joelk

I'm going to have to stop looking at your blog soon, my diet starts in a little while and all this nice food will drive me crazy

Yeah it is a shame. I found one that looks good though, it's called Sunbread or something like that. I'll see if I can find someone that sells it and give it a shot. I should buy them for my dog, he seems to like cardboard for some reason Glad you're feeling a bit better. Some nice meals there too!!

Haha, I'm working on them. Just not quite explosive enough... damn bodybuilding training, it slowed me down too much! Did some benches, squats and a few other things last night Bench press - Bar x 20 60kg x 8 100kg x 3 x 5 sets - just speed work, the weight felt pretty light actually Phone book press - 120kg x 3 x 3 sets Plyometric pushups - 3 x 3 sets Renegade rows - 15kg x 5 x 3 sets Squats - 60kg x 10 100kg x 6 140kg x 3 160kg x 2 x 3 sets Box jumps - 10kg x 5 x 3 sets - The box wasn't very high so I held a 10kg plate to my chest. Need to find a higher, stable box. Pullover and press - 60kg x 3 x 3 sets - First time i ever tried these, really feel it in my forearms and triceps. Was a killer exercise Jacknives - 10 x 3 sets Meal 1 - Ultimate meal shake, acai berry powder, chia seeds, phytoplankton Meal 2 - 2 Lentil burger wraps with chickpeas, beetroot and kale Meal 3 - 120g tempeh, 1 cup beanshoots, chia seeds Meal 4 - Same as Meal 1 Meal 5 - 20g BCAA's, 15g spirulina, 3g creatine Meal 6 - Same as meal 1 but added 3g creatine Meal 7 - 2 wholemeal spinach pies with hummus, bowl of lentils with lemon and red onion Not going to be able to train with MVS this week, have a family gathering and I don't see any of them enough so thought I'd make the time. Next week I will get back on track because I enjoy training with them and it is motivating.

I look forward to trying it in about 5 years then... We don't even have the Vega powders hear, let alone brand new pre workout products. I looked at the formula and it looks awesome, might have to bite the bullet and fork out for the expensive shipping.

You're looking good mate, keeping nice and full while getting leaner. That's the key to doing well on stage. I think training heavy and focusing on diet and cardio for fat loss will maintain all the size you have. Keep it up mate

Sorry mate, didn't see this post, I'll check out the photos for you ASAP Thank you, I am feeling a lot better now. Yeah, those are the things I'm trying to do. Only have the pullup bar to use, so I'll just make do with that for now. Once I can do them properly I'll have to film it! Had a quick workout last night, was held up at work really late, so ran out of time to train with the powerlifters again. I'm just finding it hard to make time for them at the moment and that sucks because I enjoy it. Did some back and shoulders yesterday, was a good workout considering I was in a hurry. Bentover rows - bar x 15 60kg x 8 100kg x 10 x 3 sets Lateral raise - 15kg x 8 x 3 sets Deadlifts - 100kg x 4 140kg x 3 180kg x 1 x 3 sets - nearly at my pb levels on this, just need to get past the psychological barrier which deadlifts create with me Clean and press - 75kg x 3 x 3 sets Pullups - 6 x 3 sets Barbell calf raises - 60kg x 15 x 3 sets Meals were basically the same as previous day.

Had a good workout this evening, felt strong considering I was not the last couple of days. Trained bench press, squats and a few assistance exercises. Bench press - bar x 20 60kg x 10 100kg x 5 120kg x 3 x 2 sets 132.5 x 1 135 x 1 - best I've lifted in a while. Dumbell bench - 45kg x 6 x 3 sets - was all about speed on this exercise. Squats - 60kg x 8 100kg x 6 140kg x 6 x 3 sets Pullups - 6 x 3 sets - trying to do those ones where I pull myself high enough to do a pushup at the top - not that good yet! Dumbell skullcrushers - 22.5kg x 6 x 3 sets Rollouts - 10 x 3 sets Meal 1 - Ultimate meal shake, chia seeds Meal 2 - 120g tempeh, bean shoots, alfalfa sprouts, 1/2 avocado Meal 3 - Same as meal 2 Meal 4 - Lentil burger wrap with spinach, beetroot and nutmeat Meal 5 - 15g BCAA's, 15g spirulina, ginseng, 3g creatine Meal 6 - Nitrofusion shake, 3g creatine Meal 7 - 3 wholemeal spinach pies, chia seeds, bowl of nutmeat, chickpeas, spinach and beetroot

Keep us posted mate, look forward to seeing how you go

Didn't manage to make it to the Powerlifting club on Monday, got a migraine that hit pretty hard, so tonight (Wednesday) will be my first session of the week. Took me a couple of days to recover.

