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desmond
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Are there stickies on the back workout? I must confess to finding lat pull downs in my back difficult to feel and wanted to see the tip sheet
I assume I'm receiving my personalised workout/diet in the next day.
The diet may be a challenge - for much of this year I've been playing endless squash/running, so was use to being able to eat shit loads.
In preparation for this programme I banned myself from running for 3-4 weeks to try to reduce appetite as well as improve leg development
I assume I'm receiving my personalised workout/diet in the next day.
The diet may be a challenge - for much of this year I've been playing endless squash/running, so was use to being able to eat shit loads.
In preparation for this programme I banned myself from running for 3-4 weeks to try to reduce appetite as well as improve leg development
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desmond
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Well I have ordered Santight, and glutamine. Will start posting lifts once the programme official starts, and until directed otherwise will be using following diet (which I think complies with sticky).
I was bored so I thought I'd write a diet up. I've had no problem sticking to the most boring diets before. My weakness is the occasional extreme carb craving, which can lead to reckless binges. If I have one I will own up to them, which should act as a deterrant from doing it.
(1) Breakfast
3 whole eggs; 1/2 tin mixed beans (unsweetened); 100g tuna; 1 glass of 1 % milk.
63P; 44C; 18F; 603 cals
(2) Lunch
250 grams kangaroo [2% fat red meat!!!]; 250 g Butternut Squash; 150 g onion (I love onions!); 1 % glass milk
66P; 49C; 7F
(3) Dinner
300 G (1/2 steak, 1/2 chicken); 200G spinach; 100 tomato; 100 onion; 10 fish oil
82P; 24C; 22F
(4) PWO: 40 whey; 60 WMS
TOTAL CALS:
(1) 2158 [I'm guessing this is about what I will be told to eat]
(2) 249P; 178C (of which 25 is fibre); 49F (17.5 Sat; 17.1, Mono; 8.9 poly) & 47%; 32%; 21%
100% RDI for all nutrients except Vit E (but the fish oil has that supplemented)
SUPPS
- Santight (just ordered);
- 15 grams of glutamine (divided pre/post)(just ordered)
- 4 g beta-alanine (I bought some 2 weeks ago - am trailing it)
- 10 g creatine
- WMS and whey isolate
I was bored so I thought I'd write a diet up. I've had no problem sticking to the most boring diets before. My weakness is the occasional extreme carb craving, which can lead to reckless binges. If I have one I will own up to them, which should act as a deterrant from doing it.
(1) Breakfast
3 whole eggs; 1/2 tin mixed beans (unsweetened); 100g tuna; 1 glass of 1 % milk.
63P; 44C; 18F; 603 cals
(2) Lunch
250 grams kangaroo [2% fat red meat!!!]; 250 g Butternut Squash; 150 g onion (I love onions!); 1 % glass milk
66P; 49C; 7F
(3) Dinner
300 G (1/2 steak, 1/2 chicken); 200G spinach; 100 tomato; 100 onion; 10 fish oil
82P; 24C; 22F
(4) PWO: 40 whey; 60 WMS
TOTAL CALS:
(1) 2158 [I'm guessing this is about what I will be told to eat]
(2) 249P; 178C (of which 25 is fibre); 49F (17.5 Sat; 17.1, Mono; 8.9 poly) & 47%; 32%; 21%
100% RDI for all nutrients except Vit E (but the fish oil has that supplemented)
SUPPS
- Santight (just ordered);
- 15 grams of glutamine (divided pre/post)(just ordered)
- 4 g beta-alanine (I bought some 2 weeks ago - am trailing it)
- 10 g creatine
- WMS and whey isolate
desmond
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I'm not going to start posting weights until everything officially starts.
However, today was a golden moment for me in the gym. At home, yesterday I decided to do one-arm rows with no weight, trying to do the entire motion simply by retracting the lats/middle back and not using the bis, and I thought "yes I've got it".
Well I tried this in the gym. I used pissy weights, but what I'm happy with is "yes, I think I've got this down", and secondly, "there is no lactic acid or muscle pain in my biscep, indicating its not being used"
Hence, now I'm pretty confident I have most exercises down in terms of the mind/muscle/contraction connection.
I still need to work on lat pull downs, although that's improving, and using my glute in the wide free weight squat (I have no leg press access) and SLDL, both of these I feel in hams ATM much more.
However, today was a golden moment for me in the gym. At home, yesterday I decided to do one-arm rows with no weight, trying to do the entire motion simply by retracting the lats/middle back and not using the bis, and I thought "yes I've got it".
Well I tried this in the gym. I used pissy weights, but what I'm happy with is "yes, I think I've got this down", and secondly, "there is no lactic acid or muscle pain in my biscep, indicating its not being used"
Hence, now I'm pretty confident I have most exercises down in terms of the mind/muscle/contraction connection.
I still need to work on lat pull downs, although that's improving, and using my glute in the wide free weight squat (I have no leg press access) and SLDL, both of these I feel in hams ATM much more.
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desmond
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Thanks Omega - and I'm recovering quite a lot better now from the Omega workouts (DOMS is decreasing).
Should be better too next week when the glutamine arrives.
BTW Omega, what do you think of Beta Alanine. I bought some 2 weeks ago, because I thought it could be useful as a lactic acid buffer (I thought that for certain exercises on this programme given the rep range, lactic acid issues would and have come into play, particularly for me bis, shoulders, calves, forearms, lower back. Less so for larger muscles)
Should be better too next week when the glutamine arrives.
BTW Omega, what do you think of Beta Alanine. I bought some 2 weeks ago, because I thought it could be useful as a lactic acid buffer (I thought that for certain exercises on this programme given the rep range, lactic acid issues would and have come into play, particularly for me bis, shoulders, calves, forearms, lower back. Less so for larger muscles)
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citrulline malate is superior for lactic acid buffering
as is acetyl carntitine.
Beta Alanaine is "sexy" sounding but NOT superior, also it take alot to have an effect in term of grams and if I were to pick one over the other Citrulline Malate would be the winner
Its not a waste though( the B -alanine)
as is acetyl carntitine.
Beta Alanaine is "sexy" sounding but NOT superior, also it take alot to have an effect in term of grams and if I were to pick one over the other Citrulline Malate would be the winner
Its not a waste though( the B -alanine)
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