Wow, that’s a serious meal plan. Is that 7/7 and do eat like that on rest days as well?
Yup. At least I try to, I do admit, some days I do fall slightly short of all those meals due to work, ect, that I listed above, but I’m fairly consistent and I don’t like to stray away from my meal plan. (Other things that I add in the my diet is Greek yogurt, mixed nuts, Pineapple, Cereal, and oatmeal.)
The reason I’m so adamant about staying consistent with my meal plan, is if you start straying away from your meal plan if you don’t eat every two hours, you get very hungry quickly, because your metabolism is working at such a high rate and if you eventually fall off your plan completely, the muscles will fall ‘flat’, which is what you don’t want to have happen. (And I literally do eat every two hours on the clock.)
Where I really try to push the calories as hard as I can, is on my resting days, where I don’t have to worry about making up for calories that I burned in the gym, I also find personally on my resting days, that’s where I find I grow the most with muscle rejuvenation, and supplying it with the protein essentials is key.
Speaking of which, Next batch of chicken just finished cooking:
Can you share what one workout looks like as well?
So for my workout today was triceps and shoulders: [1.30 total].
For tricep training, I prefer cable work with the Rope pulldown, rope overhead (2 variations I perform with the overhead), V-Bar pushdown, single cable pulls. And I also train both arms either simultaneously or unilaterally to isolate each arm.
I trained shoulders with free weights and cables, Front and side lateral raises, dumbbell overhead, barbell raises, straight bar pull ups, and I train rear delt with the ‘Pec Deck’ machine and free weights.
[No matter what muscle group I’m training , I always go to failure, I don’t have a ‘set number’ of when I stop before I transition to the next set. However, my rule is, I _always_ start with a lighter weight to warm up the muscles before transitioning to a heavier weight with each set. (Too many times, I see guys who start with the heaviest weight with ego-lifting and they are begging for an injury or you can tell they already have an injury, because they will grab wherever the pain is). Bodybuilding is all about the state of progression, you work your way to a higher weight, and a smart bodybuilder will start with a lighter weight to efficiently warm the muscles before transitioning to progressive overload.]
