This is primarily going to be a progress blog. You see, I made a little wager with my brother to lose 30 lbs by March 22, which is my sister's wedding. The wager consists of $1,ooo, my Xbox 360, and the inability to play final fantasy VIII for one whole year if I lose. If I win, I get... 30lbs lighter. This wager was place while I was in a bit of a euphoric mood, so I easily agreed to his stipulations. The problem is, 30 lbs in 4 months is quite a challenge. I've lost that much before but it required an excruciating amount of work, basically doing "2-a-days", almost 45 minutes of cardio and the metabolism of being 21. Now, I'm older, have little time to workout, (I sometimes work 16 hour days.) and I work nights. While it seems that I'm already making excuses, I'm not. I'm just stating the facts. Now for the program.
I'm going to be using a full body workout that consists of compound exercises to get me back into lifting form. This is going to be used until I can get my squat up to 300lbs. This workout is a basic 25 strong lift taken from T-nation.com
Cardio and diet are also a must to be able to get to my goal. Because I work primarily at night, I've been eating fast food for the majority of the past 5 years. Needless to say my diet sucked. So to start off I'm going to exchange my usual breakfast of 2 McDonalds sausage and egg McMuffins to using slimfast optima. Most people would be asking "but what about using protein shakes?" They hurt my kidneys and Slimfast tastes better.
With cardio, I'm going to start with a basic boring 45 minute jog. The distance does not matter at this point only that I go 45 minutes. Maybe later on I'll add in some H.I.T training.
Day 1:
Current weight: 230lbs
Workout
- Squats 5x5 @ 185lbs
- Dips 5x5 @ BW 230lbs
- Dead lifts (Romanian) 5x5 185lbs
- Pull Downs 5x5 @ 140
- Military Press 5x8 @ 80lbs
- Run: 45 minutes
- Speed bag 10 minutes
- Breakfast: slimfast optima
- Lunch: slimfast optima
- Dinner: White rice, salad, beef teryiaki.
2 comments:
November 21, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Whats up Gwyn? I take it that 5150 is your unit (thats what HE said! hahahaha) Good seeing you on this thing and good luck in that bet.
November 21, 2008 at 4:03 PM
hey jay, no the 5150 means "Involuntary psychiatric hold"
basically allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed (or feared) to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others. Usually manics or people who went on a real bad acid trip.
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