Thanks to JP for letting me post this here [img]smile.gif[/img] .
First some background, I'm 28 years old from Melbourne Australia. Pretty standard story, was in great shape during high school, did my knee, had a reconstruction, got unfit, went to Uni, things went downhill from there. Never totally blew out, but have probably been around the 15-20% BF for the last 10 years. Found Mens Health and moved to JP Fitnes about 4-6 months back, and got into the HGM program and found I loved heavy compound lifting. Then about 4 weeks ago I changed jobs, for a couple of weeks leading up I slacked off too, and only just rejoined a gym in my new location, so I'm about 6 weeks out of doing anything. I've done a few other injuries to my knee over the years culminating in an MRI that showed a "defect about 1 inch in diamater through the centre of my cartlidge" and the doctor telling me to give up football and any other sport that requires stopping/starting/twisting suddenly. A year or two later I decided while I wont play football, I'll risk basketball because no sports sucks.
My goals are varied, I want a bit of everything! I've settled on trying to get a more athletic body, since doing that requires a certain amount of everything - strength, weightloss, flexibility, size, etc, with a heavy leaning towards weightloss initially.
The routine I've decided to go with is RR&D 2.0. It suits my situation letting me hit the gym briefly pretty much every mornining so I get a steady routine going but dont overdo things. Evenings I want to mix in some HIIT, and just shooting some hoops. I have one more game before we break for summer so I want to come back in really good condition by then. I'll get weight and bodyfat tonight so I know where I'm starting from, and post them.
I hit the gym on Monday to check it out, did some squats, dips, chinups, seated rows, incline dumbell press to just try them out and see where I'm at. Numbers are down, and I also just didnt feel good, never got into it. Went in this morning to do some squats and incline dumbell bench on a 5x5 routine and felt better. Squats got up to 105kg (was 115 - 250 lbs prior) and bench got to 27.5kg dumbells (was around 35 I think), I'll put them both up next time. I now need to actually write out the RR&D program and start following it
. Gym doesnt really seem to have a spot for deadlifts (lots of equipment, but not much spare space) and never seen anyone else doing them. I'm just going to have to steal the barbell off one of their benches and hope noone tells me they're not allowed [img]tongue.gif[/img] .