Go! Take your son or a buddy & put the hammer down on some meat sweats.Never heard of this Fogo place before but just pulled it up and see we have them locally, that' looks like a fantastic way to get some protein in
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Absolutely!!! I was like, well this will be a good anabolic meal after my lower calories the last few weeks.
Oh yeah, and don't let their enticing salad / cheese bar entice you. Go in, order your drink and turn the flip coin to green and go! Also jealous if it is only $39 their for a dinner. You are dropping about $60 per plate for dinner at most of them.Never heard of this Fogo place before but just pulled it up and see we have them locally, that' looks like a fantastic way to get some protein in
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Oh yeah, make it an event. Your boy will love it!!!! When you do go I recommend telling the gauchos you always want the outside cut, and if they don't have it just ask them to bring it out for you next. They will bring right to you the way you want it. If you like lamb, Fogo's lambchops and lamb picannah are amazing.
And make sure you decline the cheap cuts!
Amen to that! No you can keep that bacon wrapped chicken, and that sausage.
ha, awesome. maybe i'll have to plan a date with the wife, Bellevue is about an hour away for us so it's a bit of an adventure navigating traffic in these parts nowadays.
let the good times roll
just pour some maple syrup on your rice tomorrow morning, you'll be aiight
That just doesn't even sound good at all. It might be, but it doesn't sound good for some reason. It would definitely get the carbs back up quickly though!
Been getting after it man! Sounds like the AMRAP bench might not have gone as planned (Tricep wise)
Yes Sir, it is go time once this cut is over. I decided to go ahead and continue my fast overnight tonight to keep the fire stoked. Although I have made good progress and grown while leaning up, I am not as lean as I want to be before switching gears. This next little stint is going to be a bigger push to drop some more fat. I may even go ADF for the remainder of the month to see where it gets me.
What do you plan to cut to? Or you just going for looks and then bulking out?
Honestly I don't have a number in mind, and am considering just continuing to lean up during October as more of a recomp using Build and Burn days. I can be in a surplus on training days, and pretty good deficit on non training days so the average over the week ends up right at or just under maintenance but I am seeing good gains as well. Maintenance will be a nice increase from what I have been used to lately too!
Heck yeah!! Fuel up and smash that session today!
Yeah, it is something I have done multiple times. To be honest I have never done a true bulk or mass gaining phase. I have always been kind of recomping, I still add a good bit of size but I have pretty much always ended up leaner after every cycle.
How are you liking the Arsenal equipment so far?
I really like it! Most of the machines allow a greater ROM so you can get deep into the stretched position, and the handle angles seem to be align more with how you might naturally press trying to create a lot of force. Like the chest press has 2 sets of handles and one of them is more like a 45 degree wrist angle like how you would put your hands if you were going to push someone away from you in their chest. It is hard to describe but the handles just seem to be in better angles to hit the movement and the targeted muscle. The one option is angled and the other one is more of a neutral grip set up. The shoulder and both chest press machines are this way. It is pretty cool. Their True Squat machine is awesome, better padding than most, and a completely adjustable foot plate that goes from almost flat to about 45 degrees so you can adjust for just about anyone's size or stance preferences. Their Side Delt Raise is my favorite medial delt exercise now, and the fly / reverse fly machine is the best I have used so far.
Yeah, I am feeling pretty good with how things are going. I have doms in my legs and glutes tonight, not sure if it will be gone or worse in the morning. LOL
Would you consider that same approach for cardio days, meaning the lower cals/below maintenance for cardio only days? Because I truly only take one "off" day per week, if cardio counts.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’ve done on those cuts. The lifting days were at maintenance or a little above, cardio days lower calories, rest day on Sunday was usually intermittent fasting. But the next time I do a cut, I was going to do maintenance on lifting days, low calories on cardio days (non lifting days), and 12 to 24 hour fast on the rest day (Sunday).
No, I consider an off day any day I am not weight training.
Yes, both of these methods work well. Now if I am doing a deficit I am almost always doing it fasting, but that will likely not be the way I do it during prep. I intend to work with a coach for prep and probably for about 20 weeks so they really know my body by the time we get to the real detailed stuff.
Yeah, if you do decide to do another log for your prep, I definitely want to follow that, to obviously encourage you, but also for any new nuggets of knowledge. Truthfully, in a cut, I had only added intermittent fasting and had always avoided longer fasts, but after seeing the success you, Hyde, and Dustin have had, I changed my mindset and realize how good of a tool it really is.
