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Showing posts with label aesthetics. Show all posts
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Sunday, 30 October 2011
Saturday, 4 June 2011
June Progress
Obviously gotta include a little pose haha!!
Statistics at the time:
Measurements:
Age: 17
Height: 171 cm (5'6)
Weight: 71 kg (156.5 lbs)
Arm: 35 cm (13.8")
Leg (Quad): 55 cm (21.7")
Leg (Calf): 40 cm (15.7")
Chest: 98.5 cm (38.8")
Personal Best Lifts:
Flat Bench Press: 85kg (187.4 lbs) - 1 reps, 27/04/2011
Dumbbell Bench Press: 35 kg (77.2 lbs) - 6 reps, 27/04/2011
Squat: - 140 kg (308.6 lbs) - 1 reps, 24/05/2011
Dead lift: 180 kg (396.8 lbs) - 1 reps, 19/05/2011
Dumbbell Shoulder Press: - 25 kg (55.1 lbs) - 4 reps, 28/04/2011
Military Press: - (Not performed)
Progress:
This month hasn't been the most progressive, because i've had to dedicate some of my time on exams, and therefore missing a few days at the gym. I've not been eating very well lately either, next month this will hopefully change, because my exams will be ending...
My chest seems to be the largest strength plateau for me at the moment. I haven't progressed in weight in the last 2 months, being stuck at 85kg bench and 35kg dumbells. It's quite discouraging to be honest, after my exams i'll be trying to change my chest routines jurastically to help make progress, i'll keep you posted on how it goes.
I'm currently off creatine, mainly because i can't be bothered to take it. I'll just treat it as my 'rest phase' and go back on it after my exams have ended.
I've changed the protein i use, quad protein is good, but i fancied trying something new. So i forked out some cash to buy a tub syntha-6.
A 2kg tub cost me £37.00, they claim their protein mix gives your body maintained protein synthesis for about 8-9 hours which is nearly double what quad protein claims. I love the idea of protein matrix's, because i like to think my body is getting protein throughout the day. This protein tastes great in water and milk, the tub has only got about 50 ish servings so it's quite an expensive option, due to it's 44g serving size. Obviously since i've only been taking it for a week i haven't seen any noticable gains using this protein, but i'm hoping i will see some soon.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
May Progress
Thought I'd be a douche and add some poses :P. I'm much happier with the lighting though, the pictures are much better :). Do you like them?
Statistics at the time:
Measurements:
Age: 17
Height: 171 cm (5'6)
Weight: 71 kg (156.5 lbs)
Arm: 33.7 cm (13.3")
Leg (Quad): 55 cm (21.7")
Leg (Calf): 40 cm (15.7")
Chest: 98.4 cm (38.7")
I think I gotten slightly smaller :P (or I measured wrong the first time)
Personal Best Lifts:
Flat Bench Press: 85kg (187.4 lbs) - 1 reps, 27/04/2011
Dumbbell Bench Press: 35 kg (77.2 lbs) - 6 reps, 27/04/2011
Squat: - 130 kg (286.6 lbs) - 2 reps, 03/05/2011
Dead lift: 160 kg (352.7 lbs) - 1 reps, 27/04/2011
Dumbbell Shoulder Press: - 25 kg (55.1 lbs) - 4 reps, 28/04/2011
Military Press: - (Not performed)
I added the dates achieved.
Progress:
The past couple of weeks i've not been able to sleep very well, getting at most 3 hours of sleep a night... I'm not sure what the reasons for the loss of sleep are, possibly stress, but it's really limiting how hard i can push myself in the gym, and i can definetly feel that my body is tired and less energetic... this is just evidence that getting enough sleep is very important when building muscle and strength, not only is sleep important to help recover and grow, but also the rest is important for your brain, because if psychologically you aren't feeling 100%, you're not goint to get yourself an excellent workout and you're going to find it hard to push yourself, especially if you have a splitting headache or you're finding it hard to stay awake.
Since I've been feeling shit I haven't been getting the best workouts, with no rest my whole body is very sore, especially my legs (walking with a limp lol), and I'm finding it hard to get into the zone before lifting my heavier sets. This resulted in me failing a PR attempt on my dead lift. Just saying, you gotta get a good 8 hours of sleep or you're going to lose out on gains in muscle and strength.
This past month I've also hit a strength plateau in my dumbbell chest press, a month ago i did a good set of 35kg dumbbells, lately i've even been struggling with 32.5kg dumbbells... to try and leap over this plateau I've been trying different routines to try and shock my system into getting stronger, my body may have gotten used to the same routine over the past 2-3 months.
Have you hit any strength plateaus? How did you conquer them?
And how do you think i'm progressing :)? I'd love to see some feed back.
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