The ADD's Log: Build Back Better

[The ADD]

Next three weeks are going to be hell at work. I'm going to cut volume for the rest of the year. Meals and sleep will be to inconsistent and I don't want to fall off a cliff.

 

[The ADD]

Active Recovery Day:

5x5 Warm-Up back squats
Treadmill 15 incline, 2.5 speed, 36 minutes

 

[The ADD]

One of those rare sessions where the weight felt like nothing.

Liking these 5x5 squats as a warm up for every session.

 

[Black Ball]

Down another 1.4 with this plan. I think I've found the path.

What's your height & current weight? What weight you trying to reach?

 

[The ADD]

What's your height & current weight? What weight you trying to reach?

5'9, 195ish

Hopefully 180

 

[Black Ball]

5'9, 195ish

Hopefully 180

I've never had success with a gradual and steady approach to weight loss. I have to be all in go hard mode or I always give back the small progress I've made. On the norm, I try to do 5-2 or 6-1 eat clean-cheat day ratio. And I usually do the most cardio the day after a cheat day. That has usually worked for me when approaching normal weight loss.

 

[The ADD]

I've never had success with a gradual and steady approach to weight loss. I have to be all in go hard mode or I always give back the small progress I've made. On the norm, I try to do 5-2 or 6-1 eat clean-cheat day ratio. And I usually do the most cardio the day after a cheat day. That has usually worked for me when approaching normal weight loss.

I don't understand the difference.

 

[Black Ball]

I don't understand the difference.

I guess how I view it is some people can just eat their routine diet and do their routine workouts and steadily move towards their goals at a slow & gradual pace. My approach is usually very specific, deliberate, and I'm looking for results almost on a daily basis. Like if I'm eating clean and working out hard, I expect to see immediate & significant results.

I see some folks with more of a casual approach but I need to be very regimented & anal to achieve my goals. It's mainly because I generally lack self control in my eating & working out. So I need specific rules to abide by and hold myself to for me to succeed. Like if I'm dieting, I'm all in until I hit my goal. I won't eat pizza, or dessert, or anything pleasurable I generally consider to be cheat foods. Why? Because I lack self control. I need to get up every single morning and go to the gym, because I lack the control to miss a day here and there and not let it become a bad habit.

 

[The ADD]

I guess how I view it is some people can just eat their routine diet and do their routine workouts and steadily move towards their goals at a slow & gradual pace. My approach is usually very specific, deliberate, and I'm looking for results almost on a daily basis. Like if I'm eating clean and working out hard, I expect to see immediate & significant results.

I see some folks with more of a casual approach but I need to be very regimented & anal to achieve my goals. It's mainly because I generally lack self control in my eating & working out. So I need specific rules to abide by and hold myself to for me to succeed. Like if I'm dieting, I'm all in until I hit my goal. I won't eat pizza, or dessert, or anything pleasurable I generally consider to be cheat foods. Why? Because I lack self control. I need to get up every single morning and go to the gym, because I lack the control to miss a day here and there and not let it become a bad habit.

I'm somewhere not to far removed from that.

 

[The ADD]

Them cravings

 

[The ADD]

I think I'm going to use 12/25 through 1/2 as a break. Probably 30-45 minutes of LISS, push-ups, dips and pull-ups as the only activity each morning.

 

[The ADD]

Lifting for the muscle groups in the back are officially my favorite. Impossible not to feel:

 

[The ADD]

Down to my lowest weight since June but getting there the wrong way

Just gotta hang on for another two weeks.

 

[The ADD]

Decent session:

Front squats 5x5 for warm up

Flat Bench Press
Weighted Pull-Ups
Incline DB Press
Reverse Grip Chin-Ups
Decline Bench Press
DB Pullovers

 

[The ADD]

Down to my lowest weight since June but getting there the wrong way

Just gotta hang on for another two weeks.