Workout Blog

Welcome to my workout blog! I have created this blog to help me monitor and motivate myself to achieving a decent diet, fat loss and muscle gains. I shall be posting on here fairly regularly with updates on my progress. I tend to do quite a bit of reading on work out related stuff. So if I come across any interesting articles or info I'll link them in the Articles section at the bottom of my blog so others can check them out too.

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Michael

Thursday, 3 January 2008

After Xmas Write Up

Well this is my first write up since before Christmas and New Year. As expected the diet went out of the window and gym time was lacking. I made it to the gym four times over the last two weeks which wasn’t great but better than nothing I guess. Diet wise I really didn’t worry much and ate all the usual festive rubbish and drunk my own body weight in alcohol! Anyway never mind, New Year, fresh start and all that!
I did a FB session yesterday and I have lost a bit of strength which was to be expected really. I have dropped 5kg’s on squat and couldn’t do so many reps on bench press, other than that I had pretty much stayed the same. Oddly enough I managed 10 reps of bodyweight chins which was a PB!

Just trying to get myself sorted now for the New Year and the new Men’s Health 2008 three month challenge of losing body fat and bulking up. My main concern at the moment is my diet which I need to get back on track after the break. Going shopping at the weekend and will try to do some cooking in bulk for the next week. I also want to have all my exercises back up to the strength I was at by the end of next week.
I’ve set myself a few extra goals for the New Year which are as follows:

- Prepare foods in advance for work
- Eat more vegetables
- Make sure I’m up in time for an early breakfast rather than waiting until I get to work
- Do at least 2 HIIT sessions per week

I’ll do another write up around the end of next week when I hope to be completely back on track!

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Current Personal Best Lifts

Current Weight 72kg's

Squat: 125kg - 2 reps
Deadlift: 108kg - 5 reps
Bench Press: 80kg - 3 reps
Dumbell Bench Press: 32kg (per arm) - 5 reps
BO Rows: 55kg - 5 reps
Dips: Bodyweight + 25kg - 6 reps
Chins: Bodyweight + 5kg - 5 reps