Well, I'm real bad about updating my log.
My wife has a job now, which is first shift. That means I have to get up at 5:30 am every morning to get the kids ready for school and daycare, then take two of them to school and the other two to daycare. Then I'm off to work.
I don't have time to eat at all in the morning or at work, so I decided I may as well go on a cut. That was around August 11th, so it's been a month since I started cutting. Since I don't have any time to eat all day, I get home around 6-7pm and pack in all my calories between then and bed, which is usually around 9-10pm.
A lot of guys are doing Intermittent Fasting with good results. Since I don't eat all day until I get home, I'm going to go ahead and call my diet Intermittent Fasting, though I doubt I'm following all the rules, etc that the guys do. I haven't even bothered to read much about it, I'm just calling my diet IF for convenience sake.
What I do is fast all day long, then when I get home, I get a protein shake immediately. If it is a lifting day, I go lift, then get another protein shake afterwards. Otherwise, it is a binge all night long. A controlled binge, of course. I get about 250 grams of protein, 100 grams of carbs and 50 grams of fat a day. That ends up being about 1800-1900 calories. I can't really fit much else in unless I eat crappy stuff.
I had to cut out a lot of the volume from my westside/maxstim hybrid. I'm using the same lifts, but that's about it. I've gone down to 3 days a week training, two days upper and one day lower. Maybe I could handle more than that, but I don't feel like spending the time. I have a lot of other stuff to do besides lifting.
Upper 1
Weighted Dips 1x5xBW+80 lbs / 2x5xBW+100
Bentover Rows 1x5x195 lbs / 2x5x215 lbs
Shrugs 1x5x315 lbs / 2x5x385 lbs
DB Flies 3x8x40
Pulldowns 3x8x205
Lower
Squats 1x3x265 lbs / 2x3x305 lbs
Good Mornings 1x3x165 lbs / 2x3x205
Calf Raises 3x10x455
Leg Ext 3x10x195
Upper 2
Bench 1x5x165 lbs / 2x5x205 lbs
Deadlift 1x3x385 lbs / 2x3x425 lbs
Rack Pulls 1x3x455 lbs / 2x3x505 lbs
Military Press 3x8x145 lbs
Face Pulls 3x8x275 lbs
I'm sticking with the same loads each week, though every other week I first do 3x3, then build up to a 1 RM with deads, squats, rack pulls, good mornings and shrugs, then use the new 1 RM to figure out what load to use the following week.
My strength is maintaining in the big stuff, so I'm pretty happy. Strangely, Good Mornings are doing real well but Squats are feeling a little shaky this last week. I don't know why. I feel real strong in dips, bench and flies, I think that combo is working very well to maintain there.
No cardio so far, but I think I may start doing some this week in the mornings. I do have about a half hour in the morning that I could do a little something. I might start doing my Kung Fu drills, since I have no cardio equipment and I can't go for a bike ride while the kids sleep. That could work.
Results have been awesome, and no, I'm not using any drugs. I have been on an ephedrine/caffeine stack though. I take 25 mgs of E and 200 mgs of caffeine three times a day. So... maybe that has contributed. Or maybe this pseudo-IF thing is magic.
I've lost a lot of weight. I was at 215 lbs and I'm at 195 lbs now, which means I've lost like 20 lbs in a month. I guess some of that could have been muscle, but I feel real strong, so maybe not. My abdominal skin fold was 20 mm when I began and is 12 mm now. My arms are 15.5 inches and have stayed that size the whole time. I am getting some real good quad separation, though it's hard to see through all my leg hair. The wife suggested I shave them so we can see the progress better, but I don't know... maybe when I'm done cutting, so I can see how they look. I've haven't been lean enough to see quad separation since I was a little 150 lb guy, and back then, I didn't really have enough muscle to show anything anyway.
I'm going to attempt to keep this updated, at least when I go for the new maxes every other week.