MonStar's Journal: Getting Back On Track!

[Mudge]

When you want to fall asleep , try sticking in one position and just close your eyes. This usually works for me when I have trouble falling asleep. When I cant sleep , I have a tendency to move around a lot , and that doesnt help at all.

Agreed, good trick.

 

[Rocco32]

I count reps to fall asleep, LOL.

 

[M.J.H.]

BigDyl: Agreed man, sleep makes a huge difference for me as well. Lately for some reason my schedule has been so f*cked up, that I am getting 6.5 hours sleep even when I can sleep in all day.

simbh: Great post man, thanks for the advice about sleep. I am definitely going to try and put it to use. And about my diet, it's pretty much spontaneous for the most part. I never have any idea what I am going to eat. I try to on my days off from work, but it's still kind of tough. Thanks for the post.

Mudge: Yeah, I am going to give it a shot.

rock: LOL, maybe I'll try that, too.

 

[M.J.H.]

Monday; 12-13-2004

• Training:
  
  Took a rest day today, which I don't know if I needed, but I was totally stressed out today about my girlfriend. Finally we broke up, thank God. Come to find out the girl is compulsively lying to me, just a shame I wasted my time.

• Diet:
  
  Meal 1: MRP + 2% milk
  Meal 2: mixed nuts
  Meal 3: tuna & cheese sandwich, apple
  Meal 4: MRP bar
  Meal 5: peanut butter
  
  Diet sucked today, I was stressed, not appetite.

• Sleep: 7.5 hours.

 

[P-funk]

what was she lying about??

 

[M.J.H.]

Patrick: Hey man, thanks for stopping by. She was randomly lying about stuff that doesn't matter at all. For example someone stopped in her work to say hi and she told me it was a female friend, when it was a guy friend. She is used to the posessive type of boyfriend I think, and trust/communication is everything to me.

 

[BigDyl]

I can understand, sorry to hear that man. Usually people eat to make themselves feel better, you must be the opposite, lol. Man, peanut butter and mixed nuts are not meals.

 

[simbh]

Yeah , Ill say it again monstar , you gotta plan your meals better and eat more !

At least you havn't got on a eating junk food spree... Keep it up , and keep the moral up dude.

If you are short in time for your meals. Try making a whole bunch of food on a sunday night so you have food to microweave for a few days. I dont know , like cook 4-5 chicken breast at the same time , so itll be quick to eat and youll be able to stick better to your diet. Its what I do , and it helps a lot.

 

[M.J.H.]

BigDyl: Yeah man, I don't know what my problem is. When I get really stressed out I don't want to eat at all, I am all worried, etc. Normally, though, when I am somewhat bored I want to binge. Doesn't make much sense, I know.

simbh: Yeah I should really get into the habit of a more regular bunch of meals. For some reason I always end up slacking off and don't feel like eating, etc. My appetite gets so affected by everything in my life, it's really ridiculous to be honest. If I get a little bit stressed about something my appetite goes down the tubes. Oh well.

 

[M.J.H.]

Tuesday; 12-14-2004

• Training:
  
  Flat DB Presses
  4 sets of 6 with the 120's
  
  Incline BB Presses
  2 sets of 8 with 205
  2 sets of 3 with 245
  
  Nautilus Pec-Deck Flyes
  2 sets of 12 with 180
  
  Decline DB Flyes
  2 sets of 10 with the 50's
  
  Nice chest workout today, really blasted my pecs hard. Only was in the gym about 40 minutes I would say today. Went all out and went home. Just the way that I like to do things. Pecs got a great pump, by the way.

• Diet:
  
  Meal 1: tuna salad sandwich
  Preworkout: 1 scoop of Swole
  Postworkout: whey protein + 1% milk
  Meal 3: chicken salad sandwich
  Meal 4: 1% cottage cheese + grapes
  Meal 5: turkey & cheese melt, garden salad + honey mustard dressing

• Sleep: 6.5 hours.

 

[BritChick]

Hello.

 

[CowPimp]

Sounds like you were waiting to break up with that girl... Either way, sorry about the failed relationship. I'm sure you'll be back into the game in no time.

 

[M.J.H.]

BritChick: Hey there, nice to see that you're still reading!

CowPimp: Well currently we're in the process of working things out. We'll see what happens. I am not sure how things are going to go at this point, honestly. I hope for the best, but I question certain things as well. Thanks for stopping by, bud.

 

[BigDyl]

Tuesday; 12-14-2004

• Training:
  
  Flat DB Presses
  4 sets of 6 with the 120's
  
  Incline BB Presses
  2 sets of 8 with 205
  2 sets of 3 with 245
  
  Nautilus Pec-Deck Flyes
  2 sets of 12 with 180
  
  Decline DB Flyes
  2 sets of 10 with the 50's
  

• 
  
  
  This seems pretty high volume--im curious, are these sets to failure?
  
