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Fitness |OT8| Dad Bods, Bulge Swelfies, and Wait...Do you even lift bro?
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It feels really good to train, especially for my mind, as it helps get my thought off my ex who we broke up three weeks ago. And now another ex from eight years ago texted me on Facebook out of the blue so now I'm reminiscing and missing her too now. The training helps me get through this emotionally hard time for me, and I'm so glad I got the chin up bar installed on the wall.
Jacksinthe
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Fitness |OT9| If I only had a professional trainer and my meals prepared for me
Dead Prince
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my body is so fragile right now taking accutane. i can't wait to get off this
mdsfx
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I went through it when I was younger. I thought that was eventually banned though?
Really? How long did you have it?
Longer than I realized apparently. Expiration date was Feb '15 lol. I think I have been using it in smoothies occasionally too (I'll usually use the chocolate peanut butter) but probably never smelled it. But mdsfx got me curious and I mixed some with yogurt and realized it smelled horrible.
Congrats man!
Been so busy bros. Bought my fiance's actual engagement ring and it's going to be 8 weeks to be made. Excited that's done and over with. Loan on the house is done and approved, so they want to finish escrow earlier. Home gym time is creepin.
Otherwise back on PSMF as of today and about to go to my shitty gym now.
It comes from the fat stores on the body. As long as you're above 7% bf, you can use fat stores for energy. After that, you will break down hard.
Otherwise back on PSMF as of today and about to go to my shitty gym now.
Hey Bish you might find this interesting. I certainly did as it answers one of the questions we once pondered on how you are able to keep lifting so heavy while on full keto without any carb refeeds at all. I was listening to one of the interviews on http://bayesianbodybuilding.com/ and he (Menno) said that even in full keto diets, the muscle glycogen will restore to around 60% capacity every time (while even the hardest workouts could drain only around 40% of it). Body will restore the glycogen each and every time because without it you couldn't even move. So while a high carb diet will restore more of it, giving you extra oomph, even a keto diet will restore more than you can ever train with a sensible training routine.
Dunno where the glycogen comes though, that he didn't say
It comes from the fat stores on the body. As long as you're above 7% bf, you can use fat stores for energy. After that, you will break down hard.
Psychotext
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Ugh... went to the cinema tonight, and it's right next to a gym. Was watching a girl doing deadlifts and her trainer was doing fuck all to help her with her awful form (numerous things wrong).
I genuinely think he was too busy watching her ass. It was a stupendous ass, but he's not being paid to watch it.
I genuinely think he was too busy watching her ass. It was a stupendous ass, but he's not being paid to watch it.
ipitydatfu
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holy crap. odell bekham jr's cousin is huge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2zPMVmkgNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2zPMVmkgNA
today began my clean bulk.
Plenty of good stuff, fish, vegetables, chicken, potatoes, cottage chesse, etc.
This time the scale will fucking budge, I don't care what it takes, If I don't see a 72.X kg next week on my scale, I'll up calories and so every time until I find the sweet spot.
I am going for 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) a month, it really isn't much, it's a slow controlled bulk but I want to be 4 more kgs by June/july and see what happens.
today I weighted 71.1 kgs. let's see how near of 75 I can get.
power cleans are some serious business.
There is one guy in my gym I admire cause he does strictly olympic lifts, clean&jerk, Snatch, power cleans too.
it makes me nervous cause I don't think he has a trainer and my gym is your standard chain gym with just the usual stuff, not an olympic gym at all. it doesn't have the right equipment but more importantly the right tainers and coaches to take on olympic lifting safely. I hope he knows what he's doing.
Plenty of good stuff, fish, vegetables, chicken, potatoes, cottage chesse, etc.
This time the scale will fucking budge, I don't care what it takes, If I don't see a 72.X kg next week on my scale, I'll up calories and so every time until I find the sweet spot.
I am going for 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) a month, it really isn't much, it's a slow controlled bulk but I want to be 4 more kgs by June/july and see what happens.
today I weighted 71.1 kgs. let's see how near of 75 I can get.
power cleans are some serious business.
