mikesbench
06-25-2009, 05:31 PM
Making Weight...
This has been an interesting week leading up to my weigh-in tommorrow for my contest Saturday.
I work as a carpenter, so obviously I'm outside 8 hours a day; the only problem this weekis that it's been 90+ degrees all week. I've been drinking water and gatorade like crazy at work, and still most days get home weighing about 3-4lbs less than I did in the morning.
So, I figured I would need to kind of adapt my usual weight cutting protocol (which was never real exteme) on the fly and hope for the best. So today I had my usual breakfast, meal at 10am break, and a lighter than usual lunch (in my typical weight cut I'd usually skip lunch). As for water intake I generally stop drinking water ~24hrs before weigh-in. This time I drank a lot of water and gatorade up until lunch; then drank gatorade sparingly in the afternoon (only when I felt I really needed it to continue working).
I got home from work already within my weight class (198), after weighing 204.5 this morning. Long story short, summer makes weigh-in MUCH easier.
This has been an interesting week leading up to my weigh-in tommorrow for my contest Saturday.
I work as a carpenter, so obviously I'm outside 8 hours a day; the only problem this weekis that it's been 90+ degrees all week. I've been drinking water and gatorade like crazy at work, and still most days get home weighing about 3-4lbs less than I did in the morning.
So, I figured I would need to kind of adapt my usual weight cutting protocol (which was never real exteme) on the fly and hope for the best. So today I had my usual breakfast, meal at 10am break, and a lighter than usual lunch (in my typical weight cut I'd usually skip lunch). As for water intake I generally stop drinking water ~24hrs before weigh-in. This time I drank a lot of water and gatorade up until lunch; then drank gatorade sparingly in the afternoon (only when I felt I really needed it to continue working).
I got home from work already within my weight class (198), after weighing 204.5 this morning. Long story short, summer makes weigh-in MUCH easier.