[Suleman Farooqi]

hey jp ,

1 – I’ve noticed all the meat apart from prawns (chicken, turley, beef) you count as 20g protein per 100g weight. Would this be uncooked weight? On my fitnesspal I have chicken down as 30g protein per 100g weighed.

2 – I’ve noticed yourself, and a lot of your athletes now follow a basic carb back loading approach. Would you advise this for some who trains much later in the day (wake at 6-7am and train at 6:30-7pm). I am tempted to try but its a long time without carbs haha and not much time left to get the carbs in before bed

[Suleman Farooqi]

Suleman Farooqi wrote:

Hey Matt,
really appreciate your log – its really helpful!

Just wanted to ask, as per suggestion I bought myself a BP monitor (as i’m pushing dosages as high as I’ve ever done) and kinda scared myself lol. I followed your protocol and decided to get all the health supps and a BP med to keep it in check whilst on cycle (its fine when I’m off). I managed to get lisinopril and was going to run 5mg a day to start with to see if it helps, however I noticed your using Ramipril. Is there much of a difference/would you suggest one over the other?

When you say you followed my protocol do you mean my drug protocol?
lisinopril is fine bud

sorry I meant your protocol as in regularl monitoring of BP (haven’t done this before, god knows what damage I’ve done) and placing emphasis on health supps. I don’t take as much supps as you but I do my best. The drug protocol is no where near yours haha but fairly high for me (1g test+500mg tren with a sprinkle of anadrol 🙂

[Suleman Farooqi]

Hey Matt,

really appreciate your log – its really helpful!

Just wanted to ask, as per suggestion I bought myself a BP monitor (as i’m pushing dosages as high as I’ve ever done) and kinda scared myself lol. I followed your protocol and decided to get all the health supps and a BP med to keep it in check whilst on cycle (its fine when I’m off). I managed to get lisinopril and was going to run 5mg a day to start with to see if it helps, however I noticed your using Ramipril. Is there much of a difference/would you suggest one over the other?

[Suleman Farooqi]

hey kuba – what brands do you use for your intra EAA’s and carbs?

[Suleman Farooqi]

Hey Corrine,

First time posting but just wanted to iterate what others have said. AS much as JP is impressive (not taking anything away from him), but when I think about the things you do for him, especially those that aren’t seen I really see who you are as a person and I would have loved to have known you better – maybe in another life eh.

Additionally, I say this not because of what you mentioned above but because of a training video. You, Sas, JP and Elliot training chest. JP was talking to the camera/sas really passionately whilst sitting on a dip machine. With no instruction or complaints, knowing that he would be doing his set after he finishes speaking, you promptly came in fastened his belt and made sure he was secure, then popped out of the picture again. But people only see what they want to see, which is his words and performance. I have seen you do actions like this many times in the video’s and I catch it every time. JP is truly lucky to have you!

[Suleman Farooqi]

https://kabukistrength.com/breathing-is-not-bracing-kms-public/

Decent place to start. But from my readings, its typically an issue where because you are breathing into your chest your rib cage ‘flares’ up. Couple this with anterior pelvic tilt (which is most people have due to tight hip flexors from sitting too much), and your pelvic becomes like an ‘open scissor’. This means weak abs and tight erectors, causing butt wink when squatting.

This is just one typical dysfunction but the mis-breathing can cause issues downstream in all kinds of places such as shoulders, hips, knees etc.

side note : googling some of those terms is a good idea as the visuals really do help.

[Suleman Farooqi]

Hey Jordan,
awhile back you said “I’m super critical , but abs / glutes/ calves in that order .
I’m getting stronger at all 3 now which is nice, it will show next year , every session in a waist trainer – it helps ,
despite what anyone else says, it teaches you to breath through your chest and not your abs – super important ”

Just wanted to double check this? I’ve been reading a lot about proper breathing and your incorrectly using your diaphragm can cause injuries. All I hear is “360 breathing” this and “intra abdominal pressure” that. Constantly seeing that we need to “breath through your belly”.

Surely breathing in chest (which is good for aesthetics) will cause damage long term?

[Suleman Farooqi]

Hi sasan,

I’ve noticed you keep oats in regardless of in prep or not and I’m assuming it’s because they agree with you? I find both rice and oats digest VERY well for me, which is good because I got bored of having rice four times a day.

This is all good during a diet/maintenance as I pretty much just stick to oats as carb are low, during a bulk I add more rice meals. Just wanted to ask your opinion on switching out the oats when trying to gain weight? I’ve found when I bulk because I’m eating more for a prolonged period of time, oats become harder and harder to get down and I simply replace them with some nice cereals. I have a feeling this isn’t optimal and probably leads to fat gain.

What would be your advice? Just shovel the cereal in and enjoy?

[Suleman Farooqi]

Just a note on the above Jordan where you said ‘If anything struggles to grow, you need to learn how to recruit that area ‘. Which I completely agree with however the most spouted method is usually recruitment/activation/ques which are great.

What I have found in addition to all that which helps a tonne is to pin the muscle with something (be it water or oil based) with as much needed for the individual. I can get away with 0.5ml of water but some may need 2ml of oil, in addition the solvent/PIP resistivity would have to be taken into account. However either way, if you get it right it produces just enough inflammation to get a HUGE activation of the muscle but without so much pain that you can’t workout.

[Suleman Farooqi]

cheers – thanks!

[Suleman Farooqi]

Hi Jordan,

For exercise order am I generally correct in saying first picking an exercises that shortens the muscle maximally (ie leg extension or pec deck) and then following that with a something that produces maximum force at the stretched range (ie a deep squat variation or decline chest press). (credit goes to Joe B for this thinking)

If so I worry about knee problems by starting out with heavy to failure leg extension over time, or potentially fatiguing the muscle in a pec dec before being able to do heavier loading movement.

Any general advice to exercise order / anything to add to my thinking?

Cheers

[Suleman Farooqi]

Hi James,

For exercise order am I generally correct in saying first picking an exercises that shortens the muscle maximally (ie leg extension or pec deck) and then following that with a something that produces maximum force at the stretched range (ie a deep squat variation or decline chest press).

If so I worry about knee problems by starting out with heavy to failure leg extension over time, or potentially fatiguing the muscle in a pec dec before being able to do heavier loading movement.

Any general advice to exercise order / anything to add to my thinking?

Cheers

[Suleman Farooqi]

Hey sas. You mentioned that on your low carb days you were doing approx 110g carbs on training and 30g carbs on rest days. Could you maybe write down what you ate? Kind of struggling with low carbs and would love to know what you did. All I have is chicken and whey but I feel like maybe switching the whey to fish (would love beef but the fat content ????) just so I can feel fuller?

[Suleman Farooqi]

would this apply to cereal as well? I’m not a big breakfast guy and as my carbs are around 500g right now I just have whey + cereal for breakfast. Knocks out an easy 100g carbs and is tasty AF. Rest of my meals are pretty much rice/potato lol