Spring Cutters Crew Vol 7: Hunger is Temporary, Glory is Eternal

[fishnbrah]

This is gonna sound really dumb but when you wanna try losing water weight whats the best way to approach this?

cut out the carbs

[Serb404]

cut out the carbs

Can still do refeeds though I'd imagine? For me I was told to keep my carbs around 200, I am consuming around 190 protein and 80 fats a day with a total of 2500 calorie intake

[AppleCat]

yeah sure bro lol im sure you eat clen and tren hard

lol jk brah looking sickening. do the show, cant hurt that bad right? ever plan on doing bbing show? you have good wheels dont you?

My legs are on par with upper body, some tell me they even overpower it (or at least they did).

I can confirm, I am wheels

Riding around on a finally nice sunny day! Bout to hit the ol gym. Chest & Tri's come at me bro!

But srs, looking juicy!

[tee45peeolb]

Drinking some Diet Dr. Pepper to cure the sweet cravings.

[Arubenstein]

Im so stupid LOL, my girl becca and I were going out this morning and we both got bagels, well then I totally forgot that I ate the bagel, and had lunch.

I think im gonna hurl!! :P

dood you just ruined your entire cutttttt!!!

lol

[Hamzzza]

gaiz pls... am i eating too low? i dont think soo this video scared me though



around 2100-2200 right now.... maybe i should try upping it for the next two weeks to 2300 and see how that goes? gonna slow down on the cardio too

yesssssss .01 of your weight for weight loss per week is fine he said... been around 2 or so for me~ i think im good... hopefully. lol

watched this today




i do more cardio than he recommends, not to loose weight but because i love it, i'm cycling and we have great weather atm


my ride to the gym and back was 40 minutes high intensity(many uphill parts)..tomorrow is rest day and i will probably do a bit more


when weather is good 24/7 i will ride for sure 4-5 times a week




but in the end my deficit is not too big, i try to eat for as much as i burn...im above 2.4-2.5k cals atm

[fishnbrah]

Im so stupid LOL, my girl becca and I were going out this morning and we both got bagels, well then I totally forgot that I ate the bagel, and had lunch.

I think im gonna hurl!! :P

time to switch to bulk brah. theres no coming back for you.

[tektherapripper]

first meal of the day. buffalo chicken pizza w/ red peppers, onions and jalapeños.




dat IF time, i'm on it, atleast for today. not pictured, a big salad and extra chicken on the side.

[mccoy19]

This is gonna sound really dumb but when you wanna try losing water weight whats the best way to approach this?

Not dumb at all, are you trying to peak for a specific day/event, or just in general? Lowered carbs does help, but the bigger factor for me is using dandelion root (natural diuretic), I also sometimes use MHP XPEL along with the dandelion root (again, another natural diuretic). Say my show is on Saturday... Wednesday I would take a a serving of dandelion root in the afternoon, and then again at night (keep water/sodium the same). Then Thursday I take 3 servings of it, and I slightly lower water from 1.25gallons down to .8 gallons. Friday I cut my sodium intake in 1/2 - 1/3rd, and I cut my water down to .5 gallons and I take another 3 servings of dandelion root as well. I cut water out by 6pm. Then come show day just sip on water, and i take another serving of dandelion root that morning. By this point you should look dry as phuck.

(Note: didn't include my carb depletion and carb load with it).... Also, this is entirely what seems to work best for me after quite a few trial and error runs. It can be quite person specific, so you should see what works best for your own body.

[brandon2743]

2500 is a good number for cutting (in the sense of being able to eat lol) when i see people who are taller than me and bigger then me cutting on 1800-2000 calories it trips me out because i consider my metabolism pretty bad and im losing weight much higher number.

similar stats, but I bulk on that dat dere metabolism of peace

[Serb404]

Not dumb at all, are you trying to peak for a specific day/event, or just in general? Lowered carbs does help, but the bigger factor for me is using dandelion root (natural diuretic), I also sometimes use MHP XPEL along with the dandelion root (again, another natural diuretic). Say my show is on Saturday... Wednesday I would take a a serving of dandelion root in the afternoon, and then again at night (keep water/sodium the same). Then Thursday I take 3 servings of it, and I slightly lower water from 1.25gallons down to .8 gallons. Friday I cut my sodium intake in 1/2 - 1/3rd, and I cut my water down to .5 gallons and I take another 3 servings of dandelion root as well. I cut water out by 6pm. Then come show day just sip on water, and i take another serving of dandelion root that morning. By this point you should look dry as phuck.

