Feeling pretty good

My legs are feeling pretty shot today following the weekends various gym sessions, but I have to say, training has a renewed focus of late. I’m targeting the 250/315/405 numbers for powerlifts. For a competitive guy these are pretty modest, but compared to the average guy in the street, they are stellar.

A 250lb bench maybe the hardest as I seem more suited to dumbbells for some reason. Currently at about 200lbs for a working poundage, so maybe 20lbs more for a max lift. The 315 deadlift should be pretty attainable in time, (indeed if things keep going the way they are only 8 weeks). I never used to deadlift as I was always getting back problems from it. But if you take your trainers off, no problemo. So I should get there quite easily. As for the squat, I’m currently at 315 for many reps and can do 350lbs so 405 should be easy enough. The squat is one of those things that’s easy for me and I really don’t want to much more poundage.

Also the new nutrition recording, (really just writing down the calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fibre of what you eat every day) keeps you really focussed on good dietary habits. It’s kinda like writing something down makes you think “Do I really want that double choc, lardie burger” Also, eating “clean” seems to give you way more energy, like you can’t believe.

I worked out over the weekend that I need about 2400 calories for maintenance, plus another 300 calories for the daily exercise. So by consuming only 2000 per day, (really quite easy) I should drop about 1.4 lbs per week. So by early August, I may at last get that long sought leanness.