skinny guy journal

[Lifeforce]

Originally posted by gav
chest and abs

db incline
20kg * 12
20kg * 10

bb flat bench (still with smith)
77.5kg * 5
80kg * 4
80kg * 4

bb incline
70kg * 5
70kg * 4

db incline flies
16kg * 10
16kg * 8

dips
bw * 10
bw * 10

normal ab workout
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Since i've started drinking a lot more milk, my acne's starting to come back. I can handle it on my face, but it's really starting up on my chest and back and it is pissing the living shyt out of me!
Just thought i'd share that to cheer everyone up

Good lifting dude! You're way ahead of me. However your lifts seems out of sync... you toss up 20 kg on the dbs and 80 kg in the bench. Strange dude =)

 

[gav]

Originally posted by Lifeforce
Good lifting dude! You're way ahead of me. However your lifts seems out of sync... you toss up 20 kg on the dbs and 80 kg in the bench. Strange dude =)

lol man, don't be fooled, i can still do 30kg db presses but MY FVCKING SUCKALLTHEBALLS GYM only has 20kg dbs

btw, it's smith benchin, your 75kg benches are awesome compared to mine. i can't do that with the free bar

lol double, but i think it really is the milk, or God's getting jealous that i'm almost as ripped as He is. anyways, i can't have the best of both worlds; gonna have to sacrifice some clear skin for some puffed muscles and testosterone boosts.

 

[Double]

haha suckalltheballs gym never heard that expression

i have it so good i only get acne in my face but my body is so beatiful oh soooo beautiful...except the stretchmarks

 

[simon]

Damn good incline bench press. A few sets of 20kg on the Smith kills my arms

Do you use anything to control your acne?

 

[pimpfromdayone]

Well, after you get ripped, you can lay off the milk and hopefully your acne will clear up. You say it boosts your testosterone or is that your theory for why it causes the acne?

I just recently got back into weightlifting with a main focus on chest (as you can see, a little weak compared to rest of self) and I'm doing the 3 set routine on my bench press:
125 lb (56.7 kg) * 8
125 lb * 6
125 lb * 5 or 6, whatever I can muster.... I have no spotter so if I don't make it, it becomes kinda a problem One day someone is gonna find me dead in my basement, but not until I put some more weights on that sucker

I also do the incline press about every other workout (workout every other day) so I can hopefully develop upper pectorals.... my bench is so pimp it lets me change the incline any way I want.

Considering my skinny ass only weighs 130 lbs, I think I am doing alright, hell, I might be able to finally break out the 45 lb discs pretty soon Once I can hit 9 or more reps consistently on the first set of the above routine, I popping them on. You guys are prolly going to tell me I need to do leg exercise too, but trust me, I went to the gym with a friend who has been going for 2 full years, and I did the exact same on the leg press as he did, hadn't ever touched the leg machines... he kept adding weight to the point where he normally would have stopped for himself and was like "geez, you are still going" and I could tell he was kinda pis-sed, haha. I also could do the same calf raises, and dam-n-near matched his performance on the lying row thingie.... needless to say I could do more pullups, but he weighs 30 lbs more. His bench press and bicep curls were WAY better than mine however.

Some chick (prolly trying to think of one reason NOT to like me, hehe) once told me I had skinny legs (looking around ankles) and later, "slender" wrists, but I'll be dam-ned if I can fix that. After countless calf raises, they still look the same.... I understand what they mean now when they say THAT is the hardest muscle in the entire body to train. As for the wrists, I don't think much about them, but I look really silly wearing a watch. I'm just gonna accept these two things as they are and focus on other things.

