Bogart1009’s BodyBlog

This week has not been a very good week with the weights. Everytime I go in I am motivated to be there but once I start lifting all motivation is lost. It haven’t been able to hit the same weight I have been training with. Seems like I am getting weak. I can’t stand it. The only thing I can come up with is that I don’t have enough rest. I work very hard then I work very hard in the gym. So I have decided to put the weights down for one week and one week only only to start over at the beginning. I am also going to start adding more protein into my diet. Just an extra protein drink a day. By next Sunday I should be good and rested. I understand I am probably risking losing more but at least I will have a reason and can watch myself progress again. Hopefully this works and if not I am going to need some serious help from everybody out in bodyspace. I am still holding my squats well so at least I have that to keep me going. Still my new favorite exercise. LATER!!

I am finally feeling comfortable with squats. Everytime I go to the squat rack I start out with what I finished with from the last time I hit it. Today we started at 165 lbs and kept moving up in 20 lbs increments from set to set. So On the fifth set we were at 225 lbs and I did 6 of them. It felt really good to do them. I know I can do more now and since I feel comfortable doing them I can really start hitting it hard. My lower is really lacking because of it but I bet I can get it up to speed real quick. This is now become my favorite exercise. Too bad I can’t do enough of them though. Maybe only once a week even though I hit twice this week. I have a partner that goes with me and he says I have real good form to. I can really feel it. So to finish this blog off I really like squats now I should start really packing on the muscle. My goal is to hit 300 lbs at least five time before I come back to the states. My wife is going to have a field day when she sees me. HELL YEAH!! I love this stuff.

Everybody here says that I have gotten much bigger and leaner since I came here. I should be getting a camera from my lovely wife here sometime soon so I can start taking some pics and posting them. Maybe then I can tell if I really had put on some muscle. I know I have gained some weight since I have been here but I am not sure if it is fat or muscle. When I start taking the pics I can start to really see if my progression meets up to what everyone is saying. I have boosted my bench up a little bit so that makes me excited. Today i threw up 220lbs on the decline 6 times without help from my spotter. He just added and extra 2 reps to that. Too bad I can’t keep a set routine or I might be making some unbelievable gains. When I get back to the states though it will be all over. About 4 more months to go. YEE-HAW!!