We cuttin now ✂️

[Smont]

I see people all the time over the years posting pictures or videos in a dark gym 4:00 a.m. and they're the first person there, like this is hardcore. This is how you become the man, motivation to the masses, did you get your lazy ass up yet.... And to those motivation spreading warriors I say ........ STFU, this hobby isn't hardcore it just makes us morons, you're not gangster for getting up at 4:00 a.m. on a Saturday, you're just an idiot who could have slept in for two extra hours and then made a big ass breakfast, maybe rolled over and banged your girl first for some morning sex before she cooked your eggs. But nope, you decided to be hardcore, you're so hardcore your girl is going to be pissed off that you're not there in the morning that she has to eat breakfast by herself and then she's going to send you back out to get her a dunkin' donuts coffee.

Oh well, maybe it's the need to always be in better shape, or maybe it's the brain damage from getting punched in the head too much because you're 41 and your reflexes aren't as good as they used to be lol

In the words of the late great DMX, Here we go again!

 

[Smont]

185 this morning, got the first workout in obviously and I felt pretty drained so I decided to start a little half ass carb load.

I forgot to track that I added a quarter teaspoon of a mixture of pink Himalayan salt and regular salt. Not that that really matters but the sodium is more like 1150 milligrams sodium.

Shooting for 400 carbs without going over 2400 cal

 

[Smont]

Hit my numbers yesterday, but , went over my calories by 150.

Woke up 189.7

Did 3.1 mile jog fasted in 36min. Very easy pace, I could have had a full conversation no heavy breathing at all. But my lower back and knees do get a little irritated when I run.

186.4 post run. Going into work for 6-7 hours and I'll eat from 10pm till midnight tonight.

Il float through work with a coffee and some caffeinated sparkling Waters from Aldi. 70mg per can.


I have a temporary deadline for November 14th, weight class is 176lbs, so I'm just going to set myself a goal of dropping 10 lb over the next 3 weeks to make this weight class and that's going to be a one-day thing, and I'll make assessments from there. All likely weigh in at 176 that day and finish the day at 185 I just know myself and that's what's going to happen lol.

Nothing really to train for, it's all going to be cardio and conditioning related so I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing

 

[Smont]

Blood work and my physical got rescheduled I can't do either until after November 1st but I'm going to have both of them done the first week of November

 

[Hyde]

I mean, if 4am is the only time you have to train then it’s hardcore. But if you could have gotten more recovery first then yeah, you should have stayed in bed lol.

 

[Smont]

I mean, if 4am is the only time you have to train then it’s hardcore. But if you could have gotten more recovery first then yeah, you should have stayed in bed lol.

Not if you wanna be a top G! Some ppl go to the gym at 8am and do warm ups to get there body ready to handle the workout.

But I go to the gym at 4am so I can get the gym warmed up to handle me!


Edit: some idiot will read this down the road and treat it like I'm serious, and to that idiot I say.....

It's 4am, do you know where your gym membership is?

 

[Smont]

no legs or eggs again this morning, just me, the cold empty gym and this photo that looks like it was taken with a Polaroid instant camera, and somebody didn't wave it around in the air enough to make the ink dry in time. O well, today's punishment was 10 rounds, 2min each and 1 min between.

Post workout meal was 1050 cal and 95gm protein, 17gm carbs and the rest fat. I just decided I was splitting up my food today and not doing the back loading thing.

 

[Hyde]

A lot of Sundays nobody comes to the gym when I do (usually arrive 8-9am). I will arrive alone & often stay alone, which I don’t prefer - but if I only trained when other people could come, I’d have no gains! The training has to get done if you want results, so you either want it enough to pound away or not. I often have to remind myself that I can truly leave anytime I want. Nobody is watching or cares.

That’s the part I think people miss: the path has been laid out for us. Take X drugs, follow Y diet manipulations, and train in a Z fashion - that’s the recipe to get really jacked and/or strong. It is not hidden or overly-complicated really. It’s just very difficult for most to actually walk the path, consistently, for a long time. It’s going to take a lot of being hungry, or full, or uncomfortable, or side effects, and it’s definitely going to take a lot of brutal work where nobody will be there to push you or hold your hand through it.

You have to just want to be at the gym at 4am lol