME quite like a transvestite English comedian, don’t you think?
(Brett there’s something special for you if you can wait right until the end)
Training is going really well. But if I posted it, everyone but yonkey and Todd would either laugh until they peed themselves, or throw up in disgust. It’s become almost exclusively machine-based, isolation exercises, body weight exercises, “squeeze-hold”, and time-under-tension. There’s still a few good ol’ deadlifts and squats, but even those are getting re-purposed. My squats yesterday for for sets of 12 with a 2 second pause at rock bottom (ass on heels). One doesn’t exactly pille on the plates for something like that.
Nutritionally, even though I’m on a diet I sure feel full. It boggles my mind that my coach has cut a few thousand calories a week!!! Last week I had to fast two days for 12 hours after waking. I practically had an orgasm. It was almost a relief.
I just need to get my sleep back under control. Sunday my 11 year old spent the day at his friend’s house playing Left for Dead. It’s an AWESOME game, but a little intense. Observe.
He spent all night freaking out in his bedroom. I got very little sleep. THIS, folks, is why I don’t allow my kids to play T or M rated video games.
And just for fun, this is what’s got me groovin’ in my office chair.
On nights like that just pull his mattress into your room and call it a night. We’ve had a few of those nights.
Well, I’d like to say that after taking a full week off for active recovery, that I’m currently enjoying some wicked DOMS.
Monday, the first day back, was squat day.
Tuesday was back day.
Wednesday is crawl around in full body spasm day.
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
Well, I’d like to say that after taking a full week off for active recovery, that I’m currently enjoying some wicked DOMS.
Monday, the first day back, was squat day.
Tuesday was back day.
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So you’re getting DOMS now?
Nice.
Was the 1 week off a directive from the coach…what was caloric intake during the week off?
[quote]Canada_K wrote:
My squats yesterday for for sets of 12 with a 2 second pause at rock bottom (ass on heels). One doesn’t exactly pille on the plates for something like that.
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That sounds really tough. I bet most ordinary people (not cool lifters like us) couldn’t even do that with their own bodyweight, let alone with a bar on their backs.
Can you tell me more about the 12 hour fasts and the science behind it? I’m pretty ignorant about these things, but want to learn. They used to say more than a couple of hours without food and you immediately catabolise your whole legs.
And I liked the dog’s bollocks.
(That didn’t sound right)
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I Hate My Supershake
As I cut my food intake, I’m slowly cutting out the excessive calories and carbs. I’ve not yet removed my afternoon berry/protein/seed concoction on high calorie days. Based on taste alone, I love this as a beverage. Especially when it’s fresh and ice cold. But after a nice heavy lunch it blows. I spend all afternoon bloated and sluggish in the extreme. I feel like a warm pile of dog turd. I’ll be extremely glad when it’s gone.
And legumes. I still hate legumes. I just wish they weren’t so damned good for you.
What’s everyone else struggling with diet-wise?
Brett - There is an awesome book on intermittent fasting written by my man-crush Dr. John Berardi. He wrote a free e-book (Everything About Intermittent Fasting | Precision Nutrition) that is amazing and I recommend you read it. The upshot is that I.F. can be extremely useful for fat loss. The thinking around “you must eat every 3-4 hours or you go catabolic” has fallen by the wayside lately, not seeming to prove out in real life. I’ve tried it quite successfully.
Matty - The week off was a directive from my coach. And I miss you’re uber-sexy avatar.
Todd - I started getting DOMS pretty much right after my coach told me I should be. I stepped up my training and voila, there it was. Not crippling, or anything, but definitely present. It says a lot about my (lack of) intensity before.
RANDOM creepy pop in made by me cause I noticed you were from edmonton! ha-ha.
Now I’ve met 4 fellow edmonton folk and a calgary person from here! Yay!
Dude as do I, I hate Tom effing Brady…
Well I’ve FINALLY found something good about working out at five thirty in the morning at the ass-crack of dawn. None of the new-year’s-resolutioners come to “work out” at 5:30 am. At least once a week I have the entire basement weight room TO MYSELF!!!
Spock - A fellow Edmonchucker! Howdy! Tell me about yourself.
Matty - What’s this “football” sport you keep talking about. Is it anything like hockey?