Now that school is officially over til spring...

I can get back in the gym and get right, took 18 hours this semester (never again ) plus working 64 hours a week (two jobs). I struggled getting into the gym for more than 3 days a week; Usually Monday(arms, shoulders) and Thursday(chest, back) but nothing too serious.

diet will consist of the same thing for 30 days

Breakfast:
6 egg whites
cup of plain oatmeal
various fruit (whatever my girl buys that can be chopped and thrown in )

2nd meal
Platinum hydro whey
20-25 wasabi or habanero almonds

lunch
6 oz. ground turkey
2 cups of baby spinach
slice of low fat swiss
slice of wheat bread
tea spoon of mustard

3rd meal
greek Yogurt
20-25 wasabi or habenaro almonds
banana

Dinner
8oz Chicken [..]
1 cup of snow peas
1 cup of broccoli

will also take:
Fish oil and hd fat burner.

Stumbled on a workout program on bodybuilding Bodybuilding.com - Steve Cook's Big Man On Campus 12-Week College Trainer - will follow strictly

figure I'd give this a month.


I have no specific goal, I just wanna turn into a gym rat.

more of a motivational thread for me, feel free to join in with input or your daily progress.

probably won't update everyday, maybe once a week. If I see gains/ loses the updates will increase.

before and after pix will be posted 1/17/13

Yes it's 4:47 in the morning in Dallas and I thought of how pudgy I got in the last 5 months.

beginning height 5'9 (as if im growing) [pic]
beginning weight 189

what does it mean that you took 18 hours?

6 classes

1 class egauls 3 hour/credits

6 * 3 = 18

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You do chest and back on the same day and biceps and triceps on the same day?

Seems very counterproductive.

6 classes. I think you guys use units on the west coast right?
I did a month of p90x a couple of years a go, their plan is chest back/, shoulders, bi,tri, /legs back, I kinda stuck with that
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yeah totally threw me off..

anywho, when i changed my routine up I went chest/back and tricep/biceps the next day. and let me tell you, i didn't suffer any kind of set back at all really.

I mean, the pumps I got from it were incredible, my arms would swell up to the size of footballs.

I understand the whole argument against it, and I'm not trying to debate that... but sometimes I feel like I gotta mix it up...

Plus with all the supplements I was taking for recovery and maximum muscle growth, I could never get a challenging work out... So that's when I went to that routine and I loved it.

Yea I'm looking for a recovery drink now..

in the meantime I'm sticking with the hydro whey.

keep it up b

nothing better than an active lifestyle. that confidence you get trickles down to every part of your life

I highly recommend Joe DeFRancos Westside for Skinny Bastards.

So I completely skipped the whole week. My girls mom came in from Minnesota and it was her first time visiting Dallas, so we showed her around eating random food. Good thing I didnt go shopping [pic]

Dinner I made last night for me, her and our parents.
Salmon
Mashed potatos with Crab claw meat and onions
Roasted tomatos.


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So have you started working out or what? [pic]

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you betta run white boy , harlem tired of yall

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I gained 2 pounds too

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First week of no junk food and soda went bad [pic]

I didn't break but I realized how much I rely on them to pass time. For example I have a part time job where I work security overnight Mon-Wed. , basically all I do there is watch a monitor and watch Netflix on my girls nook. So I'm sitting around snacking on vending machine food and soda. Then around 5:30 I'd shoot across the street to Mcdonalds to eat whatever I had a taste for.

But gettng through those three days were hard as !!, I usually ate out of boredom, so I started sleeping early, which caused me to be less irritated in the morning when I have to take my girl to work at 8. I had more energy so I went to the gym in the morning after getting off and taking her in.

Ran 2 miles Tues-Thur. Didn't run Monday or this morning because I had a late Thursday.

Followed the posted workouts to a T, changed my lunch and dinner.

Lunch: 8 oz. chicken [..] cut up into a baby spinach salad.
non fat greek yogurt
vegetable chips -------- BUY THESE [pic]

Dinner: 6 oz salmon
1 in a half cups of snow peas
cup of brown rice.

Update next week.

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Second week was a breeze [pic]

Definitely feeling more energized from the runs. I kinda wanna buy a bike and ride around but idk, I'd look stupid af on a bike.

don't wanna run around the neighborhood, I might get rolled. So I''ll stick to the treadmill. [pic]


um.. the Salmon I was buying sold out, so I bought thicker salmon and tried to cook it the same way.. it was raw as !! on the inside, so now I know to bake thicker salmon [pic]

other than that same !! different day

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and I'm eating a small pepperoni pizza with a lava crunch cake today


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I'll run it off..

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Productive week.

watched the biggest loser and thought I could easily do 10000 meters on the rowing machine.

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yea that !! didn't work out like I thought.




got my girl in the gym with me, she did everything I did, lighter weight same rep.

increased my db press from 80 to 90 x 8 reps. [pic]