Age: 20
Height: 5’6"
Weight: 135 lbs
BF: ~15%
Squat: 225
Deadlift: 185 for reps
Bench: 150 for reps
Background:
I’ve been lurking on T-Nation since January and finally decided to start posting stuff. I’m 20 years old, and just finishing up my 2nd year of university. I got into lifting back in October, but only started taking both my training and nutrition seriously in March. I decided to start logging my progress here to help keep me motivated.
Goals (2 months from now):
Add 10 lbs of lean body mass, mostly on my upper body. Get my waistline down to 28". Prior to last month I actually wanted to lose weight because of my hard “belly” and to make the sub-128 lb division for Taekwondo tournaments, but realized that being skinny wasn’t much better than being skinny-fat, which I am now.
Training:
Three weeks ago I started using Chad Waterbury’s Huge in a Hurry program, and finished up with the Get Ready phase just last week. I’m currently in the first week of the Get Big phase. I also do Taekwondo training 4-5 times a week.
Nutrition:
I’m following a carb cycling layout, with ~2800 calories (250g carbs) on high days and ~2400 calories (150 g carbs) on low days. Protein is at 200g and fat is at 110g consistently. I’ll be increasing caloric intake every 2 weeks.
Anyhow, pleased to meet you all. It’s been a while since I’ve been on any forum. Pics and measurements will come soon.
Damn, I meant to update this sooner but exams are hell. I’m just glad that I can manage my time well enough to get to the gym 6 days a week. I’m not going to post every detail about the past 12 days, but here are the highlights:
Read some more articles and forum posts and updated my carb cycling method. I switched to the “Beginner’s Guide to Carb Cycling” guidelines, The whole P+C and P+F protocol is a little too much for me, so aside from peri- and PWO, all of my meals are balanced.
I’m consuming my shakes peri-workout now, sipping in between sets, This seems to help with fatigue (Shake has 1 scoop of Allmax Isoflex, 45 g dextrose, and 5 g creatine mono). PWO consists of chicken, rice, and fruit an hour after training.
Until I get a caliper, I’m going to determine changes in body fat based on waistline.
Weight: 134.6 lbs (4/6) → 137.4 lbs (4/20).
Waist: 30" (4/6) → 30 1/4" (4/20)
Deadlift up from 185x6 to 210x6.
Goals for this week:
Add cardio 3x/week to keep waistline in check (3x50 strokes @ medium-high intensity on Concept2 rower. I love how it’s the only cardio machine at my gym without a timeslot sheet,and I’ve seen it used only 1 or 2 times aside from myself.
Increase squat to at least 225x4.
Hopefully I can update this more frequently, and in a more organized way. I’ll be finished my last 2 exams next Wednesday, so I can focus on training for the entire summer. As for progress pics, I’ll probably post them monthly, starting in May.