  I think I could do the same with at least 110's or 115's on the dumbells, can you still bench 350?

 

[Mudge]

Come to find out the girl is compulsively lying to me, just a shame I wasted my time.

Well, these are all experiences we go through, we take the good and the bad...

Spontaneous diet, hmmmmm I know that diet

 

[S.T.]

That's great that you are getting more serious with your workouts. I have a friend up at my gym who decided to stop hanging out with his usual crowd because they just weren't interested in doing anything good with themselves. He's added some size, since I first met him. Also, many of the guys at my gym want to go pro one day. One guy came pretty close, but ate some bad chicken on the day of his contest and got sick so he couldn't compete very well. But definitely hang in there with your workouts. It does pay off in the end.

 

[M.J.H.]

BigDyl: Hey bud, my sets are usually pretty close to failure. Sometimes to failure, but I try not to go to total muscular failure too often. I am not sure if I can still bench 350 to be honest. I know that I hit 350 for a single about 6 months ago I guess it is now. Back when I was training Westside style. Since then I haven't been training for strength at all. Thanks for stopping by, man.

Mudge: I agree man. Yeah, my diet is definitely too spontaneous, that's for sure, lol.

S.T.: I am trying harder now than ever to get dedicated and focused with my training and eating. Trying to eliminate binging completely. No matter what it takes. I am at the point where I will pig out on clean food, sometimes. Just to get myself that overly "full" feeling. I just don't want to slip.

 

[M.J.H.]

Wednesday; 12-15-2004

• Training:
  
  T-Bar Rows
  5 sets of 5 with 340
  
  Nautilus Pullovers
  2 sets of 8 with 260
  2 sets of 4 with 295
  
  BTN Cable Pulldowns
  3 sets of 12 with 170
  
  Bentover DB Lateral Raises
  2 sets of 12 with the 40's
  
  Great workout tonight, really blasted the hell out of my lats, hard. Started off with ghetto style t-bar rows, blasted my midback and mid-traps hard. Moved onto some heavy pullovers and some BTN pulldowns. Nice sets. Then some bentover lateral raises. Overall my workout wasn't too shabby.

• Diet:
  
  Meal 1: turkey & cheese sandwich
  Meal 2: 1/2 turkey & cheese sandwich, mixed fruit
  Meal 3: tuna salad sandwich
  Preworkout: 1 scoop of Swole
  Postworkout: whey protein + 1% milk
  Meal 5: 2 low-fat stuffed chicken breasts, broccoli + cheese, rice
  Meal 6: 1% cottage cheese + pineapple

• Sleep: 7.5 hours. Better.

 

[CowPimp]

Things are getting off to a good start. Keep kicking ass in the gym!

 

[M.J.H.]

CowPimp: Thanks bud, really appreciate it!

 

[M.J.H.]

Thursday; 12-16-2004

• Training:
  
  ATF Squats
  4 sets of 4 with 315
  
  Nautilus Lying Leg Curls
  3 sets of 12 with 160
  
  Nautilus Leg Extensions
  4 sets of 8 with 260
  
  Seated Calf Raises
  4 sets of 12 with 195
  
  Vertical Leg Raises
  3 sets of 12
  
  Damn, I haven't trained my legs at all in the past couple of weeks or so. I totally forgot how exhausting it is. Those 4 sets of 4 in deep squats kicked my friggin' a*s. Overall workout was good, though.

• Diet:
  
  Meal 1: tuna salad sandwich
  Meal 2: chicken salad sandwich, apple
  Preworkout: 1 scoop of Swole
  Postworkout: whey protein + 1% milk
  Meal 4: grilled chicken soft taco
  Meal 5: BBQ chicken pizza
  Meal 6: 1 quart of Won-Ton soup
  Meal 7: 1% milk
  
  Diet was okay today, the BBQ chicken pizza that I had wasn't horrible for you, either. High in fat, but not too bad, it was 51g of protein, 99g of carbs, and 26g of fat. Could have been worse, IMO, not bad for pizza. The Won-Ton soup was just great!

• Sleep: 7.5 hours, not bad at all.

 

[ncgirl21]

Hey Mike How have you been? Journal is looking good!! I've never had the won-ton soup, just the won-ton's. I'll have to try it next time I get Chinese! Have a good one!

 

[simbh]

Thats a fine diet Monstar (Ill just call you mike , seems better) . Its actually good , since you had a sort of cheat , but didn't go overboard like you say you did before. If you want a little trick for eating a pizza and taking out a bit of fat. Since the fat is in the cheese , what I do is I take a bunch of napkins or scott towel and I put it on the pizza and let them take out a good amount of fat. You'd be surprise how much fat you can avoid with that.

Keep it up mike , you're doing greeeeeeeeeeaaaaaatttttttt like tony the tiger says.

 

[M.J.H.]

