[jamie christian-johal]

Plan is to cycle up till end of November, have a small cruise in December and check bloods before beginning prep in January for the first show in April which is Spain’s Big man weekend.

[jamie christian-johal]

Last rest day before we go at it again!
I’ve had 2 training cycles now where I’ve had two rest days back to back so I actually feel the best I’ve felt in a long time.
The weight hit me hard the last few weeks to the point even recovery took a hit.
So from here on in managing in session volume and rest will be key to progressing until the end of the year and the beginning of my comp prep in 2020z

[jamie christian-johal]

Recorded the second edition of the UK pro muscle podcast with Kuba, James and special guest Anth Bails last night.
This will go down very well I’m sure ????

[jamie christian-johal]

Hi Jamie,
Good to read that things are going well – be exciting to see where it ends up in regards to your look on stage!
I wanted to ask you something on one of your recent comments about sitting at the same weight for a time period during the off season.
“I like to sit at a weight for 2-3 weeks and when that becomes a solid weight and I’m reasonably happy with condition in off season terms I’ll push.
Make an increase next week and try and push a few lbs on.”
So regarding the above – is it possible to improve your condition during those 2-3 weeks while staying at that same weight? Almost like a short period of body re-composition before then pushing up a bit more once you’ve made it a “solid weight” as you put it? This makes perfect sense to me if it’s what I think you mean so I just wanted to confirm.
Thanks bro

Hey buddy that’s absolutely what I mean pal ????????
A lot of the time when we teach a weight for the first time it may be comprised of a lot of water weight so we get a softer look.
Making that way stick is about recomping, making that a more solid weight by recruiting muscle and overall getting your body happy with the new weight.
Don’t forget our bodies only want to add weight to a point and then it will always fight against us to shift the weight off so we need to force the body to adapt????????

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Session was
Hammer incline chest
Low incline DB
Seated cable fly
Incline bench cuffed lat 3 sets
Tricep dip machine
Rope cable front raise
Tricep prime attachment
All 2 sets unless stated
1 work
1 back off

what do you find is optimal for the cuffed lateral raises? lying flat or incline?[/quote]
To be honest brother was one of the first times I’d done it on an incline and really liked it!! Both feel nice so I’d alternate and have one variation in each training rotation.
If I had to choose I’d run with the incline based on feel from last session.

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I may have missed it in comments but how long have you been employing new techniques?

[jamie christian-johal]

I like it for digestion and mindset plus cardiovascular benefits but I’m not very active outside of the gym.
If your active you don’t need to but I would still recommend starting your day with 20 mins low intensity to assist all things mentioned above particularly digestion of meal 1

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I would go with a cheaper one 40-70 range, if they break you can just buy another. The top one at £500 isn’t going to be that much better if any for the extra cash. Build quality could be better but the cheap ones do the trick for sure.

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Session was
Lying ham curl
Belt squat
Leg ext
RDL with band for glute and ham activation
Adductor
Seated calf
Session was real good, belt squat started with decent numbers and looking forward to progressing on that ????

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Spent the most part of the day chilling, catching up on work and looking after the new shit machine puppy haha
Well rested for legs though……
Put belt squat in which felt really nice actually.

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Simple advice brother – suck it up! If your goals are big enough and you want it bad enough you won’t cheat on your diet or try and replace the need for sugar with diet drinks, sugar free sauces etc which all have hidden calories.
Make sure you have the proper advice from a good coach to help and then you mite not struggle as much if your accountable and have access to better knowledge.

Hey Jamie. I allow my self the 2 Pepsi Max a day any way. I allow my self 1-2 cans daily [/quote]
I know, but your question was how to help hunger.

Your goals! That’s key!

That way your mentality will always win.

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This is an important phase buddy and one most really fuck up and get fat quick.
If you want the best result possible then you need to slowly increase your diet food, gain weight slowly and monitor progression and recovery.
If things stall up food.
Cheats will only make you insensitive to carbs and get fat real quick.
If you have to have one a week do it last meal of a no carb rest day.
Good luck.

[jamie christian-johal]

I just blend mine, eat far to much to cook and eat a big bowl of oats haha

[jamie christian-johal]

Simple advice brother – suck it up! If your goals are big enough and you want it bad enough you won’t cheat on your diet or try and replace the need for sugar with diet drinks, sugar free sauces etc which all have hidden calories.
Make sure you have the proper advice from a good coach to help and then you mite not struggle as much if your accountable and have access to better knowledge.

[jamie christian-johal]

Salt is about 40% sodium so there would be 10g of sodium per 25g salt.
But people don’t often mean sodium and they do mistake for salt so be sure to ask what they actually mean or know what there saying haha
I don’t count sodium exactly I just keep my salt intake constant and then increase or decrease by half, quarter etc
Keep it simple