MTheads

Wlog

Unfortunately, no new PRs in the bench press.  I'm doing mostly dumbbell bench presses right now.  I did add in military presses.  Dang, those are hard!  I'm up to 65lbs max rep on those. Pull-ups are great.  I want to start doing dips. 

At least I'm deadlifting and squatting heavier.  I'm up to 155lb max reps on both.  And I'm doing straight legged dl for the hams.  Keeps me off the streets.

Low carb fad diet is still good.  I eat a lot of steak.  The real challenge is feeding six people this way.  One, I have to go shopping almost everyday for fresh food.  I'm aware I could do freezed meat, but our freezer is tiny.  I'm lucky I can squeeze in some frozen veggies.  This refrigerator came with the town home and was meant for someone single with cat who puts a premium on various ice types and filtered water.  We want to buy another freezer sometime in the future.  

Two, what I like to eat is expensive.  I'm buying the highest quality food we can afford on any given day.  Right now I have a 15 dollar chicken, admittedly large, sitting in the fridge for tonight. 

Luckily, I love to walk, cook and buy expensive food.  So, I'm not complaining.  But I am having to relearn how to feed all of us.  Instead of getting recipes from low carb or paleo cookbooks, I'm turning to older cookbooks for recipes.  For example, Julia Child and Elizabeth David aren't overly concerned with fat content. 

Roast beef, stroganoff, goulash, pot roasts, stews, pates, liver, coq au vin (a personal favorite), and lamb tips are all recipes I've tried recently, some more successful than others.  I haven't been able to make a beef stew I love yet. 

Cat included for scale. 



Workout Log with Picture!

Here's a pictorial update on my accumulated muscle mass:

Look at those oddly long arms...try doing a pull up with those.

I haven't weighed myself for a month so I don't know that.  But belly flattish (four kids explains the -ish part) and clothes fit the same.  I need to get a scale.  My legs are bigger too.  I'll get a pic of those one of these days.

I've finally made some gains in the leg department.  I'm up to 145lb dead lift and squat.  Took long enough.  My lower back was the weakest link. 

My LCHF diet is still going fine.  I felt very weird for over two months - kind of hollow and dead inside, hahaha not that bad, but odd.  Now I can't tell any difference.  Maybe I have more energy, but I've always been fairly energetic.  I'm definitely less hungry.  Sometimes I can't eat anything at meal times.  I am drinking close to a cup of heavy cream a day in my coffee.  That could explain things.

 

 

Bro, Do You Even Lift 120lbs Once and Then Dance Around the Gym Like a Chicken?

Ha ha!  120lb BP!  Take that, 115lb BP 1 rep max!  That's right, I'm kicking sand in your face, loser.  Whatcha gonna do about it?  Cry?  Yesterday's MThead, do you even lift?

 

Random Workout Log

Workout log:

I have been killing my legs the last two workouts with the soreness lasting more than four days!  I have increased all the weights but not to any degree different from my usual increases.  So I'm forcing myself to take a few days longer before I hit them again.  It's hard not going to the gym.

But the upper body is going fine.  I managed to do 10 pull-ups in a row, finally.   Now I'll start to work on other styles of pull-ups.  Once I hit ten, I stop and either do weighted pull-ups or work on harder grips.  I'm still going for quantity every gym visit.  For leg day I do a total of 25 pull ups in any style, and 30 on upper body day.

I'm still stuck at 115lbs for the bench press, but my deadlifts are getting better.  I'm going to try and improve PRs on both on next the visit.

I'm still eating low carb.  I'm not as hungry lately so I've have eased up on eating steak after butter drenched steak.  My morning cup of cream with a shot of espresso seems to do the trick until lunch.  My sister is also eating low carb.  She has lost weight, but I think I've actually gained some, though it is probably in muscle.  It's hard to tell because the scale at the Y is kind of fiddly.  One moment I weigh 110lb and the next 116lbs!  But I do think I weigh a few pounds more.  

Goals:  10 wider arm pull-ups.  120lb BP.  145lb squats.  145lb DL.

Workout Log

BP 115lb! Slowly going up. 

SQ 135lb  Still wimpy, but heartfelt

DL 145lb  Not horrible, but I think (hope) I'll quickly go up in weight since I've just started doing them again

I'm taking a break in working out the legs.  I'll start back up maybe Monday.  Also, I've decided to go really low carb which is hilarious considering how long I was a vegetarian!  Taubes' books have swayed me on the soundness of eating fewer carbs.  My kids aren't sure what to think now that I'm switching out their whole grain cereal for real meat sausages and highly buttered up scrambled eggs.  They think it's a trick.

That's right, sweetie, you can eat the sausage.  I know it's real pig.  I know I told you before it was a sin.  That's right, put it on the fork.  No, it won't kill you.  Eat it!