Building Back Up

[GreenMachineX]

I'd say anytime someone skips a meal, even I mentally react like "wait, what?" and that's someone who understands why you might want to fast or do intermittent fasting. We've just been programmed into 3 square meals per day.

But I also agree that meal time is social time, or at least family time. My kids are still young, but it's full family dinner every evening unless I'm traveling for work. I hope to keep that up as long as I can even when the kids get older if I can help it.

The other part of that I’ve noticed IRL is that literally zero people who skip meals have decent physiques. I realize it works when everything else is dialed in (for the .1% of the population like on here), but skimping earlier meals and thus eating trash later is self defeating.

 

[GreenMachineX]

Weight: 209.6

Kcal intake a little higher yesterday, but still 100 under Fitbit maintenance.

Squat 5 x 3 x 280 (no knee sleeves)
RDL 3 x 6 x 225
Cable Shrugs 4 sets
Standing Calf Raises 3 sets
DB Curls 3 sets
Skullcrushers 3 sets

Early workout. Didn’t really feel like it today but still good enough. Didn’t put the knee sleeves on to make sure I could still perform well without and did. One of these days I’ll bring the belt and see what I can really do.

@Hyde @MrKleen73 do I need to practice a couple workouts with the belt, or just let it rip first time?

 

[GreenMachineX]

Side note, adding calf raises in finally. I really like the axial loading exercises, so while I do want to grow my calves a little, I think the axial loading helps total body strength or whatever.

 

[Hyde]

The other part of that I’ve noticed IRL is that literally zero people who skip meals have decent physiques. I realize it works when everything else is dialed in (for the .1% of the population like on here), but skimping earlier meals and thus eating trash later is self defeating.

Well, that’s basically like saying people who don’t do things properly don’t get good results. “IE leveraging credit is a poor idea because poor people just dig themselves into massive debt by overspending what they don’t have.” Even though most successful real estate ownership and businesses ultimately started with borrowed/leveraged wealth.

You’re dismissing something used ineffectively entirely because you don’t want to accept it can have merit.

Weight: 209.6

Kcal intake a little higher yesterday, but still 100 under Fitbit maintenance.

Squat 5 x 3 x 280 (no knee sleeves)
RDL 3 x 6 x 225
Cable Shrugs 4 sets
Standing Calf Raises 3 sets
DB Curls 3 sets
Skullcrushers 3 sets

Early workout. Didn’t really feel like it today but still good enough. Didn’t put the knee sleeves on to make sure I could still perform well without and did. One of these days I’ll bring the belt and see what I can really do.

@Hyde @MrKleen73 do I need to practice a couple workouts with the belt, or just let it rip first time?

All equipment works best when you practice with it. A belt has to be used to correctly to help allow handling greater loads, and you will lift more if you have time to accommodate to that. Most movements and things go better with an intro week or two.

 

[GreenMachineX]

Well, that’s basically like saying people who don’t do things properly don’t get good results. “IE leveraging credit is a poor idea because poor people just dig themselves into massive debt by overspending what they don’t have.” Even though most successful real estate ownership and businesses ultimately started with borrowed/leveraged wealth.

You’re dismissing something used ineffectively entirely because you don’t want to accept it can have merit.

Not entirely dismissing it…as I said, tiny population do it right, and most can’t. I’m dismissing it for the IRL population, not someone on the other side of the internetz who I would likely never meet

I’ve even done it 10 years ago while keto and lost mostly body fat and relatively minimal muscle over 2 months (not even working out due to injury). But never again, and not necessary for normies, which was my entire point.