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Stats 71 kilograms, 188 centimeters.

I'm not in a good-looking weight. I'm not strong. I want to be a good-looking weight. Training will make me strong also, though 100% honest this is about breaking through the label of underweighted guy, compared to breaking through ****ing skinny I don't give a **** about being strong. Could be nice, though. :box:

I need more muscle otherwise there is no way I will be normal weight... I have a typical amount of fat. Don't have to shed it, just need larger muscle underneath. :box:

3-way plan:

Chest/shoulders/triceps
Legs
Back/biceps

3 workouts per week.

I can go before work, after work, or on the weekend. Each sucks but hey what is perfect in this life? My body ain't, for sure, neither are the 1st impressions I make with people through my appreance.

I have a good trait which is intelligence and a bad trait which is laziness. I'm pretty sensitive too and don't enjoy much respect from others so I have come to the conclusion that hard work is the only way to earn that respect. Just like I work hard at the job I have (my 1st job), I am capable of working like that outside of work.

The hard work outside my job is:

- preparing food
- planning
- buying food
- driving to gym and back
- preparing gym equipment

First it's gonna be harder since I will suck at each of these things more of less, but this is where my intelligence kicks in and I will overcome hardships later on and then I can have this **** automatic and more easier. I know this because I used to have my apartment messy, but since cleaning it up several times I have learned the tricks to keep it top notch all the time.

I will start my journey baby steps. I know that this is the way to go when integrating lifestyle changes. I slowly learned the skills needed to be efficent at my job, I slowly learned how to keep the house clean all the time. I slowly learned how to wash my clothes, how to organize things. Slowly learned how to speak to women, slowly I will learn how to eat 3000 calories and workout three times a week, while maintaining order.

Baby steps are:

- making muscle group of the workout as sore as possible without letting perfectionism get in my way
- making sure the amount of food I eat is correct and sensibly divided without letting perfectionism get in my way

I will sure be a great body builder some day but for now I have very little experience and knowledge and I will use my intelligence to learn more slowly. I just understand that I need to simply have sensible workout for the muscle groups, and go for less reps rather than more, around 4-8 reps, working enough sets to ensure the muscle tear for the growth to take place.

I'm sick of trying to be perfect. :box: **** perfect!

This is quotes:

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.--Pauline Kael
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.--William Connor Magee
Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes.--Ann Landers
It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.--Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.--John W. Holt, Jr.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.--John Maxwell
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.--Elbert Hubbard
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.--William Randolph
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.--Gen. David M. Shoup
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.--Niels Bohr
Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.--Wess Roberts
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.--Sophia Loren
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.--George Bernard Shaw
I'm heading down to the gym.
 

Rust

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Quagmire911 said:
Keep in mind along the way that strength is important in gaining size.

Here are some useful threads:

http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?t=125444
http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?t=134782

Get to it.
Thanks. I didn't read them now, but I got time later.

Todays workout

- ****ed up.
- Worked out chest and triceps. Due to a ****ed up scheldue I ****ed up.
- Exactly 5 mins of running at 12 km/h at the treadmill. I was sweaty after 4 minutes and decided to stop at 5 mins. Warm up.
- Dumbbell chest press 10x 9kg (took random weight, came out it was too light), 8x 11kg (this was pretty good), 5x 13kg (found a good weight and decided to end the set with it as well), 5x 13kg. This was with breaks of 1.5 min, after last I just took 11kg and did a burnout set until failure and then I took 9kg and did until failure without rest.
- Thought of doing dips with body weight, found out I hadn't the strenght, usually I can do them but I think the excersise tore down my strength and limited my dips to 2 and half reps. Immediately thought **** it, I'll do tricep with cable pulldown.
- Triceps Cable Pull-Down 30kg 10x, 35kg 8x, 35kg 7x, 30 kg 8x
- I had scheldued movies to go with my little sister. (Had lots to talk about, big bro lil sis life advice stuff.) Time simply run out and I had to eject out the gym after just about 5 mins warm up/15 mins lifting... What a failure :D Just drank 30g protein isolate with 50g carbs drink I had mixed for the session and drove off to switch clothes and eventually made it just in time.

Don't do again:

* **** up scheldue.

Do this instead:

* Go to gym with enough time.
* Do 4 workout's instead of 3 in a week if a workout is ****ed up for some reason. Make up for the ****ed up session.

The gym's closed for the day, just got home. Tomorrow I'll do the whole excersise again, if my chest doesn't feel like it I will take chest easier tomorrow.
 

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Today's workout

5 mins at 12km/h Warm up. No stretching before, during or after workout. (Not proud of not stretching. I think I lack info and ideas and experience on this front, but next workout I will do stretching as best I can.)

- Triceps Cable Pull-Down 8x30kg, 8x 35kg, 8x 35kg working sets then immediate burnout sets of 8x25kg, 8x15kg
- Lever Shoulder Press 8x10kg, 8x10kg, 6x10kg
- Shoulder Shrugs 8x 24kg, 8x 22kg, 8x 19kg
- Smith Shoulder Press 7x20kg, 7x20kg, 7x20kg
 

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Rust said:
Don't do again:

* **** up scheldue.

