Bakers Journey v2.0: Baker Revamped.

[eddied27]

Incredible journal Baker! Simply incredible! You are wise beyond your age Baker. I say that because I know quite a few adults that don't have anywhere near the discipline that you show nor do they have the insight or understanding of training let alone nutrition.

I'd like to think I found this thread for a reason. My son is about to turn 10 next month and I'm just now getting him into doing pushups, situps, etc. He sees me hitting the gym often so my goal is to push him (gently of course) in the same direction. He's got some athleticism in him so I want to get him on the right track early.

I see you mentioned you started at 12. Do I have that right? How young were you when you got "the bug" to lift, train, read about training, etc.? What/who led in you in this direction?

Again....fantastic work in here! Not only the training but, given where some people your age (13-18) are these days, it's encouraging to see such commitment. As an earlier post mentioned, don't let anyone discourage what you are doing. If they do, ask them if they'd rather you doing drugs and getting into trouble. That should put them in their place.

Take care.....Ed

[Maximus_Stats]

bah ill do the whole deck. I think ima pass out after, thats gonna be a LOTTTA skipping

[Baker19]

Incredible journal Baker! Simply incredible! You are wise beyond your age Baker. I say that because I know quite a few adults that don't have anywhere near the discipline that you show nor do they have the insight or understanding of training let alone nutrition.

I'd like to think I found this thread for a reason. My son is about to turn 10 next month and I'm just now getting him into doing pushups, situps, etc. He sees me hitting the gym often so my goal is to push him (gently of course) in the same direction. He's got some athleticism in him so I want to get him on the right track early.

I see you mentioned you started at 12. Do I have that right? How young were you when you got "the bug" to lift, train, read about training, etc.? What/who led in you in this direction?

Again....fantastic work in here! Not only the training but, given where some people your age (13-18) are these days, it's encouraging to see such commitment. As an earlier post mentioned, don't let anyone discourage what you are doing. If they do, ask them if they'd rather you doing drugs and getting into trouble. That should put them in their place.

Take care.....Ed

Thanks a lot, I have to put up with a lot when I decided to weight lift and eat properly but even if I lost some friends it has been well worth every hour spent in the gym, every meal, everytime I've had to awake at 5am to train at 6, when I do something I fully commit to it, regardless. Discipline is what has got me to where I am now, it is the single most important thing when it comes to lifting, sure you can have good genetics but if your not disciplined and dedicated your wasting your time. Good luck to your son on his future endeavours into this sport, and also you are a hell of a parent to be doing this for your kid.

Now to answer your questions.

I started train when I was 12 with a lat-pull down-leg extension-bench press machine, a barbell, 5 pound dumbbells and 40 pounds in weight.

I was 12 when I had first shown interest in it. I got the lat-pull down machine for Christmas. Here is my story about how I got into weightlifting/bodybuilding: I had health class in 7th grade, and we got to go to the gym I train at now 4 times in a 4 week period. It was a 40 minutes session where we did 10 minutes of cardio then 30 minutes of whatever exercises we felt we wanted to do. For seatwork we had to get something like 5 exercises for each bodypart. We had a computer class to do this so I googled "chest exercises" or something to that affect and a routine on animalpak.com came up, I finished the paper and handed it in. After when the paper was in my friends started playing x game when they finished, I browsed animalpak.com, I read the articles and was intrigued. When I got home from school that day I ran downstairs and went back on the site. After that I was hooked, I wanted to be like wrath, gdiesel, and the house. After school each day I would continue to browse through animalpak.com. One night after about an hour on my computer my mom went to Wal-Mart to pick up some cleaning supplies and a new mop, for some reason even though I was just starting to be allowed to stay home alone, I decided to go. While my mom picked out her stuff I went to the sports section- this is where I saw this machine. I immediatly showed my mom and told her I wanted it for Christmas even if it was the only thing I would get, she thought this was odd because it was only 120.00 so being the supportive mom she is she bought it for me. After that I spent 30.00 on the barbell, after about 10 months of that I decided I would buy a gym membership. And this is where I am now.

[Maximus_Stats]

thats awsome man. Animal pak is one of the greatest motivaters.

[Baker19]

bah ill do the whole deck. I think ima pass out after, thats gonna be a LOTTTA skipping

Hehe, good for you Max, good luck man, I'll give it a try sometime.

[Baker19]

thats awsome man. Animal pak is one of the greatest motivaters.

Damn right, I still read that stuff Pre Workout and my desktop is a pic of frank mcgrath in a gym with a caption that says "this is my life":

[PhreEkGarden]

Wow, good story. Baker is going to go pro.

