This is a picture from me and my son on a roller coaster. It was his first day ever riding roller coasters and this picture is from the 9th ride that day (fourth time on this same coaster). He isn’t mugging for the camera. That is a picture of pure terror on the boy’s face. This is the only time he had his eyes open for the picture.
Weight after 5 days of eating like total garbage: 227 lbs. I turn 40 on the 28th of this month. Want to be an even 220 lbs. on that day.
Nice pics. Thanks for sharing!
Well, I didn’t get anywhere near 220 by my birthday. I continued eating like shit and not exercising. Weighed in today at 233.2 lbs. Food is my primary vice, and I’ve been feeding my emotions lately.
I’m officially back on the diet wagon, and I drug myself into the gym after work. Hoping to hit 215 by the beginning of December.
Monday
Seated Row 160x8 180x8 190x8
Pulldowns 160x8 160x8 160x6
Straight Arm Pulldowns 55x12 55x12 55x10
Bar Curl 45x15 45x12 45x12
Machine Preacher Curl 75x6 75x6 75x6
Tuesday
Weight 229.4
Bench 225x5 245x5 255x5 265x5 275x5
Machine Chest Press 143x12 143x12 143x12
Lying Dumbbell Ext. 35x8 35x8 35x8
Rope Pushdowns 65x10 65x10 65x10
Wednesday
Weight 227.2
Only had about 30 minutes in the gym. Did some front squats, seated leg curls, and standing calf raises. I honestly haven’t done anything lower body wise in quite a long while since I tweaked my back. Even going really light, it didn’t feel very stable on the front squats.
Maybe do some single leg work
cardio helps too.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Maybe do some single leg work[/quote]
Besides split squats, I’ve never really done single leg work. Gonna have to read up on the options.
[quote]phatphit wrote:
cardio helps too.[/quote]
Cardio? Me?
I’ll probably start throwing in some eliptical work on the weeks I go to the gym. I despise cardio.
[quote]doogie wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Maybe do some single leg work[/quote]
Besides split squats, I’ve never really done single leg work. Gonna have to read up on the options.[/quote]
Lunges with DB, Bulgarian split squats with DB,
When you get down here I got sleds for you to use.
Seriously overate this weekend during my son’s birthday festivities. Ended up back at 232 on Monday. Today weighed in at 226.6. Not much working out this week as I have my son with me and can just make it to the apartment complex “gym”. Will do what I can in there.
[quote]doogie wrote:
Seriously overate this weekend during my son’s birthday festivities. Ended up back at 232 on Monday. Today weighed in at 226.6. Not much working out this week as I have my son with me and can just make it to the apartment complex “gym”. Will do what I can in there.[/quote]
I went off for 36 hours, ate like a man on death row Sat night, was up 4 pounds by Sunday morning after 212 on Friday. Just now back to 213 on Tuesday.
Sucks but most is just water shifting, just stick to the diet hard core when you got your son and cant hit gym hard.
Back for the attack…
In the last few months I haven’t even thought about a gym. I’ve moved from Indiana back to Texas and started a new job. I’m away from the ex, closer to friends and family, not having to go through another Indiana winter, but my son is still in Indiana until this summer when he moves to Texas with me permanently. I talk to him on the phone or Skype on the computer daily, but I miss the little fart more than I could ever express here.
In the month and a half I’ve been in Texas, I’ve managed to work my weight back up to 247.6 on New Years Eve. That’s right. Since bottoming out at 222 in August I have managed to put back on 25 lbs of pure heart attack gut lard. I’m an emotional little girl who feeds my emotions, apparently.
So, I started dieting again New Years eve. Tomorrow will be my one-week weigh-in. I did pig on Mexican food for my cheat meal last night and it was glorious. Should come in close to ten pounds down this first week, understanding that it’s a lot of water weight.
I also joined a gym on Thursday and started working out today. I’m going to do the Westside for Skinny Bastards III for as long as I can stand it. Calorie and carb restriction may force me to modify that plan as time goes on. My goal is to weigh 200 lbs on Good Friday, March 29 when my son gets here to visit for Spring Break. I don’t want him getting off the plane seeing that I’ve turned back into a big tub of crap again. I haven’t weighed 200 lbs in about 11 yrs if memory serves me right. Lifting wise, I don’t really have any specific goals in mind for this time period. Just not hurting my back for three months would be super.
Today’s workout: Repetition Upper Body Day
A. Dumbbell Incline Press 75x12 75x12 75x10
B1. Pulldowns 130x8 130x8 130x8
B2. Bent over Lateral Raises 20x8 20x8 20x8
C. Cable Lateral Raises 20x10 20x10 20x10 20x10
D1. Barbell Shrugs 225x8 225x8 225x8
D2. Bar Curl 65x8 65x8 65x8
E. Plate Pinches 2 10’s for two sets to failure each hand.
I started off fairly easy, not knowing where my strength and endurance were, and not wanting to kill myself this first week back. It probably doesn’t seem like much to most people, but this workout has quite a bit more volume than I normally do when I’m just lifting without a plan. My conditioning is what you might call “poor”, and the supersets took my wind.
Welcome back.
Max Effort (relatively speaking) Lower Body
A. Front Squat 135x6 165x5 185x5 205x3
B. Step Ups on some cable machine 45x8 45x8 45x8
C. 45 Degree Hyper-extensions BWx10 BWx10 BWx10
D. Seated Calf Raises 140x10 140x10 140x10
E. A few sets of crunches followed by death cramps in my ab (I only have the one big, fat one)
Weight after one week of dieting: 240.8 lbs. 6.8 lbs down. Didn’t get close to the 10 lbs I was hoping for, but then I remembered I ate about 4000 calories New Year’s Eve at Saltgrass Steakhouse.
Max Effort Upper Body
A. Bench 225x5 255x5 275x5 295x3
B. Incline Dumbbell Bench 75x12 75x9
C1 Seated Cable Row 140x10 160x10 160x8
C2 Face Pull 30x10 40x10 50x10
D. Dumbbell Shrug 85x8 85x8 85x8
E. Life Fitness Tri Pushdown 190x8 230x8 250x8
Weight 239.4
A. Rear leg elevated split squat with 25 lb dumbbells 3x8
B. Stiff leg deadlift 135x8 185x8 185x8
C. Donkey Calf Raises 240x10 300x10 300x10
D. Rope Cable Crunches 57.5x12 57.5x12 57.5x12
Weight 236.8
A. Dumbbell Incline Press 75x12 75x12 75x12
B1. Pulldowns 130x8 140x8 140x8
B2. Bent-over Lateral Raises 20x10 20x10 20x10
C. Calble Lateral Raise 25x10 25x10 25x10
D1. Dumbbell Shrugs 85x8 85x8 85x8
D2. Hammer Curl 40x8 40x8 40x8
E. Incline Tate Press 45x8 50x8 50x8
Weight 240.6
Gained 5.6 lbs during yesterday’s cheat. Hopefully about 3 of that falls off today.
A. Front Squat 135x6 165x5 185x5 205x5
B. Step Ups on some cable machine 60x8 60x8 60x8
C. 45 Degree Hyper-extensions BWx10 BWx10 BWx10
D. Seated Calf Raises 160x10 160x10 160x10
E. A few sets of crunches
Weight 238.0. Down 9.6 in two weeks.