The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

So far today I have had a protein shake, 3 eggs with cheese, 3 pieces of bacon, 5 pieces of fried zucchini without the breading, 3/4 of a hamburger patty, and pastrami my coworker got me this sausage and egg breakfast thing from Paul's place. it's huge gonna eat that too haha gainz

 

All of it

 

This is what I take. Protein and carbs in it. And it has the best taste by far from any protein ive tried

https://www.completenutrition.com/sports-nutrition/v-core-vantage/

 

$54 BSN SYNTHA-6 Whey Protein Powder with Micellar Casein, Milk Protein Isolate, Chocolate Milkshake, 48 Servings (Packaging May Vary)

http://www.amazon.com/BSN-SYNTHA-6-...e=UTF8&qid=1414439229&sr=1-2&keywords=protein

or
just take smaller amounts of this and it is no longer a "gainer"

$98 Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Pro Gainer, Weight Gainer Protein Powder, Double Chocolate, 10.19 Pounds (Packaging May Vary)

http://www.amazon.com/Optimum-Nutri...F8&qid=1414439256&sr=1-1&keywords=pro+complex

or
whey isolate

$83 NOW Foods Sports Nutrition, Whey Protein Isolate, 25 g With BCAAs, Unflavored Powder, 5-Pound

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015AQL1Q...olid=I6DAGDXI5LSO&coliid=I2ANLW6FHA7Z7Z&psc=1

 

The best tasting & effective post workout shake I ever took was Pro Complex made by Optimum Nutrition.

 

Well, last week I cut out my hamburger helper. This week, I'm going to try to get rid of the deli ham. Rather than cutting all my salty shit out at once, I'm simply taking 1 thing out a week. Probably going to replace the ham with tuna.

Also, the gallon jug of water is proving to be a success, as it always has been. When drinking 16 oz bottles of water, I usually drink 6-7 per day. I've already filled my gallon jug up once today and I'm already halfway done with gallon #2, so hopefully I can start getting in around 2 gallons per day.

 

Thinkin outside the box today. Ghd situps and shuttle sprints. After going 335x10 backsquats

 

I only drink like 4 bottles of water a day, is that bad?

 

I'm only drinking a shit-ton to keep blood pressure low on my bulk. On cuts, my bp is better than perfect, but on bulks, I eat so shitty, it gets high, so I'm just trying to keep it down. I always try to do at least a gallon a day b/c it makes me feel better, but I guess as long as you're not passing out from dehydration, you're fine lol.

Truth. I pee like twice an hour, so school days are a bitch for me. It's an hour commute to and from school, so I usually am about to fucking bust by the time I get to school/get home. I also have had to leave class to pee a few times.

The absolute worst part of lifting to me is hitting macros (eating). It's such a fucking pain on the weekends. In order to hit all my macros, I've got to eat every two hours. If I don't, I'm stuck with like 1500 calories to eat right before bed, which fucking blows. For example, we went fishing Friday and I was probably 1500 calories under my goal. Saturday, I fell asleep early and missed two meals...that's 1000 calories. Yesterday, we shot guns for a few hours, so I missed a meal, which is another 500 calories. So, This past Friday-Sunday, I was shy 3000 calories! That shit adds up. 9 times out of 10, I'm good for 6 days a week and usually screw it up one time on the weekend, which isn't too bad, but screwing up more than twice a week starts to hinder progress for me. It's tough trying to balance a social life while trying to make gainzzzzzz

 

that is when you just down a couple 1,500-2,000 cal shakes 2 times a day. When I bulked a whiiiiile back that was the only way I hit the macros and my cal numbers
+ eating a ton but the shakes were key to getting there.

 

Sun-Fri, I'm perfect...I get to eat every 2 hours and I hit my macros, no problem (which is about 3800 calories on a bulk). Saturday, I usually get about 4 meals in and start watching football/fishing/etc and the diet goes out the window. If I know it's gonna happen, I go to Subway and get 2 foot-longs and eat them throughout the day, which usually is around 2500 calories. I just need to start making that a Saturday ritual.

 

So true, on my hour and half drive from riverside to San Diego that I have to do like twice a week for work. I know all the exits with the gas stations that have restrooms that don't harass you to use them.

 

Gone up on bench by about 50 lbs and ive lost 9 lbs since starting about a month ago

 

losing weight and going up on bench...Dwane approves

 

Damn dude! Tell her good job on her hard work!

Dat 335x10 doe...

Nice... I needa work on that bench... my worse lift out of the main ones.

 

my bench has gone up, i feel like my body respond way better with higher rep work, 6-12 range for strength gains, but once i reach plateau, i need to do low rep work to break it.
old PR for bench was 315x1(i know i know) new pr is 295x6

 

Thanks guys. Im at 175 lbs now going for 160 and my bench went from 70 to 120. Because of my heart condition im only going for 4x10 at 135 and ill be content.