Chest & Abs 5/25/2026

Another big chest day and 30 sets later a great pump. Here is the workout:

• Smith bench at a low incilne: One warmiup and then 6 working sets.
  
• Hammer bench: Six sets in the 10 to 11 rep range.
  
• Pec Deck: 10 to 11 rep range for 6 sets.
  
• Cable press: Six sets in the 10 to 12 rep range.
• True Press: Six sets at 10 reps each.
  
• Abs: I did 8 sets for abs to finsih it off.
  
• Sled HIIT for 8 reps.
  
• Elliptical for 15 minutes
  

Great volume again and a great pump.

My weight this morning was 182.8 with 14.6 lbs of fat.

Total steps yesterday was 12,751.

Lets talk diet for a minute. During my time on a super keto diet for potential cancer I have had difficulty gaining weight. Well, I am finally gaining some weight. It starts with cholesterol… I’ll summarize this:

I really thought the reason my cholesterol went way down was because of the ivermectin I had taken for the potential cancer. When I stopped taking it and check my cholesterol didn’t go back up. 🤯. It may be the IVM but now I’m questioning that.

My new hypothesis: back at the same time I added the ivermectin I also when super keto to try and get ketones. I added a lot of fat and took out any carbs. To reach that level of fat, I had to add tallow to my meals. Over time I got up to 350 to 370g of fat per day.

Needless to say, this increased my daily intake to 4300 cal per day to stabilize my weight. That didn’t happen all at once, but over weeks.

I think my volume of fat is so high that my liver does not need to produce much cholesterol and some of the fat is just going through me.

So, I’m going to do a blood test in a week. I’m going to lower the fat to 250 - 270g a day. I’ll keep the protein and carbs where it at now. I’m eating yogurt too. The calories will be back where they were before the cancer concern at 3300 to 3500 a day. Just not all the fat.

The win is tha that I am adding weight every day since I made this change. When I do the blood test next week I hope to see the cholestrol go back up too. We will see. The early results are interesting…

Rick