Hughmangoes transformation log

[Oran Juice Jones]

Great results! How far down do you plan to cut or are you done with it?

My original goal was 10% bf. Coach now says it’s a look we are going for, I’m relying on him to look at my check in photos and signal when we end the cut and when I start to reverse and enter a growth phase. I’ve stopped worrying about the overall timeframe and just doing the work daily until he tells me I’m good.


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[Startingover]

I’m not big on posting photos of myself or anything, but on the left I was 365lbs, hovering around 235lbs right now.

@Meetketchup has been a pivotal part of this transition. I wish you the best man look forward to your progress.

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Impressive!!!

Great work my man!

 

[Meetketchup]

My original goal was 10% bf.

It's like porn, you can't describe it but know it when you see it. Same with when to end a cut.

 

[Hughmangoes]

Rest day with 40 mins incline treadmill.

Went out with family to bakery/restaurant today. Holy shit everything looked so tasty greasy and high calorie I usually don't care about what others are having but was tested today. Stuck to my prepped chicken salad with cabbage.

Also think that my ninja creami is breaking down. Have to think of something else to stuff my face with at night.

 

[Meetketchup]

Also think that my ninja creami is breaking down.

Call 911!

 

[Hughmangoes]

So apparently I've been training incorrectly recently. In some excerises, whenever I thought I'm reaching failure I would pause and rest few secs to push out more reps, every set.

That's not something I'm supposed to do without instructions. Thought I was just making sure that I'm training hard. I suppose this explains my fatigue and the fact that my workouts take such a long time. Will be in the process of trying to unlearn this habit.

Still trying to figure out how much weight to drop in db press. I'm strong af in first two sets which are usually incline, but then I struggle to get reps in even when lowering weight by 20lbs.

Upper A with 40 mins incline

02/23 – Upper A

Cable Lateral Raise (side delts)
• 2 × 15 @ 22 lb

DB Incline Chest Press
• 12 @ 132 lb
• 9 @ 132 lb

DB Flat Chest Press
• 10 @ 110 lb
• 9 @ 110 lb

Pec Fly machine
• 15 @ 57 lb
• 12 @ 73 lb

Hammer Strength Lat Pulldown
• 12 @ 176 lb
• 10 @ 176 lb

T-Bar Row
• 2 × 12 @ 88 lb

Seated Chest Row
• 2 × 12 @ 154 lb

Dips (machine)
• 12 @ 73 lb
• 10 @ 73 lb

Overhead Triceps Extension (EZ cable)
• 2 × 12 @ 110 lb

Standing isolateral Cable Curl
• 2 × 15 @ 33 lb

Standing Cable Curl (straight bar)
• 20 @ 55 lb
• 12 @ 77 lb

Ab Rope Crunch
• 4 × 20 @ 121 lb

 

[WED]

I’m not big on posting photos of myself or anything, but on the left I was 365lbs, hovering around 235lbs right now.

@Meetketchup has been a pivotal part of this transition. I wish you the best man look forward to your progress.

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awesome work

 

[Hughmangoes]

Rest day with 40 mins incline treadmill.

Went shopping for some pants today as I gave away most of my old ones over the weekend. A bit annoyed that I couldn't find anything good even though I am now 100lbs lighter.

My back has also been acting up more and more past few days. Nothing major but annoying as well.

Looking forward to training legs tomorrow though. That always cheers me up.

 

[Hughmangoes]

Another one of those days where I didn't want to do shit. I guess my honeymoon period with training and eating is over and the real work begins.

Still had a good leg workout. Tried leg press which I avoided for a while because I suspect it caused me hip pain. If I get nasty hip pain again then I guess I will know for sure leg press is the culprit.

