Wow dude you were really bloated, you gotta atleast feel way better and yea follow through with this cut, get down to 185, and that rebound/ growth phase will be epic!! We're both on the same schedule, I it lines up we should both do our growth cycles at the same time ( mine will start around the beginning of October)
I know, I definitely have a good amount of fat to loose but there's definitely bloat as well which is mostly gone. I always have some in the ankles because of old injuries and my face is still a little puffy but overall a significant amount of it is gone. Oddly enough, when I wake up first thing in the morning I look "kinda" lean, but by noon I don't look like that anymore. But I still got those veins to fake the funk in a tank top
Noted, my calories will be too low to put on mass but anything that can put on mass can also help preserve mass so IL probably go with that. Still gonna wait a few more weeks but we can still be sure that triton and Ursa will be added as my first supplements and IL probably add carnatine at that time. I'm thinking the carnatine and triton combo will be really good for performance and endurance which will help me crank out some extra effort in my workouts
Yea you got some ropes for sure. It feels so juice to have mine back after all the years of abuse. It would hate it I would get big arms but no vascularity. As soon as I started using gh and really leaned out they finally came back. I swear the gh repaired them. Sometimes they would still looked tracked up eventho I was clean, so embarrassingI know, I definitely have a good amount of fat to loose but there's definitely bloat as well which is mostly gone. I always have some in the ankles because of old injuries and my face is still a little puffy but overall a significant amount of it is gone. Oddly enough, when I wake up first thing in the morning I look "kinda" lean, but by noon I don't look like that anymore. But I still got those veins to fake the funk in a tank top
GH probably did help in the healing process. I think a lot of people underestimate how much HGH helps with healing as well as repair and recovery.
Ursa is some good stuff, and it really seems to help with inflammation as well. Of course I use Helios too, but I believe Ursa adds to that benefit.correct. and the added bonus is prolonged pumps and vascularity which will all but trick everyone that you are on something else.
^^^ 100% Agree. ^^^
but I decided to do some light incline bench and supersets with everything
Back in the day I used to eat 1 3lb rotisserie chicken every day. I would buy 4 at a time and just keep going back and getting more. I still buy them but don't eat them as religiously as I used to. I always found it funny when people used to tell me that they "couldn't get enough protein from food" or it's "too difficult to cook or prep that much protein." I would just tell them to buy a bunch of rotisserie chickens. It has your protein, it's already cooked... it's great and easy.
People love to find excuses instead of finding a way for things they don’t really want to do.
Bingo
Ouch, I hate pinched nerves….good job finding ways to work around it.Weird busy day, lots of days like this lately but I'm making it work.
Shoulders feel pretty good today, still getting numb in my right arm and hand so definitely a pinched nerve
195 felt like 225 on the first set, by the 3rd set it felt like 315. But, it didn't hurt so I guess it's a win. This weekend will be all machines and dumbells and I'm gonna do a bunch of volume.
I also think I got enough mobility in my legs to throw in some different exercises and start working twords a regular leg day again. Gonna have to be light high rep stuff.
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It's completely counter productive lol, well I can't say completely. It's fantastic for getting in shape and burning fat and carving out detail without trying, but my pushing strength goes down dramatically if my weight is trending down while boxing.
I have had that exact same meal many times for my lunch rushing out the door to get to work, out of rice, and hadn’t cooked any the night before.
Same, and it's tolerable without a microwave, I have a really hard time eating cold rice
Make sure to take those loading shots with your biggest meal of the day, like in the evening or postWO meal. Plenty of salt. You will have insulin release even just from protein intake. You will get better recovery off of those meals.
I actually perfer the cold oatmeal and I like it slightly too much liquid so it goes down easier. But ya, anything but rice I can do cold. It's ruff
Funny you say that, I have big calves, like always since I was a kid and I probably have done direct calve work less then 10× a year in my life.
I believe you have big calves or you don't...it's a genetic lottery...forearms to some degree as well. I'm the same, I get comments on my calves all the time and the only time I ever train them is if the calve machine is open and I'm waiting for someone else to get off the machine I'm trying to use
I sorta think for me it's 50/50 genetics (dad is stout with thick legs and so is my son) but I also raced bmx during my formative pubescent years and looking at adults these days I feel like you can often tell what sports they did in high school simply by their build and how they move
I don't think I'm down for grappling or wrestling anymore, too many high school wrestling injuries and my ROM sorta sucks these days. But I was thinking 2x per week boxing for some conditioning might be fun.
Anything after some very basic conditioning will cost you recovery, and therefore hurt strength. Keep it abbreviated and fun, or expect it to cut into things. You have a fixed recovery budget to spend weekly.
The grappling is risky business. I can smoke like 90% of the ppl there but when I'm going against Guys who I know are as good or better than me and have been consistently doing this for a long time without a break, I'm always afraid I'm gonna get hurt lol
Wrestling at high intensity is gonna really suck up a lot of gas out your recovery tank. Honestly, I do it like twice a month. Your tearing all these little muscle fibers you never use and everything suffers for days lol. The only Way around it is to start doing it every day for weeks on end so you get used to it like any other stimulus. But even then, it's still gonna zap your recovery if you're trying to achieve 2 opposing goals. Like boxing tho, I think if someone is doing some low volume strength training 3 days and wrestling 3 days, after you get past the initial soreness you could mix in something like
There’s a kid, early 20s at the barbell club. This kid is legit natural and just made a 1,600 total in wraps at like 198 or 220. I mean he really did bench 315 in high school at a low bodyweight, he looks natural, he knows he comes from strong men & is really blessed genetically for powerlifting. He is world class for drug-tested junior powerlifting.
Dude that totally sucks!! This actually reminded of what big Paul talks about a lot. How when he was doing BJJ before he got back into bodybuilding he tore his acl doing that and eventually had to have both knees replaced. Something to think about..
From my own aches and pains I would say knees and shoulders take the biggest beating. It's no surprise I got a torn meniscus and shoulders problems lol
I hope your family member recovers and everything is alright, as well as your cat too. Doing the boxing event is probably just what you need to keep your mind off things.
I have no issues with PF. I keep a membership there too. Their cardio equipment is good, their machines are good, their only issue is their lack of free weights. But the people they're marketing to aren't doing deadlifts or benching 100lb DBs. Regardless, the machines carry enough resistance so that you can exhaust the muscles enough early on so that you finish off with 75lb DBs (or at least that's what I do when I workout there). Gathering enough weight for legs can sometimes be a problem too but I pretty much always pre-exhaust my legs nowadays due to back issues, so I am able to work around that.
Totally agree if you can't get a good shoulder and arm workout at planet fitness then you have no idea how to train ( bodybuilding style ). Also you never have to wait for a stepmill there which is nice. Jason Lowe who's a mid level pro( finished 5th at both Toronto and Orlando) actually filmed a training session there. So if an ifbb pro can train there than i have no excuse not to if that's my only option that day
