So last night while working at MMS a tool rep stopped in who used to be a competitive body builder & psuedo trainer. As we spoke I asked him his opinion on various diet & training ideas I’ve been toying with & he queried my quest. When I explained my last 18 months, fitness wise, he was really enthused, saying if I’d lost 60 pounds, mostly in the middle 6 months, my goal of a solid 235 was totally attainable! He offered to take a look at my diet (such as it has been lately) & my workout spreadsheets to make some suggestions to break the plateau & get this freight train back up to speed! He’s a firm believer in working just a couple muscle groups daily but to complete failure then cycling through’em all in a 1 week cycle, 5 to 6 days a week with at least some cardio thrown in on every training day. He still pulls doubles, cardio AM & iron PM but when I explained my 12-16 hour days on the clock plus an hour total in commute & 90 minutes at the gym he agreed doubles aren’t an option.
He’s also very much a disbeliever in fasting exercise. He’s positive if I’d begin eating at least a little lean protein upon rising my gut will shortly adapt to working out with food & my grinding will become MUCH more productive. I explained I totally agree with the adding lean muscle to lose flab philosophy & he was totally shocked since, in his opinion, my approach has been much more geared towards shedding flab BUT he added that he’ll focus the shedding of flab on diet & the adding of lean on the iron. This all sounds VERY familiar, AKA BodyBuilding.com pals, so I’m not seeing anything Greek here just hoping to shuffle things up a bit & regain the focus & motivation I once had! The cool thing is that he’s in town Tues, Wed & Thurs weekly so he’s ready to jump in & help push start this diesel locomotive!
So anyhow, trainer dude hung out at MMS talking diet & training while I ran parts until I left around 9:30. Then he was at the gym biking away when I rolled in this AM. We started talking workout structure & he asked if I’d eaten anything prior to showing up, as he’d suggested last night. I said that I had at 4:50AM & he freaked! He remembered I was at the shop til 9:30 & pointed out I’m not getting NEARLY enough sleep for the body to heal so I asked where the “MAGIC EXTRA TIME ATM” was located & he laughed but said 5 or 6 hours nightly just isn’t enough. I explained that 5 to 6 hours nightly has been a recent & HUGE improvement over months past & he just shook his head, asking if I wondered why I’d plateau’ed ?!?!?
As the program takes shape I’ll make sure to letchy’all know what Griz is up to but for the meantime I’m more & more hoping things pan out in negotiations with MMS so I can cut back to 10-12 hour days, 6 days a week rather than the 12-16 hour days, 6-7 days weekly I’ve been running lately! That way MAYBE I’ll have a lil more time to cook more decent / real food & POSSIBLY even slip in an extra hour of sack time here & there LOL!
Rock on pals!
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