Mavericks bulking log!

Maverick80

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Welcome to Mavericks bulking log.

I decided to wait a week before posting my thread for my bulking cycle, so I could have some tangible results to post. There are some good and some bad things to list. We'll start with the bad.

The Bad
Eating 6 meals + a post and pre workout meal has been down right difficult to nail down due to my schedule. I go to school full time, and this is actually my last semester before I graduate. Being that its my last semester I've been going to some career fairs and other such stressful things haha. Also, I have a g/f whom I see everyday, plus I work at school. So it is quite the balancing act. Enough of the excuses though, and I will try to improve on my meal intake from now on.

Typically I have been missing the last meal of the day, and 1 other one in the middle on a couple of days (I have never missed a pre or post workout meal). The one day I did the meal plan to near perfection was Sunday the first day, because I was home all day watching football. (Go Eagles!). Since then it has been the latter.

The Good
Just attempting to get in all the meals on my meal plan has greatly increased the quality of my normal every day diet. The whole nutrient dense foods that I am eating has me feeling good and looking alittle better (even after one week). I have done the workouts to the very word. Although I have done many of the workouts listed in the past, the ratios (slow movements) has greatly improved the effectiveness of my workouts. I haven't been real sore after a workout in awhile, now, everything hurts, and I love it! Its a great feeling to know I'm pushing my body to the edge.

Overview


  • Eating all the meals has been difficult
  • Following the diet probably by about 80%
  • There needs to be 30 hours in a day
  • Feeling stronger!
  • Workouts are going very well!
  • Ratios rock!
Starting Weight
123lbs

Week 1 Weight
124.5lbs
Week 2 Weight
124.5lbs

Bobo,
Can you give me any suggestions on how to bring my diet as close to 100% as possible? I'm trying my absolute best, but I know I need to be following in closer. Any suggestions on how to sneak in those meals while I'm on the run? I really appreciate it! Thanks for your great service. Updates will be coming more frequently now.

-Mike
 
You can switch meals around if you find you can pre-make certain ones easier. Just od not switch your pre-post or before bed meals. Any of the others you can switch around.

It will take you a good week to really find a rythm and figure out what you need to prepare ahead of time.
 
Past couple days have gone well as far as workouts. I love tricep day, and todays biceps woohoo!.. With the new workouts chest is also becoming a new favorite, mostly because it actually gets sore now. The diet has still been a struggle, the first half of the day goes well, its the 2nd half that seems to be tough. My schedule making it difficult to follow exactly. Everything else going well though.
 
I bet it's tough at times. I start my program next week, and will do as you and wait a week in before I start a thread.

One good thing is that I'm used to cooking most of my meals for the following week on the weekends. I then just package everything up the night before.

Good luck with your program.
 
Well this past week went not as well as I had hoped. The workouts are going strong, but my diet was probably worse this week (2nd) then it was the 1st. Its not that I'm eating the wrong foods, but I am must have missed atleast 2 meals almost every day. My weight remained the same.

Week 2 Weight 124.5

Getting all the meals with my fluctuating daily schedule seems to be more difficult then I first thought. My only real hope in really doing this right is to really prepare nearly everything ahead of time. Thoughts? Hopes? Support? haha.
 
You MUST get all the meals in for this to work. If you have to prepare a shitload of food before hand, then you have to do it. It simply will not work if you miss 2 meals per day.
 
You MUST get all the meals in for this to work. If you have to prepare a shitload of food before hand, then you have to do it. It simply will not work if you miss 2 meals per day.
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Just about to go cook as I am typing this. Week 3 will be different.
 
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