Welcome!
My first attempt at a blog. I have been training for almost a year and i think i have run the gamut of emotions with the task: Pleased at initial changes, a couple of injuries (nothing serious), frustration after adapting to the workload and then pleased that the pictures show improvement even though the tape and scale haven’t changed so much lately.
I have gone from a “more then social drinker” to a non drinker, from “bad diet” to a “much better diet” and couch potato to, well, active potato over the last year. My peak weight was about 225 to howevering around 198. I went from feeling tired all the time to saying “is that all you got” to my 6 year old.
My company opened a nice fitness facility that opened to a brisk crowd that has thinned greatly over the past year (yea!). I use it everyday that I am in the office. I have also found many great facilities at the hotels in Tokyo and LA that i frequent over the year. This also help greatly with the “more then social drinnking” as it gives me a diversion while travelling. So there is easy access most of the time if I want to commit.
BBCom has been a great source of inspiration. To see someone with the shape of Ava or Wolf4Life really makes me think I can have the body I have wanted to since I was 12 and “never quite got around to”. I realize that mid forties is “late” to commit to this, but one look at Musclefyr makes it seem attainable. (not discounting anyt of the incredible work done by those folks, you have my admiration!)
So I would like to share the goals I have and get some feedback. Im not expecting miracles or to compete, but I don’t want to waste time and effort if I can improve the time Im spending on this.
This morning was shoulders, just to ease in after a week of travelling where access to facilities was very limited. Did 4 sets of dbell presses, 4 sets lat side raises, 4 sets machine presses, 3 sets of single arm cable inverted rows, 3 sets front raises and dbell and calbe shrugs. Last set of each was a drop set. It felt wonderful and I got a great pump. Also manged 3 sets of back extentions with a 25 dbell behind my neck while on the ball (nice to have an empty gym!). Nice thing here is we have a good cafeteria where I can get eggs made to order and oatmeal afterwards. Will do cardio and abs after work.
If anyone could suggest a routine that i could incorporate into a 2 a day I would appreciate it. I find that two a days gets me alert for the day to come and gives me a great stress relief afterward. I sure sleep well these days and I’m usually fried by Thursday. Probably need to manage my expectations and work load during the weeek. Best Rob
