*** Q and Vicky Making journey to them GainZ and destroying some PHAT!!! ***

[qstick99]

What's up everyone! This is our joint adventure here to push each other through those hard times and moments that keep us all from meeting our goals. Vicky and myself have been together since 2003 and got married in 2006. Over the years we both have put on excess weight and decided to put forth a solid effort to make some changes. In the past we have picked up gym memberships and put small dents in but fell off. I have been pushing pretty hard now since March 2011 and have since dropped about 60lbs. Vicky has put in some runs here and saw some nice change but for one reason or another dropped off. After telling her how much more motivating for myself it was when taking part here on the forums she joined up, she has ran a few logs and enjoyed the motivation but would kind of fall off after completing the log. I have ran a journal that I found very helpful http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=146231293 in a number of ways but above most was the push I got from my buddies and brothers here. Vicky thought it would be a good tool for her as well but wanted to do a joint journal so here we are! I'm currently involved in a 12 week shred contest here through bb.com http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...53&pagenumber= and Vicky is probably going to run Jamie Eason's LiveFit Trainer program. Here are a few pics of where we were and where we are now:

I'm pretty happy to see her jumping in a little more and willing to make the effort here, also gives me that much more motivation! Look forward and welcome comments and drop inz here! Time to roll!

[vick78]

1st in and last one out

[JacqueAttack]

Good looking family right here

[ntroupe]

In to follow Q and Vicks journey!!

[MuscleMom]

In for the journeys!!!!

[browguy808]

Nice!!! Im in!

[obey46]

Whattup Q! Long time no see! You know I'm in bro.

[Sean26607]

I'm in for success.

[qstick99]

Good looking family right here

In to follow Q and Vicks journey!!

In for the journeys!!!!

Nice!!! Im in!

Whattup Q! Long time no see! You know I'm in bro.

I'm in for success.

Great to have all you aboard! This should be a fun and trying journey

[qstick99]

I'll be working on:

Vicky going to try:

[gracielou]

In

[Swuuu]

How do you keep track of all these journals? haha

[longhorns_p]

I'm definitely in!

My wife and I just started up our adventure together. Maybe I can get her onboard to join my journal on here. It makes it a lot easier when we're dieting together. Although she's always eaten healthy and I'm the one that loves fast food

Good luck guys, time to get to work

[qstick99]

In

Great to have you in!

How do you keep track of all these journals? haha

I know, this will replace my older journal

[EjnarKolinkar]

In#

[qstick99]

I'm definitely in!

My wife and I just started up our adventure together. Maybe I can get her onboard to join my journal on here. It makes it a lot easier when we're dieting together. Although she's always eaten healthy and I'm the one that loves fast food

Good luck guys, time to get to work

Great to have you aboard bruh! Yeah, right now I hit up Ticos Tacos, killer Mexican rest. here in Salinas to get food for daughter and pops, then another stop for my two little ones, wife and I holding strong!

In#

Glad to have you aboard brotha!

[qstick99]

What's up everyone, glad to be home and going, really feeling motivated after having a somewhat dead week last week. Will be hitting the gym later this afternoon, plenty to do here at the house this morning.

Morning Supps:

Multi: TSN Vita-T
Omegas: Controlled Labs
ErgoBolic
TSN Natural T
BB.com CLA
BB.com Incliner 8
PWO: bb.com Scream
Intra: bb.com Amino Recovery
Post: Muscletech Anabolic Halo

Session:

Incline DB Press w/ Box Step Ups:

3x Warm Up Sets

7x75
7x75
6x75
6x75

Not comfortable going into 2-5 rep range presses without spotter or someone near by. Going back a prior statement, hitting the heavier weights without being able to stretch out between sets has gotten me in the past and just about got my shoulder today, going into the 3rd set got a tweak in the shoulder, got up, stretched it out a few different ways before hitting cardio acceleration and seemed to feel a little better but I did not push the issue going heavy on next two exercises as I felt some pain on 4th set.

Flat DB Press w/ Jumping Jacks:

1 x Warm Up set

12x55
11x55
11x55
12x55

Decline BB w/ Press Box Step Ups:
7x185
7x185
7x185

Assisted Dips Chest w/ Box Step Ups:

3 Sets w/ Slow negatives

Assisted Dips Triceps w/ Box Step Ups:

4 sets

Close Grip BB Bench Press w/ Bench Step Ups:

12x135
10x135
11x135
11x135

Hanging Leg Raises w/ Jumping Jacks:

4 sets

Hammer Strength Crunch Machine w/ Jumping Jacks:

4 sets

Can honestly say I have a love hate relationship with this program. Up side is that heart rate holds up, get a nice sweat and time is consolidated with doing cardio between weight sets. Downside for me is that I feel like my strength has declined some, not being able to use that in between set time to stretch out muscles which is something I do religiously and on more than a few occasions I have gotten some aches and pains from not doing so. While I like the program in switching reps and weight ranges up, I'm not too key on doing the same exercises 12 weeks straight, I will probably be emailing Kate to find out how much room we have to switch things up some here.

Supps: Very happy with the supplements, only downside for me is flavoring of Scream and Amino Recovery is a little on the sweet side, effects are very good and I will continue to use these supps after this run has ended. I've found using about 16oz of water with the scream works well for me and with the Amino Recovery, I initially mix it with about 20-24oz. of water and once I've gone through about 1/3 I refill the cup. Also I throw in a few ice cubes initially and try to let it sit in the freezer for 20 minutes or so to get extremely cold.

[vick78]

First I want to thank everyone for throwing some support out for Paul and myself and thank Paul for keeping on me and getting me motivated to not give up. My workout went pretty good this evening:

Wide Grip Push Ups x 4 sets. Started out using standard form, then went to my knees to complete each set.

Flat Dumbbell Press: 3 Sets of 15 reps per set

Flat Dumbbell Flys: 3 sets of 13 reps per set Still getting form down for this exercise, Paul says I'm still pushing more than "wrapping my arms around the tree" Last set felt really good

Narrow Grip Pushups: 3 sets, started in standard position for what I could do, then finished each set from knees

Dumbbell Tricep Extensions: 3 sets of 13 reps per set

Rope Pull Downs: 3 sets of 12 reps per set. These really burnt

30 minutes on the treadmill at various speeds and inclines

[jeezyreezy]

In on this Q and vick!

[qstick99]

In on this Q and vick!

Great to have you aboard brotha!


Nutrition for the day, up to this point:

[qstick99]

Through this together to see the overall change so far, still a long ways to go but this does help keep motivated!

[ericdose]

In and great choice with the tupac and dmx. Judging by those pics, you've made great progress so far.

[Swuuu]

I know, this will replace my older journal

hahha ok.

The reasons you stated are a few reasons why I dont follow programs. I prefer doing my own thing. But you always make god progress man so no reason to change anything IMO. Just keep doing whatever has been working for you!

[coolaidml]

In! Glad to hear you guys continue to go hard after your goals.

[storm1507]

Good luck guys. I should be able to get back to visiting logs consistantly in a week or two.

[mdritter]

Yessir...I'm in for this!!!

[gallagnm]

in on this Q and vick!

[Raigs]

Im in!!!

[browguy808]

Amazing transformation so far big man! Keep up the great work!

[longhorns_p]

Solid workouts!

Can't worry too much about strength going down as long as you're losing BF. If you're weightloss isn't that aggressive then strength should be staying stagnant. I rely on PL'ing plans like 5/3/1 when dieting to help retain muscle and strength when dieting.