Yeah, I know one of the things that I will likely be doing during the upcoming cycle is to occasionally bump in a 36 hour fast to clean things up a little. So, I am wondering now since bodybuilders are starting to see fasting as a tool to get in shape. When are we going to hear about the guy who trains 5 days a week, then shoots 75mg of tren ace the night of his 5th workout and then fasts for two days while tren is there working to shut off muscle catabolism and increase activity on the fats AR to make fat burning even faster during fasting? I can't be the only person to have thought about that.
Talk about turbo charging your cut, now that would do it.
Right, getting a surplus in for 5 days for growth, then burn off close to 2lbs with close to 0 muscle loss, one could possibly grow themselves leaner. Of course it is all just me thinking out loud based on what I know about fasting, and the compound, but still it is an interesting thought.
Oh yeah for sure, and probably little to none of your typical Tren sides.
I’d split the Tren Ace up over 2-3 days vs jam it all at once if glucocorticoid inhibition is the primary use case.
I actually thought about that after to avoid sides and have a more even effect. Then decided not to mention because it isn't something in my bag of tricks to employ this year.
Sounds like a good time and pretty good bands I wouldn’t hesitate to see either one. Hope you two have a fun night out!!
Have a good date night mate!
Sounds like a good plan….the leaner you get before your bulk, the easier it is to add mass without too much fat. Then when you go into your next cut that added muscle should have you right where you want to be when you shred back down. And as successful as this cut has been you should definitely be ready for a competition after the next one.
We had a great time
Thanks Guys! They were both good, although I had one of them wrong it was Candlebox, and 3 doors down, 3 days grace is coming with Chevelle next month and we are going to that. I love Chevelle, and they are awesome live! 3 Days Grace is too!Sounds like a good plan….the leaner you get before your bulk, the easier it is to add mass without too much fat. Then when you go into your next cut that added muscle should have you right where you want to be when you shred back down. And as successful as this cut has been you should definitely be ready for a competition after the next one.
I hope you and your wife have a great time at the concert and your able to find a good lean meal.
It always feels good getting “your jacked” complements at the gym, because you know most of the people are there trying to get in shape as well, and then when you get told you don’t look 50, that’s icing on the cake.
Last time I went there they tried to stiff me on meats. Do not stiff a man on anabolics of his paid meats. I won the battle of attrition and left in meat sweats. But the principle of the matter….
Absolutely, all positives!It always feels good getting “your jacked” complements at the gym, because you know most of the people are there trying to get in shape as well, and then when you get told you don’t look 50, that’s icing on the cake.
That’s a good picture of you and your wife, looked like a fun date.
Thanks, yeah, I am pretty fond of her. I tell her regularly I am a lucky man to have her.
Oh boy, how can they stiff you on meats at a Fogo, that would be a real quick problem for me. My son said he took his granny back to the one we went to and everything was subpar. I told him I would have called the manager. Been like Hey, I brought my grandmother here for an amazing experience, you took my money but the experience sucks. What can you do to fix that for us? it's on you whether that is only bringing us the best cuts, or comping something...
If dips bother people’s wrists, the Arsenal plate-loaded seated dip has ball/grenade handles you palm that are honestly very cool for volume work. This is a poor machine to go very heavy on, but awesome for 10+ rep range work.
That is awesome, hopefully he can get you something nice.
Yeah, I love the dip movement, my triceps love it too. One of the bummers at the new gym is that their arm equipment leaves some things to be desired and I would love a dip machine like that. Currently the only 2 direct arm machines they have is a Preacher Curl that does not go down far enough to allow for a stretch, and a triceps extension machine that doesn't come up far enough for a stretch. Both are somewhat partial movements so I just avoid those and only do DB or Cable work for arms now. I am going to ask the owners if we can get something like this, or a real Dip Station, he has one that is a roman chair / dip station but the way the handles for the roman chair are positioned it gets in the way of the elbows facing one way, and the shoulders facing the other. Just a poor design. Luckily I have found a way to do Close Grip Pressing on the Arsenal Flat Chest press so I don't feel I am missing anything major.
maybe it's just me but man, I feel like you look like you are leaning up in the face too already
I looooved seeing Candlebox at the OOOOLD Fenix Underground in Seattle years ago (ever see the movie Singles about life in Seattle in the early 90s?). Never got to see Chevelle but that would be a fantastic show. 3 Days Grace once played with Breaking Benjamin opening for Nickelback at the Tacoma Dome and that was awesome. I've never been a huge fan of BB, but 3 days grace I thought was GREAT!
Oh yeah, all of those bands are great live. I do really enjoy BB as well though. Thanks on the wife, I agree, she is too pretty for this ol mug of mine.
our wives are very smart, they know that if they marry down a notch, we will work much harder for them lol
remind me if I ever make it down to lift with you in TX to make sure we hit the gym BEFORE I let you introduce me to the spicy foods
