This!Weight creeping down means you’re not getting fatter, but leaner! It doesn’t need to be fast; when loss is slow strength can be built very well!
I always make the mistake of reducing calorie intake excessively and end up getting injured.
This!Weight creeping down means you’re not getting fatter, but leaner! It doesn’t need to be fast; when loss is slow strength can be built very well!
I’ve tried many diet arrangements in the past, and all of them provided me some gratification, even if temporary. I’ve never felt better than I do now. I’m rarely starving, at least not with options to eat. I’m recovering well, I’m having no debilitating pain (many thanks also to the transformer bar and Yukon), and I’m having the best body transformation ever. I wish I tried this a long time ago.I like that you have a calorie goal for each meal as opposed to just the overall caloric goal. That is seriously paying attention to detail. Mine is getting better and better as well but this is just a glance at another step to make.
Exactly this!This!
I always make the mistake of reducing calorie intake excessively and end up getting injured.
Admittedly, I’m not up to date on carb cycling or what works for high and low days.Are you alternating high and low days along with your carb centric or fat centric days? I am sure I could go back and review to see but easier to just ask. My best results seemed to come from having high and low days but I have been keeping pretty steady state now while trying to figure out what my new caloric requirements are. Hard to do while being able to step up training and knowing I am increasing muscle mass as well. My legs are growing some with the frequency at 3 times a week and nothing else getting hit hard.
Honestly from what I see you are doing an excellent job man. No need for a change. I am trying to do more traditional right now and getting a little frustrated with it. So likely to go back to some sort of carb and calorie cycling if I don't start seeing the scale move down or an obvious recomp effect. It's hard to tell with me stepping up intensity on everything whether muscle memory is doing it's thing adding LBM or my caloric intake is just not low enough to cause weight loss for me right now. My caloric need has always been pretty low compared to others my size so it is hard to tell.Admittedly, I’m not up to date on carb cycling or what works for high and low days.
When my calories were lower, I’d do a carb heavier refeed day on a lifting day once a week. Twice a week if I felt run down. Now I just wait until I feel rundown, refeed, then rest a day. It’s working for now, but plateaus happen. I’m open to your knowledge on the matter.
I appreciate that. I’m just hoping I’m not too stubborn to change things up and try new things when the inevitable plateau comes. I’ve held fast in the past only to regret not trying something new.Honestly from what I see you are doing an excellent job man. No need for a change. I am trying to do more traditional right now and getting a little frustrated with it. So likely to go back to some sort of carb and calorie cycling if I don't start seeing the scale move down or an obvious recomp effect. It's hard to tell with me stepping up intensity on everything whether muscle memory is doing it's thing adding LBM or my caloric intake is just not low enough to cause weight loss for me right now. My caloric need has always been pretty low compared to others my size so it is hard to tell.
I think you will, I think if not seeing any progress for 3-4 weeks it is time for a change. Sometimes 2 weeks isn't enough when the body is fighting for homeostasis, but then things move on that 3rd week.I appreciate that. I’m just hoping I’m not too stubborn to change things up and try new things when the inevitable plateau comes. I’ve held fast in the past only to regret not trying something new.
Remember you don't have to push resistance hard with these, just enough to get a solid contraction. A lot of using these is strengthening through activation and neural adaptation. Not saying increasing resistance isn't important but that it should not be the focus. Your shoulder shouldn't feel like toast to the point it is still recovering the next day with these.Day of Rest & Stretches
BW: 211.8 (matches low)
Calories yesterday: 3108 / 3110
231 P / 304 C / 101 F
Calories planned today: 2400
I’m going to try several shoulder routines and warmups, keeping those that I notice most improvement or change. This is where I found todays:
Stretches:
1. Pendulum 2x10
- Spend more time with the injured shoulder
2. Crossbody shoulder stretch (4 ea.
3. Passive internal rotation (4 ea)
4. Passive external rotation (4 ea)
5. Sleeper stretch (2x)
Exercises:
1. Upright external rotations (3x8) banded
2. Internal rotations (3x8) banded
3. External rotation (3x8) banded
4. Skipped a few***
6. Scapular pull-ups (1x10)
I felt a benefit to all of them except the scapular pull-ups, the one I added myself.
Blood work this morning. May do fewer calories than planned, but we will see. My biggest concern with that is how much energy I won’t have tomorrow morning for my planned workout.
Kleen, this is great, thank you.Remember you don't have to push resistance hard with these, just enough to get a solid contraction. A lot of using these is strengthening through activation and neural adaptation. Not saying increasing resistance isn't important but that it should not be the focus. Your shoulder shouldn't feel like toast to the point it is still recovering the next day with these.
