realworksuks vs [Focus] - "LIKE DONKEY KONG, SON!"

realworksuks said:
what are you eating nowadays btw focus?
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I eats MOTIVATIONAL THUNDER and I spits lightning.

Also, 1-3 times a week, I eat some lean protein and some fruit. Off days only. If I'm feeling particularly decadent, I will also have an ounce of extra old cheddar. To be honest, it's getting really, really old. My body doesn't really give a ****, but my head wants to eat. Really wants to. But **** him. What has he ever done for me, except get me into this mess in the first place.

ROCK ON!
 
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So I had a carb/calorie up day, and I abused it throughally again. We had an employee potluck and I had 3 1/3 pd burgers, and tons of beans, beef, and other various salads. THen I ate like an animal at home too... crappy processed food that tastes great every now and then.

When I was done at the end of the day my veins were all popping out and I had regained size in my arms... I was getting kinda worried cuz I was getting all small, but I was just glycogen depleted.

Suffice to say, when I was full of glycogen my power level was clearly over nine thousand...

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[Focus] said:
I eats MOTIVATIONAL THUNDER and I spits lightning.

Also, 1-3 times a week, I eat some lean protein and some fruit. Off days only. If I'm feeling particularly decadent, I will also have an ounce of extra old cheddar. To be honest, it's getting really, really old. My body doesn't really give a ****, but my head wants to eat. Really wants to. But **** him. What has he ever done for me, except get me into this mess in the first place.

ROCK ON!
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so uh... you are still on V-Diet mostly?
 
realworksuks said:
so uh... you are still on V-Diet mostly?
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What, you can't read English?

... Yeah. I'm thinking for this next week (No. 7), I'll do one solid (400 calorie'ish) meal per day, before training. Which will now be every day of the week, with the half marathon thing.

I sort of hate running. :bncry:
 
08/08/08

Before we start, I'd like everyone to take a moment to observe the date. Today is a very special one... Crazy 8's. Do something... strange. For your old boy.

We now return to your regularly scheduled programming:

Training

A1 Full Squat 45x5, 95x5, 135x5, 165x3, 195x3, 215x3, 235x0, 225x1, 225x1, 225x1, 235x0
B1 Wide Full Squat 115x20x3
C1 R Bulg Split Squat 25x10/10x2, 25x9/8
D1 45 Deg Hyper 50x12x3
E1 Ab Machine 50x15, 150x15, 125x15, 135x15, 150x11

Thoughts

Devastation. Walking home was a real struggle.... Glorious. :D Looks like I was weaksauce on the squats compared to last week, but I most certainly wasn't. I'm pretty sure the bar I used this time (the only one that's new enough to have a proper grip) weighs 10-20 lbs more than the other. Couldn't compare directly, as the rest were in use, but I'm not worried. Made some improvement by focusing on coming out of the hole fast (instead of pausing, losing all my momentum, and getting stuck) as per speed squats.

Love the BSS's, now that I can actually balance somewhat from all those lunges. There were like a hundred clowns in my way everywhere for some reason, so I went and played with the ab machine instead of doing my ground-based stuff, which was aight, but boring. Curiosity sated. Don't understand why my hypers are making such huge gains, but whateva. Couldn't do reverse cause the Y sucks. Oh well. Something's getting worked hard, so why fix what ain't broken. :)

Now to figure out my half-marathon training schedule and think about how badly it's gonna suck to be running 15-20 miles per week in my 7th-12th weeks of the velocity diet. I think I might die. ^_^
 
Hmm...

I think, Focus, that you might eventually have to modify your diet. The "Half-Marathon" is going to take your body at it's strongest, don't deplete it of what you need to accomplish this goal. The weight will come off from your training! Just eat clean, extremely clean- but ENOUGH...enough protein, enough carbs...otherwise you might crash before you ever reach the "Start Line".
 
JoveGirl said:
I think, Focus, that you might eventually have to modify your diet. The "Half-Marathon" is going to take your body at it's strongest, don't deplete it of what you need to accomplish this goal. The weight will come off from your training! Just eat clean, extremely clean- but ENOUGH...enough protein, enough carbs...otherwise you might crash before you ever reach the "Start Line".
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Oh, there's no doubt about it. This long-term v diet stuff is ridiculous. I'm guessing most people have no idea what it feels like to do the workout I did today on what has been pretty close to 6 weeks of starvation.

Currently in the process of pondering whether continuing with this thing fits with my goals. My pride says no surrender, but my head says I am being dumb. Just looking at these workouts and my planned 1800 calories /day... It makes me want to seppuku, tbh. XD

I'm thinking it might be a better idea to just stop what I'm doing, take a re-feed week (where I eat whatever I want, whenever I want, but clean), and then eat "maintenance" until the end of the marathon, 'n' see what happens. Hard to tell whether that's my mind playin' tricks on me, or actually the right thing to do, though. I'm fairly sure it's the latter, but I will consider it carefully.
 
