Re-birth.

Eric L said:
Yeah, I overdid myself. I totally feel like **** right now. :cool:

I didn't sleep much last night and woke up once more with full body DOMS. My appetite is similar to when I have a cold and I feel nauseous.

I have been having the hardest time sleeping lately. I think the thought of this hot young women I've met recently is keeping me up. I'm going to have to seduce her or something. :biggrinsanta:

I'll just make sure I recover before making such an attempt...cuz usually when I seduce a women stuff happens. :)
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ooooooo you go bad boy haha xxx
 
I took a few extra hours of sleep yesterday. In fact, I went to bed as soon as I got home.

DOMS are just about gone - finally.
 
I haven't been doing as much as I want with my diet.

This isn't me making excuses, this is reality.

In between 45 hours of work per week, more or less than 5-6 hours of training per week, a social life and extra time for recovery from the training I find myself empty with time to prepare meals. There is also the fact that I like to relax and have absolutely nothing to do at least a few times per week.

I decided to hire someone to help me with this. Planning a proper diet is beyond time consuming and tedious, and quite frankly finding the will and time for this isn't worth it for me right now.

The initial consultation will cost me about 150$ and a 7 week meal plan designed to suit my very detailed needs will cost me just about the same. She will actually educate me on my diet depending on my goals, so on top of saving time, making my health better I will get smarter!

300$ to save me a **** load of time, trouble, get a body composition test and some education makes serious sense to me.

What is 300$ for getting professional help that is made to make my health better and to save me time? I've spent more on other useless ****, lol.

I still have time for workouts, so for now, I will do them and come March I will go see this nutritionist. Don't be thinking I am stuffing my face with food though, I still cut back even though I am not on the diet I want to be on.

Today I ate steamed veggies with chicken brochettes and some baked potatoes along with a Caesar salad. I ate half my plate and stored the rest for tomorrow.

And no, I haven't been downing pints and eating PB sandwhiches. ( :p jackie ).

One more day of recovery for me and I hit the gym again. My snowboarding DOMS is still present in a few places and want it to recover before going to the gym. I seriously hope I get to go snowboarding again. Even though I felt like dieing the next two days after I went, I had so much fun. Seeing my old friend again was good.

Hope you all have a blast today!

CYA
 
Eric L said:
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And no, I haven't been downing pints and eating PB sandwhiches. ( :p jackie ).

CYA
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haha me neither :), ok i brought some almond nut butter at the weekend like someone suggested and ate it with white bread on saturday and sunday woops haha

xxxx
 
Good luck with this eric, i will also be keeping a eye on your journal!

Planks are as far as im aware one of the best exercise to do for strengthening the inner core muscles, give it a go, they worked brilliantly for me;)

Steve
 
I managed to screw up my back again.

I'm tired of this ****, I'm going to hire a trainer to help me with my core. Sounds like me throwing money at my problems but I don't care anymore. I've been screwing my back up once a month for the last several months and the result is me having to stay out of the gym until recovery which can sometimes last weeks at a time.

I'll tell him/her I want to see them once per week and that I want them to design a routine that I can do at home or at my local gym 2 more times per week. This will actually give me an idea how professional trainers work with clients and this will help me solve my damned back problem once and for all.

What I need the trainer to consider:
-I want workout sessions designed for strengthening of the core.
-I will be running a 20% calorie deficit through the entire commitment.
-I want to commit to 4 months of sessions with him/her. 1 per week to teach me the new routine that I will perform at home or at a local gym 2 more times during the week.
-I want to lose as much fat as possible during this 4 month commitment.
-Checking up on me is the best way to keep me motivated.
-I have professional help for my nutrition and they know what kind of workouts I will be doing. They provide me with a 7 day meal plan along with recipes and consider the details I want them to follow.
-I am studying to become a trainer myself, any coaching or mentoring is appreciated.
-I want my core to be STRONG.
-I want the workouts to be timely and efficient. I want to work myself up to circuit training, super-sets and compounds asap.

I might think of other stuff later today, I'll post again sometime soon.

Good day everyone. ;)
 
If you're going to do that, might I suggest looking for a PT who has a pilates qualification on the side? They'd be the specialists in core work as far as PT's are concerned. I'd also recommend discussing intensity of training with whoever you go with, because most PT's operate around the belief that they have to push you HARDER than you can push yourself in order to make themself useful - try to find someone who will push you BETTER (focusing on better technique more than increased exertion). Someone who also has a history of sports coaching might be good for the job, because they're usually much stricter about getting things right.
 
Thanks Goldfish.

I'll use what you suggested.

Not trying to be arrogant, just feel like I need to point out that I have no problem pushing myself beyond my limits.

If anything I need someone to slow me down.

I'm that stupid. :rofl:

On the other hand, someone who will be strict on form and execution would be quite useful to me.

Getting someone with backgrounds in sports coaching and pilates makes total sense regarding this and would be something I want.

