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[McPriimate]

There is a planet fitness close enough on each trip that I should have a gym. Food is the hardest part especially if people want to eat out. I'll pack protein, bars, snacks, etc and then usually shop at a grocery store vs going to eat. Once a month isn't bad, but not looking forward to this. Especially since at least one of the flights to SFO will be a red eye home.

Redeye from west coast to east coast are the worst.

I’ve started taking two packets per day of nutrition on the go’s protein/creatine powder. One packet - 25g protein and 5g creatine - before my morning lift and one packet after, then I pack two protein bars and one more carb heavy bar per day (usually only eat one or two, but have them in case). Sucks to rely on processed food, but travel is otherwise hard, especially if you have a packed schedule and work dinners every night.

Good luck man!


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[WED]

Redeye from west coast to east coast are the worst.

I’ve started taking two packets per day of nutrition on the go’s protein/creatine powder. One packet - 25g protein and 5g creatine - before my morning lift and one packet after, then I pack two protein bars and one more carb heavy bar per day (usually only eat one or two, but have them in case). Sucks to rely on processed food, but travel is otherwise hard, especially if you have a packed schedule and work dinners every night.

Good luck man!


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Yeah I pack the shit out of nutrition.

https://a.co/d/bwGsBSQ

These are pretty solid, easily hold a protein serving and PWO mix. I take electrolytes and rice crispy treats. 1/3 of my bag is supplements

I try my hardest to live off of chicken and carbs. Chipotle, Chick-Fil-a, Popeyes....anything with basic grilled chicken.

 

[WED]

Week 5 Day 1

Not the way I wanted to start the week, but some food didn't sit well last night and was really close to vomiting. Had a bad hick up or something. I was sleeping great before and then took me about 45 minutes to get back to sleep. Was sleeping well and turned off my alarm and went back to sleep. So no walking this morning. Will be tough to get in my 15k steps as I'm home alone with my son who's still out of school and my wife is working out tonight. Also start grad school this evening. Lotta intraday pacing.

Weight - Also forgot to weight myself this morning.
Push A - Good Lift.
Steps - ??
Cardio/Abs - Going to try to row today during some meetings I'm not a heavy participant in. Will hit Abs tonight
Macros - 2400 planned and haven't gotten tired of eating anything yet.

 

[WED]

Rowed for 20 minutes during a meeting and did some abs before my last call (now).

I'm at 7800 steps. Gonna have to hit an evening walk to get to 15k.

Went shopping and got a bunch of Legendary brand protein snacks/bars and a few David Bars. Gonna have a protein snack filled dinner tomorrow night on a 5hr flight.

 

[WED]

I only got 14,300 steps. . I'll have to try to make it up today walking the airport

Week 5 Day 2

Travel Day. 5 hours flight at dinner time and don't land until 830pm my local time. I've got my macros planned for today and some protein snacks and edamame beans to try and hold me over. I've got Chipotle and a grocery story lined up near my hotel I can walk to for dinner and food on Wednesday

223.6 -- IDK wtf is going on here. Up 3lbs since Sunday and not going to be able to weight myself until Friday. Ugh
Steps - I've got 9500 right now. Will get a short walk in before the flight and then around the airport/city once I land. Should be pretty good
Macros - 2411 is what I'm targeting today. Hopefully stay solid on the plane. Coffee only.
Cardio - Might try to fit in a 20 minute row before I leave this afternoon or a light bike session tonight at the hotel.

 

[WED]

Stop it, Delta. I do not need this

 

[WED]

Took a banana from the lounge in case I needed something extra to hold me over.

I got 14,000 steps in before takeoff. Also did a 20 minute row session. 2 cardio session back to back vs 2 in the prior 4 weeks

Black Coffee, Coke Zero, Protein Chips, David bar.

 

[WED]

Had to eat some protein donuts before bed last night. Was starving, only went over cals by ~150

Week 5 Day 3

Today is gonna be a long day. Trying to stay on East Coast time.

