Have to skip the gym tonight, sister in law is having complications from surgery and is having a rough go at it, have to do what I can on my end to be a support to the wife, which basically means take care of all the parental stuff so she need not worry about it and be there for her.
Hopefully, things will stablize and I can pick up Day 3 tommorow, hit day 4 Saturday, start the cylce over again on Sunday.
Have to skip the gym tonight, sister in law is having complications from surgery and is having a rough go at it, have to do what I can on my end to be a support to the wife, which basically means take care of all the parental stuff so she need not worry about it and be there for her.
Hopefully, things will stablize and I can pick up Day 3 tommorow, hit day 4 Saturday, start the cylce over again on Sunday.
are you making progress still?
are you making progress still?
how do you feel? you need to gauge the cals by how you feel. if you are draggin a$$ to brush your teeth in the morning then its not enough. if you are a little bit tired here and there then nothing to worry about.
Sorry Milas, thought about this a bit and think I misinterpreted the inquiry. Am I making progress in my lifts? Yes and no. My flat bench is going to hell and seem to have lost some pull power on my deadlifts but my Decline bench and squat keep moving up. The decline is a new addition to the routine and I added a bit of a new twist with the squat by finally getting the flexibility to go deeper, so in a sense, that is also a new thing.
preach big fella preach!
Deadlifts INCOMING!
Not sure why, just kind of felt like making this a statement type of day. So in that spirit, I drafted this short piece I call " A linemans' declaration." Not sure why, but feel like I want to post it here. So here goes nothing:
A lineman's declaration:
Don't like my butt? I don't care. It was not developed for your aesthetic pleasure. It was developed, worked for and earned in the squat racks and weight rooms and iron dungeons of Northwest Ohio.
It was designed to persuade other large men that this three yards of earth that we lovingly refer to as "the trenches" are MINE and you have no business being here, let alone trying to touch my running back. It was developed to hip toss a 275 pound man onto his back with a thunderous boom that silences a gym! It can pile 4 plus 45 pound plates onto each side of a bar and squat it down to parallel and push it back up again or pull just as much off of the floor to a lock out. If you want to see something pretty, go find yourself a picture of Brad Pitt's dariere, if you need a job done, call me.
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Could have used that tonight again, see below:gotta get a beefier spotter bro! lol
Just some cardio today, so I wanted to keep it pretty tight (plus church social tomorrow I have been "saving" for. Did 35 minutes on 5 hills profile, max resist 10/15: 260 cals.
Today's totals: 2560 in (71 carb, 240 protein, 151 fats ) with an estimated output of 3740, for a deficit of 1180. If I keep eating 4 eggs daily (Thanks Anton), I am gonna have to drop the Olive Oil in the AM, as fat grams have been climbing up there.
What else is you fat intake coming from?
I wouldn't worry too much about fat intake if your keeping your carbs that low. Those numbers look pretty solid too me IMO
what was your food breakdown for this day?
mmm i love colby cheese. props on trying to squat heavy and dumping it! nothing embarrassing about it.
dont worry about the fat intake, like josh said, drop more carbs instead. i see that you are cutting out grains etc, keep going! vegetables, eggs, meat/fish, thats all you need.
inspirational big man! keep it up. i started from scratch again too (january). its hard work, but you are getting to it.
Started out with 2 scoops myofusion mixed with 1 tbsp Olive Oil and 2 tbsp Peanut butter.
7.5 oz chicken breast, 1oz cottage cheese
88 grams peanuts, iceberg lettuce salad with low fat italian, 1oz cottage cheese.
4 Grade A large eggs, boiled and 1 oz Kolby cheese.
2 scoops of myofusion with 2 tbsp Jif (chilled for 20 minutes, thanks Josh)
Oh, and 2grams flax seed oil and 1 servinn of Orange Triad.
Think that is all.
Are you deducting fiber from your carb count? That doesnt look like it would be 71g carbs to me
I would ditch the peanuts and fat free dressing in meal 3 and add in some chicken and EVOO based dressing. Everything else looks good IMO. I would add in 2 more servings of veggies and a serving or two of fruit but that is more for health benefits rather than weight loss. Blueberries and grapefruit have been shown to help with weight loss and green veggies are thought to have negative calories, meaning it requires more energy to digest them that are in them. Just some thoughts
Keep up the good work buddy
Those are huge deficits bro, you may want to throw in one higher day a week where you're close to maintenance to kick metabolism back up? Kind of like a carb re-feed? What do other folks think about that?
i dont see any point honestly. those calorie/activity calculators arent always exact. he doesnt feel a lack of energy so its working. plus a carbohydrate restriction and hes on the right track. most important thing at this point is to keep blood sugar steady, then the weight will fall off on its own.
if anything you can have a higher fat day.
April 15, 2011
Name: Day 4, wk 4
Start Time: 11:15 AM
End Time: 12:35 PM
Duration: 01:20
Notes: 4 minute warm up
# Exercise Name Set Lbs. Reps
1 Barbell Squat
#1 305 6
#2 355 3
#3 375 2
#4 255 12
Warm ups at bar, 135, 185, 225. All reps to parallel but did get a bit cheap in depth at 375, had no spotter. Belt for 375 set only.
2 Romanian Deadlift
#1 255 8
#2 255 8
#3 255 8
#4 255 8
3 Leg Extensions
#1 215 12
#2 215 12
#3 230 12
Can do more on this machine for some reason.
4 Lying Leg Curls
#1 100 12
#2 110 10
#3 110 10
Can do more on this machine for some reason.
Spent some time doing a bit of forearm work while waiting for my son to finish up. He is training for a "Tough Mudder" competition this summer.
Let the macro's get a bit out of hand today: 2426 cals (189 carb [minus 27 fiber], 205 protein, 99 fats) with an estimated burn of 4352 for a deficit of 1926.