02/25 – Lower A

Seated Leg Curl
• 2 × 12 @ 140 lb

Leg Extension
• 3 × 12 @ 212 lb

Leg Press
• 12 @ 220 lb
• 2 × 12 @ 331 lb

Pendulum Squat
• 12 @ 44 lb
• 2 × 10 @ 66 lb

DB Front-Foot Elevated Split Squat
• 2 × 15 @ 71 lb

Standing Calf Raise
• 4 × 15 @ 124 lb

 

[Hughmangoes]

Rest day with 40 mins incline treadmill.

Had a realization today that I've lost 110lbs in less than 7 months and probably put on a decent amount of muscle. I never miss my workouts or fail to hit macros. I am in the best physical shape I've ever been. What else could I expect from myself? I have a depressive personality so sometimes I fail to stop negative thoughts from taking over me.

Macros are met. Cardio is done. Steps are walked. Log is updated. Everything else will fall in place.

 

[Hughmangoes]

I also wasted driving 3 hours today to ninja service center to diagnose what's wrong with my creami. I was told their office is open 8 to 5 and I can come at any time. Well I get there at 3.30 and the office is open, but the service dept closes at 3?? Really pissed me off.

Made some ice cream in food processor with protein, frozen berries and ice. A bit more work than creami for sure, but not bad.

 

[Halfi]

Rest day with 40 mins incline treadmill.

Went out with family to bakery/restaurant today. Holy shit everything looked so tasty greasy and high calorie I usually don't care about what others are having but was tested today. Stuck to my prepped chicken salad with cabbage.

Also think that my ninja creami is breaking down. Have to think of something else to stuff my face with at night.

I forgot about my ninja creami lol I’m ganna have to make something this weekend

 

[Halfi]

Rest day with 40 mins incline treadmill.

Had a realization today that I've lost 110lbs in less than 7 months and probably put on a decent amount of muscle. I never miss my workouts or fail to hit macros. I am in the best physical shape I've ever been. What else could I expect from myself? I have a depressive personality so sometimes I fail to stop negative thoughts from taking over me.

Macros are met. Cardio is done. Steps are walked. Log is updated. Everything else will fall in place.

Hell yah man let’s go dude! Keep killin it dude. It’s only ganna get better .

 

[Eric the stache]

Dude you are killing it! The last pictures are crazy! Keep it up man!

 

[Hughmangoes]

Dropped 4lbs overnight which is kinda crazy. I wasn't even bloated or anything like that. Down 8.8lbs since last Friday.
Was too lazy for cardio so moving it to tomorrow AM and will do lower at PM

DB lat raises felt crazy good today. Idk if it's because I did cable raises for a few workouts and they responded well or it's just a coincidence.


Upper B

02/27 – Upper B

DB Lateral Raise (side delts)
• 2 × 15 @ 44 lb

Hammer Strength Pulldown
• 12 @ 176 lb
• 10 @ 176 lb

T-Bar Row
• 2 × 12 @ 88 lb

Seated Chest Row
• 2 × 12 @ 154 lb

DB Flat Chest Press
• 12 @ 132 lb
• 11 @ 132 lb

DB Incline Chest Press
• 10 @ 110 lb
• 9 @ 110 lb

Seated Cable Fly
• 2 × 15 @ 73 lb

Incline EZ-Bar French Press
• 2 × 15 @ 55 lb

EZ-Bar Pushdown
• 2 × 12 @ 143 lb

Incline DB Curl
• 9 @ 66 lb
• 15 @ 55 lb

Preacher Curl
• 2 × 12 @ 55 lb

 

[Meetketchup]

The Swoooooooooosh

 

[Hughmangoes]

Check in day - down 3.9lbs weekly avg weight. No changes to macros or training. Going to start doing ab vacuums regularly.

