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Well this week I intend to try a new training split. I’ve been watching the inside the life of a natural pro videos and got alot of new info from them. One that I liked was how layne norton setup his routine. first 2 days of the week were powerlifting centered with an upper body day and lower body day. Then the next 3 days would be the typical 1 or 2 bodyparts per workout type training that I usually follow.

This is interesting to me because it allows for each area to get hit twice during the week and it helps to ensure that maximal effort is used in compound lifts on the first 2 days. I also found out that my eating habits during the semester might have some merit. Based on episode 2 I believe, Layne was proposing an idea of eating bigger quantities of protein at a single meal and maybe eating only 4 or 5 meals a day rather 7-8 small ones for bulking. I’m not gonna try and quote word for word as it would just be easier to watch the videos and I dont want to mistranslate anything.

But the point of the matter is that for the past year I’ve made no progress. But when classes started, my schedule allowed me only to get in 5 meals a day. Therefore I started eating more at meals, usually 3 meals with 50g pro, 80g carb, 15g fat. The other 2 meals (shakes usually) were 25-30g pro, 40g carb, 5g fat. After a couple months my weight began to climb slowly and I started seeing more progressive gains in strength. My bodyfat appears unchanged in the mirror, so it leaves me to believe that these gains have been solid but of course not 100% dry. Either way this strategy seems to work for me and I’ll continue to use it to see what happens.

Really great week so far. I feel unstoppable in the gym. This week is full of new PR’s and I feel alot of soreness in all my trained areas. Back and chest are crazy sore, and my tris have been gettin progressively sore throughout the day. And now my after my bicep workout 5 hours ago I can feel the effects revealing themself. Its been awhile since Ive been this sore. Even with all my daily calories consumed and recovery supps, I experience some sort of soreness. This is great to me since it may suggest I’m working even harder than before.

However on a side note, it seems that every bicep workout I have this one guy seems to always be near when me and my bro use the preacher curl. Its not his proximity that bugs me, its his stench. The standing calf is right next to us and he uses the supports so his arms are up, allowing me to breathe his toxic odor when I’m training; pretty hard to focus. I dont like to bag on people but seriously man, use deodorant or take a shower before you come in to the gym no one wants to smell your B.O. while working out. I’m sure you would feel the same if you were in our shoes.

Things are going really great right now. I’m making progress in the gym both increasing weights used in working sets and seeing the scale go up. Based on what I can see in the mirror, my bodyfat appears to be the same so luckily my weight increase is not pure bodyfat. Been keeping my diet nice and clean to minimize fat gain but also indulging a little bit during the week with maybe a soda or a burger. But once again this is rare and sometimes wont happen at all.

And school is goin smoothly but still constantly keeping me busy outside the classroom and gym.

Ok so far things are going good. Been keeping up with my diet and stopped being so conservative with my protein powder. My weight is going back up and people I know are saying that I’m looking bigger in certain areas. Decided to incorporate clean and presses into my shoulder routine today. I’m now asking myself why I eliminated them from my routine before as my delts were well fatigued after my 4th set. Add some lateral raises, reverse cable flys, and front raises and I left the gym with tired AND well pumped delts; something I’ve never had before. I think I may have found my ideal set of exercises for my delts so hopefully they will start catching up with the rest of my body. Did get a 24hr cold earlier this week but hardly put a dent in my efforts; I did not workout though while being sick I’m smarter than that.

And as far as academics, I had to withdraw from my physics course as I was having trouble devoting time to it while keeping up with my other classes. Gonna go back to the community college next semester to handle that class.

Okay so this will be my first post. I dont expect anybody to read this as Im doing it to give myself a way of keeping a personal log. However if anybody reads this, have fun

So life at the University has somehow given me a new sense of motivation. Maybe its all the attractive women or the fact that among the "average joe’s" like myself  I seem to be one of the larger people there and that i want to be THE largest and most defined of all of them. Whatever it is, it got me outta the lazy mode I was in while at the community college. Im gettin my diet back on track, consuming 2 liters of water daily, getting my cardio in by walking to my car and back to classes. I’ve started using my old amino acid supplements again and I’m training harder than ever.

It certainly is paying off, I’m setting new PR’s and I can see some of my mass returning. However I still have a long way to go before I get where I want to be. My arms, lats, delts, and calves still need alotta work.  Oh and in the past year, cut off the pony tail i used to have and have gone for a hairstyle that Dave Beckham had back in his early career, believe they call it curtain hair. Whatever it is, its nice to feel the breeze on my neck again and not have a knot in the back of my head.

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