Road to recovery

Nightmare I love how regimented your being with this, if you can have this attitude with form and progressive loading, let's hope you gets prove your docs wrong and get bak to your previous form.

Thanks mate, I accepted a long time ago this was going to be a slow journey. So I might as well get it right, and step things up slowly instead of rushing into things and risking another mistake. Whether that is getting injured, or trying too many carbs and just gaining fat again.


I was talking about my plan for dessert tomorrow and a friend of mine which is extremely into his looks just shook his head. Most likely thinking I'm just going to undo the past 10 days prep phase where I lost lots of fat quickly. If only he knew.

I was rather surprised how well it worked for yesterdays training. I added in more exercises and got them done in the same time as usual, without feeling tired and lethargic as I did before. So I'm going to try and get to 250g in carbs and stay there for a good while and see how my body copes.

Sadly scales don't mean all that much now, as during the day I'll be burning fat,and during training. So I'll go by it a little, and mostly just go by how I look.
 
Hmm, sounds interesting all right.

I have to say I'll try it out, I'm suffering from quite a bit of DOMS. Even considering I never use to get them until at least the 2nd day, even then they wouldn't have been bad. My chest is rather sore. So it could be a lack of carbs.

I'll try 250g tomorrow, after Shoulders and then see if I have to up even more. I certainly got enough carbs to do that as well.
The most difficult part is getting my stomach to adjust, it's pretty small after living off of "poverty" food as the lads would say, and then that 10 prep phase.
 
I'm going to avoid the cheap semi-stale tesco doughnuts for a while, and have some croissants instead. I was more than just a bit bloated last night after I had them. I'm also going to cut back on the carbs a tad, instead of trying to jump up to 250g. Maybe around 220g would do me better for a week, until my stomach gets use to the large amount of food.

I couldn't even manage some cottage cheese before bed.

CBL day

8:30 Am mix.
10g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
Coffee with 1tsp coconut oil for MCT,
Alpha men x2

11:40 lunch/breakfast
Grilled chicken fillets 286g
Spinach, and broccoli salad,
2tsp olive oil on top
Cup of rooibos tea

15:00 snack
20g whey isolate
30g nuts (walnuts)

17:05 pre-training
Coffee, 1tsp coconut oil
~200mg caffeine
10g whey isolate
4g beta-alanine
5g creatine

Weigh in at gym
68kg

19:34 post-training
20g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
3g leucine
5g creatine
52g dextrose

20:30 dinner
Grilled chicken fillets in nando's marinade 426g
90g rice
Asparagus in olive oil
1/3 apple pie
2 doughnuts
Alpha men x2

22:50 OAKG
12g

Gym legs + shoulders
Crosstrainer 5 mins
Base resistance 10 incline 10

Standing dumbbell shoulder press
9kg x10
11.4kg x5
16kg x3
19kg x2
20kg x10 5 sets

Super set
(Leg press
120lbs x12 5 sets per leg

Side later raises)
9kg x10 4 sets
7kg x10 1 sets

Leg extensions
170lbs x10 5 sets

Super set
(Dumbbell shrugs
20kg x20 5 sets

Hamstring curls)
130lbs x10 5 sets

Barbell shrugs
40kg x15 5 sets

Reverse crunches
BW X10 5 sets

Stretches + foam rolling
 
dont back down! the whole point of the backloading is to get enough enough carbs to make it work. As long as your lifting heavy CBL will do the work for you.

Dude, I felt like puking again. It feels horrible and I still feel bloated today.

I might add more dextrose, but we'll see how it goes.
 
The 426g is uncooked weight thank goodness. I usually put a (cooked) next to it if it's cooked weight.

Also I have my PWO shake 30 mins after trainer, which is directly after my stretching, foam rolling and mobility work. Then I walk home, put rice on, shower and quickly cook the rest.

I like bananas, I absolutely despise butter though. I can't understand what people find appealing in it.

I can try that tonight, and see what happens. I didn't feel bloated at all on Tuesday night and I had all the same except the extra 10g of rice and extra pie.
 
Seems like I'll need to pick up a chocolate spread like nutella and bananas so, to do with the croissants.

Also fresh doughnuts are much easier to get it. I shall try my best, tonight I'll have to finish of that apple pie, and I'll have some croissants and a doughnut or two with it.
I don't like cutting down on the meat though, it'll take a massive chunk out of my daily protein.
 
Not being able to sleep well last night really sapped any strength I had, not to mention I hurt all over when it came to training. At least the CBL meal was easier, still took a good bit of effort though.

