Renton's Rise from Weakness
01-16-2018
, 12:53 AM
01-22-2018
, 02:27 PM
Week 93 Diet
Cut Phase Week 4
Bleh, crappy week and this time not many excuses for it. I'm settling into a decent groove with the new job, and one of the perks of the job is free food in relatively healthy and controlled portions. I could probably eat 1400 calorie days with relatively low effort if I needed. My initial 20kg cut took place mostly while I was spending lots of time playing poker in this room and taking most of my meals there, so I can do a lot better than this if I try. 1700 calories is a cakewalk.
Cut Phase Week 4
Bleh, crappy week and this time not many excuses for it. I'm settling into a decent groove with the new job, and one of the perks of the job is free food in relatively healthy and controlled portions. I could probably eat 1400 calorie days with relatively low effort if I needed. My initial 20kg cut took place mostly while I was spending lots of time playing poker in this room and taking most of my meals there, so I can do a lot better than this if I try. 1700 calories is a cakewalk.
01-29-2018
, 02:37 AM
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Been a while since I checked in, but congrats on the jerb.
Also stay safe over there. Hope the authorities don't decide that you need to be arrested for producing those noodz.
Def agree w/ loco on what looks best. But even at your current state you've made impressive progress from where you started in both strength and aesthetics.
Also stay safe over there. Hope the authorities don't decide that you need to be arrested for producing those noodz.
Def agree w/ loco on what looks best. But even at your current state you've made impressive progress from where you started in both strength and aesthetics.
Week 94 Diet
"Cut" Phase Week 5
I must employ the dreaded quotation marks again with two weeks in a row of going over calories.
This week, under the circumstances, I'm relatively happy with. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday were all days that I had to work 10+ hours which made my effective day several hours longer and another meal necessary, otherwise those numbers would have come in just fine. Friday I was pinned between my gf wanting to cook something for me at home and my boss wanting dinner at an Italian restaurant. I managed to eat Italian for less than 1000 calories which is an accomplishment in itself.
My weight is 60.0 as of this morning, so it appears that I'm still steadily losing weight in spite of everything. Probably I am burning substantially more calories due to the job. This is also the weight at which my excess skin starts to really become obvious. I knew right away rolling out of bed this morning that I was gonna get a low weigh-in.
02-08-2018
, 01:59 AM
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Training
Hypertrophy Block C2W1
8 min McGill
1. Squat (kg): 25x10 x5
2. Rack Pull (kg): 62.5x15 x4
2. McGill Side Bridge: 10sec x3 x each side x4
3. DB Bench (lb): 45s x5, 45s x12
3. Crossover Facepull (lb): 75x15x2
Training time: ?
***
Some things have developed with the new job that will unfortunately have me working 7 days / week for the foreseeable future. As a result, I am dropping to 3 days / week training. Today my back felt pretty good the whole time. It still randomly aches but I feel like overall it's recovering.
I had to cut the workout short because I was running late for work. The plan was to do a couple more sets of bench. In the first set I slightly tweaked my shoulder, I think it's just because of not being warmed up properly. The set of 12 felt fine.
Week 95 Diet
"Cut" Phase Week 6
Another week of going over calories, another week of substantial weight loss. I'll take it. It's probably a good idea that I'm calling this a cut because with the stress I'm under, I'd be eating the world otherwise.
Hypertrophy Block C2W1
8 min McGill
1. Squat (kg): 25x10 x5
2. Rack Pull (kg): 62.5x15 x4
2. McGill Side Bridge: 10sec x3 x each side x4
3. DB Bench (lb): 45s x5, 45s x12
3. Crossover Facepull (lb): 75x15x2
Training time: ?
***
Some things have developed with the new job that will unfortunately have me working 7 days / week for the foreseeable future. As a result, I am dropping to 3 days / week training. Today my back felt pretty good the whole time. It still randomly aches but I feel like overall it's recovering.
I had to cut the workout short because I was running late for work. The plan was to do a couple more sets of bench. In the first set I slightly tweaked my shoulder, I think it's just because of not being warmed up properly. The set of 12 felt fine.
Week 95 Diet
"Cut" Phase Week 6
Another week of going over calories, another week of substantial weight loss. I'll take it. It's probably a good idea that I'm calling this a cut because with the stress I'm under, I'd be eating the world otherwise.
