Evolution

Way back in November I was on a rant about "flexed" stats on this site and my goals related to flexed stats; To spare you having to find and read that ish I’ll do a quick overview here:

flexed goals:

Chest 46" , arms(keep dreamin’) 18.5",  waist 31" , forearms 14.5", shoulders 53"

Becuse I was merely bitching, I didn’t even measure some of the parts I was complaing about ( apparantly, I really go on tangents once in a while !!) I only measured chest, waist, and arms flexed they were 43.5", 35.5", and 14.9" respectively

I totally forgot about this until now and figured "hey why not go on another senseless rant??" so here it goes… New Flexed stats/ change from old flexed stats:

Chest 44"/0.5"

arms:14.3"/-0.6"

Waist: 35.2"/-0.4"

Shoulders are 51" and forarms are 11.6"(just incase I actually remember about this and decide to babble about nothing later down the road)

I really don’t know what to make of this…My arms dropped but so did my gut, and I was bulking(dirty) for the first set of measurements as well…not surprisingly (but dissapointingly)my arms dropped more than my waist… damn arms!!!

Thank you(and sorry) to any one who took the time to read this waste of time post

Jex

I’ve said this to myself at least 2 years now, but I really feel I can reach my goals come this summer!! I feel I’ve made pretty good progress in the last little while; I could see a little more definition in my abs this morning(when flexed) and my tri’s are starting to grow a bit too, I’m not bulking or anything right now (just maintaining) so I’m definitely happy about this. I need to start monitoring my cals a little more closely as we start getting closer to summer. I have quite a bit  o.k. a lot of fat to lose of the gutt so will probably get started  on that pretty soon. I’m not really sure how I should be training during this, last year I brought the weights down, and I made o.k. progress on my stomache but lost about half an inch from my arms as well, thery’re already small and I can’t afford to lose ANYTHING!! 

I’ll probably post some progress pics soon, but I dunno I kinda want to surprise myself with the pics like 2 months later or something….

Jex

I’m going to do a little experiment this week. Since I’m on march break this week, and therefore able to train harder/longer, and on a five day split opposed to my usual three day split, I took my measurements this morning, and am going to compare those to the measurements I get this coming saturday morning. I really should have taken my measurements on Sunday but just thought of doing this now. I’m not expecting any change over 4-5 days time, but I’m just curious if there will be a change…gotta keep the brain semi-active : )

This weekend was a disaster nutritionally, I went out with friends on friday, felt like crap saturday and ate garbage all day saturday and sunday!! uuggghhh…. Was back in the gym this morning and it felt good, I’m on  march break and so can afford to do a five day split. I miss being able to train like this all the time : (   I’ll enjoy it while it lasts…. maybe when summer comes…. need to find a job though….we’ll see…

I just took my 1 year(plus five days) later progress pic, and I’m …huh.. o.k with it?

I’m not impressed but not disappointed either, like usual my gut needs to be smaller my arms look a bit bigger and my chest looks alot better. I haven’t started a cut or anything yet so I guess I can’t expect any real defintion as of yet… I still want to be bigger, but want defintion it’s a never ending battle with myself of how or what to do… I know I want to thin my gut down for summer, but am scared of losing any progress in growing my muscles… uuuggghhh

I hate working out at night!! I missed last wednesday’s workout, knowing I’d have a chance to make it up on friday or sat. then I realized saturday’s Valentines…i.e if I take off to go to the gym I’m in shit for at least a day.  In everybody’s best interest I went tonight. Every time I workout at night I feel sick to my stomach or my head starts to spin..I ate a protein bar and an apple about an hour before so it’s not a lack of food or whatever.. anyways I pushed through it, feeling like I’d black out twice during squats, and felt good about finishing the entire routine.

I start onto my new split on sunday I’m looking forward to it, I’ve been doing full body this week and absolutely hate it!! That’s the end of my pointless post

-Jex

and why doesn’y my damn pic show up when I post a blog?? lol

or doesn’t it show that I’ve posted more than 23 blogs??? shhheiiizz

o.k I’m done now

This is pretty disappointing, It’s been about a year since I joined BS and started tracking my progress… I ‘ve added about two inches to my upper leg, gained 5 lbs. (I’m guessing about 2lbs. of which is fat), and added  a whopping .2 of an inch to my arms… this is ridiculous!!! in a year!!!??? WTF am I doing wrong? I don’t mess up my workouts or nutrition that often… I’m not expecting to be huge but man….. 

I deleted my last post…I don’t know how many,if anyone, saw it..to sum it up I was going to stop posting blogs on here because I started a journal on the forums http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?p=278482751 (hopefully that worked.) Since that post I’ve decided that might have been a tad dramatic!! So, to the point, I’ll update my blogs with the bigger changes, i.e new rourtines, etc. and try and keep the journal updated every 2-3 days, so please check it out and leave comments, etc. 

After getting a bit of the "run-around" by people (receptionists,etc.) at school I got in touch with a super cool guy, who helped me re-arrange my schedule; Therefore I finally got to get my new routine laid out today! sadly I’ll still only be on a three day a week schedule, trying to fit  cardio in on a fourth when I can. This is the final semester so I’m expecting to have a pretty heavy workload this time around.My Split is going to be:

Sunday: back/reardelts/traps, Monday: Legs, Wednesday: Arms/delts/chest

I know the Wednesday looks pretty heavy but I’ll probably only be doing 3-4 sets for chest (Inc. db press.) I feel the size of my chest highlights (in a bad way) my lagging arms so have decided to just leave it alone for a bit, hopefully this will allow for a more even chest to upper arm ratio. Originally I was going to start a "diet" phase from now untill June, but felt I’d lose too much of the little muscle I’ve gained during my bulk, I’ve opted to keep at a moderate level of cals. 2400-2800, split over 5-6 meals, my protein intake is pretty good @ 1-2 g per lb. and am trying to watch my carb intake, without cutting them completely. I think this will keep my muscle’s full, maybe even growing a bit, and keep fat gain to a minimum, maybe losing a bit, I’ll probably try an actual "cut" around mid april. I think this will work out pretty good for me this time around…Lets get some abs this year dammit!!!

-Jex