[Anarkix]

Originally Posted by mschatz

Bump.

Oh I'm sorry, ehh, friends' houses pretty much honestly. I haven't ever really TRAINED my stand up, I mean I've kicked thai pads and used focus mitts at my friends' house a few times... Been in about 6 or 7 actual fights in my life I suppose, nothing too amazing. Being tall gives me a huge advantage against other people without professional training. Honestly, at this point my grappling game is probably my strongest asset, just because I'm physically stronger, have longer limbs and I guess I just naturally 'get' the flow of grappling (I've put my friends in guillotines, rear naked chokes, armbars, kneebars, goose necks, shit a gogoplata once...). But when I do start training I will do my best to develop my boxing/MT, hopefully to the point that I have hands like Rampage and feet like Bas (in however many years).

Originally Posted by Tamil

I believe it's not exactly 28 days straight, if memory serves me correct? On Sundays you're supposed to eat one healthy meal, right?

Good luck with that, and nice deadlift.

Yes, you get a once a week carb refeed to prevent yourself from um, dying I guess. Probably gonna be fruit and oatmeal or something, just to prevent myself from going overboard (last time I cut my weekly cheat meals would be like 2 rodeo burgers 2 bacon cheeseburgers 2 spicy chickencrisps and a side salad from BK... srsly).

Oh and first hunger pangs all day. 1 more shake left, but I'm not sleeping for 1.5 hours or so. I have some Yohimbe that bb.com decided to send me with my order (they hook it up FAAAATTTT, I have protein breakfast shakes, cookies and random supplements for DAYS littered in the 3 boxes it came in lol... Shit even straps for lifting haha) and I'll start taking that if the need arises. I think I'm super sensitive to Yohimbe... Last cut it really made me not feel the need to eat at all... and I truly LOVE eating.

[Anarkix]

Originally Posted by goosebumps88

You said you went to go see never back down...why man it is a negative on the sport. Also why do you care if you look super ripped? trying to look good and competeing in MMA are two COMPLETELY different things...

If you happen to look good from mma training well good then but seems like you need to choose one or the other..and if you choose to be a RIPPED BADASS WHO SAYS HES A FIGHTER...well congratulations you could have been in NEVER BACK DOWN. lol

If your serious about training focus on training and those goals and eat as healthy as possible (no junk food, no grease) lots of greens and chicken and maybe protein shakes with fruit here and there and your on the right track.

Oh I know. This is a 1 time thing that I'm doing for 28 days. After that, it's gonna be whole organic foods with very little fast food/whatever else on the side. If you've seen the UFC all access on say, Chuck Liddell and Sean Sherk, the strictness of my diet will fall somewhere in between theirs. I'll only be on the v-diet a little over 2 weeks into my training, btw.

I saw never back down because my friends were like "OMG new movie people FIGHT and theres CHICKS" and well, american teens just see movies together I guess. I knew full well going into it that it would bring a ton of assholes/ADD teenagers into the sport, and I cried a little inside.

Originally Posted by vince89

Goosebumps, those were great books. I assume you have no idea what Im talking about.

I liked the shiny ones cause I always used to cheat and find the best endings if I ended up getting stuck in haunted carnival ball pits or eaten by vampire dogs or whatever.

[vince89]

So whats your lifting like?

[Anarkix]

Originally Posted by vince89

So whats your lifting like?

Was gonna figure it out tomorrow... 3x3 for sure so my strength might actually go UP despite this massive caloric deficit... Umm, figure 3 days of lifting a week. Probably do upper body, lower body and a kinda mixed olympic lift day or something (with plyometrics).

Tomorrow I'll do upper body just to see how I lift while dieting. Bench, DB shrugs, overhead tricep extensions, maaaaybe skullcrushers, bent over rows and bb curls most likely. Yeah, that sounds good. Oh and 3x20 situps with a 45 lb plate on my chest, and probably trunk rotations. Can't leave those out.

Then Tuesday will be my leg/compound day. Squats, deadlifts and calf presses pretty much. If I'm going to do good morning presses, they'll be on this day as well. This will most likely disappoint me because my body won't be fully adapted to "keto mode" or whatever it's called yet, and leg days are always my favorite.

