Jimothy's Back (and worse than ever)
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Jimbabwe
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Just an automated email saying they'll email me if they find it.
Jimbabwe
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Might be lol
Jimbabwe
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Hyde actually putting his diet out there has inspired me to do the same. Know I mentioned the calorie and macro targets, but this is how I'm actually getting there each day.
I start with this set of meals on Wednesday/Thursday next week, right when I run out of the current meal prep rotation. Dropping down to just one meal prep meal a day (for lunch at work).
Everything else I'll prep (except for the chicken, which is Real Good Foods tenders). The FF cottage cheese and egg are to make a simple 2 ingredient wrap that I'll throw the chicken, avocado, spinach and (maybe) a low cal ranch into.
Parenthetical at the bottom is the daily fiber intake. COR is a bowl of cream of rice with some PES Protein 4 Oats in it for post-workout.
I start with this set of meals on Wednesday/Thursday next week, right when I run out of the current meal prep rotation. Dropping down to just one meal prep meal a day (for lunch at work).
Everything else I'll prep (except for the chicken, which is Real Good Foods tenders). The FF cottage cheese and egg are to make a simple 2 ingredient wrap that I'll throw the chicken, avocado, spinach and (maybe) a low cal ranch into.
Parenthetical at the bottom is the daily fiber intake. COR is a bowl of cream of rice with some PES Protein 4 Oats in it for post-workout.
Jimbabwe
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Pull from this AM. Got to bed around 3 last night, so that was cool.
Arsenal Pulldown: 150 x 8, 130 x 8
Prime CS Kelso Shrug: 180 x 8, 180 x 8
Prime Lat Pulldown: 320 x 5, 270 x 8
BB Shrug: 335 x 7, 315 x 6
Prime Rear Delt: 180 x 7, 180 x 6
Atlantis Preacher: 125 x 5, 110 x 6
Preacher Hammer Curl: 105 x 6, 90 x 6
Cable RG Curl: 55 x 7, 50 x 7
Arsenal Pulldown: 150 x 8, 130 x 8
Prime CS Kelso Shrug: 180 x 8, 180 x 8
Prime Lat Pulldown: 320 x 5, 270 x 8
BB Shrug: 335 x 7, 315 x 6
Prime Rear Delt: 180 x 7, 180 x 6
Atlantis Preacher: 125 x 5, 110 x 6
Preacher Hammer Curl: 105 x 6, 90 x 6
Cable RG Curl: 55 x 7, 50 x 7
Segansational
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What's a Zeus bowl? That COR sounds pretty good. It's been a minute since having cream of rice though. I usually do oats with whey, or more often I'm throwing oats into my blended up whey shake. I imagine that cream of rice is faster digesting though?
Jimbabwe
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Zeus Bowl is just what the company calls their chicken and potato meal prep.
Nominally yeah, the COR would digest faster, but once you add protein to it you slow digestion (especially where, in my case, it's a whey/casein blend), so not super important.
I just don't much care for oatmeal and my gut has not historically handled them super well. I still use them for the pancakes (which are made with mashed banana for moisture) for all the fiber benefits and the like, but a bowl after my workout of straight oats would leave me bloated as **** all day.
Jimbabwe
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Legs this morning. Was supposed to be on a train to Boston at 6am, so woke up at 2 to try to squeeze the workout in, but train was cancelled, so I went back to sleep for a half hour before my body decided it was just time to start the day.
Hoping to catch up on some sleep this weekend, but not off to a great start lol.
Anyway, legs was ass. Stomach has been a little upset and interrupted my workout once. SLDL didn't feel quite right today, so I scratched the last set.
Prime Leg Ext: 320 x 6, 295 x 6
Prime Lying Leg Curl: 125 x 8, 110 x 8
Adduction: 145 x 6, 125 x 7
Hack Calf Raise: 540 x 7, 450 x 8
Arsenal Hip Thrust: 590 x 5, 500 x 8
Prime Leg Press: 540 x 7, 450 x 8
Smith SLDL: 275 x 5
Hoping to catch up on some sleep this weekend, but not off to a great start lol.
Anyway, legs was ass. Stomach has been a little upset and interrupted my workout once. SLDL didn't feel quite right today, so I scratched the last set.
