Alright, a little background first...
At the age of 16 I was a large, albeit soft 280lb dude who had played baseball and basketball my whole life, but never played the sport I should've been...football. I decided to try-out my senior year, and knew the first time I played my junior year that I wanted to try and play in college, and I barely even played my junior year, so I know I had work to do. I joined bb.com first and soon became a regular there, am, avant, athletes.com, and several other sites and started working my ass off and learning/reading everything I could about training, diet, and supplementation.
I usually did a Westside-based program and ate, and ate, and ate, did lots of plyos and sprints, and ate. Going into my senior year I had pretty much transformed into a pretty strong and athletic 290lb offensive/defensive lineman. Well, in my only year of h.s. football I made all-state and ended up going to a local combine and putting up some pretty impressive numbers so I got a few full-ride scholarship offers as an offensive lineman. Well, in 2005 I ended up accepting one to a private d-1aa school and thats when I really started to train like a man over that winter, summer, and fall...including a couple of ph cycles (SD, Max LMG) and got pretty strong and topped out at 334lbs. at one point over the summer before fall camp. At the test-outs before the season I set all my current PR's...Bench 345x5, Squat 455x6, Clean 315x4 and ran a 4.92 and VJ 30". I was happy where I was physically and feeling pretty good.
Well, that all soon ended. Right before the semester ended in December of 2005, I got kicked out of school for some very unpleasant reasons. Well, now I had no reason to train and didn't...but I kept my diet mostly clean (even a bit of starvation looking back) since I had no reason to keep the size. Over the last 3 years or so I've lost over 100lbs, which is good for my health, but I lost A LOT of muscle...insane amounts. I did train very sporadically, but I'm basically still untrained. Until recently.
My friends all talked me into doing the Toughman Competition a couple of months ago, simply because I would always beat the brakes off of them every time we would mess around and box...so I picked up training again, I finally had a reason to. Well, I lost to the guy who won the whole damn thing, but I was the only one he didn't knock out and actually it was a pretty close fight...I think I'm close to being a contender in this thing, I just want to get that physicality that I once had back for next year...also, I simply want to get thick and cut like I've never been before...with the help of CL
My phases for doing this will be as follows:
Now-End of April: Clean Bulk
May and June: Cut/recomp
July-Oct: recomp/fight training emphasis
Training
For now, I'm doing a four day split...
Mon: Chest
Tues: Back/Bi
Wed: Off
Thurs: shoulders/tris
Fri: Legs
Sat/Sun: Off
My rep/set format will be:
Weeks 1-2: 3x8
Weeks 3-4: 4x6
Weeks 5-6: 5x5
Weeks 7-8: 6x3
After 8 weeks I will change my w/o, probably to Westside...but maybe to a fortified-iron based workout, not decided yet. A more detailed description of workouts will be given daily. Cardio will consist of sprints, tempo runs, sparring, and bag work.
Edit: Decided, I'm doing HST for 6 weeks after this current w/o...then W4SB after that until recomp/cut time.
Diet:
For now (clean bulk phase) I'll be around 3000 cals at ~350gr/pro, <200gr/cho, ~100gr/lipids. My main carb sources will be dairy, oats, granola and the like and very carefully timed. If an in-depth diet breakdown is requested, I will provide. I'm very confident in my ability to eat perfectly and keep track of it on my own, this log is more for my workouts and pics and progression really. I will, however note any deviations from my diet. ie cheat meals, too much time between meals, etc, as these will be few and far between.
Supplementation:
For the next month or probably until the new year, my only supplements will be multi, fish oil, and my ON Whey (I have a 2lb tub of EVERY flavor ). After that month, I'm gonna do my old stand-by...the Green Bulge/White Blood stack (yes, the originals ) and I'll go from there. At some point I will do the new Mag/Flood stack, but it will be later. Also, my cut will include Reduction...I'll be playing with all the CL products (and some others) the whole time...and everything I use will get a little blurb about it in the daily updates. I love playing with different supps and I've got a pretty diverse supp history outside of all the stims, I tend to steer clear of them...but I haven't really used anything in over two years, so I still like the original CL stuff and things like Omega Thunder and all the older stuff...I'm excited to get back into my official pastime...blowing money on supplements!!!! lol
Anyway, pics and beginning stats coming this week they will be updated every 8 weeks.
At the age of 16 I was a large, albeit soft 280lb dude who had played baseball and basketball my whole life, but never played the sport I should've been...football. I decided to try-out my senior year, and knew the first time I played my junior year that I wanted to try and play in college, and I barely even played my junior year, so I know I had work to do. I joined bb.com first and soon became a regular there, am, avant, athletes.com, and several other sites and started working my ass off and learning/reading everything I could about training, diet, and supplementation.
I usually did a Westside-based program and ate, and ate, and ate, did lots of plyos and sprints, and ate. Going into my senior year I had pretty much transformed into a pretty strong and athletic 290lb offensive/defensive lineman. Well, in my only year of h.s. football I made all-state and ended up going to a local combine and putting up some pretty impressive numbers so I got a few full-ride scholarship offers as an offensive lineman. Well, in 2005 I ended up accepting one to a private d-1aa school and thats when I really started to train like a man over that winter, summer, and fall...including a couple of ph cycles (SD, Max LMG) and got pretty strong and topped out at 334lbs. at one point over the summer before fall camp. At the test-outs before the season I set all my current PR's...Bench 345x5, Squat 455x6, Clean 315x4 and ran a 4.92 and VJ 30". I was happy where I was physically and feeling pretty good.
Well, that all soon ended. Right before the semester ended in December of 2005, I got kicked out of school for some very unpleasant reasons. Well, now I had no reason to train and didn't...but I kept my diet mostly clean (even a bit of starvation looking back) since I had no reason to keep the size. Over the last 3 years or so I've lost over 100lbs, which is good for my health, but I lost A LOT of muscle...insane amounts. I did train very sporadically, but I'm basically still untrained. Until recently.
My friends all talked me into doing the Toughman Competition a couple of months ago, simply because I would always beat the brakes off of them every time we would mess around and box...so I picked up training again, I finally had a reason to. Well, I lost to the guy who won the whole damn thing, but I was the only one he didn't knock out and actually it was a pretty close fight...I think I'm close to being a contender in this thing, I just want to get that physicality that I once had back for next year...also, I simply want to get thick and cut like I've never been before...with the help of CL
My phases for doing this will be as follows:
Now-End of April: Clean Bulk
May and June: Cut/recomp
July-Oct: recomp/fight training emphasis
Training
For now, I'm doing a four day split...
Mon: Chest
Tues: Back/Bi
Wed: Off
Thurs: shoulders/tris
Fri: Legs
Sat/Sun: Off
My rep/set format will be:
Weeks 1-2: 3x8
Weeks 3-4: 4x6
Weeks 5-6: 5x5
Weeks 7-8: 6x3
After 8 weeks I will change my w/o, probably to Westside...but maybe to a fortified-iron based workout, not decided yet. A more detailed description of workouts will be given daily. Cardio will consist of sprints, tempo runs, sparring, and bag work.
Edit: Decided, I'm doing HST for 6 weeks after this current w/o...then W4SB after that until recomp/cut time.
Diet:
For now (clean bulk phase) I'll be around 3000 cals at ~350gr/pro, <200gr/cho, ~100gr/lipids. My main carb sources will be dairy, oats, granola and the like and very carefully timed. If an in-depth diet breakdown is requested, I will provide. I'm very confident in my ability to eat perfectly and keep track of it on my own, this log is more for my workouts and pics and progression really. I will, however note any deviations from my diet. ie cheat meals, too much time between meals, etc, as these will be few and far between.
Supplementation:
For the next month or probably until the new year, my only supplements will be multi, fish oil, and my ON Whey (I have a 2lb tub of EVERY flavor ). After that month, I'm gonna do my old stand-by...the Green Bulge/White Blood stack (yes, the originals ) and I'll go from there. At some point I will do the new Mag/Flood stack, but it will be later. Also, my cut will include Reduction...I'll be playing with all the CL products (and some others) the whole time...and everything I use will get a little blurb about it in the daily updates. I love playing with different supps and I've got a pretty diverse supp history outside of all the stims, I tend to steer clear of them...but I haven't really used anything in over two years, so I still like the original CL stuff and things like Omega Thunder and all the older stuff...I'm excited to get back into my official pastime...blowing money on supplements!!!! lol
Anyway, pics and beginning stats coming this week they will be updated every 8 weeks.
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