TLC: Trust, Love, Consistency

People complain that their workouts become shit once they start a hard cut. Me, it’s the reverse, my workouts are wicked; it’s the rest of my day that’s turned to shit.

My carbs are low and green for now. Which means I live ‘in the fog’. Luckily though Gen-Tec and Scivation make fog remover. I’m really good at fog removal for workout purposes. I’m not sure I want to even think about how many more sups I’d need to take to stay out the fog on a more full time basis.

After 5 days of following the cut-diet very strictly I’ve made some slight adjustments. In the interest of science and for future personal reference I document  them here.

6am I wake after a patchy nights sleep where I was waking sweating every few hours until I opened a window (ooops I left the heater on). The hound is ready for his walk, doesn’t he understand Sunday’s!? Energy levels at 6.5/10 which is good for me.

6.30am Start cracking eggs (8), sauting spinach, grilling kangaroo and chicken for later. Breakfast before cardio today or I won’t get all my meals in.
Who the hell eats this much food for breakfast anyways? (7 whites, 1 whole egg, 1/2 grapefruit, 50g roo, 120g spinach)

7am sups 5g creatine, 5g glutamine, 3g fish oil, 2 fat burners, 1 multi, 1 scoop Xtend, 1 zinc+magnesium+b6, 1 litre water

7.20am Energy level 8/10

8am wrangle hound, and start 6km walk to the farmers market, by the time I’m half way there (sipping 2 scoops Xtend + 5g creatine) fog is starting to set in for the day; at least it’s not too cold and beautifully sunny for mid-winter.
9am Energy levels 7/10 calories burnt: 125 (note to self: your hilly walk shits on this flat one). Headache in the top, front of my brain moved in for the day.
I just bought 60 (Free-range) eggs!
11am Hope that chicken salad and coffee will pick me up. Nope, no carbs in that one!

Midday: Time to start getting ready for the gym. Screw this cut-diet, I’ll keep the macros but I’m putting pure-carbs in my drink.
What I actually put in my pre and in workout drinks is a bit of a vague ramshackle of sups from my kitchen bench but WOW! did it work.
Pre-workout pick-me up (aprox): 1.5 scoops Xtend, a bigger than usual slug of thermofuel (couldn’t get the doser to work), 5g creatine, 5g glutamine, 2.5gish alca, 3g pure carbs, a tiny pinch of beta-analine.

The beta-analine was a new one to my arsenal. Sean at Aussie Muscle wouldn’t tell me what to expect when I asked if I needed it, but gave me a free sample bottle and told me to report back on what I thought (’don’t take too much or you’ll get twitchy’ was his warning). In this sludge of a cocktail I can’t be certain but I think my power was up and I felt more ‘twang’/tension in my muscles. Is this the right answer?
Boy was I raring to get in the gym, headache gone. The bus couldn’t get me there fast enough. Good thing I chose not to drive.

1.15pm in-workout drink: 4 scoops  Xtend, 12g pure-carbs, 2.5g creatine, 2.5g glutamine
Feeling: Strong, fit, focused, creative (good thing too as this is the mantra I use while I lift rather than counting reps). Shoulder had stop hurting and, wow, new PR’s on everything. Calories burnt: 300 (quads, bi’s, tri’s, calves). I was taking very short rests and pyramiding my sets hard and everything seemed easy.

3pm: home. 150g green beans, 150g brocolli, 150g chicken breast, splash of soy sauce (low-GI fiborous carbs + lean protein, no extra fats). This was monstorously filling and a new part of my experiment. Approx. 25% of my day’s carbs, all green. Will this keep the fog away?

Now/4.30pm: Still feeling mild buzz from stims. No headache since before my workout. Stomach starting to growl, needs water, not food. I think I’ve supped out for the day. I’ll take 1 more serve of creatine/glutamine before bed and some zinc and at that I really should stop.

1 p/c/f meal and 1 p/f meal to go. Will make notes on how I ride out the remainder of the arvo.
Siesta time, I love weekends!

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