Prime Leg Ext: 320 x 6, 295 x 6
Prime Lying Leg Curl: 125 x 8, 110 x 8
Adduction: 145 x 6, 125 x 7
Hack Calf Raise: 540 x 7, 450 x 8
Arsenal Hip Thrust: 590 x 5, 500 x 8
Prime Leg Press: 540 x 7, 450 x 8
Smith SLDL: 275 x 5
Jimbabwe
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Took a 45 minute nap, and then did some meal prepping for the coming week and made some food for tomorrow to let us live a little and still hit our macros.
Made some homemade slider buns and doing smash burger sliders tomorrow, some buffalo chicken tenders, a tomato pizza and some lemon blueberry cheesecake that I made today.
Will still have a few hundred calories left over after that for sides and the like. Thinking a Cole slaw will get made while I make the patties and will see what else I'm feeling.
Hyde
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Sounds good, let us know how it goes, what you really liked, etc
Jimbabwe
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Sliders turned out pretty good. Homemade buns, homemade Carolina-style BBQ sauce.
Made BBQ baked black beans and a vinegar/mustard based Cole slaw (just enough Greek yogurt to bind it all).
Pizza and buffalo chicken bites for dinner tonight.
Jimbabwe
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Lemon blueberry cheesecake came out bomb. Also cottage cheese-based with some Greek yogurt and corn starch to get the right texture.
Even with the graham cracker crust and blueberry topping, a quarter of the cake was only 235kcal.
Jimbabwe
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These are the check-in photos I sent my coach this morning. Taken right after waking up and fasted.
Feels like things still trending in the right direction. Got maybe 3 more weeks of dieting before my vacation and then probably a couple weeks to recalibrate after that, and then it's time to build some muscle.
Segansational
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Those abs really pop! Nice work. You have a bit of a swimmers body type (longer torso, heavily lat/trap dominant shape). Did you ever swim for college or hobby, etc?
Jimbabwe
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No, nothing like that. Assume just some combination of genetics plus training.
I joined the Army out of high school. Didn't even go to college until I was almost 30 lol. Football and track were my sports growing up.
Swimming for rich people who have pools lol.
MrKleen73
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Man you are still leaning up nicely, and like Seg said your shoulder / back to waist ratio is on point. Quads are looking good too!
Can you share the recipe you used for the pizza and cheesecake? I have seen the cottage cheese pizza crusts on youtube shorts but they run through the stuff so fast and I always question how good they really are. Both of these look excellent, and i trust your taste in foods. So if you enjoyed them I am likely too. I had real pizza last night to crush a crazy craving and also because I am really pushing my calories back down as of this week.
Can you share the recipe you used for the pizza and cheesecake? I have seen the cottage cheese pizza crusts on youtube shorts but they run through the stuff so fast and I always question how good they really are. Both of these look excellent, and i trust your taste in foods. So if you enjoyed them I am likely too. I had real pizza last night to crush a crazy craving and also because I am really pushing my calories back down as of this week.
Jimbabwe
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I would use this one as the base for adjusting the measurements for the size you want/calorie target.
Cottage Cheese Pizza Crust (High in Protein) - iFoodReal.com
This 3 ingredient Cottage Cheese Pizza Crust is so easy, tastes like real thin crust pizza and contains 20 grams of protein per serving!
ifoodreal.com
I blended the cottage cheese until smooth and with some seasoning (garlic, pepper, etc.) and then mixed with the flour (seasoned with same).
I then par baked mine on a sheet of parchment paper for like 3-4 minutes @ 400 and pulled it out of the oven, covered in crushed tomatoes and then put on some really thinly sliced garlic, basil, crushed red pepper, oregano and a tiny pinch of salt.
Threw it back in the oven @ 550 on the preheated pizza stone for maybe 8 more minutes. Pulled it out and finely grated a touch of Parmesan and Romano right on top (why I went light on the salt for the tomatoes).
Would have to dig for the cheesecake. Found it on an IG reel lol. I made the crust just off vibes and the blueberry topping too.
Jimbabwe
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Yeah, removing. Only oven safe up to about 400.