3am(PST) - Woke up, hydrated.
330-430 - Inc Treadmill walk
430 - PWO meal and drink
5-615 - lifted at the worst Planet Fitness I've been too. Just tiny and all old equipment. Meh pull day.
9am-3pm - All day client presentation. Trying to fuel up on good healthy food. Not sure what the breakfast and lunch offerings will be. Trying to avoid breakfast and hopefully lunch is relatively healthy.
3pm - 8pm - I've got a massive time block and nothing to do. Really need to sleep somewhere. I think I'm going to hit up a planet fitness near the airport and try their black card lounge. Relax, work a little. Try to get a 2nd workout in. Do some cardio and abs. There is a chipotle near by that I'll try to eat for dinner
9pm (PST) red eye flight home.
5am (EST) Land and Uber home to start tomorrow lol

Long fucking day. Trying to plan out meals when I have little control and then an extended day is gonna be tough

 

[dcdogz]

Had to eat some protein donuts before bed last night. Was starving, only went over cals by ~150

Week 5 Day 3

Today is gonna be a long day. Trying to stay on East Coast time.

3am(PST) - Woke up, hydrated.
330-430 - Inc Treadmill walk
430 - PWO meal and drink
5-615 - lifted at the worst Planet Fitness I've been too. Just tiny and all old equipment. Meh pull day.
9am-3pm - All day client presentation. Trying to fuel up on good healthy food. Not sure what the breakfast and lunch offerings will be. Trying to avoid breakfast and hopefully lunch is relatively healthy.
3pm - 8pm - I've got a massive time block and nothing to do. Really need to sleep somewhere. I think I'm going to hit up a planet fitness near the airport and try their black card lounge. Relax, work a little. Try to get a 2nd workout in. Do some cardio and abs. There is a chipotle near by that I'll try to eat for dinner
9pm (PST) red eye flight home.
5am (EST) Land and Uber home to start tomorrow lol

Long fucking day. Trying to plan out meals when I have little control and then an extended day is gonna be tough

those long days can be brutal! good luck homie you got it!

 

[WED]

Red Eye's are brutal. Going to avoid that in the future.

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[WED]

Traveling just screws me up.

I'm a creature of habit and getting thrown off schedule can cause havoc
But the worst is being exhausted really fucking me. I'm pretty sure being tired has shown to spike ghrelin and effect leptin making you hungry, never full or satiated. No matter what I'm eating.

Few Day Recap

Wednesday was mostly flne. Got steps/Lifted. Lunch was fancy Turkey Sandwich, dinner at the airport. Starving at take off. Had to get a snack for the plane. Slept maybe 1 hour. Landed at 5am

Thursday sucked. Got my son to school then ordered a decent breakfast. Slept from 830 to 1. Felt awful but surprisingly had a good Push lift. Zero additional exercise, ate my normal food but was excessively hungry and had to eat more than I wanted

Friday Still sucked - couldn't get up to walk, so steps were bad. Surprisingly had a good leg day once I got some PWO in me, but then crashed a little, couldn't eat enough to get satisfied, and had a friends dinner with a coursed out tasting menu. So a decent bit of food and most probably high calorie content.

Saturday was still tired - Rained all night/morning/day so couldn't walk. PWO hit and was able to get in a really good lift. Then took a 4 hour nap, ran some errands, and took another nap. Steps sucked, food was better (not great), but finally feeling normal

Sunday - Walked this morning. Going to row and do some ab work later. Also targeting some flexibility work I want to start doing 2x a week. Feeling normal. I'm super full from breakfast, so hoping my body is getting back to normal

All my lifts continue to be good, just everything outside of it Thur-Sat was garbage. So bad 3 days, but hopefully 4 good days after today. This week is going to be a wash.

