Amazing's jounal - Road to amazingness

I went back to the gym on Aug-17-09, started with:
Height: 6'0
Weight: 224 Lbs
Bf%: 27.8

I was doing a split routine workouts, some low intensity cardio after workouts and HIIT or basketball (sometimes both) on my off days. My diet was decently healthy 0 coke, table sugar or juice. 0 processed carbs most of the little carbs i took came from veggies, plantain, potatoes and stuff. I was taking ON Gold Standard Protein Shake 3 scoops a day one of them being PWO.
 
Did some research and decided to start a full body routine more info in this post:
http://www.discussbodybuilding.com/Starting-5x5-training-m481079.aspx

Went to the gym doctos yesterday 21-Sep-09 so I could know my stats when i started the new program and the results was:

Weight: 216
Bf: 21.4%

All my measurements went down. The one that dropped the most were waist, chest and legs. But 6.1% Bf lost in 5 weeks seems a lot to me, not sure that number is correct, going to check again in a month.

Trying to do CKD, since you gotta keep fat consumption very low can someone give me an example of what you eat during the carbs up days (only got Non-fat milk 0.5%, tuna, some chicken breast, platain, potatoes in mind).

My goal is something around 15% of BF then im gonna see which my next goal is going to be.

21Sep09

Squats
5x5x45
Still cant get the proper form.

Bench Press
2x5x45 Warmup
5x5x65
can do a lot more than that but i'm sticking to the program and getting my form straight.

Inverted Rows
5x5
cant do them with my feet on the bench/box/ball

Push-ups
1x8
1x6
1x7

Abs crunches on the Dips station
3x12

amazing


21Sep09

Squats
5x5x45
Still cant get the proper form.

Check out the forums that have video's of site members and others doing squats and numerous lifts, it will help you figure out what to do.    Need to get the squats down if you are serious brother.

Height 5' 8" Weight  200 lbs Body Fat 16%
Bench 315-Squat 365-Dead 405
Chest-46"/Bicep-16.5"/Waist-37"...UGGH
Thigh-24.5"/Calves 16"

    

Yeah. I'll get them down sooner or later.

22Sep09
Yesterday was my off day, I did spinning(cardio) for an hour.

23Sep09

Squats 5x5x45... still no proper form but im getting better.

Deadlifts 5x5x135

Overhead Press
4x5x45
1x5x65 wanted to check the weight to see how next workout is going to be.

Chin/Pulls Ups
did lots of them 3x3 on chin 4x4 on pulls, im getting a lot better in this, a week i wasnt able to do a single chin up and like 1 or 2 pullups.

Prone Bridge
3x30 secs

Cardio
1 hr of spinning

24Sep09

Day off.
Like 3 hours of basketball, got kind of hurt in my right hip(some punk hit me with his knee) hope doesn't affect my workout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Jyu9Dji8A

''If one is after quick results one never learns an art.''

Erich Fromm

25Sep09
213 lbs, im doing carbload on the weekend so prob its gonna be like 215 on sunday.
 
Squats
5x5x45
 
Bench Press
5x5x95
i can a lot more than that
 
Inverted Row
3x5x4x3 sucked today
 
Push-ups
3x10x6x6
 
Did some pull ups and chin ups.
 
26Sep09
Basketball Tournament from the company played a lot.
 
Going tomorrow to the gym for an extra day, im going to check my weight to see how the carbload weekend went.

I didnt go the gym on Synday.

28Sep09
215.5 lbs... aaawwww guess it was water and stuff from carbload but my carbload was crap, i think that all that Gatorade during bsketball and french fries on saturday night didnt do me well, lol.

Squats
1x5x45 warm up
5x5x95

Deadlift
5x5x145(prob was 155 cant remeber exactly, next time ill do it with 160)

Overhead Press
5x5x65

Pulls-ups
4x4

Prone Bridges
3x30secs

05Oct09
 
Back...
 
Squats
5x5x95
 
Bench Press
1x5x45
1x5x95
5x5x115
 
Inverted Row
3x6/5/5
 
Push-ups
3x10/8/6

07Oct09
 
Squats
1x5x45lbs
1x5x65
5x5x115
getting much better at this
 
Overhead Press
1x5x45
5x5x75
 
Deadlifts
5x5x155
 
Pull-ups/Chin-ups
did some but not enough to even count them, was kind of tired plus my hands hurts, im getting lots of callous on my palm just below my fingers and hurts so much, i read that using gloves is bad but im gonna have tu use them because this is not good at all, hurts so much that im missing reps.

09Oct09
 
Squats
1x8x45
1x5x95
5x5x165
woot im much better at this. im happy
 
Bench Press
1x45
1x95
5x5x125
 
inverted rows
3x10/7/4
 
Bicep curls
1x5x50
1x5x70
 
triceps exercise that i dont know how its called with a dumbell and the arm over my head
1x10x25
1x8x30
 
triceps extension
1x10x70
1x10x110
 
chin-ups/pulls-ups/push-ups
did some but sucked i was too tired dont even worth writing how many reps/sets
 
I'm Definitely losing fat, but now my arms look like too small for my body, i think have like 15'' i might need 16'' to look proportional, im getting that feedback a lot.. like im leaner but my arms are smalls, i think im gonna eat more throw in more proteins and some good carbs into my daily intake.

13Oct09

Squats
1x5x45
1x5x135
5x5x175

Overhead Press
1x5x45
5x5x80

Deadlifts
5x5x165

Pull-ups
2x4/3

My neck still hurts.

After 1 week of nect/laziness i went back to the gym.. lol, it was crap. Felt like it was my first time.
 
Squats
1x5x45
1x5x115 warm up
4x5x185
 
Bench Press
1x14x45
1x5x115
5x5x135
 
Some Triceps workout
 
Some pull-ups.