Lower B PM and 40 mins incline treadmill AM

02/28 – Lower B

Adductor Machine
• 18 @ 135 lb
• 15 @ 140 lb

Seated Leg Curl
• 13 @ 140 lb
• 12 @ 140 lb

Barbell SLDL
• 10 @ 220 lb
• 5 @ 176 lb

DB SLDL
• 2 × 10 @ 132 lb

Super Squat (wide stance)
• 3 × 10 @ 176 lb

DB Reverse Lunge
• 2 × 15 @ 53 lb

Standing Calf Raise
• 2 × 15 @ 135 lb

Ab Rope Crunch
• 2 × 20 @ 135 lb
• 2 × 15 @ 135 lb

 

[Hughmangoes]

Did cardio in the morning then 10k steps in a shopping mall, this led to being super weak during evening leg workout. SLDLs specially felt really hard my hamstrings absolutely did not want to work and my back scared me so I moved to DB SLDLs.. Also moved back to super squats instead of belt squats. The gym belt left my hips sore for a week, need to buy some better belt some day.

Also ate some beef pho at the mall. The restaurant had macros for all their dishes and the pho was surprisingly good macro wise. But it's an illusion and I don't trust them so I just had less fat throughout a day. Which basically means consuming more protein powder instead of my chicken breasts lol

 

[Oran Juice Jones]

Did cardio in the morning then 10k steps in a shopping mall, this led to being super weak during evening leg workout. SLDLs specially felt really hard my hamstrings absolutely did not want to work and my back scared me so I moved to DB SLDLs.. Also moved back to super squats instead of belt squats. The gym belt left my hips sore for a week, need to buy some better belt some day.

Also ate some beef pho at the mall. The restaurant had macros for all their dishes and the pho was surprisingly good macro wise. But it's an illusion and I don't trust them so I just had less fat throughout a day. Which basically means consuming more protein powder instead of my chicken breasts lol

Look into tuna steak, high protein and little to no fat. It’s my go to when I want to get in a lot of protein with very minimal fat. I had some Mahi-mahi the last couple weeks as well great options instead of protein powder.


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[Hughmangoes]

Look into tuna steak, high protein and little to no fat. It’s my go to when I want to get in a lot of protein with very minimal fat. I had some Mahi-mahi the last couple weeks as well great options instead of protein powder.


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I just can't get over how good chicken breasts are. They are 2-3 times cheaper than fish or beef and I can easily prep 4-6+ lbs and eat over the next 3-4 days. And protein powder is only marginally more ex than chicken breasts.

 

[Hughmangoes]

Rest day with no treadmill today.

So my city is being hit with drones and the building management decided to close our gym. Was too lazy to get to my workout gym just to hit cardio. Walked a bit more steps but will probably count this as missed cardio and spread it throughout the week.

Treated myself to some steak today because I run out of cooked chicken and canned tuna made me nauseous at lunch. Was a crappy thin and lean topside from the grocery store but a nice break from all that chicken.

I also kinda miss my creami. This food processor fluff doesn't hit the same spot.

Thought that going from 140c to 120c wouldn't be a problem. But it's really some kind of bullshit. No idea how keto people do it.

 

[Hughmangoes]

Got to the gym pretty late so no pwo caffeine, but still had a great workout.

Dreading tomorrow's low carb day. Time to bring back those konjac noodles and rice into the rotation.

03/02 – Upper A and 50 mins incline treadmill

DB Lateral Raise (side delts)
• 2 × 15 @ 44 lb

DB Incline Chest Press
• 12 @ 132 lb
• 8 @ 132 lb

BB Flat Chest Press
• 2 × 15 @ 88 lb

Pec Fly machine
• 2 x 12 @ 78 lb

Hammer Strength Lat Pulldown
• 12 @ 176 lb
• 10 @ 176 lb

T-Bar Row
• 2 × 12 @ 88 lb

Seated Chest Row
• 2 × 12 @ 154 lb

Dips (machine)
• 14 @ 57 lb
• 11 @ 57 lb

Overhead Triceps Extension (EZ cable)
• 14 @ 110 lb
• 12 @ 110 lb

Standing isolateral Cable Curl
• 15 @ 33 lb
• 12 @ 44 lb

Standing Cable Curl (straight bar)
• 15 @ 77 lb
• 10 @ 99 lb

 

[Hughmangoes]

Rest day with 60 mins of incline treadmill. Paying off debt from missed cardio on Sunday. As I had to get to my proper gym for cardio decided to get some ab rope crunches done as well 4 x 20 @ 120.