I have to go back to SF in 2 weeks. I'm not doing a red eye. I just can't. It's dumb, I booked the 1st flight out and will get a full night of sleep, land at 1 which was the same time i woke up on Thursday. I'll be able to get a 45 minute walk in the morning, fly, lift once I land, and finish my day.


Locking back in today and this week. Ninja Creami's prepped for the week. Food is ready, hopefully by EOW I'll be lower than I was to start this week and continue forward on this cut

 

[McPriimate]

Traveling just screws me up.

I'm a creature of habit and getting thrown off schedule can cause havoc
But the worst is being exhausted really fucking me. I'm pretty sure being tired has shown to spike ghrelin and effect leptin making you hungry, never full or satiated. No matter what I'm eating.

Few Day Recap

Wednesday was mostly flne. Got steps/Lifted. Lunch was fancy Turkey Sandwich, dinner at the airport. Starving at take off. Had to get a snack for the plane. Slept maybe 1 hour. Landed at 5am

Thursday sucked. Got my son to school then ordered a decent breakfast. Slept from 830 to 1. Felt awful but surprisingly had a good Push lift. Zero additional exercise, ate my normal food but was excessively hungry and had to eat more than I wanted

Friday Still sucked - couldn't get up to walk, so steps were bad. Surprisingly had a good leg day once I got some PWO in me, but then crashed a little, couldn't eat enough to get satisfied, and had a friends dinner with a coursed out tasting menu. So a decent bit of food and most probably high calorie content.

Saturday was still tired - Rained all night/morning/day so couldn't walk. PWO hit and was able to get in a really good lift. Then took a 4 hour nap, ran some errands, and took another nap. Steps sucked, food was better (not great), but finally feeling normal

Sunday - Walked this morning. Going to row and do some ab work later. Also targeting some flexibility work I want to start doing 2x a week. Feeling normal. I'm super full from breakfast, so hoping my body is getting back to normal

All my lifts continue to be good, just everything outside of it Thur-Sat was garbage. So bad 3 days, but hopefully 4 good days after today. This week is going to be a wash.

I have to go back to SF in 2 weeks. I'm not doing a red eye. I just can't. It's dumb, I booked the 1st flight out and will get a full night of sleep, land at 1 which was the same time i woke up on Thursday. I'll be able to get a 45 minute walk in the morning, fly, lift once I land, and finish my day.


Locking back in today and this week. Ninja Creami's prepped for the week. Food is ready, hopefully by EOW I'll be lower than I was to start this week and continue forward on this cut

When I was competing seriously im triathlon, I used to call sleep my secret weapon. If I got good sleep through a training block I could kill it - able to handle way more volume and intensity than if I had even the occasional bad night (and I would nap on weekends after the big pushes).

If I was sleep deprived (red eye, post-call or whatever) my will power for eating in particular went to shit. I’d still hit my workouts, but everything outside of them (and even my metrics in them - power, pace, HR at a given pace, etc.) just got less good across the board

Rest up and lock in mf!


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[WED]

Eating like shit def leads to some good pumps.

I'm bumping my carbs up 50g and calories to 2600. 250p/265c/60f

 

[WED]

Week 6 Day 1

Week 5 was absolute dick from an eating standpoint. Super bloated, but pump was great today . Back on it

Weight - IDK I'm not getting on the scale until the end of the week.
Steps -15,200
Macros - Bumped up calories. 2595. 271, 292, 50. Haven't felt bad, but I'd rather eat more & find time to get some more carido
Push Day - Regardless of bad eating....all lifts going well & continuing to go up. Incline Smith is up 10lbs from start. Goal to finish pushing 225 on incline smith. Should get there in 12 weeks.
Abs - 4 sets of cable crunch and 3 ab rollers. Weight up on crunches and was able to ab roll 3 sets of 10

3 weeks left of T-Bol.
Blood work ordered. Have to go back to SF next week, probably going to schedule them the last week of Jan.

