Up a bit this morning to 221.6. I think that’s fake news though because I ate some heavier food yesterday.. had a burger on the road to Costco because we were out and about for longer than I anticipated and I didn’t bring food with me. Then yesterday evening we had chipotle since Michelle had a gift card. Was still able to match macros fairly closely. Over on fats, but under on carbs by enough that the extra fat calories only exceeded the missing carb cals by like 20 or some other super low number. Thats assuming things are made as advertised which is basically zero chance
but it feels good to at least aim to be on track with unplanned foods.
The fake news assumption comes because Friday morning I was still 220.4. So I’d already made up my mind to increase cals this week. Adding 10g fat and 25g carbs for roughly 200cals.
Lifts are all moving up nicely. Knee actually felt really good hitting legs on Saturday. My planned top set was 2plates + 2 10lb weights on each side of the sled along with the orange bands I’ve been using. Target rep range for that set is 12-15. I called the set at 20 reps with more in the tank
I’ve known my massles can take more, but that tendon had been a little iffy still, so to not have any pain or uncertainty on that set felt amazing. I normally do a back off “widowmaker” set of 20+ after that top set, but since I’d just hit 20 without hitting failure I decided to go up in weight. Took a bigger jump to 3plates per side with my bands and knocked out 13 reps before failing on the 14th. I’ll use that weight for my top set next time and should easily get 15+ and be ready to keep progressing.
Fighting my ego a bit there with wanting to be smart/safe and make small jumps for my tendon vs testing the limits with more bigger jumps like that. I’ll be smart though and only add 5lbs to each side again as I go unless and until my reps start greatly surpassing the ceiling of my rep range like they did this week.
