AdonisBelt
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9/9/13
INTRODUCTION:
Preface:
Okay guys here we go. To give you guys a sense of hindsight, I am coming from a previous 4 week log/cycle of DAA with erase pro. It went fairly well and you can get all the details here:
http://anabolicminds.com/forum/supplement-reviews-logs/234161-adonisbelts-pes-erase.html
The primary difference, and reason for me to relocate to a new thread, is because these is a SPONSORED log, and instead of using pure D-AA from Ai Sports Nutrition, I will be using the said D-POL from Purus labs. Very exciting stuff.
Background/Stats:
I am 21 years old and currently am attending my 4th year at CU Boulder, graduating with a BAS in Economics with a minor in Computer Science. I have a girlfriend of 6 years that I live with, and a cat named Alexander that just turned 1 last May. Oh how time flies. I have a genuine interest in self improvement, philosophy, and economics. Bodybuilding is just an extension of the first and an application of the second two. I also Lennon producing music, but I usually don't have the luxury to just waste hours writing and producing music anymore.
Currently, I am trying to cut down a little more these final 4 weeks here before reverse dieting. I have been lifting seriously intermittently for the past 6 years but have dedicated my lifestyle completely- weighing all my food, logging my progress, sacrificing to win, etc etc for the past year and a half now with the goal to be focused around bodybuilding (natural). Do not confuse this with only training for ~1 year.
Lifting has been a huge interest for the entire spam and I have been reading various books and have taken related college courses pertaining to bodybuilding, kinesiology, physiology, nutrition for the 5 year span- I have merely fallen out of consistency, until this last year and a half or so. That being said, I have looked at my priorities and have re-aligned them since, growing up a lot and learning a lot about myself, and at this point I see myself doing this for the rest of my life.
I am fairly low already, hovering around 6%, and my caliper actually says 5%... but I am not sure I believe that. Currently, I weigh 223.6 @ 6'4" with a low of 222.8 last week. I have visibly noticed me lean out since.
Here are some pictures of me from last week:
These are stupidly blurry and in bad lighting, and I was actually bloated during these.
Goals:
My primary goal is to obviously cut down more in the last 4 weeks of my cut. Secondarily, I'd like to really see the effects if the stack prescribed, and be able to log eternally on the Internet whether these 2 products are worth the investment or not. I have used EP before, and would recommend it to most intermediates and a lot of beginners, however I am NOT sure if this particular stack is synergistically worthwhile. I have used DAA alone and with EP now and have enjoyed it with mild GI issues, and I am excited to see if DPOL will really make a difference- especially pre-workout.
So how do I go about this? With a strict lifting/cardio routine, diet, and supplementation plan!!!!
Routine:
Here is basically what I will be doing. It's a 6-7 day/week routine where I only take a rest day when I feel necessary. Essentially, it's a 3 day/week full body split into 6 days at an intermediate level. I like this, as if you actually analyze the routine (made myself) you'll see that it cycles through heavy/light rep schemes while varying the total volume by +33% for either upper or lower due to it being a 6 day split that I work through typically everyday. So one week I'll hit upper 3 times, others ill hit it 4, and the same applies for lower. It's nice momentary weekly emphasis on different body parts. I may edit it a little in the future, but this style is near perfect.
Unfortunately, there is a picture limit per post, so I will reveal it as I go due to not wanting to type it all out at the moment.
Cardio:
My cardio now consists of an every other day rotation between longer steady state walking and jogging intervals.
Cardio A) ~200-250 calories, fast walking @ 4 incline, and 4.2-4.5 mph.
Cardio B) 20 total minutes of 1 minute walking as prescribed in A, and 4 minutes of jogging at the same incline but @ 6.5mph.
0:00 WALK
1:00 RUN
5:00 WALK
6:00 RUN
10:00 WALK
10:30 RUN
12:30 WALK
13:00 RUN
15:00 WALK
15:30 RUN
17:30 WALK
18:00 RUN
20:00 DONE
This burns much more than 200-250.
The reason I vary them is for two reasons. Typically around 450 calories. If I do intervals everyday I burn out with the high frequency of training. So what I'll do is basically the steady state on leg days and the intervals on upper, to avoid overtraining.
Diet:
Despite the variance in caloric need due to higher workloads on upper days from intervals as well as working push and pull muscles, I keep my calories the same. The body, from my knowledge, doesn't mind the discrepancy of 200-300 calories and it averages out, allowing me to recover more so on leg days- which I like because I'm moving more weight with bigger muscles.
The diet itself ranges from 2400-2500 calories for no specific reason. Typically I do not hit 2500 and it just makes meal planning more flexible. The anal part of this regimen comes into play when it comes to carb cycling. From what I have gathered from Lyle McDonald's literature weight loss is optimal when there are low carb days with less than 20% of calories coming from carbs 4 days in a row. To maintain sanity as well as implicitly carb loading I will be incorporating a plan of 4 days low carb (near keto, starting today) to be followed by 3-4 days of regular dieting with about 50-70g of fat, at least 238g of complete protein, 38-45g of fiber, and filling the rest up with carbs.
Onto Supplementation:
Creatine monohydrate, probiotic, Agmatine, huca HMB, fish oil, CoQ10, beta alanine, leucine, epimedium, ON multi,
D vitamin, and citruline mallate.
Obviously I will be taking DPol and EP as well.
The details of supplement timing will be divulged as I log my day to day progress.
That's about it. I look forward to ya'll joining me on my journey and epic log.