After thinking it through...

Here's what I've decided:

V Diet is officially done, as of now. It was borderline counterproductive to begin with, and simply will not suffice. I think I have pretty much made my point to myself with 6 weeks of flawless adherence.

Tomorrow, right through until next Saturday, I am taking to re-feed. That means I get to eat whatever I want, and as much as I can get in me, until next Saturday's run. But, Berardi principles, of course. So, real clean, mostly. After that, I will eat 3400 calories per day (odds are this will be more than I manage to take in when left to my own devices, and a struggle), which should be maintenance'ish (if this seems high, remember, 7 days/week of hard training, + 3hours/day of extra NEPA to meet my 200 hour summer goal!), until the half marathon, at which point I will reevaluate my body composition situation and alter my goals accordingly. Gonna do the posture and proper bodyfat assessments again shortly after the end of August, so we'll know whether I'm eating way too much, or what, then.

Marathon training runs will be monday, thursday and saturday. This is the best I can manage, pretty much, in terms of not messing up other **** but still spacing them out some. When they fall on weight training days, they will be later in the evening. And hopefully I won't be up all night afterward. :)
 
So I went and worked out today and totally kicked some ass..

Uh.. yeah, life got in the way again and I ended up going out to eat two times... so calorie defecit definitely didn't happen.

I decided I would try to build some muscle cuz of that.. is this flawed logic?

Anyway, this was my workout:

deadlift
135 X 10
185 X 10
225 X 8
265 X 5
275 X 3

Hmph, yeah this was tough, may have lost a bit of strength in this lift... hadn't done it for almost 2 weeks... not heavy at least.

db bench press
65 X 10
75 X 10
85 X 6

Meh, i'll take it.

Weighted Chins
bw X 10
30 X 8
45 X 5
65 X 2 perfect ones and 3 ****ty half rep ones

leg press
315 X 8
405 X 5 X 2

Military press
95 X 10
105 X 6
115 X 1 (ehhhh, was tired and the Y was closing soon)

Seated rowing
120 X 10
130 X 10
135 X 8
140 X 8

and some forearms rope until pumped the **** up! or two sets.

When I was doing the pullups someone asked what my power level was, I replied:

yeah, sorry for using that twice in one day...

all around it was a great workout, fo sure! next 3 days will be low carb, planned that way anyway.
 
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Let's get fat and juicy together bb! <3

And naw, dizzle, I was pretty much working up to the same thing on my own. Doesn't hurt to have a pretty girl tell me to eat more. And JoveGirl, too. :rofl:

Sorry Drexatron, I couldn't resist.

The thing that really got me was that when I first decided to do the V Diet and logged it in my little goal book, I had actually specifically written that there were no circumstances under which I was permitted to do it for more than the one month, as it was almost purely for motivational/diagnostic purposes. :p When I was going through it today and saw that I was like, "What am I doing? I already determined that low-carb super-low-cal makes little difference in fat loss but seriously hurts my performance. This isn't even remotely necessary, and it'll make this next 6 weeks more like 'into the ground' than 'burning the ground'."

P.S. I love Duran Duran!

Anyway, the decision's been made, and I'm pretty happy about it. So excited to be able to hit these workouts with a little fuel in the tank. Gonna be a machine. :D
 
realworksuks said:
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah Buddy! Light weight!
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Cheers. I wish I could rep you some more but I keep hitting the 24 hour cap. XD

Only problem with this whole re-feed plan is that there is literally no food anywhere in this apartment. So, gotta hit up CostCo and Community Natural Foods tomorrow. Right now my fridge and cupboards are a barren wasteland... nothing but salt and dirt (aka protein powder + 30 other supplements).

But, I'm having fun coming up with a meal plan...gotta hurry, though, as apparently I am required to attend some girl's birthday party.
 
Okay, so...

Theoretically, I am currently 185 lbs and 17% bodyfat, according to my scale. That would mean, according to it, I lost 20 lbs of fat and gained 10 lbs of muscle since the end of June? Yeah, right. :rolleyes:

Just noting this, as we're going to find out what happens when I eat however much for a week, and then "maintenance" for 5 weeks after that, while I'm burnin' the ground for bikini pics. I WANNA SEE THAT SHOW. :SaiyanSmilie_anim:

Fellas, I hope you appreciate the things I do for you - I'm like Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Tom Cruise combined! Oh, and Gandhi. Except I won't die of dysentery, knock on wood.

...Oregon Trail was such a sweet game. <3
 
[Focus] said:
Fellas, I hope you appreciate the things I do for you - I'm like Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Tom Cruise combined! Oh, and Gandhi. Except I won't die of dysentery, knock on wood.
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I APPRECIATE YOU! I enjoy your posts and others - helps keep me pumped up!
 
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