I will admit to being all over the place diet wise. I have a bad habit of eating and drinking whatever the hell I want, because I tend to manage my weight fairly well and still progress whatever I am trying to progress. And while I like being able to do that, it isn’t entirely healthy, and I could probably do much better from an aesthetics POV if I followed a crazy diet like Pwn does or whatever.
I don’t actually know wtf I am saying, to be honest.
I get it, I’m 100% in the same boat, I get away with it because I’m not a fat slob (thanks genetics!) But it’s far from ideal from a health/aesthetics/performance point of view.
Well I also made a concerted choice before I started this current 531 plan to put on weight to support it. And I did that. But I have hit some kind of equilibrium now and have to figure out how to continue to progress. Without becoming too fat, because then I know what will happen next…I will get tired of that and start shedding it all again.
Completely unrelated, I just made an amazing cheeseburger.
I just watched a Guga Foods vid. I got the ingredients even the pseudo cheese.
When I was doing BTM, I ate whole wheat buns and cooked most of the fat out of the burgers and patted them dry - a cheeseburger can be juicy, delicious, and healthy. It’s just way juicier and more delicious when it’s not, haha.
Says this first and then does this next
Haha, this could go in the Confessions thread, but I admit that when I shop for ground beef, I deliberately go for the fattiest I can find. It is both tastier and much cheaper. IT’S LIKE THERE ARE ZERO DOWNSIDES.
You know what I mean, though? Sometimes everything just feels more difficult. Like I am not in the proper state of mind these days or whatever. Roughly the same weight on the bar, but the RPE is just higher.
Probably just the stress of real life.
Nah, my “real world” stresses are fairly minimal right now. More like it is some combination of having been underfed, a bit too fatigued, and the usual ebbs and flows that we probably all experience.
I hate that shit.
Me too I have had a very bad week and am just fkn over it.
@simo74 @Koestrizer cheer up guys, it might never happen.
Lmao have you watched the news this year ?? It happened.
I am not even sure what “it” is that you are referring to, but chances are that, yeah, it happened.
Off program day, so I geared an entire day at some upper back movement, as that needs to become more of a priority. Kinda did it all in what I thought would be decreasing order of difficulty.
One-Arm Dumbbell Row
Barbell Corner Row (Wendler Row)
Meadows Row
Upright Barbell Row
Bent-Over Rear Delt Raise
It turned out I had exactly the right setup to do those Wendler Rows that @Frank_C showed me (here or somewhere else, I dunno). Those were actually really nice. Part row, part shrug. Perfect replacement for those stupid barbell rows.
Other think I learned today is that my knee is totally jacked from that Sumo experiment yesterday. No more open hips deadlifts for me, at least not like that. Live and learn. Hopefully I will still be able to squat tomorrow.
Alright that’s the kind of workout that adds slabs of meat to your upper back
Hah, we shall see. Either that or it should help support better pressing, which is much of the goal here.
My challenge now is to figure out my programming to make sure I can do work like this, as well as a similar day of vertical pulling. On top of the usual four program days. Going to have to figure out how to tweak some things to get everything done.
That’s easy - super set your vertical press sets with vertical pulls and decline press with this stuff.