When that crazy introductory promo MonteRXS provided for radiates two new flavors,cherry slush and sour peach rings, dropped I picked up a bottle of each.
And so I decided to run this as a log. I have both new flavors and monte is going to send me a few samples of the original so I can compare throughout the log.
I had not been able to give these bad boys a try bc I was still running a different thermo and wanted to finish that up before jumping into the radiation. Believe me staring at those bottles every day and not having even cracked them ajar proved I got the will power in me.
In any case cherry slush saw the light of day this morning. I dosed as prescribed on the bottle half hour before eating.
Initial thoughts: taste was yummy. Very nice cherry flavor and although there wasn't any in the drink, I could almost taste that crushed ice which predominates the fair ground treat.
Mixed perfectly.
Over the years I've kinda messed up my tolerance for stims bc I get a good vibe and energy but I never get the crazies like me I've read others get with stims. But the energy was there and it kicked in before I had my breakfast. What really stood out to me was the "as advertised" laser focus. Really wonderful in the zone feel. Lasted for hours too. And this has the huperzine a in it, I can't imagine what the OG will be like with the noopept.
I've been cutting for months now. Last year I cut from 22 to 7.8 percent but lost so much lbm I was determined to never go that route again.
After a crazy bulking offseason, where I gained, no joke, 40 lbs of scale weight from September to January, I knew I was bigger but I was also fat if I'm being honest with myself. So the goal of this cutting season was twofold, shedding the fat while retaining as much lbm as possible.
I've been cutting since late January. I've been changing things up as I've been going along. But I found my groove back in April. I decided to use thermos and cardio to raise my tdee which allowed me to feed more than conceivable to me, fir someone cutting. So let's say my tdee was around 3000 for the day, I'd make sure I came in around 2700-2900 calories eaten that day. This still kept me in deficit but a.) it created a mental state that I wasn't cutting at all. B) a recomp effect sort of burgeoned, the fat was dropping, the person in the mirror looked better each day and yet only slight drops in scale weight.
In the past I would've freaked out. And tbh the first bit of time this year I questioned what I was thinking. But then I started seeing the mirror as a more reliable indicator of change and just rolled with that. My moods been better for it too. No more feeling drained mentally on a regular basis, no more leaving the house and forgetting the keys. None of that stuff, that was so last year.
Then I started getting comments from ppl at the gym and then ppl asking how I was doing this. So anyhow this combined with the mirror effect solidified my plan.
Ok, now that this back story is behind us... you know how I'll be eating throughout this log. I'm not big on listing all my meals in my logs, but too time consuming on a daily basis but maybe I'll throw some food porn in here from time to time, as I'm planning on taking this, if it works like everyone is saying, all the way into my bulking season too.
Just a quick idea of what I ate today:
Breakfast- bowl of oatmeal, shake
Lunch- wrap with 2oz of hard salami, 4 oz capicola and 3 oz smoked ham.
Preworkout- nothing.
Intraworkout- 1 scoop ISO with 1 scoop dextrose
Post(in gym) 2 scoops humapro
Dinner- 3 oz chicken, 4 oz Italian sausage, 15 sprigs asparagus, 4 oz peppers and onions mix, 1 cup brown rice
Evening snack- 1 cup cottage cheese, 1 cup Greek yogurt with sliced peaches and 8 strawberries plus 1/4 cup almonds.
That's about typical I guess, but I had donuts the past cpl days as well. So nothing is really off the table as long as I keep my heart rate up and burn away.
My workouts are fast paced in terms of rest and I do a lot of giants and supers with miss and liss endcapping the session. 2 times a week I'll skip the liss and go with a metcon circuit.
Today's workout:
15 min jog @6mph
Giant set: 4x15 each
Plate raise. 45
Side lateral raises 30
Db front raises 30
Seated rear fly 30
Giant set 4x15 each
Inclined shoulder press 50
Military 50
Side lateral raises machine 75
Lying rear fly 25
Db shrugs 4x12 65,70,75,80
Barbell shrug 4 min set. I grab a weight I can easily do for 12-15 reps with 30 sec rest in between and rest as needed until timer runs out. 185-15,15,12,12,10,8,7
Tri set 3x15. 25lbs each
Wood chopper
What I call baseball swing
Pallof rotation
15 decline crunches
15 min elliptical
Whole thing took 2 hrs including cardio
Before pics:
I'll update photos randomly throughout log.