I gotta tell you, the one exercise I absolutely HATE is the military press. It is also probably my biggest weakness. To make matters worse, I consider my head rather small (lol) so I don't really WANT to have huge shoulders. I'd like to preserve my natural good looks and not mess them up, but at the same time, I don't want certain muscles out of proportion... anyway, keep up the good work guys

 

[gav]

hey pimp, that bench press is your body weight; nice one!
skinny legs- you can sort that out alright
skinny wrists are a fukking godsend! once you get your forearms built up a little your little wrists will make you look like a proper bodybuilder alongside the forearms. and ye watches are a bastard; i had to get 5 links taken out of my new one the other day

simon, ye mate, the smith machine's bad for your arms.
i absolutely cleared up my acne at the start of the year with that acne.org stuff and am still doing it.
the thing is, i'm taking antibiotics that stop sebum production or something like that. BUT you aren't allowed to take them with milk so i've got to cut them in between my meals twice a day.

milk doesn't increase testosterone in any specific way. It's just that i can drink loads and loads of it, which means that i get more protein = more testosterone.

double, you're a pr!ck

 

[pimpfromdayone]

Thanks for the encouragement gav. As for the watches, it's not just that there are too many links, it is the fact that the damn face of the watch looks way too big for my wrists.

My acne was never severe, only mild-moderate, but for a spotless face, I used to take the prescription antibiotic doxycyclin, and it helped some, but now I have this antibiotic cream (need prescription, this isn't that stupid facewash crap you see in infomercials that celebrities endorse) that I put on each night and my face has been completely clear for at least a year now. I found that if I wash my face with a little bit of soap and water and apply this cream before I go to bed, it does wonders. I have only had one big pimple since I started using this, and that sucker WAS A MONSTER, a superpimple strain that somehow was too strong for the cream I guess, lol, it was friggin sore as hell for a week too but never really surfaced as a whitehead. It had beat the cream, but in the end, the cream must've finally beat it.

If you have like really severe acne, antibiotics might not help you that much. Accutane, while kinda risky to use and inconvenient (dries out your face so much, since it stops your face glands from producing the sebum), is successful on almost everyone. I think this crap is like a controlled poison, banned in some countries, highly controversial in others... but if mine was really bad, I would give it a try.

 

[gav]

arms today

cg bench
40kg * 8
60kg * 7
70kg * 2 pulled my right shoulder/tricep
60kg * 4

cable pushdowns
110lbs * 7
110lbs * 6
110lbs * 6

cable overhead press
100lbs * 8
110lbs * 6
110lbs * 6

dips
bw * 13

one arm db exts
10kg * 7

db hammers
20kg * 6
20kg * 5
20kg * 5

cable curls
110lbs * 8
120lbs * 6
120lbs * 6

machine curls
36kg * 6
36kg * 4

 

[gav]

back

deads (smith)
60kg * 8
80kg * 8
110kg * 4
100kg * 4
100kg * 3
90kg * 8

seated rows (machine)
86kg * 8
79kg * 7
forward wide grip
79kg * 7
79kg * 6

chinups wider than usual grip
8reps
4reps

lat pulldowns
110lbs * 6
100lbs * 8

 

[gav]

just now my diet consists of 3 or 4 ordinary meals + 4-5 litres of milk. i'm two weeks into it and now whenever i go to eat a normal meal i feel sick almost instantly. plus i've noticed i've lost about 4 pounds over the two weeks while my training has remained the same, if not improved.

anyone here had the same probs?

 

[Sammo]

Originally posted by gav
just now my diet consists of 3 or 4 ordinary meals + 4-5 litres of milk. i'm two weeks into it and now whenever i go to eat a normal meal i feel sick almost instantly. plus i've noticed i've lost about 4 pounds over the two weeks while my training has remained the same, if not improved.

anyone here had the same probs?

To much milk isnt healthy man, there are other sources of protein.

 

[Warboss Alex]

Originally posted by gav
just now my diet consists of 3 or 4 ordinary meals + 4-5 litres of milk. i'm two weeks into it and now whenever i go to eat a normal meal i feel sick almost instantly. plus i've noticed i've lost about 4 pounds over the two weeks while my training has remained the same, if not improved.

anyone here had the same probs?

Yep, all the time - my advice is a week off. Just eat breakfast lunch and dinner, don't worry so much about what you're eating, eat what you enjoy and don't overthink it. Train if you want, but do lighter weights, try out some new exercises - basically just chill out, physically and mentally.

When you're not improving in the gym over two weeks AND losing weight something is wrong; if you were just starting I'd say check your diet but since you've been going at it for a while then my first suggestion would be a break.

