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Fitness |OT8| Dad Bods, Bulge Swelfies, and Wait...Do you even lift bro?
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Man, been really loving making my own shakes for bulking. Here is what I've been drinking for breakfast every morning:
2 servings of 1% milk
2 servings of natural peanut butter
1 scoop of chocolate whey powder
1 serving of uncooked rolled oats
Throw that shit in a blender for 30 seconds and you're good to go. It's delicious, too.
910 cal/61g protein/43g fat/74g carb
2 servings of 1% milk
2 servings of natural peanut butter
1 scoop of chocolate whey powder
1 serving of uncooked rolled oats
Throw that shit in a blender for 30 seconds and you're good to go. It's delicious, too.
910 cal/61g protein/43g fat/74g carb
Psychotext
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That's one hell of a breakfast. 
If you're feeling particularly adventurous, throw a banana and a tablespoon of olive oil in there. You'll add 120 calories and 15 grams of good fats from the oil alone.
That's one hell of a breakfast.
I'm ravenous in the mornings. I eater smaller lunches and dinners.
Random question: blending food doesn't have any appreciable effect on nutritional value, right? I'm specifically talking about the oats I've been blending.
Sometimes I throw in a banana
haven't tried the olive oil, good tip.Psychotext
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No, but it does affect its digestion profile.
Down another pound this morning, 227.2. Feeling terrific. All this low carb and fasting talk making me feel good lol.
I do the same thing, i look of all types of food to see if i have a craving for it, and more importantly, if i can make a low carb version of it. It helps me to not let food take control over me anymore, food does not dictate my life in anyway anymore like it used to.
I see no reason not to, but i did not bother with anything other then creatine. Training fasted is still something im getting used to, although i have a theory that the stevia i was using in my coffee before working out was lowering my blood pressure, thus keeping my heart rate lower at the gym. I'm going to experiment next week by having some before the gym.
The strips are worthless, strait up. You can be out of keto and test positive. You can be fully adapted and show negative. Really nothing more then a party favor and waste of funds.
Yes, there are varying levels of keto, and the only way to really know is blood tests. You really need to be under supervision to get into the deep versions to see what your intake levels need to be to hit it. Every body is different.
Cleaner you eat, easier life is. Its all in your hands.
I do the same thing, i look of all types of food to see if i have a craving for it, and more importantly, if i can make a low carb version of it. It helps me to not let food take control over me anymore, food does not dictate my life in anyway anymore like it used to.
I see no reason not to, but i did not bother with anything other then creatine. Training fasted is still something im getting used to, although i have a theory that the stevia i was using in my coffee before working out was lowering my blood pressure, thus keeping my heart rate lower at the gym. I'm going to experiment next week by having some before the gym.
The strips are worthless, strait up. You can be out of keto and test positive. You can be fully adapted and show negative. Really nothing more then a party favor and waste of funds.
Yes, there are varying levels of keto, and the only way to really know is blood tests. You really need to be under supervision to get into the deep versions to see what your intake levels need to be to hit it. Every body is different.
Cleaner you eat, easier life is. Its all in your hands.
You're right. It's like life's contra code
mdsfx
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Apparently you aren't the only one. When I was researching the effects of Stevia on blood sugar, this came up several times.
Psychotext
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I ended up dropping sweetener from my coffee (all sorts)... now THAT I had trouble with. I'm still not convinced that Stevia is a wonder substance.
mdsfx
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I'm on the fence about it. Seems too good to be true, but I currently use it in coffee and plain Greek yogurt.
At the same time, to go along with this and my questions about sodium yesterday, I wonder if all of these concerns are just small potatoes that affect very little so long as you've taken care of the bigger picture with a good diet.
Absolutely agree with this.
Get some good coffee, and make french press or aeropress, something that maintains the natural oils in coffee.
You won't need cream or sugar in the coffee, because it's not the acidic mess that drip (or even worse - Keurig-type) coffee is. Keep it black as midnight on a moonless night.
You won't need cream or sugar in the coffee, because it's not the acidic mess that drip (or even worse - Keurig-type) coffee is. Keep it black as midnight on a moonless night.
