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Gender - Male
Age - Born 1990
Height - 170cm (5' 7'')
Weight - 70kg (155lb)
What's on my mind?
Hey, watsup all.
So... my 1st online personal log
This is awesome! Well, here's my story.
Since high school I would have friends who were big and really strong which play for high rugby teams. I see them in the gyms and no doubt it sure does get intimidating as I am not a big bloke, I'm 170cm (5' 7'') weighing around 69kg (152lb) back then and gyming can be tough (mentally).
Though that being said, it was really good to have some friends getting me into the gym... So I do go to the gym occasionally, like once week or two, but I knew it wasn't enough. Nevertheless... I wasn't motivated enough to go to the gym, my goal at that time was to just get big... (?? Yea, kind of vague..)
Anyways, in the gyms I would do isolation lifting and always thought that would be the way to do it, as that is how I see people do it around me.
So that was high school gyming for me, pretty much... Pointless (As I have figured now).
Well, now being in University I made some new friends who are also big but some how more encouraging for gyming... Slowly I managed to find myself going to the gym about 3 - 4 times a week and then I decided to see what I should work on to BUILD MUSCLE. (That was the key word in my Google search
)Been going to all these gym sites, where it all require some sort of payment for this book on gaining muscle, which I know most are just either a scam or tips that essentially don't really need to be bought, so I didn't bother to waste my time with those...
Then I came across StrongLift 5x5... Slowly, but surely, I was reading the whole text on eBooks and then the links within those pages which led to more links... As it was soo interesting that StrongLift shares SOOO much information... It just blew me away!!
So then I found the program, StrongLift 5x5, and thought... Those exercises are like Barbell exercises!! ><!! I always had this impression that BIG/HUGE weight lifters use those!! But slowly as I gathered more information from StrongLift... That is actually a safe and effect way to start off weight lifting!!
So now, it was to find a partner... As I know with a partner it can make a HUGE difference... Eventually I found someone, he was also gyming before with isolation exercises... We have similar goals and so we both agreed on taking on this program to see how it turns out.
So after all that typing... (If you read it all
) my log is at the bottom.. (so far 
)Goals
As I do not have an instrument to measure my fat... ><!! I would imagine it is somewhere around 20%...
My goal does not focus on fat too much though...
My goal is to have gyming more of a habit, to be healthy and strong... Make it part of my life as it wasn't...
To be able to squat 1.5x my BW by end of the year, have my body in proportion as my upper body is not big enough (In other words, my lower body is bigger than my upper body.), lose body fat and since I don't have an accurate measure of my fat all I can say now is till I am satisfied (I know this isn't very good... but I am working on to try get my hands on a fat measuring instrument!!) and to be stronger in general (As this is not my MAIN goal, still top 3
, right now I am not too worried as I believe since I just started off... I will get stronger than before I gymed by a substantial amount.)All in all, my MAIN goal is to make gyming into a habit and get into proportion. (Please comment about my goals, as I know they are very vague... Comment in any way you like. I will take it open mindedly, Thanks all.)
Training Log
(This is based on the Stronglift 5x5 and off the spreadsheet Stronglift 5x5 provided.)
Week #01
Squat - 75kg
Bench - 62.5kg
Deadlift - 80kg
Overhead - 40kg
Inverted Rows - 18/14/12
Pullups - 6/5/3
PushUps - 30/25/20
Reverse Crunches - 3x12
Prone Bridges - 3x60sec
After the 1st week, the exercises seem a bit less for building muscle and gaining strength... But nevertheless, I kept at it to see if it works. (Back then, sure I had my doubts...)
Week #02
Squat - 82.5kg
Bench - 65kg
Deadlift - 90kg
Overhead - 42.5kg (Though failed... Did not do all 5 sets of 5.)
Inverted Rows - 18/15/12
Pullups - 6/5/3
PushUps - 30/20/20 (Went down a bit... Not too happy about it...)
Reverse Crunches - 3x12
Prone Bridges - 3x60sec
After my 2nd week of Stronglift... I can feel a bit of the difference, like I can feel myself actually progressing (Though some exercises I did worse, but I think it was just bad week...) Even though I can see a difference yet... I don't expect to see a difference so soon...
Well, after this week... All seems to be going well... I have also fixed up my diet and are more careful to what I am eating instead of just ... eating everything!! haha... (I am more aware of what I am eating now
)Week #03
Squat - 90kg
Bench - 65kg (I failed once this week... So I tried on 65kg again and made it the 2nd time
Still progression!!)Deadlift - 95kg
Overhead - 42.5kg (Failed again... Have decided to go down next week, back to 40kg... T_T though slowly but surely I will progress!!
)Inverted Rows - 3x5 +20kg (That is adding extra weights)
Pullups - 8/6/5
PushUps - 3x10 +15kg (Adding weights too, on my back)
Reverse Crunches - 3x12
Prone Bridges - 3x60sec
After this week... I can really feel the difference in strength within me... Physically... I am looking more muscular though still have a long way to go, but I can see a difference...
Which is very motivating!! By now I am less self-conscious in the gym... as before, I have to admit (I'm sure most beginners are similar) I was very self-conscious as people around me were all lifting HEAVY stuff... but now, I don't really care because I am there to gym for MY purpose and not to compare. (Only if I got over this earlier on... Nevertheless... I am glad I did get over it
)Currently as I am writing this log... is my Week #04 so... at the moment, I can't update it yet... I have only got up to the 4th week (Havn't ended yet)
But by my Week #05 I should be able to squat 5x5 100kg!! >.<!!! Quite a jump from 70kg for me!! hehe... I'm very excited!!
Now, thanks to the Stronglift... I find it VERY fun and interesting to see if you can make the next session by adding more weights!!
I can feel myself getting closer to my goal... I mean, I am close to squat 1.5x BW!!! Which I am really excited about, hehe!!
Gyming I must say, is becoming more of a habit now, as my day will feel incomplete without gyming... I just enjoy gyming so much now...
Well, this is all I have for now.
