The too lean face look especially happened when I dropped wt fast past November due to getting shingles. Everyone who gets ill looks bad in their face.
I've always prided myself on looking younger than I really am. This year I'll be 45, the pic was taken in Nov 2006 so that was when I was 43.
It's unavoidable I start to look older, but the wrinkles aren't what I want.
yet.. OTOH there's a happy medium. A lot of people look older when they are (too) fat and start looking better once they lean out.
The bad part is that my face is already 'there' or actually 'beyond' the optimal look, but my body is not there yet. By taking it really sloooooowwwwly I may prevent looking like an old hag. One more reason I didn't put up a new pic (besides I don't like having people taking pix of me.
Something that is really exciting though is how my body changes in its' preferences for food, eg it wants & needs more carbs and less fats nowadays.
But now, my workout
Wednesday April 2
Triple Anti-KISS 4-3B
all weights in kilograms
DYNAMIC STRETCHING
The usual 10 exercises.
double wave
A1
front squat w hang cleans
WU: hang cleans w 25-28-35-30kg to move bb out of the way & no more other hang cleans.
WU: 50x5
55x5 – 57,5 (5RM)x5 (0)
60x3 – 62,5 (3RM)x3 (0)
65x1 – 67,5 (2RM)x1
No wonder I didn’t pull off another PR on the 67,5 kg: the wts for the 2nd wave had me doing the reps I just PRd on the week before
PREPARATORY WORK
B1
deadlift
WU: 67,5x5
75 x7 (-1)
77,5x7 (+1)
80x7 (+2)
As superset with
B2
chins or supine rows
As a real chin: BWx2
In Smith : BW+8x7-7
Another chin: BWx3
C1
leg press – narrow stance
BW+40x10
BW+47x8
Legs started to shake from fatigue
ODD EXERCISES
Excercises You've Never Tried Before #15
Single Arm Overhead Dumbell Squat
Description:
This might be the best "core stability" exercise we've tried. We learned this full-body challenge from Alwyn Cosgrove.
Use two dumbbells for this exercise – a heavy one and a lighter one (50-60% of the load of the first dumbbell). Taking a shoulder-width stance, hold the heavier dumbbell in your left hand by your side, and the lighter dumbbell pressed up over your head. Now, maintaining an erect torso, squat down, keeping your body weight in the center.
The offset load will create a large torque through your back and midsection. Fight your body's natural tendency to want to lean to one side!
Practice:
6/3 x 5 for each side
8/4 x 5 for each side
The arm that holds the db overhead wants to go sideways and starts to hurt at a certain angle , so most time was spent trying to find the least painful position, which turned to be a kind of 'cleaned' position'
Opinion: neutral: was hesitant to try it at higher wts due to shoulder issues, but may be an interesting balancing exercise that is good as a core builder for those w/o shoulder issues
CARDIO
None today as I felt fatigued and all treadmills were taken. Besides, I was walking to/from the gym today so that’s a 30min walk right there.
General: I’d have to thought to have more oomph left after Saturday’s humongous eats (500g of carbs), but it seems I’ve already burnt through that glycogen and have actually even started losing weight since then, while I’d been stalled before. I even feel leaner too..
Tomorrow I’ll be doing another carb-up with more carbs than I had yesterday (ate a kg of strained yoghurt, so that’s a ton of P but not so many carbs).
Training statistics
Volume: 11630 (+2302)
# of sets: 29 (+10) # of reps: 170 (+30) - avg reps/set : 5,9 (-1,5) - kg/rep : 68,4 (+1,8)