I think the crust gets a lot crispier with the stone, so it really just depends on if you like a thin crispy crust like I do. If so, would get a stone, but you can also use any heavy cast iron. Would just preheat it in the oven the same way as a stone.
Jimbabwe
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Lower from this morning. Back was a little tender when I woke up this morning and didn't really loosen up on the walk to the gym or the first half of the session, so I scratched the last three exercises and just focused on hitting the lower risk ones hard.
Prime Leg Ext: 320 x 7, 295 x 6
Prime Lying Leg Curl: 135 x 5, 110 x 7
Adduction: 145 x 7, 125 x 7
Hack Calf Raise: 540 x 6, 450 x 8
Very low energy today. Lack of sleep over the past few weeks is hitting me like a ton of bricks.
Prime Leg Ext: 320 x 7, 295 x 6
Prime Lying Leg Curl: 135 x 5, 110 x 7
Adduction: 145 x 7, 125 x 7
Hack Calf Raise: 540 x 6, 450 x 8
Very low energy today. Lack of sleep over the past few weeks is hitting me like a ton of bricks.
Dustin07
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we throw a pizza stone on the grill about once a year. my wife makes a big production out of it, sets up a full pizza bbq'ing station outside and then basically makes everyone mini pizzas for a couple hours, it's quite the shindig!
Hyde
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“You can train as much as you can recover”
akboom87
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Looking solid man! Great progress!!
Dustin07
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How fast and high of incline do you run ?
For the longest time I just did like a 5 or 6 incline at 2.5mph but these days I've been upping it from what I've seen from like @akboom87 and hanging in that 10 incline 2.6-2.8mph region with spurts up to 13-15 incline. definitely takes it from a passive experience to intentional.
For the longest time I just did like a 5 or 6 incline at 2.5mph but these days I've been upping it from what I've seen from like @akboom87 and hanging in that 10 incline 2.6-2.8mph region with spurts up to 13-15 incline. definitely takes it from a passive experience to intentional.
Jimbabwe
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Sometimes I'll just do like 4.0 on the incline and crank speed up to 3.5-4 for a power walk, today was a 6 at 2.8.
MrKleen73
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Similar here, I set speed @ 2.8 & do alternate from abut a 6 to 8 on the low end to 12-15 on the top end on the interval setting with 1-2 minutes per interval.
Me too!!!! That is a slow jog or a quick way to trip myself trying to walk that fast.
gphagan1
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You’re making really good progress man, and abs are looking great.
Dustin07
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I always turn the machine on at 2.6 and 5 incline and after a minute or two of getting feet, ankles, knees warmed up I start to increase the incline 1-2 every minute or so. usually around the 10 minute mark I'm at 10incline and 2.6-2.8 and I always set tiny goals, so I'll chase 13-15 incline until the 15 minute marker, then decrease a few points of incline to the 20 marker, then decide if I'm going back up or settling down to 5-8 lol.
I bet on an average 20-30 minute cardio session I set about 10 or more mini goals within the session to occupy my brain haha
I bet on an average 20-30 minute cardio session I set about 10 or more mini goals within the session to occupy my brain haha
Jimbabwe
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Might give it a try on Sunday. Seems like a decent way to make the cardio a little more interesting, since I get bored fast doing any type of cardio.
I don't always like to go too high on the incline because it can be tough on the hamstrings and I've had quite a few issues with hamstring injuries over the past couple of years, so cautious of adding anything that can cause them to tighten up and lead to missed training time.
Dustin07
Legend
I hear you there!
akboom87
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What weight vest you using?
Jimbabwe
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Just some nameless brand I got off Amazon. Weighs like 30 pounds though and is comfortable enough.
Dustin07
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I like this approach. its like "cardio is boring and i hate it, how can I make it worse"
Jimbabwe
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The worse it is now, the less time I have to diet for lol.
Push this morning. Dealing with a bit of work stress this AM/last night, so getting a solid session in was a good way to start the day.
Prime Pec Deck: 240 x 7, 220 x 7 (increased from last session where I did 230 x 8. Thought the 240 might have me around 5, so was surprised to get a solid 7).
DB Laterals: 40 x 8, 35 x 8 (didn't have time to wait for cables, so repeated DBs. Might could increase weight soon, but may push these to sets of 10 before increasing just because the 5lb jump can be crazy on lat raises).
