re: Do these weekly workout and diet totals seem excessive?

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400 squats

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3 workouts - that 133 reps per workout. 20-rep sets would be 1 warmup and roughly 6 sets - at the edge, but that's okay.

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1120 calf raises

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That's ridiculous.

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200 leg extensions

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Terrible exercise, but again - 3 workouts - 1 warmup set of 20 and you're only talking about 50 reps after.

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200 leg curls

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That's fine - I've done that in a week, easily.

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120 barbell curls

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Ditto - when I was doing Arnold's arm workout 2 times a week, probably closer to 150 reps.

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240 triceps extensions

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That's fine - I've done that in a week, easily.

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192 bench presses

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If 2x a week, that's a little bit much - but less than 100 reps - again, not knowing the program, hard to judge. If someone is doing a split with flat and incline 1 workout and flat and decline the next, you're talking less than 50 reps per exercise. If that's all flat, maybe a lot.

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164 butterfly presses

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That's fine - I've done that in a week, easily.

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192 military presses

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Same thing as the bench comment.

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128 pull-ups

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That's nothing for someone doing pullups 3x per week.

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600 sit-ups

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People do thousands of situps in a week (again, another terrible exercise, but if you're doing them, you can get up to 100 or 150 in a set).

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2 hours on the treadmill

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In a week? 3 times that's 40 minutes each - 4 times that's 30 minutes each.

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- take in 12,000 - 14,000 calories a week

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14000 calories would be completely normal and expected for a male athlete following a rigorous exercise program and maybe 170 or 180 pounds - might be too little for a larger athlete following such a workout you described.

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- drink just coffee in mornings
- usually bypass breakfast and lunch
- eat large dinner and whatever else you may want

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So intermittent fasting? I've warmed up to this, but that's tough depending on when you work out. If you workout in the morning, your weight training is going to suffer - and if it doesn't, your recovery will not do well eating until 8 to 12 hours later. If you workout in the evening - you're going to be out of gas for all of it. Recovery will be okay if you eat right after, but I would suspect you will have to do some pre-workout snacking or supplementation if you're going to go all caveman diet and eat 1 large meal at the end of the day (presumably after the workout). 2000 calories is a shite ton to stuff in at 1 sitting, baw.