MAB's Spike Diet and Training Log
 

I'm going to run the Spike Diet, and this will be my log.

It is my goal to run the Spike Diet for at least 2 months. I will weigh in every week on Saturday morning, and will provide a weekly recap of the weight I've lost. Call this the Spike Diet Experiment, if you will.

I'm not sure what my workouts will look like. More then a week ago, I had a freak incident while training and strained my right eye socket/sinus area. It had been my goal to reach a 1,400 3-lift total. right now my goal is to train injury free, so I will be repping out, but not killing myself.

I will weigh in every week on Saturday morning, and will provide a weekly recap of the weight I've lost.

My daily calories will be:

Monday. 2000 Calories
Tuesday. 2000 Calories
Wednesday. 2500 Calories
Thursday. 2500 Calories
Friday. 2000 Calories
Saturday. 5000 calories (Spike Day)
Sunday. 2500 Calories

For the week, I will be eating a total of 18,500 calories, which is a daily average of 2643 calories.

My workouts will be:

Monday. OFF
Tuesday. OFF
Wednesday. Shoulders and Biceps
Thursday. Back
Friday. OFF
Saturday. Chest and Triceps
Sunday. Leg Day

NOTES

--Maintenance. I tend to maintain weight around 3200-3400 calories per day.
--If my rate of weight los is too slow after a month, I may cut my Spike day back to 4,500 calories.

For more information on the Spike Diet, please visit the Spike Diet Forum.

Looking forward to your log Steve.

Thanks big Ripper. :march::march::march:

subscribed!

Thanks man. I might do a GVT style chest workout today. I'm just feeling a little insane right now, and want to use lighter weights and higher reps.

how do you suscribe to a thread?

i will try the spike if it works for you

Up top above a thread there is a "thread tools" button. Click on it, and you can subscribe.

Spike Day 1: 09/26/2009

Since my spike day is on Saturday, I started the diet with a bang by pigging out. My favorite way to start a diet. Tomorrow I will weigh in.

My workout went well today. I decided to do some German Volume Training. My pecs were fried, to say the least.

I was determined to find a variation of the DB flye that didn't fry my shoulder. And I found one. Instead of using palms facing each other, I turned my hands so my thumbs were facing each other. Then I concentrated on keeping my back clenched and elbows down like a bench press setup.

This really relieved the shoulders, and I could feel the chest working. I'm not much of an isolation work guy, but I thought I would put aside my stubborn ways and try something new. The only issue I had was using too light of a weight. I am calling them "Shaw flyes" in my log so you can differentiate this exercise from standard flyes.

My chest (and triceps) was fried though.

Workout Time: 41 minutes

Workout Grade: B+

Bench Press (60 second rest between sets)

135 x 10/10/10/10/10/10/10/8/7/7

Shaw DB Flyes (60 second rest between sets)

15's x 10/10/10/10/10/10/10/10/10/10

Spike Day 4: 09/29/2009

Did my official weigh in the other day and nearly fell off the scale in shock. It's insane how fast I can gain weight when I return to normal eating.

Let the fun begin!

Today is an off day. I am trying to survive on 2000 calories. Wish me luck. I haven't eaten this few amount of calories in quite a while. But, knowing that on Saturday I can eat like a mamma jamma, I'm hanging in there.

Good luck man,

Use the water mixed with fiber powder to help get you between meals, and chew alot of mint gum. When I start dieting I chew so much gum its almost like I just quit smoking..lol

You can do it.