Weird day, first real day of fiscal year. My team has doubled and I just did 9 back to back meetings and consumed about 500cals before 7PM. Also have to go get ready as I leave for Chicago in 10 hours. At least they decided not to pay me any extra this year, so I have that going for me.
Exercise 92
DL
8x250
8x185
Leg curls 3 sets
Shrugs 6 sets
Had some stomach issues last night. Look super lean at least. Scale said 154 at 8PM which means I wooshed a lot of water/waste weight last night. Pretty happy to set a rep PR at 250 with all these elements working against me tonight.
Been having some strange hip pain, praying it's not arthritis. Didn't impact squats today. If I wasn't a pussy I'd have hit 12+ at 185. Need to up leg volume big time.
Ran some quarter mile "sprints" this morning. Hoping to get Average back to 1:20 where it was last year.
1:41
1:42
1:37
1:41
Pretty easy could probably average 1:30 no problem. New plan is to do three types of cardio a week. Quarter mile sprints, long run adding a couple minutes each time, and a race specific one with stairs/hills/jumps/etc.
Exercise 94
Bouldering 90min
No elbow pain but having not gone in a couple weeks my enduarance sucked. Flashed some V2's.
Read/watched a lot of Juggernaut stuff the past 24 hours. Some concepts I am definitely missing from my lifting routine, mainly minimum effective volume. Thinking of re-working my weekly schedule to the following
Also been giving my diet a lot of thought. Checked in at 155lbs today. If I am going to workout as much as I listed above I think I should be operating around 2500cal/day to maintain weight. Right now I Average 1800-2200 depending on the day.
But more importantly I'm debating going from IF to ~6 meals a day. IF works well for me because I travel a lot and being flexible diet wise is key. However after talking to my doctor recently he mentioned those with autoimmune disorders have a hard time absorbing nutrients. I wonder if smaller meals with only 25-30g protein could be better.
Following your thread with great interest as I'm mostly in the same boat.
I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's, a thyroid auto-immune disorder, and I've long suspected I have a hard time absorbing nutrients. I'm 5'11", and the highest I've ever weighed was 155, and that was stuffing my face nonstop to the tune of ~3500-4000 calories per day. Once I went back to a more normal 2500, the weight flew off and I stabilize around 140-145.
Recently though, I've noticed if I have a large meal with a lot of red meat or protein, then my stomach will turn on me and I'll feel ****ty for the next day. So now I have to figure out a way to manage IBS symptoms and feel ok with maintaining what weight I have left, and I'm thinking spaced out meals with a protein/fat cap may be the answer.
It's frustrating reading up on it b/c there are like 4-5 diets (AIP, SCD, low-FODMAP, anti-IBS, etc.) with conflicting advice on how to manage symptoms and once you narrow it down to "safe" foods you're left with a handful of fruits and veggies, salmon, and chicken. I think I'll really need to monitor what I eat and figure out which foods I do worst with, but I'm tired of having irregular bowel function, fatigue, low energy, brain fog almost constantly.
Thanks for posting, it's a fun little club we find ourselves in.
I read up on Hashimoto's, seems like the symptoms span a wider range than my disorder which cannot be fun. I imagine there could be more false positives than mine which is basically only GI issues and/or arthritis.
I'm fortunate enough to still have no issues with foods, outside of the ones that gave me trouble earlier in life anyways. I tried super strict diets before going on heavier meds, none of them gave me even the slightest relief. Wish I could get diet to work because the meds cannot perform forever.
Tried to run something more akin to the strength day of Juggernaut to see how long it would take me. Started way too high weight wise. Should have gone for 70% of 1rm instead of 80%+.
More guess work for chest hyperteophy. Unsure if I want to do minimum required volume or actually go for growth. MRV means 8 work sets each week. Growth means a 3rd workout and 12-20 work sets.
Need to figure out what rest times should look like in between sets. These workouts take a long time. Went super light and got this done in 48min including warmup.
Incline bench (hadn't done these in forever)
12x105
12x105
12x105
10x105
Woke up and did a mile run test. Haven't run a mile in what feels like ~9 months. Found a good route I can replicate weekly to test progress over the next six weeks.
Mile run 7:43
Workout 99
SS1 4 sets
Pull Ups BWx8
V-Ups
SS2 4 sets
BB Rows 12x115
Hanging leg raises
SS3 3 sets
Face pulls
Cable crunches
SS4 4 sets
Rear delt flys
Reverse crunches
Random delt/shrug work. Traps hates the BB Rows think I did them too upright.
If 8x190 was @8, then dropping to 135 was probably too much. Something like 160 and repeating until it hit @8 again would have been better.
I agree, need to stop pussing out in the gym. Gave myself a little pep talk today because I've been going through the motions lately.
Exercise 101
Bouldering 90min
Set every V0 and V1 in my gym, gonna guess it was 18-20 total routes. Pretty fried as I wasn't taking much rest initially and my grip endurance sucks. This needs to be part of my weekly climbing routine to continue improving my technique. Tried to focus on better footwork today.
This makes three "workouts" for the day, gonna say that's excessive.
Exercise 105
Bouldering 2 hours
Competed a problem I failed 20 times on the finishing hold the other day. Super pumped about that because it was at the end of my session and I was gassed. Took good form to overcome a pumped grip.
On a less positive note it is now 10:10 PM and I am just sitting down for dinner.
Up until this point today I have only consumed 950 calories. Even after 700cal dinner that's woefully low for a day with this much activity. Think I need to go back to eating breakfast.
