Buckfever's "It's The Final Countdown" Journal

It will be "the new normal" soon enough. Be firm, but don’t be a dick about it.

That’s a good idea in general. Speaking of alien interactions, it took me a while to be a gentleman about it and it didn’t serve me. Something I’ve been working on more recently.

Taking a little time off to let the blood blister exfoliate. Probably start back up Sunday.

I put together a meal plan which will get me enough protein and create a slight deficit so that my weight trends down. What I have noticed is a pattern, that on the days that I am exhausted from work, I over eat. So it becomes a vicious cycle, you get too exhausted to get enough exercise in and then you take in more carbs for the energy boost.

I don’t want to give the wrong impression, I don’t have a lot of weight to lose, I’m no more than 10 pounds from shredded but part of ,my identity is being the guy with the best body and I’m far from that now.

Been lifting weights now for about a month and I have to say the muscles are already blowing up. I’m using very light weights, just 2 sets per exercise and only increasing the weight when I get 30 reps for the first set. I have never trained this light before, but I am progressing and the muscles are responding. So I guess there is some truth to being able to grow with lighter weights as long as you progress. I’m 63 and I’ll push it but I don’t want to get hurt. Kinda feel that if you can get 30 reps with a weight the load is light enough to safely move up.

Sleep is huge. I don’t know how others are but once my clock is set I wake up pretty much at the same time each day, so the key for me is to not stay up late. Developing a ritual, that serves me.

1/6/2024

60 @ 60 minutes

2.5 minutes lower to down position
5 minutes reset attachment to gain forward position
7.5 add 12 half turns
10 add 12 half turns
12.5 add 12
15 add 12
17.5 add 12
17.5 add Total Man heat pad high
34 Low heat
53.5heat off
60 end session

Blood blister exfoliated yesterday. Light session in case there’s a hookup tonight, don;t want to kill EQ.

I’ve switched to lighter weights over the last few years after beating up my joints for too long. I have seen a steady increase in muscle mass since the switch. My rep ranges are now somewhere between 12 and 20. Most being around 15. The pump from a hard set of 20 is unreal. Kudos to you if you’re approaching failure at rep 30! That’s a very impressive set that takes discipline.

It seems like you have it dialed in but consider reducing the rep range to 15-20ish for compound movements if it starts to feel like a chore. I know my motivation would suffer if I went higher than 15 on something like a squat or overhead press. A set of 30 squats or deadlifts near failure is an effective form of torture lol.

Congrats on the new diet. I’m trying to shed about 10 lbs this year too. Good luck!

I agree with you 100%. As the load increases I will target 20 reps for the first set and 12 for the second. Thing is for a while there, a lot of times the reps would increase even as the load would increase.

And I should of said those rep ranges are for the upper body. And although Iove squats and deadlifts, right now for my legs I’m doing weighted incline treadmill walking with a 40lb vest @ a 20 degree incline, 1.9 miles per hour for 45 minutes. And my quads are blowing up. And that’s even stranger to me.

Note to self EQ was great with the 60 half turns for 60 minutes.

1/7/2024

60 @ 60 minutes

2.5 minutes lower to down position
5 minutes reset attachment to gain forward position
7.5 add 12 half turns
10 add 12 half turns
12.5 add 12
15 add 12
17.5 add 12
20 add 12
20 add Total Man heat pad high
22.5 add 8
38 remove start manual stretching
48 end session

Not sure what happened here. We started off way forward in the cradle but the glans tissues did not seem robust. Sometimes this happens the day after hooking up.

1/8/2024

60 @ 60 minutes

2.5 minutes lower to down position
5 minutes reset attachment to gain forward position
7.5 add 12 half turns
10 add 12 half turns
12.5 add 12
15 add 12
17.5 add 12
20 add 12
20 add Total Man heat pad high
22.5 add 12
25 add 12
43 remove start manual stretching
50 end session

A little better than yesterday not wanting to push it.