[Baker19]

Wow, good story. Baker is going to go pro.

Thats the dream man. Pro Natural Bodybuilder.

[Baker19]

Meal 1-
2 scoops Whey
250ml Milk
Strawberries and Wildberries (approx 1 cup)

French Class: Well during french right now we have to bake something and then say what ingrediants/how we made it in french, and then give it to the class so today I had a small piece of macaroon and a peanut butter cookie. After Tuesday it will be done.

Meal 2-
1/2 Cup Almonds
1 Large Orange

Meal 3-
6oz Chicken Breast
1 Cup Carrots

Meal 4-
Euphoria Smoothie (895 cal)

Meal 5-
1 Cup Pasta
4 oz Steak

Meal 6-
2 tbs Peanut Butter
1 Serving Low Fat Cheese
250ml Milk

Water Intake: 3l

[Baker19]

The last two days I've ate 5 meals a day all my normal clean macros, but just not enough calories and I haven't been keeping them, today I got 2500 yesterday I got about 2900 and the day before I had about 2200. So Im not expecting more than .5lb weight gain this week. But I'm going to get back on track tomorrow.

[Baker19]

Back, Biceps, Traps

Warmup
N/A

Back

Deadlift
Warm Up: Barx10
135x10
170x6
190x2+1
190x2+1

Comments I didn't get 10-6-4-3 like I planned. I just couldnt get anything going today.

Seated Cable Rows
170x12
190x10
Stackx10 (200)

Comments:
Seated Cable Rows were the highlight of this workout. They keep going up.

Narrow Hammer Grip Pull-downs
110x10
100x12
90x14

Comments: Tried something new today, I started with a heavier weight and went down and added more reps- I think Im going to stick with the norm, even though they were PR's they just didn't feel right

Wide Grip Pull-down Drop-set
80x10
70x10
60x10
50x10

Comments: Before these I used to do narrow-grip drop sets so I decided to do them again w/ a wide grip. I'll count this as a PR and try to do 90-80-70-60 next week ect ect.

Biceps

Preacher Curls
45x10
45x7

Comments: After the dropset my biceps were WAY to pumped to do these, I managed to squeeze out 10 reps even though my biceps were dead at 8. Same with the next set I was dead at 5 but did 7.

Traps

Dumbbell Shrugs
65x10
60x9

Comments: I was burnt out here, my grip failed about twice each set so I picked the weight up regripped and kept going. Im going to train traps first next week.

Mood: 7/10 Meh.
Energy: 6/10 Tired
Pump: 10/10 Great pump.
Form: 9.5/10 Good form like always. Loose form on last rep on SCR's
Workout Score 6/10. Blah.

Overall: I failed on dealifts twice, my grip was terrible today, ect ect. Not the best workout. I got sick today after I got sacked so I wasn't feeling the greatest but no excuses I still could have done better.

[Baker19]

I just took a shower and found 3 stretch marks on either of my Bi's and some smaller ones on my lats/chest.

[scott_donald]

awesome pring there baker... very impressed...

[Baker19]

awesome pring there baker... very impressed...

Thanks, I'm mad I didn't get the 190x4 and 190x3 though.

[kennny d]

nice deads

[iron619]

Lots of volume for Back, Biceps, and Traps.

Althougth you didn't have a great session, you still gutted it out and did the exercise you had to do. Don't even sweat this one session man, especially considering you normally have great sessions .

Good on you to try a new exercise (Narrow Hammer Grip Pulldowns--I actually really like these!). It's always a good idea to throw in something new, even if you don't know if it will work well or if you will like it. You tried it and found your preferences.

[matthor]

very impressive stuff mate. Dont sweat the missed deads, you'll nail those badboys next time, especially with your diet all dialed in and slamming some serious calories.

Any reason why you are doing pulldowns and not pullups?

[Baker19]

Lots of volume for Back, Biceps, and Traps.

Althougth you didn't have a great session, you still gutted it out and did the exercise you had to do. Don't even sweat this one session man, especially considering you normally have great sessions .

Good on you to try a new exercise (Narrow Hammer Grip Pulldowns--I actually really like these!). It's always a good idea to throw in something new, even if you don't know if it will work well or if you will like it. You tried it and found your preferences.

Thanks man. Ya, you win some you lose some, I wish I would have gotten those deadlifts bad, I physced myself up and everything and just when I went to pull it up I'd get to my knees but I couldn't lock out so I had to dump the weight .

I love narrow hammer grip pulldowns I feel them good in the lats and theres not as much bicep I find, Im not a fan of wide ones though, but I used a different pull-down machine for wide grip pulldowns today and I really liked it.

