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chasing athleticism -- W8D3
« Reply #1935 on: June 26, 2014, 07:09:24 am »
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BW: 86.2kg

Off day conditioning session. Felt fat lol. I took caffeine just to see if it would make me focus better on problem solving and it worked but i felt energetic and decided to squeeze in an impromptu training sesh. Hope it doesn't affect me tmr in the gym tho but if it doesn't im gonna try this sort of thing more often!
 
Training
CND ~ 2km in ~22 mins
Skips ~ 200 total
WCU 2x3x88
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« Reply #1936 on: June 27, 2014, 06:54:17 am »
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I felt sick today, cold symptoms, didn't feel strong and even warmups were hard, like front squatting 6x60kg warmups felt like a 6RM.

BW: 86.2kg/190lb

Training
FBS 2x127.5, 0Fx137
BS 1x135, 0Fx142.5, 3x5x120
WCU 2x89.6, 2x94.6, 2x99.6, 2x104.6, 3x99.6, 5x97.1, 6x92.1

Squat notes:
The good news is ive made 127.5kg double warmup repeatable. Bad news is, i've not been able to progres my max single since i got 136kg on monday i think it was. Oh well bring on next week, looking forward to a new crack at a single PR. The alternative is to progress the double up to 130kg, that wud be cool too. Idk, will see.
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« Reply #1937 on: June 30, 2014, 06:03:19 am »
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BW: 85.6kg / 188.7lb

Training
FBS 2x127.5, 0Fx132.5
BS 1x130, 1x135, 5x120, 5x117.5
BP 1x89.5
CRLZ 5x50 (PR), 5x49.5, 5x48.5, 2x10x40 (PR)
AbCr 2x12x20
AbR 6xBW, 8xBW

Squat notes:
127.5kg warmup doubles felt like 2rm for bs and fs alike. Failingg 132.5kg fs was demoralising considering I was hoping to pr 137.5kg today. 135kg bs was a shitty 1rm lift even worse cause ugly.
Feeling so weak - Weekend of dieting and being sick didn't help. I'm also due for a carb reload but not sure to take it today (day #8 of cut) or wait til weds and make it through 10 days of cutting. If i take it now, i will have a better workout weds but it will mean more cutting. take it weds and this whole week of training will be a writeoff, probably. Blah. cutting sucks. being weak sucks. FML.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #1938 on: June 30, 2014, 08:29:48 am »
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decided to a refeed, my fav refeed food is ofc a meatt pizza w/ bbq sauce. plenty of carbs, over 200g worth and delicious while protein and fat are about 50g each for the lot, i'm ok with the fat because i dont eat any other fat except for 3 eggs in the morning

now this shud mean i can max out PR weds! not like i wud have got lean by holding off refeed til weds, after which wud have wasted training for the week.

have 2 weeks to get lean before i leave, shud be enuf time, im starting to see faint torso definition coming in. need to add in more conditioning though to really get there but dieting makes that complex and full of pitfalls wrt gym performance.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #1939 on: June 30, 2014, 08:34:51 am »
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I will NEVER understand people posting pictures of their food. It's something beyond my understanding powers.
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Current PR status:

All time squat: 165 kg/Old age squat: 130 kg
All time deadlift: 184 kg/Old age deadlift: 140 kg
All time bench: 85 kg/Old age bench: 70kgx5reps
All time hip thrust (same as old age hip thrust): 160kgx5reps

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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #1940 on: June 30, 2014, 08:38:11 am »
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like on social media? i agree.
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« Reply #1941 on: July 02, 2014, 03:52:43 am »
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Training
FBS 1Fx127.5, 0Fx132.5
BS 1x137.5
OHP 4x5x60, 3x60
CND - 2km in 19mins, 2.12km in 20 mins.

