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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 08, 2019, 11:47:08 am »
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Saturday - 12/07/19
Weight:

-= Workout Log =-

Squat
135 x 10 >> 3min rest.
135 x 10
185 x 5
225 x 3
275 x 1
335 x 1
315 x 5
315 x 2

RDL
135 x 8 >> 3min rest.
225 x 3
315 x 1
365 x 1
405 x 1
390 x 5
390 x 2

Leg Press Machine Calf Raises (Superset A)
+540 x 15
+540 x 15
+540 x 15

Barbell Shrugs (Superset A)
335 x 15
335 x 8
335 x 8

Cable Ab Pull Downs (Superset B)
100 x 8 >> This got crazy tough again. Machine wasn’t moving smoothly today.
95 x 8 (cheating)
95 x 6

30º Incline DB Bench Press (Superset B)
60's x 8 >> The 90’s felt light, not sure how I failed on the 100’s.
60's x 5
90’s x 1
100's x 0

Felt a little sick today, just slightly. Surprised i still hit 5 reps on squat.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 06, 2019, 04:39:02 pm »

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 05, 2019, 11:30:26 am »
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Thursday - 12/05/19
Weight:

-= Workout Log =-

30° Incline DB Press
40's x 15 >> 3min rests.
40's x 5 >> Beginning to think the 100's at my gym are around 102lbs each.
60's x 5 >> Increased to 10 reps on back up sets. Re-feed worked nice it seems.
90's x 2
100's x 3
90's x 10
90's x 4

T-Bar Rows
90 x 5 >> 2min rests.
135 x 3
160 x 8
160 x 6
160 x 6

65° Incline Seated Lateral Raises
20's x 15 >> 60sec rests.
20's x 8
20's x 6
20's x 6

Chin Ups
BW x 5 >> 3min rests.
+30 x 3
+55 x 6
+55 x 5
+55 x 4

DB Rear Delt Flyes on Incline
20's x 14 >> 60sec rests.

DB Rear Delt External Rotation Flyes on Incline
20's x 15 >> 60sec rests.

I feel so much better eating less. I can't stress this enough. Much less laziness throughout the day, I don't sleep through entire mornings, etc. Of course it makes weightlifting progress stagnate, but I think this should provide me motivation to only do very slow lean bulks moving forward if anything. I don't want to lose this feeling of being light and awake.

The mornings after which I don't fast I am just wide awake. Even if I wake up in the middle of the night, like 2-3am and go pee... I'm very alert and aware. Not dragging myself back to bed like a zombie.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 04, 2019, 12:49:46 pm »
Ate a ton of food yesterday. Stinks because I had 0 calories the day before.
Another 0 calorie day today. Don't even want to weigh myself today incase I way more than 2 days ago lol

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 03, 2019, 11:48:46 am »
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Tuesday - 12/03/19
Weight:

-= Workout Log =-

Squat
135 x 10 >> 3min rest.
225 x 3
225 x 1
275 x 1
335 x 1
315 x 5
315 x 2

RDL
135 x 8 >> 3min rest.
225 x 3
315 x 1
365 x 1
385 x 6
385 x 3

Leg Press Machine Calf Raises (Superset A)
+540 x 15
+540 x 12
+540 x 12

Barbell Shrugs (Superset A)
335 x 12
335 x 8
335 x 6

Cable Ab Pull Downs
+105 x 3 >> 2min rests.
130 x 8 (cheating)
120 x 6
115 x 6

30º Incline DB Bench Press
60's x 8
60's x 5
100's x 3

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: December 02, 2019, 05:20:19 pm »


Re-fed the same day of the 194.0lb reading (after weighing myself), and the following day.
Currently doing an all-day fast again, and should hit lower body tomorrow.

So I went from a 201.8lb dry fasted weight (after being carbed up) to a 196.6lbs dry fasted weight (after being carbed up).
That's a 4.2lb drop in 12 days. Pretty good. Haven't lost much of any strength yet either. In fact, my RDL increased.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: November 30, 2019, 03:30:35 pm »
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Saturday - 11/30/19
Weight:

-= Workout Log =-

30° Incline DB Press
50's x 12 >> 3min rests.
50's x 5 >> Worked out at a different gym with nice dumbbells.
65's x 5 >> Finally was able to do a proper warm up and non-clunky 100's.
80's x 3
95's x 1
100's x 5
90's x 6
90's x 5

Chin Ups
BW x 5 >> 3min rests.
+30 x 3
+60 x 6
+60 x 4
+60 x 4

65° Incline Seated Lateral Raises
20's x 15 >> 60sec rests.
20's x 10
20's x 8
20's x 8

Pendlay Rows
135 x 8 >> 2min rests.
185 x 3
225 x 1
245 x 6
245 x 3
245 x 3

DB Rear Delt Flyes on Incline
20's x 15 >> 60sec rests.
20's x 10

DB Rear Delt External Rotation Flyes on Incline
25's x 8 >> 60sec rests.
25's x 8

Worked out at a different gym. Also had to work out while fasted (usually those are my rest days), yet I was still able to increase from 100x3 to 100x5 on the incline db bench. Goes to show how much it helps to have proper dumbbells to lift with, and a proper warm up scheme (lots of dumbbells missing at my usual gym).

