All right fellas, been laying low for a minute rehabbing and recovering, ready to get back to some consistently intense consistentcy!
A little recent background to get rolling: after a busy first half of the year reshaping my body, cutting; reaching an all-time PR on my flat bench; then maintaining while playing a ton of baseball and tennis; ultimately culminating in an injury from that last activity, a torn medial meniscus..this was the second straight year a tennis injury put me on the shelf for awhile - last year, it was a grade 3 calf tear that caused me to miss the Natural Mr. Indiana show.
So, I've made it to the last steps of my self-imposed rehab for the knee..just did ATG squats this morning (light weight), followed immediately by hi-rep leg extensions (20), 6 sets total in all. Pain is minimal in the knee, swelling has long been gone, and most importantly I've gotten a tremendous amount of range back..last step is to go to lunges next leg session, then we'll get the weight back up to where it needs to be.
Weight-wise, I'm hovering around 200lbs, diet hasn't been strict but hasn't been way off course either, and despite working around down time, injury time, and sports I feel I'm still holding my own, muscle is solid but not quite as lean as I'd like to be..strength is nowhere near PR level currently.
Supplement-wise, I started the Asteroid Stack last week, and of course Pslin plays an integral part in all my dietary schemes..just threw in Recreate this past w/e. Some other odds and ends (SuperCissusRx of course, Jack3d comes back soon, protein powders and such) will be in the mix as well, and I've been using CMI's Anabolic Signal for a month now for a natty test boost..you could say I'm a sort of tester for this. Not a hugely impactful product, but subtle and I can tell it's doing its thing. Other supps and dietary intake will be covered as we go.
The goal right now is transitional; going from 3600-3900cals daily to 2900-3100cals, shifting the macros, and going to experiment with a lil simple carb ingestion intra and postWO along with my BCAA's (again I'll cover this as we go), Pslin-fronted breakfast for preWO meal, and that'll be the majority of my carbs for the day other than fibrous veggies and a couple slices Ezekiel bread here & there..this is a bit of a new schematic for me, so we'll see how it goes.
The wrap: looking to come back with a vengeance after another injury -- with USPlabs products leading the way! They've never let me down yet. :cheers:
A little recent background to get rolling: after a busy first half of the year reshaping my body, cutting; reaching an all-time PR on my flat bench; then maintaining while playing a ton of baseball and tennis; ultimately culminating in an injury from that last activity, a torn medial meniscus..this was the second straight year a tennis injury put me on the shelf for awhile - last year, it was a grade 3 calf tear that caused me to miss the Natural Mr. Indiana show.
So, I've made it to the last steps of my self-imposed rehab for the knee..just did ATG squats this morning (light weight), followed immediately by hi-rep leg extensions (20), 6 sets total in all. Pain is minimal in the knee, swelling has long been gone, and most importantly I've gotten a tremendous amount of range back..last step is to go to lunges next leg session, then we'll get the weight back up to where it needs to be.
Weight-wise, I'm hovering around 200lbs, diet hasn't been strict but hasn't been way off course either, and despite working around down time, injury time, and sports I feel I'm still holding my own, muscle is solid but not quite as lean as I'd like to be..strength is nowhere near PR level currently.
Supplement-wise, I started the Asteroid Stack last week, and of course Pslin plays an integral part in all my dietary schemes..just threw in Recreate this past w/e. Some other odds and ends (SuperCissusRx of course, Jack3d comes back soon, protein powders and such) will be in the mix as well, and I've been using CMI's Anabolic Signal for a month now for a natty test boost..you could say I'm a sort of tester for this. Not a hugely impactful product, but subtle and I can tell it's doing its thing. Other supps and dietary intake will be covered as we go.
The goal right now is transitional; going from 3600-3900cals daily to 2900-3100cals, shifting the macros, and going to experiment with a lil simple carb ingestion intra and postWO along with my BCAA's (again I'll cover this as we go), Pslin-fronted breakfast for preWO meal, and that'll be the majority of my carbs for the day other than fibrous veggies and a couple slices Ezekiel bread here & there..this is a bit of a new schematic for me, so we'll see how it goes.
The wrap: looking to come back with a vengeance after another injury -- with USPlabs products leading the way! They've never let me down yet. :cheers: