I'll try to keep this short and sweet. After hurting my back and gettin horribly ill within one day of eachother, left bedridden for a week, all the while dealing with constant pain/discomfort from an old injury(posterior dislocation of the sternocavicular joint, healed displaced 5mm and arthritis has formed around the joint) I decided maybe theres more to life than lifting X lbs. After close to 5 weeks out of the gym I come in with a new philosophy, mindset, and attitude. Its been quite some time so I am starting off light and smart. I will be starting my year long journey with Anti-Bodybuilding for Hypertrophy by Chad Waterbury and I am contemplating doing every workout in his book in a linear fashion, starting with ABBH and ending with TSP. As far as that PL comp, its out of the picture right now. My goal of beeing pain free in my shoulder is ranked quite higher than lifting x while weighing X. Numbers are irrelevant to me at this point and now are nothing more than tools to follow my main goal, Progression. Im not going to lie to myself and say I am a bodybuilding, I am a power lifter, I am just a 20 year old kid who wants to live long, strong, and healthy. I'm not putting in any nutritional information in this log, it is a training log and will stay at that.
Mediocrity is a crime; I'm going to become the diamond in the bag of coal that is my surrounding man.
LOG KEY
Blue represents a gain in weight in incriments of pounds
Red represemts a loss in weight in incriments of pounds
Black represents no change, or first time in the program
For example, I lift 150 lbs the first time I do lift X for x reps, it will be black. For ever time the number of lbs is lower than 150 in that rep set scheme it will be red, for more than 150 blue. Nice simple and pretty.
Anti-Bodybuilding for Hypertrophy Day 1-1/4/07 BW-172.5
I like your log title, Steve. And I really like your attitude. I wish I had had it at 20. Good going, man. (And you're benching more than my PB for an 10X3. )
One minor thing.
Quote:
Medeocricy is a crime
So's misspelling. Don't be a mediocre speller.
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I like your log title, Steve. And I really like your attitude. I wish I had had it at 20. Good going, man. (And you're benching more than my PB for an 8X3. )
One minor thing.
So's misspelling. Don't be a mediocre speller.
Good catch, thanks. I cant spell, you cant count heh, we must combine forces.
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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
Too bad about Nick Saban. Wonder which clown Huizenga will bring in next....
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notes: cannot remember the last time I did anything for 8+ reps let alone front squats. I was wiped from this. As far as the colors, I think 100lbs on the raises should be the weight, along with the 175 on rows on day 1, i will use them as the base from now on.
good luck on ABBH man, I'll be joining ya for my second go-round with ABBH here in just a couple days. Yeah those 5x10 days just absolutely killed me, especially the front squats .
notes:While I will be increasing the weight with dips next time around, I will not add weight to the chins, in hopes I can hit a full 5x10 with my body weight by the end of the program.
I decided afer an overwhelming influx of PM's that I will keep my log up, but I will not be venturing out past it for the time beeing.
A dietary note: I know I said I wasnt going to add my nutrition mubo jumbo in this, but I feel things need to be addressed. This should clear up the newly started and most likely continued drop in weight. When I was home I had a full on body scan at Emory Behavioral Science(my moms clinic) and was pleased, as well as displeased with the results. My intra cellular fluid(the good kind, not waste product) and muscle where at optimum for my height/gender/age. My bone density was off the chart, I was told it was due to lifting since such a young age(as my muscles grew my bones had to grow and get denser to support it, great reason to get your grandma dealifting!). Now I had caliper tests done past, one every 3 months. I walked around normally at 12, was sub 10 when I cut, and up to 15 when I bulked. This test accounted for the ...dum dum dum.....visceral fat that lurks under the muscle and is the worst kind for you. According to this bad boy I was 21%(now I am by no means visbly fat, and this number was a rude awakening and made me really look back on all the unhealthy habbits one picks up during college). Now I started lifting young to stop getting beat up, and then I had lost all four grandparents in a 6 month time span from: Heart disease, Cancer, anurism(sp?), diabetes. That was when I took it to another level, started wrestling and eat super clean, with not only performance, but health as one of my main goals. College has a way of making you lose sight of those things, and bulking becomes an excuse. I decided to clean up my diet severely, I have more than enough muscle on a 5'8" small boned framed for now and would like to continue slowly gaining muscle while gaining strength. Key word beeing slowly.
My diet now consists of alot more veggies and fats. I eat only whole grain carbs once or twice a day(usually a few hours before a workout), with the exception beeing my sugary pre/during/post workout shakes. The rest of my cals come from chicken, fish, beef, cheese, olive oil, nuts, beans(i eat at least one can of chick peas a day, I just love them) and veggies.
I am still getting plenty of carbs, but from good sources(whole wheat, beans and legumes, veggies), but I have drastically uped my fat intake by drizzling olive oil over veggies, adding nuts and cheese and taking my fish oils religiously. Not to mention my avocado addiction. Im still eating a large amount of cals to support hypertrophy, but strategically timing my insulin to build and recover, while burning fat as fuel. This may sound like I am doing the dreaded "lose fat while gaining muscle", but its more of me just trying to clean my diet while taking advantage of the fact that I have been untrained for closing in on 5 weeks.
I never wanted to be huge, rather big for my size, lean, strong as an ox, and symmetrical from head to toe. I feel that after about 3 months my body should take to the diet and I expect to be a tad bit bigger, a whole lot leaner, and damned sure meaner in the weight room.
Now as for a next wrokouts 10x3 Deadlift. I have told myself a few things, just because I can rep over 400 lbs doesnt mean I should each and every workout. I will be drastically lightening the load, working more on tempo and mechaniques rather than X lbs. I would not like another injury, and my SC joint finally feels good after the rest and the last thing I want is to have a bum left arm again. Hope this wasnt too long but I felt that a few things needed to be addressed before I continue. I have a notebook with numbers and reps, the reason I like this log is I get to read my mindset as well.
