Addicted much? hope so =P
Hello, so this is my first post, and i have decided to help me reach my goals for summer i would start a log. Please feel free to comment on anything you feel i am doing wrong, i will post my reasoning for some of the things i do.
Medical brief -
i will make this a as brief as possible, i was born with Systemic Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, basically i have severe arthritis in my entire body and it is kind of a drag >_< I was diagnosed at the age of 1 after spend a year bouncing from McMaster childrens hospital and Sick kids Toronto. I spent the next 7 years going for regular monthly checkups, blood work once a week, and so on. Things got intense when i was 8! I got the chicken px, but not like you'd think it was so severe it filled my lungs and covered my entire body 3 deep, because of the drugs the doctors had me on my amune system was non existent so i also got hepatitis B and pneumonia, and tons of others but those are the main. I spent 8 weeks in a medically induced acoma with less then 10% chance of surviving. I slowly recovered and months later left the hospital. My body was deteriorating at a rate that was unfathomable, i was supposed to have both hips and knees replaced before i was 10, and i would be lucky to see 11. At 12 life got a little sweeter, the doctors basically wrote me off, my personal doctor fired me as a patient because my parents refused to take all the experimental drugs which for the record are now the drugs you see in commercials saying if you took it you are entitled to money. So at 13 my parents met a lady that does eye radology, she reads your eyes and establishes the state of your body and recommend natural herbs and vitamins and cleanses to SLOWLY but naturally restore your body. So tens of thousands of dollars and 6 years later i was kicken butt! Basically i became a pretty average young adult.
Workout -
I am 5' 6" 145 lbs, i do this workout 3-5 days a week.
ALWAYS start with cardio, has fluctuated huge throughout the past year from 30 minutes per gym day to 5 minutes and has recently jumped up to 40 - 130 minutes of spin bike. I only do low impact cardio due to my arthritis and extreme pain issues.
Incline bench - 45 x 5reps, 95 x 8reps, 145 x5reps 165 x5reps 185x3 and work back down
flat bench dumb bells, i start with the dumbbells horizontal and touching my nipples and push straight up with a 1/4 turn. (i do not know the names of most of my workouts). 80 x 10reps, 70 x10reps, 60 x10reps, 50 x10reps
Decline bench sit ups, straight x 10, touch opposite knee x 10, straight with 10 lbs x 10, straight x 10
sometimes i do flat bench dumbbells sometimes i do flat bench and sometimes i do both.
Flat bench - 45 x 5reps, 95 x 10reps, 145 x 5reps, 165 x 5reps and work back down.
Exercise ball sit ups x30, touching opposite knee x20, push ups with feet on exercise ball x 20, x5
Arnolds with 1/4 turn in - 25 x 10, 35 x 10, x5, 45 x 5, x5 and work back down.
Exercise ball sit ups x30, touching opposite knee x20, push ups with feet on exercise ball x 20, x5
Squats - 45 x 20 but only 3/4 rise, 65 x 10, 95 x 10, 115 x 10 work back down ending with the 3/4 rise, i have been doing these for a couple of weeks.
Exercise ball sit ups x30, touching opposite knee x20, push ups with feet on exercise ball x 20, x5
Triceps on pulling machine with rope. 80 x 10, x10, 95 x 10, x10, 110 x10, x10, 125 x5, x5 and work back down
Exercise ball sit ups x30, touching opposite knee x20, push ups with feet on exercise ball x 20, x5
once i get all of that done i am usually pretty tired, i do some chin ups, some curls maybe with a 80 lbs bar, some leg raises with a 10 lbs weight, and just some small stuff to completely exhaust me. My workouts tend to be around 3 hours with all my cool downs between sets, I find if i am there i need to do everything, i cannot just work a couple groups of muscles.
Workout history -
In the winter of 2006/2007 i logged a little over 3000 kms biking to and from work, spent the summer of 2007 working for a landscape company. Jan 10 2010 i joined the ymca, i started with a 20-30 minutes cardio, and using various machines, i was just not getting great results although my weights were greatly increasing. I slowly transitioned into free weights and i now only use free weights. I would say my actual passion for lifting weights and setting goals and watching myself develop into a machine was around august when i actually took a look at my results. I also started taking protein powder around this time.
I currently consume a protein shake before and after the gym with about 50 grams of protein, i use promasil soft serve vanilla. One thing that i am not proud of but i find it night to day difference is i have been using quite a bit of 1MR, i find after 9 hours of work i am SO tired i just cannot go to the gym, but once i get my shake into me and a 1MR i feels like a million bucks! So i take it simply for the consistency it allows me in my workouts. I do not every take 1MR 2 days in a row.
Goals -
I do no want to compete or be massive, i just want to be fit as can be, i do want to bulk up and look muscular and healthy.
Wieght lifting goals -
250 lbs both flat and incline bench, 190 ish squat, 100 lbs dumb bells flat bench, 65 lbs arnolds, 100 mile bike ride (i have done a 100 km bike ride no biggy)
Reasons for exercising -
One thing i have found very interesting is seeing different people at the gym and some of them are insanely fit and have the most subtle but significant disability or whatever. So i am attending the gym so i don't turn out like my family, i do not want to become a un motivated person who procrastinates about my health and thinks the gym is a waste of time. And the most important reason is i really enjoy how i feel during and after EVERY workout whether its a crazy day or just a simple 45 minutes day stretching and loosening up. I am 21 years old and i hope to be doing this for at least another 50 years.
i also like my sports, snowboarding, street boarding, mountain biking, road biking. Thats a link to my Facebook page with picks and HD video of me doing what i love except lifting weights.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert...50090452380377
So any and all comments, critiques and suggestions are welcome.
(note i do not just start a new workout i ask phil who is a personal trainer at the ymca waterdown who shows and helps me start new workouts)
the photos attached where taken today, i have not been to the gym in over 36 hours so my muscles are pretty relaxed and at cold size.
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