TPower81’s BodyBlog

I’ve had goals off and on, of weights I wanted to get to.  250 bench was one, I achieved that a while back.  I’ve realized that weights lifted is also related to your weight.  For instance, much easier for a 240lbs dude to bench 250 than for a 150lb dude.

 My new goals for lifting are to lift 150% of my bodyweight for all the big compound exercises.  Not talking maxes here either.  I have never really maxed out for only like 2 reps.  I prefer to do at least 6 reps.  So…what this really means is lifting 150% of bodyweight for 6 reps.

 For instance if I weigh 190lbs I would be benching/squating/deadlifting/pull-uping/dipping 285.  Obviously the squatting and deadlifting will be the easiest to achieve and I’ll probably be past this goal by the time I can pull-up 285lbs x 6 but overall I think this just provides a great goal to get to.

 Currently I’m doing about 120% of my bodyweight for these exercises. 

My mini-bulk gave me roughly 8 lbs.  I consider this pretty decent considering it was my first shot at bulking and also considering some of the problems I had in the gym, staying healthy, etc.

 I’m following "The Cut Diet".  www.thecutdiet.com for the free e-book.  Its basically a low carb diet with carb cycleing every 3 days.  I had my first carb up last night and the woke up early in the morning extremely hungry!  It was crazy.  I walked into the bathroom to take a leak and strangely enough felt really slim.  My Gf, who is doing the same thing had the same reaction.  Interesting to say the least.

 For the most part the diet works fine, is easy to handle and I think I’ll be able to stick with it without too much of a problem.  I don’t really get hungry, and if I do, usually I only have to wait maybe another hour before I can eat another small meal.  I don’t believe in artificial sweeteners so I eat everything without that stuff, however, if I do have a sweets craving I will drink some 0 cal, 0 sugar, 0 carb, 0 everything carbonated, flavored water.  Still, I try and make it through the days without even doing that…strickly water and 1 protein shake a day.

I’ll try and post weekly pics of progress.  I’d like to lose 12 lbs, and I’m giving myself 14 weeks.  I really want to make this happen and not cheat at all.  I just have to make it through all the weekends, traveling, and partying without boozing and eating out tremendously!

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