Eden does things and stuff.

[Richardwilliam]

That's great to hear! What kind of things and stuff does Eden do?

[SoCal-Nutrition]

How's the training going?

BTW: I accidentally mistook your imgur link as spam and removed the link..sorry! a lot of posts with spam links in them and was doing some bulk cleaning.

[Eden]

6-20-17

Deadlift:

230lbs X 10
205lbs X 9
165lbs X 12

Military Press:

125lbs X 7
115lbs X 8
95lbs X 9

Pullup:

Body Weight + 20lbs X 9
Body Weight X 9
Body Weight - 30lbs X 9

Weight: 158lbs
BF%: 13?


Diet:

134G Protein
54G Carbs (20g Fiber, 34 Net)
160G Fat

So, after deluding myself long enough, I've been cutting for a while, I figured I would cut down, and try to not restart but truthfully take a look at where I was, and where I wanted to go. Needless to say I'm down quite a bit of weight, if this has been effective at increasing my health I can only hope. My parents have been having some pretty serious health issues, and due to that I've started to consider more my long term health, not abusing myself with weight, or going to excess with food. Anyway, the reason for Keto is that my wife is on keto to prevent seizures, it's a hard diet, and I wanted to support her with her condition.

The workout yesterday, went well, I wasn't feeling like hitting the weight, but I ended up feeling pretty ready to go around eight pm when I usually go to workout before Maghreb (Evening Islamic prayer, currently when fast is broken since it's Ramadan). Deadlifts shocked me that I was able to get ten reps, I felt like I could have hit twelve or thirteen, but since the schedule only called for eight, I figured best not to go too over board. When I started last month my max was two-hundred twenty-five for three, so that's quite an improvement over one month considering the fasting. I have been looking at a few other supplements to add in, I currently run:

Beta-alanine - 3G-5G post workout
Creatine Monohydrate - 5G post workout
Animal Pak - 1 Pack post workout
Resveratrol - 250mg post workout
COq10 - 200mg post workout

The only really interesting supplement I can find is Clear Muscle by Muscletech which I guess is some kind of anti-catabolic supplement alleged to help tip more toward anabolism by preventing or decreasing catabolism. Anyway the stuff is like thirty-five dollars for a months worth, so I might try it and see what's up. I had thought about a test booster, but most of my findings were that they were either, not very effective, or that if effective the body's natural production is kind of low anyway and slight increases in the amount wouldn't amount to much increase in gains worth the cost.

I am able to workout now in a shed in the back yard, that I have a power rack in, and a bench that can do flat, slight decline, and incline. I only really use it for flat as my workout routine only calls for: Squat, Bench, Deadlift, Pullup, Military Press and Bent over Row. I would say I'm pretty motivated and have a long term goal of a few years to hit around one-hundred seventy-five pounds at a decent body fat of ten percent. My lift goals right now are pretty low at 345lbs Squat, 225lbs Bench, and 400lbs Deadlift. I will update the goals if I reach the current ones in shaa allah (god willing). Other than that the workouts have been going really well, I'm not overreaching a ton now, so I am actually recovering, and that helps make the workouts a lot more enjoyable unlike how they have been in the past.

Edit: I also was looking at Targeted keto diet, where you supplement around 30g-50g sugar and some protein before the workouts in the hopes that it creates a more anabolic effect, and all the carbs are burned off during the workout anyway which may not affect ketosis. I have the Phinney, and volek book on Keto for performance and they say the affect of carbs is negligible to a hindrance of proper ketosis and glycogen production since ketosis stops during the time it would usually ramp up due to the work load.

If any of you have any advice you would like the add, I would really appreciate it. If you have thoughts on clear muscle, or knowledge of test boosters or supplements you think I could try, discount codes stuff like that, I would appreciate anything you have. I hope that you are all well, I will try to keep this log up so that it may help someone, and it may help myself.

[delsolrob]

Very glad to have you back here, bud!

have you done any research about the impact of Keto in Cortisol? I'm curious if something like Iron Legion Invictus would be beneficial for you. It's also available at SoCal, but the link above goes to the IL site.

Stay tuned for the 4th Of July Savings

[Eden]

I haven't specifically looked at it. I know cortisol is a stress hormone and I would imagine that it gets elevated during the adaptation phase while carbohydrates are low, but ketone production hasn't fully engaged. I will definitely give it a look tomorrow in shaa Allah. Thanks for the advice .

[Eden]

Weight is down a little bit which I sort of figured would happen, going from 1500 calories to 2200 I would think it would cause gain but I expect for a week maybe it won't cause much weight increase since metabolism will be up as well? I'm playing around with a little more food at first meal.

Yesterday I did:

624 calories
37g protein
8g carb
49g fat

Today:

827 calories
49g protein
8g carbs
65g fat

I would like to have a bit more carbs, I like to have berries at breakfast but I ran out yesterday. Big recently on diet manipulation since that's one of the important factors in growth for me. My major concern is seeing how far through the fast I can stay full and not lethargic I got to around 12pm or 1pm before I started losing energy bad, maybe with a few extra calories I can make it in shaa Allah till I leave work. Once I am home being lethargic isn't really an issue.

I've been looking for new protein powder because I'm almost out of muscle pharm combat whey, I've always been of the mind that whey is whey, but I've seen stuff say that as a person ages a little higher whey than casein at least for post workout which is the only time I take protein powder is better.

Doing hip and mobility in the morning, not a ton but I find if I do it first thing it makes moving the rest of the day feel more recuperative than if I don't.

Still early, I'll update later in shaa Allah with how it goes.

[Eden]

I was going to post food pictures but they don't want to post. Anyway, Everything I make I try to maximize how much nutrition and nutrients I get from everything. So I have some fat cupcakes I made. The cupcakes are more like Reese's peanut butter cups, they're coconut oil, peanuts, peanut butter, chia seeds and cacao nibs, this provides a pretty good amount of nutrients and fiber plus they're tasty.



Dinner was general tso's chicken with veggies that I used flax seed in for omegas also more fiber lol. This is all more interesting with pictures though.

Totals for the day:

2,164 calories.
134g protein
53g carbs (27g of them fiber)
164g fat

[delsolrob]

must post the recipe for those cupcakes

[Eden]

32g peanut butter
14g peanuts
28g coconut oil
14g chia seeds
28g cacao nibs
4 drops sucrolose sweetener (equivalent to 20g sugar)

Mix ingredients, divide into silicone cupcake cups, freeze.

[delsolrob]

Thanks bud