Fudomyo's Spring Journal

[xena]

Thanks Lee - albeit a little late, I have now learned that I am definitely interested to see how the two of you progress - I may just get the courage to try it again (but properly this time)!
Strength be with both of you

[Fudomyo]

Didn't sleep well, so I slept through half the day. Good for low calorie eating.

Not really sore at all. Must be the long workout. Makes too much cortisol. I know it looks short, but there's 12-16 warmup sets. Next Sat I'll do chest and lats in the am. Leg press and deads at night. That should work a lot better.

Ab pinch is still 23 (from 25), so I'm at 11.1%. I'll see what the weight is tomorrow and figure what I've gained / lost.

I think I got it all figured out now. This week I think I'll just low carb it. I seem to eat much less that way, no idea why. Should work better I think. That and the new workout and I'll be stylin.

Well at least I hope so.

Fudo

[Fudomyo]

202 this am, still at 11.1%.

Lost about 2.5 lbs of fat. Gained 6.5 lbs of muscle. I don't know if the mass creatine loading on the carb load days just brought up my muscle weight or what. Prolly. 2.5 lbs of fat loss isn't bad. I think I can up that pace some. We'll see how the next 3 weeks goes.

Fat nnn
Muscle nnnnnnn

Fudo

[Lee J B]

Good job buddy!!!

[Fudomyo]

202 Mon
201.4 Tues

The gym was mobbed today. I couldn't find a cycle or a elliptical to warm up on. The leg presses were full, so I did some RDL's for warmup. Elll-lame-oh. (That's Mexican, go look it up).

Finally got on a leg press and tried to get moving. I think after 4-5 sets I was warmed up. Bah. So hard to tell if I was in the groove or not. Did some calfs, hams and I was done.

4 sets quads.
2 hams
2 calfs

Yesterday was chest/back day.
4 chest
4 back
2 tri
2 bi

Actual arm exercises. You saw it here first.....

Tomorrow, more dieting. Fun, fun.
I was going to go do a set of rotator cuff exercises. I'm skeptical at the moment, but I should do it. My durn ac ligament (that bump on top of your shoulder) is sore, so I should see if I can help it out. Keep it lose.

I think I should eat more. That or some meth perhaps.

oo

[Fudomyo]

201.2 yesterday
200.0 this am.

37.5" waist. Stylin. Was a hair under 38 Mon. It's hard to lose "water weight" around your hip bones, so I think I'm heading in the right direction.

Got some R-ALA yesterday, so I'll try 200mg per meal/snack. Helps with insulin sensitivity (read lower insulin levels, more fat loss). I like regular, we'll see if I can notice any difference with the super duper R version.

Crappy workout today! I can't wait. Workout till you feel like hurling, then drink carbs till you feel like hurling.

Thanks for stopping by.

[Lee J B]

You will enjoy the R-ALA mate.

[Fudomyo]

205 this am.

Slept like crap. Could have slept through my workout easy, but the wife was going, so I taged along. Too many beers me thinks.

No chest

Warmed up with some db rows, but my shoulder wasn't extra happy. I did a few sets of hammer low rows. Seemed ok.

Deadlifts
6 @ 385
4 @ 385

Good bar speed, even on the last one. Time for more weight.
I owned 3 plates.

I thought about legs, but they decided against it for me.

[Fudomyo]

Forgot to weigh myself. Still 37.5. Hopefully I can hit 37 this week.

Today, back to dieting. Sunday wasn't terribly exciting. Went to a Superbowl party and ate a few too many things. Some cookies and a slew of beers. Could be worse I suppose.

Diet has been wonderous today. Light breakfast. Lean ground beef (oxymoron?) twice, two zone bars, and a whey shake, so far, and I haven't made it to dinner. I made myself eat breakfast early today, and I think it's helped a lot. I love it when I take my own advice.....

Did a little cardio this am to see if I could get into keto a little faster this week. I don't know if I've ever made it to keto actually. I always get lost near lowbloodsugar street. Anyway, my back was super tight after 15 minutes so I gave up.

In the afternoon I went back and did arms and back, which kind of sucks. Shoulder is still sore. sux. badly.

Man I'm so used to compound movements now, I barely get a rise out of my heart doing any sort of isolation work like pushdowns. I feel silly doing curls even. I love how squats and deadlifts just crush you. DB presses even. *sniff*

The evil wife want's to go to dinner. Blasted. Maybe I'll get a roasted chicken or something. The have the best pasta bolognese (however u spell that).

Fudo

[HomeYield]

Originally posted by Fudomyo
Man I'm so used to compound movements now, I barely get a rise out of my heart doing any sort of isolation work like pushdowns. I feel silly doing curls even. I love how squats and deadlifts just crush you. DB presses even.

I know exactly what you mean. That's pretty much why I've given up on doing arms on their own day and pretty much altogether. I do them every now and then but I just feel funny doing them. Compound movements are where its at.

[Fudomyo]

201.8 this am.

18 mm on the ab pinch today. Down 4 mm. Waist still 37.5 but the finger pinch test definitely feels smaller. I'm gonna have to say that something is working.

I was a total lazzy ass and didn't go to the gym yesterday. I think the low carbs is just killin' me. I've added some in today, and feel 1000 times better. ALA should keep me in check with the carbs I hope.

Well, off for my belated leg workout.

Fudo

[Fudomyo]

Friday update....carb loading.

199 yesterday (thurs)
197.6 today. A record low as of late.

Probably helps that I ate hardly anything the last few days.

Thursday workout was lame as always. My right quad tendon is getting more sore. The vastus I think it is (outside one). Shoulder is still caput. Doesn't hurt too bad unless I try and lift with it.

I think I'll just take a week off next week. I don't want to get too far behind the 8 ball. Getting some more tattoo work Tues, so that will keep the body busy repairing itself.

Pasta, pasta, pasta. Coming out my ears now. Bleh.
Fudo

[Lee J B]

I've done my shoulder in, gonna have to take a week out myself, bastard thing. I feel like crap today glad its time to load. Hope the tattoo work goes well buddy.

[Fudomyo]

Saturday

Well my big workout was snow boarding. I think I made it up to 204 if memory serves. I really wanted to deadlift some, but there was no way to squeeze it in.

This week, I'm going to take off. 201.8 and 10.2% BF now. This week I notice that I do have a serratus muscle (the super man muscle). Veins in my lats again. Waist refuses to move, but my stomach is getting smaller still. That takes me to -4.4 fat and +8.2 muscle.

Gaining muscle while dieting. I must have no catabolism.

Fat nnnn
Muscle nnnnnnnn

Tomorrow I go for 8 hrs of tattoo'ing, which might take 12. Joel is heading to Italy for a tattoo convention, so he offered 1/2 price. Can't pass that up.

peace
Fudo

[Fudomyo]

I needed to do something, so deadlifts sounded like a good workout.

135 x 8
225 x 6
315 x 4
405 x 1 /pwn

475 x 1 (!)

475 miss

I was hoping for 455, but 405 was cake. The 35's sounded like a better choice. I might have had 5 more lbs in me, but I didn't make it but 3 inches on the second attempt, so that's pretty damn close. 50 lbs over my previous best. I'll have to take it.

5 plates is right there.

Fudo