A pivotal point in my career
The last week or two I’ve been noticing some changes in the mirror as well as many others picking up on my progress. I’ve been feeling like a beast lately and have just been ripping it up in the gym! Non-stop eating clean, lots of food, crushing weight, plenty of days off from the gym with lots of sleep, recovery is top notch, just totally on point.
Like I’ve mentioned throughout my log, I’ve “never” had a progressive off-season. It always included missed meals, lack of sleep and not the cleanest sources of food. I would still tare it up in the gym, eat a ton and gain some new muscle, but it came with a lot of fat and my gains weren’t as good as they obviously could be.
When it comes time to diet down for a show, I never miss a meal, eat 100% clean and am firing on all cylinders. So the vast difference from one to another creates such an anabolic environment (for the first month or so until cals get pretty low) and even though I’m eating less cals, I have all my T’s crossed and I’s dotted that I actually grow a bit for the first few weeks.
Getting my butt in gear and ready to make some serious moves forward, I kept this same dedication, discipline and focus I own throughout when I diet down for a show and carried it right into my offseason. I’ve made leaps and bounds in my progress and I’m nowhere near done yet. Just to give you an idea of where my head is at, since my show in October (well heck, even all throughout the time I was dieting for that show) I haven’t missed a single meal a day consisting of either 6 or 7 meals. I haven’t stepped too far outside the lines (cheating on my diet like crazy) without regaining control, never missing a beat, just killing it on all levels. My body has literally been in an anabolic state from the second I wake up till I lay down for bed, 7days a week, for the past few months, constantly just pushing and pushing waiting for it to break!
The reason I’m mentioning all of this (besides the fact that I’m totally thrilled and so happy for myself) is that I think my body has finally given up and broken into the next stage of growth! With all of the reasons mentioned above, the body has to eventually break.
Those of us that have been going at this for a long time know that “the next level” doesn’t come easy! You have to really bust your butt and work extremely hard to take a physique that has been broken down so many times and adapted each time to take that level of abuse and some, to then reach a level able to break it yet again!
We all know that when the threshold is broken, new gains will follow. Given how “on point” I am and will continue to be, I can’t wait to see how far this spurt goes (especially having everything at 100%) till things level out, then leaving me to fight yet another battle!