Psychotext
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Depends on your needs really. For me I was concerned about it offsetting the affects of IF (sort of pointless fasting if you risk insulin response from sweetener), but that was more about other sweeteners (I've never really been much of a fan of Stevia in coffee).
But yeah, on the whole you're likely down to marginal gains at that point.
Yeah, I wish I had time to make that sort of stuff in the day but alas I don't. Closest I can come to it is cold brew, but I prefer that with cream (so drinking that in the day is out anyway).
Week 3 with Fat Gripz, highly recommended for anybody with weak foreams. They really are the weakest link on your body, my pull ups are getting better.
I can do 3 plates on dead lift overhand grip for 7-8 reps now(no straps or belt)
Before I was maybe getting one or two before my hands would give out and I would have to switched to a mixed grip for 7-8 reps
I can do 3 plates on dead lift overhand grip for 7-8 reps now(no straps or belt)
Before I was maybe getting one or two before my hands would give out and I would have to switched to a mixed grip for 7-8 reps
French press is easy. It's maybe an additional 4-5 minutes in my morning routine that I take care of between getting ready.
Grind coffee, put the kettle on for boiling water. Walk away, continue getting ready (shower, whatever). Put grinds in press, pour water over grinds, stir. Go continue doing stuff for 3-5 minutes. Come back, press coffee. Done deal.
Grind coffee, put the kettle on for boiling water. Walk away, continue getting ready (shower, whatever). Put grinds in press, pour water over grinds, stir. Go continue doing stuff for 3-5 minutes. Come back, press coffee. Done deal.
The current lack of caffeine in my system made me think the French press was a fancy smancy version of a bench press.
Good to know, thanks Bish.
I went down from 3500kcal to 2000kcal now to 1800. Talk about not being able to eat 75% of what I used to. The things I miss the most are peanut butter and oats ;_;
Side note: Got a sample pack of Pre-Workout in my Optimum Gold Whey. Tried it out. Why do these always have to be this nasty fruit punch flavor? I can never really tell if its actually doing anything since I usually am pretty high energy at the gym anyway. My face did tingle a bit though.
Thanks, man...I've been meaning to take a look. Where'd you get them from, I'll grab a set?
For this time of year Cold Brewed coffee is da bomb. I use this one.
Hit 275 x 3 on Back Squat today.
In hindsight jumping up 40lbs from my previous 3rep max was batshit crazy and by hindsight I mean at the bottom of the first rep. Just light weight tho.
My front squat still sucks because of wrist strain, need to figure something out about that.
French Press is another name for seated overhead tricep extension.
Hit 275 x 3 on Back Squat today.
In hindsight jumping up 40lbs from my previous 3rep max was batshit crazy and by hindsight I mean at the bottom of the first rep. Just light weight tho.
My front squat still sucks because of wrist strain, need to figure something out about that.
French Press is another name for seated overhead tricep extension.
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Never tried it myself but Alan Thrall does this and people say it's good.
https://youtu.be/vzVCqLyGVd0?t=206
Work on increasing wrist mobility and do what the above video from Alan Thrall suggested. I personally would never do cross-arm front squats.
Psychotext
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Plus and minus points of hypermobility. No problems doing pretty much any exercise which a lot of people struggle with mobility for...
...but I dislocate joints all the time, including my wrists. Also massively prone to joint injuries. Yay!
Possibly related, my OHP was shit today. I think I've got a niggle of some sort in my left shoulder. Not massively painful, but seems much weaker than the other one at the mo.
...but I dislocate joints all the time, including my wrists. Also massively prone to joint injuries. Yay!
Possibly related, my OHP was shit today. I think I've got a niggle of some sort in my left shoulder. Not massively painful, but seems much weaker than the other one at the mo.
I'm actually in the middle of a deload for OHP to refine my form (Brolic's videos made me realize mine wasn't as perfect as I thought).
So far, I'll do 5 reps of a certain weight one session, 8 of the same the following. Increase weight by 5 lbs the next session, doing 5 reps, then do 8...etc. It's going really well and I can feel it / see it working more.
ex.
Week 1: Session 1: 125 lbs 3X5
Week 1: Session 2: 125 lbs 3X8
Week 2: Session 1: 130 lbs 3X5
Week 2: Session 2: 130 lbs 3X8
Week 3: Session 1: 135 lbs 3X5
Week 3: Session 2: 135 lbs 3X8
Psychotext
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On the subject of weight modifications, I've changed to ~2.5lbs increases (1.25kg) as I've realised that for me the increases have been too big and I'm struggling to progress.
