Good to see you still at it. Keep up the good work.
Are you keeping track of your progress. While you can get discouraged if your expectations are too high, it is good to get some feedback and see that you are making progress even if it is less than you might like. For instance, weigh yourself several times a week & track the average for the week (body weight fluctuates a good bit when you are exercising regularly).
Measure your waist at the belly button level, your chest, and your hips weekly. You may see your weight go up as even if you are aiming to loose fat more than gain lean mass, in the beginning esp. you may do the opposite.
It can take a bit for your body to develop the enzymes necessary to burn fat when you exercise, and your capacity to do work & therefore calories grows slowly while if you start off relatively untrained your body starts putting on muscle fairly quickly. The body measurements will give you a truer sense of your lean/fat progress than the scale.
With your lifting, you will likely see the chest and the hips either stay nearly the same or even grow a bit, while your waist will hopefully start shrinking.
I ordered some Metabolic Drive yesterday, so that should be coming soon. I currently just take fish oil and fiber tablets daily, should I add a multivitamin? If so what kind is a good suggestion, I used to take mega mens, and other times I’ve taken One-a-Days.
Yes I would definetly add a multivitamin. I use Animal Pak but I would suggest you go with any of the name brand multivits, centrum? one a days are probubly fine.
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Yes I would definetly add a multivitamin. I use Animal Pak but I would suggest you go with any of the name brand multivits, centrum? one a days are probubly fine. [/quote]
Ok, next question is when should I take a multivitamin. I have read that your not supposed to take them with high fiber foods because you don’t get much of the vitamin, and I get about 6g of fiber per meal.
Work Out:
Barbell overhead press
65lbs x 5, 5, 5
70lbs x 5, 5
Lunges:
Body weight 5 x 5
Step-ups:
increased height a couple inches
bodyweight 5, 5,
5lb plates in each hand 5, 5, 5
I increased in step-ups and overhead press, but lunges I still struggle to get out my reps. For such a simple exercise lunges are my worst, I hate them, I wobble, stumble and falter from them. Therefore I believe that I shall do them 2 times a week maybe 3 until they are my favorite.
Monday October 1st
Squat
135 x 5 warm up
155lbs x 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 added about 20 more lbs this week and I used a lower box by about 3 inches so I am breaking parallel and then some. lower back is a bit sore, but not in a bad way.
Bench:
135 x 5
145 x 5, 5, 5, 4 Failure, then 5 with spot
went up 20lbs total.
Lat pull down:
100lbs 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
Up 10lbs today
Well I have not posted since monday, because I’ve been in a little slump. My foot and ankle have been killing me, so I decided to go to a physical therapist, and he wants me to lay off heavy weights on squats, dead lifts, such as that, also I took last week off from working out.
This week I am going to start working out again but light weights on certain exercises, and high reps, no cardio, and lots of stretching, rehab exercises.
On top of no working out, my diet wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that good either. I have my resolve back and already have this weeks meals ready.
Upwards and onwards to this week and lets see what we can accomplish.
I am just under 300, the PT suggested today that I go with a bike for now instead of elliptical or treadmill.
I went to the Podiatrist today and had some x-rays on my ankle and foot, nothing is showed up irregular.
The doc gave me some anti-inflammatory pills, and he wants to check the arch supports he gave me back in 04 to see of they are still fitting correctly, they might be making me put excess pressure on the fifth metatarsal causing the pain in my foot/ankle.