jimbuick
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Yeah, that’s what I did. Did the basics box because I didn’t love how much fat some of the meals in the high protein box had.
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Yeah, that’s what I did. Did the basics box because I didn’t love how much fat some of the meals in the high protein box had.
MrKleen73
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I think the answer is 2 of these boxes. One with taste good meals like the Hall of Fame meals or High protein meals, and the other with the basics then you can enjoy some of them more and still keep fat content reasonable.
jimbuick
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If you do the mix and match bulk box, you can set it up and pick the 6 meals you want to have them send 5x of. It’s a bit more expensive, but gives you more options to dial in if you want to do that.
jimbuick
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Got setup at my new gym. Doesn’t seem too bad of a commute each day, but I guess I’ll know what that looks like next week. Equipment is pretty nice. Not quite as many options as the one in Houston, but plenty for me to get some quality training done.
Got setup at my new gym. Doesn’t seem too bad of a commute each day, but I guess I’ll know what that looks like next week. Equipment is pretty nice. Not quite as many options as the one in Houston, but plenty for me to get some quality training done.
Hyde
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Hey, Jim learned how to cook 
$6-7 shipped per meal is definitely as cheap as I’ve seen it.
The other thing to consider since they’re frozen is, you still can do some prep on your own to mix in/reduce consumption of the food service. It’s not all or nothing. You can just use them for 1-2 meals a day, or for certain days of the week and cook others.
This is easy & pretty time efficient if you can be all business. Like, once a week go to grocery same day. You buy a hot cooked rotisserie chicken or two, and some raw chicken or fish. You cook some rice or potatoes in your instapot for that day & the next, eat half the chicken each day, and a couple days later bake a tray of chicken/fish and make more rice with a spare 45 min somewhere. Add some steamer bags of veggies & sauces/spices, possibly some nuts or fruits, as needed.
Washing one tray once a week and your steamer pot a couple times is easy. It’s the containers that start to add up. But you can still buy disposable containers, paper plates, even disposable utensils if you don’t want dishes to deal with. It’s not any greener getting that stuff from a food service, just more expensive.
$6-7 shipped per meal is definitely as cheap as I’ve seen it.
The other thing to consider since they’re frozen is, you still can do some prep on your own to mix in/reduce consumption of the food service. It’s not all or nothing. You can just use them for 1-2 meals a day, or for certain days of the week and cook others.
This is easy & pretty time efficient if you can be all business. Like, once a week go to grocery same day. You buy a hot cooked rotisserie chicken or two, and some raw chicken or fish. You cook some rice or potatoes in your instapot for that day & the next, eat half the chicken each day, and a couple days later bake a tray of chicken/fish and make more rice with a spare 45 min somewhere. Add some steamer bags of veggies & sauces/spices, possibly some nuts or fruits, as needed.
Washing one tray once a week and your steamer pot a couple times is easy. It’s the containers that start to add up. But you can still buy disposable containers, paper plates, even disposable utensils if you don’t want dishes to deal with. It’s not any greener getting that stuff from a food service, just more expensive.
jimbuick
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Definitely not greener since these are all single use. But, also, I don’t give a **** about the environment 
I do expect I will still do some cooking. Even if only breakfast each day. Kind of expecting to have 2 of these a day (lunch and dinner) and then cook a breakfast each morning, post-workout protein shake, and potentially another shake before bed.
I’ll sit down here this weekend and figure out what I want my daily macros to look like. Figuring I’ll probably plan to just hover a little below maintenance with an emphasis on high protein/moderate fat and assess where I am in a month or so physique-wise.
Just figuring I’m in for a relatively large lifestyle change, so should figure out what my needs actually are for calories (and time!) each day, and then start either cutting or bulking depending on how I’m looking in December.
I do expect I will still do some cooking. Even if only breakfast each day. Kind of expecting to have 2 of these a day (lunch and dinner) and then cook a breakfast each morning, post-workout protein shake, and potentially another shake before bed.
I’ll sit down here this weekend and figure out what I want my daily macros to look like. Figuring I’ll probably plan to just hover a little below maintenance with an emphasis on high protein/moderate fat and assess where I am in a month or so physique-wise.
Just figuring I’m in for a relatively large lifestyle change, so should figure out what my needs actually are for calories (and time!) each day, and then start either cutting or bulking depending on how I’m looking in December.
jimbuick
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Also: each set of the Upperback row ended with a few reps of chest supported shrugs to get some work for the traps specifically.
Solid back day. Some good equipment for this session in the new gym. Got a bunch of furniture in today that’s waiting for me. Gonna head home and start putting all that together and unpacking for the rest of the day.
Also: each set of the Upperback row ended with a few reps of chest supported shrugs to get some work for the traps specifically.
Solid back day. Some good equipment for this session in the new gym. Got a bunch of furniture in today that’s waiting for me. Gonna head home and start putting all that together and unpacking for the rest of the day.
