🍋 Update No.8 ✂️

The time has come.. the cut has now begun. For those of you who aren’t informed, to ‘ cut ‘ is literally just to cut weight / lose weight which is what I am now doing. Yesterday I bought a bunch of meat and other product like vegetables etc etc and it served as a little experiment to see how I might fare with getting a solid diet going.

It was a little pricey and that hurt but it’s all good, I know what to spend on next time, what not to, so it’s all good. Once I’m back into university I can find a new job anyway and get my finances in order.

🏋️‍♂️ 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖎𝖋𝖙𝖟 🗻

Of course I got to put the lifts in too since holiday..

Deadlift I haven’t PR’ed yet but next session I likely will be, now that I’m using a mixed grip I have more stability with higher weight, I’ve managed to pull 160kg easily enough which was my old PR plus with my regular training I usually do 140kg for like 4 – 5 reps but that was before my holiday, in my most recent session when I last hit that 140kg I’ve skyrocketed to doing ‘ touch-and-go ‘ reps ( Touch the ground a little and immediately pull the weight back up ) of 140kg for 8 solid reps.

I’m looking at a 170 – 180kg deadlift PR.

🗣️ “ 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁 “ 🗣️

Back on some of my best sessions I was able to really feel a good contraction on the muscles and have a killer workout, the secret? Variety. Not necessarily in exercises but rather movements, rep-ranges and the form of said exercise. If I do chest I do bench press for a few sets, work to a heavy set, work with a few sets of a weight where I achieve failure at 4 – 5 reps then work back down until I do like 16 reps with a weight. From here I’ll just do similar style of weight adjustment and training with cable pec flys. Before I used to just do heavy and slightly lighter and neglect that smaller incremental value to feeling a muscle plus the approach of achieving a clean full stretch or contraction on any given lift.

That about concludes today’s entry, thank you.

P.S : Train rear delts, it makes all the difference.