Deep Water Beginner
Gaining Phase
Week 10 Day 2
Pull-ups - Bodyweight - 4 x AMRAP
Bent Over Rows - 165 lbs - 4 x 10
Clean Pull - 245 lbs - 3 x 10
Plank - Bodyweight - 3 x 60 seconds
Sit ups - 3 x 20
I stand corrected. The guy who I gave a tour to this Saturday is interested and I will be drafting up a lease for him. I should be able to have all 3 rooms filled before February.
I made the lease and we both signed it tonight. He sent the security deposit as well.
2 more rooms to fill and my life can go back to some sort of normalcy.
Only just started following along, are you house hacking and renting out your spare rooms or do you have a second house that you rent out by the room?
Hello Brandon, I am house hacking and renting out spare rooms. I closed on a home 2 weeks ago (and at 22 years old woop woop!). It has a finished basement and 3 bedrooms.
I am VERY lucky to have gotten this house. I live in a HCOL areaā¦the DMV.
Deep Water Beginner
Gaining Phase
Week 10 Day 3
Bench Press - 185 lbs - 3 x 10
Close Grip Bench - 165 lbs - 3 x 10
Incline Press - 125 lbs - 3 x 10
Dips - 3 sets to failure
Push-ups - 3 sets to failure
Plank - 3 sets of 60 seconds
Sit-Ups - 3 sets of 20
Hey Tim,
How do you feel with training so far?
Great, Iām glad I am able to put in as much as effort as I am especially given the life changes.
I see myself cutting in the 2 weeks while running conjugate for fat bastards. I enjoyed my last cut, but the strength lost was really bad. I will also be eating carbs while I do so, because Iām be doing barbell movements and I could use the energy.
Now itās really just a question of if there are specific carbs I should eat? As in, what kind of carbs are bodybuilders eating and why? Like why oats, rice, sweet potatoes etc.?(Maybe @QuadQueen can help?)
If I like the results better this time around, then I will toss the ācarnivoreā thing in the trash can unless my training mimics or is Deep Water (high reps, low weight).
Another lease signed this morning.
One more to go, should probably be signed today or later this week.
I gave several tours yesterday.
Because these are complex carbs - meaning that your body has to break them down into simple sugars before they hit your blood stream. This helps prevent an blood sugar spike and later crash. Also, oats, sweet potatoes and whole grains are all non- or minimally processed so they donāt have a bunch of other crappy ingredients and they have fiber and nutrients that your body needs.
Thank you so much Quad Queen!
Lease was signed for the last bedroom. Mission Accomplished.
Get your tools ready.
This is such a waste. Never throw away a tool: put it back in the toolbox. When the job comes around that requires this tool, you take it back out and use it. Think of all the things you learned by employing this strategy: donāt throw away that knowledge.
In 25 years of training, Iām always coming back to ideas Iāve used before and rediscovering how applicable they can be.
On the topic of carbs bodybuilders are eating and why, consider part of the āwhyā to include the use of insulin. Rather than looking at what modern bodybuilders are eating, consider looking at what pre-90s bodybuilders ate. Youāll still see carbs there, but the types and amounts might be interesting. Grains were a lot more popular in the 80s than current.
I just moved to the DMV! Which state are you in?
Housing prices here were nuts, wife and I bought but god dang did it hurt. Weāre good for it, but these kinda prices would of got me a Midwest mansion lol
My house is located in Maryland dude! I should not have taken so long to answer. The snow threw me off and I got lazy with everything lolā¦including my trainingā¦I need a break.
I wonder if itās worth living in the Midwest. My company is national and if I wanted to go move to a different state (with a real estate market that suits my goals) I really could.
Butā¦.then Iād be giving up proximity to my friends from college, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins etc. Giving that up would make everything pointless. How the hell can one build a relationship by being a vagabond. It wasnāt hard to make my mind up to buy a home. Besides, itās not like a bought a Crack Shack (because otherwise I wouldnāt have such a plethora of roommate inquiries), so I can always sell it.
I could also spend the next decade or so saving, sell the house, and then go get a better one in Northern Virginia or Silver Spring lol.
I tried to move to a cheaper area and this was our exact problem. Did not last long. Ended up back in the greater NYC area. Life is more expensive, but canāt trade that happiness and family away. Wish I had your attitude at your age!
I wonāt throw the tool away. I can see myself doing the carnivore thing again and running Deep Water as a staple. Do you know what might have caused a shift in bodybuilding diets over time? Why go from eating little carbs to eating more carbs.
Funnily enough Iām not even sure what bodybuilder to reference as far as diets are concerned. For the ones that did eat low carb diets, I wonder if despite all of that, they were on steroids. I guess Iāll just have to research that.
I can definitely see myself experimenting with the Parrillo Diet in Purposeful Primitive.I ought to give it a try.
Just as I wrote: the use of insulin. It changed the game.
Brother, we have to live within 30 minutes of one another. You have an email I can reach you out? Or if not, I have an Instagram atlas13_btb
Hit me up, we can grab dinner sometime, or you could join me for a lift at the garage gym!
Conjugate For Fat Bastards
Week 1 Day 1
Dumbbell Front Squat - 50 lbs - 5 x 10
Sumo Deadlift - 275 lbs - 5 x 10
45 Degree Back Extension - Bodyweight - 50 reps
Hip Abductor Machine - 50 lbs - 50 reps
Dip Stand Leg Raise - Bodyweight - 50 reps
Incline Treadmill - 10 minutes