This is my first entry. Welcome to my blog. I hope there will be interesting information on here for someone out there.
I guess I should gring things up to date. I have been bulking until recently and I have switched to cutting to get rid of the fat I gained with the bulking and the fat I already had before the bulking started. I’ve never had a low enough bodyfat % to see my abs and I would like to reach this goal now. Then readjust and go back in to a bulk again because I can already tell that I am not as big as I would like to be by far.
Over the past several weeks I have been lowering my calories from 3700 that I was eating for bulking to last week’s average of 2400 (aiming for 2000 but missed bad!). I have reset the next week to be 1720, but I realize I will probably miss that one adn it will end up a bit higher, but that should still come in well below last week’s average daily amount.
Last week I also swapped my workout around. Up to last week I was doing a 2 day split - Tues chest, tris, Thurs back, bi’s and shoulders. Also was doing some cardio but not regularly. I did some HIIT training and some regular cardio with a Polar heartrate monitor for 20 - 30 minutes.
Last week’s new routine changed up to be this:
Tuesday - Chest with up to 25 reps per set ramping the weight up and the reps down on every exercise
Wednesday - Back with up to 25 reps per set ramping the weight up and the reps down on every exercise
Thursday - Shoulders with up to 25 reps per set ramping the weight up and the reps down on every exercise
Friday - Biceps and Triceps with up to 25 reps per set ramping the weight up and the reps down on every exercise
Saturday - Cardio. I ran for 45 minutes at 80% of max HR with the Polar Heartrate Monitor for accuracy.
Thoughts on this last week: I am still sore from Tuesday’s chest day as I hit it really hard and that is awesome. shoulders, back and arms are also sore, so I am pretty happy with the feeling. I Was really pumped up after each exercise, and I like the fact that I am doing a high intensity workout more days of the week now as it should keep my metabolism higher longer and more often now.
Nutrition: I hav elately started really watching the trans fat and the saturated fat and I read the Abs Diet book and there was great info on foods and how they treat your body and how they effect loosing fat directly. I have adoped a lot of their suggestions into my diet now. But I am still counting calories and this week I am dropping even more. The thing I love about counting calories, fat, protein and carbs is that I can see how bad I messed up during the week and that will really convict you of your shortcomings on your diet and you will know exactly when and where you caused your improvement to slow down and also where you caused your implovement to increase! Plus I can lay out an entire day and it is easy to stick to an eating program if it is already layed out for you and you don’t have to think too much when it comes time to eat - just follow the plan and move on with life!
This week I really let myself go in the early part and came back in the last half and actually still lost substantial weight by straightening the diet out. I had cookies on Saturday adn cake on Sunday and on Monday which had everyhing bad tha tI was trying to avoid in it. On Tuesday I was eating from the Abs diet adn trying to work that in last minute and ended up eating a ton more aclories than I had planned. But the rest of the week I got my at together and I did great and that is where all the difference was made!
I think the big change I want to make this week is to get more calcium each day than what I have on my current plan for the week because I cut back on some milk to lower my daily calories and I thin I am going to be short on calcium.
Well, thanks for takign the time to read though all this.
God Bless,
Todd
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