DAY 51:

Yesterday's cals:

In:     1666 (42% carb, 15% fat, 43% protein)
Out:   3192
48% deficit

Today's workout: Quads/calves

Quad-blaster   5x10
Squat              10x10
Seated calf:    10x10
Situps                x50

After a conversation in a thread on the BTF forum, I decided to go back and look for trends over the first 7 weeks to see what I could see. One thing jumped out at me right away: All of my best weeks had one thing in common: 2 quad days. All the less-than stellar weeks had one thing in common: 1 quad day. Hmm....

I missed half of one leg workout this past week with a tweaky groin but I noticed another trend with the program I've been basing my leg workouts on: Too many different exercises, not enough basic ones with a heavy-ass barbell on my back. So today I took a bit of my own advice and got back to the simple stuff that works for my wheels: Squats! And after that, more squats!. My leg extension machine kind of sucks anyway, so while I love the upper body workouts I'm doing and the 4 day split seems to be going well for recovery, etc. I'm going to drastically simplify the leg portion. Considering that the weight I used for the squat 10x10 is the same weight I was using in week 4, I'd call that minimal progression. 50 reps right before them on the Quaddie might have something to do with it, but hey, it's called progression for a reason, right?
Might take some interesting fiddling with the rest of the body parts, but for me to get to where I want to be, it's the leg workouts that drive everything, so I'll work on a way to get them worked out twice a week every week, methinks.