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Great work, very motivating!

I'd be interested in seeing your meal plan for sure.

It's been awhile but I still around.



Crappy iPhone camera. Vascularity is through the roof! While I could see some veins in my first progress picture, I seem the everywhere. I was walking on the treadmill today I noticed veins all through my calves. I looked about 2 hours later and they were still visible. I have learned a lot over the last few months regarding HIIT and my diet. I am still Anabolic, but I am following the book more closely. Example, 30% fat during weekend carb loads, no HIIT during the week, etc.

Bloody hell man, that's some serious muscle.

nice work antonio...wy to keep it going

6packbound wrote:nice work antonio...wy to keep it going

Thanks.

I just wanted to provide an update. Two weeks ago, I came down with a severe case of the flu. My temperature average around 103 degrees F. It was next to impossible to try and recover while being under a 30 gram carb limit. Needless to say, I had to ditch the extreme carb low. I switched to carb cycling and something just exploded. I had extreme amounts of energy. While under MANS, I would experience a crash around 3pm every day. Now, no more crashes. My lifts and especially my cardio has increased. I don't know, after my recent event. I am starting to doubt have effectiveness of extreme low carb. Considering that on the weekends, it's nearly impossible to consume the required amounts of fruits and veggies. Now, I eat fruit daily and I eat all types of veggies.

I consume low gi carbs before and after my postwork (high GI) shake. My other meals consist of protein, veggies and fat.

Gidday Antonio, I'd love to see you (or what would happen) barfing down 20 odd eggs a day, a quart of milk, meat, fish, half a pint of cream, fat, tons of cottage cheese, bananas, berries, some nuts, glutamine, ZMA, vitamin C, etc, etc. But, thats my leaning.

I've been there, that flu thing. I found I just wasn't eating enough, getting enough nutrients. If you are getting stronger, growing, using more and more fuel, and building material, all day long, you have to provide it. People tend to get into habits, and tend to eat the same amount, when they should be gradually eating more and more, if they want to get stronger, and/or grow. There is no cut off point, as long as growth is the goal, no matter what eating style you choose.

At first a lot of strength/changes come down to efficiency changes. That is, better coordination, better mind muscle link, relaxing, better focus, better use of existing amounts of food, better change in exsisting body composition. For a while recovery ability isn't really taxed enough to matter much. Eventually, you reach a point of recovery being a limiting factor, and we all have really different recovery systems. That was the whole crux and thinking of Jones/Mentzer/Yates. Diet, and rest/time are a huge part of recovery. The body is pretty tough though, if it is getting the fuel.

But, trust yourself, you obviously do. And you have the results to show. You are looking deluxe, its great that you trust, listen to yourself when you feel deluxe. You are obviously really into what you do, and it shows. Inspiring stuff.

Antonio,

Read (below) the roundtable discussions regarding low carb, very low carb, CKD, anabolic diet, high carb diet and more. A bunch of professionals from various perspectives all discussing their studies and research. It's eye-opening.

I'm a firm believer in low carb the charles poliquin way... .25 grams of carbs per pound of body weight... so, I'm 171 and that comes out to 43 grams per day coming from clean sources like quality protein powder, greens, naturally found in eggs, cream, cheese, etc. That combined with the German Body Composition, yummy. Also, I believe in the DiPasquale Anabolic program because I LOVE the once a week release.

I'm a big fan of timed carbs. Poliquin talks about eating 250 grams of carbs, 200 grams of anything you want carbs & post work and the rest of the 50 spread out throughout the day with low glycemic sources.

There's so many options. I was at a UFC gym and I inquired with a ripped instructor about diet... he said, "High Fat, Hight Protein, Low Glycemic Carbs & eat whatever you want within 2 hours after your workout... but #1 rule, only eat to satisfaction, not fullness... and finally, lots of omega fat sources, fish oils, flax, grapeseed oil (very balanced Omega 3/9 ratio"... Made sense to me and a bunch of guys all ripped doing the same diet, that's convincing.

Anyway, I'm rambling... check out these articles... Sorry about your illness. You look great man... I only wish I would be at the gym with no shirt on. I haven't earned that right with 14% body fat... I have a bit of burning to do.

Links:
http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_arti ... ble_part_i
http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_arti ... le_part_ii


Later dude.
Andrew

Antonio, what kind of ratios do you get in terms of protein, carbs and fats throughout the day?
I've tried low carb with weekend carb-ups and feel weaker in the weights room, i've also tried higher carbs spread throughout the day and although I feel better in the weights room I gain to quick with too much fat. This approach sounds like it could benefit me so if you could shed some light on what your ratios look like that would help.

Thanks

I just wanted to let you all know that I am back.

AntonioWright wrote:I just wanted to let you all know that I am back.

Did you stop low carbing? I fell off the wagon... got a little fat from the holidays. It was fun while it lasted, but I'm back on target.