Day...I dunno. I know I'm into my 5th week and...dun dun dun
BENCH BACK UP TO 135!!
Good gawd...was jogging my husky about a year ago when I zoned out and she suddenly stopped to smell some other dog's poop, and she yanked my arm back messing up my shoulder. Bench took a nose dive and every time I took time off and got back into it, I would fail the lift. During cycle, I've been taking it slow and steady, benching only one push session and landmine pressing the other push sesh.
Woke up at 3 am, carbed up for the first time in 10 days and went for my 430 am workout and killed that bitch of a lift.
I pyramid'd up to it and it was smooth as silk. Hopefully I can get some more reps in at 135 next week.
Sitting at 1700 cals, 175g protein, 100g, 65g fat. It's a bearable deficit and I'm leaning out quite nicely. Hopefully I can keep that for the rest of my cycle, as the first 3 weeks were a bit all over the place with carb intake. It was up to 220g at one point which felt awesome, but being higher BF, I felt really pudgy right away with the var filling me out. The thing about var is that diet changes show up super quickly. 10 days at a deficit and I've made a dramatic change. I hope that motivates me to stay the course. 1700 is good without being miserable. I find myself struggling for energy and more irritable by end of day, but that's dieting, right?
Cardio still going strong at 7 days a week 30-40 min.