I decided afer an overwhelming influx of PM's that I will keep my log up, but I will not be venturing out past it for the time beeing.
Good for you! Keep up the good work!
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I decided afer an overwhelming influx of PM's that I will keep my log up, but I will not be venturing out past it for the time beeing.
Good to hear, I look forward to keeping up with your log
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Glad to hear you will be maintaining your log, Steve. I hope you can eventually find a way to venture out beyond this sub-forum and rejoin the broader community. I know it will take time. Good luck with ABBH - it remains one of my all time favourite and most effective routines.
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I just got nailed by a pick up truck, my shoulder is feeling funny again. I hope it will be ok tomorow. Just not my week a guess. Just gotta smile and move on.
I just got nailed by a pick up truck, my shoulder is feeling funny again. I hope it will be ok tomorow. Just not my week a guess. Just gotta smile and move on.
As in you were a pedestrian? a fellow motorist? a biker?
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How's the shoulder today, Steve? Much damage to your car?
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"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
This may sound like I am doing the dreaded "lose fat while gaining muscle", but its more of me just trying to clean my diet while taking advantage of the fact that I have been untrained for closing in on 5 weeks.
I never wanted to be huge, rather big for my size, lean, strong as an ox, and symmetrical from head to toe.
Steve, or should that be TheSteve, you make two interesting points here.
One, that sometimes it is just enough for a while to think only about cleaning up your diet and seeing how it goes before, perhaps, making any tweaks; moreso if you've just taken up a new program.
Two, it was brave of you to write that you never wanted to be huge because you know what sort of reaction that would get on some forums. I'm of the same mindset. Having gone from age 15 when I left high school until my early 30's I did absolutely no regular sports or fitness related exercises except for a few games of badminton, squash or 5-a-side football (soccer). Having taken up strength training seriously just 4 years ago I realised I was seriously very weak and small. Having spent some time getting a stronger and bigger my goal now at 41 is not necessarily to get hoooge, but mainly to be stronger, balanced and without pain.
K-Court, it feels ok today, I still have to get it checked out for insurance purposes.
Scotsman, I wrestled for 4 years, a sport where I wasnt allowed to get much bigger, yet as big and as strong as I could for a weight class. Ever since then Ive always been interested in pound for pound strength, and size for frame, rather than absolute.
Im gunna listen to my body, and if it tells me Im ok to lift tomorow, I will, if it says wait a bit, I will. Im just thanking god I decided to not take my dog in the car with me at the last second. Funny part was, I was about 70 feet away from my house when this happend.
Having spent some time getting a stronger and bigger my goal now at 41 is not necessarily to get hoooge, but mainly to be stronger, balanced and without pain.
notes: My chalk is stuck in the busted trunk of my car in the shop, so I didnt get the chance to use any today. On the tenth set, and 3rd rep of DL's I tore open my hand and started to bleed. After a few bandaids I finished my workout.
Done with my first week back and my first week on ABBH. I feel good, I like the work, I'm ready for some blue next week.
Also, How do you do the swiss ball rollout (I'm doing ABBH too and don't have an ab wheel)
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"Focus on making the 5 lifts stronger and getting enough food. There will be plenty of time to worry about glycemic indexes, PERs, and Bulgarian Split squats later. Much later."-Mark Rippetoe
After I read your post the other day in OT I ran across a quote from an interview that MH did with LL Cool J that I thought pertained. "Eagles fly with eagles, and crows fly with crows. If you're doing eagle business and crows are commenting, change your attitude. Attitude equals altitude. Get rid of those people." Sometimes you just need to make a change, Good Luck.
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Notes: It has been 9 days, I am down 3 lbs. I decided to check my measurements do to the speedy weight loss. Sure enough my waist is down a half an inch, while my arms, chest, thigh and calves has not changed. According to the blue font, my performance is up at the same time. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
I also had to wrap my hand in an old tee shirt to workout today since I am missing a callous on my right hand hah. Hopefully it wont bother me by the next DL day. Have a happy and safe weekend everyone.
On a personal note I have a job interview at Sports Authority tomorow for the fitness specialist position, so wish me luck.
Great numbers and great progress, Steve. Hope the callous thing doesn't give you any grief.
Good luck on the interview tomorrow. You'll knock 'em dead, no doubt. What exactly is the position? What will you be doing if you get it?
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Im only a part time student right now(need two more classes till I can take my upper level courses), so I'm applying for full time. Ill basically just be selling people fitness equipment. A job is a job, and hopefully I can get a discount. Even if its like 7 bucks an hour, its still more than I am making now with no job. Prob is they have the whole day scheduled with interviews, but I'm not leaving without the job.
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"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
Thanks, it went very well. Aparantly the position is for the "lead" in the fitness department. Basically Sports Authoritys version of a department manager.
So today will be day 11. Its been just about 2 weeks since I got home an dtook measurements a few days before starting to lift again. Now I do not know what is going on here. Granted my diet is as clean and twice as smart(insulin monitoring and ++++++fiber, could explain the lack of TP in my house) as back when i wrestled. Now I am eating slightly under maintanence about 2-3 days a week(non workout days), aproximately maintanence on trainig days, and a good 400-600 cals over on one rest and one training day a week. The only measurement I can begin to explain is my lack of direct calf(or any isolation for that matter) in close to a full year.
Both measurements taking first thing in the morning right out of bed on an empty stomach.
Steve, That's amazing progress for 2 weeks. Keep it up.
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