Morning weight: 185

I’ll need to lose around 9 lbs, while progressing with the workouts.

Yesterday Dumbbell Bench Press:
47.5lbsX31reps
50lbsX20reps

I’m not happy about using the light weight/high reps, but I am accepting it as I do not want to get hurt but I am progressing and who knows what we can do over 6 months.

Right now I am only managing 3 workouts a week, but my first afternoon off is next Tuesday so we’ll get 4 workouts in next week. It still doesn’t strike me as enough however I am getting stronger and my endurance is improving.

If you’re as consistent with your workouts as you are with your PE, you’ll be jacked in a couple months.

The PE is just tucked in when I’m having Coffee and checking emails in the morning. It’s not taking from anything.

1/9/2024

Correction yesterday was 96 half turns

108 @ 60 minutes

2.5 minutes lower to down position
5 minutes reset attachment to gain forward position
7.5 add 12 half turns
10 add 12 half turns
12.5 add 12
15 add 12
17.5 add 12
17.5 add Total Man heat pad high
20 add 12
22.5 add 12
25 add 12
27.5 add 12
34 Low heat
53.5 remove begin manual stretching
60 end session

Slippage right at 53.5 minutes.

1/10/2024

96 half turns @ 60 minutes

2.5 minutes lower to down position
5 minutes reset attachment to gain forward position
7.5 add 12 half turns
10 add 12 half turns
12.5 add 12
15 add 12
17.5 add 12
17.5 add Total Man heat pad high
20 add 12
22.5 add 12
25 add 12
34 Low heat
53.5 turn off heat
60 end session

Because we had slippage yesterday, I uncharacteristically exhibited temperance and backed off the tension today. That worked out and we got the full 60 minutes. Tension build up during the cooldown so a good session I would say. Glans condition at the end of the session was excellent and finished the session in a good forward position in the cradle.

On the fitness side, I gave up cooking duties recently and that is fucking up my meal plan. While I appreciate the "help" if you are eating clean and are stopping eating junk it’s a lot more food and those who haven’t experienced a cut and following a meal plan, it’s hard for them to fathom.

I have to fix that today, " with out being a dick". somehow.

1/11/2024

108 @ 60 minutes

2.5 minutes lower to down position
5 minutes reset attachment to gain forward position
7.5 add 12 half turns
10 add 12 half turns
12.5 add 12
15 add 12
17.5 add 12
17.5 add Total Man heat pad high
20 add 12
22.5 add 12
25 add 12
27.5 add 12
34 Low heat
53.5 remove begin manual stretching
60 end session

Once again a little slippage at ~ 53 minutes. IMO it is because we are starting the sessions in a more forward position so the tension ramp up is higher. In any event we need to bake at 96 half turns for a bit.

Wrote up a meal plan sorting out the Macros shooting for 2400 calories and around 170 grams of protein, bought food and started yesterday. I don’t count calories I just set up a meal plan and follow it. About 6 weeks in on the workouts and I think my body is handling the workouts better.

1/12/2024

?96 half turns maybe 108 @ 60 minutes

2.5 minutes lower to down position
5 minutes reset attachment to gain forward position
7.5 add 12 half turns
10 add 12 half turns
12.5 add 12
15 add 12
17.5 add 12
17.5 add Total Man heat pad high
20 add 12
22.5 add 12
25 add 12
34 Low heat
53.5 turn off heat
60 end session

I had a very stressful day at work yesterday, went well at the end of the day, but I was fried and did not sleep well. I may have backed out the screws one extra time, I’m not sure I was half asleep.

In addition, shit hit the fan yesterday as far as my work schedule as staffing realized that it would affect their hours. It’s funny that when they added hours to my schedule that was okay, but when I take them back I’m cutting THEIR hours.

I need to get back to the grocery store today there’s a few more items I need that would help with portion size to reduce the carbs slightly. I’m already drifting down but I need to take the daily carb intake down another 15 grams. Just small tweaks now.