Todd_A’s BodyBlog

Well, lately I have had a hard time sticking ot my nutrition plan each day. Too much temptation with the hollidays close by. Cookies and candy around the house. Bad Bad Bad.  Well, today I was succesful at sticking to my exact nutrition plan. Yay me! lol

 Also, today was "Heavy Chest and Triceps Day". Small rep sets with lots of weight (for me anyway). It was a good workout. Followed that up with some HITT Jump rope.

Christmas is only a couple of days away. I still have soem shopping to do!!!! 

Later,

Todd

I started a heavy/volume program recently and today was my second volume leg day.  I upped the intensity this time by adding more weight and I did 3 sets of 15 on Squats. I was dizzy after the first set and the other sets were rough.  I also did a long set of walking lunges then went to stiff leg dead lifts where I did another 3 sets of 15. I have heard of getting dizzy feeling from a leg workout but I guess this was my first time to push it with enough intensity to feel that way myself.  I hope that means I did a decent job lifting today.

Well, I started "bulking a few months ago but it ended up being an excuse to just eat more crap I think , more than anything else.  I tried to eat more and eat clean then I would crap out and eat some dessert with lunch thinking it was ok because I am bulking and I would not do it much.  That turned to a dessert of cookies from the Great American Cookie Company in the Mall like every day for several weeks with lunch, not to mention the crap food I ate at dinner time. The results are what you would expect. Lots of fat gain with some lean mass gains also. The problem is that the lean mass and fat are the same as when I weighed this amount before loosing everything before, so I basically gained all the fat back that I had lost before. A nice zig-zag but a real waste of my life for a period of time that I can never get back again.

So, here I go again with more knowledge from my last year’s cutting experience and mistakes.  This time I plan to take the cut slower so as to not sacrifice as much lean mass with the loss of the fat (hopefully), and if there is any chance of gaining additional lean mass in the process of cutting it would happen with this diet very close to maintenance level, so that would be a bonus.

The goal would be to get to a lower bodyfat % than I was at my lowest during 2008 which appears to be 12.81% by the Calipers and 15.5% using the electronic bodyfat/scales. I am currently at 21.3% on the scales, so that should be roughly 19.5-ish% if I checked with the scales from past experience.  In the past 2 weeks I have been as high as 21.7% but I didn’t take pics, however I might use that number as my starting point to make myself feel like I have progressed further, as I had already began to cut out the crap eating at that point and I began to up my lifting intensity and frequency in the last week or so.

We will see how it goes.

Later,

Todd