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70lbs is pretty heavy for a face pull? Do you focus on the movement or just pull away?

Good to hear! I bought the ones you have, heard about the powerlift shoes being more of a hybrid, for which the name makes no sense!

maybe not right thread since its not training/competition but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM_cW1aY0Fw

DAMN Brian shaw makes phil heath look small as hell, what a big big man.

Cycical keto, with a weekly carb refeed at first lasting 8 hours or so, becoming a every 5th day as I got leaner. Carb loads were dirty and out of this world (try hit 1000g cabrs in 8 hours, not pleasant). keto was burgers sausages bacon chicken cheese and eggs pretty much...wasn't so bad. Used quite a lot of LISS towards the end too, HIIT sporadically.

At the end of that cut which was 3 and a half months or so I did a one week liquid only PSMF...I lost like 14lbs this week, 8 or 9 apperently glycogen. Yeah I probably lost some muscle but it came back quick and I hit a 220kg deadlift pr a few weeks later when I couldn't get 190 while cutting.

I think I have pics/graphs on the first post of my log if not ill upload them cos they were kinda cool.

Quote from: entropy on November 25, 2013, 09:40:10 am

I totally agree with you. You can play at any bodyweight (PAES) lol. But in my experience the body takes a far greater beating playing at a high bodyweight. Joints, ankles and knees especially take a huge pounding. Knees start to ache, ankles start to break. Spine gets shaken up too. Risk of injuries goes way up. Last summer when i was a lightweight (@165lb) i was pretty much unfit and yet i could play a full court game without much loss of performance. Actually that's not fully true, i had to pick and choose whether to play good D or O but the point is i could just depend on my low bodyweight to make up for my lack of fitness. But that's not something I want for this summer. I need to be properly fit -- regardless of playign bodyweight. Ideally i'll have low bodyfat and superb fitness, regardless of my eventual bodyweight whether it is 75kg or 85kg -- which one it is remains to be seen.

Maybe you have never been really lean... but all those symptoms you mention (and more) come right back when you get really really lean.  Leaning down to under 5% makes me feel like I have a cold and everything starts to hurt.  You will REALLY miss the lack of fat when you land on your tailbone on the basketball court.   You might jump higher; but for a contact sport I would be cautious about cutting too much fat.  Especially preseason.  It will go away during season a bit anyway.   You have added appreciable muscle (hopefully) since the last time you cut to 75kg....  Trying to get your weight down close to there again might result in some levels of leanness that you just don't want.

Being under 5% to play basketball  that's insane. Personally I feel a million times better playing at ~180-5lbs ~10-12% bf as opposed to 210-215lbs ~18% bf, man that was a bad time.

Hmm i remember reading about the muscle gain even without training part, forgot that happened though..pretty cool. That makes sense to me! Did a little googling and there doesn't seem to be a definitive explanation or even an official acceptance that it occurs!

last few days, havn't logged because i've been in the zone. I'm impressed with myself that I can get 3 hours sleep now and feel great when i wakeup.. wtf

10/27/2013

ssbar deep squat: 235 x 5


10/29/2013

ssbar deep squat" 235 x 5
simgle arm db bp: 90 @ L=3, R=5
single arm db row: 90 @ L=10,R=10

10/31/2013

single arm db dp: 90 lb @ L=6,R=7
single arm db row: 90 @ L=10,R=10

Quote from: vincevega on October 30, 2013, 03:23:02 am

your baseline non-lifting strength is like 2x mine lol

i got old man strenf now :f

Is there an actual reason behind man strength? As in like, two noobs to lifting, one's 18, the other is 30...why does the 30 year old seem to be stronger most of the time?

Anyone here go gluten/wheat free? Either due to sensitivity/coeliac or other reasons?

I've always eaten wheat, and never really noticed 'issues'...although I've always had digestive issues..docs just said IBS etc...

Anyway...last summer I did a CKD for a few months, and had no digestive issues...except on my carb up when my digestive system would hate me...

whether this was due to gluten..or just reintroduction of carbs..its hard to say..

These days I try to stay away from gluten where possible, but when I cheat e.g. went home to see family/girlfriend this weekend and ate so much wheat, my digestive system went bat shit crazy on me, still feel pretty terrible now.

I've read that sometimes people who are sensitive to gluten can not really notice it, until they cut it out and reintroduce it...with symptoms then being worse/more noticeable..when glutens reintroduced, which they certainly seem to be with me at the moment.

Anyone else have any thoughts on the whole gluten debate?