Just do UD2.0 - it's all spelled out for you and put together much better. Only need 8 weeks then you're done
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Fitness |OT4| Squat Booty, Summer Cuts, and Super Swoletrophy
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Just do UD2.0 - it's all spelled out for you and put together much better. Only need 8 weeks then you're done
The intensity of it all is on a whole new level I've never even come close to. Not even relative to my own weights. Falling over backwards after a set of deadlifts with chains, dry heaving and puking after a set of box squats... it's surreal to me. And it'd get me thrown out of my gym! Dave Tate's a fucking animal, and I say that with complete admiration.
And thanks for the avatar. I'll keep it around for a bit!
It's nice as an insight into Bruce Lee's ever-changing personal training regimens, but as you mentioned much less as an instructional manual for one's own training.FallingEdge said:
If you find it cheap enough it's worth a read, but as mentioned it's not an instruction manual to fully emulate. The author definitely interjects some broscience here and there. Reading Bruce's actual training logs leads me to believe that he did not know the meaning of the word overtraining, nor would he have let that meaning hold him back in his endeavors. Simultaneously, were any of us to incorporate a similar volume of training most of us would certainly be injured in due time. He worked up to that volume through a lifetime of physical pursuits. And wasn't free from injury himself, most notably the six months off he took when he hurt his back on a relatively heavy set of Good Mornings.OG Kush said:
ZackieChan
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Oh, sweet. I will check it out!
Cut the weight on your 5/3/1 sets in half. I do that, than do 2 or 3 sets of BBB at my regular BBB weight then get my ass out of the gym.
Keep us updated
So I've finally decided to stop being a lazy ass and get in the gym. One of the first things I was told was to shoot for 6 meals per day, 30g of protein per meal. So 150g total (I weigh around 145-150 pounds). Anyone got meal ideas/recommendations for stuff that's fairly easy to make and won't break the bank? I'm tentatively thinking:
8 AM: 4 eggs
11 AM: Protein shake + ?
2 PM: Chicken breast or Tuna can
5 PM: Home meal
8 PM: no idea lol (another protein shake?)
8 AM: 4 eggs
11 AM: Protein shake + ?
2 PM: Chicken breast or Tuna can
5 PM: Home meal
8 PM: no idea lol (another protein shake?)
Devolution
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I got cottage cheese and avocados but are there any snacks worth eating between meals that anyone would recommend?
Nuts
Rather have my arm sore than my entire lower body. Hit the squat rack pretty hard two days ago.
You can go nut on nuts and has high omega six ratio.
Eat more protein... kill your snacking habit.
What do you guys think of this transformation video: http://youtu.be/b4KGuiVs0Gs
One guy told me he wasn't sure this is possible to do clean. What do you guys think?
One guy told me he wasn't sure this is possible to do clean. What do you guys think?
Tried for 225 on bench today which is definitely a max for me. Asked a guy for a spot. I put my headphones in and waited for a moment then laid back grabbed the bar and went for it. The dude spotting me was standing right over my head so his shorts were resting on my face.
It threw me off so badly I could barely stay focused. I closed my eyes and went for it but there was just nothing there.
God I was so pumped to try it before that crap happened. Can't believe it.
It threw me off so badly I could barely stay focused. I closed my eyes and went for it but there was just nothing there.
God I was so pumped to try it before that crap happened. Can't believe it.
I like to make a whole wheat + almond butter + strawberry jam sandwich.
Agent Ironside
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Hmmm, man a years time frame is what gets me, that's pretty brutal. I'm not the one to say its not possible, but that's some mad genetics if so, and a crap ton of food, I mean a lot, a lot of food.
The crazy fluctuations in weight and how he went from being borderline fat to single digit body percentage in such a short amount of time is, well, crazy.
There's no fucking way that guy isn't on roids / HGH lol
Devolution
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Oh yeah definitely.
What.
Sounds good.
Thanks for the suggestions so far.
Brolic Gaoler
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The intensity of it all is on a whole new level I've never even come close to. Not even relative to my own weights. Falling over backwards after a set of deadlifts with chains, dry heaving and puking after a set of box squats... it's surreal to me. And it'd get me thrown out of my gym! Dave Tate's a fucking animal, and I say that with complete admiration.
And thanks for the avatar. I'll keep it around for a bit!
Yeah, it's been awesome watching him develop this on his youtube channel. And I figured you would like that pic.
Honestly, when I saw the way looked after 4 months I had I mixture of emotions ranging from wtf to fml.
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For anyone following an IF protocol of any kind (Leangains, etc), how do you handle premature breaks of the fast that you know are coming? For example, as small as grabbing a drink with a colleague at 9:00 or 10:00 PM (assuming a Noon - 8:00 feeding window) or as large as a night out with friends bar-hopping with a late-night drunken meal at 3:00 AM?
Is the best way to deal with it just to try to contain it to once a week or so?
Is the best way to deal with it just to try to contain it to once a week or so?
Yeah I don't even worry about it. I travel every couple weeks to sf and it is impossible to eat following IF and almost impossible to follow Keto. I do as best I can and don't worry about it. Never seemed to make a difference. Don't stress over it.
Started 5/3/1 BBB on Sunday. Wondering if I messed up. I used the black iron beast calculator and put in what I was normally doing for my 3x5 program.
Sunday was OHP and that was ridiculously easy. Monday night was bench. Was gonna do deads but I couldn't start working out until 11 pm and it would have made too much noise (garage gym). I put my 5 rep max at 245 For bench and so whatever it calcuLated my max to be 285 but my training max to be 257. It had me scale up to 220 today and that was too easy. Since it was my last set I did 9 instead of 5 then did the 50% max BBB part with no problems.
