working on a new routine

[moya]

if you dont have time for eggs... wake up 7 minutes earlier than normal... they DONT take long at all to cook... or you could drink them...
also, i would try for more food post-workout...

 

[ExtraMile]

thx EM-- that's crazy as hell because everything you said is what i focused on on SLDL. That diet looks good for the most part, but i don't know whether or not i will have time to follow that strictly cuz i've been hella busy lately. At lunch i can get basically any type of sandwich (roast beef, turkey, etc.)... for breakfast i try to have granola or cheerios with milk, a fruit juice with my vitamins, and a fruit (although i've been rushed recently). I don't have time to make eggs in the morning..

glad- hahaha thx

have time to follow it? dude the only food on there that takes time to cook is chicken and rice. a sandwich well that takes a matter of minutes to put together if the meat is already cooked. eggs they take less than 10mins. PB&J sandwich again take a few mins.

granola (wtf is that?)
cheerios
fruit juice + fruit

no offence but that sucks for a breakfast unless granola is some high protein food.

like I said it just depends how much u want this, even some small diet changes would help which is why I said working up to something like that. If you have an excuse for why every food cant be eaten then theres nothing I or anyone else on here can really do....

 

[Andalite]

Granola is a cereal.

JD, I think the majority of your diet is carbs. It takes time to change that. I think the first step should be whey. Record your food intake on FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal It's free and really easy to use. Record everything you eat and with time you can make small changes. It is hard to simply jump into a bb'er style of eating so gradually adopt these rules which EM is talking about. It's not a matter of life and death and I am always someone who thinks in the long term for everything. So give this a shot.

 

[JDid23]

alright thx guys.... I'll try to incorporate more protein foods into my diet each day. Although I do want to get my diet on track, I feel like keeping track of every single meal will turn me off of training because it's just something i hate to do.

I also heard from my health teacher that if you take in too much protein and not enough carbs that since your muscles can only take so much protein, it gets processed by other parts of your body and can harm you. Is this true? It doesn't have me worrying, just wondering.

 

[Tblock1]

alright thx guys.... I'll try to incorporate more protein foods into my diet each day. Although I do want to get my diet on track, I feel like keeping track of every single meal will turn me off of training because it's just something i hate to do.

I also heard from my health teacher that if you take in too much protein and not enough carbs that since your muscles can only take so much protein, it gets processed by other parts of your body and can harm you. Is this true? It doesn't have me worrying, just wondering.

Yeah you can get too much protein. Some people say over 1 gram per pound bodyweight is too much, but I don't think so.

 

[ExtraMile]

alright thx guys.... I'll try to incorporate more protein foods into my diet each day. Although I do want to get my diet on track, I feel like keeping track of every single meal will turn me off of training because it's just something i hate to do.

I also heard from my health teacher that if you take in too much protein and not enough carbs that since your muscles can only take so much protein, it gets processed by other parts of your body and can harm you. Is this true? It doesn't have me worrying, just wondering.

all the more reason to eat more carbs. Carbs also draw water into your muscle making you look fuller, and give you energy to lift heavy ass weights

at first the excessive eating may seem a chore, and every so often when u dont feel like it then you might find it annoying, I do too but after a while it will be sub-concious and it will just be a habit. And your gains will keep u motivated. My diet has been a little worse lately Iv missed meals quite alot so it is hard but how many people do u know that drasticly transformed their body without specialising in their diet?

 

[the.gladiator1987]

true, bro first it was a chore now i just make it a priority to eat. I bring stuff with me or prepare foods. get up a little earlier, dont beat urself up for missing a meal but try to gradually get more protein and eat more

 

[oso0960]

alright thx guys.... I'll try to incorporate more protein foods into my diet each day. Although I do want to get my diet on track, I feel like keeping track of every single meal will turn me off of training because it's just something i hate to do.

I also heard from my health teacher that if you take in too much protein and not enough carbs that since your muscles can only take so much protein, it gets processed by other parts of your body and can harm you. Is this true? It doesn't have me worrying, just wondering.

lol ask your teacher if it's bad for you to squat below parallel. Your health teacher is half right though, your body can only use so much protein at a time (amount is different for everybody and at certain parts of the day). But what happens is that the excess gets turned into glucose. Carbs get turned into glucose. Excess glucose stores as fat. You just find that the extra protein is an expensive carb.

EM - did you really just ask what granola is???? My god that's like one of my favorite foods lol. BTW it does have a decent amount of protein.

 

[JDid23]

deadlift was sick, everything else was eh and bench was fucked.

Deadlift
135x5
155x3
185x3
245x6 (left under, right over)- PR
250x3 (left under, right over- not that hard)- PR
225x tried right under/left over and double over..... didn't get
185x4 (3 left under, right over, 1 double over)

Bench
45x8
65x5
95x5
115x3
145x0 (the guy guided me during 4 reps)- idk why the fuck it felt so heavy.... switched to DBs here
40s x 5
50s x 5
55s x 3

Alt DB Curls (grip was shit from deads)
25s x 6
20s x 6

Military Press
45x5
65x3
85x3
75x5

Seated Calves
45x12
55x10
55x10
70x12- PR

CGBP (no spotter)
45x8
65x8
100x8
105x5

Comments: Deadlifts felt sick... 245 didn't feel hard, so i tried 250 and it wasn't that hard either... after the 250 i tried to do a static hold with 225, but it got too hard after like 6 seconds haha. idk wtf is up with bench; either i need to deload, switch to DBs every other workout like i planned, or move it to the first exercise of another day- 140x5 felt easy 2 weeks ago, and on 145 i couldn't get shit last 2 times. Curls weren't good so i am going to switch to BB Curls. I did military press because the seated DB was being used by other people and a lot of them. Calves were ok, and i would have gone for more on 105 CGBP if i had a spotter.

any suggestions about my bench is more than welcome!

 

[ExtraMile]

for deads please stop with all that grip switching lol whats the point just do your heaviest with your strongest grip then a back off with double overhand or hook grip

for bench try deloading then starting back with 85% of your 1rm for 5 reps. Or swap to flat db presses and incline BB presses, not changing every week just swap to that for a while...

if your alt db curls still arnt progressing swap to one of these:
straight bar curls
EZ curls
close grip EZ curls
preacher curl
incline curl
reverse curl
hammer curl
rope curl