Arsenal NG Incline: 180 x 7, 160 x 6
Poliquin Pushdown: 140 x 7, 120 x 8
Rope BTN Tri Ext: 120 x 5, 100 x 7
Smith BTN OHP: 165 x 5, 145 x 7
Jimbabwe
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Added in SNS Lean GLP today. Appetite has been outrageous the last couple of weeks, and I've been doing a bit too much off-plan snacking for being this close to the finish line, so trying to see if this helps manage the appetite some to keep me on track this next 2ish weeks before my vacation.
After that, think there will probably be a couple of weeks back in restrictive mode to clean up from the damage of the 10-days abroad, and then should be headed towards building some muscle in earnest.
In any event, the Ultra DCP, Epitome and Abliderate Ammo I added from EvoMuse a few weeks back seem to be helping me continue to sharpen up even with less than ideal dietary adherence, so that's nice.
Did end up adding the CEL BASIS in as well a little over a week ago, so hoping that helps me get a little bit of juice out of these final weeks.
After that, think there will probably be a couple of weeks back in restrictive mode to clean up from the damage of the 10-days abroad, and then should be headed towards building some muscle in earnest.
In any event, the Ultra DCP, Epitome and Abliderate Ammo I added from EvoMuse a few weeks back seem to be helping me continue to sharpen up even with less than ideal dietary adherence, so that's nice.
Did end up adding the CEL BASIS in as well a little over a week ago, so hoping that helps me get a little bit of juice out of these final weeks.
Jimbabwe
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Pull from this morning. Another pretty solid session, and pushed a little more weight/reps on basically all.
Arsenal Pulldown: 170 x 6, 150 x 8
Prime CS Kelso Shrug: 205 x 7, 180 x 8
Prime High Pulldown: 320 x 5, 290 x 6
BB Shrug: 335 x 8, 315 x 8
Prime Rear Delt: 200 x 5, 180 x 6
Atlantis Preacher: 125 x 6, 110 x 6
Hammer Preacher: 105 x 7, 90 x 7
RG Cable Curl: 55 x 8, 50 x 9
Arsenal Pulldown: 170 x 6, 150 x 8
Prime CS Kelso Shrug: 205 x 7, 180 x 8
Prime High Pulldown: 320 x 5, 290 x 6
BB Shrug: 335 x 8, 315 x 8
Prime Rear Delt: 200 x 5, 180 x 6
Atlantis Preacher: 125 x 6, 110 x 6
Hammer Preacher: 105 x 7, 90 x 7
RG Cable Curl: 55 x 8, 50 x 9
Jimbabwe
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Legs from this morning.
Prime Leg Ext: 320 x 8, 295 x 8
Prime Lying Leg Curl: 140 x 5, 115 x 8
Adduction: 145 x 8, 125 x 9
Hack Calf Raise: 540 x 8, 500 x 8
Arsenal Hip Thrust: 590 x 5, 540 x 7
Prime Leg Press: 540 x 6, 450 x 7
BB SLDL: 275 x 5, 225 x 7
Pretty good session overall. Everything felt solid, and pushed additional weight or reps on most. Breaking in my F8 PL shoes today and liked them a lot better than what I've been using.
Prime Leg Ext: 320 x 8, 295 x 8
Prime Lying Leg Curl: 140 x 5, 115 x 8
Adduction: 145 x 8, 125 x 9
Hack Calf Raise: 540 x 8, 500 x 8
Arsenal Hip Thrust: 590 x 5, 540 x 7
Prime Leg Press: 540 x 6, 450 x 7
BB SLDL: 275 x 5, 225 x 7
Pretty good session overall. Everything felt solid, and pushed additional weight or reps on most. Breaking in my F8 PL shoes today and liked them a lot better than what I've been using.
Jimbabwe
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Yeah, only one session so far, but felt a lot more grounded on pretty well everything.
gphagan1
Legend
That’s my kind of pizza….you could call that an anabolic pizza. If I was craving pizza I could probably eat 1/3 to 1/2 of that bad boy, and at around 62g to 94g protein now that’s what I’m talking about.
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