Andrea: Hey there! Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it. Yeah won-ton soup is definitely something that I love! Probably not the best thing for you, but this time around I am just trying to steer clear of sugar and alcohol for now. Not trying to be too strict.

simbh: Yeah exactly man, that's what I am thinking. Slightly cheating here and there to avoid a binge, I don't have any problem with that at all for the time being. I am going to slowly bring some cheats into my diet, nothing too extreme, basically just to avoid going overboard and binging. Thanks again for the support.

 

[M.J.H.]

Friday; 12-17-2004

• Training:
  
  CG Preacher Curls
  5 sets of 10 with 85
  
  Supersetted With:
  
  Seated French Presses
  5 sets of 10 with 85
  
  Skullcrushers
  4 sets of 7 with 105
  
  Supersetted With:
  
  Seated Hammer Curls
  4 sets of 7 with the 40's
  
  Absolutely AWESOME workout tonight in my basement! Maybe I didn't set a bunch of PR's, but I really had one of the most intense workouts that I have had in the past couple of months, without a doubt. Blasted my arms like crazy. Great pump, etc.

• Diet:
  
  Meal 1: chicken wrap, apple
  Meal 2: grilled chicken soft taco
  Meal 3: MRP bar
  Preworkout: 1 scoop of Swole
  Postworkout: whey protein + 1% milk
  Meal 5: 1 glass of wine, salad, breadsticks, 2 garlic chicken breasts, garlic & herb pasta
  Meal 6: 1% cottage cheese + mixed fruit

• Sleep: 6.5 hours. Whatever.

 

[M.J.H.]

Saturday; 12-18-2004

• Training:
  
  Seated DB Presses
  3 sets of 6 with the 75's
  2 sets of 4 with the 95's
  
  Seated DB Lateral Raises
  3 sets of 9 with the 30's
  
  Upright Rows
  3 sets of 4 with 185
  2 sets of 8 with 150
  
  Good workout this morning, really hit the hell out of my shoulders, hard. Nice workout overall. Pretty intense, only lasted about 25 minutes. Started off with some shoulder presses, then seated laterals. Wow, DB lateral raises seated really hit my shoulders a lot harder! I guess because I can't cheat. Finished up with some upright rows.

• Diet:
  
  Preworkout: 1 scoop of Swole
  Postworkout: whey protein + 1% milk
  Meal 2: turkey & cheese sandwich
  Meal 3: 3 pieces of baked of chicken, mashed potatoes
  Meal 4: baked chicken, cream of corn, peas, rice
  Meal 5: tuna salad sandwich
  Meal 6: peanut butter

• Sleep: 8.5 hours.

 

[BigDyl]

Seated DB Presses
3 sets of 6 with the 75's
2 sets of 4 with the 95's

Damn! 4 reps with the 95's, awsome.

If my damn left shoulder wasnt so much weaker i may be getting a couple of reps with the 85's.

 

[M.J.H.]

BigDyl: Yeah man, hit 4 reps with the 95's, not too shabby. I feel pretty strong in overhead DB presses. Oddly enough, though, I feel weak as hell in overhead barbell presses. I have no idea why. Sorry to hear about your left shoulder bud, everyone has their weakpoints, though.

 

[M.J.H.]

Sunday; 12-19-2004

• Training:
  
  Support Rows
  2 sets of 6 with 255
  3 sets of 3 with 300
  
  BTN Cable Pulldowns
  2 sets of 12 with 170
  2 sets of 6 with 215
  
  CG Cable Rows
  2 sets of 5 with 290
  2 sets of 8 with 245
  
  Good workout tonight, really beat my lats up pretty damn hard. No complaints here today at all. Got a bunch of comments on how I appear "larger" and "more defined" so that's always a good thing. Maybe because I haven't binged in over a week now, my next little goal is to go 2 weeks without a binge.

• Diet:
  
  Meal 1: turkey & cheese sandwich, mixed fruit
  Meal 2: tuna salad sandwich
  Meal 3: MRP bar
  Preworkout: 1 scoop of Swole
  Postworkout: whey protein + 2% milk
  Meal 5: grilled chicken soft taco
  Meal 6: trail mix
  Meal 7: grilled chicken sandwich
  Meal 8: turkey & cheese sandwich
  Meal 9: 1% cottage cheese + mixed fruit

• Sleep: 7 hours.

 

[M.J.H.]

Monday; 12-20-2004

• Training:
  
  Took a rest day today, didn't have time at all to go to the gym. Had a fun day with my girlfriend, we ended up going shopping at King of Prussia.

• Diet:
  
  Meal 1: tuna salad + crackers
  Meal 2: MRP bar
  Meal 3: tuna & cheese melt, chicken noodle soup
  Meal 4: banana protein smoothie
  Meal 5: spaghetti + ground beef, garlic bread
  Meal 6: 1% cottage cheese + mixed fruit

• Sleep: 7 hours.