There is one guy in my gym I admire cause he does strictly olympic lifts, clean&jerk, Snatch, power cleans too.
it makes me nervous cause I don't think he has a trainer and my gym is your standard chain gym with just the usual stuff, not an olympic gym at all. it doesn't have the right equipment but more importantly the right tainers and coaches to take on olympic lifting safely. I hope he knows what he's doing.
Lol yeah. Does he look like he knows what he's doing?
They're such a good workout...the amount of muscle groups that go into completing one is insane.
Psychotext
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It likely takes a non clean bulk...
I gave up eating clean on my bulk. The sheer volume of stuff I was having to eat was ridiculous. I'm still not eating fast food or anything like, that, but balls to trying to bulk on chicken and fish; I'd just never hit the calorie targets.
It likely takes a non clean bulk...
I gave up eating clean on my bulk. The sheer volume of stuff I was having to eat was ridiculous. I'm still not eating fast food or anything like, that, but balls to trying to bulk on chicken and fish; I'd just never hit the calorie targets.
I agree. 100% clean bulks make it really tough to gain any size. And they'll make you go crazy.
It likely takes a non clean bulk...
I gave up eating clean on my bulk. The sheer volume of stuff I was having to eat was ridiculous. I'm still not eating fast food or anything like, that, but balls to trying to bulk on chicken and fish; I'd just never hit the calorie targets.
a very close friend of mine is pulling it off and I want to take the challenge and try to follow his steps.
his diet looks like this.
8:00 AM Breakfast: 6 egg whites and a protein shake with oatmeal and a banana
11:00 AM Snack: Tuna, Pasta and Spinach
1.30.PM Chickean Breasts with rice and Broccoli
5:30 PM Red meat with more rice and mushrooms
8:00 PM (he says his trainer says he should repeat the meal from 17:30 but he can't it's too much)
9:30 PM Protein Shake
10:30 PM 4 egg whites with some turkey ham
11:30 PM a Jogurt
He got HUGE in a year, and the mofo looks thin from the face and at no point you'd say "well he's put weight but it's way to round and pudgy" from my perspective, it's solid muscle. he never misses a workout, ever, impressive discpline.
sure he says abs are like a strange dreams from 2 or 3 years ago.
by the way I am not going to eat what he eats, I have my own plan.
since I am much compact than him, I hope I'd need a lot less to get that caloric curplus.
That feeling when your little brother trains 2x harder than you do...
I looked in the mirror a couple days ago and realized you would easily crush me in (the beautiful) Mrs. Mkenyon Second Annual Aesthetics competition...and I wasn't okay with it.
What's your plan?
I feel for ya man. Went through two rounds of it when I was 17 and still didn't clear everything up. I'm 39 and still have complexion issues.
Psychotext
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Yeah, bollocks to that.
I have a lot of respect for anyone that can do it, for sure. But if I was going to go that mental I think I'd probably just take steroids or something.
If you repeat I might actually considered adding cardio.
ok, that's a straight up lie
mdsfx
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I'm 33. Still get that crap on my upper back here and there. Diet seems to play a big role. It was really bad during my [micro]bulk.
Lol. Have you ever tried Tabatas? 4 minutes. That's all.
Nope. I'll look into them.
Alternate 20 seconds of sprints with 10 seconds of jogging (or the bike equivalent, etc) 8 times with no break. It supposedly burns fat not muscle.
I started doing them on the air dyne and they'll wreck you after a full lifting session.
Why do you think you lost? She could see the weakness and fear of cardio pain in your
pumpkin
I lost because I didn't take it as seriously as I should have. This year I'm planning my entire workouts and diet around being ready for October. Cardio be damned!
It was my favorite time on GAF. The banter leading up to that competition was just insane. I wonder how many lurkers that popped in that week were like "what the fuck is wrong with these guys?"
Psychotext
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There will be blood.
lol Probably a sizeable majority. This 2nd one should be even better!
Pretty far. Miller place area. You?
I have a vitamix which is effing unreal but I mostly use it for serious matters. I make my daily protein shakes in a nutribullet that I've had for like 5 years. I use frozen bananas and it still tears through them.
Thanks, might have to get myself one. My fruits/veggies are being neglected in my quest for calories on this dirtiest of dirty bulks.
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