Day 28:
Alright so as I mentioned I was on vacation this weekend. Thursday I shot down to my parents jersey shore house with my girl to get away for a few days. Trained arms early Thursday morning and just went through the motions trying to avoid back/neck pain as they were beginning to flare up last week.
I planned to lift while I was down there but instead just did some cardio and rested. Good thing I did because after 3 solid days off from lifting and mental stress I finally felt good by Sunday night when I came home. This morning I was both mentally and physically ready to hit the weights hard.
I had work today so I woke up at 4AM and got ready for the gym. NYSC opens 5AM. I took all my pre workout supps, my pre workout shake, and drove to the gym to find it CLOSED! I forgot it was memorial day and wack ass NYSC is always grimey with their holiday hours. lol
So instead I shot right to the gym after work to hit back.
Great workout today! I went in feeling completely refreshed.
Pull-Ups
Seated Chins
Behind the Neck Pulldowns
BB Rows supersetted with Light DB Rows
Rack Deads
Ended up being a little too much. When you've got nagging constant injuries, the days you actually feel 100%... you never want to leave the gym. Unfortunately I never took the advice, "Live to lift another day", and that's why I've gotten these injuries over the years. So I overdid it slightly today and in turn ended the workout with minor neck spasms and light mid back pain. Not bad at all though considering all I did. We'll see when I wake up tomorrow morning though.
I've also been taking Super Cissus. Not sure if it was the 3 days off, or Super Cissus, or both that led me to feel really good today. I'll contibute it to the Cissus if I can train 100% all this week, because I plan to go hard.
This weekend my diet was good in terms of macros. I did cheat once all 3 days. Carbs have been low.
Now, although my carbs have been low, my pump and vascularity was EXCELLENT today! Usually at this stage of the game, during my cut with carbs this low and mainly depleted of glycogen, I'm flat, as I've stated most of this log. I do believe this is the Compound 20.
I noticed this pump and tightness a week and a half into Compound 20 and it maintained. Last week, I began to feel this feeling slightly taper off. I figured my body may have been becoming tolerant to the Compound 20 already. However, I think this may have been because I was nursing some injuries and I was just going through the motions with my lifts. I have a few days left of Compound 20. I'm interested to see how my workouts go this week and how my body composition changes as I start implementing more carbs.
Today's diet looked like this:
1) Dymatize Whey / 8 oz. OJ (40g P / 30g C)
2) 5 Eggs / 1 cup Oats (35g P / 50g C / 25g F)
3) Turkey Burger / 1/4 cups Almonds (35g P / 20g F)
4) Dymatize Whey / 8 oz. OJ (25g P / 30g C)
5) Intra Workout (20g C)
6) Dymatize Whey / 1/2 cup Raisins (40g Whey / 60g C)
7) Grilled Chicken / 1/2 cup Brown Rice / 1 cup Broccoli (30g P / 60g C)
8) Grilled Chicken / 1/2 cup Brown Rice / 1 cup Broccoli (30g P / 60g C)
235g P / 310g C / 45g F
Chest Tomorrow