(Note: didn't include my carb depletion and carb load with it).... Also, this is entirely what seems to work best for me after quite a few trial and error runs. It can be quite person specific, so you should see what works best for your own body.

Thanks I have a big concert (EDC specifically memorial day weekend) I want to be shredded as phuark for so I will try to incorporate some of your suggestions a few days prior to it. Been cutting since February and am quite pleased with my progress thus far just trying to get my lower abs more defined and that V. Looking shredded btw OP, keep it up playa! Thx


ps...where can I purchase this dandelion root of peace brah?

[nilekyle]

similar stats, but I bulk on that dat dere metabolism of peace

keep hustlin' cuz

[fbreaker]

dat pizza... pls go

[downnout]

A break up can make you feel down and out for a few days/weeks, but when used correctly, could motivate you even more than what you were prior.

I like seeing when something like a break up happens, guys use it as motivation rather than fall into the slump of being lazy. Once it's over, it's over. No sense in picking up the pieces ONCE its already broken. Rarely does fixing it work.

That's just my take. My ex to this day still texts me to meet up when I'm in town and texts me "memories" and I give her very little short worded answers. At one point I said "no thanks Jeff" and she replied ".. This isn't Jeff?"

amen brother. mirin your how you handled the situation too.

we're all gonna make it brahs

[mccoy19]

Thanks I have a big concert (EDC specifically memorial day weekend) I want to be shredded as phuark for so I will try to incorporate some of your suggestions a few days prior to it. Been cutting since February and am quite pleased with my progress thus far just trying to get my lower abs more defined and that V. Looking shredded btw OP, keep it up playa! Thx


ps...where can I purchase this dandelion root of peace brah?

Walgreens, GNC, most any health store. Should be like $4-7 bucks for 100 capsules of it. A serving is 3 caps. One bottle will last you awhile. It's nice and cheap and effective

[peteyyytran]

Im so stupid LOL, my girl becca and I were going out this morning and we both got bagels, well then I totally forgot that I ate the bagel, and had lunch.

I think im gonna hurl!! :P

welp there goes your cut *******

Peter boy, I think you'll make it, I think me personally though, I'd milk 2100 calories until you stalled. Even if it slowed down to .5 pounds a week. Run it until you stall, then drop to 1950-2000 for the remainder. You'll make it bro.

yeah i think i might have over done it on the cardio my last cut before the cruise. i was doing A L O T of it and i started to stall. glad it's going well now but i think ill over around 2100-2300 just to test out the waters and keep the cardio around the same. and i was actually gonna just do what you said too and just ride out 2100 until i just stall out completely on it

watch this too if you havent seen it

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im starting my cut pretty high on my cut and slowly bring it down.. i'm 1.5 weeks in and i am eating ~2200-2400 a day right now and i lost 2lbs on my first week (most of it was probably bloat though) i havent started EC yet either, i do train 5 times a week though but its all the exercise i usually really get.

you're eating that much at 159? looking at your stats. phucking matt ogus or something? dude was cutting on 3k cals. wtfuq?

I can confirm, I am wheels

But srs, looking juicy!

and i lost it... LOL

watched this today

i do more cardio than he recommends, not to loose weight but because i love it, i'm cycling and we have great weather atm

my ride to the gym and back was 40 minutes high intensity(many uphill parts)..tomorrow is rest day and i will probably do a bit more

when weather is good 24/7 i will ride for sure 4-5 times a week

but in the end my deficit is not too big, i try to eat for as much as i burn...im above 2.4-2.5k cals atm

oh yeah if i was doing that id def be over dem cals too but if you enjoy it phuck it.

Lol I have contemplated doing BB'ing - My legs are on par with upper body, some tell me they even overpower it (or at least they did). Lol. I guess I wanted to do well in Men's Physique before I switched to something else, since i'm stubborn and competitive and the best i've done so far is place 2nd at a show. I want a 1st place trophy <3, and more realistically I just want to feel like I looked the best I could. Then I'd consider BB'ing. Contemplated getting leaner and competing in both. Thanks for the kind words my instagram amigo. no homo.

Lol thanks man, I feel like I look off there, but I know it's mostly water (and obviously some fat). So since these photos are without any drying out, and knowing how I lose a lot of water in my abs when i dry out - I'm feeling decent. Hopefully I can lose another 2-3lbs of fat over the next 2.5 weeks. Aka more low carbs of peace

np brah instagram is fun as chit. hope to add more miscers and anyone that uses it tag your photos with #SCC and youll basically get instafollowed by one of us

brb my co worker just commented on how my face is looking skinnier/sunk in already since its only been 1+ month. lawd i wish i had a pic @my old job when i had first started... wow.

