Thanksgiving Damage
Posted: December 1st, 2009 | Author: ERIC | Filed under: Body | Tags: carb, carbs, carby, chin, deadlift, fat, function, lean mass, macronutrient, muscle loss, POWER CLEANS, protein, row, smooth, stall, strength, Thanksgiving | 2 Comments »So. Let’s see the damage Thanksgiving did.
Weight: 159lbs. – Pretty smoothed out from the carby fare lately.
I’m not really liking how much less I’m eating on would-be maintenance days. I’m losing weight too quickly. On maintenance days I don’t really care too much about my macronutrient split, but on fasting days I’m thinking of bumping up the amount of protein I’m having.
Today I’ve officially stalled on deadlifts, misloaded my chin assists, and regressed on my rows. The weights I’ve lifted today are what I am considering my functional ability. I will not be expecting these numbers to go up much, if at all, through the rest of the diet.
If they go backward, though, then I’ll know I’m doing something wrong and I will be officially risking lean mass. Which honestly, I don’t care about, but I want to maintain STRENGTH and drop FAT.
Here are today’s numbers:
Deadlift
- 200lbs. x 2
- 180lbs x 3
- 160lbs x 5 (the only improvement this workout)
Chin Assist
- 60lbs. x 6 (felt suspiciously easy, checked the stack, was supposed to load 50lbs.)
- 40lbs. x 1 (just pissed off because I screwed up my reverse pyramid, so I overcompensated by the same amount I undershot. Surprisingly good form despite not being able to do another one.)
Horizontal Rows
3×5 @ 55lbs. – This one irritated me the most. Down from 85lbs. I couldn’t do 70lbs. either. I maybe could have, barely, but I’m trying to do this exercise explosively so I had to bump it down another plate. Saddens me.
A PROPS, though, go to my new friend Jake. He is the first person to use the squat rack next to me for something that was not only NOT curls, but POWER CLEANS! I shook his hand and told him to continue the good work.
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