Do this instead:

* Go to gym with enough time.
* Do 4 workout's instead of 3 in a week if a workout is ****ed up for some reason. Make up for the ****ed up session.
Learned from this mistake. Success! I'm simply not stupid enough to repeat this mistake.
 

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Today's diet

- ****ed up.
- Ate 500 calorie breakfast, left 250 calorie worth of shake in fridge and left for work.
- At work during coffee break ate 180 calorie worth. Semi-****ed up, was supposed to have work snack worth 500 calorie with me but ran out of time in the morning.
- At work during work drank 500 calorie worth milk with cocoa powder.
- At work during lunch break I ****ed up: Was supposed to go to eat, but went looking for a gas station since car was almost empty. Bad move since apparently there was no station close by. Didn't find gas station in time and even came back to work 5 minutes late without having eaten ANYTHING. ****!
- When I got off work I drove to gas station finally and bought Twix bar worth 280 calorie and drove home to drink 250 calorie shake that I left in fridge in the morning.

Time now: 19.00
What I was supposed to have eaten: 4x500 calories = 2000 calories.
What I ate instead: 2x500, 1x280, 1x250, 1x180 = 1710 calories.

Mistakes:

* Did not have time to prepare coffee break snack for work.
* Did not have filled car with gasoline so errously thought I'd find a gas station during lunch break.
* Ate a Twix bar.
* Lack of solid food.
* Lack of calories.

Do this instead:

* Prepare the foods I am supposed to eat as much as possible in the evening - waking up in the morning is hard. Post-poning going to sleep is rather easy. This will solve solid food and Twix bar problem and lack of calorie problem.
* Fill up car before it is down to alarming levels of gasoline.
 

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Diet statistics - Protein break-down

On average, normal working day (mon-fri).

24g yoghurt
33g milk
13g dairy product
36g chicken
16g ham on breads
12g cheese on breads
15g whey protein mixed in yoghurt based raspberry smoothie
12g quark
12g cottage cheese
12g casein protein powder

185g total


Carb product proteins

15g rye breads
5g rice

20g total
 

Quagmire911

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I would cut out the milk, and instead add in lots of beef and eggs. Aim for 235g of protein a day minimum, preferably 250g+. (Based on 1.5-2g of protein per pound of bw).

What routine are you going to use?
 

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Quagmire911 said:
I would cut out the milk, and instead add in lots of beef and eggs. Aim for 235g of protein a day minimum, preferably 250g+. (Based on 1.5-2g of protein per pound of bw).

What routine are you going to use?
Gaining Mass! by Anthony Ellis.

1st I'll do easy beginner program excersises for 4 weeks as suggested by the book and then I will start doing more serious compound excersises primarily.

I don't have much conveniece for adding beef and thinking of eggs makes me sick. But possibly 35g from red meat could be added... This would be a stepping of having one food I've cooked myself per day to having two foods I've cooked myself per day. So it would be some extra work... But I can work hard. I'm taking this slow though to keep up the spirit and motivation... Small changes make my day and they will grow into a big lifestyle change over time.

Maybe next week I will cook 10 meals for mon-fri, so I could have +35g protein from red meat.

Eggs? I'll see if I can progress without them. If not, I'll be willing to suffer in a nauseaic way to include them, but for now I'm more than happy to try without.
 

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EFFORT said:
You should really follow those 2 links Rust. You also seem to have a lot over analyzer in you, which isn't a good thing in this area.
Yeah it's my fast thought-flow and even faster typing that might frighten some a bit... :box:

I think it's good to analyze the things I do though it will keep things real and I won't become blind to my own mistakes.

Is my analyzin a mistake? No. Considering I use 10 minutes of time per post and I get on with the post reply button I don't think it's a bad time/usefulness ratio... And I kind of like to over analyze things, since I can. A lot of people would propably be frusturated thinking about stuff all the time, and would not want to know the truth and would like to keep doing what they do and have hope and faith they are doing it right. I want to reinforce my hope with intellectual integrity.

But ****, yeah this thing is simple like a mother ****er. I just need to get the basics down and I won't have to keep overanalyzing after that.
 

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Today's workout

- 5 min 12 km/h warm up tread mill
- Lower Back Extension 3x10
- Seated Cable Row 3x10
- Concentration Curl 2x8 each hand
- EZ Bar Curl 2x8 inward grip, 2x8 outward grip
- Latbar Pulldown 2x8

Today's diet

* Same way ****ed up as yesterday. Recurring problem. Long story short I don't have time to write all the detail but there are some problems with schelduing what comes to supplying and preparing all portions through-out the week day in day out but I will be able to re-scheldue and so I will make this happen. Just that it's been ****ed up two days in a row makes me feel like a loser.
 

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I think you're wasting 4 weeks of training time. Just jump right into the Rippetoe program like everyone else.
 

