Geek’s Test is Best Recomp

[anabolic_geek]

Food Porn​

Really simple breakfast with lots of fruits and veggies.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Your not eating raw potatoes are you brother?

The meal looks great especially for first meal is there a tortilla or is that just the eggs in the picture?

 

[anabolic_geek]

Those are air fried potatoes O’Brien and yes that’s the eggs underneath.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Air fried gotcha I was trying to figure out how you got them brown but I started thinking that they were possibly premade microwaved or something but that just didn’t make sense with your diet.

Doing great brother im impressed

 

[anabolic_geek]

Today’s Workout​

Quad focused lower body day​

Grinding these suckers out today. Learning how to leave those 2 in the tank a bit better and still getting fried. Phew! At least the AC is working today.

 

[anabolic_geek]

Food Porn​

Converted my Tex Mex bowl into a Tex mex salad.

 

[Poppy]

Learning how to leave those 2 in the tank a bit better and still getting fried.

Looks like you broke the code. I think it was lee haney that said stimulate don’t annihilate.

 

[anabolic_geek]

Well the idea for these last two weeks is to annihilate. The reason the program is structured like that is because annihilation can be very beneficial for gains if approached in a controlled manner.

Dr. Mike Israetel wrote a bit about this in a recent article about set increases during a meso:

If there’s a “gray zone” of volume between MAV and MRV where we get very expensive gains (with regard to fatigue accumulation and injury), perhaps it’s wise to avoid that altogether, and stop all mesocycles just shy of MRV. This might be a good move for beginners whose exercise techniques will break down at near MRV volumes, but for intermediates and advanced lifters, it might not be the obviously correct move.

It’s not obviously correct because short periods of beyond MRV volumes have been shown recently to cause delayed muscle growth for up to a week after the cessation of such high volume training. Such high volumes are highly risky to perform if you haven’t worked up to them slowly, but if you’ve gone from MEV and are approaching MRV, you’re already primed for them. You can absolutely choose to forgo them and just deload early, but choosing to carefully execute them for a week and grow during your deload week might also be a valid option. And because this option exists, it defends the idea that training is productive all the way from MEV to MRV, even if you don’t choose to exploit that entire range.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Interesting read I don’t know if I agree but its true

 

[anabolic_geek]

I mean, have you SEEN Dr. Mike?

 

[Dirtnasty]

I think he puts out great content but if you never go by what a person Looks like for advice some of the best physiques have no clue what they are doing they just grow and when they get a coach that nknows their shit it’s crazy.

 

[anabolic_geek]

To be entirely fair, Dr. Mike studies hypertrophy for a living and has written and contributed to multiple scientific studies and papers on the subject. If there’s anyone I would listen to for training advice, it would be this guy. He’s one of the best read people in the field. The only other people even close to his level are Brad Schoenfeld and Mark Helms. What’s more, it’s not like he’s saying anything new: everything he’s saying here has been well validated by the scientific literature

 

[Dirtnasty]

I know of him. I prefer guy ya like John meadows more myself cause sometimes getting to post in the science hurts. Job does science base but also shit that just works for some reason that and he lives in my Mecca Columbus haha

 

[Poppy]

My philosophy is listen to most… develop a good plan for myself.

Tools in the tool box brother. There’s very few absolutes.

 

[anabolic_geek]

Oh of course. At the end of the day it’s still all about progressive overload, no matter how you dress it up.

 

[Poppy]

Yeah but it’s cool to study biomechanics and how to make the body perform better if not optimal. I don’t disagree with anything you post… all very interesting. I’ve been studying it for almost 50 years.

 

[Dirtnasty]

I think another one on YouTube that does decent explains why he coaches lifts a certain way is hypertrophy coach

 

[anabolic_geek]

Yeh I like him too

 

[anabolic_geek]

Progress Report​

Yooooo that’s one goal down! Now we’re gonna stretch a bit and see if I can’t lose an additional pound or two.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Damn that dropped quickly nice brother 2 more you got that