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Dymatize Elite Whey

I got some Dymatize to try after rave reviews from a bunch of places. I grabbed the flavours that people recommended, the Butter Toffee and the Cafe Mocha flavours. I always drink my protein with water, so that’s what I’ve used here.

Mixability isn’t anywhere near Optimum Nutrition Whey. With the Optimum you basically shake it two or three times and that’s all you need, the rest is overkill. With the Dymatize you shake for ten or more seconds and it’s still not mixed. It also froths quite a bit which personally I don’t like.

Flavour of the Cafe Mocha is alright, it tastes basically like a shot of coffee mixed with some weak chocolate whey. The aftertaste is of coffee and no weird chemical-ness that I could detect.

Flavour of the Butter Toffee is bad, it has a weird taste in your nose and it mixes quite badly. It froths a lot and there were chunks left in the shaker. The after taste was quite strange and definitely wasn’t anything toffee or butter like.

I don’t see what the deal is with this stuff to my mind after have three types of the Optimum Whey and the Optimum Casein I’d say that ON craps on Dymatize Whey. The chocolate ON with some coffee is better than the Dymatize Mocha and the Dymatize Butter Toffee is just bareable.

Changes

One morning this week I woke up and had great definition in my top two abs and some really noticeable definition to the side of them too, it was a vision I guess of what can be soon.

This week I definitely have noticed the veins on my forearms coming out more and the vein growing across my right shoulder and chest.

Veins on my thighs have become more noticeable as has the changing shape of my things from blocky round things to having some muscular shape especially tapering into the knee. Squats and especially half squats are I think what has helped here a lot. I’m increasing definition while increasing size so I the muscle is really growing here.

There has been some noticeable changes in definition to the upper arms and shoulders as sometimes you’ll catch some definition between the delts on the shoulders rather than just roundness. Tricep horseshoe is starting to become visible too and the upper arm is becoming defined at just ordinary relaxed state.

Back is another area where sometimes I am surprised when I see myself. I think another couple of weeks of hard work will really pay off in this area. Much more definition in the traps and lats is what I’m noticing.

So the changes are still coming, they just aren’t so huge anymore. A little more definition here and there, a new vein, it’s slow but it’s worth it.

Measurements

It’s been a wonky couple of weeks lately, I’ll freely admit I fell off the rails a little bit this last week, over the weekend to be specific. Very bad old habits crept back into my eating and I’m tempted to do a week of the V-Diet again after my friends’ wedding this weekend. A bit of a weight loss thing but also just to nail away any bad habits that were creeping back.

It’s funny after three months of such strictness how a little crack can turn into a bit of a crevice. I’ve given myself this week to knuckle down though and I’ll see the results of that and make a decision on the V-Diet thing.

Even though things were a bit out of whack I did manage to lose a bit around the waist and increase muscle mass and decrease fat mass according to the pinches. Hopefully by this week will see me dip into the 92.xkg mark and drop another 0.5 to 1.0cm off my waist.

Measurements

Weight : 93.9kg (+0.5kg)

Body fat : 10.5% (-0.5%)

Waist: 86.0cm(-1.5cm)

Hips: 100.0cm (0.5cm)

Chest: 100.0cm (0.0cm)

Thighs: 62.5cm (+0.25cm)

Arms: 33.25cm (+0.25cm)

Suit Re-Fitting

My best mate is getting married next week and as such I’ll be in a suit. I went and got my suit fitted earlier in the year, about mid way through January and knowing that I have dropped a lot of weight I thought it prudent to go and get refitted earlier rather than later. No surprises thanks.

So I dropped from a 42R pants to a 32/34 (she said if I lose any more weight they’ll probably drop me to a 32) and from a 46″ jacket to a 42″ jacket.

I don’t really have any pictures of me at my current size, and while I think I look roughly the same, probalby because my head is still catching up, one of my friends has said that my facebook pic doesn’t look much like me at all. I’m sure there will be plenty of pics at the wedding though, and in a suit too so you can’t really look that bad can you ?

So there are the losses in concrete. Hopefully on Monday I’ll be around the 92kg mark. That’ll mean I’m well on target to meet 90kg by my birthday!

A Little Bit of Caffeine Goes a Long Way

I feel like after a couple of years of exercising fairly intensely and making diet changes and sleep changes and activity changes along the way I have become quite good at noticing how these changes affect me. One thing that I’ve changed recently is having caffeine before my workout, either as a tablet or as a shot of espresso coffee. It really makes a noticeable difference to my workout and exercise.

My current routine is something like this. Wake up, have a shot of coffee, protein powder and a glass of juice then go for a 30 minute walk at 6km/hr. It’s a brisk pace for me but it doesn’t really increase my breathing that much, it more warms me up and gives time for the coffee, juice and protein to start being digested. Then I start weights.

The addition of the coffee and warm up has definitely increased what I can do that early in the morning and I’d suggest giving it a try yourself.

Three Week Drive

Today was about a cheat day, I ran a 10km fun run over here called The Bridges and met the time I wanted to run quite easily. Given my preparation was absolutely shocking (down to the point of forgetting my running shoes!), I was pretty happy to sneak in under my goal time. As with any fun run there are definitely blockages to running your best time so all in all I was happy.

I don’t like to reward myself with food these days and that’s not what this was, essentially I figured I’d been pushing myself pretty well for the last three months, I was on target and doing well and I had a tough three weeks in front of me to try and meet my goals body-wise. With all of this in mind I made the decision that today would be a cheat day and I would eat a lot of junk food. I can’t say that I missed it really though it was kind of good at the start I definitely bought way more than I could possibly eat.