About the narrow grip pulldowns- It was just a new rep/weight scheme for them.

I feel if any bp should be higher volume it should be back because it is the biggest bodypart, this is how I went about this routine.

Lats- Lat Pulldowns (3 sets)
Upper Back- Seated Cable Rows (3 sets)
Lower Back- Deadlifts (4 sets)
Traps- Shrugs (3 sets)
Pain- Dropset (priceless)
Biceps- Curl (2 sets)

So 16 sets. But my favourite workout of the week.

[Baker19]

nice deads

Thanks man.

very impressive stuff mate. Dont sweat the missed deads, you'll nail those badboys next time, especially with your diet all dialed in and slamming some serious calories.

Any reason why you are doing pulldowns and not pullups?

Thanks man, I WILL get the 190x4 and 190x3 next week. I just can't get a good feel for the pull-ups I dont know why, I've done them before but they just dont do it for me, with pull-downs I feel it in my lats 100x more.

[matthor]

Thanks man, I WILL get the 190x4 and 190x3 next week. I just can't get a good feel for the pull-ups I dont know why, I've done them before but they just dont do it for me, with pull-downs I feel it in my lats 100x more.

thats kinda odd. You could try kinda leaning back a little while doing the pullups so its less of a verticle pull and really squeezing the lats as you come up.

I just hate the pulldown machine and find pullups so much more awesome (mainly they look cooler but that is important too )

[K1M]

I wish I could get muscle stretch marks

[Baker19]

I wish I could get muscle stretch marks

I always thought it'd be badass till I got them

[Maximus_Stats]

dude i love stretch marks. I kinda think they look cool.

Nice deads

[Baker19]

dude i love stretch marks. I kinda think they look cool.

Nice deads

Thanks man, they do look cool but its like one of those things that are cool but you just want to go away, they arent bad, and I know it means Im doing something right but they're pretty much permanant.

I cant wait to get 200x4 and 200x3

[kennny d]

dude i love stretch marks. I kinda think they look cool.

Nice deads

x2 got them all over my bi's

[Baker19]

x2 got them all over my bi's

WOW- I woke up this morning and I swear my bi's and traps GREW over last night, and very noticably my right bicep and left are now almost the same size and my traps are looking bigger

[Baker19]

Quads, Hamstrings



Quads

Barbell Squats
Warm Up: 45x15, 95x12, 135x10
185x12
215x10
225x10
225x10

Comments: Form on 185 and 215 was good and deep for every rep. But on 225 5-6 were parallel and then 4-5 were maybe like 3-4 inches above it. ATG Squats next week.

Leg Press
270x20
270x20

Comments: Leg Presses were great, I decided to go hight rep this week for no apparent reason but these felt great. I may do 2 heavy sets with 8-10 reps and then 1 lighter set with higher reps.

Hamstrings

Lying Leg Curls
50x7
50x6

Comments: Couldn't do deads because the BB was being used and I had 5 minutes left

Standing Unilateral Leg Curls
ALL IN ONE SET
L: 40x8 R:40x8
L: 40x10 R:40x10
L: 40x10 R:40x10
L: 40x10 R:40x10


Comments: Good form, great pump everything was good.

Mood: 9/10 Great mood.
Energy: 8/10
Pump: 10/10 Great pump.
Form: 7/10 Not deep enough on squats,
Workout Score 8/10. Good workout.

Overall: Not bad workout, I should have done 6-7 deep squats instead of 10 average squats but I cant change it now, I decided against the oly routine for now- I know I change my mind a lot.

Weight: 112.25

[CoQ10]

Squatting twice your bodyweight is an achievement at any age, but at 13 it's beyond amazing. Great work!

-C10

[=M=]

Hei, hyvaa vikkonloppua, Baker!

Great workouts...although I may have to stop reading them, because they make mine look not so good.

Your dedication makes some of us old farts look bad.

[Baker19]

Squatting twice your bodyweight is an achievement at any age, but at 13 it's beyond amazing. Great work!

-C10

Thanks a lot, I was extremely happy when I squatting double my bodyweight, and the fact that I gained a pound this week. But next week my squats will be 3 sets ATG and 1 set parallel.

Hei, hyvaa vikkonloppua, Baker!

Great workouts...although I may have to stop reading them, because they make mine look not so good.

Your dedication makes some of us old farts look bad.

Thanks M. Hehe, keep reading these posts are the ones that make me train harder than I thought I could. Dedication is the most important part of lifting and eating so without it I would be going nowhere quick.