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Hey all, Just finished reading CBL about a week ago (and by finished I mean constantly looking back over things) and sticking to it as best as I can with Shockwave as my workout. Definitely one of the most interesting things I've ever read and I like to think I read some pretty interesting stuff. All the science and big words got me thinking about a few things, though, so I'm wondering if anyone can help me out. A little about me: I'm about 5'9" 175 and I'll be turning 30 in a month. I prefer to call myself 29.9 for now. I've always eaten healthy and been pretty active, preferring hiking and snowboarding or something outdoors with my dog to video games. Wrestled in HS and JC, and dabbled in judo/jujitsu/boxing/mma, so my goals had pretty much always been to get strong while keeping weight down. Been a while since all that and I'm still pretty lean, but not the <8% body fat of those days. Of course I always enjoyed being checked out at the beach but I enjoyed being underestimated by wannabe tough guys in the real world much more; "How you gonna let that little dude drop you like that?!" I've never wanted to be that guy that's so big he can't scratch his face or wipe his own ass, and I'm terrified by the thought of of some of the injuries I've already read about some of you experiencing, but I definitely want different now than what I used to. I'm fresh out of the police academy, with different goals; my absolute main being to survive my entire career. I want to be strong enough to whatever I have to do, have enough endurance to last as long as it takes to do it, and have my body healthy enough to make it all the way through it. I'm not hired yet (something about bad credit makes you a little less desirable even when you were top of your class), but I'll likely end up in one of the bad areas of one of the bad cities on the shift where all the bad stuff goes down, which I'm totally fine with. I'd rather be expecting a fight than not expecting one. I take comfort in knowing that I can throw down if I have to and how the trainers always had me demonstrate "what a wrestler would do to you on the streets," but I know how strong a "little dude" can be even when he's not methed out of his skull. There's ALWAYS someone tougher. One of my main focuses will be to avoid injury, so a lot of focus on core strength and conditioning (which I am absolutely open to further suggestion on). My goals now are certainly to get stronger and look good on the beach still, but I'd like to add a little bit of an intimidation factor if I can. Instead of having to prove someone wrong every time, maybe have them thinking "I shouldn't try to take this cop on" as opposed to "I shouldn't HAVE tried to take that cop on." So I've certainly got some questions now and I'm sure I'll think of plenty more, but any help would much appreciated and I'll help out with anything I can as well. So I know I'm basically asking to be cyborg or some type of secret Russian lab experiment, but what if my goals are to be bigger, stronger, and in great shape? Do I need a different diet if I want to add a fight sport back into the mix (once I have more free time)? I think one of my bigger concerns is am I going to make any negative progress by training at different times? I know sometimes I won't be able to work out at the same time every day. Today, for example, I slept in. I've been working out from about 8-9am, start work at 10am, and usually don't get home til 10pm. I've never really thought that if you miss your regular time that it'd be bad to just go that night to make up for it, so I'm planning on going tonight. I can (am supposed to) still slam the carbs after my session tonight, right? Bigger picture, though, I'm sure there'll be times when I've had to stay way late or get called in to start early and my training time may be all over the place. Are there any negatives to that other than inconvenience? Are there any cops or others with varying schedules on here that have faced or are facing similar circumstances while using CBL? I'm not too picky with food. I am, though, allergic to fish and peanuts. I get my omega-3 from an algae-based pill. I can have every other nut if peanuts weren't cooked with it. I've mostly been making chicken salad with avocado, pickle, tomato and a little bit of mayo (single digit carbs total, I believe) for lunch and sunflower seed butter and jelly on iron kids, hand tossed pizza or local burger place type stuff for dinner. I've been having whey isolate and creatine shake plus a banana after morning workout and then regular GNC generic protein with carbs, plus the creatine and men's health powder or something (basically a multivitamin with some flavor and carbs) before bed. Any other suggestions? Thanks a lot everyone. Looking forward to input and experiences.
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