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Building Back Up

GreenMachineX said:
Weight: 204.6

Standing OHP 3 x 6 x 135
Pull-ups 4/4/4
Dips 8/12/9
NG pull-ups 5/4
Crossbody Lateral Raise 3 sets
Hammer OHP DC Method 13 reps

Meh. Good enough.
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Good enough is all it needs to be, you aren't testing strength today, just laying the bricks.
 
Weight: 205.2

Flat Bench 3 x 6 x 225
Cable Row 3 sets
Seated BBOHP 4 x 5 x 150
Pull-ups 3/3/3/3/3
Hammer Incline Press 2 x 8 x 180

Ran out of time for lateral raise which works because they were still very sore from something.

No deficit today. Starting again tomorrow.
 
I have been bringing extra protein shakes back into the routine lately as way to avoid temptation. either one scoop in coffee in the morning, or a full shaker the minute I get home from work at night (to help eliminate snacking) and its almost overpowering in that I'm simply not even hungry for breakfast or dinner when I do that, FWIW.
 
Dustin07 said:
I have been bringing extra protein shakes back into the routine lately as way to avoid temptation. either one scoop in coffee in the morning, or a full shaker the minute I get home from work at night (to help eliminate snacking) and its almost overpowering in that I'm simply not even hungry for breakfast or dinner when I do that, FWIW.
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Something I read from Jim Wendler that was very enlightening (even though I don’t eat this way), was that he said how he structured his food intake whether he was trying to gain or lose weight.

He would eat 3 food meals a day along with 3 protein shakes either way. If he was trying to lose weight, he would drink the shakes ahead of his meals with plenty of water to help curb his appetite so he could eat less food & still be satisfied. When bulking, he would eat as much food as he reasonably could, then have a shake soon after to tuck the extra drinkable calories in - you can always pound a shake if you absolutely have to.

This probably resulted in way more protein than he needed when gaining, but follows the same principle as being able to eat dessert even when you are full, without leaning on foods that are bad for you.
 
Hyde said:
Something I read from Jim Wendler that was very enlightening (even though I don’t eat this way), was that he said how he structured his food intake whether he was trying to gain or lose weight.

He would eat 3 food meals a day along with 3 protein shakes either way. If he was trying to lose weight, he would drink the shakes ahead of his meals with plenty of water to help curb his appetite so he could eat less food & still be satisfied. When bulking, he would eat as much food as he reasonably could, then have a shake soon after to tuck the extra drinkable calories in - you can always pound a shake if you absolutely have to.

This probably resulted in way more protein than he needed when gaining, but follows the same principle as being able to eat dessert even when you are full, without leaning on foods that are bad for you.
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makes sense, those are reasonable approaches. historically I got buy with just adding or removing carbs but these days I prefer to keep the carbs as much as possible for early morning mental faculties and find other life hacks, this protein shake approach seems about right. pushes first meal of the day off a bit, but doesn't fully delete carbs. by dinner time, I'm half as hungry as usual.
 
Hyde said:
Eat less cals earlier in the day if you are running into issues with choosing between being too hungry to sleep or overeating daily cals.
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It's the preworkout shakes messing me up when it's been too long since breakfast to when I workout. I've also been attempting to eat closer to maintenance the day before doing torso workouts or days I need to be in a good mood, which has been working, just need to trim kcal a bit more other days.
 
Dustin07 said:
I have been bringing extra protein shakes back into the routine lately as way to avoid temptation. either one scoop in coffee in the morning, or a full shaker the minute I get home from work at night (to help eliminate snacking) and its almost overpowering in that I'm simply not even hungry for breakfast or dinner when I do that, FWIW.
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It's not even snacking, I'm really just trying to ride that perfect line of feeling and performing decently while slowly losing. I literally never snack. When I go over calories it's due to the preworkout shakes. Need to figure that out.
 
what about the idea of more meals of smaller size throughout the day (in the way that protein shakes could help supplement) to maintain blood sugar etc? I never fully subscribed to the 6 meals per day approach, but at my leanest when performance was the highest (albiet weaker overall in terms of 1rm) I definitely was a 4 meal + snack a day person. I still was never "big" on protein shakes, but the snack was usually a thoughtful fruit + fat between breakfast and lunch. then gym, then dinner.

I think thats what I accomplish right now, having a morning protein shake with a hard boiled egg or two pushes out my breakfast a few hours but I don't feel foggy. by the time dinner arrives I'm barely hungry (vs famished). I think I recall eggs being a no go for you but of course they aren't the only easy option.
 
Dustin07 said:
what about the idea of more meals of smaller size throughout the day (in the way that protein shakes could help supplement) to maintain blood sugar etc? I never fully subscribed to the 6 meals per day approach, but at my leanest when performance was the highest (albiet weaker overall in terms of 1rm) I definitely was a 4 meal + snack a day person. I still was never "big" on protein shakes, but the snack was usually a thoughtful fruit + fat between breakfast and lunch. then gym, then dinner.

I think thats what I accomplish right now, having a morning protein shake with a hard boiled egg or two pushes out my breakfast a few hours but I don't feel foggy. by the time dinner arrives I'm barely hungry (vs famished). I think I recall eggs being a no go for you but of course they aren't the only easy option.
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Yes, I could do that. Eggs are necessity for me actually lol
 
GreenMachineX said:
It's not even snacking, I'm really just trying to ride that perfect line of feeling and performing decently while slowly losing. I literally never snack. When I go over calories it's due to the preworkout shakes. Need to figure that out.
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I might be over simplifying here but simply cut the additional 140-200 calories from dinner when you do that, or eat a smaller breakfast planning for the protein shake. It is simply a matter of moving calories around. If you need a bigger deficit early so you can stack calories for sleeping then do that.
 
MrKleen73 said:
I might be over simplifying here but simply cut the additional 140-200 calories from dinner when you do that, or eat a smaller breakfast planning for the protein shake. It is simply a matter of moving calories around. If you need a bigger deficit early so you can stack calories for sleeping then do that.
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Yes, clearly what I said wasn’t conveying the simplicity of the math.

Eat less calories . Take the calories from wherever they’ll be missed least.
 
MrKleen73 said:
I might be over simplifying here but simply cut the additional 140-200 calories from dinner when you do that, or eat a smaller breakfast planning for the protein shake. It is simply a matter of moving calories around. If you need a bigger deficit early so you can stack calories for sleeping then do that.
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Hyde said:
Yes, clearly what I said wasn’t conveying the simplicity of the math.

Eat less calories . Take the calories from wherever they’ll be missed least.
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Right, yeah, it's easy and I get it. When I'm in the moment is the issue..."uh oh, if I don't eat enough, I might be stuck awake at 3am...or willi feel like Garbage? Or will I not be able to perform later tonight (if you know what I mean)?" Those are the thought patterns.

I just looked at my average kcal the past month and it's at 3k. It was a good thing to see, actually. 3k is good for the past month, now locking in taking it a bit lower.
 
Weight: 204.2 today. New low.

Today will be one of those days I eat closer to maintenance, but I'll trim calories from lunch to make up for it. Dinner will likely be out at longhorn, steak and plain baked potatoes.
 
GreenMachineX said:
lol yeah, quite sure you’re ahead of me though in strength and body comp
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I'm in a race against a relentless ghost that doesn't exist to a finishline that never arrives in a league of one where the division changes based upon life's circumstances du jour. I'm not sure its entirely possible to be ahead of anyone given the scenario 😂
 
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