Body weight: 181.0 # (5:30 am, shorts on)
I spent Saturday in Des Moines watching my brother compete in a very, very competive heavy weight division at Iowa Strongest Man. He usually competes in middle weight, so getting 16 out of 28 competitors going for a pro-card in the heavy weight division was a good accomplishment.
But the day was a real hassle for me… travelling in general is, but the venue he was competing at didn’t allow food or drink… so every two hours I had to go out and get food at the car and stand in the hot sun and eat it. It wasn’t fun - but I made it through without missing any meals. We also took Sunday off lifting and worked on our new home gym a little more… we (mainly Zack) built our deadlift platform. All we’re really missing is a squat rack and about a hundred more pounds before we’re ready to go.
The diet has been suprisingly easy so far - I’m not sure if that’s good or not. I feel like I’m leaning out and staying on track for the most part. Sometimes I feel I’m ahead and sometimes behind… my mind will play these tricks on me all the way up until showtime… I just have to learn to block that out and stay the course. I made one minor change to my diet… I moved my protein shake to 10 am and another chicken and brocolli to 5 pm…. I did this so I wasn’t eating so much at work.
I’ve had plenty of rest and my energy levels are still real good - so I’m ready to hit the gym tonight.
Comments
Glad to hear all is going well. I wondered how you would do things at the Iowa meet.
I am down to 150ish carbs a day and really felt it doing reps on squats last night. I just can’t quite do chicken/broccoli that many times a day unless I had a goal like yours, in the end.
Keep up the good work.