Hulloes, this is my new log. I've hung around here for a couple days following the other people from flzine.com where I have a
log, and now its time to join in the fun over here.
Here's some stats:
Age: 32
Height: 1.67m / 5'6"
Weight: 69 kg / 152 lbs
Did some lifting back in 2006 at the gym at my work, but nothing serious. Tried some lifting again last year, but had to stop because of back problems. Got back to lifting on
NROL4W in February thanks to Juleske. I like most upper body stuff (lat pulldowns yay) and dislike most lower body stuff (ugh, lunges..) and I have a huge antipathy towards planks: I'm nowhere near the 120s that are required in stage 4. I'm stopped doing those as scheduled, but slowly trying to improve them. I cycle to work daily, and I try to take 1-hour walks on non-lifting days.
I started reading about fitness and fatloss, and found the Leigh Peele's blog. The Fatloss Challenge, and looking up some old pictures after Jules told me I used to be super-skinny (me? skinny? yeah right! hey... I really *was* skinny!) inspired me to apply myself to lose weight. I started at the end of March, ate at deficit for 2 months and then did maintenance for a week. I lost 6.4 kg / 14 lbs. Its coming rather easy to me, I guess I should consider myself lucky. Just started on the deficit again, goal is to reach 65 kg / 143 lbs at the end of July. The end goal for my fatloss is 60 kg / 132 lbs, which I plan to reach by the end of September. I consider this a preparation: when I get there, I'm gonna set a new goal, though not sure yet whether to concentrate on looks or strength yet.
Stuff I struggle with is a leg length difference, currently its giving me a pain in the butt from my piriformis muscle cramping up something bad. I got some exercises to keep it under control though, and I ordered a foam roller that I hope will help too. My multifidus muscles are very bad on the right side, I got some exercides for that, but I hardly ever do them. The core work in NROL4W has helped greatly with my back though. I managed to get tendonitis somewhere around my right tricep from doing bad pushups, but that's almost gone now. Oh, and I might have an anterior tilt. Need to look into that some more, though I'm already planning to foamroll my hamstrings to be able to reach my toes at some point.
I'm a vegetarian, and eat 3 pints of
quark cheese per day for most of my protein requirements. Other than that I eat quorn for protein. I'm a bit afraid of tofu after reading some articles on T-Nation about the stuff. When I'm going maintenance I want to rely more on whole grains and legumes and some nuts for protein sources. Supplementing with vegetarian-friendly multivitamins since I got tired from being in a deficit. Macro's during deficit are approximately: 45% protein, 40% carbs, 15% fat. This is not a conscious choice, it just happens to be most convenient. Here's a linky to my
FitDay.
Phew! *eats a cookie*