Maybe I should give up the nutritionist and just let the trainer handle my nutrition as well - that would be less trouble and make much more sense, that's what I'll do.
 
I actually know it is with pushing yourself beyond your limits. Unfortunately, it took me two buggered shoulders and a herniated intervetral disc before I took a hint.
 
The back is recovering well, going to stay sedentary a few more days to ensure maximum recovery. I seriously don't want to screw it up again.

I have been referred to a local trainer, apparently he is a very serious veteran body builder with many accomplishments. I told the person who referred to me that I was a nerd and that if I sensed he didn't know what he was doing that I would probably just humiliate him (not by trying to purposely humiliate him but by showing him how to do his own job, politely. :yelrotflmao: ) and that I needed someone head strong and willing to teach someone who is like a sponge for information (me). The answer I got was direct:

"I don't think you will be able to teach him anything, he's pretty serious and pays attention. He's very experienced too. If you are arrogant or egotistical he will just let you go and tell you to come back when you are ready."

This man clearly does not **** around. I think he and I will make good progress together - but I'll talk to you about this some more after I meet him.

I, more or less, lost half a pound in the last week or so. Funny how clothes feels different after just losing half a pound.
 
I hope this guy lives up to his reputation, then. I've never had the experience of noticing my clothes feeling different as a result of body weight changing, but this is probably because it's only been in recent times that I've learnt how to find clothes that fit. But I gather that since there's enough of a shape change to feel the difference, you must be losing the right kind of weight (ie fat). Good work.
 
Back has finally recovered.

Will not be going to the gym though due to the fact that I am broke. I will be doing P90X from home. I will most likely shorten their workouts because quite frankly they are long and I have other things to do, like chasing women and causing trouble.

:jumping:
 
Your suppose to give me hell as you please :p

I will disappoint you now; I did not workout yesterday. Personal issues came up.

As I got home after work, my father was drunk as hell and threw a fit; I simply walked out and left him alone and went to visit my cousin and we had a good time. He called me a little later to apologize and it was already 8:00PM. By the time I left my cousin and got home it was time for bed.

I need to move out; I've been saying it and not doing it for too long.

Arg.
 
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I'm not that easily disappointed. If you were my client and didn't show up to a session without notice, then I'd be disappointed. Personal issues suck and throw us all off-course. Just get back to it ASAP (today would be nice).
 
I got an idea.

I will design a body weight routine today and I will apply it tonight.

It is perfect. I will more or less workout during the entire evening while being highly motivated to do it at the same time.

I'm going to turn my approach into a blog and will aim it to a specific group of people, these people will love this. They will be just as motivated as I will be and they will gladly do it. And I will give away this approach freely :) I know it will work too. Can't wait to share this...but this will only happen once I have gotten the results which are months from here.
 
In the event that you have the time and will to offer me help, I would very much like to get any ideas you might have that would be tied to body weight exercises :D

Here are mine...I will emphasize on good eccentric phases to promote equal adaption in both the agonist and antagonist muscles in these exercises.

Upper Body
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Push ups, all variations, weighted & unweighted.
Chin-ups, Pull ups, weighted & unweighted.
Static hand stands for max duration. Assisted and non-assisted.

Core
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Sit-ups, all variations, weighted and unweighted.
Crunches, all variations, weighted and unweighted.
Back hyper extensions, all variations. Don't like adding too much resistance to this one, the back is fragile.

Lower Body
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Body weight squats, all variations, weighted and unweighted.
Lunges, all variations, weighted and unweighted.

I am sure I can think of more, but, my mind isn't up to it atm. Too much work to be done. So little time o_O


Good day!
 
A couple extras would be army crawling, tug-o-war (if you can get a training partner, of course), opposed running drills (again, with a partner), flutters, and boxing drills. There's always the wholebody killer: burpees, which have you started doing a push up, then you draw your knees up to your chest, bringing your feet underneath your torso, and explode up into a vertical jump. Definitely not recommended if you have any blood pressure issues.

A push up variation you might not have thought of is travelling push ups, where you do a push up, then move one pace to one side, do another push up, and so on until you reach a certain distance. Then, for the next set, travel back to where you started.

Have you seen the episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa go to military school? There's a challenge in it where they have to crawl upside down along a rope between two spaces. If you can set up something like that (doesn't have to be a rope, and doesn't have to be at a lethal height, either), that should really work your back and "pull" muscles.

One thing I came up with a few months ago which is a fun little variation is to combine squats and lunges together within the one set. The way I did it was: 1 squat, 1 lunge, 1 squat, 1 lunge (other leg) = 1 rep.
 
I am still working on my project. It is lengthy.

I am trying to figure out the advantages and disadvantages of two types of workouts.

Ones with the shorter and more standard resting times. ie 30 seconds to 2 minutes.

And ones with resting periods way greater than this. ie 20 minutes to an hour.

Anyhow, more work to be done.

Toodles.
 
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