Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Manly Lifting Stats

According to Martin Berkhan, as an advanced lifter I should be able to do the following lifts:

 Bench press: body weight x 1.5 = 285lbs
 Chin-ups or pull-ups: body weight x 1.5 = 285lbs
 Squat: body weight x 2 = 360lbs
 Deadlift: body weight x 2.5 = 475lbs

These are all for a 1RM
Even though I cannot do these amounts [...]

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Carb Nite Wrap Up

I officially finished my carb nite protocol experiment last Friday, 2 days short of a month.  My overall experience with the protocol was mediocre at best.  I stuck to the plan 100% but overall lost nearly no weight. My appearance did seem to change a bit which makes me think I was doing more of a body re-composition than weight loss. [...]

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Reverse Pyramid Setup

Spent a few days tweaking this and I think its just about ready. I am pondering this setup for my new “Reverse Pyramid” scheme.

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Got Sick?

The day after my Carb Nite feast, I started to not feel well. Then it hit me. Tuesday night, I awoke with a fever so I decided to stay home from work and skip that days workout. Two four hour naps later and I started to feel a bit better. Today I was back at [...]

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Carb Nite Progress – Day 12

I am roughly 30 minutes away from starting my carb refeed on the Carb Nite protocol and I thought I would give an overview of what has transpired since my last post update at Day 5. (just a note. The original article stated to do a refeed at day 10 but that for me was [...]

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