Training Log: Entry 2428

AM WORKOUT (0345 natural wake up)

SUPERSETS (chin-bench): plate rests for main work, 1 minute for BBB

Chins (various grips)
11x10

Barbell bench press 
5xBar
5x135
5x185
5x210
5x240
5x10x185 (pause reps on last 4 reps of last set)

Very high incline DB bench dropset
10x75s
7x50
12x25
15x15
50x5

Band pull apart
2x25

Poundstone curls w/45lb barbell
1x100

Dips rest pause
30+12+8

Cable tricep pushdowns
1x25

30 GHRs
20 GHR sit ups
40 reverse hypers

Tabata battle ropes

Notes: Had a little more time this morning, so got in all the daily work and some conditioning as well.  Flew through the bench work: barbell just feels too easy.  Short rests helped.  Definitely need to remember more pause reps as I go along: always an easy way to add some difficulty.  

Dropset was solid.  I may remember that super lightweight burnout for the future.  Got a lot of blood into the shoulders.

Those poundstones with the barbell were a different animal.  Glad I could make the transition that way.  Lends credit to my ideal that I can add some weight to the axle soon.

LUNCHTIME WORKOUT

Walked half a mile to get some awesome Hawaiian BBQ

Sat down outside and ate it quickly but still got to savor it.  

Walked a half mile back to my room, found out the cleaning staff hadn't been by yet.  Since I've been eating a lot of canned chicken, riced cauliflower, eggs and tuna my room trash smells like a petting zoo on a sweltering Alabama summer day for animals that live on diets of laxatives, so I decided to go out and walk some more while I waited for the crew to come through.  Got in about 1.5 hours of walking that way.  In total, left my room at 1100 and got back right around 1400.

Listened to half of this Justin Harris podcast 

Justin is another one of those dudes that I claim as my spirit animal.  Lots of good quotes, like how bodybuilding is 95% eating meat and rice every 3 hours, how the specifics of training aren't important, how being dumb is an asset in bodybuilding, etc.  Most interesting bit I found was about "building metabolism", as I'm fairly certain it's what's happening to me right now.  Basically it was about coming out of a hard diet phase and just adding calories until you start putting on weight.  Idea being that you can reset your BMR to a higher set point so that, when you DO want to drop weight, you have room to maneuver to do so.  If your BMR is 6000 calories and you want to created a 1000 calorie deficit to lose 2lbs of fat a week, that means eating 5000 calories.  If it's 1900, that's eating 900 calories.  One is far more sustainable than the other.  I keep adding to my calorie intake and don't seem to be putting on weight, so I imagine I'm doing just this, which bodes well.