Daily Blog #2 | Changing my blog titles… -_-

Good afternoon erryybboddyyy!!

Tuesday is coming to a close, and I’m hoping everyone’s week has gotten off to a great start. Although today is Tuesday, I actually like to think of it as a chest day, because yesterday was leg day, and it was brutal.

I watched a clip on instagram the other day of a lifter doing front squats, superset with back squats, 10 reps of each. He had 225 on the bar, and although I figured I wouldn’t be able to get 225 for 10 on the front squat, I gave a shot at 185. Initially, I felt like I should not have broken past 135 for this exercise, but because I hit an “easy” 315 on my front squat last week, I thought I should have easily been able to crank out 185 for 10 on the front, followed by another 10 on the back.

The thing is, when you lift heavy over a long period of time, like a powerlifter, you forget to also train your muscle’s endurance, which means that although you’re pretty damn strong, when you drop the weight and go for higher reps, you’ll find that your muscles begin giving out, your heart rate goes through the roof, and suddenly the lighter weight feels like you’re squatting 315+.

As I hit 185 for 8 on my front squat and switched to my back squat for another 8, I thought to myself how dumb this is, and how I should just go back to lifting heavy as f. Not only did the guy in the clip complete 20 reps each set, but he went for FIVE sets. Meanwhile, I went for 16 TOTAL reps, for FOUR total sets… Lol but I got through it, and had a sick pump. After hitting up some lunges, the following selfie happened:

I had a sick pump, my veins were criss-crossing everywhere, they were screaming so loud because of how much blood was pumping through, I had to document it.

So my leg day went as followed:

Front Squat superset Back Squat: 4×8

Leg Press: 4×8-12 + dropset from 8, to 12, to 22

Weighted lunges: 3×14-16/leg, last set was no weight, for another 14-16/leg

Leg extension: 4×12 – heavy weight, but controlled movement, squeezing at the top of each rep.

Stiff-legged deadlifts: 4×8-10

Lying ham curl: 4×10-12

So needless to say, I’m feeling it today. It feels great, it really does.

As for FOOD, I have begun looking at my food again, and being cautious. I want to devote most of my carbs to fruit, because I need to get more fruit in, as well as vegetables. So check this out:

Meal One: 113g Strawberries + 75g blueberries + 4oz egg whites + four WHOLE eggs

Meal Two: Artichoke/Asiago + jalapeno cheese sauce + 8oz (homemade) parmesan and herb chicken breasts + 2/3c jasmine rice

Meal Three: Banana… that’s all…

Mean Four: 8oz tilapia + 1c broccoli + 4oz sirloin steak + 2tbsp asiago/artichoke + jalapeno sauce – mixed all of it together.

Although my macros weren’t entirely spot on, I didn’t hit my protein intake, I still did hit my carb intake perfectly, AND the added fat took care of everything else.

All in all, Monday was a good day.

I will write up my post chest day session tomorrow, and give a result of how things went at the gym.

Stay strong, stay amazing!