Painfully 
Hormone support helps. If I wasn’t on TRT, I’d be struggling a lot more than I am now. Happy to discuss this in detail with you privately if you want to email me too; I’m guessing by your post history that it’s not your interest, just offering.
Eagerly looking towards a time where I can eat more food and start putting some muscle back on, but I believe I’m accomplishing that currently as well.
It definitely sounds brutal even if you were getting 5,000 calories! I will say your macros look awesome for so few cals.
And I appreciate that offer! You’re correct that I’m not really interested in the chemical side of the equation personally, but certainly no judgment from my end. I’m sure once you’re back in a surplus you’re going to explode in size!
Weight: 209.9lb
Recovery: ? 5.5-6hrs slept
Food
Cal: 2058
P: 239g
C: 184g
F: 37g
I always miss this log since its not in the regular training logs session, which is a total shame on me since there is so much good work going on here. really interesting to watch your progress with how carefully you track all the variables, almost a scientific approach to muscle gain going on here, and I love it. Nice work brother, great work with the cut. FWIW, a jacked AF 210 is impressive, and your weights support it. Might have some weeks that go more “recomp” than “cut”, but either way your are hitting the goals that all of us aspire to!
Ran behind the past few days. Diet was 85-90% good, didn’t track, still in deficit each day. Weather has been bad enough to warrant not working, so sleep has been much better than usual.
Weight: 208.1lb
Recovery: 94% (8h 37m slept)
Home gym today
Toes to Bar
x8
x8
Squat (instead of leg press)
10x45
10x135
10x225
6x315
6x315
10x225
I don’t know why, but this was hilarious. Probably because I’m always forgetting to bring socks or something like that too
Weight: 210.3lb
Recovery: 46% (4h 17m slept)
Alright friends, accountability time. I fell off the diet wagon hard yesterday and I’m struggling to re-motivate myself today. Motivation was waning all last week too (as evidenced by my lack of posting).
I don’t want to keep dieting, i don’t want to train, i don’t want to do school, and i don’t know why. Nothing has changed, there’s no new external stressors, I’m just unmotivated.
I’m considering reverse-dieting for a bit in hopes of getting my energy levels up so i can come back swinging. Not sold on it yet, maybe i was just having an off day/week; maybe I’m just in need of motivating material or a deload.
2/27/23
Food
Cal: 1878
P: 230g
C: 181g
F: 20g
I managed to keep myself honest and on track. Woke up this morning, hit the snooze. Woke up again, snooze again. Alarm goes off for the 3rd time and i contemplate taking an hour off work for sleep… then i hear Goggins’ voice in the back of my head “do something you don’t want to do - everyday”.
It’s time to start doing the shit I don’t want to do.
It’s time to start embracing the suck.
It’s time to start living up to my potential.
Sounds like adulting.
I get a kick out of the title of your log every time I see it in the feed.
TBH, this approach hasn’t worked that well for me regarding things I think I don’t want to do.
Something I have been trying lately is having a bit of meditation to slow down my thoughts a bit. I try to remind myself that the things I think I don’t want to do, are actually things that make me happier long term.
Finishing meaningful projects at work actually makes me happier. Doing a task at home I don’t want to do makes me happier. Stuff like that. I think this mindset makes the task a little less sucky too.
I also like to remind myself of that many of the things I seem to want to do are not very good for happiness past the immediate term. I love learning about stuff I am interested in, but doing deep dives on those things can be a big distraction. I then end up thinking I really didn’t do anything but learn a lot about something that isn’t very useful to me. Scrolling T-Nation, Reddit or YouTube can be troublesome for me. It’s like I go into auto pilot on those platforms. Sure, I am using them to learn about stuff, but it is too much. I should close this tab on my computer lol.
IDK, I suppose different mindsets work for different people. .
Weight: 210.9
Recovery: 54% (5h 9m slept)
Home gym today
Toes to Bar
x6
x6
x6
Food
Cal: 2558
P: 249g
C: 197g
F: 89g
No it’s a great idea actually because you still got your work done regardless, keep embracing situations like that.
This is right on the money.
I found myself finding reasons not to train. Not ideal nutrition, too tired, too sore, i just ate, I’m too hungry, not optimal… i need to stop this nonsense. That’s one of the main reasons i did this last night, and I’m glad i did.
Consider the nonsense stopped already Andrew, you started strong, you can finish strong.
The week is still young, could train twice a day, three times a day, shit…double up two sessions on one day at 12 am if you can. Don’t matter as long as you get it done.
Weight: 211.2lb (?)
Recovery: 54% (4h 57m slept)
Was sick the past couple days. Not in the clear yet, but will be very soon; good enough to lift though.
Did some minor changes to the program. All exercises are the same, just reordered such that arm movements will always be performed first. The intent is to both stimulate better arm growth (because arms can never be too big) and to function as a bit of a pre-exhaust.
Heavy Push movements are definitely going to be affected, which will also help on the days I train at home because I’m in need of dumbbells >80lbs for multiple movements now.
Weight: 210.3lb
Recovery: 78 (7h 27m slept, RHR was 15 BPM higher than normal likely because of illness)
Home Gym today
Toes to bar
x5
x5
x5
x5