I'm sure deads will be a different story since high rep deads suck no matter what.
I guess it doesn't matter since I'm cutting with a pretty big deficit anyways so it's not likely I'll even gain much strength.
Just wondering if I should have started differently. I added a lot of other assistance stuff since it was so easy.
Sunday was OHP and that was ridiculously easy. Monday night was bench. Was gonna do deads but I couldn't start working out until 11 pm and it would have made too much noise (garage gym). I put my 5 rep max at 245 For bench and so whatever it calcuLated my max to be 285 but my training max to be 257. It had me scale up to 220 today and that was too easy. Since it was my last set I did 9 instead of 5 then did the 50% max BBB part with no problems.
I'm sure deads will be a different story since high rep deads suck no matter what.
I guess it doesn't matter since I'm cutting with a pretty big deficit anyways so it's not likely I'll even gain much strength.
Just wondering if I should have started differently. I added a lot of other assistance stuff since it was so easy.
HarryHengst
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Its supposed to start easy, it will ramp up pretty quickly after a few waves. Do one of the recommended assistance programs and it will be enough. If you got a good spreadsheet you can see the weight you are supposed to lift for many months ahead. If you still feel its not enough i guess you can up the weights a bit.
I really got to ask why you're deciding to do BBB whilst cutting. With BBB, you're supposed to eat lots of food, do lots of set, get swole.
The program is just about done after 3 deloads, and that's after you've cut back on deadlifting and reducing heavy squatting to twice a week. You still got some miles in you.
I switched to 5/3/1 because I just can't squat 3 times a week anymore and I've deloaded several times on SL and SS. Not sure why I picked BBB except that none of the other variations sounded very good or like they had enough volume. Another reason I switched to 5/3/1 is that SS was taking me like 2 hours to complete lately with the main lifts and the assistance stuff I was doing. I have a garage gym but it's super hot in the summer, 112 while I was working out yesterday, and 5/3/1 definitely didn't take me as long to complete. It is 1 extra day a week though.
I'm open to suggestions though. I've dropped from 310 to 232 since Sep. I think I'm still around 22-25% bf. things are slowing down a bit but I think I need to drop to 200 to be 12-15%. A lot of it has been a recomp effect so I have gained a lot of muscle and strength but that isn't happening so much anymore because I'm eating at a 1000 calorie deficit and doing LISS cardio for 30 min on non lifting days. Pretty sure I need to still lift heavy to maintain lbm so I don't want to just go to a BB routine.
ThingontheFloor
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I think 90 minute IPA is slightly less (around 295 calories), but yes, craft beer + diet is a bad combination. And it's hard to go back to light beer after acquiring a taste for craft beers. Good luck on your diet/newly found sobriety
I think 90 minute IPA is slightly less (around 295 calories), but yes, craft beer + diet is a bad combination. And it's hard to go back to light beer after acquiring a taste for craft beers. Good luck on your diet/newly found sobriety
enjoying the weight loss, not enjoying the loss of beer! I had no idea how boring TV/Video games were so boring without it. Going to be a long 60 days!
Well, the problem here is that it sounds like you haven't thought this through. If SS is taking too long, what do you think doing 5 sets of 10 after your main sets is going to do your workout time? If you want to lose bodyfat, you should look into the NOV protocol of 5/3/1.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
I've gotta do that too. I've done pretty much everything else I can do to lose some of this fat I have left over, so I'm left with dropping the drinking. It's a major bummer, but I guess it'll be worth it.
What video are you guys talking about?
ThingontheFloor
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Abita Purple Haze has been my saving grace in cutting back calories while drinking, without resorting to Beast Light or Natty Ice. Wheat beer brewed with raspberries, 128 calories in a 12oz serving, 4.2%ABV. I'll have a couple of these and not feel bad about it. I do miss my Dogfish, though.
Hopefully after the 60 days are over you can make up for all that lost drinking.
Depends. I'm more of the mindset that one should only serve one master (i.e goal) whilst training. You could always tweak and play around with macros, depending on where you are in training.
If you're just starting off, I would take this as a time to learn proper eating habits, proper training habits, develop a good foundation of strength with the big lifts, and begin to make these parts of your everyday life.
You don't need to eat 6 meals a day.
Thanks I'll check it out. So far though BBB is taking less time. It's just hard to ohp, squat, and , deadlift in 1 day in that heat. I may be moving to an actual gym soon though unfortunately
HarryHengst
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On the other hand, it also doesnt matter if you do. Its all about the macro's and whatever you find comfortable doing.
I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) there's empirical evidence regarding how many meals you should eat per day.
In the case of losing weight, as long as you're restricting your calorie intake (hopefully carbs too) and doing strength training with cardio - you'll be fine.
For example, I've dropped my carlorie intake in half (maybe 60%) and I'll typically only eat twice - three times per day.
In two weeks I've lost 12 pounds and have felt great on my regiment.
In the case of losing weight, as long as you're restricting your calorie intake (hopefully carbs too) and doing strength training with cardio - you'll be fine.
For example, I've dropped my carlorie intake in half (maybe 60%) and I'll typically only eat twice - three times per day.
In two weeks I've lost 12 pounds and have felt great on my regiment.
Lasthope106
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Yesterday I benched 230x5x5 for the first time ever. Felt like a BAUS.
(I should mention I'm 5'8'' and 160 lbs).
(I should mention I'm 5'8'' and 160 lbs).
I'd estimate maybe 600-700. Some days even less than that. I've been trying (with success) to change the way I look at food. I used to think of it as a means of comfort, but now I want to strictly see it as an energy source.
I still get cravings every now and then, but with enough discipline I can overcome them.
HarryHengst
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600 calories a day? I just drank more calories than that. :lol
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