fc training blog

Well I was thinking of a few things I want to accomplish within the near future and this is what I came up with:

Be able to see my abs without flexing them
Become a little bit leaner (approx 12% right now, maybe get to 9% or 10%)
Develop my back more
Calculate the proper amount of calories/protein/etc to help my muscle gain and fat loss

Today was a pretty good leg day, challenged myself a bit at squats, even though I did them on the Smith machine.  My knees click sometimes just running or even walking so I like using the Smith.  I feel like I’m a little more safe from my legs giving out.  I had them checked out by my girlfriend’s dad who is a PT and he said I just had ‘play in my knees’, which is perfectly OK.  Even if it is alright it just feels funny.  Anyway I’m off for the weekend but got lots of school work to do.  I’ll probably do crunches every morning and thinking about getting pullup bar for my room.

Well this is my first blog post here at bodybuilding.com.  I have been lifting on and off ever since I got to college, but this time I am trying to do it more efficiently and consistently.  One of my main goals this time around it to eat right.  Now I haven’t been downing fast food for three years or anything like that but I am now going to pay more attention to calories, protein intake, etc.  I really want to see if tracking all this information and modifying it to what the "experts" and other people who have much more experience than I do, will help me achieve some muscle mass and maybe some lower body fat.  Stepped on my friend’s body fat % scale the other day and it told me 12%.  Not sure how accurate it is but I’m gonna say it is within one or two percent so I think I want to get to 9-10% body fat to look a little more cut.  I’ll try to post on here often this way I can get more comments and insight from other users that are going through or have gone through the same process.  Thanks for reading.