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jimbuick
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Long days last week with orientation. Didn’t get in the gym at all. Hopefully on a predictable enough schedule going forward to stay consistent again.
Figuring Monday-Tuesday-Thursday-Friday as lifting days. Split as Chest+Tri-Back-Shoulders+Bi-Legs. Also hoping for 2-3 days of cardio either at the office or at my gym.
Hopefully, my new job doesn’t throw too large of a monkey wrench in that.
Breakfast today is: egg whites, 1 piece of turkey bacon, chobani cup yogurt, and a nutrigrain bar.
Will see what my options are for lunch in the cafeteria. If they have something I can work with, I will just do that everyday (it’s free to eat breakfast and lunch here). Hoping that helps me keep the diet consistent enough to do a mini cut (and save some money in this incredibly expensive ass city).
Long days last week with orientation. Didn’t get in the gym at all. Hopefully on a predictable enough schedule going forward to stay consistent again.
Figuring Monday-Tuesday-Thursday-Friday as lifting days. Split as Chest+Tri-Back-Shoulders+Bi-Legs. Also hoping for 2-3 days of cardio either at the office or at my gym.
Hopefully, my new job doesn’t throw too large of a monkey wrench in that.
Breakfast today is: egg whites, 1 piece of turkey bacon, chobani cup yogurt, and a nutrigrain bar.
Will see what my options are for lunch in the cafeteria. If they have something I can work with, I will just do that everyday (it’s free to eat breakfast and lunch here). Hoping that helps me keep the diet consistent enough to do a mini cut (and save some money in this incredibly expensive ass city).
MrKleen73
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Good luck with saving some money while there. Definitely eat the food provided if you can get something reasonable.
Hey, what was the name of the workout app you are using. I know you like it. I have no reason to keep a subscription to the RP App while working with Pat so I want another app to track things with.
Hey, what was the name of the workout app you are using. I know you like it. I have no reason to keep a subscription to the RP App while working with Pat so I want another app to track things with.
jimbuick
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Yeah, today was just a salad with an assload of grilled chicken on it and a bit of vinaigrette. I figure I can manage with that in case there is never anything better to work with. Still better than paying for my own food.
MrKleen73
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Yeah, and you can sneak in some tortillas and salsa or mustard and turn that salad into a wrap.
Cool thanks, I will check it out.
jimbuick
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For sure, but I tend to try to keep my carbs at a minimum while trying to cut. And I try to keep them around training (either right before, or right after).
MrKleen73
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Well then there you go. I used to keep carbs low but not any more. I prefer to keep fats lower now. Of course I am not producing my own testosterone anymore either so not as big of a deal for me to drop fats and push carbs.
jimbuick
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Yeah, I rarely play with my fats. Last time I got really lean I brought fat too low, and my hormones were all fucked for like a month or two after. So, I’m very careful about that now.
Hyde
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No cardio today cuz I didn’t feel like itslept in instead.
Classic Jimbo
jimbuick
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Cardio sucks, man. I’ll get a girl up here soon and do cardio then.
Hyde
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“Very niiiice”
I haven’t been doing any cardio in forever. It does suck. But I didn’t need it to maintain my training load previously and haven’t needed it for weight loss yet so I haven’t gotten on a regiment with it.
MrKleen73
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An elliptical would probably fit a lot better into your training than running. Far less fatigue, less stress on the joints and definitely the feet. Plus it is easy to push hard if that is what you like to do with out much wear and tear on the body. I wish the coach had me doing elliptical but this way is probably better for my calves to grow more.
jimbuick
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I tend to either bike or do like a stairmaster if I’m gonna do it. If I use a treadmill, I just incline walk. But usually I don’t need cardio to cut. I just eat less food.
Only reason I’m adding cardio at all is so that I have something to do in the gym on non-training days that I have energy on.
Only reason I’m adding cardio at all is so that I have something to do in the gym on non-training days that I have energy on.
MrKleen73
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Right now mine is heart health, considering he is trying to find my maintenance I am definitely not trying to lean up with it right now.
jimbuick
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I don’t want a healthy heart. I’m trying to still be pretty when I die, so I don’t want to age too much.
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Dustin07
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that's a great idea. possibly some short HIIT on the rower too.
Kleen and Greenmachine have me giving serious consideration into a legit mild mountain bike or something for some weekend rides. I might let this idea develop more.
I've literally never had this feeling.
I think because you do it frequently you don't "crave" it lol. after a decade of sports requiring my conditioning and switching to strength only, I definitely feel the lack of cardio in my life
MrKleen73
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Yeah for sure.that's a great idea. possibly some short HIIT on the rower too.
I think because you do it frequently you don't "crave" it lol. after a decade of sports requiring my conditioning and switching to strength only, I definitely feel the lack of cardio in my life
I think you have to have been someone who loved the intense conditioning aspect of it to ever miss it. That or like a runner who can find peace in the run. For people not genetically inclined for strength endurance / cardio endurance it is just required labor you have to do to get yourself lean or keep your heart in shape.
