2015-02-18, 06:09 PM
bump lol
Took about a month (I think? 3 weeks? who knows) off the EC stack and just got back on it today. Holy god I forgot how it felt to be this tweaked off some cough medicine, it's kind of insane. Of course the tolerance will build and I'll be back to feeling normal soon, but still.
Since I cut so drastically for my most recent powerlifting meet, I find myself way ahead on my cut. I'm hovering 169-173 on any given day now, down from 180-182 in December. I'm not actually sure why I decided to get back on EC but whatever, I'll be at a pretty low BF% in a month or two at this rate--if I had to guess I'm around 12-13% right now.
Strength wise, I'm slowly adjusting to not caring about how strong I am, or at least not caring as much as I do about my appearance. Regardless it's still important to me. My strength took a dive after cutting so hard, but my most recent numbers are:
BENCH: 250x1, 205x3x5
SQUAT: 393x1 low-bar belted, 315x8 high-bar no belt
DEADLIFT: I stopped pulling sumo. It's not getting me stronger, and it shows whenever I try to conventional pull. So I switched to training exclusively conventional until my next powerlifting meet many months from now. Conventional is at 325x5, going up 10 every week.
OHP: 140x1, 125x5, 120x8
Also started doing back extensions to fix my chronic glute problems and for a better lower back. Helps a ton. My friend/coach has me holding the bar on my traps like a high-bar squat and using the back extension machine that way. Hits hard, and I highly recommend it.
I have never bulked correctly. I think I'm in a hurry to finish this cut so i can FINALLY bulk correctly and put on quality mass, since I haven't put on much at all for how long I've been training. So I'd say that's my long-term goal as of recent.
That's my update for today since I have time to kill. GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY
Took about a month (I think? 3 weeks? who knows) off the EC stack and just got back on it today. Holy god I forgot how it felt to be this tweaked off some cough medicine, it's kind of insane. Of course the tolerance will build and I'll be back to feeling normal soon, but still.
Since I cut so drastically for my most recent powerlifting meet, I find myself way ahead on my cut. I'm hovering 169-173 on any given day now, down from 180-182 in December. I'm not actually sure why I decided to get back on EC but whatever, I'll be at a pretty low BF% in a month or two at this rate--if I had to guess I'm around 12-13% right now.
Strength wise, I'm slowly adjusting to not caring about how strong I am, or at least not caring as much as I do about my appearance. Regardless it's still important to me. My strength took a dive after cutting so hard, but my most recent numbers are:
BENCH: 250x1, 205x3x5
SQUAT: 393x1 low-bar belted, 315x8 high-bar no belt
DEADLIFT: I stopped pulling sumo. It's not getting me stronger, and it shows whenever I try to conventional pull. So I switched to training exclusively conventional until my next powerlifting meet many months from now. Conventional is at 325x5, going up 10 every week.
OHP: 140x1, 125x5, 120x8
Also started doing back extensions to fix my chronic glute problems and for a better lower back. Helps a ton. My friend/coach has me holding the bar on my traps like a high-bar squat and using the back extension machine that way. Hits hard, and I highly recommend it.
I have never bulked correctly. I think I'm in a hurry to finish this cut so i can FINALLY bulk correctly and put on quality mass, since I haven't put on much at all for how long I've been training. So I'd say that's my long-term goal as of recent.
That's my update for today since I have time to kill. GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY