SM373's Workout Journal

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Posted at July 29, 2009, 4:40 pm:

Hi
A lot of people know me from the Exercise Forum or from Aqua's thread. I just moved back down to college and decided to start a workout journal to track my progress
My story
Currently, I'm 5'7 183 lbs and just turned 22 years old
This wasn't the case a few years ago. I grew up playing a lot of sports and started lifting some weights in my basement when I was about 14. I had some dumbells at first and mainly just did curls. I also had a benchpress which was made with plastic-style bar and weights which probably held a total of about 80-90 lbs and used to lift that doing flat bb press for reps
When I turned 13, all the sudden muscles started popping in. I hit puberty pretty early so I was more developed than most 13 year olds. I remember making a muscle and all of the sudden my bicep would form a ball. 8 pack when I flexed my abs. I was at about 11-12% BF. Life was good
When I got into highschool (9th grade, I was 15), we were taking gym class and 1 day we went into the weight room. My friend who was on the football team was benchpressing and I asked him to load it up for me so I can test my max bench. I never lifted anything heavy (because at home I only had that 90 lbs benchpress set) so he put 155 lbs on it and told me to try it. I weighed 125 lbs at the time and barely got it up for 1 rep. I didn't know it at the time, but this was pretty damn impressive
Moving on to 12th grade (17 years old), I enrolled in a weight lifting class in high school. This was my first experience lifting heavy weights on a consistant basis. I started BB bench pressing with all my friends and remember I first maxed out at about 170 lbs weighing about 145 lbs. I just focused on benchpress and curls and tricep pushdowns. I got my bench press up to 225 lbs when I graduated while maintaining the same weight
Moving on to college, same shit, more wasted time. My diet sucked freshman year and I hit about 13% BF and lost all my strength. I started working out halfway through the year (same deal as highschool) and got my strength back, then would break and lose it
This happened until my 3rd year of college during the summer, I was 21 at the time. My friend who I lived with had GNC Designer whey and was using it as a weight gainer. He had no idea what he was doing and it showed because he was a skinny kid. I still was at about 13% BF 155 lbs, and started to think to myself, "What if I used it?" I could get strong as hell
Getting warmer
Moving on, I did some research and found these forums. I started looking at some splits and realized I've never done half those exercises or bodyparts. I started to train Chest/Bi, HIIT running, Back/Tri, HIIT running, repeat - ignore legs cause who does that? I cleaned my diet up slightly and got 100% ON whey and AST Pro 32x Multi vitamins. I cut from about 155 lbs 13% BF to about 142 lbs 9% BF by doing things the complete wrong way. I trained this way for about 4 months. I was doing a lot of HIIT to get into shape for flag football and neglecting legs to do this. Big mistake
Finally
Football was done and I started to introduce myself to a new routine. I did Chest/Bi, Legs, Back/Tri, Shoulders/Traps/Abs. I deadlifted on leg day and ate a shitload of food. My GPP level was very high from all the HIIT and I gained a lot of muscle very quickly (I didn't know this at the time). I went from 142 lbs -> 166 lbs in about 3 months, gaining 8 lbs a month. I still maintained a BF of about 11%. I literally thought I couldn't get fat
I started to really pick up the calories and really start to eat to get to about ~3500-4000 calories per day. I was testing myself to see if I could get fat. I slowed to gaining about 6 lbs per month, then 4 per month, then where I'm about now 2-3 lbs per month
During this time, I started hanging out in the exercise forum and changing my routine slightly and my diet as well. This leads me to where I'm at now
For the first time, I feel like I have things under control. I'm no longer guessing to see if that I eat a lot if it will be muscle or fat. So I decided to start this journal to track my progress
I'll post more later
You can see some pics I took in mid Feburary if you do a search in Aqua's thread.

Original of the message was taken from http://forum.bodybuilding.com/

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