Dustin07
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man I know what you're talking about. wish I was one of those people, never was. I am more of a "I love the misery" kinda guy. the feeling you get when it's like all that crud and buildup in your lungs is coming out, the cold of the chest when you're redlining the limiter, the runners high. could be a mix of football, wrestling, and bmx for me + the pnw grossness that builds mold within our own lungs
jimbuick
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I think because you do it frequently you don't "crave" it lol. after a decade of sports requiring my conditioning and switching to strength only, I definitely feel the lack of cardio in my life
Can’t relate. Any time I had to do cardio for sports (boxing, track, football, Army, etc.) I just hated it. Now that I don’t have to do it and can just strength training, I never miss it or desire to do it.
jimbuick
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Yeah, I was always a sprinter. Any time I had to do prolonged cardio was just work that I had to do for whatever reason. Never something I ever got joy out of.
jimbuick
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I only ever get runner’s lows.
MrKleen73
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Right, for me it is like bargaining with myself. If outside it is just make it to that light pole, okay now just to that one... On the treadmill it is like only x more minutes... only x more minutes you can do it. F*CK this sucks! Okay, only x more minutes...
jimbuick
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100%
akboom87
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I find looking at the minutes makes it more grueling for me I have to cover it up. Also I have noticed when I get into it after like 20-30 minutes it’s like it finally clicks and then I can go and it feels great. That first half though is a mother fucker.
jimbuick
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Slept like **** last night. Working from home today (while I still can 2x a week). Because I’m going to the gym with less frequency, I decided to put one lateral delt movement on the first push day and I’ll do a clavicular pec movement on the shoulder focused press day.
Idea is basically to do something akin to an anti-catabolic stimulus every 4-5 days for most muscle groups. I’ll also end up having a legs A and B session that I’ll rotate weekly with the first being quad/adductor focused and the second being ham/glute focused.
Will try this out throughout the rest of this “cut” and assess later. Body weight is hovering in the mid-180s, but still feeling pretty soft. Will expect to put a physique update on Friday (and may make a habit of that).
Slept like **** last night. Working from home today (while I still can 2x a week). Because I’m going to the gym with less frequency, I decided to put one lateral delt movement on the first push day and I’ll do a clavicular pec movement on the shoulder focused press day.
Idea is basically to do something akin to an anti-catabolic stimulus every 4-5 days for most muscle groups. I’ll also end up having a legs A and B session that I’ll rotate weekly with the first being quad/adductor focused and the second being ham/glute focused.
Will try this out throughout the rest of this “cut” and assess later. Body weight is hovering in the mid-180s, but still feeling pretty soft. Will expect to put a physique update on Friday (and may make a habit of that).
Dustin07
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ahahaha not a chance, I'm so damn slow, always was. putting me at cornerback was a big mistake. when I tried running anything from the 100 to 400m in high school I was fighting not to be LAST. but when conditioned, a 1 mile and a 3 mile run were about the same difference to me.
just throw on the old grey sweats, wrestling shoes, walkman with an all 80s mix that starts with eye of the tiger and go running until thanksgiving is completely burned off so I can make weight on Saturday = runners high. I was never a good wrestler either but went 12 and 1 that one year and enjoyed the misery
I'm just bad at giving up
MrKleen73
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Yep, and good at grinding on with that endurance work. I say I hate cardio but it depends on the type. I can get on an elliptical, find a good show and just go until it is time to go most of the time. However not being held hostage to LISS, I like more of a MIIT style, rolling intensity throughout but still keeping heart rate elevated. The LISS just drains my soul when trying to keep heartrate up.ahahaha not a chance, I'm so damn slow, always was. putting me at cornerback was a big mistake. when I tried running anything from the 100 to 400m in high school I was fighting not to be LAST. but when conditioned, a 1 mile and a 3 mile run were about the same difference to me.
just throw on the old grey sweats, wrestling shoes, walkman with an all 80s mix that starts with eye of the tiger and go running until thanksgiving is completely burned off so I can make weight on Saturday = runners high. I was never a good wrestler either but went 12 and 1 that one year and enjoyed the misery
I'm just bad at giving up
Dustin07
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my favorite day
MrKleen73
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Pu55y!
Hyde
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Bench is so boring to actually PR compared to squats or deadlift, almost a letdown compared to the feeling of standing victorious with a weight on your back or in your hands. You just lay down, press it up, then it’s over.
But I think it has become my favorite thing to actually train. It’s the process that makes bench sweet. Squats always make me nervous, and deadlifts are just going to be hard & exhausting. But bench day - I like bench day
Dustin07
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it's definitely the day that feels like active recovery to me! compared to squats and deads, a fun walk in the park.
but I agree on the sentiment, a squat PR or deadlift PR.. thats moving man weight.