Yeah… this diet change is good (but we’ll see).

Based upon Paul Carter’s LRB-365 and Base Building – dealing with ankle injury

• Incline Press
  • 45 x 10
  • 45 x 10
  • 100 x 5
  • 120 x 4
  • 140 x 3
  • 170 x 2
  • 190 x 1
  • 155 x 12
  • 155 x 6
• DB Bench Press
  • 50e x 10
  • 50e x 10
  • 50e x 10
  • 50e x 8
  • 50e x 8
• Behind the Neck Press
  • 85 x 8
  • 85 x 8
  • 85 x 6
• Seated DB Press
  • 35e x 10
  • 35e x 10
  • 35e x 8
  • 35e x 8
  • 35e x 7
• Rope Pushdowns
  • 25 x 100
• 20 minutes on the elliptical
• Foam Rolling

This weekend was… off for me. My body screamed at me pretty hard. I’ve been feeling very beat up. I slept a LOT over the weekend — not by choice, but because my body demanded it. Sit on the couch? next thing I know I’m waking up 2 hours later. I also ate with some level of abandon. I think I am doing too much… the increased tempo of the lifting sessions (e.g. about a minute rest between every set), the elliptical… it’s all not much, but it’s enough. Despite the high protein intake, yes, I’ve been adding a wee bit of carbs into the diet and it’s paying off with better training sessions (imagine that!), but I think it was still too low and the body was screaming. So I answered.

Back on the wagon now and if I follow this sort of calorie control guide, yeah… carbs with most meals but only “one handful”. Keep the meats lean, keep the fats within control, and while this might be slower well… I reckon it may be more beneficial. And things like allowing myself more carbs say post-workout (e.g. having 2 handfuls), but off-days keeping it there but less (1 handful).

Time will tell. I do think that I’m on a better dietary track than anything extreme like CarbNite (which just was not working). That sort of thing really is intended for folks that don’t exercise and just want diet to improve them. Some people talk about great gains in leaning out while liting, but I’m finding more often than not that it doesn’t really work. I also keep going back to my touchstone of bodybuilders — people that probably more than anyone care about body composition and being lean, and it’s about having ample protein, reasonable fats, then modulating carbs depending on what you’re trying to do — but rare are they carbless.

And so….

We’ll see. The struggle continues. 😉 But it’s a good learning experience for me regardless.