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God damn your taste for music! It's revolting! LMAO
This is music:
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Good song!
God damn your taste for music! It's revolting! LMAO
This is music:
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Good song!
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I think I'm going to have nightmares for a week!
Ummm, that's some, um, 'interesting' music.
This is more my speed:
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Hehehe, I knew my taste is off, LMAO
No "metalero" here, just can't, LOL
You're killing it Brother! Keep the good work up..
They prescribe rdl or sldl I think.
The idea being, you generally wont manage traditional dl and squats 3x per week. There is a variation where you do dl every 2nd workout.
Im not a fan myself, I think non linear periodisation is much better, more rewarding.
So, we were both a bit run down, today. Well, I'm glad to see you took your own advice!
Ok, woke up really late today. Guess I needed the sleep.
Today's weigh in:
Bodyweight: 176 pounds
Tanita Bodyfat %: 23%
Waist: 38.25" (almost 38")
Yeah, I hate waking up in the morning at the same weight I was when I went to bed. It just feels like SOMETHING should have burned off.![]()
So, HGP was talking about Phenibut in another thread and I realized I had some Revivarant G still last night. I didn't really need help sleeping, but decided it would be nice to get some nice, deep, deep sleep last night, so I decided to have some fun and take it. Only, when I opened it, I hadn't used it in a long while and it was clumped together and I only had about 1 scoop left. I normally use 1/2 scoop or even 1/3 scoop. I just decided, WTH, and just took the entire scoop (maybe a little more than a scoop) that was left.
I was OUT COLD. I slept for about 9 hours and at 8 AM my gf asked if I was getting up ...I would have slept all morning. I woke up a little dizzy, and very euphoric. I was walking out of my house, to give you an idea of how high I was, and I saw my gf's car and my car (which I just bought a couple months ago) and I thought - two silver cars in the driveway. We have the same color car. And I found that very funny for some reason, haha.
Then, as I was leaving my house, a guy was stopped at the end of the road and I couldn't get around him because he had me blocked, and he didn't realize I was there and just sat there for a while. Normally I would have honked or gotten a little ...not angry, but I would have waived my hands and thought, "Wake up! What the hell are you doing stopped in the middle of the road!???"
But, I just waited, and eventually he realized and moved without any intervention, and then drove erratically (which would have really made me crazy normally) and then finally pulled over. I was going to stop and ask if he needed help finding an address in the neighborhood....not angry at all...but I was so late and he didn't stop in a spot that I could really stop, so I moved on. I'm just a little high/euphoric I guess. Not my normal anxious self.
Today's weigh in:
Bodyweight: 177 pounds
Bodyfat %: 23%
Waist: 38.5"
Not sure why I've been stuck here for so long. I'm feeling leaner if I grab my sides and the SN definitely has my fat feeling less dense around my stomach - but my weight is just holding steady. I guess I just have to keep going and have faith in the process.
Ok. So HGP sent me here to get educated on how to run stuff, work hard, and eat next to nothing......got tired just reading some of your workouts! Looking forward to catching and keeping up!![]()
Lol, thank you. You guys give me too much credit - my workouts are hard, but generally 1/3-1/4 the volume some guys, if not most, do on this board. And I really mean it when I say that a lot more of this effort is thanks to you guys. When Hastur and NewAgeMayan talked me into doing this log, I had no idea how it was going to carry me further than I'd ever made it before in my life as far as my health goals go. I am the same weight I was after dieting in college and probably leaner now. Thanks to the guys who talked me into this - I keep calling it a river - but it really is like walking through the woods, coming to a river out of nowhere and just jumping in and the current carries you. You may not know where you will end up, but you just hop in and get carried and enjoy the ride. So I owe you guys all a lot.
At any rate, I am trying to incorporate some referees 1x per week now that I am a but leaner. So today I've eaten 2 oz. Turkey jerky(140/24), and 2 scoops of Select Cafe (200/40).
Then I worked out around 7. I did the following workout:
Deadlifts:
1 x 8 x 225 warm up
1 x 12 x 315
Leg Press:
1 x 15 x 450
Bent Over Rows:
1 x 15 x 135
Bench Presses:
1 x 8 x 95 warm up
1 x 9 x 165
Rope Face Pulls:
1 x 15 x 35
Triceps Press Downs:
1 x 15 x 25
Barbell Curls:
1 x 15 x 55
And that was it. I actually felt a little like throwing up after, which is strange because I don't feel like these workouts are all that hard and I'm not going to all out failure. I think the higher rep range (15) is just not what I am used to and I will get better. So far I am liking it though.
After the workout, I had my referred. I had:
1/2 pound 93% lean ground beef
1 cup rice
1/4 cup cheddar cheese
1 flour tortilla
About 3 raviolis....my gf had ravioli for dinner
About an hour after that I had 2 oven baked frozen pretzels and 1 cookie.
Total referred calories are about 1,600, 75 grams protein, 230 g carbohydrate, 40 g fat. I was probably a little high on the fat, but not out of control I don't think. Totals for the day are about 2,000-2100 calories, 140 g. Protein
I am feeling very very full. We will see what I weigh in the morning, haha.
Oh snap! I referred Tank999 to your log because he was interested in your super-low-cal approach and forgot you upped calories recently to get fat again.
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Sorry for that...
Oh snap! I referred Tank999 to your log because he was interested in your super-low-cal approach and forgot you upped calories recently to get fat again.
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Sorry for that...
I just figured you were hazing the new guy! Lmfao! Nah, I went back and read up and more or less caught on.....
Anyhoo I'm glad you sent me here - there some serious work being done.....
Over 25% body fat and metabolic slow down isn't much of a co concern in his eyes. Near 10%, and it becomes a much bigger issue. 10-25% and you need to be managing a little.
OTOH, they say more muscle INCREASES metabolism. I think that's the idea behind lifting heavy while dieting so the increased muscle increases metabolism enough to offset the decreased metabolism from lower BF.
Yeah, it's tougher if you've already been lifting for a while.
(glanced at the other log)
You're just 47??? I'm 55 and I only became a grandpa 3 months ago.
You don't get to call yourself OLD, anymore!
I had that elbow injury a few years ago. Really sucks. I'm trying to be more cautious this time around.
Dupe (REALLY long delay before the forum posted, so I clicked again, thinking it didn't take. Twice.)
Glad to see I am not the only one that does this hahaha.
Yes, more muscle burns more calories, but so does carrying around more weight. If you are 300 pounds of fat you will burn more calories walking g down the street than someone weighing 200 pounds (unless they are carrying 100 pounds of weights).
And the increased metabolic rate is oversold, as HGP who does not even have a grandkid (congrats to KAPrice....at least that kid has a smart grandfather and not a hairy one). I've seen studies suggesting a pound of new muscle burns approx. 6 additional calories/day. So 30 pounds of extra muscle will allow you to eat 2 cookies per day more than if you didn't have it.
And, also like HGP said, building muscle in a deficit for anyone who isn't a new trainer is very very hard. Part of my hope behind this log is to actually moderate the other side of that argument though - that larger deficits cause muscle wasting at incredible rates. I am sure I've lost some muscle....but far from burning through it too.
Exactly what I was experiencing. One really should cut first before attempting a bulk. HIT4ME, I bet you are looking forward to eat that 2 extra cookies after gaining said 30lbs of muscle, no need to buy those cookies until 2025.
I used to eat a pack of chips ahoy and like 5 hot pocket thru the day
Yeah, that would blow my calorie goals away probably, plus I think the point of the refeed isn't to totally sub the diet, but to make it more effective.