Recharge your batteries, get your appetite back, calm down a bit (remember your body can't go all out all the time).. and don't worry losing your gains man, they didn't come in a week so they won't go in a week. I promise, the best thing for your body would be a rest.

When you go back you'll be refreshed and recharged, raring to go and totally motivated to rape the logbook again and have at it.

As for the milk thing, I drink quite a bit myself with no particular problems but if you're lactose intolerant or whatever then you might want to rethink that. Less milk with cottage cheese or quark are better dairy options in my opinion.

 

[Double]

if he would be lactose intolerant, he wouldnt be able to drink 4-5litres it IS that simple. he would drink 1litre and then be the rest of the day on the toilet.

 

[gav]

warboss, i would take a break but i took a whole week off a month ago and this really should be my time to train.

Recharge your batteries, get your appetite back, calm down a bit (remember your body can't go all out all the time).. and don't worry losing your gains man, they didn't come in a week so they won't go in a week. I promise, the best thing for your body would be a rest.

i definitely need to calm down outside the gym cuz i'm taking everything way too seriously, but that's what i'm afraid of-losing my gains and becoming skinny again. it would just make me feel really guilty if i took a break from lifting

 

[S0LID]

in your break just eat!

 

[Warboss Alex]

Originally posted by gav
warboss, i would take a break but i took a whole week off a month ago and this really should be my time to train.



i definitely need to calm down outside the gym cuz i'm taking everything way too seriously, but that's what i'm afraid of-losing my gains and becoming skinny again. it would just make me feel really guilty if i took a break from lifting

Wrong attitude.

To be honest, you sound like one of those hysterical anorexic women who eat half a square of chocolate and then spend six hours on the treadmill because they've eaten something bad and have to burn it off .. like it's going to make them blow up.

If you go into the gym and the logbooks beat you instead of the other way around, what do you gain? Nothing, and you just get depressed. Your body's trying to tell you something, so listen to it.

Either take a break or up your food intake, preferably both.

 

[gav]

monday's light workout

wide grip pullups
bw 8reps
bw 8reps
bw 7reps

dips
bw 15 reps
bw 15 reps
bw 15 reps

cable leg raises
32kg * 15
32kg * 15

side situps
10kg * 20
10kg * 20

Originally posted by Warboss Alex
To be honest, you sound like one of those hysterical anorexic women who eat half a square of chocolate and then spend six hours on the treadmill because they've eaten something bad and have to burn it off .. like it's going to make them blow up.

lol, so true, except it was from a weight gain p.o.v.

Originally posted by Warboss Alex
If you go into the gym and the logbooks beat you instead of the other way around, what do you gain? Nothing, and you just get depressed. Your body's trying to tell you something, so listen to it.

actually, my lifts were getting better, it's just that it felt so fvckin hard to eat afterwards.

anyways, i'm on a week 1/2 break and feel a lot better. i might have lost a little weight, but the shape's still awesome so i don't give a fvck.

i've bought a bucket of whey for next week's mad workouts.

props for the good advice alex

 

[Lifeforce]

Dude your lifts look good, I'm awaiting your insane workouts ! Brutally heavy man, don't let us down.

 

[gav]

legs

squats - ATTG
50kg * 8
60kg * 5
70kg * 8
80kg * 5
80kg * 5
80kg * 5

leg extensions
90kg * 8
90kg * 8

stiff leg deads
80kg * 8
80kg * 7
80kg * 7

calve raises
90kg * 10
90kg * 10
90kg * 10

fvckin good to be back and be able to enjoy food again.
got myself a bucket of whey for the next couple of weeks. gonna be hardcore

damn right lifeforce, you too

 

[gav]

chest and triceps

incline db bench
20kg * 12
20kg * 10

flat bb bench
70kg * 5
70kg * 5
70kg * 5

incline bb bench
65kg * 6
65kg * 5

incline flies
16kg * 8
16kg * 8

dips
bw * 10
bw * 10

cg flat bench
60kg * 3
50kg * 8
50kg * 6

cable bent-over tricep extensions
100lbs * 3
90lbs * 6

cable pushdowns
100lbs * 8
110lbs * 8
110lbs * 8

golf swings
1 hand - 40lbs * 16
2hands - 100lbs * 8