Squat notes:
technically my form was immaculate on warmups with 100kg. But 127.5kg just owned me and after that i wasn't up for any more squatting. will try again friday... sigh.
bad day for lifting, just felt weak, lack of sleep last night caught up with me, maybe total of 4 hours, felt like i was awake or in shallow sleep through the night.
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« Reply #1942 on: July 02, 2014, 11:42:20 pm »
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Weighed in 85kg even today lol. I still have 12 days left so i cud conceivably continue dieting. I wud like to be a clear 10-12%, not there yet but i can't be very far. Maybe diet a few days then eat at maintenance and ramp up conditioning to finish the job? Idk perhaps.
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« Reply #1943 on: July 03, 2014, 12:50:54 am »
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So you still planning on roiding up? That discussion kinda got lost in the recent site upgrade and you haven't mentioned it since.
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« Reply #1944 on: July 03, 2014, 01:06:20 am »
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Considering i can't even seem to be a lean 85kg and i'd like to be a lean 90-95kg, yeah maybe. lol. Downside is one of the reasons i wanna be a lean 90-95 is to play basketball better and yet catch 22 i wont be able to play anymore in good conscious sucks.
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Re: chasing athleticism
« Reply #1945 on: July 03, 2014, 01:30:38 am »
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Quote from: entropy on July 03, 2014, 01:06:20 am
Considering i can't even seem to be a lean 85kg and i'd like to be a lean 90-95kg, yeah maybe. lol. Downside is one of the reasons i wanna be a lean 90-95 is to play basketball better and yet catch 22 i wont be able to play anymore in good conscious sucks.

Have you ever got your hormones or test levels checked?
Were you fat as a kid or previously fat?

You seem pretty strict with your diet and exercise so maybe it's an internal factor that's preventing you from being lean/losing your stubborn fat.
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« Reply #1946 on: July 04, 2014, 06:34:28 am »
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BW: 85kg

Training
FBS 2x127.5, 0Fx137
BS 1x137.5, 5x122.5, 4Fx125, 5x120
BP 3x87.5, 1Fx89.5
BBALL ~ 1hr
WCU 2x96.5, 1x101.5, 2x106.5 (+20kg), 5x96.5, 6x91.5, 5x91.5, 2x5x89

Squat notes:
Use it or lose it. I lost it. I shuda maintained 136kg instead of trying to squeeze out 137.5kg. Now it's gone. My front squat has disappeared. At least im clinging on to my warmup double for now, uglier each time. But any more cutting from here and that will prob slip from my grasp too.
I'm about 1kilo bodyweight away from being kinda lean. But i'm not willing to get weaker to lose it, so not sure how to play it from here. More conditioning will do it, but then i might lose strength in the gym :(
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« Reply #1947 on: July 06, 2014, 02:55:54 am »
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Have 9 days left and still fat so need to ramp things up. It's a rest day, Sunday. I'm fasting (20hrs so far) and just finished a caffeinated treadmill session -  25 mins, 2km.

i'm also going to take 200mg caffeine 2x a day, every day for the next 9 days. just to get a bit more fat loss in.

But i'm not dieting every day. maybe next sat/sun fasted like today, maybe just plain diet mon and fri but weds and thurs i'll eat at maintenance or whatever. Tuesday i haven't decided because i wanna be strong for at least 1 day.

 Also have to fit in conditioning somehow and have been thinking daily fasted treadmill walk too. lol.

can't wait to be lean again :D
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« Reply #1948 on: July 07, 2014, 01:03:45 am »
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Bodyweight: 84.8kg / 186.95lb

Here we go, the last week of training before my summer holiday :) Broke the 85kg barrier. Waist is a chubby 34.5". I can only hope to do so much in 8 days but lets see how we go. Not sure how to train, will probably play it by feel from here. Caffeine and diet game will be on point though. Might try 2 a days training. Conditioning is going to make or break things.

Training
Fasted TM - 15 mins, 1km
BP 2x6x80, 5x80, 4x80
FBS 3x60, 2x100, 1x120, 1x130

FBS 1x127.5
BS 1x130, 1x135, 2x125, 3x120, 2x122.5
CRLZ 5x51 (PR), 5x51, 6x50 (PR)

CRLZ 3x10x40

Squat notes:
I wasn't planning on squatting fasted lol but i thought to try lance's 2-a-day training thing where you go to a max single in the first session and then volume in the 2nd. Or something like that. Only problem was/is that 130kg felt like 1rm but it didn't make sense to try anything less than 130. Lets see how 2nd session goes! Excited! I made the modification of cutting reps down though for the first squat session. Felt aight.

Session 2 sucked. I wont be repeating this 2-a-day squatting thing again.
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« Reply #1949 on: July 08, 2014, 08:37:11 am »
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7 days to go! it's my off day but i felt full of energy and went out for some sprints.

Training
CND - 5x(20s on, 20s off) sprint intervals

So far i've fasted ~23 hours since my last meal yesterday. I don't feel hungry and just came back from running. Feels good man. I should have been doing this regularly. my gymboss battery died so i had a reason not to, but i have fresh ones in now so have no more excuses. Ofcourse i'll probably get cripling doms tomorrow as im due to squat, but whatever, lets just get lean first then I can figure out how to get squat strong while staying lean. Lol.
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