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umm uhhhh get em out for da boyz? LOL jokes, seriously.

The same thing I do to my car every day. Nothing. Except maybe swear at it as I walk past it on the way to my van. lol. Though I do have replacement headlights I need to polish up and fit, I have replacement driver's door window switches with plastic surround on the way that I'll need to paint when it arrives and then fit them, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND I need to start troubleshooting my misfire that's finally sticking around for good - starting with swapping the ignitor with another unit Richard has given me for troubleshooting purposes (hopefully it fits lol).

5 eggs, 150g short cut bacon, 2 slices colby cheese. Because f**k carbs for breakfast (not really, I just don't have time...I'll have a tablespoon of sugar or something LOL jks)

Squats are more effective at that

Thanks bro, nail on the head. lol.

Acts against muscle growth. Nuf said I could just go back to my lean meat with veggies and rice diet if I want to stay where I am.

So in ways acts against the promotion of muscle growth? lol

I however wouldn't call that HIIT lol, and it's also the exact kind of exercise I'm never going to do

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I've been doing 100m sprints (sprint 100m, immediately walk back to the start. Sprint again as soon as you reach the start. The walk is your rest time lol) fairly often in my lunch break at work. So far I'm up to 9 sprints before I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack. Walking the hill, particularly with weight, is a different kind of death haha Also I just finished a huge bowl of cereal (f**king NEED fibre right now lol) with full cream milk....oh god how I have missed milk....so thirsty now though, but nowhere to put the water

And I'm keeping all yours to myself. wait wut?

Hurling?

This. lol. Yeah I'll be doing a walk up one of the local hills at least once a week between gym days. And when I say walk, I mean with a backpack filled with heavy shit. Like jerry cans of water. Or lead bricks. Aiming for at least 30kg extra weight within the next few week. Should do wonders for my squats lol.

Die. Haha. I have an insatiable hunger that doesn't go away...even when I feel sick from over eating. I have to count,otherwise I will get fat lol

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I won't lie to you man, it wasn't as easy as it sounds. I just found ways to distract myself or suppress appetite with caffeine lol. I was smashing like 3-4 conveniently timed skim flat whites every day.

that picture of me I've been flaunting around was achieved on my previous EASILY maintainable (yet boring) diet of egg whites+oats+bacon for breakfast, chicken breast+veggies/rice for lunch, and steak+veggies for dinner....just FYI I suppose everything is just a lesson to be learnt, and this one I've learnt is a very effective path but not the one for me. At least now I know how easily and effectively I managed to cut back on my above mentioned ezmode boring diet, so when the time comes I know I can do it again Just gonna relax for the rest of December at the least, it's too hard to maintain a strict diet over the christmas period lol

Trying? TRYING?! Ask any racer. Any real racer. It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning. And I lost.

Had an epiphany last night as I was attempting to get to sleep - f**k this strict diet bullshit lol, I simply can't handle restricting my food intake (as a volume, not specifically calories)...I just eat too much too easily. After the weekend I'll likely go back to my boring diet of buttloads of chicken/steak and veggies/rice. Low (but not minimal) carbs and fat, high protein. Mentally sustainable. Instead of training in a deficit, I'm going to aim for 10-20% over maintenance depending on my energy levels. This should see me around the 2750cal/day intake, which when made up of shit like steamed veggies will be VERY filling (comparative to what I'm eating now). Pretty much just going back to clean bulking now rather than waiting until the end of summer. To be hopelessly honest, I couldn't mentally handle eating such a small volume of food each day to keep my calorie intake below 2000. LET THE GAINS BEGIN! I'd like to reach a 200kg deadlift before I reach 80kg bodyweight lol. Current figures (@72kg bodyweight): BP: 95kg 1RM Squat: 120kg 8 reps (Haven't attempted 1RM) Deadlift: 165kg 1RM (grip fail on 170kg) Leg Press: 280kg 8 reps Incline dumbbell press: 32kg DBs, 4x5reps Strict military: 50kg 3 reps Clean: 60kg 6 reps (Haven't bothered with 1RM as this was just chucked in after DLs for lulz) Clean and press (is this a jerk? I'm not sure what it is): 60kg 1RM Alrighty. EDIT: Just realised I never actually said anything about this...I gave a cyclic keto diet a shot over the last 2 weeks (nil carbs Sunday - Friday, carb load Friday evening - Saturday night). Energy-wise I felt absolutely fine after the first day or so, no carb withdrawals or anything. However I can't sustain the significantly decreased VOLUME of food I had to deal with, even if I was back to eating all the stuff I loved. Here's a screencap from Myfitnesspal showing what my daily intake was, give or take. There's 1650cal recorded here since I forgot to add the tablespoon of peanut butter I had as an afternoon snack (120cal, 10g fat 5g protein) Bodyweight was slowly increasing while visible surface fat was actually decreasing, it's just my appetite is a bit more than what it provided lol. Plus gains had plateaued somewhat.

I'm hungry as f**k too, but after my lunch I've blown my intake WAY out for the day....it was more than double what it should have been if I stuck to what I made myself. And all I have to eat here is more fatty chicken, more cheese, or more peanut butter. I can't handle this shit. lol

Hahaha I was kidding! I know exactly who he is...I just didn't have time to read it before I left work. Will read once I'm home

TL;DR Who the f**k is this Mark Rippleton anyway?

I LOVE cheese (though it doesn't make me feel so great afterwards). You'll find that there's so many calories in what I've eaten due to the (relatively) massive fat content. The chicken alone was 496cal, cheese made up the rest. LOL yep however if you're finding it hard to get calories in, a mass gainer that DOESN'T rely on sugars would be useful to snack on. From personal experience I can recommend Ultimate Nutrition Muscle Juice Revolution 2600. Shit tasted AWESOME and wasn't packed with simple sugars (unlike its brother 2455 or whatever it is, EWW). It's still a hole in your wallet compared to REAL foods, but 2 scoops (half recommended serving size) with full cream milk is just over 600cal and goes down easy. Oh and no creatine or stupid shit so it won't bloat you too much (as I found creatine did with me). Won't make you feel full for ages. www.bulknutrients.com.au for all your simple shit www.a1supplements.com.au for all your complicated shit (like mass gainers) or brand name crap. Cheapest I've found.

Yeah...this. lol.

200g chicken drumstick meat with skin (no bones), 8 slices of extra tasty cheese (166g apparently). 1182cal (or 4948kj) - 88g fat, 92g protein. I'm no longer hungry as such, just I have an insatiable craving for food...even though my stomach won't be telling me to eat for the rest of the day with that much fat to digest, lol.