Starting pics at 14 weeks out
Here are the first set of pics for you guys. Im around 260lbs in these pics, a tad flat. Chest isnt popping, less sweep on my legs, less overall fullness (delts, arms, ect). Just cleaning up my diet, has put my body on fat burning mode. Even today, I feel a tad leaner than over the weekend. My body always responds to dieting, cause im more on point with my diet. (eating 6-7 meals a day, getting my protein in, ect, ect) Cardio, always leans me out fast to, but I have to be very careful not to lose muscle by doing to much cardio, right away. So I will be only starting out with about 20 mins 5 x a week for now, then adjust in the next couple weeks.
Training will be the same, HIT style, lower volume for now. Heavy and intense. As it gets closer to the show, I will back off the intensity, a bit and do more volume. Which just means less going to failure, or drop sets.
Diet for now, will just be a normal pro/carb diet. Around 350 grams of protein per day (60 per meal) and same amount of carbs (60 per meal, 5 meals per day) Post workout, will prob take in a few extra carbs, around 80-100 depending on how tough and intense the workout is. As you can see, I just go by how I feel on diet, until about 8 weeks out, then I will carb cycle the diet. Im going to try not to do a keto diet this time, and see if I can keep more muscle mass overall. But, If I have to do a keto style of diet to get as lean as I need than I will. But for now, its just a pro/carb diet with moderate fats. (from red meat, a few whole eggs, ect)
Example of what I ate today
meal 1 - 2 scp. whey isloate, 2 packs of flavored oatmeal
meal 2- 8oz. lean ground beef, 1 cup rice
meal 3 - same as meal 2
meal 4 - same as meal 1
meal 5 - 8oz. chicken breast, 1 meduim potatoe
meal 6 - Casein shake (50-60 grams of protein)
for right now, I plan on having 2 red meat meals per day. and one or two chicken breast meals. Last meal could be whole eggs to, or the casein shake. I will do this type of meal plan for about 2 weeks, then adjust from there.
