Day 3

Day 3, maintaining the program today…….

SUPPS

Pre-workout

Amino drink (containing BCAAs, caffeine, Taurine and a bunch of useless shit)

Glutamine ± 5g

Creatine ± 5g

BCAA ± 5g

HMB (new one for me as just got from the UK) ± 2g

Arginine EE ± 2g

Post workout

Nothing but my final meal

Throughout day (randomly when I remember but usually around meals)

Fish Oil x 20g (±1g for every % bodyfat)

Multivit

Antioxidants

± 5/10g vitamin C

TORTURE TIME

AM

Got up late so had to scratch the intervals until lunchtime. Was a bit pissed off with myself but since coming back from the UK things have been a bit up the wall. Anyways, got them done, 10 mins same deal as yesterday, then broke the fast

PM

Tabata workout – Same protocol as yesterday, just different moves:

- Machine Lat Pulldown, wide pronated grip

- Machine Lat Pulldown, close supinated grip

- Dumbbell Pullover (cross bench)

- Machine Leg Curls

- Dumbbell Bicep Curls (felt weird, haven’t directly trained my biceps for over a year!

- Bent-over Dumbbell Rows

Workout felt a little more sluggish than yesterday but I’d eaten quite a high fat meal about 90 mins before. BY the time it came to the rows, biceps and back felt fried and I definitely struggled a bit.

Downloaded Skrillex’s back catalogue, that helped me through the workout, weird looking dude him though!  

FEASTING (WITHOUT THE ‘E’)

Keep it brief as I need my bed:

Lunch – Protein fluff with ON Vanilla Casein

Snack – Bag salted sunflower seeds (this was an emergency pack in my bag in case I was struggling in work, think my 3^rd day sub 1650 cals while exercising is taking it’s toll BUT tomorrow should be a refeed day, haven’t decided whether I will make it a refeed or carry on with the low-carb for 1 more day as Monday was a halfway house)

Dinner – Plate of belly pork, roasted in the oven

Belly Pork Nyom!

Supper – Red snapper fillet fried in a dash of coconut oil, served with big salad of green with a low-carb balsamic dressing

Cals – 1559

Protein – 161g

Carbs – 16g

Fat – 91g

One thing that has me puzzled is still not seeming to really be in a ketogenic state. I remember when I was doing The Atkins Diet, it would typically take 2 days to get into Ketosis but the pissstrips (Ketostix) are showing barely a trace?? Whappening there??