I am 27 years old and about 5’9" 168 lbs. I am athletic I played basketball, and baseball all through high school and played club baseball through college. During college I found T-Nation and have read a lot over the years. I had worked myself up to benching 205 5x and had put on a good amount of weight.
Needless to say I became lazy in the transition from college into the real world and working out took a back seat. I am starting again and I want to take thins serious and do it right so I am looking for advice to help me.
Recently I started working out and getting back into it about a month ago. As of now I max about 175 on bench and right around 235 on squat. I’m looking to gain strength and of course get bigger muscles with definition. My first goal is that I want to gain about 10 lbs of muscle and just become stronger.
So basically what should I be doing for a workout right now. Recently I had been doing a 5x5 program and going 4-5 days a week. I was looking into the built for bad strength program but was wondering if that is something I should dive into a month after getting back into things. I take pre-workout and protein shakes and am thinking about trying out Plazma.
Here is a photo of my whimpy self as of now. What can I do to transform this into my goals. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.
This , actually a very good question. I have the problem of not knowing what to do next after the Reg Park 5x5 ( just started training ). I quea it’s a question of consistency and “milking” the program you have. Knowledge is always good to have to
Thanks for the advice. I actually started doing the built for bad program and have completed almost two weeks. One other thing that I have started to do is keep a log of everything I eat and track calories, carbs, protein, and fats. I realized I did not eat nearly as much as I should have been. I am really hoping that this will help me more than in the past. I’ve gained muscle before while I worked out consistently, actually was up to benching 205 lbs 4x on my last set of bench before. My biggest disappointment though was that I never was able to see the definition when I put on more muscle. I really want to work for that as well this time.
[quote]I.Bacu wrote:
Yetfly? How do you track your macros?[/quote]
Well I don’t know if I do it properly or how others would suggest but I just use the nutrition label on everything I eat. I keep track of roughly how many servings of each I have and total them up. I have been keeping it all in a microsoft excell file because it is easy to get my totals then.