02-12-2018
, 04:51 AM
Week 96 Diet
"Cut" Phase Week 7
Not my best week. I didn't go under 1800 on a single day, never mind that my initial goal with this cut was 1700/day. The 2500 day was my first day off in two weeks and I ate a ton of uncountable korean food, and then later leftovers of that. It seemed pointless to attempt to count it so I just called it a general blowout day and ballparked the calories/macros. I doubt it was over what's listed. That blowout day had a 59.3kg morning weigh-in, so my weight is still trending down, if slowly. I'll take new pictures after this week so I'm going to try to stack up some good days and drop some water weight if I can.
"Cut" Phase Week 7
Not my best week. I didn't go under 1800 on a single day, never mind that my initial goal with this cut was 1700/day. The 2500 day was my first day off in two weeks and I ate a ton of uncountable korean food, and then later leftovers of that. It seemed pointless to attempt to count it so I just called it a general blowout day and ballparked the calories/macros. I doubt it was over what's listed. That blowout day had a 59.3kg morning weigh-in, so my weight is still trending down, if slowly. I'll take new pictures after this week so I'm going to try to stack up some good days and drop some water weight if I can.
02-18-2018
, 12:18 PM
Sunday, February 18, 2018 Training
Hypertrophy Block C2W3
1. Bench Press (kg):
52.5x8
56x8
56x8
56x8
56x7 @9.5
2. Seated Row (lb): 115x11, 130x11x4
2. Arnold Press (lb): 25s x12, 30s x12x3, 30s x10
3. Pec Fly (lb): 130x14, 130x13, 130x11
3. DB Hammer Curl (lb): 25s x9 x3
Training time: 1:10
***
I skipped another workout due to a major change to my work schedule which will, IMO in the long run, result in fewer skipped workouts. Previously I was working the night shift which is 6pm until whenever, which could be 9pm or 4am depending, so sleep was really inconsistent. My new schedule is 11a-6p, which results in way harder work but fewer hours and I can go to sleep at the same time every night. The challenge now is waking up early enough to get gym out of the way before 11.
The session was fine, I just had to hustle due to running late for work. Rests were kept short, which prob resulted in me getting fewer reps on everything, but it still felt like a productive session.
***
I've decided to reduce the frequency of taking nudes to quarterly instead of bi-monthly. I'll be further along in my cut by next month anyway so changes will be much more noticeable. I did snap this pic today after training.
Not too bad, I suppose. If you scaled me up to adult male height/weight, some may consider me to be slightly jacked. This is at 59.5kg / 131lb, so I'm holding on to about a kilo of bloat compared to Friday's 58.5kg / 129lb weigh-in.
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Week 97 Diet
Cut Phase Week 8
A quite decent week. Probably because I didn't eat out at a single restaurant.
Hypertrophy Block C2W3
1. Bench Press (kg):
52.5x8
56x8
56x8
56x8
56x7 @9.5
2. Seated Row (lb): 115x11, 130x11x4
2. Arnold Press (lb): 25s x12, 30s x12x3, 30s x10
3. Pec Fly (lb): 130x14, 130x13, 130x11
3. DB Hammer Curl (lb): 25s x9 x3
Training time: 1:10
***
I skipped another workout due to a major change to my work schedule which will, IMO in the long run, result in fewer skipped workouts. Previously I was working the night shift which is 6pm until whenever, which could be 9pm or 4am depending, so sleep was really inconsistent. My new schedule is 11a-6p, which results in way harder work but fewer hours and I can go to sleep at the same time every night. The challenge now is waking up early enough to get gym out of the way before 11.
The session was fine, I just had to hustle due to running late for work. Rests were kept short, which prob resulted in me getting fewer reps on everything, but it still felt like a productive session.
***
I've decided to reduce the frequency of taking nudes to quarterly instead of bi-monthly. I'll be further along in my cut by next month anyway so changes will be much more noticeable. I did snap this pic today after training.
Spoiler:
Not too bad, I suppose. If you scaled me up to adult male height/weight, some may consider me to be slightly jacked. This is at 59.5kg / 131lb, so I'm holding on to about a kilo of bloat compared to Friday's 58.5kg / 129lb weigh-in.
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Week 97 Diet
Cut Phase Week 8
A quite decent week. Probably because I didn't eat out at a single restaurant.