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Weight: forgot to weigh

God I really can't handle this gig. I predict perpetual yo-yoing, at least until lockdown ends. I cannot control my weight. These past couple of weeks have been...

I've been warned about the dangers of going down the path of carrot sticks... but I don't give a fuk

^^ good post, read that and follow that advice and no other OP.

Don't expect there to be a shortcut, there isn't a magic 'diet' or 'workout' that will make you lose fat. Only monitoring what you...

The fact that if I want a fatty cheeseburger, I eat one and will still lose weight because I keep it within my calories...

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Protein synthesis is a long term process and food timings have no effect on it. What does have an effect on long term results is workout intensity

If you can work out just as intensely fasted then...

Overtraining, chronic fatigue, burnout blah blah

Basically various things can happen when you don't manage things properly:

Psychologically: It sounds like you might be being a little obsessive...

Eat less

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Rest day today

Weight: 70.5kg/155.5lb

Some weekend water off, was in a decent deficit yesterday. Kindof against my will I keep finding myself in deficit on workout days. Instant...

Or option 3.... factor in TWO day's drinking a week :P

That seems to be my preferred method right now lol

Due to variation in different people, obviously any kind of 'number' put on this is going to be an approximation. If you take calories as an analogy.

You can only ever definitively be in a...

On an objective note there aren't enough pull exercises for it to be balanced

From a personal standpoint it looks like too much volume and too much accessory work

Cheers man, I think the only thing I'm struggling with at the moment is getting anywhere at all lol. As mentioned in latest update, cutting is so much simpler

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Heeeeeeeeeeaaaavy weekend alcohol-wise. Probs have 3-4000 cals of surplus to iron out. Not ideal but this is why I cut down so light:

Weight: 71.4kg/157.4lb

Will be reigning back this...

Sh*t, I may need to get one

Hope you're doing ok brother x

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Kept yesterday fairly reasonable calorie-wise. Wouldn't have come out too far above maintenance

Weight: 69.5kg/153.3lb

Feel like I'm homing in on a decent new baseline. Was expecting...

should aim for pull > push (as in more pull than push exercises)

Currently I'm doing:

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Weighted pressups
Wide grip bor
Wide grip pullups
Lunges

sh*t you're right, I'll need to think of a new scheme. The muscles see all (even if they are confused)

I generally point and shout 'look over there!'. Then when they're all focused on that I quickly thrash out a set of curls. They don't know what's hit them (except for my finger muscles I used for...

Could you explain the functional trainer lifts a little more and how they work?

Gotta confuse those muscles...

Oh wait, no you don't.