Biggreen695
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Made a post in the introductory section, but I'll do a little preface here.
Played football in high school and the only thing I loved more than the gridiron was the weight room. We were blessed to have an awesome strength and conditioning coach who worked with everyone individually. My senior year my maxes were:
Bench: 345
Squat: 450
Deadlift: 495
Hang cleans: 235 (always sucked at them)
My biggest problem back then was I didn't have that great of a diet and didn't work on my cardio enough. I graduated at 295lbs.
When I graduated I went to work on a farm and changed my lifestyle. In a year I dropped 65lbs and have maintained for the most part. I started college last year and that cut my hours but I still stayed active (go to forestry school in the mountains), but I lost my job due to a lay off a month ago and been focusing hard on school, not being as active. Well, the bud lights finally caught up and the scales started creeping up. Had to do something, so I joined the gym that my dads been going to for a couple years.
So here we are 3 1/2 years later. Time to jump back into it and make some gains.
Starting slow with simple lifts to get my form back and muscles back into shape, low weight high reps.
Long term goals:
Drop 25lbs
Get all my maxes back to where they once were
Get toned for the first time in my life
Short term goals for phase one:
Get my max bench back to 200
Max squat to 300
Drop 5+lbs
Only had 2 lifting days so far and they've been as followed:
Day 1:
40 mins cardio
Biceps:
Preacher curls w/ curl bar 55lbs 3x12 (last couple reps were a grind)
Hammer curls 25 for 1x12, went up to 30's for 2x12
Day 2:
30 min cardio
Squat 255 3x12
Calf raises 225 3x25
Leg curls 40lb 3x12
Got a really, really long way to go but I'm embracing the journey. I had truly forgotten how much I love to lift. Hope y'all enjoy the journey with me! Got chest and triceps tomorrow, shoulders and back Sunday.
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Played football in high school and the only thing I loved more than the gridiron was the weight room. We were blessed to have an awesome strength and conditioning coach who worked with everyone individually. My senior year my maxes were:
Bench: 345
Squat: 450
Deadlift: 495
Hang cleans: 235 (always sucked at them)
My biggest problem back then was I didn't have that great of a diet and didn't work on my cardio enough. I graduated at 295lbs.
When I graduated I went to work on a farm and changed my lifestyle. In a year I dropped 65lbs and have maintained for the most part. I started college last year and that cut my hours but I still stayed active (go to forestry school in the mountains), but I lost my job due to a lay off a month ago and been focusing hard on school, not being as active. Well, the bud lights finally caught up and the scales started creeping up. Had to do something, so I joined the gym that my dads been going to for a couple years.
So here we are 3 1/2 years later. Time to jump back into it and make some gains.
Starting slow with simple lifts to get my form back and muscles back into shape, low weight high reps.
Long term goals:
Drop 25lbs
Get all my maxes back to where they once were
Get toned for the first time in my life
Short term goals for phase one:
Get my max bench back to 200
Max squat to 300
Drop 5+lbs
Only had 2 lifting days so far and they've been as followed:
Day 1:
40 mins cardio
Biceps:
Preacher curls w/ curl bar 55lbs 3x12 (last couple reps were a grind)
Hammer curls 25 for 1x12, went up to 30's for 2x12
Day 2:
30 min cardio
Squat 255 3x12
Calf raises 225 3x25
Leg curls 40lb 3x12
Got a really, really long way to go but I'm embracing the journey. I had truly forgotten how much I love to lift. Hope y'all enjoy the journey with me! Got chest and triceps tomorrow, shoulders and back Sunday.
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