AWG's Journal-Aw Yeah Cutting Yeah!

Yo J-man, glad to see your still training hard. Just to let u know we have a Muay Thai class on a sunday here now. Its an hour and a half class at 1pm and is only £2.50 I think. When you back in the hood?

Bump Journal cause I think I should.

Got a new PB on bench today 90kg for 1 rep.

and did 4 sets of repping at 80kg for 4/5 reps.

Happy as a pig in ****

good read mate.

Where do you train in notts? I'm at trent and am looking for a new gym for september am tempted by hoofers when they have the student introductory offer on.

jackson


good read mate.

Where do you train in notts? I'm at trent and am looking for a new gym for september am tempted by hoofers when they have the student introductory offer on.

Wow a question, you really don't know how happy I am really should post in here more....gonna do a new one at the start of the shape up.....or tonight, whatever

Train at Liberty Gym in Sneiton, opposite Nottingham Arena

Liberty is 120quid a year for Students and a guy in my halls trains at Hoofers and i think he paid 250? or something like that anyway....all depends on what you want doesn't it.

do you train in the Uni gym? probably seen you there

yea I do train at the uni gym but usually first thing in the morning can't stand it any other time.

Hoofers is £240 for the year but if libertys is £120 then will look there. How long does it take to get to from city centre? You planning on training there next year?. cheers mate

10-15 minute walk.....nothing really. I only joined in January cause I'd had enough of the ****ty Uni gym...although I do like going in there sometimes...it's good to be the big fish

Yeah I am training there next year, so much better then the Uni gym....although it is rammed at Peak times though...good gym, good staff and good members (for the most part)

You in 2nd year I take it?

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anyway....today was a suprisingly decent session...It also felt pretty good to be (nearly) the biggest guy there....and watching the Uni Bicep boys is funny as hell.

Uni bicep boys !!! lol. What uni is it?

We have two gyms at Leeds met uni, a commercial gym with the "bicep boys", then the proper gym with squat racks and bench and heavier dumbbells which has all the coaches with the rugby boys etc training. Certainly not bicep boys in them parts. Do you not have seperate rooms at uni?

yeah im in 2nd year and may be joining you there next year.

I've heard about libertys from a mate who used to train there said the guys who run it are huuuge.

ste1984

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anyway....today was a suprisingly decent session...It also felt pretty good to be (nearly) the biggest guy there....and watching the Uni Bicep boys is funny as hell.

Uni bicep boys !!! lol. What uni is it?

We have two gyms at Leeds met uni, a commercial gym with the "bicep boys", then the proper gym with squat racks and bench and heavier dumbbells which has all the coaches with the rugby boys etc training. Certainly not bicep boys in them parts. Do you not have seperate rooms at uni?

Nottingham Trent Uni mate.

And no we have one gym on the city campus...and one at the clifton campus which is apparently better but to far away for me.

Uni gym has no squat rack, only one smith machine and 2 flat benches for dumbells, no olympic bar...a shed load of **** machines and a load of cardio.....it's proper ****, which is why I don't train there

New update....Bench PB is now 95kg.

Almost got 100kg...should be good for it in about 3 weeks.

Will give my journal a proper kickstart next week when my cut gets underway

Right, kickstarting my journal again and am actually gonna keep it maintained

My 'cut' partially started 2 weeks ago when I started doing 2 cardio sessions a week just to ease me back into it...will be building up to 3 and then 4 sessions over the coming weeks.

starting weight is 14stone, 200lbs or 88kg, whatever you want to call it, aiming for about 13stone....or whenever I start to look half decent really.

Also going on holiday in about 8 weeks so I need to at least look in half 'beach worthy' condition....sounds shallow I know, But I haven't been on a proper holiday like this for 4 years so I might as well make the effort.

Complete measurements will be taken tomorrow but from the measurements I took a few weeks ago I was something like the following

Biceps-15.5 inches
Chest-42 inches (tensed) 40 Inches relaxed
Waist- From belly button 36 inches, But I were 32/34 trousers so I'll say 34
Left Quad-21 inches
Right quad-25 inches
Calfs-17 inches.

again official measurements will be up tomorrow....I will also be entering this years shape up for extra motivation. and hope that the fact I am starting before everyone else won't go against me.





So theres the shocking pictures of my out of shapness.....things can only get better I guess

Measurements

Chest: Relaxed-40 inch
           Tensed- 43 inch
Biceps: Both 15.5 inch
Waist: From Belly Button-37 inch
Right Quad-25 inch
Left Quad-22.5 inch
Right Calf-17 inch
Left Calf-16.5 inch


All gone obviously be improved on

40 mins of steady state cardio today...15 mins on the corss trainer and 25 mins on the bike.

Will weigh myself on saturday and see If I've made any progress

Absolutely terrible workout today.

Was training chest but my shoulder started playing up (does this every so often) resutling in less then half a chest workout...not cool

Bench Press
60kg 2x5
80kg 2x5
70kg 2x5

Decline Bench
60kg 3x6

DB Fly
35lbs 3x10

Rubbish total rubbish

Back Workout on Friday

Seated Row
55kg 6 sets...reps varying between 5-8.....slow and controlled Negative, really felt back streching

Lat Pulldown
70kg 5x5

Single Arm Rows
65lbs 5x10

T-Bar Row
20kg 1x20
40kg 3x10

Tricep Cable Pulldowns
50kg 2x20
         1x10

Tonight was the best session I've had in about 2 months, everything seemed right for some reason or another.

Lat Pulldowns
67.5kg 1x15
75kg 5x7

Seated Row
55kg 1x3
50kg 1x4
45kg 4x5

Seated Row (different one)
65kg 4x10

Single Arm Row
30kg 5x5

T-Bar Row
20kg 1x20
40kg 3x10

Tricep Cable Pulldowns
50kg 2x10

Close Grip Bench Press
40kg 3x6

Had a pose down in the mirrors after, looked awesome, must be the favourable lighting that they have

Just did my first cardio session in my Uni gym, I have never sweated so much in my life, windows 360 degress round made it like a greenhouse in this heat, I honestly thought I was going to die when I was walking back

25mins Cross Trainer
15Mins Bike

Lots of talent about though, which made a nice change.

today has also been the first day in a while where I've actually had a 'clean diet' this will no doubt change over the next 4 hours though

Shoulders today, felt pretty good and I had a good pump going on which please me greatly....however I was sightly drunk when training having been drinking in the park since 2 o'clock

DB Shoulder Press
20kg 5x6

Military Press
40kg 3x5
25 kg 3x10+40kg 3x1

Lateral Raises
7.5kg 6x5

Rear Deltoid Fly
30kg 2x10
35kg 3x10

Shrugs
60kg 3x10
70kg 1x8

Good session, goona be another good session when I hit the town tonignt

haha I know what you mean about the uni gym in the summer but do you think they actually thought about this when they built/designed the building?

Take it you've been spending your days in the arboretum....dosser.

Good luck with the cut mate.

jackson


haha I know what you mean about the uni gym in the summer but do you think they actually thought about this when they built/designed the building?

Take it you've been spending your days in the arboretum....dosser.

Good luck with the cut mate.

Nothing wrong with that is there?