Week 1 down
This is the end of my first official week of trying version 1 of my workout plan.
My perception of week 1:
Pros:
- Was able to comfortably follow and track my diet/calories.
- Noticeable improvements in my appearance, feeling, and strength.
- Leg day was successful and got nice and sore in many areas of my legs.
Cons:
- Wasted a lot of time walking around to different exercises.
- Feel I am doing too many exercises per group, wasting time walking around.
- Did not feel sore after working muscle groups other than my Legs and Chest.
Version 1: 2 on, 1 off, 2 on, 2 off with ~3500 cals ON days, and ~2700-3000 cals OFF days. Though I use my 1-off WED as a cardio day, about 30-45mins of jogging.
Mondays: Quads (Legs) - success
Tuesday: Shoulders & Traps - felt like I worked biceps more.
Wednesday: Rest (Cardio) got a headache which cut jogging short.
Thursday: Upper/lower back, hamstrings, biceps
Friday: Chest & Triceps - fairly successful workout.
I have gained about 4 Lbs in 7 days. I would like to buy calipers to track my BF % on a weekly basis to practice, but likely will only record it once a month.
A personal trainer used calipers and measured my BF % at 22% at 180Lbs 6′0" age 31. Not great. So now that I have started a plan to gain muscle, I am fairly confident that my BF% will stay about the same. But I would rather lose some fat while gaining muscle. Mixed forum searches say that it is possible, but gains may be slow and it’s difficult to do the right diet tracking, cardio and weight training.
I am willing to try anything for my diet changes, cardio, and weight lifting plans. So I will make changes as I keep learning more. Searching the forums can be a big challenge on deciding what to do. Feel free to write comments if you read my blog. I will post some pics soon so that people can see how fat I am. LOL.