Made some sugar free pudding to eat at night but for some reason it didn't set all and tasted kinda bad. Ended up drinking some protein powder with psyllium husk. Already been more than a week without ninja creami and I still miss it, haven't found any replacement meal that I like.

 

[Hughmangoes]

Lower A today.

Had a great workout. I think I figured out how I hurt my hips last time. When going down with the leg press, once quads start reaching failure I loose tension relaxing them and end up pushing all that weight though the hip joint. Atleast that's what I think happened last time.

03/04 – Lower

Seated Leg Curl
• 2 × 12 @ 140 lb

Leg Extension
• 14 @ 212 lb
• 2 × 12 @ 212 lb

Leg Press
• 15 @ 331 lb
• 2 × 12 @ 441 lb

Pendulum Squat
• 3 × 10 @ 66 lb

DB Front-Foot Elevated Split Squat
• 2 × 15 @ 77 lb

Standing Calf Raise
• 4 × 15 @ 124 lb

 

[Hughmangoes]

Rest day with 50 mins incline treadmill.

Food today is subpar, got lazy and instead of cooking ate a bunch of protein powder.

Also started noticing changes in the mirror. Either I made quite a progress in the past week or two, even though I didn't drop too much weight or the reduced carbs are fucking with my head. Either way it feels good. Even though wife keeps telling me I look like a zombie lol

 

[Hughmangoes]

Upper A with 40 mins incline treadmill.

Had a tough workout today. Didn't reduce weights but every rep felt more difficult than usual. Skipped doing abs because I was beat.

03/06 – Upper B

DB Lateral Raise (side delts)
• 18 @ 44 lb
• 12 @ 44 lb

Hammer Strength Pulldown
• 2 × 10 @ 176 lb

T-Bar Row
• 2 × 12 @ 88 lb

Seated Chest Row
• 2 × 12 @ 154 lb

DB Flat Chest Press
• 12 @ 132 lb
• 8 @ 132 lb

DB Incline Chest Press
• 10 @ 110 lb
• 8 @ 110 lb

Seated Cable Fly
• 2 × 10 @ 78 lb

Incline EZ-Bar French Press
• 15 @ 55 lb
• 12 @ 55 lb

EZ-Bar Pushdown
• 2 × 12 @ 143 lb

Incline DB Curl
• 2 × 15 @ 55 lb

Preacher Curl
• 2 × 12 @ 55 lb

 

[Hughmangoes]

Went to grocery shopping in the morning and the whole store smelled of rotisserie chicken I lost my fucking mind. Bought some to make chicken salad sandwiches for the family and had a bit of the filling without any bread myself. This was all out slop with the skin and mayo and shit, no idea exactly how many calories I ate with three teaspoons worth so I just Ai logged it and underate rest of the day.

 

[Hughmangoes]

Lower B today

Had a decent session. Tried narrow quad biased super squats today, felt pretty good. Looks like leg press is also going to be a regular on the lower days, no issues from it so far. Decided to lower the weight a bit on the reverse lunges so that I could feel it better.

03/07 – Lower B

Adductor Machine
• 18 @ 145 lb
• 15 @ 150 lb

Seated Leg Curl
• 2 × 12 @ 140 lb

Barbell SLDL
• 2 × 12 @ 198 lb
• 12 @ 220 lb

Super Squat (narrow stance)
• 3 × 10 @ 220 lb

Leg Press (wide stance)
• 2 × 15 @ 331 lb

DB Reverse Lunge
• 2 × 15 @ 44 lb

Standing Calf Raise
• 2 × 15 @ 135 lb

 

[Hughmangoes]

Current average weight 237.5, down 5.7lbs since last week.

I'm also getting 250 carbs on my Wednesday lower days, very excited. No other changes

 

[Bigjape34]

Fucking grinding man great work!