[fldhkybnva]

does your coconut oil have any coconut aroma/taste to it? i bought a jar of coconut oil, but it had no smell or taste of coconut, was disappoint brah

Did you buy the refined? The extra virgin unrefined tastes and smells like coconut but the refined does not.

I use spectrum unrefined http://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-Natur.../dp/B000AN36I0

[jshaw5]

dont forget about overhead press day brah!

Haha yeah, but I only lift 3x/week, so OHP doesn't get it's own day.

2.5 weeks out from competition (Also contemplating doing this show next Saturday as a warm up, will decide by this monday or tuesday). Been dropping carbs lower and lower as I try to get rid of 2-3 more lbs of fat before the competition. Holding a ton of water and nice and flat, as per usual. Lol conveniently I can get rid of the subq water easily on the days leading up to the show, so not worried about it at this point. Excited to see how it looks once i drop 2-3lbs more and then dry up and carb up.

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Pretty much everyone ITT wished they looked that flat lol.

do you do a 3 day split? i would think that sometimes you would still be beat up going from squats to deads the next day, or even the day after that.

I've always done 3 days/week. Up until recently, I had been doing Texas Method, which has volume squats on Monday and intensity squats and deadlifts on Friday. I just recently changed up my programming, so now I do Juggernaut Method for squats on Monday and I do deadlifts on Friday. That should be plenty of time between the two lifts so that recovery from one won't effect the other.

[Serb404]

Walgreens, GNC, most any health store. Should be like $4-7 bucks for 100 capsules of it. A serving is 3 caps. One bottle will last you awhile. It's nice and cheap and effective

Perfect, will run expel too 10 days before the event to dry out too. I heard good things about it so pretty stoked, event isn't till May 24th so I still have plenty of time to maybe put on some lean mass, what you think?

[handcannon77]

chit didnt realize we were using #SCC on instagram now, better get on my tagging game

[mccoy19]

Perfect, will run expel too 10 days before the event to dry out too. I heard good things about it so pretty stoked, event isn't till May 24th so I still have plenty of time to maybe put on some lean mass, what you think?

Yea I actually dont start running the XPEL/dandelion root until like 3-5 days prior, and i just tend to do a few servings on the days leading up, but 10 days leading up might work well for you, too. Might be hard to add too much lean mass in one month, but not impossible. Either that or continue cutting so you're extra shredded for it. I don't know what you look like physique wise right now, sort of depends on your goals. Jelly though, I was supposed to go to Ultra in Miami in March but my bros i went on spring break with were to broke. -_-

[Serb404]

Yea I actually dont start running the XPEL/dandelion root until like 3-5 days prior, and i just tend to do a few servings on the days leading up, but 10 days leading up might work well for you, too. Might be hard to add too much lean mass in one month, but not impossible. Either that or continue cutting so you're extra shredded for it. I don't know what you look like physique wise right now, sort of depends on your goals. Jelly though, I was supposed to go to Ultra in Miami in March but my bros i went on spring break with were to broke. -_-

yeah either keep cutting or stay on maintenance I figured, good call and I'll upload a pic later tonight after the gym most likely. You and I weigh the same but I'm 6'4 lolz

[STeGoR]

At the end of the day I'm going to have room for 2 chicken breasts and nothing else. Is hot sauce the best way to go?

Sriracha ALL DAY BRO.

[BackOnMyGrizzy]

what kind of splits are some of you guys running?
push/pull/legs? bodysplits?

[801down]

How many calories / week are you all going to add after your cut? Is 150-200 the average, so essentially it takes 5-6 weeks to go from cut to lean bulk?

[Nexxus]

what kind of splits are some of you guys running?
push/pull/legs? bodysplits?

upper/lower brah

[PhysioFit]

Brahs found ultimate cheat meal quenching snack..



60 calories sure, but means I won't cheat on something bigger.

And yes, it does look like a dink. (no homo)

[DunGoofdUname]

Can't wait till my 4k refeed on saturday. Soon.png

[BackOnMyGrizzy]

upper/lower brah

how do you like it? intersted in trying fullbody 3x a week or an upper/lower split since higher frequency is better for nattys. currently on push/pull/legs and before that i did a 5 day split.

[ruckin]

How many calories / week are you all going to add after your cut? Is 150-200 the average, so essentially it takes 5-6 weeks to go from cut to lean bulk?

im gonna be adding ~100 cals/day each week. yeah it'll be frustrating taking that long but it'll be worth it when i get my metabolism back up without putting fat back on.