Makes me wonder if, when I was at 100x5 at my current less than decent gym, would I have hit 100x8 at this gym?



Did not expect to drop another 2lbs. Probably due to lifting while fasting today - dryer than usual.

Had a bit of a re-feed after that 194.0 weigh in. Not sure if ill continue the re-feed the next day or what

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: November 29, 2019, 07:49:57 am »


Ate again at night since I was invited to have some food... slowing down the progress but maybe it's for the better so i don't drop too quick

pretty sure my weight is "stabilized" now meaning any further weight loss is “real” and not just continued water and glycogen weight loss

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: November 28, 2019, 03:43:36 pm »
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Wednesday - 11/27/19
Weight:

-= Workout Log =-

Squat
135 x 10 >> 3min rest.
225 x 3
225 x 1
275 x 1
345 x 1
315 x 5
315 x 2

RDL
135 x 8 >> 3min rests.
225 x 3 >> I love how I can always count on my RDLs to improve.
315 x 1
365 x 1
385 x 6 or 7
385 x 2

Cable Ab Pull Downs
+115 x 3 >> 2min rests.
130 x 6
120 x 8
115 x 8

Barbell Shrugs
335 x 12
335 x 8
335 x 6

Looks like my strength may have stabilized now after losing the glycogen.

hah nice @ the graph.

Haha yeah, i think it's nice to see numbers visualized for easy trend spotting. I'm guessing after the sharp drop in muscle glycogen and water weight, the weight loss should more or less slow down at about a pound every 4-5 days.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: November 26, 2019, 04:52:33 pm »


Edit: wanted to not eat today, but my friend invited me for dinner and i didnt want to turn down the offer

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: November 25, 2019, 12:43:10 pm »


Ideally i want to workout every other day and fast on the rest days, but that can't work since my gym is closed sundays.
So i'll probably do just 2 completely fasted days per week and eyeball a maintenance eating day on workout days. Workout days consist of pre workout meal 8am (usually some whey, oatmeal, banana and coffee), post workout meal 11am (more whey, some fruits, cottage cheese, etc) and then dinner 6pm or later (varies, an actual meal and more protein)

Trying to avoid processed sugars and get in complex carbs and casein.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: November 25, 2019, 12:39:11 pm »
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Monday - 11/25/19
Weight:

-= Workout Log =-

30° Incline DB Press
40's x 15 >> 3min rests.
40's x 5 >> The 100x3 was way too hard.
60's x 5 >> Might add in an extra day of these per week working up to 100x1 for that neural efficiency.
90's x 1
100's x 3
90's x 8
90's x 6
90's x 6

DB Rear Delt Flyes on Incline
20's x 10 >> 60sec rests.
20's x 10

DB Rear Delt External Rotation Flyes on Incline
20's x 15 >> 60sec rests.
20's x 15

65° Incline Seated Lateral Raises
20's x 12 >> 60sec rests.
20's x 8
20's x 8

Chin Ups
BW x 5 >> 3min rests.
+60 x 5
+60 x 5
+60 x 3

T-Bar Rows
135 x 10 >> 2min rests.
135 x 8
135 x 6

Lowered the volume since I'm cutting hard. Highly doubt I could have done one of my higher volume workouts today.
Again, strength is down probably due to way lower muscle glycogen levels. Basically I'm working out every other day and doing and all-day fast on my rest days.

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Basketball / Re: NBA 2019 - 2020 Season
« on: November 24, 2019, 09:36:28 pm »
That luka kid  :wowthatwasnutswtf:

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So strength gains via neural adaption don't apply to RFD

Say what now?
I woulD have figured the strength gains were partially due to rate coding thus leading to RFD

Very interesting study. From personal experience all i needed to do was simply increase my squat:bw ratio while keep practicing my jumps and i was good to go. Never noticed any marked improvements from shock plyos, though i never took them seriously either. But my vert scaled directly with my squat:bw ratio, even back when i was a one footed jumper it did

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: November 24, 2019, 09:22:52 pm »
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Saturday - 11/23/19
Weight:

-= Workout Log =-

Squat
135 x 10 >> 3min rest.
135 x 5
185 x 3
225 x 3
225 x 1
275 x 1
335 x 1
315 x 5
315 x 2

RDL
135 x 8 >> 3min rests.
225 x 3
315 x 1
365 x 1
385 x 5
385 x 2

Leg Press Machine Calf Raises (Supeset A)
+540 x 15
+540 x 11
+540 x 11

Barbell Shrugs (Superset A)
335 x 12
335 x 8
335 x 6

Cable Ab Pull Downs
+100 x 3 >> 3min rests.
+115 x 6 >> Not sure if I got weaker here or if the machine just isn't oiled up again.
90 s x8
09 x 6

Slight decreases in strength. RDL went from 365x8 to 385x3, but I think th 365x8 corresponds to a higher max, especially since I couldn't imagine pumping out 8 reps of it today.

We'll see how much strength I can keep on this cut. Of course I'm low on muscle glycogen and all that stuff from all-day fasts so my strength noticeably dropped almost immediately, but hopefully it doesn't drop much further.

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