Back to Stacking Good days. 1 of 1

 

[WED]

Week 6 Day 2

Stacking Good Days. 2 of 2

Steps: 15,500 - Fasted walk this morning. Went light b/c it was legs day, couple pacing around the house and and afternoon walk
Cardo: 20 minute Rowing Session at night
Macros: 2600 calories is just so much easier. 2602 294p 307c 34f. Eating Tuna, Rice, and Asparagus tonight
Leg Day: Everyone still going up. Pendulum Squat is up from 160 to 180 over 6wks. IDK if I can hit 225 for 8-10 reps, but it's a goal

 

[WED]

 

[JB4976]

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That looks good AF

 

[WED]

That looks good AF

Was tasty and pretty filling

 

[WED]

Have lunch out with clients today. Found a Crab, Bacon, Avocado, Boiled Egg salad. Seems to be the easiest thing on the menu to deconstruct and try to get a decent macro profile. Not sure of dressing but hope to have that on the side

 

[WED]

Week 6 Day 3

Lunch got cancelled and moved to Monday, so was able to eat at home w/out much stress.

Macros 2602... 273/320/40 -- RealGood Chicken is such a great substitute for any fried chicken
Steps 15,500 - 4 miles in AM then two short 15min walks through the day after meals and in between calls
Rowing/Cardio 20 Minutes
Abs - Cable Crunches 4 or 5 sets and 3 sets of Cable Twists

Pull Day A -- Lat Focused. Everything still moving up in reps/weight each day.

Lat Focused Back

Wide Grip Lat Pull Down in Frontal Plane 325x12/11/9 (dual pulley)
Narrow Grip Lat Pull Down in Sagittal Plane 295x11/9
Wide Grip T Bar Row + Kelso 150x11/10/9 **Goal to hit 180 on these by end of cycle. Doing 160 on Pull Day B when 1st.
Lat Pull Overs 160 x 10/8
Face Pulls 170 x 15/14/13
SA Preach Curls 35x11/9/8
Cable Hammer Curls RP 90x16+6 , 100x12+6

Stacking Good Days 3 of 3. Going to weight myself Friday. De-bloating some, don't look awful. but trip and spiraling into the weekend fucked me up. Nervous about getting on the scale.

 

[WED]

Week 6 Day 4

Weather sucks. It's fucking cold. 20 degrees this morning and apparently the hoodie I thought would be warm enough was essentially like wearing nothing. Couldn't even get 2 miles in, had to turn around. Didn't wear a face cover either and went back home. Going to be below freezing in the AM for the next week. Ready for summer. Still got my steps in tho

16k steps
Hit my macros, 2600 with 2578, 254, 330, 45. But then I ate some of my son's Candy
Push Day.

• Converging Chest Press -- 240x11. Up 10 lbs since start
• Incline Cable Fly -- 50x10
• Costal Chess Press -- 120x15
• Later Raises with Cuffs on Upper Arm -- 120x12
• SA OH Tri Press 70x11
• SA Tri Press down (rest pause) 60x14+5

 

[WED]

Had to switch it up a little today. It was 18 degrees and aim just not in the mood to walk in that shit for an hour.

Got up at 510. Orals, PWO, daily injections done. Paced the living room to get loose

Leg day. I've seen a few folks do abductors and adductors first to loose hips before heavy squat pattern. Over all liked it. Did that then pendulum squats at 180x10. Near PR. Want to work these up to 225 by end of cycle.

Got my son ready and now at Planet Fitness ona treadmill. Gonna do 45-50min the do some abs while I have some morning calls

 

[WED]

Week 6 Day 5

Had to pivot a little bit as mentioned above. I liked doing ad/abductors before doing a squat pattern. Similar to doing hamstring curls before, which I do on legs A. Going to kept that going forward.

I'm a little short, but will hit 15k before the EOD. I think the treadmill was a little light vs walking outside. Duration of walking I should have hit it.
Macros. 22 over. 2622. 259, 295, 58. Feel so much better on 2600 calories. 2400 wasn't bad. I should still be at or a little over a 1k deficit
Legs. Got 4 plates on pendulum squats. Goal is 225 by end of cycle.

