Bandit’s Contest Prep Log - 18 & 20 weeks out
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Check-in info shipped to coach. Honestly glad we didn’t see another drop today. I wanna push this shit hard.
Had one of my best sleeps in a while last night. A mixture of having a long day (I was beat by the end of the day) & increasing my sleep aids:
- 75mg trazodone
- 40mg melatonin
- additional 10mg sublingual melatonin when I woke up in the middle of the night.
Was in bed for a total of 7 hours, I’d estimate sleeping for 5-5.5. I’ll take it considering I was out cold while I was actually sleeping.
Check-in info shipped to coach. Honestly glad we didn’t see another drop today. I wanna push this shit hard.
Had one of my best sleeps in a while last night. A mixture of having a long day (I was beat by the end of the day) & increasing my sleep aids:
- 75mg trazodone
- 40mg melatonin
- additional 10mg sublingual melatonin when I woke up in the middle of the night.
Was in bed for a total of 7 hours, I’d estimate sleeping for 5-5.5. I’ll take it considering I was out cold while I was actually sleeping.
Trazodone is risky, like any anti depressant.
But mixing tren with school shooter drugs could be very interesting. Lol
Can’t be any worse than being sleep deprived
Plan updated
Moving to every other day check ins now.
A mistake was made in my previous check in. Coach made a typo which stated he wanted my Mast at 100mg/week. Turns out he missed a 0 and wants it at 1000mg/week. Makes a lot more sense. A little annoying but not a big deal. Only a few days of missed dose.
No change to the diet today.
Cardio reduced from 35 mins on stairs to 25 mins of brisk walk.
Training wise, no shakey reps, no failing reps. Especially compound movements. Dial back leg volume. No numbers set in stone, will feel it out next session.
Moving to every other day check ins now.
A mistake was made in my previous check in. Coach made a typo which stated he wanted my Mast at 100mg/week. Turns out he missed a 0 and wants it at 1000mg/week. Makes a lot more sense. A little annoying but not a big deal. Only a few days of missed dose.
No change to the diet today.
Cardio reduced from 35 mins on stairs to 25 mins of brisk walk.
Training wise, no shakey reps, no failing reps. Especially compound movements. Dial back leg volume. No numbers set in stone, will feel it out next session.
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Pressing strength down to about 80% of my peak. I’d call that acceptable at this point.
Managed to grip & rip 2 PR sets on the lateral raise machine at the end of my session
Managed to grip & rip 2 PR sets on the lateral raise machine at the end of my session
For me, pressing strength is always the first to drop.
There’s definitely an element of “mass moves mass” when it comes to pressing. More so than any other exercises from my experience.
New low weight for the prep this morning
192.0lbs
192.0lbs
Yeah, I figured my chest is just a weak point. Because I hold on to pulling strength well.
Man, you’re a furnace right now.
Should be interesting to see where I weigh in tomorrow. The trend seems to be that the scale will drop after a training day, and then come back up a little after a rest day. Today is a training day so it might come down again.
I figured you would drop on a rest day due to less caloric intake and perhaps dropping some inflammation / water. Guess you burn a ton of calories lifting.
Yeah I see a lot of people say you don’t really burn a ton of calories during training. Like a few hundred calories. I don’t buy that.. atleast not in my own case. I try to remain humble but I can confidently say I train hard as fuck and I see very few people matching my energy in the gym
How long are your rests between sets? I used to take like two min between sets. I find while on EQ, and leaning down, I don’t need nearly that much rest.
Not something I pay much attention to. If I were to guess 2-3 mins between each set.
Arm day I typically keep a faster pace. Closer to 90 secs
Is your coach involved in your training program?
Also looking at your youtube, it seems you do a lot of machine work. Do you do much for free weights?
I mostly modulate my training on my own however we often bounce ideas off eachother and he provides feedback/suggestions. We’re basically on the same page when it comes to training philosophy seeing as we’ve been working together for years. When we initially started working together he controlled it entirely. Overtime we’ve shifted away from that.
Mostly machine work. Some dumbbell work, rarely barbell exercises.
Yes, 8-10g in my intra shake