MARC’S BLOG

I have had two lifts.

1) a general upper body routine that I can do without a partner.

2) a lower body routine with abs and cardio

It was a good week , considering I am trying to get all the info routines, supplements, diet straight. I lifted very hard an my first day and had to take the next day off  because my right arm was super sore. I am very suprised at my lower body results. You see  i have a disbaility that until recently made any lower bodfy work dangerous because of frequent muscle tears, bone breaks etc. Ask me about it. I had this disbaility since birth and it is fully documented…. one word: miracle. Anyhow my leg extension was 50lbs for 3 sets of 30 reps  peronal best ever given I have never done legs before besides walking!

I added in cardio on day 2. I did 50 minutes of  treadmill. I took 15 to figure out how to use the system. I did 30 minutes on inclines settings 3-5  and speed settings of 3.0- 5.0 MPH

Going into this week I am gonna log  my food ans water intake. I am goona do 30 minutes of cardio before each session on the cross crountry skier. my workouts will be either my general upper body workout if I am alone or   partner lower body or partner upper bodsy depending on my partners availability… i am looking to do a cutting phase to reduce my overall body fat of 19%  down to wahtever it takes to see my abs and chest sharply and clearer. Then shift to a bulking phase

Speaking of diet . I am pulling together my grocery list to get a all the healthy food I need  once i get my next paycheck . In the meantime I am trying to eat healthy as I can given my available food . But once I get fresh groceries its healthy all the way. I found a new favorite drink. Green Tea. its thermogenic (fat burrner)  and it tastes good. It a good replacement for all the soda i used to drink.

As far as supplements go I am gonna use the following for this cutting phase

1) Protien - GNC Whey Protien - 2 grams sugar and 20 grams of protien per scoop. Once that is gone I will shift to BSN Syntha  6

2) Fat Burner - Hydoxycut  and Green Tea  Hydroxycut once a day and Green Tea the rest of the time

3) NO - BSN  Nitrix during the day an BSN NO Explode before workouts (as an experiment and if I don’t like i’ll cut it after I am done with this batch.) 

4. Multivitimin - GNC Mega Man Sport  

 I am trying to bodybuild as clean as I can so that I am relying mostly of hardwork and good diet and a little on supplements. I want to do this by using the God given potential in my body. The supplements are to help me overcome the initial inertia of going from not working out to hardcore cardio and workouts to give my bosdy the meterial (protien) to respond to the workouts the multi to supply for nutritional gaps. The fat burner & green tea  to jump my metabolism and start shedding the fat. The Nitris Oxide to supply needed energy to workout hard .  I don’t need suupplermnts beyond those if i did I would be relying on them and not on my body and its God given ability

I figure out bulking supplements diet etc when i get there. I think I am gonna cut for 6-8 weeks.

Thanks for all the help I have gotten from bb.com members especially bb24, loveandhate,xnickedgex, cptdgrahmn, maximus619, and yzmizink. I am also psyched to meet so many awesome people that supplied bits of information and encouragement. Making some new friends has been a great gift. I love bodybuilding.com!  Anyone is welcome to drop me a line whenever about anything

Marc <><                

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