Gym back
Crosstrainer 5 mins
Base resistance 10 incline 10

Pull ups
BW x10 4 sets
BW x8

Seated Bent over rear delt raises
9kg x10 1 set
7kg x10 1 set

Lower back is sore

Dumbbell Preacher curls
10kg x10 5 set per arm

Tricep cable push downs
50kg x12 5 sets

Stretches + foam rolling

CBL day

9:00 Am mix.
10g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
Coffee with 1tsp coconut oil for MCT,
Alpha men x2

12:30 lunch/breakfast
Grilled chicken fillets 306g
Spinach,
2tsp olive oil on top
Cup of coffee

15:40 snack
20g whey isolate
50g nuts (walnuts)

17:25 pre-training
Coffee, 1tsp coconut oil
~200mg caffeine
10g whey isolate
4g beta-alanine
5g creatine

Weigh in at gym
68kg

19:10 post-training
20g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
3g leucine
5g creatine
61g dextrose

20:15 dinner
Chicken fried rice 305g
100g rice
Alpha men x2

20:50
1/3 apple pie
2 large crossaints


22:55 OAKG
12g

23:30
150g cottage cheese
 
Of course there are. :)

It wasn't them that hurt my back, I still haven't slept since Wednesday night. Nothing has healed from the feel of it, and I still have chest and arm doms from Tuesday as well.

I guess you're hinting at seated upright cable rear delt pulls, with the cable machine?
 
I still haven't found any strudel, none in tesco or lidl.

I did however pick up some proper fresh baked crossaints, doughnuts, apple pie (think crust), nutella knock off, a kilo more dextrose and a kilo of almonds, biscuits, 30 more chicken fillets, and several tubs of cottage cheese along with spinach, greens, and bananas.

Going to be avoiding the cheap tesco doughnuts, as they're heavy, and just bloat me to no end.

I have yet to touch the battenburg cakes. Some day.
 
Well I increased my protein intake yesterday a bit, more during lunch and I had an extra snack of 150g cottage cheese. All my DOMS, bar some quad ones are gone entirely. The legs aren't sore, so much as I can feel they're not healed yet.

Yesterday's off day.

CBL Off day

9:30 Am mix.
10g whey isolate ~200mg caffeine
Coffee with 1tsp coconut oil for MCT,
Alpha men x2

12:30 lunch/breakfast
Eddie rockets chicken wings
Two celery sticks
Two crispy back rashers
Two large sausages
2tsp olive oil on top

15:00 snack
20g whey isolate
30g almonds
Rooibos tea

17:00
150g cottage cheese
Coffee

19:30 dinner
Grilled diced beef 500g
Broccoli
Asparagus in olive oil
Alpha men x2

22:20 OAKG
12g

23:30 Before bed
150g Cottage cheese

Today started off a big meh, considering I just woke up 30 minutes ago. I certainly slept a log longer than usual, and cottage cheese and OAKG certainly helped in that regard.

I have noticed I have started to retain a good bit of water thanks to creatine though. I'm surprised how well I'm coping with it, creatine use to cause my stomach nothing but trouble if I went over 5g, now I'm taking 10g on training days.
 
Makes it much harder for me since I finish so late. I don't want to go to bed with carbs still in my stomach and it happens if I eat them around or after 9PM anyway.

Tonight I need to work through a pack of stale tesco doughnuts. My housemate opened the pack on Wednesday ate one, and never told me. Looks Like I shall be dunking them.

I am going to double my protein in my PWO shake though, that extra 20g means I don't have to have an extra chicken fillet. :)

Going to heat up the doughnuts and put nutella all over them as well.
 
Why don't you want carbs in your stomach when you go to bed? It wont make a huge difference, just try and fit everything in as early as possible.

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Plus I sleep horribly if I have any in my stomach, or should I say I don't sleep.

err have the extra chicken fillet for lunch or an afternoon snack! Dont ditch food in favour of whey if you have the food, and your not to focused on controlling food costs.

I really want to get through this unflavoured isolate haha. Mostly one of the main reasons. Tastes like vomit with creatine, leucine and other things added. Even the dextrose doesn't help.
 
I think he is referring to low GI carbs.

If you go to bed with carbs in your stomach it won't make much difference really. So I'll try and get them in when I can without having that happen.

If anyone has been paying even a little attention I've been making head way in it all, and biggest problem has simply been my small stomach after a very long time of "poverty food", and having chosen far to "heavy" foods for my first few meals.
 
Going to bed with high gi carbs in you isn't a problem, relatively speaking.

Still can't sleep for crap with them in my gut. Also trying to avoid the types that bloat me so much I feel like getting sick and have a huge swollen gut.

Pastries and some fresh baked doughnuts are perfect it seems, croissants are heaven for me.

I have to get through those cheap stale tesco d-nuts though. I'm not going to waste food.
 
So sleepy right now.

