[quote]It’s been about 10 months since you started, how are your stats?
Sorry for bothering you, but you should post some pics by now; it’s been a long time, more than enough to be at a decent bodyfat level.[/quote]
After 6 months of vainly trying to achieve “body recomp” (yeah, you guys were right stupid idea) and another few of halfass dieting, ONLY NOW do I have my shit together.
As far as lifts go, I’ve made tremendous progress. Physique? Went from a 40’ waist to a 36’- but I still have plenty of fat around the midsection. Arms and shoulders are better but still small. Legs and torso are larger than they were.
Simply put, I’m not where I want to be yet, and while I started this thread to give myself accountability, I feel like a douche. So no pics until I’m where I want to be. However long that takes.
BACK AND SHOULDERS (yesterday)
Wide grip pullups
7xBW
6xBW
6xBW
went to work, came back-
6xBW
6xBW
6xBW
Seated military press
135x12
170x7-8 (I forget)
190x5
190x4
went to work, came back
135x10
170x6
190x3
Rows
135x15
185x12
200x10
225x8
A couple sets of side laterals and that was it. Back is still fried from deadlifting so performance in pulls was fairly shitty.
[quote]LUEshi wrote:
It’s been about 10 months since you started, how are your stats?
Sorry for bothering you, but you should post some pics by now; it’s been a long time, more than enough to be at a decent bodyfat level.
After 6 months of vainly trying to achieve “body recomp” (yeah, you guys were right stupid idea) and another few of halfass dieting, ONLY NOW do I have my shit together.
As far as lifts go, I’ve made tremendous progress. Physique? Went from a 40’ waist to a 36’- but I still have plenty of fat around the midsection. Arms and shoulders are better but still small. Legs and torso are larger than they were.
Simply put, I’m not where I want to be yet, and while I started this thread to give myself accountability, I feel like a douche. So no pics until I’m where I want to be. However long that takes.
Close grip bench
135x10
185x10
200x8
225x4 (very shaky)
245x1
Incline bench
135x10
185x6
200x3
DB curls
35x15
50x8
50x8
50x8
My schedule got a little switched around and as a result poundages suffered. My back is still fried from deadlifting, and as a result my rows and pullups sucked. My shoulders are fried from yesterday, so as a result my benching sucked.
I’ll take a day off and get back to my regular schedule. I look forward to busting some PRs.
SHOULDERS AND BACK (today: chest and arms was actually the day before yesterday)
Strict standing military press
135x8
155x5
135x6
135x6
135x6
135x5
Side laterals
3 sets of 12 with 35 lbs
Wide grip pullups
6xBW
6xBW
6xBW
6xBW
5xBW
Rows
135x15
185x12
200x10
225x8
245x5
Decided to do some standing presses today. I’ll probably alternate between these and seated from now. Weight’s nothing impressive (yet) but now I have a little room to move strength-wise.
That was it. I tweaked my back a bit when I was doing close grip benches and I didn’t want to fuck it up any further. A day or so later and it feels much better, although I definitely need to stretch the area out more.
[quote]LUEshi wrote:
LEGS (day after chest and back)
Front squats
135x6
200x3
215x3
220x3
220x3
220x3
Back squats
225x3
270x3
290x3
300x3
Stiff legged deadlifts
135x10
225x8
270x8
That was it. I tweaked my back a bit when I was doing close grip benches[/quote] ??? [quote] and I didn’t want to fuck it up any further. A day or so later and it feels much better, although I definitely need to stretch the area out more.[/quote]
Back was too tight, and I arched really hard while my left foot came off the ground on the last rep. The day after I had to lift my mother after she broke her ankle, so I’ve been taking it real easy on it.
Between that and the move training’s been haphazard. I did about six sets of BTN militaries and pullups the other day for shoulders and back and that was it. I meant to do some a shitload of front squats to make up for things yesterday but ended up spending my night moving yet more stuff over to the new house, so I’ll do that today.
Hey dude, I don’t wanna be a pain in the ass but here’s a suggestion:
You should set a deadline for your physique transformation in summer. May, June, July, you choose one. It’ll be more than a year since you started, more than enough to shed about 50 pounds of excess fat you had at the begginning. If you made things right, you should’ve recomped in about 9 months mostly.
Sometimes deadlines are good to face reality, it would be really hard to see you fat in the summer, assuming you did things well.
