Back to doing this training log. I have been tracking all my training of coarse, but I have just been super lazy with writing it on here. oh well no excuses, going to start just once a week posting my training for the week and a compilation video of the weeks training instead of separate videos each day
deload week this week.
I pulled 432-ish for 7 on my last heavy week last week, which was the most i had pulled in a while, due to many different things. and I am feeling fine now, but for some reason my back was just not happy afterward, and did not feel that great on friday when I was supposed to squat. Normally, and a few months ago I probably would of said screw it, and squatted through it, but I have learned, taking it easy for a day and hitting it hard again in a week is alot better than hurting myself and not being able to go heavy for a month or maybe even two. Go for broke in a meet, but train to lift another day.
So squat I just did speed work.
this deload week I did everything as usual except on squat and bench day.
I recently received a Sling Shot in the mail, and have been anxious to use it, so I did my super light weight deload, then worked up to 225, and did 10 reps with the sling shot. only a couple were paused but I dont care, it was nice to just bang that out. it was not very hard at all, just the 10 reps made me tired haha.
I came to the realization that I had some un-needed fat. Now I was not the fattest kid on the block, and I think I hid my fattiness pretty well. But especially after my friend did a body fat percentage test on me with those damn calipers that squeeze my tubby stomach I realized I had WAY too much fat.
deload week this week.
I pulled 432-ish for 7 on my last heavy week last week, which was the most i had pulled in a while, due to many different things. and I am feeling fine now, but for some reason my back was just not happy afterward, and did not feel that great on friday when I was supposed to squat. Normally, and a few months ago I probably would of said screw it, and squatted through it, but I have learned, taking it easy for a day and hitting it hard again in a week is alot better than hurting myself and not being able to go heavy for a month or maybe even two. Go for broke in a meet, but train to lift another day.
So squat I just did speed work.
this deload week I did everything as usual except on squat and bench day.
I recently received a Sling Shot in the mail, and have been anxious to use it, so I did my super light weight deload, then worked up to 225, and did 10 reps with the sling shot. only a couple were paused but I dont care, it was nice to just bang that out. it was not very hard at all, just the 10 reps made me tired haha.
Squat day I just put 135 on the bar. I am doing some tweaking with my squat form trying to figure out what works for me still. but it seems promising.
NEW GOALS!!!!!
I came to the realization that I had some un-needed fat. Now I was not the fattest kid on the block, and I think I hid my fattiness pretty well. But especially after my friend did a body fat percentage test on me with those damn calipers that squeeze my tubby stomach I realized I had WAY too much fat.
24.9% body fat I guess. SO some changes are being made. First of all, I am not a body builder and do not plan on ever being one. However, I do not believe we have to be fat to be strong, and I sure as SHIT do not want to be. I am aiming to get down to anywhere between 10-16% body fat, I understand that is a large gap but shit, it'll be practically 10% less than what I am! The goal is slow and steady, I have read about, and it makes sense that you lose weight too fast in an attempt to lose fat and you can give up preciously earned muscle. I will be modeling my new food intake on the Zig Zag diet, not sure if Dr. Squat aka Dr. Fred Hatfield came up with it, or popularized it, I just know I came across it on his website. if you are more interested you can click the "Zig Zag" link. to Sum it up really simply, I will eat at a caloric deficit on days I am not training or just doing cardio, and on days I train I will eat excess calories, with the idea of losing fat on non training days, and gaining/maintaining muscle on training days. The goal is to lose between 1.5-2lbs a week. Honestly I am not aiming to lose weight, and do not really want to, I would rather stay the same weight and look alot leaner, because then that would mean im jacked, but if it were that easy, every person lazier than me (which is pretty damn easy to be) would do it. I am hoping I will not loose too much strength but we will see. It seems with diets, sorry "food intake changes" and "meal plans" you can only trust what works for someone else as a possible outline, but in the end you have to do it yourself and see what works.
SUM IT ALL UP
Ok so new goals I am working towards for lifting:
- Stay Strong and keep getting stronger
- Get leaner (not trying to be a body builder) but you dont have to be fat to be strong and powerful. Chuck V, Matt Kroc, and a TON of powerlifters back in the day were pretty damn jacked.
- Keep up with the Blog, once a week will be easy, that equates not going on facebook for 10 minutes.
- Keep up with mobility as I have been, stretching every night.
- Once I am down to a decent leanness and body fat percentage, I really want to eat some "not so perfect food" once a week. for mainly one meal. my goal is on my last day of each training week, so after squats on friday, just going home and either making some beastly burgers, bomb pizza, or something rewarding. Or seek out an amazing burger like Chris Duffin does. I love the fact that guy seeks out a bomb burger and fries combo each week.
No comments:
Post a Comment