The First Cut is the Deepest (Monthly Picture Journal) November Complete

Run out of ECA and god am I tired now, forgot how much I depended on it for energy / motivation.  Almost fell asleep at my desk.
currently burning approx 3700cals intake is around 1200cals only a few days left till a week off

2500cals is a massive deficet mate, you do well! If thats cutting I'm bulking forever! LOL

Haha its more just a bit of a test to see if I can manage to do 1hr unfueled SSCV while on Keto... If I can do 1 week of this then I have no excuses when im on a higher cal intake diet and on carbs!!  1.5 weeks off then back on the carbs and keep on cutting! :)

2010 - 06 Update

Coming on well nice Pete! Really getting some good definition in there mate. Got to be chuffed with that!

If you could get them lats to come on a bit more you'd have a really good taper to you.

AWESOME WORK! - Just saw this thread there now!  Incredible.  I just posted a fresh Progress Journal today myself.  If I have half the results you have achieved I'd be happy!  Very similar build to you starting off - check it out!
Kudos to u amigo! 

just had a wee gander through your thread mate and i,ve got to say welldone mate cracking job u have done keep it up .

@CF - aye was pretty happy, still need to lose the fat so the dieting will continue till im at a super lean base (currently on holiday so not watching what im eating)  Yea the lats are small but I guess I need to hit them harder esp when I start upping the cals!

@Paulsy & Stevenb - cheers guys, if you want it bad enough anything is possible imo!!

Pete_L


@CF - aye was pretty happy, still need to lose the fat so the dieting will continue till im at a super lean base (currently on holiday so not watching what im eating)  Yea the lats are small but I guess I need to hit them harder esp when I start upping the cals!

@Paulsy & Stevenb - cheers guys, if you want it bad enough anything is possible imo!!

i know what u meen pete

Sorry Pete hope you didn't take offence, was just trying to be constructive.
Yeah I just come back from a week hols and the fod ermmm........ermmmm well lets skip that bit!

crying freeman


Sorry Pete hope you didn't take offence, was just trying to be constructive.
Yeah I just come back from a week hols and the fod ermmm........ermmmm well lets skip that bit!

Dont be daft, no offence taken dude.  Its the whole point of doing a journal to get peoples views/advice

Just back from holiday and look/feel terrible.  Time to get back on my cut tomorrow after finishing the last 3 beers in the fridge!!

Lol everyone's been on hol's! I just got back last sat. Luckily though I ain't a big drinker, that said I got a summer ball on Sat, which is all paid for and is free food and drink all night......Hmmm you'll see how I am on Sun lol

Just seen this thread, got to say a huge well done. You've put in an awful lot of hard work, but the results are there for everyone to see.

@cf - free food and drink... get tore in!!!

@jdb - thanks dude, I've still got a long way to go :)

Did lats last night and I dunno what happened but I seemed to beat every PB... just one of those nights I guess, also with CF saying about working the lats more, ill let the numbers do the talking.

Keep in mind i'd had no carbs since 13.00 and I trained at 20.00... I usually havve 50-70g brown rice with dinner etc.

Lat pulldown went up 12lbs (up to 180lbs)
Seated row went up 30kg!! 60kg to 90kg (the only thing in kg)
Skull crushers 70lbs+15lbsbar (very happy with this 2 sets of 5)

180lbs on the lat pull downs mate is good, what sort of reps/sets are you doing on those?

And nearly 40kgs on the skulls v.good, I'll have to get my arse fully in gear now lol...git!

crying freeman


180lbs on the lat pull downs mate is good, what sort of reps/sets are you doing on those?

And nearly 40kgs on the skulls v.good, I'll have to get my arse fully in gear now lol...git!

Sets went like -

Lat Pull Down
10x 120lbs
10x 144lbs
10x 168lbs
6x 180lbs

Seated Rows -
10x 60kg
10x 70kg
10x 80kg
6x 90kg

Skulls -
10x 50lbs
10x 50lbs
5x 70lbs
5x 70lbs

God knows where I got the energy to do that from as im still cutting lol

Who cares eh mate! good going.

Work is currently ruining all my training/diet.  Last week I was in work from 3am most mornings to 11pm at night (unplanned so I didnt have enough home cooked meals) this resulted in eating whatever I could get at the time ... had to work Sat and Sun. 

Hoped that this week would be a better start but its looking doubtful.  Anyone else reading this have an unpredictable job, if so how do you train/eat around this without wasting a lot of money?

got to say that is a huge improvement well done mate. True inspriration.

My story is fairly similar.

Keep it up mate.