My Training Journal

[harmsway]

So I joined here yesterday, thanks for the welcome folks!

I'm starting this journal for me, I'd like to be able to see some gains. If anyone reads it and wants to chip in advice then that would be grand.

I'm a 33 yo vegetarian, 5 foot 11, 75kgs. I eat 170gs of protein a day.

I guess my goal is to get ripped again! I'm currently focussing on making my upper and lower body size better, then I'll cut the fat round my middle in a few months.

a few years ago I got pretty good at this but then stuff happened and I stopped training. about 3 months ago I got back into it and rebuilt my home gym. For the past 2 months I've been taking true whey shakes (first thing on waking, then post workout) and a mybar hazelnut (pre workout out) and my lifting has been getting steadily better.

But today is day one for me. I'll post here each month to compare how I'm doing. I tried to just stand normally, without flexing or holding in my stomach so I have a good idea of how I actually look.

My training right now looks like this:

Day 1.
wide pull ups (8,8,8)
db press (7,7,7 getting heavier, heavy for me here is 30kgs in each hand)
incline db press
flyes
db pullovers
upright row
bent knee row
push ups (50,50,40)
forearm set (7,7,7 reps with overgrip EZ bar holding 25kg)
floor set (25, 15, 10 crunches holding 12.5 kgs)

Day 2.
Squat (i'm doing this with dbs because i don't have a bar. get a bar, right?)
Deadlift
Lunges
calf raises
military press
arnold press
lat raise
front raise
rear delts
dumbell circle
forearm set
floor set

Day 3.
standing curls
seated close grip curls
incline curls
isolation curls
hammer curls
tricep dips
french press
curls (21s set)
forearm set
floor set

I workout at home usually about 15:30 on monday, tuesday, thursday friday and sunday, alternating the days above.

I've never done a 5x5 workout but I'm quite interested in that, so I'll give that a try this week.

I eat regularly throughout the day, and about 2,500 calories per day.

Any observations welcome!

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[Weaves]

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I'm a 33 yo vegetarian, 5 foot 11, 75kgs. I eat 170kgs of protein a day.

170 kgs!!!!

I'm guessing you mean grams

[comanight2]

cut back on the protein man

[harmsway]

aha LOL no, genuinely, I eat a LOT of protein...

(damnit! can you edit posts once posted?! yes, phew! sorted!)

[harmsway]

feel a bit bad about bumping this up as there are way more important things in this room, but still, since I post last week, I've started 5x5 and as that program gets a lot of love round here, I figured you'd want to know about what I hope will be a success story.

I took it straight from the page:


Squat
Bench Press
Inverted Rows
Push Ups
Reverse Crunches

Squat
Overhead Press
Deadlift
Pull Ups
Bridges

So its a totally different type of workout to the one I described above. It hurts a lot more, climbing the stairs out of my cellar gym is neraly impossible but I'm really liking the program. Hard work is good, right?

I'll be increasing the weight next time but as I'm using DBs I guess I'll go up by 2.5kg in each hand which might not be quite what the system demands, but its close as I can get. If this works for me, i'll get a bar and a squat stand. Thanks guys. Anymore insights you guys can give me about ways to move this forward would be gratefully received