u/Jimocaz

Thought I'd share my halfway point for 2026. As a 44 year old busy dad aiming to lean as possible for holiday in August.

Everything logged on hevy:

https://hevy.com/user/mrocaz

So far this year:

-Trained consistently 6 days per week training at 5am to avoid impacting family time.

-Stayed in a conservative calorie deficit while maintaining strength

-Body weight: ~172 lb to 162 lb as did a long sustained lean bulk from September (where I got very lean) until January then started a cut.

-Still progressing on key lifts despite the cut

-Daily step goal and 30 minutes of cardio after each session

The biggest lesson has been that consistency beats perfection. Just keep turning up especially when I consider where I was when I started this journey at start of 2024 (third pic). There weren't any magic workouts just boring consistentcy sticking to progressive overload and no special supplements as natural with only supplements I take being creatine, whether, fish oils and multivitamin. Always been patient, logging everything, and making small improvements over time.

Still aiming to get a little leaner before my August holiday, then the plan is to transition into anothee slow lean bulk for the rest of the year.

Happy to answer any questions

https://hevy.com/workout/1d3Ml5zd6xf

I'm currently 44 years old, a married busy dad in the middle of a cut.

Hit workout 600 today and it got me thinking about how far I've come in last two years. Workout 1, I was overweight at over 200lbs, out of shape, tired all the time and lacking any motivation to train.

When I logged that first workout on hevy my only goal was just to train 3 times a week no matter what and focus on consistency. Just show up!

Not every one of these 600 workouts was great.

Some were fuelled by good sleep and high energy. Others were completed after stressful days, poor sleep, low motivation, working around injuries, niggles, work commitments and everything else life throws at you

Today's workout was a good reminder of that. My usual pre workout is a White Monster but I ran out and used a sample pre workout I'd picked up recently. It didn't agree with me at all and I felt weak and slightly sick on my first exercise. Thankfully it passed and I grew into the session.

The biggest lesson from 600 workouts is that individual workouts don't matter nearly as much as people think they do. However they all stack together the good, the bad, the ugly. Over time the change will happen if you just keep showing up 💪