I will try to get him to count his calories at least for 1 day. He is very consistent in doing things so that one day will be representative of what he does all week.
We do the same weight lifting work outs, actually I am just following his 6 day split routine. The main difference is that I am willing to do cardio, he is not. He thinks cardio should be reserved for contest prep.
I live with my brother and work out with him and he checks my diet log daily, so it will be hard to “fool” him. Plus if you can’t be honest with your own family, who can you be honest with? But I can try to give him “bad advices” a la Arnold to Franco. Unfortunately he read just about everything I read regarding diet/weight loss - Abel, Aragon, Barr, Bartley, Berardi, Bowden, Cosgrove, Ferruggia, Forsythe, Gentilcore, Hale, Harris, Hyght, Lowery, Marion, McDonald, McGorry, Poliquin, Roussell, Schuler, Shugart, Starnes, Tate, Thibaudeau, Wendler, etc…
Time to lower my caloric limits again (every Friday). At least 300g of Protein per day +
3300 cals when exercising 2 hours or more per day and
3000 cals all other days.
FitDay macros:
Protein 449.6 (54%)
Carbs 305.8 (36%)
Fiber 42.4
Fats 35.4 (10%)
Total calories 3289. Whew… that was close to my max calories of 3300 for 2 hours of exercise day!
Darn, I should have ate only 3 Flameout pills so that I stayed under 3000 cals. Went over caloric limit by 11 calories, will do better tomorrow.
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No offense but if you want to end up looking like Jared then go
ahead and continue to eat at Subway twice a day. I tell myself
I will stop looking at this mess of a blog but it is sort of the
T-Nation version of a car-wreck. I just check in to see what sort of
lazy-ass excuse you have for blowing your diet.
I am very lazy and still do not want to cook. I am eating at Subway for now, but I know that eventually I will not be able to do so. However, this past week was pretty good so far. I drank about 3 gallons a day so I did not cheat or deviate much from the diet. However, I realize I might not be in a caloric deficit. If that is the case, I am not really on a diet am I? I used to eat more calories before, but I realize I also used to exercise 3 hours per day. Now I do only about 1.5 hours of exercise per day on average thus necessitating lower calories to be in deficit.
I will continue to reduce calories every week on Friday by 100 calories until maybe I hit a low of 2400 calories per day. I am reminded of how much harder it will be to continue without cheating because that will be 900 calories less than what I am currently eating now. So we will see how that goes.
My brother wants to do a cheat day on Halloween. If I only ate EXACTLY what he ate, I doubt I would go over 4000 - 5000 calories. He is not much of a cheater even on his cheat days, which I find strange.
Woke up earlier than normal so I went to the gym. I love how empty the gym was and the freedom to choose any machine/weight I wanted because they were all unoccupied. Afternoons/evenings are crowded and there is always some waiting time involved.
(Pic of Jeff before he even started lifting weights - look at that hawt abz)
I will take measurements and pics tomorrow (even though I look about the same). I used Jeff Rodriguez’s diet at 19 weeks out from the TU’s caloric level to start my diet (3500 for workout days, and 3200 for off days). In hindsight that may have been too many calories for me. I thought that with my higher level of exercise I could do this, but I realize I miscalculated because I reduced my exercise level by 50% from about 3 hours per day to about 1.5 hours per day. Also, Jeff has at least 20 lbs more muscle than me, on top of him being naturally lean. Oh well, live and learn.
If the link above does not work - google jrod123.blogspot.com and he details his 19 week diet to compete in this year’s Team Universe 2009. He updated it up to 3 weeks from competition, so it is very detailed.
(Pic of Jeff before he even started lifting weights - look at that hawt abz)
