No Crust Racing

God, I love you TTT. No homo.

That's pretty good, the sets thing. I've wondered about moving to lower reps and more sets but I think, for me at least, sticking to my tried and tested 3x8 gets me enough results and prevents me getting carried away with weight too quickly so everything has a chance to catch up before I add weight if you get me. But to be fair, I'm not strong in any direction so I'm pretty easily impressed by other peoples achievements!

For what it's worth, that aspect of things does get a bit better over time. Though admittedly, I still get a bit paranoid sometimes about being too skinny and I've come a fair way from 65kg. Hard to shake the old attitudes sometimes.

I'm with Mitch. Winter = awesome food and less f**ks given for ab definition and being vascular and all that

Jogged my morning walk, 1.95k in 11ms30secs lol not exactly a blistering oace but I've never ran fast, especially at 6:30am. I'm only just warming up by the end of it. Ankle feels OK, good given she did a number on it yesterday. See how it goes tonight during gym. On the jogging front my aim is probably to get back to morning 3k jogs on the old route which includes a fairly decent 30-40m ascent.

Shit I meant yeah SQUAT

You never fail to deliver Birds, Man you make me laugh I'd love to sink some beers with you, for a number of reasons I think you'd be good value. Maybe DECA one time? I love it when people dismiss an opinion contrary the their own as strawman tactics. "Oh they just don't get what I'm on about so they're attacking this aspect or that, but that's not what I really meant" as if there's no possible way others could disagree if they only understood. Surely if someone misunderstands it must be intentional, especially on a forum where we have the richness of text to convey a message. Body language and intonation are pretty overrated. Our of curiosity, how old are you Birds? Not a loaded question, you just remind me of myself at a certain age and I'm curious. Rev, yeah agreed on pretty much all fronts and by and large I actually agree with BIrds opinion on how to go about eating. Just not so much the delivery or the idea that one size fits all (not that he was actually saying either of those things as we can't be sure what strawman I might have created).

I have no idea why it rotates the image when you post it on the phone. Anyway, I do not rate this cheese. Coles Brie is much better than Aldi Brie.

Wut?

I lol'd

Also.. Hi, my name is Dan and it's been well over 30 days since I last curled. Welcome to Curlers Anonymous.

Back to full weight on things now, low as it is, but full weight for me. Squats for 66, Bench for 96, DL for 60, row for 60x2 then 1x66, chin ups with 4.5kg, and dips with 11kg. My arse and legs are getting a bit bigger so I appear to be seeing some growth, need some new pants. Jogging each morning, only a K or so but going to step that up to a 2k jog and see how I go. Physio is quite happy with progress, back/pelvis/ankle feeling better all the time.

"Some love it; some hate it. The ones who do love it, love it more than those who hate and that's what matters to me :)" That's a good way to look at it... you know... if that's what works for you

Pregnancy seems to affect everyone really differently ( a few friends going through it also atm). All I could say from watching Kate go through it is keep active and eat lots, but healthy choices.

Hahah you got it. I'll do what Kate did when she was preggers, some for me some for baby. Some for me, some for Leesh. I couldn't beleive she walked out of the hospital in pre-pregnancy jeans after a 1 night stay 0_0 Dem fit girls awwww yeah.

LOL Probably Troy, coz he needs to burn some calories, Nigga is carrying at least 2% more BF than is allowed.

Birds, If only you could channel that energy into an aesthetic attribute you'd be an adonis lol You know your shit works for you, and likely quite a few others (I think I'm in the same boat as you anyway), that's why there's more than one way to do anything because generally there's different ways that work well for different people. I think we've established that. You can have the same goal and achieve it in different ways, when he likes his way and it works for him, why get dem panties in a bunch trying to change it? Like you said, it's all just an opinion so take it with a grain of salt. Historically though, I've found that if a large number of people tend to have an opinion about you, it's generally either bang on the money about who you really are, or at the very least, is indicative of the façade that you maintain - if you're the type that tends to try and portray themselves as someone they're not. That's a generalisation though, as I'm the only one (in this convo) to have taken a dig at you so for all I know others may love the way you dispense advice. All this talking shit has given me a mighty hunger for cheese goods.

Wow, pics and everything, there's a good few minutes of lifting wasted in there. And you can't, for a second, entertain the idea that what works for you, diet wise only, may not work for him or any other number of people? If he has a system that works for him, regardless of what you think of the time invested or that you think it's unnecessary, why you so mad for? I don't recall him saying he needed to shave time of his dietary calculations, which is the main crux of your point it seems? I'm glad you don't care what I think of your appearance, though your prickly reaction kind of implies otherwise, but the point I was making was just that goals are subjective and you seem to tout your bf% and looks as some kind of validation that what you sprout has any more merit than any of the other guys here, who probably lift a lot more and, again only in my opinion, probably look a lot better too - which is more so your focal point it seems (and a perfectly valid one at that). Easy for me to criticise though, I don't look great or lift that much, but I do enjoy the process. What I do tend to take issue with is when people try and force feed others their opinions as gospel when they are likely coming from a very different view point, not to mention that the truth of the matter is we are not all created equal. Oh, and you're right, it is just your opinion and you are free to share it like everyone else, you could learn a lot from TTT in delivering a no bullshit opinion without seeing this sort of reaction from the people you are likely trying to "help".

lol sorry Leesh, if it makes you feel better I'll only eat a quarter of it.

I hear ya, god damn I love eating. I just enjoy the process as weird as that sounds. I'm gonna go home and eat some cheese tonight, there's a fresh wheel in the fridge!

For what it's worth, I just make "smart"ish eating choices and let my eyes tell me the rest, so my method is probably more like Birds, but I do not have the same infatuation with BF % as some of the guys you see around as I'm not a body builder/professional model/quite that vain/already in a long term relationship/whatever other reason people have. My goals are squat more, dead more, improve leg/back/upper body strength imbalances and get my ankle better. Whether I'm 5% or 30% bf really makes SFA difference to those goals. If I had a really specific goal or a special dietary requirement/intolerance, I'd be far more invested in the dietary side of thing as some of you guys here are. Side bar, I'm getting low on my supp so when I'm out I'll order a KG of that BN WPC and report back for anyone else interested.

Oh Birds you make me laugh so much. Add that 5mins to the time you already spent trying to debate the fact with a person who simply doesn't care what you think, time you wasted that you could have been using to lift. And honestly, given you mentioned your stats of being 6'3 and 80kg, and having seen a pic of Troy, he looks a whole lot better than you do anyway. Which is a point in itself, goals are completely subjective, aesthetics included, so while you might think you look good at 10% bf others would not. In the end, worry about what you want to achieve and how to get it rather than trying to convince others that your way is the right way for them, especially given that different things work for different people different ways. I'll be in the corner squatting poorly if you need me.

Why would you waste that precious time Birds, surely you should be lifting?

Wasn't reading anything in particular TTT, was just thinking about when mixing up a drink the other night so then jumped online and had a scout around. As was mentioned, you will always find support for any opinion on the web so it's interesting to see what other things sometimes. As I sit here drinking another...