The start of Phase 3. Today was back, and it went OK. It’s weird – I’m doing a number of similar exercises to what I did on Friday – but they’re in a totally different order. So my head’s thinking – this’ll be fine, then I do this, then it’s all good. But it was totally fucked up today! I’m like pulling weights I did at the start of my workout on Friday, and today just couldn’t do it because it was at the end of the workout!
Definitely worked harder today. Don’t feel I put in 100%, as I was learning. That’s what this week’s about. But still put 80-90% in.
On a sidenote – still noticing my love handles, and realized that there could be two things influencing them:
- My love handles started growing ever since I started taking my creatine – and the creatine comes with a 60g dollup of dextrose. That’s 60g of pure sugar that provides the system with an insulin spike (that stops the burning of fat, but gets the creatine into the muscles when it needs it most). I’m thinking that perhaps that dextrose is preventing me from maintaining that goal of lower love handles. To resolve, as of Weds, I will have run out of Myoplex Dlx, and will be changing to IsoMax Weight Gainer… which has a tonne of creatine in it already. And only 5g of sugar. So that will take the place of the 60g of sugar + IsoMax + Myoplex.
- On a positive note, maybe my abs have grown and started pushing out the fat that fits on top of them??? That’s a dream scenario, so not gonna push it, but it’d be nice to think that that’s happened