Then Thursday, I'll do some plyometrics and maybe bench again (I feel my bench is my most lacking compound). I'll also do clean and jerks on this day (only going to be doing 1 kind of olympic lift throughout the v-diet, they kill me). Clap pushups and a ton of "box work" (depth jumps etc). I'm sure people will have something to say on doing what are pretty much considered vertical jump increasing plyometrics while training for MMA, but oh well they make me feel good and I feel they add general explosivity to my legs. Also, haven't tried the shoot & rack yet. It definitely is all kinds of manly though, and I'll probably be doing that on this day as well (although it won't be 3x3, probably 3x8 or something, depending on how it goes).

Depending on how I feel while carb depleted, I'll look into doing my regular cardio (pretty much burpees supersetted w/ ab wheel reps and then shadowboxing or bag work), but I doubt it'll end up working, because if anything is going to absolutely KILL me (and/or make me go catabolic) it's gonna be intense cardio. Plus, I'd probably want a PWO shake after cardio as well, and that would mess up the diet (can' t have PWO shakes on days I have fish oil, and you HAVE to have fish oil every other day).

Sorry if that seemed kind of scattershot, I'm tired as hell.

Oh and for the actual log, I had some pretty fierce hunger pains, then I got a huge glass of tea (my dad keeps us well stocked up on green sun tea, so that's convenient). They subsided, and I'm about to have my last shake. Overall, good first day.

Night Sherdog.

[vince89]

Good stuff, I think jumps will definately help for MMA. Why not? Anything that makes you more explosive and athletic is bound to help.

[takeahnase]

Being tall and slim is not a disadvantage when you are a striker in my opinion, in most cases it is an advantage. In grappling it kind of sucks.

[takeahnase]

Oh, and as far as I know Dan John went on the velocity diet and wanted to post his opinions of it while doing it. I never know if he did, but maybe you want to find out.

[oxcart]

Originally Posted by Anarkix

Was gonna figure it out tomorrow... 3x3 for sure so my strength might actually go UP despite this massive caloric deficit... Umm, figure 3 days of lifting a week. Probably do upper body, lower body and a kinda mixed olympic lift day or something (with plyometrics).

If you're going to be in a big calorie deficit, I'd aim conservatively. Don't get your hopes up about the strength gains.

Tomorrow I'll do upper body just to see how I lift while dieting. Bench, DB shrugs, overhead tricep extensions, maaaaybe skullcrushers, bent over rows and bb curls most likely. Yeah, that sounds good. Oh and 3x20 situps with a 45 lb plate on my chest, and probably trunk rotations. Can't leave those out.

You don't do chins/pullups?

Then Tuesday will be my leg/compound day. Squats, deadlifts and calf presses pretty much. If I'm going to do good morning presses, they'll be on this day as well. This will most likely disappoint me because my body won't be fully adapted to "keto mode" or whatever it's called yet, and leg days are always my favorite.

Maybe throw in something unilateral rather than the deadsl? Squats and deads will be tough on a big deficit, and the GM will take care of posterior chain.

Depending on how I feel while carb depleted, I'll look into doing my regular cardio (pretty much burpees supersetted w/ ab wheel reps and then shadowboxing or bag work), but I doubt it'll end up working, because if anything is going to absolutely KILL me (and/or make me go catabolic) it's gonna be intense cardio.

You'll be in a deficit. You'll be catabolic.

[Barut]

Take, I agree with tall and lean being a striking advantage. The problem for the TS is that he's only 17. It doesn't much matter what size he wants to be (unless he's willing to do the auschwitz diet for the rest of his life). I grew 4 inches and gained 30lbs of LBM after my 18th b-day without any lifting. He's likely not done growing/filling out yet. He's going to be a HW whether or not he likes the idea. He might as well reap the strength gains from his high test levels now.

[Barut]

Or he could continue to starve himself and justify it by saying that he's going to look like A silva and he's going to compete in 37 different arts even though he has no formal training yet. That's always an option.