Day 4: August 19, 2016
Daily Notes
Yesterdays refeed went really well overall, the food was needed and I woke up this morning up 5 lbs which for me is not all that much in terms of how quickly that weight would drop if I just went back to my normal diet today. Matt makes the final calls when it comes to my diet but we truly do work as a team in terms of our feedback and communication. Following this mornings posing and Matt looking at me through my shots he decided to do a second moderate day of loading.
I want you guys to know that refeeds are at times tough for me, I know physically I need the food but at the same time its just the mental battle of always wanting to push yet in reality at certain times less is more in terms of prep. Reducing the work and cardio slightly while adding more food can go a long way to keeping a physique fresh during long term deficit which for me this is my second back to back diet of the year.
Notes From Matt
As I noted yesterday that one high day often times is not enough for Dallas so today we are doing a second high day but reducing the volume of food slightly and also fully calculating all meals rather than doing a sushi meal out.
Today we are training arms so this will be a good day for food to be stored as overall work output simply just will not be as high as it would be on say a leg day or back day. We work hard on all days but demand and energy expenditure on some days is certainly higher than others
We are also posting clips of each training day on snapchat during our time together so be sure to follow along there as well.
dallasmccarver and mattjansen8
Aug 19 Diet
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Meal 1 – Pre Training Meal Meal 2 – Post training Meal 3 |
Meal 4 90g – Cream of Rice 20g – Peanut Butter 50g – Isotope (Whey Protein)
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Cardio
N/A
Training – Arms
***We typically do not pyramid up in weight for our working sets, we find a weight to start working sets at and then complete the sets at that weight until form starts to breakdown or we are no longer getting a peak contraction, unless listed otherwise.
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Exercise 1: Speed Emphasis Working with a weight is challenging but one that you can move assertively for each rep. Dallas and I are just alternating rest / working sets here. Exercise 2: Heavy Emphasis Working up to a top set of 12 and staying there for all 4 sets. If this is done correctly reps should be reduced slightly each set if you are truly taking the weight to muscular failure. Exercise 3: Giant set – Single Arm overhead extension |
