[ajmorris]

Excited to follow your prep week to week mate! Will you look to keep protein at 230g the entire time or will you increase at all as cals come down?

Hey Niki, thank you!

It’s actually more than likely that I will decrease protein as I come down in bodyweight.

I will always be at a sufficient intake for Muscle Retention, but that intake, as bodyweight comes down, can come down in sync.

But 230g for a good while will be my intake, I don’t see it changing MUCH as it will impact my ability to get enough leucine across all five whole food meals.

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Legs today, great session. Took more progressions. Every session just keeps getting better and better at the mo, on a great run, which makes me a little anxious as well as being excited haha.

I am trashed this evening though, in a good way, I will get to sleep on time and wake up a little later tomorrow if needed to get fully recovered for Push in 2 sleeps time.

Sessions like these, where you feel totally battered afterwards, remind me constantly how pivotal my recovery is to get through this diet with maximum muscle & strength retained. People tend to ignore recovery factors a little more in the off season, get slack on sleep, supplements, meal timing, stress management. My advice, is that as a bodybuilder with big goals, you should not have an ON & OFF switch for consistency. You should be ON at all possible times, to reap the most rewards. Don’t miss a beat.

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Looking forward for this mate!

One question, could you laid out your complete supplementation?

Best regards in this prep!!

Thank you firstly, supplements below.

AM – 2x Krill Oil Jarrow – 3x Omega Jarrow – 1x Multi from Supp Needs, 1x Jarrow Probiotic, 5ml Liposmal Vit C, 2x Garlic Capsules.

Pre – 1x Rhodiola Rosea

Intra – Alongside my intra drink I have 5g Creatine, 10g Glutamine.

Post – 500mg Magnesium Glycinate, 5g Supportmax Neuro.

Pre Bed – 2x Krill Oil, Supp Needs Sleep Stack

[ajmorris]

Happy to be following this log.

What r the total macros for your training and rest?

How many week out are you for your competition?

@bicepbantido – TD – 400c 65f 230p / NTD – 350c 65f 230p

25 Weeks This Weekend, my earlier shows got cancelled, so my prep will be broken up into a few segments (fat loss/diet breaking & removing fatigue) , of which I’ll talk you through when they arrive 🙂

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Yesterday was Pull, really good session and again, took lift progressions.

Being 5 weeks into a deficit a lot of first timers would start to let the opportunity of strength loss to sink into their minds. This is something I try to reinforce with my clients mindsets…. you shouldn’t be losing strength for the first third of a contest prep, you should most likely be gaining still.

A lot of the time we can move better a little lighter than peak off season, recover a little better due to better sleep from less total food, have lower RHR and greater fitness levels, so it’s a good reason to think I AM BETTER, not I AM WEAKER.

Today is Arms, so it will be a quick 45 mins session, with 35 mins of Cardio at 140-160bpm to tick off too, of which I will do on my Bike at home and use my Polar HR7 Heart Rate monitor to track BPM.

The rest of my day is filled with check ins, programming and client communication 🙂

Hope everyone is well.

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@danbastick – Always raw / uncooked weights mate 🙂

[ajmorris]

Thanks for the initial support guys, really appreciate you lot tuning in for the journey!

So today was Push day, very good session, progressed all previous log-booked numbers and felt strong. I have been feeling a little bit flat in some sessions, in others, very pumped, this is normal when in the initial phases of dieting, and I am definitely no-where near needing a re-feed!

Once I’ve trained I do try to switch off as much as possible, this evening I am recording a podcast, but after that, I’ll relax, watch some F1 or Money Heist (mine and Danni’s fave on Netflix atm) and eat my last meal.

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Check in Pics

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Glad that it’s benign and manageable Clare <3

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Best of luck this weekend Corinne!!

[ajmorris]

Safe flight guys! Have an epic weekend 🙂

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Holy fuck dude that’s epic progress!

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Same.

Besides the winis lol

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You’re full of dumb ideas Kevin, that’s why you’re as big as you are.

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Shot looks awesome Dan! VMO’s especially 😉