I wish you all the best for your recovery

Those Pizza's look awesome!!!! Shame it is impossible to find Ezekiel bread in Australia

Sarcasm is sometimes hard to interpret on the internet

The high rep squats were very difficult!! I haven't been training with high reps in a long time now so I really struggled. Looking forward to some more low reps at the powerlifting club. Had a short session yesterday. A mate of mine wanted to train with me, he just wants to be massive so he decided to just train arms. I just trained with him a little bit and went back to my normal style of training - which would probably make him grow more - he is just stuck in the mindset that a certain bodypart needs to be beaten up at each workout, hence just training arms for an hour. Dumbell curl/dumbell skullcrusher superset - 15kg x 8 20kg x 6 25kg x 6 x 2 - use same weight and reps for both exercises. Went back to train myself One arm chinups - 5 x 3 sets Deadlifts - 100kg x 4 140kg x 2 180kg x 1

That bike ride still sounded pretty cool

Trained at MVS last night, had a great session. We benched, squatted and had a dumbell bicep curl competition which was fun. Bench press - Don't remember what my warmups were but did 110kg for 3 sets of 5 and did a single of 130kg. Failed at 132.5kg, I'm using the excuse that I had benched the night before! Dumbell curl contest - We did singles of strict curls leaning up against the wall. I managed to get to 28kg (I think - it was 27 or 28) it was a struggle though. We then lifted 25kg for as many reps as possible. I got 5 reps - Hayden and Noah each got well over 20 reps! I'm not all that good at curls, my biceps are just naturally pretty good!! Squats - I worked up to 180kg for a single then did a set of 6 at 140kg to film and then we tried to see how many reps we could do with our bodyweight. I'm weighing about 83-84kg so I just tried 90kg and managed to get to 30 reps - it was much harder than the heavy single I did - took me about 20 minutes to catch my breath - I felt like a true powerlifter, struggling on double digit reps Diet has been good, same stuff every day, tempeh and veges, couple of MRP's and a couple of lentil burger wraps. Looking forward to training at Melbourne Uni Powerlifting club this week.

I've been busy this week and my training has been interrupted a bit. Had a short workout last night, was a heavy session so it kind of made up for missing a few days. Bench press - Bar x 20 60kg x 10 100kg x 5 120kg x 2 130kg x 2 130kg x 1 x 2 Deadlifts - 100kg x 5 140kg x 3 170kg x 1 x 4 Squats - 100kg x 5 140kg x 3 165kg x 2 x 3 sets Jacknives - 10 x 3 sets Diet has been consistent all week, might have a refeed day on the weekend

You don't seem to be having much luck at the moment. Hope you start to feel better ASAP

Looks like I have a few new recipes to try in the coming days. Back in the gym yesterday, I'm liking this infrequent training program, only in the gym 3-4 days a week now and am feeling better than I have in a while. Yesterdays workout was my Olympic lifting style workout, it is back and delts but I try to practice some lifts as they hit both these muscle groups hard. Deadlifts - Bar x 10 60kg x 6 100kg x 5 150kg x 5 x 3 sets Renegade rows - 15kg x 5 x 3 sets High pulls - 100kg x 3 x 3 sets Clean and press - 80kg x 3 x 3 sets Lateral raises - 15kg x 6 x 3 sets Pullups - 6 x 3 sets Prone bridging - 30sec x 3 sets Diet Meal 1 - Ultimate meal shake, 40g spirulina, 1 scoop Nitrofusion Meal 2 - Lentil burger, 50g chickpea, 1 cup raw broccoli Meal 3 - Same as Meal 2 Meal 4 - 120g mix of chickpeas and lentils, onion, olive oil Meal 5 - 20g BCAA's Meal 6 - Same as Meal 1 Meal 7 - 2 spinach pies with hummus, 10g BCAA's

You're looking good mate. Strong look to your physique from the heavy training

Thanks mate, will give it a shot

Better off cooking with macadamia or coconut oil, they have a higher smoke point and less likely to go rancid after being exposed to heat

Practice, practice, practice. Negatives are good to start with. When you can do a couple of reps start doing multiple sets of singles, not going to failure till you've managed to get through a few sets. Better to do a few sets with lower number, than do one set to failure. You'll get more reps in total that way.

That is the definition of cooking for most blokes. I was kind of forced into doing it for myself because I'm quite fussy, having always been dieting for something, bodybuilding, soccer etc. Being so used to it I don't find it easy to let someone else cook for me, even when I'm not dieting for a show.

I'll try and make it tonight, got lentils, chicpeas and a couple of veggie burgers for today. Thanks for the tips, sometimes it gets boring eating the same bland bodybuilding food day in day out year after yeah. I think I might stop bodybuilding soon and just be a powerlifter, I can eat all the nicer vegan foods in larger quantities then!!

Yeah I used to eat scrambled tofu a lot. I mixed in mushrooms, onions, tomato, capsicum etc into it. Kind of got bored of it though, I'm sure I'll get back into it one day though. I'm going to try cooking my tempeh like you described, sounds really nice.