jl101882’s BodyBlog

Have worked out 3 days in a row now and I am glad to be back doing it after a week or so being sick.  All day long I just think about how I want to go to the gym, I obsess about it sometimes.  I have to be careful not to overtrain myself b/c I love being there lifting.

Yesterday was shoulders and today was back day.

I have some shoulder probs sometimes but I was able to do some pressing on the Hammer strength machine.  I usually do dbell raises, but I did some cable work yesterday for lateral raise and rear delts and did dbells on front raise.  Also did upright rows w/ a wide grip, not so close together.  And finished w/ shrugs and a lil ab work.  I also ran yesterday morning and did cardio post-weights for about 20 min.  Not as intense as I was doing it before, but it was still decent.

Today was back, which I love to do.  I always used to see ppl really neglecting their back in the gym, kind of how they neglect legs.  The back is so big and so I really hit it with alot.  I try to do 50 pull-ups in as many sets as it takes me, but today I got to 35 in 4 sets and then went to lat pulldowns to finish out.  Then, deadlift, which I can’t seem to up my weight on, but I’ll figure that out soon once I start getting used to it again.  I never really do bent-over rows, but today I did 2 sets w/ dbells and 2 sets w/ barbell.  I have to say I don’t really feel it when I’m doing them.  I also did T-bar row and then seated row.  Finished w/ ab machine.  No cardio today, although I did walk for about 20 min this morning.  Might take 2morrow off, if not its a leg day… which is always brutal, b/c I PUNISH my legs.  I was always skinny and I didn’t want to be the guy with skinny bird legs and an upper body that was not proportionate (is that a word?)

I’ve been sick and what not lately so I haven’t been doing well w/ the diet/exercise.  Lost some muscle mass and probably gained some fat.  But, today I started back on it.  Ate pretty well today and did a chest workout.

Breakfast:  6 eggs, 2 ww toast w/ butter & jelly, glass OJ, multi-vitamin, b-complex, joint supp, vit C

helped my gf move

Lunch:  Top round steak, twice baked potato, milk, water

pre-workout:  20 g protein

workout:  Incline hammer press, Decline hammer press, flat-bench dbell fly, cable crossover, standing dbell oblique crunch, hanging leg raises, crunches

post-workout:  40 g protein, 5 g creatine, gatorade

That is it so far today.  I’m about to have some chicken and maybe some brown rice and veggies.  Then probably later either tuna or salmon.  Gotta go hit the shower.