CBL day

9:00 Am mix.
10g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
Coffee with 1tsp coconut oil for MCT,
Alpha men x2

13:00 lunch/breakfast
Grilled chicken fillets 299g
Spinach, tomatoes
2tsp olive oil on top
Cup of coffee

15:00 snack
20g whey isolate
30g almonds

16:30 pre-training
Coffee, 1tsp coconut oil
~200mg caffeine
10g whey isolate
4g beta-alanine
5g creatine

17:28 Training
Weigh in at gym
66kg

19:16 post-training
40g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
3g leucine
5g creatine
54g dextrose

19:56 dinner
Grilles boerewors 346g
90g rice
Alpha men x2

20:30
All covered in nutella
2 large crossaints

20:50
Two powder sugar
Jam doughnuts

22:20 OAKG
12g

22:50
150g cottage cheese

Gym Chest
Crosstrainer 5 mins
Base resistance 11 incline 10

Incline dumbbell press
11.4kg x10
15kg x5
20kg 3
25kg x10 5 sets

Twist in/fly at top
20kg x10 5 sets

Wide grip pull ups
BW x12

Chest cable flys
From top
25kg x10 3 sets
22.5kg x10 2 sets

Super set

(Deadbugs 1
X10 5 sets per side

Barbell bicep curls)
Wide grip
30kg x10 5 sets

Super set
(Reverse barbell curls
20kg x10 5 sets

Dips Narrow grip)
+10kg X10 5 sets

Stretches + foam rolling
 
Yesterday was an interesting day, only had 6 hours sleep at most in the past two days, yet training went well and I managed to eat a little extra.

Tonight I have to hunt for an open gym as the college one is closed until next Wednesday for Easter.

Yesterday
CBL day

12:00 Am mix.
10g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
Coffee with 1tsp coconut oil for MCT,
Alpha men x2

13:00 lunch/breakfast
Grilled chicken fillets 312g
Spinach, tomatoes, broccoli
2tsp olive oil on top

15:00 snack
20g whey isolate
30g almonds

16:50 pre-training
Coffee, 1tsp coconut oil
~200mg caffeine
10g whey isolate
4g beta-alanine
5g creatine

17:28 Training
Weigh in at gym
69kg

18:56 post-training
40g whey isolate
3g leucine
5g creatine
64g dextrose

19:56 dinner
Grilled turkey leg and wing 317g
(Cooked weight)
95g rice
Large Banana
Alpha men x2

20:30
All covered in nutella
1/3 apple pie

20:50
Covered in nutella
large croissant
Chocolate doughnut

22:28 OAKG
12g

23:50
150g cottage cheese

Gym legs
5 mins crosstrainer
Resistance 11 incline 10

Leg press
170lbs x10
single leg
130lbs x12 5 sets

Super set
(Hip adductors
90lbs x10 5 sets

Hip abductors
90lbs x10 5 sets)

Leg extensions
170lbs x10 5 sets

Lying down hamstring curls
140lbs x10 5 sets

Toe pushes
110lbs x10 1 set per foot
120lbs x10 4 sets per foot

Single leg glute bridge
BW x10 3 sets per leg

Planks with glute activation
35 seconds x5

Stretches + foam rolling
 
Gyms are all closed tomorrow, or close around lunch time. Saturday it is then, since they're all still closed Monday as well.

Eating my first half of battenburg right now. It's so sweet it burns my throat :eek:
CBL day

9:45 Am mix.
10g whey isolate
~200mg caffeine
Coffee with 1tsp coconut oil for MCT,
Alpha men x2

13:00 lunch/breakfast
Grilled turkey leg 380g
Spinach, tomatoes, asparagus
2tsp olive oil on top

15:00 snack
20g whey isolate
30g almonds

16:36 pre-training
Coffee, 1tsp coconut oil
~200mg caffeine
10g whey isolate
4g beta-alanine
5g creatine

18:55 post-training
40g whey isolate
3g leucine
5g creatine
65g dextrose

20:05 dinner
Chicken fried rice
Chicken 306g
96g rice
Alpha men x2

20:30
Half battenburg cake

20:50
Half battenburg cake

22:28 OAKG
12g

23:50
150g cottage cheese

Gym shoulders + back
Crosstrainer 5 mins
Base resistance 10 incline 10

Wide grip pull ups
Bw x10

Standing dumbbell shoulder press
7.5kg x10
12.5kg x5
15kg x5
18kg x3
20kg x2
22 x10 5 sets

Wide grip Pull ups
BW x10 4 sets
Bw x5

Side later raises
7.5kg x10 5 sets

Bent over rear delt raises
7.5kg x10 2 sets
6kg x10 3 sets

Dumbell rows
30kg x15 3 sets
25kg x15 2 sets

Barbell upright rows
30kg x10 5 sets

Barbell shrugs
70kg x15
80kg x15 3 sets
70kg x15

Reverse crunches
BW X10 5 sets
 
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