Really enjoyed the first days radiation, can't wait for the rest to follow.
FireTitan
And so I decided to run this as a log. I have both new flavors and monte is going to send me a few samples of the original so I can compare throughout the log.
I had not been able to give these bad boys a try bc I was still running a different thermo and wanted to finish that up before jumping into the radiation. Believe me staring at those bottles every day and not having even cracked them ajar proved I got the will power in me.
In any case cherry slush saw the light of day this morning. I dosed as prescribed on the bottle half hour before eating.
Initial thoughts: taste was yummy. Very nice cherry flavor and although there wasn't any in the drink, I could almost taste that crushed ice which predominates the fair ground treat.
Mixed perfectly.
Over the years I've kinda messed up my tolerance for stims bc I get a good vibe and energy but I never get the crazies like me I've read others get with stims. But the energy was there and it kicked in before I had my breakfast. What really stood out to me was the "as advertised" laser focus. Really wonderful in the zone feel. Lasted for hours too. And this has the huperzine a in it, I can't imagine what the OG will be like with the noopept.
I've been cutting for months now. Last year I cut from 22 to 7.8 percent but lost so much lbm I was determined to never go that route again.
After a crazy bulking offseason, where I gained, no joke, 40 lbs of scale weight from September to January, I knew I was bigger but I was also fat if I'm being honest with myself. So the goal of this cutting season was twofold, shedding the fat while retaining as much lbm as possible.
I've been cutting since late January. I've been changing things up as I've been going along. But I found my groove back in April. I decided to use thermos and cardio to raise my tdee which allowed me to feed more than conceivable to me, fir someone cutting. So let's say my tdee was around 3000 for the day, I'd make sure I came in around 2700-2900 calories eaten that day. This still kept me in deficit but a.) it created a mental state that I wasn't cutting at all. B) a recomp effect sort of burgeoned, the fat was dropping, the person in the mirror looked better each day and yet only slight drops in scale weight.
In the past I would've freaked out. And tbh the first bit of time this year I questioned what I was thinking. But then I started seeing the mirror as a more reliable indicator of change and just rolled with that. My moods been better for it too. No more feeling drained mentally on a regular basis, no more leaving the house and forgetting the keys. None of that stuff, that was so last year.
Then I started getting comments from ppl at the gym and then ppl asking how I was doing this. So anyhow this combined with the mirror effect solidified my plan.
Ok, now that this back story is behind us... you know how I'll be eating throughout this log. I'm not big on listing all my meals in my logs, but too time consuming on a daily basis but maybe I'll throw some food porn in here from time to time, as I'm planning on taking this, if it works like everyone is saying, all the way into my bulking season too.
Just a quick idea of what I ate today:
Breakfast- bowl of oatmeal, shake
Lunch- wrap with 2oz of hard salami, 4 oz capicola and 3 oz smoked ham.
Preworkout- nothing.
Intraworkout- 1 scoop ISO with 1 scoop dextrose
Post(in gym) 2 scoops humapro
Dinner- 3 oz chicken, 4 oz Italian sausage, 15 sprigs asparagus, 4 oz peppers and onions mix, 1 cup brown rice
Evening snack- 1 cup cottage cheese, 1 cup Greek yogurt with sliced peaches and 8 strawberries plus 1/4 cup almonds.
That's about typical I guess, but I had donuts the past cpl days as well. So nothing is really off the table as long as I keep my heart rate up and burn away.
My workouts are fast paced in terms of rest and I do a lot of giants and supers with miss and liss endcapping the session. 2 times a week I'll skip the liss and go with a metcon circuit.
Today's workout:
15 min jog @6mph
Giant set: 4x15 each
Plate raise. 45
Side lateral raises 30
Db front raises 30
Seated rear fly 30
Giant set 4x15 each
Inclined shoulder press 50
Military 50
Side lateral raises machine 75
Lying rear fly 25
Db shrugs 4x12 65,70,75,80
Barbell shrug 4 min set. I grab a weight I can easily do for 12-15 reps with 30 sec rest in between and rest as needed until timer runs out. 185-15,15,12,12,10,8,7
Tri set 3x15. 25lbs each
Wood chopper
What I call baseball swing
Pallof rotation
15 decline crunches
15 min elliptical
Whole thing took 2 hrs including cardio
Before pics:
I'll update photos randomly throughout log.
Really enjoyed the first days radiation, can't wait for the rest to follow.
FireTitan