When are you gonna join a gym? Your goals are concerning muscle building/development and fat loss, I think this suggestion has been mentioned before.
Small place, but they have a Smith, Hammer Strength, a rack and plenty of dumbbells. Plus it’s only $19 a month and my rates are locked in. Looking forward to doing some kickass training between there and the house. Wasn’t really impressed with the variety, frankly (HS bench, incline bench, shoulder press, couple different rinky dink leg presses and that was it aside from the free weights) but the sheer fact that I’m back in an actual honest to God GYM has me excited.
The lady who signed me up was kind of nonplussed: she was all set to deliver this comforting spiel about how I “don’t have to pay all at once”, “reasonable rates” yadda yadda yadda. Once she figured out that I just wanted to plunk some money down so I could train without being hassled she was all business.
Naturally I christened the new place with a chest & arm workout.
HS incline bench
135x a million
185x10
200x8
200x6-3-2 rp (11)
Seated DB curls
30x20
45x10
50x8
50x8
Seated overhead tri extensions
50x a bunch
60x12
70x8
80x4 (lost it. Couldn’t do any more)
Can’t wait for leg day. If the Smith is fixed I’ll do ten sets of free weight front squats and back squats before doing a 20 repper on the Smith, and finish it up with some SLDLs and maybe a drop set on the leg press…
Had a shoulder and back, leg and chest and arms days in there someplace. Super-tired from moving and pretty damn sore from the gym. I’ll take a couple days off and come back at it.
Been doing broomstick stretches everyday for my shoulders and it seems to help quite a bit with stiffness and pain. Hopefully in a few weeks I should be back to benching on a regular basis.
Well, for starters I’ve dropped some more fat, doing cardio and kicking ass in the gym. My squat and deadlift numbers are moving upwards very quickly again and my shoulder press/incline press/close grips stalled for a bit as a result of the weight loss. Been training consistently but not keeping much track other than to make sure numbers are going up.
Very close now to a 34’ waist. I suspect the lovehandles will be the last to go but I can’t say I’ll really miss them when they’re gone. Eating clean, about 350 grams of protein a day and under 200 grams of carbs, sometimes less. I’m probably erring on the side of eating too little rather than too much, but I seem to be holding onto the muscle well enough so far.
I’m still having lots of money issues but my major problem now is transportation; my car was in a wreck in December and the car I was using in the interim to get around was impounded for expired tags. So, it’s just training at home for the next week or so. A friend of mine says he’ll drive me to the gym at around 5 in the morning but waiting for him to get off his ass until then.
Personal life is still a disaster, but whereas all the disappointment and anger used to make me wallow in self-pity and Cheetos, now it’s fuel for the fire (as cliched and Animal Pak-ish as that sounds).
Plus I met a redhead with big tits. So, you know. That helps.
Been going to the gym at 5:00 AM, low-carb diet with no carbs after 7:00 PM, using lots of fish oil caps and eating a fuckload of steak. Lost about 10-15 pounds right off the bat and losing 1-2 pounds of fat since. I don’t think I’ve lost any muscle and I have a sneaking suspicion I may have actually put some on.
Strength in all my movements took a major dip when I started my diet in early March, but has now come back and I think I’m set to surpass any and all previous high water marks. Doing pullups for 10+ reps a set now, weighted dips (next arm day I’m putting on a 45 and some change- we’ll see how that goes) instead of flat bench, put up the 90’s fairly easily on incline DB press today and 100’s are next, 315 for 6 ass to grass squats, 335x12 stiff legged deads, using the 70’s for 6 on overhead DB presses, rows…I’m not doing that much in the way of rows. Think I’ll swap those out for one arm DB rows in light of all the other heavy dumbbell shit I’m doing. Not tremendous but I have room to move and it all came fairly easily- in the middle of dieting. 203 as of this morning. I got down to 195 in October but looked fatter so figure that out.
Here’s a recent pic, since everyone wants one. Yes I know I’m a dumbass for not ditching the whole idea of body recomp., dieting first and getting all this shit out of the way like everyone told me to in the first place, but for only dieting for a little over three weeks I think I’m doing alright.
I’ll start doing rack pulls and stuff for my forearms on leg and arm day, respectively.
Wow. After looking at the first page, I was fucking FAT.
Still not where I wanna be, but such is life. May 22nd is my deadline to lose what remains. I’m thinking about an ECA stack to help me out. Here’s a side chest, too.