Also you can spread these out throughout the week adding them into your warm ups or in between sets. Zack Evenesh had us pick something for whatever day and then do 5 sets of 20 during rest periods of the sets just for general shoulder health. Stuff like banded dislocators or external rotations. So you can still get some volume in with them throughout the week without it being a time suck and or an entire workout on it's own. So say 5 sets of squats make it a squat and shoulder mobility superset. It's not going to rob you of energy for your main set or shouldn't.
It’s not quite at injury stage. I can visually see the imbalance in my shoulder, and I can here and feel the looseness of my left shoulder when I do the pendulums. In the past, I had a supraspinatus pinch as a symptom of whatever it is. I can tell that I’m headed back in that direction so I’m trying to get ahead of that now.I like banded dislocators or if you can even done with a broomstick which really forces you through at larger rom. With the bands you can pull out on the band to clear a rough section with a broomstick you either can or can't get around without widening grip a little. So they grind away on scar tissue that ight be holding you back. You are internally rotating all the way forward and then external on the back with just enough resistance your whole shoulders get a nice pump but nothing debilitating for the next session. Other than that most external rotation exercises are good and often not worked as much as the internal stuff in normal use. I also find the TRX or even DB weighted alphabets or I,T, Y are great especially when you do some with the arms going back and down by your side.
I have more issues with scapular stability due to my subscap being torn on the right side, even my left side seems to be more stable at this point than the right. So I am trying to fix that. You may want to tailor your exercises based on where the injury actually is if you know specifically. Otherwise most of the scap, and rotator cuff stuff are good go to exercises for shoulder stability.
Hmm. It looks like I do these already but I call them “Overandbacks.” I’ll try them again with a broomstick. Thanks!I like banded dislocators or if you can even done with a broomstick which really forces you through at larger rom. With the bands you can pull out on the band to clear a rough section with a broomstick you either can or can't get around without widening grip a little. So they grind away on scar tissue that ight be holding you back. You are internally rotating all the way forward and then external on the back with just enough resistance your whole shoulders get a nice pump but nothing debilitating for the next session. Other than that most external rotation exercises are good and often not worked as much as the internal stuff in normal use. I also find the TRX or even DB weighted alphabets or I,T, Y are great especially when you do some with the arms going back and down by your side.
I have more issues with scapular stability due to my subscap being torn on the right side, even my left side seems to be more stable at this point than the right. So I am trying to fix that. You may want to tailor your exercises based on where the injury actually is if you know specifically. Otherwise most of the scap, and rotator cuff stuff are good go to exercises for shoulder stability.
It’s kind of unknown, but I appreciate it.Hope the bad news at work doesn't effect you too much. Although from the sounds of it that is unlikely.
Thanks!Congrats on the new low and new personal bests!
22 sets plus that warm up is not "That's it" it is more like "PHEWWWW that was a good workout."Cycle 1 Period 18, Back day 1
BW: 211.2
Calories yesterday: 3118 / 3110
246 P / 415 C / 58 F
Calories planned today: 3110
Pendulum Swings
Warmup:, 2 sets
- Over and backs xN
- Paps x N
- Banded lat pulls (to body) xN
- External rotations
- Can raises (both)
- Shoulder stretch, cross body
Scap pull-ups
1 set
One Arm Bb Row
1-2 feeder sets
x1
Dips
3 sets
X30, 18, 18 (volume PR)
Pull-ups
3 sets
x9, 8, 10 (volume PR)
Meadows rows
5 sets
Cable rows
Underhand, from floor & waist
5 sets
Stretchers
5 sets
Hammer curls
2 sets, light
That’s it. Gotta make it through another day.
Yeah a new best in dip and pull-up workload is a great place to be!22 sets plus that warm up is not "That's it" it is more like "PHEWWWW that was a good workout."
22 sets plus that warm up is not "That's it" it is more like "PHEWWWW that was a good workout."
Indeed, and thanks for the reminder, guys. It was one of those I just zombie’d through with a racing mind. Not horrible, just not the f-yeah kind of morning.Yeah a new best in dip and pull-up workload is a great place to be!
Oh, sun 200 is happening, and sooner than I thought. I want more, though.Hey, a new low is a new low, they’re usually never a stable weight value initially.
I really think you ought to keep going on this path and break the 200 barrier! Not that you need to stay there, but the leaner you are the better you will grow when you do reverse.
Thank you!Keep killing it man you are doing awesome!
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You just keep on doing the right things and hopefully life will go your way on this one. If not though you will be a ripped and built specimen. Then you can go take money off of thirsty women on Only Fans!
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Hope things work out for you mate.
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Of course brother, we are your Iron Family!Thanks, guys. I appreciate the support.