I had to deload my OHP on my 6th 5/3/1 cycle...couldn't hit any of the prescribed reps on my 5th cycle (got 3 reps on 5s week, 1 on 3s week, none on 1s week). Feels bad man
Feels bad, until you compare your 6th 5/3/1 cycle to where you 1st started. What was THAT growth like?
A ton of fun! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Think about the position it puts you in. You are standing up pushing something over your head using mainly your shoulders and tris while trusting your core and all other muscles involved to keep you straight and tight. It's a brutal lift. It's not like bench press where you have the support of the bench to push against. Squats and DLs benefit from recruiting every muscle in your body basically but mainly using the largest ones. Patience my friend.
mdsfx
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Damn. Whenever I think I've cut enough, someone is cutting way more calories. My maintenance with little activity is 2000. Currently eating 1750 and working off a minimum of 600 calories 6 days a week.
Good to hear. I can't wait to see it.
Cooter nailed it, but yeah, you're relying on a relatively small muscle group to do the whole thing
It shot to the top of my favorite MCU movie list along with GotG.
In addition to what Cooter said, you need to work for every single pound increase in the OHP, you can't just gain weight and it'll magically go up like for the bench press.
Doesn't exactly answer your question now that I think about it lol.
I think I'm just lucky that I've been eating home-cooked meals throughout my whole life. We rarely go out to eat and ever since I was in high school, there weren't any junk food in the house except for the occasional cake or pie from birthdays or our tenant.
Being able to make a low-carb version is so good. Have you found any recipes recently (besides the chocolate mousse) that you would try?
Psychotext
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Roughly how much weight a week are you losing on that?
See, i love hearing this. I loved the tone of GotG more than any Marvel movie to date and I've heard this has a similar comedy to action ratio. Kids loved it?
mdsfx
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Just started last week but so far down almost 2lbs
Would guess 1.5-1.75lbs per week
Psychotext
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lbs I assume?
mdsfx
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Sorry, yes pounds
Oh yeah. My 12yo down to my 5yo. We sound like we have similar taste so I'm sure you'll really like it!
ShadowgeistX
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I'm actually doing 1000-1200 calories on rest days. 3 weeks in and there are no negative effects. Eating at maintenence (sometimes a tad more) on workout days, and somewhere in between when I visit my mom on weekends.
On weeks that my friends ask me to go for all you can eat food, it definitely minimizes the damage. Trying to refuse that crap as much as possible.
mdsfx
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Yeah I would go crazy that low. Would rather eat more and have to work it off, which I know makes little sense.
Doesn't make little sense if you actually enjoy the process of working out. I'm not the biggest fan of cardio, but there are times when I enjoy just getting a good sweat in. And it doesn't mean having to starve myself either lol.
hairypeckpeck
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finally hitting (relatively) big numbers after about 6 months of taking the SS program seriously.
back squats 3x5 @ 325lbs
DLs 1x5 @ 320lbs
BP 3x5 @ 140lbs
OHP 3x5 @ 115lbs
idk why i suck so bad at benching, it's pretty disappointing
i recently started learning how to C&J as well which should be fun once i get the form down...
back squats 3x5 @ 325lbs
DLs 1x5 @ 320lbs
BP 3x5 @ 140lbs
OHP 3x5 @ 115lbs
idk why i suck so bad at benching, it's pretty disappointing
i recently started learning how to C&J as well which should be fun once i get the form down...
Today felt kinda like a break through at the gym. I felt like my old self, strong and plenty of energy. I may be adapting now.
Hit 3x130, 3x145, 3x165 on overhead press easy. Felt like I had a ton more in the tank, went even further past the last belt hole too. My goodness what a great day.
Uh my recipes bookmarks folder is insane lol. It's quite extensive.
Hit 3x130, 3x145, 3x165 on overhead press easy. Felt like I had a ton more in the tank, went even further past the last belt hole too. My goodness what a great day.
Uh my recipes bookmarks folder is insane lol. It's quite extensive.
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