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Rust said:
Yeah it's my fast thought-flow and even faster typing that might frighten some a bit... :box:

I think it's good to analyze the things I do though it will keep things real and I won't become blind to my own mistakes.

Is my analyzin a mistake? No. Considering I use 10 minutes of time per post and I get on with the post reply button I don't think it's a bad time/usefulness ratio... And I kind of like to over analyze things, since I can. A lot of people would propably be frusturated thinking about stuff all the time, and would not want to know the truth and would like to keep doing what they do and have hope and faith they are doing it right. I want to reinforce my hope with intellectual integrity.

But ****, yeah this thing is simple like a mother ****er. I just need to get the basics down and I won't have to keep overanalyzing after that.
The main trap over analyzers fall into, in this area is thinking themselves out of progress. What to do at your stage in the game is actually really simple...get stronger following a basic routine (pref one from where to start or the beginner thread on ironaddicts.com), use the simple starting diet thread on here to create yourself a diet. Once you get the diet setup its really just showing up to eat when your supposed to, and showing up to workout when your supposed to and not thinking much about it.

In my experience from training people that over analyze and being an over analyzer myself is what i listed above just seems too simple, there must be something more we can do....and thats when the trouble starts and we start trying to fix something that doesn't need fixing or trying to reinvent a wheel (and i know thats a tough thing for a "smart" person not to do)

So with that said i think you should follow the where to start+simple starting diet thread and get yourself on the right track.
 

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EFFORT said:
So with that said i think you should follow the where to start+simple starting diet thread and get yourself on the right track.
The man speaks the truth. The "where to start" workouts (or ironaddicts) will provide better results, faster than:

"- Seated Cable Row 3x10
- Concentration Curl 2x8 each hand
- EZ Bar Curl 2x8 inward grip, 2x8 outward grip
- Latbar Pulldown 2x8"

OR

"- Triceps Cable Pull-Down 8x30kg, 8x 35kg, 8x 35kg working sets then immediate burnout sets of 8x25kg, 8x15kg
- Lever Shoulder Press 8x10kg, 8x10kg, 6x10kg
- Shoulder Shrugs 8x 24kg, 8x 22kg, 8x 19kg
- Smith Shoulder Press 7x20kg, 7x20kg, 7x20kg"

How many calories are you aiming for a day?

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Quagmire911 said:
How many calories are you aiming for a day?
I'm aiming for 3000 calories.


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I'll see my execution of diet fixed before I'll change routine.

Right now:

- routine and going to gym seems basic and simple, and doable most importantly
- diet is basic and simple... Where I am failing is the doing the necessary amount of work. Compared to going to gym and doing the work-out handling 24/7 correct diet is 5 times the work... I failed at taking the correct diet instantly and executing it instantly correctly. Now I need to take more small steps towards the correct diet.

Today's diet

10.00 Morning rye bread with ham and cheese and butter, dairy product (Viili) with raisins. Cereal and milk. (600 calories)

13.00 Banana and Viili with raisins, milk. (Lowsy 250 calories)

15.00 McDonalds Two cheese burgers and sundae :D (800 calories)

18.00 Muffin (150 calories)
18.30 Raspberry Protein Smoothie, yoghurt + protein + carbs + frozen raspberries (500 calories)

23:00 Rye bread with ham and cheese and butter, milk. (300 calories)

Total calories: 2600
Planned calories in uneaten meals today: 300
Planned uneaten meal:

Nightmeal
Casein protein + milk
Quark
Cottage cheese
Tri-omega oil

So today is a pretty ****ed up day, very ****ed up. I'll go prepare proper portions of work snacks now for tomorrow. I still need to cook a proper food as well so I don't have to eat out at lunch break. Next week I promised to have 10 meals pre-cooked for mon-fri, and this week I was supposed to have a pre-cooked meal once a day, but haven't done it. ****.
 

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Go with 3000, if you don't gain add in an extra 300-500 calores a day.

I would not take in any carbs 4-6 hours before bed, this will help you stay lean. I will re-iteterate that you should try and avoid milk, and ADD IN BEEF AND EGGS. Avoid processed and sugary carbs, aiming for lower gi. Keep protein high, fats moderate, and carbs moderate to low with most of the carbs in the first half of the day and around training.

Post workout get in 60-80g of sugary carbs (fruit juice is good), along with 40-50g of protein.

What cardio work are you going to do?
 

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Lay out a meal plan for each day and prep the food in advance. It'll soon become routine and easy to cope with, just get the first prep out of the way. Drink the eggs raw if you don't like eating them, though surely you must like at least one out of fried/boiled/poached/scrambled/omlette. Like Quagmire said, BRING ON THE BEEF...35g protein from red meat really is bugger all; try for at least 100g and see if you don't start growing.
 

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Thanks for the advice guys! ;)

Body statistics

Weight: 72.1 kilograms (Same digital meter as last time. After ****ting and peeing, naked :box: )
Height: 188 centimeters
Body Mass Index: 20.4

I'll include some photos for next body statistics to get some kind of a "before picture".
 
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