This is a Picture of me a few weeks prior to starting to workout. In 2010
09/5/12
This is my first training log, doing this to help me keep track of my progress and help me up the weight and intensity to get maximum results in my training. I will for sure be changing my routine up due to the fact that I am a beginner. I started my training in February and have seen some decent results, but not the results I wanted. It has been 7 months since I officially started the gym and change my life into fitness and it will only get better from here.
I started trying to workout when I was 17, it was my junior year in High School but i never stuck to ANY routine, I had no dedication or commitment and kept putting it off to next Monday. I even tried p90x and got bored with hitting play in my mother’s living room after 3 weeks. I tried to start running and never really stuck that out. It would get too hot in the summer and I’d make an excuse to wait till later, and then push it off till early morning and the never ending cycle of procrastination.
When I started working out I was around 6’3 and 235-245lbs at 17 years old, but didn’t fully commit to a workout routine till I was 19 (Yeah, yeah, I know horrible). I was on the fatter end of the table, skinny legs and arms and a huge chubby stomach area. I will upload a picture around that time. Well anyhow, I am now 6’6 212 (I dropped roughly 10 lbs the passed couple weeks, strangely. Same scale at the gym and even tried several others to make sure).
Currently, I am weak with lower body exercises such as; Squats and Deadlifts, also on the weaker end of running. So be prepared to see lower weights for lower body and slow run times, which is my priority to fix and get better in these areas. I have chicken legs and plan to add some meat and stamina/endurance to them.
Since graduating high school which was June 2011, I have done really nothing besides sit around and play video games, had no plans for college and only thought of the military a few times, never taking it seriously. I no longer have any gaming system and now have a goal to get into NSW in the Navy.
The major thing I regret is not playing sports in High School and not starting exercising at a younger age.
My Goal:
Weigh 225 @ 6-10% Body fat
Push ups: 80 in 2mins
Sit ups: 120 in 2 mins
Pull ups: 20
1.5mi run: 10:00
500yd swim: 10:00
Currently:
Weigh 212 @ 15% body fat
Push ups: 45
Sit ups: 73
Pull ups: 9
1.5mi run: 12:53
500yd swim: 14:00 +
3 Mile run (not timed)
Weight Lifting: Back
Pull ups x3; 8, 8, 8
Deadlift 135x12, 135x10, 185x10, 185x10, 185x10
Cable rows 120x12, 140x10, 140x10, 140x10
The 3 mile run done around 11:00 in the morning, very hot, stopped a few times. My neighbor saw me running and told me I have bad running form. Apparently I run with my back at a 70 degree angle and have my arms flared out from my body, and that i run with a bouncing motion. Also, the gym i go to is Planet Fitness no free olympics weights, so I was deadlifting on a smith machine, not sure if this is a good idea or not, but it’s all I for now.