Approved Log My Training Log - First Cycle Log

[darkHORSE]

Ok so, week 1 of the cut down. If I'm honest, I hated it, but it was relatively easy, I miss my snacks but I'm only combating the want for food, none of the need, not really feeling the hunger. Pretty much hit my goals all week, strength struggled a little bit but ultimately wasn't too bad. Extra cardio sucked.
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Now that the gym is doing the evolt scans for free, I figure I can do one every week and track my progress there as well, however, it's ****ing with me this week.
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Apparently, I lost 3kg, gained 2kg of fat, lost 3kg of muscle and lost 5kg of lean mass. Obviously, this immediately seems very unlikely and highlights that whilst these scans CAN be useful, the bio impedance technology kind of sucks lol.
I ran the numbers through ChatGPT and it largely agreed with me (once again another tool you gotta take with salt), considering I would've need a 14000 calorie surplus to gain 2kg of fat. What it reckons is that the machine has relabelled mass between "lean" and "fat" compartments because of fluid changes, and then made assumptions based on the numbers it thought it had, if I'd thought of it at the time I probably would've just done another scan immediately to see if it could figure it out, if it was just a one of thing or something, might stop by tomorrow morning and see, otherwise will wait till next Monday, but if it keeps giving me numbers like this I'll write it off and just hunt down the more expensive dexa, or just focus on the weight average.
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Based on all the more accurate important numbers, I've dropped 3kg of weight in a week, and average is down 1kg. Very likely that 1kg is fat loss, and the rest is water weight/glycogen shifts plus some normal fluctuations.
In the end, week 1, success.

Yeah those numbers do not make sense.. gained 2kgs of fat. I don't think so.

 

[SpoonT]

Today's actual workout was a wash, prioritized being a good dad and going to watch my son compete in swimming champs. 1 very short race, came 6th, but super proud of him for getting there again.
Got a 1 hour walk in with the dog through knocking out 4.8kms, happy with that at least.

 

[ironguru]

Today's actual workout was a wash, prioritized being a good dad and going to watch my son compete in swimming champs. 1 very short race, came 6th, but super proud of him for getting there again.
Got a 1 hour walk in with the dog through knocking out 4.8kms, happy with that at least.

How goods that, precious moments brother. They grow up too bloody fast!

 

[SpoonT]

Whoops missed yesterday's post. Smashed it. Couple things plateauing but nothing unexpected with a drop in test and calories.

 

[SpoonT]

And knocked out another cardio core day.

 

[hubbles]

Whoops missed yesterday's post. Smashed it. Couple things plateauing but nothing unexpected with a drop in test and calories.

You're doing great bro, keep at it Plateaus happen.... there can be a bunch of different reasons for it. It’s nothing to stress about unless it’s happening consistently.

 

[SpoonT]

Smashed a leg day, starting to somewhat enjoy squats again, helps when I hit a new PB.

 

[darkHORSE]

helps when I hit a new PB.

 

[SpoonT]

Not as disciplined food wise as I would have liked this week, but still solid deficits and maintained good discipline in the gym and workouts. Weight average down 2kg which is great.

Evolt scanner is a write off unfortunately still getting blatantly wrong numbers. Might try at tracking down a Dexa scan locally or just check with the navy calculator more often to get a bf%.

 

[hubbles]

Not as disciplined food wise as I would have liked this week, but still solid deficits and maintained good discipline in the gym and workouts. Weight average down 2kg which is great.

Evolt scanner is a write off unfortunately still getting blatantly wrong numbers. Might try at tracking down a Dexa scan locally or just check with the navy calculator more often to get a bf%.

Still good bro, you held the deficit, trained hard and dropped 2kgs. That’s a win.

 

[SpoonT]

Still good bro, you held the deficit, trained hard and dropped 2kgs. That’s a win.

Exactly, I got my eye on the prize, and I'm determined to get there.

 

[SpoonT]

Push day, more lifts are plateauing or dropping slightly but I'm making sure I push to failure to maximum muscle retention. All going as expected for a cut at this stage I think.
Will stick at it and look forward to the results and the next phase.

 

[SpoonT]

Knocked out a much loved cardio session. Forgot the weekly progress photo so here's one from today post cardio instead of with a pump.

 

[ironguru]

Push day, more lifts are plateauing or dropping slightly but I'm making sure I push to failure to maximum muscle retention. All going as expected for a cut at this stage I think.
Will stick at it and look forward to the results and the next phase.

Slight dips are normal on a cut but pushing to failure helps retain muscle.

 

[SpoonT]

Little update from my chaotic week, Wednesday's lunchtime workout got cooked by a hectic workday, and the plan was to swap Thursdays cardio into wednesday with a big walk of the dog in the evening and do pull day on Thursday. Well, a cranky toddler threw that out the window, so no workout happened wednesday. Other than that, tracked a pretty ok deficet anyway, wasn't too worried. Thursday came around and once again I ended up pretty much working through my lunch break, had the best intentions of still getting pull day done in the afternoon but that didn't happen either, officially the first time since I started locking in at the gym that I've let myself have an excuse that wasn't dead or dying. I try and hold myself to some pretty high standards, I won't make it if don't fully commit. That being said, a couple of days isn't going to slow me down hugely, especially during a cut, I've mostly kept the food side on track. Gunna drop today's leg day for pull day, upper is more important imo. and if I need to, I'm gunna tell work to get stuffed cause I need to get my gym sesh in.

 

[SpoonT]

Didn't even hit my normal 5 workouts and still Friday workout cooked me. Looking forward to some proper rest days.