My biggest problems have always been consistency and eating. I guess those are two pretty fucking big problems. Hopefully starting this log will help hold me accountable for missed workouts and meals.
The eating issues are really frustrating. I naturally have a very meager appetite. I think that it might be because of cutting weight for wrestling for so many years; I just got too accustomed to being hungry.
If I don’t have anything ready to eat, and I’m in a lazy mood and don’t feel like cooking, I’ll easily go until mid afternoon without eating more than a piece of fruit. What the fuck is that? Who does that? The fact that I’m prescribed adderall for ADHD certainly doesn’t fucking help, as anyone who’s taken it will well know.
As for consistency, I’ve been better than ever before in the past year. Nonetheless, my lifting was shitty and sporadic for a few months this spring. However, in the fall and early winter I was working at a gym and eating like a beast and got my weight over 200 lbs for the first time in my life. Senior year of high school my natural weight was in the mid 160’s.
In college it was in the high 170’s during the summer and several pounds lower at the end of wrestling season. Senior year of college I finally got serious about lifting and eating and got my weight to around 195, but I certainly had more of a belly than I’d ever had before.
Right now, if I don’t lift and don’t pay attention to what I’m eating, I’m guessing my weight would end up in the mid 170’s. To be honest, I’m not sure. However, I did drop from over 200 to around 185 in a couple months. I’m guessing that a part of that was just having less food in my digestive tract.
My goal is to get up to 205-210 with the same size waist that I have now (size 34 jeans are a little loose on me). I’d like to do it by next summer at the latest, but of course (like every other lifter out there) I’d rather get there sooner than later. This morning I weighed 187.2 when I got to the gym (so that was after breakfast and a protein shake).
Right now I’m doing a modification of Blending Size and Strength V2.0
Decline DB Bench Press - 50x15, 55x12, 40x17 (90s rest between sets. No sets to failure)
Cable Row with wider V handle - 100x15ish, 107.5x8ish, 70x20 (90s rest. “ish” means the last 1-3 reps were of poor form)
Lateral Raise - 12.5x13/13/15
Reverse Grip Lat Pulldown - 100x15/15/15
done as alternating sets, 60s rest.
Straight bar cable tricep extensions - 42.5x15/19 (90s rest)
HS Preacher Curl - 45x15/13+F (90s rest)