My Journey: The road to a better life - Kingnickandnate's workout journal

[kingnickandnate]

In! Thanks for your positive thoughts on my thread by the way, the negs were killing me (they got all riled up over supp recommendations, acting like they have never taken supps before amiright?). I'm subbing, you will be my first subb'd log.

I knew they would! But the overall idea was good and that's what mattered.
Anyway, glad to have you!

[kingnickandnate]

Started the day off with some protein oatmeal. I like it with the BB 100% Whey Power much better than with the ON; not sure if its the taste or the amount, but it worked out better. Protein oatmeal is probably the best breakfast I've found outside of protein pancakes; its filling and get you to those macros.

Anyway, today is core lifting, and since i can't lift after school - I'll have to get it all done during lifting class. I plan on benching and squatting , and then throwing in anything else i have time for. If all else fails, i'll come home and lift after work. Will be back to edit my workout later.

Well, i got more core lift done during school and ended up still coming in for more after work .


Workout #1:

-Bench
--135x10
--145x8
--155x6
--165x4
--165x4

-Squat
--185x10
--205x8
--225x6
--245x4
--275x2
(Starting to work on increasing my squats now that my form is better)

-Push up routine
-Ab routine
(They were mixed together)

-Weight plate exercises
--Presses: 35x10x2
--Rows: 35x10x2
--Around the world: 35x10x2
--Curls: 35x10x2
--Lunges: 35x20x2
--Tris: 35x10x2

Workout #2:

-Bench
--135x15
--135x10
--145x8
--155x6
--165x4

-Weight plate exercises
-- Presses: 45x10x4
-- bent over Rows: 45x10x4
-- Tris: 45x10x4
-- chin rows: 45x10x4

-Dips
-- 4 sets of 8

-Cardio

[kingnickandnate]

Thought this was worth mentioning..
Today in my psych class we started a new unit. The unit is "motivation" and after we started taking notes, i realized the benefits of this unit, lol.

First page defines BMR, and then the rest goes on with different chemicals that help with fat loss and such. I know the broscience, but it's nice to learn the science behind it, as well as the psychology aspects.





On another note, i just hit the halfway point on my AI Sports RK log
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=150884283

Should be getting my iSatori product here soon as well, so i can get to logging that!

[missladyj]

Subbed up for sure nick

Mirin organization once again. Like how the op has a banner and centered text layout...makes it more exiting than the usual walls of text

[kingnickandnate]

Subbed up for sure nick

Mirin organization once again. Like how the op has a banner and centered text layout...makes it more exiting than the usual walls of text

Was hoping to have that effect. And i tried to space things out too. I hate when people make a huge blob of plain text, so i tried not to do it myself.

[missladyj]

Was hoping to have that effect. And i tried to space things out too. I hate when people make a huge blob of plain text, so i tried not to do it myself.

Mmhmm...going to have to borrow some of these ideas lol

[kingnickandnate]

Mmhmm...going to have to borrow some of these ideas lol

Feel free

[kingnickandnate]

Today i did two workouts, both were a mix of cardio and abs. I'm thinking i'll just count this as a rest day as well, but i'll figure it out tomorrow.

For the first workout i did a mile run on the treadmill and a half mile jog around the gym; and then did some basic ab exercises, like sit ups, leg lifts, and planks.

For the second workout i did a half mile jog around my school (two sets of stairs each time around); a little biking; and two sets of the same ab workout.

[qstick99]

Nice sessions there! What are you logging for iSatori? I have used a few of their products and ran a log for Restoraid, some solid stuff it is!

[kingnickandnate]

Nice sessions there! What are you logging for iSatori? I have used a few of their products and ran a log for Restoraid, some solid stuff it is!

Yeah i did a restoraid log as well

I'm waiting on some Eat Smart and Eat Smart bars to log.
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=151192033

[Swuuu]

Shoot ur only 18!' Uve got plenty of time man!

[kingnickandnate]

Shoot ur only 18!' Uve got plenty of time man!

Yeah, but i like to get things done.

[Swuuu]

Yeah, but i like to get things done.

We all do but it takes time! Usually young guys do see results fairly quickly though. I gained 80 pounds in two yrs (not all muscle). But it takes a lot of patience! Muscle maturity only comes with time!

[kingnickandnate]

We all do but it takes time! Usually young guys do see results fairly quickly though. I gained 80 pounds in two yrs (not all muscle). But it takes a lot of patience! Muscle maturity only comes with time!

Yeah i got ya. I took on my cut to strong and now it's going to take some time to get back on track, because of that exact reason. But i did drop some weight, was 178 in November

[Swuuu]

Yeah i got ya. I took on my cut to strong and now it's going to take some time to get back on track, because of that exact reason. But i did drop some weight, was 178 in November

Yea who wants to wait? Haha. Keep up the good work too!

