Changing My Image - The College Experience

[CameronCOV]

A little history about myself:

Back in high-school, I played basketball, football, and golf. (to which i'm playing at the collegiate level now) The only season that actually contained weight-lifting was football, and that only lasted for about 2 months or so. So for 10 months of the year, I rarely touched a weight. Now that I am in college, I feel like it is time to change my appearance because quite frankly, i'm not very satisfied with it. Thankfully, I am taking a course in Physical Education which requires a 6-day workout plan which is helping me stay on track.

My Stats include:

Height - 6'2
Weight - 169 (Last weighed - 3 weeks ago)
Body Fat % - 9.8% (Shaky Accuracy)
Age - 18

Supplements?:
Whey Protein CHOCOLATE(yummyyy) x1 after workout

Unfortunately, I have not maxed since Dec. 09' so I can't provide any stats right now. But I plan on finding out this coming Monday! (Jan. 31)

My Workout plan is as follows:

Monday - Arms / Chest / Abs
Tuesday - Cardio
Wednesday - Legs / Abs
Thursday - Rest
Friday - Arms / Chest / Abs / Cardio (Day I focus on Working Heart Rate)
Saturday - Legs
Sunday - Rest

On often occasions i'll substitute my cardio with 1-2 hours worth of full-court basketball.

So yea, hopefully this will aid me in a life changing experience. Thank you for reading. Time to Lift!

[CameronCOV]

I'll go ahead and start out with yesterday's workout to give you guys a taste of what they consist of.

Log: Decided to work with the Futrex Machines they have here at school considering all the racks were taken up in the free-weight room.

Dual Axis Chest Press:
90 3x10
110 3x8
130 3x6
150 3x3
Note: BARELY got the last rep of the last set for 150. Glad I pushed through it though.

Dual Axis Overhead Press:
50 3x10
70 3x7
90 3x3
Note: I could definitely start feeling the burn after the last set for 70. Only got through one set for 90.

Dual Modular Arm Curl
50 3x10 (Curling motion)
70 3x10 (Rowing motion)

Captains Chair
5x12

Planks
Weightless 3x30seconds
Note: Thinking about adding plates next time.

And about 5 mins after I was finished with my planks, I was invited to run some scrimmages in basketball. So I gulped down my protein shake and made my way to the basketball court.

[CameronCOV]

Saturday, January 29th

Rotary Calf
330x10
350x8
370x8
390x6

Seated Leg Press
290x10
310x8
330x6

Seated Leg Curls
110x10
130x8
150x6

Then drank some protein. Yum.

Got bored afterwards so I did some planks for giggles.

[CameronCOV]

Sunday, January 30th

Upped my caloric-intake from 2.7k calories to 3.2k calories for bulking. Having a hard time getting in the 170g of protein considering the cafeteria food here is garbage. Oh well, i'll have to make due.

[CameronCOV]

Monday, January 31st

FANTASTIC upper-body workout today. Definitely pushed myself to the limit which I'm happy with. My workout consisted of the following:

Dual Axis Chest-Press
90 - 3x10
110 - 3x8
130 - 3x6
150 - 3x4
170 3x3 (Considering I BARELY got the 150's in last workout, I was incredibly surprised to get these 170's in... felt good)

Dual Axis Overhead
50 3x10
70 3x8
90 3x6 (Was definitely feeling this one. Had my arms burnin' after the 90's)

Dual Modular Curls
50 1x10, 2x8 (These are TOUGH after the chest press and overhead's)

Dual Modular Rows
90 3x10 (Definitely works the biceps

Free-Weight Dumbbell Curls
22 3x30
30 3x16
40 3x10

Captain's Chair
3x12

Planks
3x30s w/ 25 pound weight on back

Then afterwards, I had an intramural Basketball game where I got a good bit of my cardio in.

Unfortunately, I'm having a VERY hard time consuming 3.2k calories a day. I only ended up consuming 2.5k which is BELOW my Maintenance level.... seems like i'll never bulk up

[CameronCOV]

Tuesday, February 1st

First of all, Happy Black History Month. I'm half black.. so yea I guess I get 14 days? haha. Nah but in all seriousness, i'm glad people are made aware of history in our nation.

Anyways, relating to the workout, decided to do some legs today instead of straight cardio. I found out at the end of my workout that I was doing the rotary calf exercise wrong (incorrect foot position) so these weights aren't correct to my actual strength. I lift less.

Rotary Calf
310 - 3x10
350 - 3x8
390 - 3x6

Seated Leg Press
290 - 3x10
310 - 3x8
330 - 3x8
350 - 3x6
370 - 3x4

Seated Leg Curls
110 - 3x10
130 - 3x8
150 - 3x6

Captain's Chair
3x15

Then I ran for a good 25 minutes and afterwards played 3 games of dodgeball which ended up making my right arm sore because of a early childhood baseball injury.

That's about it today. Looking forward to arms tomorrow and my intramural basketball game.

[CameronCOV]

Wednesday, February 2nd

Ehhh, over did it a little bit today.

I'm feelin lazy so just look at my previous arms workout above and I did exactly that + captains chair, planks, and intramural basketball game. My right arm feels like jello :/

Might take it easy for the next couple days. Depends on my energy level.