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The Comeback and Ignoring Naysayers

Hey everyone!! So past couple weeks, I’ve just been doing full body 3x a week and walking for an hour on my rest days. Nothing too exciting. I tried out Leangains Recomp and loved it! Lost a lot of fat. I ate 6-8 hours a day and fasted the other 16-18 hours. My macros on … Continue reading

Change Is Good When Feeling Lost

I’m beginning to feel bored with my current routine, so this week I’m going to try a full body three day split. Just for something new. I didn’t follow a specific template today and just did exercises I felt like doing: Pull-ups 3xMax Back Squat 4×5 Overhead Press 3×5 Stiff-leg Deadlift 3×5 Superset of: Skull … Continue reading

Intermittent Fasting

Hey everyone! Getting busy even though it’s summer, but decided I needed to post something! Eating for a few hours of the day and then not eating anything for at least fourteen hours. A method of eating I’ve used in my diet off and on for a year is called intermittent fasting. I enjoy this … Continue reading

Dangers of Sitting and Wonders of Walking

I love walking! Throughout the week I try to walk outside for at least twenty minutes everyday. I think better when I’m not sitting and I just simply love moving around. While I’m at home I can often be found surfing the web, emailing, reading, etc. while walking around holding my Samsung tablet. I actually … Continue reading

Silliness, Motivation, and Truth

I was looking around bodybuilding.com the other day and found these awesome pictures! Empty squat racks always make me happy. Seeing empty squat racks every morning for seven months really motivated me to keep going at 4:00am instead of having to fight for one at 4:00pm. Silly, but effective. The therapeutic effects of working out … Continue reading

Monday; Leg Day!

Love leg day! Love it! My legs cause my the most issues when it comes to muscle gain. For some reason, I gain very little muscle when it comes to legs. I’m hoping only training my legs hard once a week will spark some growth. When I became sick, my leg lifts suffered the most, … Continue reading

Saturday; HIIT

After work this morning my reward was hills and tabata! I warmed up with some dynamic stretches and calisthenics for five minutes, completed six hill sprints in ten minutes (it’s a long hill), did tabata burpees for five minutes, and then finished with ten minutes of light calisthenics and stretching. Pretty nice workout! For those … Continue reading

Friday; Shoulders and Triceps

My arms feel like noodles. Hopefully I’ll be able to use them at work tomorrow. I’ve always really liked working my triceps! Maybe because they’re the only part of my body that quickly responds to being worked. Whenever I start gaining muscle, my triceps are always the most noticeable. Today’s workout went like this: Overhead Press … Continue reading

Thursday; Back and Calves

Back and Calf day! Leaves my back burning for at least the next day. I do the fewest exercises on back day, because my back also gets worked on leg day (especially when I deadlift) and my lower back also tends to injure easily, so I try to not overdo it. Today my routine consisted of: Pullups 3xmax (hit … Continue reading

Rest, an Essential Part of Life

Wednesdays are my rest days. In the past, I have experienced times when I hated rest days. Not exercising all day left me feeling fat and useless. This mentality is hard to break, but rest is extremely important for any athlete. Muscles are not built while working out. In fact, during exercise, muscles are broken … Continue reading