Adduction 120x11
Abduction 90x12
Pendulum Squats 180x10
Leg Curls (Partials) 130x13+5
Leg Ext (Rest Pause) 150x15+4
SLDL 70s x 12

 

[WED]

Week 6 Day 6

Rained this morning so had to lift early AM. Wasn't too bad. I've lifted fasted plenty and pretty used to it. PWO and Electrolytes and a Ghost is enough to sustain me through the workout.

At 15,500 right now and will pick up another 1500 through the day
Going to jump my macros tomorrow. Last day at 2600
Want to get in a cardio session tonight after dinner, hopefully I can make it work. 50/50 right now
Good pull day. T Bar row at 165x11 for first set. 4 plates was the goal and should hit that in a few weeks with more time to blast through. Making good progress on all my lifts. Wide Grip LP I swapped machines. Week 1 I did 275, so up 30#.

 

[WED]

I'm to pivot and up my calories a good bit. With this, I should still be in a deficit. My Maintenance should be around 3750-3850 or so, so right around a 300 cal deficit. I'll see how the scale moves over the next 6 weeks (week 7-12). Consider this phase 2. Mini build/maintenance/recomp maybe(???). Continue to lift 6x a week (Push, Legs, Pull, P, L, P, Rest). Cardio 3-4x a week. Walking 15-17k steps.

Big thing I want to incorporate in Phase 2 is some mobility training. I'd like to alternate Cardio/Mobility each evening. 20-30 minutes of stretching, movements to loosen my hips/lower back.

Phase 3 will be back to cutting for the final 6wks or so.

 

[WED]

Ome of my favorite breakfasts.

Annoying RealGood Chicken changed their macros added a bunch of fat and increased a serving from 130c to 180c

 

[Oran Juice Jones]

Ome of my favorite breakfasts.

Annoying RealGood Chicken changed their macros added a bunch of fat and increased a serving from 130c to 180c

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That breakfast looks


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[WED]

Week 6 Day 7

Rest Day. Snowed this morning so couldn't do my long Sunday walk. Paced around the house for 30min then walked 4 miles this afternoon. Should about 1500 short right now, but will hit 15k by EOD. Did cable ab crunches then ab roller in the garage after my walk.

 

[WED]

Phase 2 - Maintenance Levels -- Small Deficit

Calories starting to go up today. Looking forward to Phase 2 before I cut the final 6-8 weeks before my trip.


Macros
Lifting Days: 3500 275p, 431c, 75f
Non-Lifting Days: 3,150. Reduction will be most carbs and fats from lifting days

Training -- Continuing PPLPPL Rest
15k Steps -- 4-6 miles every morning fasted and 1 more ~2 mile walk plus some pacing
Row 3x a week. Going to start adding in some paddling movements 2x a week for my upper back and shoulders.

Compounds
Proviron 50mg
TBol - Was debating ending this at 6 weeks but feel good so going to stretch next 2 weeks. Never had any issues with 50mg of Var, hopefully bloods are similar with TBol
5mg Cialas
@AA Solutions Test Cyp 700 (going to switch to Sust)
@AA Solutions NPP 400
@AA Solutions Mast E 400
China's Best Primo 400
6ius of HGH -- Thinking of pushing this to 8

Supplements
Multi Vitamin, Fish Oil, Vitamin E, NAC, P5P, D3/K2
10g Creatine
10g EAA
Electrolytes

Blood Work appointment scheduled for 2 weeks

 

[dcdogz]

Ome of my favorite breakfasts.

Annoying RealGood Chicken changed their macros added a bunch of fat and increased a serving from 130c to 180c

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i hate it when companies change, its almost always for the worse.
now has more ingredients and more calories. fcking lame.

try tyson's blackened chicken tenders, they arent fried just seasoned chicken. decent for quick meals.