A Sigh of Relief
It may be good or bad psychologically speaking. Depends on the way you look at it. But I feel so much better now I have put some size back on and lifting some decent weights. I love bodybuilding and I love the lifestyle (yes even the dieting) which is fortunate because its now obvious that I am very much addicted.
My wife’s glad to see I am back into it as well. I get so restless and unpredictable when I’m not 100% focused and she hates it. I think it’s to do with that primal masculine feeling you get when you lift heavy. When I’m not lifting stuff I get that feeling from doing dangerous and (yes I admit it) stupid stuff like speeding etc.
I am now on my way to building a bit more mass than last year and keeping the bodyfat low. I am going to play with a technique called nutrient partitioning, which enables you to gain muscle and lose fat.
The theory goes that when you drop calories to lose weight, the body responds by increasing the number of insulin receptors (assuming that all the food is clean). When you increase the calories again, the muscle cells increase the efficiency of nutrient uptake and therefore you gain size (until the muscles are too full then the calories will spill over into fat). If you go back and forth with this scenario, you technically will gain muscle and lose fat. The time period in which you stay in each phase depends on the size of the person and their metabolism and the beauty of it is that you will lose more fat long term due to the high calorie period increasing your metabolism.
A good indication that this technique might work for me would be the extreme post comp rebound I experienced after dieting for 4 months straight. I found that after the comp I gained 10kg (about 20 pounds) in a week with no bodyfat increase and the pumps I got at the gym where painful. Like my skin was going to rip. Very cool, but I found it hard to sleep and even walk.
May 27, 2007 at 12:46 am
hey sexy! You are one fine specimen of man! Last night was great! hehehe Only have eyes 4 u!