Being 6ft 2 with long limbs I always notice a fast difference when I start dieting and become flatter due to lower carbs/calories. My body comes back to life when I get a pump in the gym but I definitely feel the difference for the rest of the day. I am at that stage were I still have fat to lose and I am flatter than usual but it's all part of the process and I just need to keep grinding away. For anyone who wants to get lean you can't be afraid of going flat because that is when you will be burning the most fat. I just do this for fun so nothing needs to be extreme (suffer) but I want to get relatively lean. All the details are coming through so I am on a good path and in about 2 weeks I should be in a good place.
Carbs were higher yesterday for legs but today I restricted things much more but included a variety of healthy foods so my diet is nutrient dense. Whenever I lower carbs I always make sure most/all of them are nutrient dense. In the offseason I will add in loads of jasmine rice (and fruit) but veg is used in much lower amounts as when you add loads of high volume low calorie foods (vegetables, greens etc) with those added fats and carbs (rice) it just leads to digestive/bloating issues as it's too much food volume to process. The key for offseason should be picking foods you process quickly that are macronutrient dense so you can reach your daily calories without any issues. My stomach is very sensitive but it's been good recently on this diet. Well I had an almond coffee today and bloated up badly but it didn't last too long.
My training and diet for today...
Standing DB Lateral Raises... 2 working sets.
Incline Bench DB Lateral Raises... 1 working set.
High Incline Barbell Press... 2 working sets (1 loading and 1 drop off).
Pec Deck... 1 working set.
Machine Chest Press... 1 working set drop set with 2 drops in weight.
DB Chest Flyes... 1 working set.
Flat Bench Press... 1 working set with just 1pps but 3 sec negatives and 5 sec pauses for high reps.
Tri-set of Rope Pushdowns, EZ Bar Overhead Tri-cep Extensions and Cable V Bar Pushdowns... 1 working set.
Tri-set of Machine Tri-cep Extensions, Machine Dips and Cable Straight Bar Pushdowns... 1 working set.
Abs and Stretches.
As we were discussing isometric holds I decided to add in a few today as well. I do them fairly regularly but don't mention it as it's usually only things like pausing at the bottom of a db flye for 3 secs, pausing at the bottom of a bench press for 3 secs and pausing at the top of a leg extension for as long as possible to finish my final set. Today I done a 3 secs hold for pec deck, 3-5 secs for db flye, 5 secs for chest press and 2 secs for overhead tri-cep extensions.
Whole egg and bacon sandwich on malted bread, blueberries and almond milk coffee.
Chicken breast with a side salad of lettuce (apollo, lollo rosso), cherry tomatoes, beetroot, cabbage, red/yellow peppers and carrot.
Beef Meatballs, carrots, mung bean sprouts, broccoli, red and yellow peppers, red onion, babycorn and water chestnuts.
5ml synthetine, 2.5mg cialis and preworkout.
TRAIN
Chicken breast (cajun spice mix, paprika and pepper) with a side salad of baby green leaf, baby red leaf, baby spinach, wild rocket, strawberries, blackberries, lemon juice and balsamic vinegar.
Beef Meatballs, chargrilled aubergine, courgette, red and yellow peppers.
I was late doing my last shot but I will be carrying on with EOD injs. Currently I am up to 180mg mast e and 150mg test e EOD. Tomorrow I will increase the mast to 200mg and stay at that dose. I still haven't added avar but I will soon and start it at 20mg preworkout and increase to 40mg after a short time. I plan to run the avar for about 4 weeks. I will finish off my UKpeptides vial of LR3 soon but I haven't been impressed. Insulin I will add in a little on my higher carb days. As I mentioned yesterday my health supps are minimal now but I am going to order some curcumin and add that in at 1000mg per day. I should note I am also using 80mg telmisartan (swopped from valsartan) and plan to stay at that dose for the foreseeable future.