INTRODUCTION:
Preface:
Okay guys here we go. To give you guys a sense of hindsight, I am coming from a previous 4 week log/cycle of DAA with erase pro. It went fairly well and you can get all the details here:
http://anabolicminds.com/forum/supplement-reviews-logs/234161-adonisbelts-pes-erase.html
The primary difference, and reason for me to relocate to a new thread, is because these is a SPONSORED log, and instead of using pure D-AA from Ai Sports Nutrition, I will be using the said D-POL from Purus labs. Very exciting stuff.
Background/Stats:
I am 21 years old and currently am attending my 4th year at CU Boulder, graduating with a BAS in Economics with a minor in Computer Science. I have a girlfriend of 6 years that I live with, and a cat named Alexander that just turned 1 last May. Oh how time flies. I have a genuine interest in self improvement, philosophy, and economics. Bodybuilding is just an extension of the first and an application of the second two. I also Lennon producing music, but I usually don't have the luxury to just waste hours writing and producing music anymore.
Currently, I am trying to cut down a little more these final 4 weeks here before reverse dieting. I have been lifting seriously intermittently for the past 6 years but have dedicated my lifestyle completely- weighing all my food, logging my progress, sacrificing to win, etc etc for the past year and a half now with the goal to be focused around bodybuilding (natural). Do not confuse this with only training for ~1 year.
Lifting has been a huge interest for the entire spam and I have been reading various books and have taken related college courses pertaining to bodybuilding, kinesiology, physiology, nutrition for the 5 year span- I have merely fallen out of consistency, until this last year and a half or so. That being said, I have looked at my priorities and have re-aligned them since, growing up a lot and learning a lot about myself, and at this point I see myself doing this for the rest of my life.
I am fairly low already, hovering around 6%, and my caliper actually says 5%... but I am not sure I believe that. Currently, I weigh 223.6 @ 6'4" with a low of 222.8 last week. I have visibly noticed me lean out since.
Here are some pictures of me from last week:
These are stupidly blurry and in bad lighting, and I was actually bloated during these.
Goals:
My primary goal is to obviously cut down more in the last 4 weeks of my cut. Secondarily, I'd like to really see the effects if the stack prescribed, and be able to log eternally on the Internet whether these 2 products are worth the investment or not. I have used EP before, and would recommend it to most intermediates and a lot of beginners, however I am NOT sure if this particular stack is synergistically worthwhile. I have used DAA alone and with EP now and have enjoyed it with mild GI issues, and I am excited to see if DPOL will really make a difference- especially pre-workout.
So how do I go about this? With a strict lifting/cardio routine, diet, and supplementation plan!!!!
Routine:
Here is basically what I will be doing. It's a 6-7 day/week routine where I only take a rest day when I feel necessary. Essentially, it's a 3 day/week full body split into 6 days at an intermediate level. I like this, as if you actually analyze the routine (made myself) you'll see that it cycles through heavy/light rep schemes while varying the total volume by +33% for either upper or lower due to it being a 6 day split that I work through typically everyday. So one week I'll hit upper 3 times, others ill hit it 4, and the same applies for lower. It's nice momentary weekly emphasis on different body parts. I may edit it a little in the future, but this style is near perfect.
Unfortunately, there is a picture limit per post, so I will reveal it as I go due to not wanting to type it all out at the moment.
Cardio:
My cardio now consists of an every other day rotation between longer steady state walking and jogging intervals.
Cardio A) ~200-250 calories, fast walking @ 4 incline, and 4.2-4.5 mph.
Cardio B) 20 total minutes of 1 minute walking as prescribed in A, and 4 minutes of jogging at the same incline but @ 6.5mph.
0:00 WALK
1:00 RUN
5:00 WALK
6:00 RUN
10:00 WALK
10:30 RUN
12:30 WALK
13:00 RUN
15:00 WALK
15:30 RUN
17:30 WALK
18:00 RUN
20:00 DONE
This burns much more than 200-250.
The reason I vary them is for two reasons. Typically around 450 calories. If I do intervals everyday I burn out with the high frequency of training. So what I'll do is basically the steady state on leg days and the intervals on upper, to avoid overtraining.
Diet:
Despite the variance in caloric need due to higher workloads on upper days from intervals as well as working push and pull muscles, I keep my calories the same. The body, from my knowledge, doesn't mind the discrepancy of 200-300 calories and it averages out, allowing me to recover more so on leg days- which I like because I'm moving more weight with bigger muscles.
The diet itself ranges from 2400-2500 calories for no specific reason. Typically I do not hit 2500 and it just makes meal planning more flexible. The anal part of this regimen comes into play when it comes to carb cycling. From what I have gathered from Lyle McDonald's literature weight loss is optimal when there are low carb days with less than 20% of calories coming from carbs 4 days in a row. To maintain sanity as well as implicitly carb loading I will be incorporating a plan of 4 days low carb (near keto, starting today) to be followed by 3-4 days of regular dieting with about 50-70g of fat, at least 238g of complete protein, 38-45g of fiber, and filling the rest up with carbs.
Onto Supplementation:
Creatine monohydrate, probiotic, Agmatine, huca HMB, fish oil, CoQ10, beta alanine, leucine, epimedium, ON multi,
D vitamin, and citruline mallate.
Obviously I will be taking DPol and EP as well.
The details of supplement timing will be divulged as I log my day to day progress.
That's about it. I look forward to ya'll joining me on my journey and epic log.