[kingnickandnate]

Started off the day today with a protein shake and some protein oatmeal. Then went to the store and bought a protein bar; which i ate for lunch. I'm not a huge fan of protein bars in general, especially generic brand ones; but i figured it would be useful to try a couple different brands before i get my iSatori Eat Smart bars, so i can give a better review.
Took some No Bull for PWO, then went out to get the mail and to my surprise found that i had a sample of Apple Pie Craze waiting for me! Now im wishing i would have checked the mail first . But, ill be sure to try it out next workout.

Today i plan on doing an all around upper body workout, and then possibly taking tomorrow off as a rest day. It's hard to plan my workouts, since i have to take into account what my lifting class is doing. Every Mon. and Thurs. we do core lifts, so i have to make sure not to put a damper on my benching and squatting the day before.
Will be back later to throw up a picture of the Craze and update my workout.

Motivation for the day: "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful"


Edit:


Workout:
(Not in the right order.)

-Flat Bench Press:
--135x8x1
--145x5x1
--155x5x1
--165x5x1
--175x3x1
--185x1x1
--195x1x1 (New PR)

-Incline Bench Press:
--135x5x4

-Decline Bench Press:
--115x10x2

-Wrist Curls
--55x10x3
--55x15x1

-EZ bar Curls
--50x10x4

-Straight bar curls
--55x10x2
--55x5x2

-Straight bar shrugs
--185x5x4

-Straight bar skull crushers
--95x10x4

-Reverse grip bench press
--95x10x2

-Weight plate overhead tri extension
--45x25x1
--45x15x1
--45x10x1
--45x5x1

-Weight plate bent over rows
--45x25x1
--45x15x1
--45x10x1
--45x5x1

-Weight plate overhead press
--45x25x1
--45x15x1
--45x10x1
--45x5x1

-EZ bar tri extension
--40x10x4

[kingnickandnate]

Almost forgot about the picture of the Craze.
Here it is..

[Swuuu]

Almost forgot about the picture of the Craze.
Here it is..





You finally got something! Haha how'd it go today?

You finally got something! Haha how'd it go today?

[kingnickandnate]

You finally got something! Haha how'd it go today?

Pretty good! Got a nice workout in . I took my PWO before i got the mail, though; so i didn't use the craze. I'll probably use that monday!

[Swuuu]

Pretty good! Got a nice workout in . I took my PWO before i got the mail, though; so i didn't use the craze. I'll probably use that monday!

I saw. How'd u like the no bull?

[kingnickandnate]

I saw. How'd u like the no bull?

Forgot i wrote that in there
I'm not a HUGE fan, but i like it nonetheless. I did a log on it a while back and just found a sample pack, so i must have missed a day or something. Oops

[Swuuu]

Forgot i wrote that in there
I'm not a HUGE fan, but i like it nonetheless. I did a log on it a while back and just found a sample pack, so i must have missed a day or something. Oops

Still awaiting the Isatori package?

[kingnickandnate]

Still awaiting the Isatori package?

Yup. I'm thinking it will be here monday, and im thinking the TSN package will be here today or Monday. We'll see

[Swuuu]

Yup. I'm thinking it will be here monday, and im thinking the TSN package will be here today or Monday. We'll see

Yea I haven't checked my mail i didn't get anything all week so today I'm just chill about it and if I get surprised then that's good haha

[kingnickandnate]

Yea I haven't checked my mail i didn't get anything all week so today I'm just chill about it and if I get surprised then that's good haha

I need to start doing that. I miss the surprise factor, lol

[Swuuu]

I need to start doing that. I miss the surprise factor, lol

Hahaha yea it's sad but whenever I get too excited about sumthing it never works out the way I wanna so I try to just relax and then if sumthing good happens that's obviously good

[kingnickandnate]

Got bored and decided to take some pictures. I always see people posting pictures of there stash, so i decided to do the same. Here's a couple pictures of what I've been going off of for the past couple months. It's not everything i have, but it's almost everything. I took pictures of the empty sample packets that i haven't thrown out as well, since much of what I've been using has been those.

Pics:

Terrible quality from my poverty phone..

[WhyAmISoHuge]

Just wondering, why only one set on the incline bench? I really like incline, I actually even do it before flat bench most of the time, unless I'm going for a max or something. Just my 2 cents, but I think it's a good workout.

[kingnickandnate]

Just wondering, why only one set on the incline bench? I really like incline, I actually even do it before flat bench most of the time, unless I'm going for a max or something. Just my 2 cents, but I think it's a good workout.

I might have wrote that in the wrong format, but i did 4 sets.
135 lbs - 5 reps - 4 sets

I just started doing the incline

[Swuuu]

I might have wrote that in the wrong format, but i did 4 sets.
135 lbs - 5 reps - 4 sets

I just started doing the incline

I think the incline generally speaking is a safer and better exercise especially since it works the upper chest the most which is harder to develop