A Young Buck's Training Journal

[Hellawulf]

July 18, 2009
Another day of HIIT, but with my personalized speed drills. It pisses me off when I go into the gym and there are only two conventional bikes, and they are taken up. This is getting old.
As for my diet, how detrimental are carbs? for example, if I'm getting hungry, would wheat thins be a good snack?

 

[OneBreath]

July 18, 2009
Another day of HIIT, but with my personalized speed drills. It pisses me off when I go into the gym and there are only two conventional bikes, and they are taken up. This is getting old.
As for my diet, how detrimental are carbs? for example, if I'm getting hungry, would wheat thins be a good snack?

Carbs aren't "detrimental" at all. It's all relative. If you are on a low carb diet then yes. If you are not on a low carb diet and want to lose fat then they just need to be timed correctly (around activity).

Now as far as fat loss as a goal goes, snacking on carbs is a bad idea. If you are having carbs you should have them with a protein (and no fat). When trying to lose fat, there are no good quick snacks except for vegetables, and let's face it, they just don't kill the craving. In order to maximize success, you have to plan the meals out and trust the plan. Each one should be protein/fat or protein/carb. If you absolutely have to have snacks then use almonds or cashews. But beware, these are calorie dense so no more than a handful at a time would be wise.

Hows the PT coming along? Creating a sort of hybrid lifting/circut program isn't really that bad of an idea. The only thing to be concerned about is losing muscle. To maintain that muscle you need to take in the protein, and have some heavy squat/pressing/deadlifting sets. As long as those 2 elements are in there you are fine.

 

[Hellawulf]

I haven't posted up in a sec, because I've been fairly busy, but I'm sticking to my workout now, which was the reason for the PT, to get me back in swing. My PT isn't that great, he's a good guy, but I had to teach him the correct form for squats my first day. Good news though... BF% this morning was 11.2%, I'm .5% down in a week, and even better news, my weight has actually increased from 180, to 182, whether thats water weight or not, I think thats pretty good. They are actually asking me if I want to do PT next summer when I get back from college, haha!

 

[OneBreath]

I haven't posted up in a sec, because I've been fairly busy, but I'm sticking to my workout now, which was the reason for the PT, to get me back in swing. My PT isn't that great, he's a good guy, but I had to teach him the correct form for squats my first day. Good news though... BF% this morning was 11.2%, I'm .5% down in a week, and even better news, my weight has actually increased from 180, to 182, whether thats water weight or not, I think thats pretty good. They are actually asking me if I want to do PT next summer when I get back from college, haha!

Fuckin a! They should be paying you now.

I'd take them up on the offer. You get to learn a lot by helping others as well as make some money doing something you like.

Keep up the good work and you'll easily break into single digits in 4 weeks.

 

[Hellawulf]

Fuckin a! They should be paying you now.

I'd take them up on the offer. You get to learn a lot by helping others as well as make some money doing something you like.

Keep up the good work and you'll easily break into single digits in 4 weeks.

He is pretty much doing what I hired him for. The guy is great at getting a few extra reps out of me on everything. He reminds me of a football coach I had several years back, I like that he has the balls to scream in my ear while trying to get that extra rep. I also like how he says "get it" after every single rep. I love how black people workout, because they are so loud and it gets me pumped, so he brings that to the table. Also, it prob was a good idea to change up my workout to just massively confuse my body to lose all this body fat, even if his entire workout is pretty much like an old school football workout. It works for me, but I'm sure its not doing as well for some of his other clients, because apparently he uses his football workout on all of them.

 

[Hellawulf]

I haven't been posting up as much recently, but I have been consistent on my workouts, I finally had the best workout this morning I've had in over a month. Felt good, started with some sprints which I thought was strange, but my trainer is sticking it to my heart.

-Destroyed Daily

 

[Hellawulf]

July 30, 2009
Went to a hiking trail and ran up and down a few mountains for about 6.4 miles. I wanted to mix it up because hadn't done any long distance running like that in atleast a year, and even then it wasn't that far. I def recommend if you hate long distance cardio like I do to do it on a trail. Find the most dangerous looking trail possible, with lots of rocks and twigs and the potential for snakes and ticks, this will def encourage you to run faster, and do to the fear of falling or getting hurt you won't be focusing on the immense pain shooting through your body. Then when your body crashes because it can't take it anymore, walk briskly back to the car. This works as a cool down. Preferably, find an area near a marsh, where moccasins and copperheads tend to live, because if you see one, you will sprint full speed for about 2 miles before your body crashes, and you don't care if you get bit anymore. This might not sound fun, but it is, and when you get home after a nice shower and a protein shake, you feel great (but then an hour later, you feel like your body is coming apart).

July 31, 2009
Couldn't get the body fat thing to work right. Last time I had dropped from 11.7 to 11.2, and today I was putting in my weight and stuff and it popped up 18.3 then 15.3, which neither can be correct due to the fact that I can physically see a positive difference since last time I measured at 11.2. Even my ex-workout buddy has noticed. As for the workout, typical trainer workout. We pound abs a lot directly, which is a good and bad thing, good because it will cut my core, but bad, because you can't see my core yet, and I believe that a less direct ab workout would be more effective, but I figure thats is what my cardio days are for. Did shoulders and back. One question, I have always been under the assumption that doing military press behind the head was a shoulder workout and wasn't suggested due to the potential to hurt your rotator cuff, but my trainer said that it was a good workout for the back and it doesn't hurt anything, who's correct on this one?

 

[Hellawulf]

Since I've started with trainer, and started following my cardio to the tee, and clearing up my diet a little (still far from perfect)...
Week 1 11.7% BF 180 pounds
Week 2 11.2% BF 182 pounds
Week 3 10.9% BF 184 pounds (latest measurements)

 

[OneBreath]

Since I've started with trainer, and started following my cardio to the tee, and clearing up my diet a little (still far from perfect)...
Week 1 11.7% BF 180 pounds
Week 2 11.2% BF 182 pounds
Week 3 10.9% BF 184 pounds (latest measurements)

Damn right. Are you seeing abs?

 

[Hellawulf]

Damn right. Are you seeing abs?

Starting too, but I'm still kinda far from a six pack, I might not hit my goal, but it was a good run, I've got 3 weeks, then I'll be at school, in which case I'll be back to bulking and back on 5x5.