I put everything into the tracking program I used and it came in at 6500calories for the day. That’s about three times what I normally eat in a day. My thinking behind this is that I’m getting fairly lean and a high calorie day from time to time will be good to push my metabolism up and just shock the body a little bit. Sure I’ll put on a bit of fat and water weight but that’ll all be gone over the next few days.

I’m not going to be doing measurements tomorrow as they’ll be skewed but I’ll be back on task for next week.

I don’t see this as a hump or falling off the wagon as it was completely planned. I now have three weeks in which I’d like to drop 2-3% body fat and really see my abs come through. I see today as a part of that plan rather than a set back.

My eating over the next three weeks will be as strict as humanly possible. I’ll outline the plan soon.

Awesome Site to Learn From

Dave Tate is a fucking strong guy, he will eat you for his weekly cheat meal then he will squat almost 5x what you weighed. Possibly more.

Which means he’s fat right? Like all those guys that lift the really heavy weights, the strong men, not body builders. Not at 125kg and 11% bodyfat, I don’t think that counts as being fat. Nope, it doesn’t mean that at all and he’s putting up his full training and eating regime as well as a bunch of Q&A about how he diets down each year. It’s a really interesting read. This guy is dropping fat and gaining muscle throughout most of the diet while eating a stack of food.

His cheat meal is a pizza, 2 bags of Oreos, a box of pop tarts, some Pepsi and Tootsie Rolls! That’s one meal. The rest of his meals are extremely healthy but they are about 2-3x what I normally eat.

Now you and I can’t eat like this guy and lose weight, he does after all have a lean body mass that is about 20kg more than I weigh in total and while exercise is essentially his job he doesn’t train a hell of a lot more than I do. That still doesn’t mean I can eat like him but it does give you an idea of how these guys eat and you could definitely steal some ideas and apply them. Rather than eat 3500 calories a day like him, why not start at 2500 but follow a similar plan.

There’s a saying about getting rid of the stuff that doesn’t work and stealing the stuff that does. The V-Diet was basically formulated on the basis of doing the exact opposite of what normal people do, no matter how crazy it seems. Normal people eat whatever they want, they don’t lift weights with any purpose and I’m not sure many people count weight lifting as exercise that is as good as cardio. The V-Diet gets rid of normal food, puts weight lifting as your primary exercise and tells you to do a minimal amount of low intensity cardio. It works.

Dave Tate’s diet is pretty full on but there are some great tips on why a cheat meal is good and why you shouldn’t over complicate things when you’re dieting. I’d recommend taking a look and considering some of the material for application to your diet.

Dave Tate’s Dieting Log.

Protein Ice Cream… Sort Of

I’m not going to lie and say this is anything like ice cream, but it is very cold and it is made of milk products.

You need 125g of cottage cheese and a serving of casein (I use Optimum Nutrition Casein) or Whey (again I use ON). The casein will make it thicker than using whey, so if you use casein you may want to add a tiny amount of yoghurt, I don’t though I just mash it together with a spoon.

Once you’ve mashed it all together then you have a choice of whacking it straight in the freezer for a couple of hours or you can melt the peanut butter by microwaving a tablespoon for 20 seconds then mix that in. It’ll thin out at first but then it’ll thicken up a lot so be quick. After mixing chuck it in the freezer as above.

I tend to just freeze it without the peanut butter in it and then melt it and pour on top later.

Delicious!

350 calories, 45g protein, 15g fat, 10g carbs.

Mr Supplement for the Win

They had a good run with me for a while then a few bad orders that were very late, or didn’t arrive and I couldn’t get in contact with them. That was over Christmas but still being uncontactable to your customers is fairly inexcusable.

Since then I’ve known a few people that have had what was my typical experience with Mr Supplement of overnight or almost overnight order fulfillment. That’s from Sydney all the way to Perth in Australia overnight from ordering in the morning to receiving the following morning. In Australia that’s fantastic online service!

I decided to give them another go. I placed an order late Monday evening, it as fulfilled on Tuesday and arrived Wednesday morning. Effectively that’s overnight service when you take into account business hours. I am very happy indeed to get this level of service again.

Mr Supplement aren’t the cheapest, but with free delivery for orders over $150 and overnight delivery I think it’s worth it. I’ll be placing another order in a couple of weeks so hopefully this trend continues!

Measurements

I was pretty slack this week and also I had to consider that I weighed myself last week after a night out dancing like a maniac. I stayed as well hydrated as I could but it was by no means a normal weigh in situation.

On the plus side things seem to have stabilised as far as no more weight gains due to creatine or increased carbs and if anything I ended up gaining muscle mass this week with increased protein intake and workouts. Body fat tells the story.

No massive drops in size this week though an increase in weight and decrease or stagnation in size does suggest some more muscle and the calipers proved that out. It’s great when everything is lining up so you know your measurements are good.

I’m reaching my goals right now so no need to be doing anything crazy like hitting the V-Diet again. I’ll just take it slowly and reach 9% bit by bit.

Measurements

Weight: 93.4kg (+0.3kg)

Body fat: 11.0% (-0.9%)

Waist: 87.5cm(-0.5cm)

Hips: 100.5cm (0.0cm)

Chest: 100.0cm (0.0cm)

Thighs: 62.25cm (+0.25cm)

Arms: 33.0cm (-0.25cm)