Loads O Fire's Bulking Journal

[Loads O Fire]

Lately I have lost track of my goals, for 2 weeks now I have been able to hold my routine, but have had trouble with my diet. A pretty bad shoulder injury through my goals out of wack about 2 months ago, nothing that involved medical work, or a sling, but it hurt. I would wake up at night, with it killing, and couldn't lift much more than 20 lbs, so I took some time off. I'm sure glad I did, or it would most likely still be hurting. I injured it water skiing. God... I'm not doing anything that could risk injury while bulking again.

What am I doing, like the title says - BULKING!

Goal: 180+ lbs
Goal 2: Gain 5+ Lbs per month
Starting weight: 145 lbs

So pretty much 35 lbs in total.

I will not be saying I need to complete this by a certain time, that will only stress me out, and cause pressure. I will attempt to train as hard as I can, while keeping my diet smooth. I am NOT clean bulking! I realize fat will be gained, but I'm not wasting time with chicken, and fish, it is much wiser to have mostly beef, since it has amazing anabolic fats, and a good amount of cals.

I am going to be raising my calorie intake by 500 each week, so that I can ease my way to 4000 a day, without shocking my body with 2000 more than normal.

Week 1: 2500 cals
Week 2: 3000 cals
Week 3: 3500 cals
Week 4: 4000 cals

Fairly simple, all I have to do is add one more big meal in each week.

Currently I am stuck using a home gym, but I have most of what I need here. Other than a squat rack....

Supps being used:

• Creatine
• Weight gainer
• Fatty acids

I will keep track of my gains each week, and how everything went.

 

[Loads O Fire]

Week 2:

This week started off ****ty, well I shouldnt say started off bad, on monday I had a GREAT chest day which left me aching for about 3 days. Tuesday morning was when things went bad. I met my ex at school, I hadn't seen her for almost 6 months, and didn't have any intentions on talking to her again. See, she was still a friend, but not the type of friend you are thinking about. We hate each other really... We always have - since day one. But I think thats the one thing that stabled us out... Why? Because we both saw things the same, if everything is perfect, than nothing will make you happy. You need disapointment, anger, and failure to happen to you, to be able to see the bright side of things. Meh, maybe thats why I'm loving body building. Well ok, bad on topic. She wanted me to talk to her, and her new friends, so I said, yea sure, at lunch. I did see her at lunch, and had a good time, and enjoyed meeting her friends. Heck, one of her friends was really hot. But meeting her again wasn't such a good thing, why? Because now I felt guilty, for avoiding her for such a long time, when she wanted to be friends again. Also having a good time with her reminded me of all the great times we spent together. Long story short, I felt depressed.

I couldn't force myself to workout that night, so I told myself "ill fit it in tomorrow", normally I would have. I'm good at telling myself things like that, and actually doing it.

Needless to say, I didn't add it in, I didn't even work out that day at all. But, this time I actually had a good reason, I had to walk home from school, which is an hour walk, in pouring rain, wind, and about 10 degree c weather, just what I wanted! I get home, and almost pass out, Im frozen, pale, and dizzy. Hypothermia in the summer, yippy! My body wasn't able to keep tempuratures up during my walk home, so I'm screwed, I should have ran.

That put me out 3 days, and out of school for one. Crap, my weeks ruined now.

I decided that I will start again on monday. If I started the day after I was better, I wouldn't be able to hit each muscle, and some would end up lagging.

Now for a good note - During that whole week I stuck with my diet, and even took the days off from training to perfect my diet, and routine! So maybe a week off wasn't so bad after all.

I'm not bothering to weight myself, I'm going to be exactly the same as last week.