ok i owe this log an update
i had written at length in various parts of my log what was up with my fitness. but for continuity here, i'll write in the timeline in brief:
america
september 2022: pulled trap injury from racking a squat had me out of the gym for 1-2 weeks. also general malaise and demotivation, roids dosages became intermittent
october 2022: realized i'm RETARDED!!!, hit the gym and the roids again. but then started window washing 7-10 hours a day for troy, which made bulking almost impossible with the calories i was burning
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btw i started recording my bodyweight in kg, knowing that i'd be going to japan soon.
november 2022: hanging out a bunch with september, who ended up staying in nashville past me leaving to japan. we actually worked out together on the regular (4x a week, legs, shoulders, back, chest) and we did hyperbolic stretching. but I didn't record it in the spreadsheet. also we were doing window washing and i'm sure my average calorie intake was below 2500.
also i realized it would probably be a while until i would have roids again so i took 3 shots the night before i left (750mg dose).
here's the last picture i took in america
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66.1kg ->
~68kg -> ~67kg
145lbs -> ~150lbs -> ~147.5lbs
sayonara bitches!
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japan
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november 2022: i arrived in Japan on november 17. started working out at a local sports gym but no barbells and dumbbells only went up to 25kg. i also moved neighborhoods and after
fumbling around, possibly due to the language barrier, i was able to register at gold's gym.
also i realized i was walking...a LOT. minimum 4km a day but sometimes upwards of 10km a day. that means my bulk calories have to be jacked up. i started with 3000 and got satisfactory results for the month.
switched to myfitnesspal rather than cronometer since myfitnesspal has japanese data!
no roids for the rest of this month but i had mentioned earlier i took a triple dose right before leaving so it was all good.
december 2022: started becoming a bit unsatisfied with my bulking and realized that there are days i might get waaaaay too much cardio from walking a lot and i didn't want to accidentally discourage myself from walking around and exploring "because it would kill my gainz bro". upped calories to
3500 a day.
also it's retardedly easy to get calories in japan for me, compared to america. i guess i just like the food here more. you can basically just go to the convenience store and pick up a random assortment of
- a bento box or some noodles
- onigiri and omusubi
- protein drinks
and easily get 1200-1600 calories per meal.
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yesterday: 3985kcal, 568g carbs, 121g fat, 157g protein
so that's the good news.
the bad news is my plasma ass got a left shoulder injury that's kind of nerfed my training now. it was from going too heavy (10kg for me) on dumbbell shoulder lateral raises. to prevent it in the future, i ought to be doing light weight and increase the reps for isolation exercises of small muscles, and increase the weight faaar more slowly.
i wrote about it here: https://killyourinnerloser.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=47606#p47606
which means shoulder day is out for a while
and I'm discovering some other exercises i can't do/that got nerfed:
any kind of horizontal row movement (dumbbell/cable mid rows)
can't do 8-10 rep range bench press weight (was 75kg/165lbs last week) without kind of feeling the shoulder pain. today i cranked out 18/10/7?/5f (f = doing mini reps past regular failure) reps with 1 plate instead which seemed to be fine. so I'll have to do ~65% 1rm training for a while. i took it easy on the dumbbells too since it's nearly the same movement
chest flies. i tried to do 1 rep at below my 8-10 rep weight (12kg) and i was like nahhhhhhh. switched to 10kg and felt like i was probably going to fuck up the shoulder before i got any kind of chest workout so i was like ok no
i'm going to consult the personal trainer again tomorrow and tell him my findings. not sure what he'll say so i figured i'll make a current update now.
but it looks like going forward (likely until i go back to america for a few weeks in feb??) i'm going to
- focus on stretching and flexibility and what they call "care" here in japan
- stop recording numbers in the gym for the time being and just focus on going to failure, within my injury (if i can! not sure what the personal trainer will tell me tomorrow)
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67.2kg -> ~
68.5kg
148lbs -> 151lbs
on the bright side, roids arrived today. but needles haven't, those are estimated to arrive next wednesday. somehow the needles were harder to order than the roids in japan (??????) and i ended up having to do international shipping from american amazon. but all of my japan training has been """natural""" thus far.
anyway, i'll post another update here at the end of January. not sure what the training plan from here on out is and i don't want to pollute this log and the forums with hypotheticals.
also I'm going to the middle of fucking nowhere in northern Japan (just look at some random small town in hokkaido and that's basically it) for Christmas weekend so likely no training there and not sure about the calories either
