Our Physical Fitness

[darjr]

Did a lot of yoga like stretching and active body weight strength flexibility. I’m terrible at them.

Round of specialized calisthenics for buhurt. Then we got in armor again!

I was actually terribly sore. Like everywhere. Still time in armor is time well spent. I even sparred a bit.

 

[Scribe]

We are so back in business boys, crushed it. Summary after grocery run lol.

OK.

Upper, Gym Scale - 178.

Good warm up.

Bench - I added a 2nd 'warm up' set at 260, just to get some blood going, and then was able to get 6 at 300. Still not back to where I was, but it felt better.

Dips, back up to 110.

Pull Downs, up, 190 x 8.

Pec Deck, felt better, I do 2 sets here as I want to be really warm so to not tear up my shoulders. 8 x 210, 6 x 225.

Cable Row, 8 x 220

BoBR, Good energy left, still at 185.

Incline Dumbbell, 95s x 8

Incline Bench, 8 x 160, 8 x 180, again with 2 sets to make sure the shoulder is warm.

Incline (80 degree) Press, 110 x 8, 160 x 6 feeling a bit rough at this point.

Hammer Pulldown. 10 x 180, this thing has been great for my back I think.

A bit of shoulder/delt stuff (lateral cable and such) to wrap up.

Really good. This updated diet has really kicked in and I was feeling great.

Sunday - Rest but high carb.
Monday - Upper, high carb.
Tues - Legs, low carb.
Wed - Arms, high carb.
Thursday - Rest, low carb.
Friday - Upper, high carb.
Saturday - Lower, low carb.

Thats the plan for this week, and I should be going into legs fueled up, as well. Which is good, I spent about 4 hours squatting repairing drywall yesterday.

 

[Evaniel]

Bench - I added a 2nd 'warm up' set at 260, just to get some blood going, and then was able to get 6 at 300. Still not back to where I was, but it felt better.

Nice!

 

[Scribe]

Nice!

That was the biggest difference between calorie surplus and deficit. In a deficit I just couldn't push the same. Everything else kind of hung around, but my bench was getting weaker every week. Seems weird, but I don't know how else to explain it.

 

[Evaniel]

That was the biggest difference between calorie surplus and deficit. In a deficit I just couldn't push the same. Everything else kind of hung around, but my bench was getting weaker every week. Seems weird, but I don't know how else to explain it.

Makes sense to me: you need calories to push the weight.

Incidentally (and to the surprise of no one, I'm sure), my diet has been a trainwreck, and the training's showing it.

 

[Scribe]

Incidentally (and to the surprise of no one, I'm sure), my diet has been a trainwreck, and the training's showing it.

Up and down, hard to maintain?

It was an adjustment to make for sure.

 

[Evaniel]

Up and down, hard to maintain?

It was an adjustment to make for sure.

I was doing well with the cut for the first two or so weeks, but I've been binging on the weekends, and I haven't been tracking protein. I feel like my lifts have plateued at the same time as my weight loss stalled. I've mostly regained the strength I lost after getting sick, but this past weekend's workouts were rough. I may have netted a rep or two here or there, but it was a grind.

 

[Mannahnin]

I was doing well with the cut for the first two or so weeks, but I've been binging on the weekends, and I haven't been tracking protein. I feel like my lifts have plateued at the same time as my weight loss stalled. I've mostly regained the strength I lost after getting sick, but this past weekend's workouts were rough. I may have netted a rep or two here or there, but it was a grind.

Here's cheering for you to forgive yourself and then to dial it in a little better! Protein and reigning the weekends in a bit.

 

[Scribe]

I was doing well with the cut for the first two or so weeks, but I've been binging on the weekends, and I haven't been tracking protein. I feel like my lifts have plateued at the same time as my weight loss stalled. I've mostly regained the strength I lost after getting sick, but this past weekend's workouts were rough. I may have netted a rep or two here or there, but it was a grind.

Yeah, I think people who are into self improvement, that would be us, can be too hard on ourselves by default.

What helps me is focusing on it being incremental gain, small things daily, and its not something that can be fixed, or undone, in a day, a weekend, or whatever. Its all a grind, we get back up, and keep going.

Also, I dont know how attuned to your own cutting path you are, for me it was new, and those carb up days every 2 weeks made a MAJOR difference in how I was feeling.