≤$7 Day 3000 Calorie “Cutting” Diet With Little Thought :
•≤6 packs ramen
•≤6 cans of tuna
You’re looking at a cost of $7 daily tops, as tuna on sale will be cheaper, a total of just under 3000 calories, and about 180 grams of protein in all.
Honestly this is nearly what I did with the 1500 reps daily back in 2015 which leads me to the next part.
Short Bursts For Impressive Change :
You can make serious changes quickly in bursts of concentrated effort like 10 days of massive volume in a row on a calorie deficit.
You want to make those changes the simplest way is to do more.
5:00 Abs :
5:00 combined on 6″ holds and my stomach looks flatter, yes short term that’s simply tightness, but a run of something like that will make a noticable change in a relatively short period of time.
Strange setup, either I rented space from a planet fitness, and then put in two power cages, and two deadlift platforms, or they built the section, and rented it out to me as an independent personal training studio.
I supplied my part with ample quantities of metal plates.
I remember a super stiff bar for partials, a weightlifting bar for olys, and a texas power bar for the rest.
Oddly no axle, that’s what made this obviously a dream. I love axles.
It was an “athletic training area” at that particular pf.
Cool situation, word of mouth, and living it, breathing it, being it style advertising.
Being off to the side training 10×3 power cleans naturally people were curious.
(Brand yourself tshirts to wear.)
I was getting clients off of solely training well/hard within eyesight.
Living, breathing, being it!
When a place has no barbells, suddenly witnessing one doing partial front squats, bent rows, olys, and barbell complexes with metal plates is an intriguing sight to behold.
I had a blast in the dream teaching power oly variants.
Like I did in real life at the “hardcore?/powerlifting? gym”.
Clients who want results love a trainer with a KISS approach to training.
The dream was over a long enough time frame (2-3 weeks) that I power snatched my lifetime clean, and pressed off of a power clean the same off of grease the groove training before and after a full day of training clients.
I like frequency training.
Sounds a solid lifestyle to me.
The dream world brings forth personalized messages.
There’s that concept of workman’s strength, and we know how freakish in strength those who rowed in the ancient and medieval ages were.
Since you’re likely not on a farm, a bunch of pullups will get you there, as will lots of seated row.
At 19 or 20 I remember once rowing 100×10 with short, probably 30 second rests.
I hadn’t felt like leaving the gym that day.
Lately I’ve been rowing some volume regularly, and I notice it not only carries over to pullups, but comes with the pleasant effect of some serious hypertrophy at my mid back.
There’s a part of me that laughs – being my biggest, strongest, by training volume at planet fitness with moderate loads.
One CAN bodybuild at planet fitness. Quite well in fact.
Rack up the volume, particularly on pullups, dips, seated row, and leg extension.
The see-saw press being the next in importance. Push it’s reps into the stratosphere too.
The bigger part of bodybuilding for most is diet, and I’ve been evolving to high frequency eating as it feels right to me at present.
It’s making me leaner even though meals are whatever is on hand.
Whatever is on hand.
I’ve been eating frozen pizzas, fast food, drinking lots of milk, craving meat basically 24/7, doing egg shakes on average every other evening.
Higher frequency eating sees me eating a second dinner every night in addition to two other meals, and what is best described as a snack (though bodybuilders call such things meals) a couple/few times a day as opposed to one or two big, even giant, meals a day when fasting and feasting.
(Snacks being nut bars and cheese sticks and/or a glass of milk.)
Probably a slight caloric deficit eating ball park 4200 calories a day – a decent level to support high volume, take body fat off, while retaining all my muscle.
I continue to do volume in the gym.
It’s funny that big meals see me eat past 5000 calories, but lots of small feedings starting with milk drank soon after my morning piss and ending with a box of macaroni late night sees me stopping for the day in the low 4000 calorie range.
There is wisdom in the bro knowledge related to diet after all.
Ignore “science”.
Trust instinct.
Do what feels right in the moment.
That’s what works for me.
Think about how it’s said to train between 75-85% of 1rm.
With reps you’re always training “moderate” by scientific definition.
It’s a sustainable place to be.
You keep layering small gains in strength upon layer of small gains in strength.
Eventually you are very strong, and it came from reps.
The weight you can use for volume does increase over time.
Don’t have a mental block on what you can do for reps.
Consider what they say to be an 8rm to have potential to be a 50rm, and you’ll be able to progress far with reps.
Realize that eventually you will be able to do such things as pushups with people standing on your upper back, simply having put in the consistent years of volume.
Do the work.
It will work.
Enough consistency over years makes everything work.
That’s the perfect programming, and high reps are more accessible than low reps.
Calisthenics and a 300lb weight set, should either/or float your boat with the right mentality, this one, will get you strong.
Depending on the source, peas, lentils, beans were historically referred to as “poor man’s meat, the people intuiting the protein content even before the concept of macros were known to science.
Everytime something is called a superfood, it’s inevitably some fruit, a berry, usually acai, blueberry, etc.
What a joke!
While you can get nutrients from plants alone, it requires a diverse diet of ingredients, just try to survive as a one ingredient vegan.
Try.
I’d put the best odds on one pulling this off with garbanzo beans, or coconut.
The two would be a sustainable vegan diet, sound nutritionally.
However in the meat eaters world to live off one ingredient? This is the easiest thing ever.
No one ever starved eating delicious fatty meat.
If the information put out on foods was honest, there would be headlines such as “Steak – The #1 Food For Your Health”, and “How To Best Cook Your Ground Beef For Robust Vitality And Vigor”.
There’s plenty of historical precedence showing people thriving on eating fatty dead animal, even to exclusively.
Try to find that with plants.
Try to find someone surviving on berries. Even the bear, king of berry consumption…he eats his salmon aplenty.
Red meat, fatty meat, saturated fat, dairy, organ meat – these are the true superfoods.