I got a subway sub today, chicken/bacon. Ate that fucker at like 3 PM and was like "mmm delicious" went to work out, came back, poured a protein shake out and decided "I should put in that sub in MFP before I drink this.
I got an opportunity to climb a mountain on pretty short notice so I'm trying to cut as much weight as possible in the next month or so, I'm doing rolling 120s (five days fasting, two days refeeding) and losing strength like crazy. I was hoping to harness the rebound effect from refeeding is offset any muscle loss but I'm not too confident about that anymore, gonna have to make a tough decision soon.
I'm kicking myself over my laziness; of my 6 month bulk, I didn't go to 8 of them, and I probably half assed 6 of those weeks. I also decided to do 3x5 for compound lifts like bench and squat and now that I have a home gym I need to overcompensate with more so I'm doing 3x8/4x8s and I've had to drop a bunch of lbs on my lifts so I feel you.
My three month bulk turned into five because I spent two months chasing one PR like Captain Ahab and ended up 15lbs heavier than I would've. And one of those months was almost entirely wasted on stressful life shit and consequent sickness from the cortisol drop. Next year I'm giving myself strict bounds: Thanksgiving to Mardi Gras, so I can get lean in time for outdoors shit.
This isn't true btw, for some reason it's commonly accepted as the reason why muscles grow, but with science today we know that it's not really that mechanism that makes it bigger. Which is insane because I got taught this in physio uni as well. People just use it because it's an easy concept to grasp and imagine when talking about muscles.
Same. That's FOOD, it should be being eaten by people, not squeezed and left covered with sweat to rot.
Weird.
I assume you can, the common denominator i assume is just grain-like material.
You know who loves cutting? That big titted goth GF you've been dreaming of. Get that razor blade out an get on with it.
Is that you in the pfp?
Honestly, it might be in ten years.
Yeah home gym is viable if you have the space and the money. It cuts away a lot of the excuses, and pays for itself pretty quickly. All you really need is a bar, weights, bench and a rack/stand.
I have a set of dumbbells at home I don’t think I’ve touched for a decade. If I don’t go the gym I seem to have no motivation.
They work. I did them regularly for a few months for grip for deadlifting and definitely saw improvement. If you're careful about storage (plastic bag with moisture absorber) and making sure your hands are clean and dry every single time the rice lasts a very long time.
What's the actual mechanism? Google just turns up endless rephrases of the muscle tear thing.
It always starts out like that. Then you see improvements.
To keep it brief, since you can nerd out with a lot of terms surrounding this shit, mechanical tension is what causes the muscles to grow, since it sends a signal to your brain that tells it that it needs to build more muscle there, muscle tears just happen as a biproduct of lifting weights, and it triggers muscle repair, but not growth. For example there's a study in which the participants only had microscopic muscle tears, yet their muscles didn't grow, they actually got even smaller.
If you hate it, you're not going to do it no matter how close the weights are.
Close. If you wear a blindfold while doing this, and try to dodge them instead of tanking them, you're actually training your haki.