Day 4 today. Yesterday was rough in the morning because I didn’t sleep well and felt really groggy. Came home from work and did 20 minutes of jump rope intervals: 1 min on, 1 min off. Then did some abs.
Feeling pretty good today. Much better than yesterday. Should be getting my supps from Biotest today or tomorrow, so i’ll have some banana and orange Metabolic Drive to go along with the strawberry and vanilla i have now. Will also be getting HOT-ROX and some ZMA so sleep should improve.
I signed up to do Joel Marion’s new cheater’s diet which starts on 4/4. Might just do a 2 week v-diet to get a jump start on the leanness, then transition to that. I’ll have to see how the rest of this week goes. I’ll be working from 8am -11pm today so hopefully I won’t get too hungry. Back into the gym tomorrow.
Alright, I have started again, following the protocol I outlined on page 2 for training and diet. I have recovered from my nasty little neck & trap muscle pulls.
DAY ONE (Yesterday)
Went very well. I was rather tired towards the end of the day, but rectified that with some hot tea.
DAY TWO
Workout was excellent. I was surprised not to have lost any strength in the two weeks since my muscle pull. I did skip the last set on my bent-over rows because I felt a twinge at the site of the original injury, but my first four sets were at the appropriate weights.
day 10, and my stomach on my lower abs has really gone down a lot, which is great! i had cravings last night b4 i went to bed, so i promptly went upstairs and fell asleep. im gonna do some cardio and lift a little bit today. 18 more days to go
The calories on workout days are supposed to be a little bit higher than non workout days (for I hope obvious reasons). That is the reason for replacing the fish oil(210 cals) with the Surge (350). It gives you that little extra boost in cals from the workout drain.
I was wondering about something the other day: How do a lot of you guys claim to not lose any,or not much,muscle when doing the Velocity diet? I need around 4,500 calories a day.Wouldn’t going to 1,800 calories on workout days and 1,500 on non workout days(since I am a little over 200 pounds) be really catabolic?
I used the V-diet method of calculating my daily caloric needs on this diet and thats what it came out to.
Also,how many of you actually followed the v-diet method of calculating your caloric needs while on this diet?
i made a promise to myself to push myself while im on this diet(18 more days). im going to push myself in the gym, while doing cardio, everything. if i want to lose this weight, i need to focus on losing it, not on anything else, no more excuses. if i want that 6 pack and the lean look, i need to do this for myself, no one else.
The heavy lifting on the big lifts in the gym will signal your body to hang on to the muscle mass it has. diet is just high enough in calories(specifically in the form of proteins and fats) to be condusive to a maintenence state. The fact that most people have not reported a loss in strength is a good indicator the numbers were designed correctly.
[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
I was wondering about something the other day: How do a lot of you guys claim to not lose any,or not much,muscle when doing the Velocity diet? I need around 4,500 calories a day.Wouldn’t going to 1,800 calories on workout days and 1,500 on non workout days(since I am a little over 200 pounds) be really catabolic?
I used the V-diet method of calculating my daily caloric needs on this diet and thats what it came out to.
Also,how many of you actually followed the v-diet method of calculating your caloric needs while on this diet?
Thanks,Cthulhu.[/quote]
Check your calculations again. There is no way you could need 4500 cals on the V-diet at just over 200 lbs.
Using the V-Diet formula you would need to be least 650lbs to require 4500 cals on work-out days.
In addition to what I wrote yesterday about Day Two, thought I’d finish it up and report the full-day’s worth.
Last evening I was having cravings for solid food… nothing in particular (aside from my fantasy about steak that morning during deadlifts), so I added some ice cubes to my evening shake and made Metabolic Drive pudding, per Shug’s advice.
Answer to some questions and thoughts from others…
Re muscle mass: I think the loss of some muscle mass is inevitable. However, it is minimized by hitting the big lifts w/ a strength-focus and by using HOT-ROX.
Re fish oil & Surge on workout days: In my case, I was able to hang onto fish oil caps on my workout days in addition to adding the Surge. My numbers still fell just under max allowable calories, so no need to cut out an extra supplement that I normally do every day anyway. This won’t work for a lot of people, but my numbers worked out pretty well.
[quote]samuelm704 wrote:
Cthulhu wrote:
I was wondering about something the other day: How do a lot of you guys claim to not lose any,or not much,muscle when doing the Velocity diet? I need around 4,500 calories a day.Wouldn’t going to 1,800 calories on workout days and 1,500 on non workout days(since I am a little over 200 pounds) be really catabolic?
I used the V-diet method of calculating my daily caloric needs on this diet and thats what it came out to.
Also,how many of you actually followed the v-diet method of calculating your caloric needs while on this diet?
Thanks,Cthulhu.
Check your calculations again. There is no way you could need 4500 cals on the V-diet at just over 200 lbs.
Using the V-Diet formula you would need to be least 650lbs to require 4500 cals on work-out days.
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Samuel, if you look at his post, I believe he meant that 4500 kcal was his maintenance. A bit futher down he states that he needs a 1500/1800 split for the V-Diet.
Has everyone pretty much adopted the low reps many sets model during the V-Diet. Kinda like what Shugart did?
I am in the middle of TBT and am wondering if I should switch for a few weeks to lower reps with more weight. It seems like it would make sense to do so in an effort to keep as much muscle as possible. Thoughts??
It’s now day 5. I started the new job yesterday, went fine except I forgot to take a shake. Had to eat out at a Mexican restaurant, best i could do was Carne Asada, Charro beans, and a salad with no dressing. Still lost another pound. Got several pieces of good news on job/school front plus got to sleep in today, might be part of mood elevation. I’m not hungry at all, having to force myself to eat, pants are looser. Life is good.
Today’s day 4 for me. I tried the V-jDiet back in may and caught a frigging staph infection and had to go to the hospital, so this is sort of my second go at it.
I learned from last time that I just can’t handle 1 solid meal a week, so I’m eating clean for 1 meal on wednesdays and 1 clean meal on saturdays. I also started throwing in some ostrich jerky today with lunch. I’m not in the least bit concerned with beign as extreme as the diet calls for, especially since I’m down 6 pounds already.
Today was actually my first workout day since I felt like such crap the first two days, and since I had trouble getting sufficient calories. I just feel full constantly on this diet. The workout went well, but the PWO surge has actually left me shaky and sick from the carbs. Otherwise I felt great actually.
So if you’re just on the first few days ahng in there; it gets easier.
Its interesting that people have been reporting such rapid weight loss in such a short amount of time. I am on day 5, perhaps I should weight tonight when I get to the gym. I would be surprised if i was down much yet. I don’t feel like I have lost anything yet.
its mostly water weight in the first couple days or the first week.
went to the gym today, and i can tell my bf is down, my veins in my arm are popping out more and more. interesting note: i rack pulled 455 today raw, never done it before(rack pulling that is) and im sure i coulda prob hit 495 if i had gloves. pretty cool feeling