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.

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave comments or ask any questions. There's a bit more info about me in the section on the left.

Michael

Friday, 22 February 2008

First couple of WO's since boarding

Right, I’ve been to the gym twice this week so far. Tuesday was my first day back after my hols and I took it pretty easy due to my shoulder so I didn’t really count this session. I went last night too where I tried to manage a normal session. I was quite pleased overall as I was expecting quite a drop I my weights compared to before I went snowboarding. I did drop a few kg’s and reps on a couple of lifts but nothing too drastic which was good. I took it easy on bodyweight dips as my shoulder still hasn’t fully healed up yet, and I just did these at bodyweight.
I’ll have another session on Saturday and see how I get on then. I looking forward to hitting it hard again next week and I’ll be going shopping on Saturday to get all my foods for the week so I can nail my diet again.

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Post Holiday Update

Hi Folks,

Been a little while since I did my last write up as I’ve been on hols snow boarding with a few mates so obviously I’ve not been working out! Need to get myself back down the gym this week though and get back on the bulking diet. Unfortunately whilst I was away I picked up a bit of a boarding injury as a result of landing a jump on my shoulder! Bad times! I’m not too sure how it’s going to be working out so I think I’ll need to start light and see how I get on. Hopefully it should only take a few more days to clear up. I think I’ll just use this week to get back on track with the diet and routine and hopefully shoulder permitting get fully back on track next week.
I’ll do another write up at the start of next week with an update. I’m guessing I shall have lost a bit of strength and muscle from not working out but fingers crossed it will only take a week to get back to normal.

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