that's awesome man. what do you reckon are your worst trigger foods right now?
I know this is crazy, but more then 2 eggs in a day, or pumpkin, pumpkin seeds, carrots, all kinds of potatoes, and milk. I can tolerate small amounts of pumpkin and milk for breakfast to get 100% RDA of vitamin A but haven't tested the rest yet.
Greens like Spinach can be an easy way to get some dietary vitamin A, along with the potassium & k1. You can put a LOT of spinach in a pan with a low-medium heat, sauté in a little avocado or coconut oil, and it will wilt down to just a few bites worth.
yeah that is quite a the list but at least all of those things are sorta easy to avoid. The potatoes probably coming up the most in life when you're out. I struggle to ever drink milk these days lol. I should probably.
Ironically it's one of those things I like raw, although my wife will often put it in a stir fry as well. we usually add some spinach to our salads every week.
Yeah, it's not really a big deal, and it's not *always*. It does seem to be caloric dependant on some level (maybe). In other words, if I eat >4 kcal, it doesn't seem to matter as much. I've had huge milk shakes after a night of pizza and slept great. The potatoes I'm unsure about, mostly because I haven't explored it as well. The thing I'm most sure of is if I eat those foods with kcal under 2800 or so, I'll sleep very poorly and feel like extra garbage the following day. Not just tired, but that excessive achiness, soreness, irritability, poor memory, etc.
I get that way in a caloric deficit but funny enough, not so much when I'm 100% fasted. it's another reason I think that I've really taken to the fasting. 36-60hrs of not eating anything seems a lot easier on me, and my mental state, than 7 days in a deficit.
Weight: 217.4
that's solid dude, seems like you're firing on all cylinders!
I might be doing them very differently. I keep a straight back the entire time like a Romanian dead or good morning and the pad low on my quads to purposely keep focus on hamstrings only. But keep in mind I can only do 45 pound single leg curls for reps.
That makes total sense. You’re doing it more as a hamstring accessory, as the low pad makes it harder & shifts a lot of focus to them as you mentioned, and you have relatively weaker hammies.
Right on. I'll keep it up. I'm actually surprised I'm not too sore from yesterday's workout, all things considered.
This is actually pretty common, everyone has muscles that fire harder, have more mind muscle connection, or are slower to recover. I have a hard time getting my shoulders, and back sore at all, quads will get a touch of soreness, chest will actually get truly sore on occasion, and hamstrings get sore more easily from RDL's / Stiff legged deads, and adductors will get sore. Everything else is very hard for me to get DOMS in unless I am just deconditioned.
I think everyone has certain muscles they don't get as sore probably due to a variety of issues, but that doesn't sound too unusual. You'll get a deeper "stretch" on many chest presses and squat variations and the stretch can lend itself to being more likely to produce DOMS for some people.
You mean nothing else like just straight Cluster Dextrin? Idk of any off the top of my head, I use Nutrabio a lot and I know @sns8778 has shared Gaspari Glycofuse sales with me before, but both of those have added electrolytes.@Hyde
What brand of cluster do you use? I'm trying to find one that we know isn't just flour but nothing else added to it. I'm liking VersaCarb, but anything over 30g gives me gas for hours
Thanks. Yeah, I've seen those, I'm just wary of using electrolyte powders due to being on telmisartan and all the warnings about supplemental potassium.
man now days unless I throw in something I haven't done for a while, I can't figure a rhyme or reason to the occasional doms. my pull session this week was deads > rdls > back extensions > leg curls. all pretty normal for me, but I had glute doms within hours lol. Other days I could double the volume or PR and not have any doms in the same movements.
Nutrabio for me as well
I was drinking a ton of milk my last 2 bulks while also taking 80mg telmisartan daily, and my potassium on bloodwork was always fine (4.5 I believe last time). YMMV, but a few hundred extra mg 4x a week probably isn’t going to push you over the line. It’s usually people with large daily vegetable intake or atypical responders that see unacceptable potassium level increases on Telmisartan.
The Gaspari one only has 76 mg. of Potassium which is next to nothing.
Not that it’s a cheap product or just HBCD, but have you tried their Sweet Tea flavored Leg Day? Seems like it would combo well with either of the two products you mentioned, if you liked the profile of Leg Day.
Considering why @Hyde mentioned, it would be hard to give Gaspari money. I'll look at Nutrabio though. Thanks. But, I'd prefer to just buy yours when you come out with it
I don't like the profile of it for me, so I haven't tried it. Its a good product and I think its fine for a lot of people, but it only has 8.6 grams of EAA's in it and one of the reasons I like Recover EAA is that it has 14.4 grams per scoop and a lot of times I'll take 2 scoops.
In context, the thing with the protein spiking thing back 10+ years ago is that almost every company at the time was doing that. It wasn't specific to just 1 or 2 companies being nefarious and trying to rip people off - the way a lot of the companies were doing it was legally allowable by labeling law - so unethical, yes, but illegal, no. So the issue was that since literally almost every major protein brand was doing it at the time, any other brand wanting to offer protein kind of had to follow suit to be competitive.Considering why @Hyde mentioned, it would be hard to give Gaspari money. I'll look at Nutrabio though. Thanks. But, I'd prefer to just buy yours when you come out with it
I hear ya...basically it's just business...but they ain't getting mine
Weight: 217.2Seated DB Press 4 x 10/9/8/8 x 75's
Dips 11, 10, 9
Incline DB Press 4 x 8 x 50's
Lateral DB Raise 3 x 15/15/25 x 8's
Triceps Pressdowns 3 x 10/10/9 x 44
Overhead Cable Extensions 3 x 9/8/8 x 22
Upright Row 2 x 8 x 30
Reps going down. Like I thought yesterday, cutting diet is kicking in. Training isn't as fun
I wonder how much more I can increase my carbs/kcal and still lose weight...
No, that's not what I said at all.I hear ya...basically it's just business...but they ain't getting mine
Same result in either scenario: I don’t get the nutrition I was counting on, and I’m overpaying for it to add insult. I don’t believe the spikers following the old regulations of the time have any moral high ground
From the nutrition standpoint, it may be the same - but from an intent standpoint, very different.Same result in either scenario: I don’t get the nutrition I was counting on, and I’m overpaying for it to add insult. I don’t believe the spikers following the old regulations of the time have any moral high ground
Weight: 217.2
Seems like most of the videos I’ve seen they have a YouTube and then just post a link. Other then that I really don’t know.
If an I phone any app that can do it from the appstore. They are pretty tight on the security for their apps before they allow them on the store.
On android as long as you got a paid for app you will likely be okay, but the free ones are more likely to have intrusive behavior. Now if you have a youtube/google account you can upload it privately then download it from there so no one else on youtube ever gets to see it. I think it comes down as an MP4 automatically.
Gotcha, I'll try this. Thanks.
moving some weight!!
Weight: 217.2
Don't let a couple rough days get in your head. You just keep doing what you can and you will keep making progress.
that's weird man, last night I had a hard time getting quality sleep too. When I finally did drift off, my dog decided to sleep beside me which is super unusual for her. When the alarm went off at 4:30am she ran to the edge of the bed and projectile vomited everywhere, lol.
Bad Girl! I said fetch, not retch!!!
Weight: 216.4
