Cateater's ultimate workout to greatness journal

[CatEater2000]

What is up. I decided I'd try one of these things to gauge my progress, and to get feedback from fellow bodybuilders. HAHAHA

Goals:
-become a top 30 badminton player in Canada (badminton is not a woman sport)
-get stronger, and leaner (right now getting leaner need to drop about 10 pounds)
-get a 3.3+ gpa this upcoming term
-get laid as much as possible

Well let us begin,

[CatEater2000]

Monday, September 6, 2004

The day started off very well, I just took a week off lifting, and any cardio just to get my mind refreshed and ready to go. This was mainly a mental break from the game we call bodybuilding. I just finished my max-ot last week with some relatively unimpressive gains.

I'll outline the big 3 stats right now to save all that minor details
STATS:
Squat: 315x6
Deadlift: 385x4 (i haven't done these for 2 months)
Bench press: 205x5
-ah the dreaded bench press, my worst enemy as you can see my other lifts are somewhat decent, but due to rotator cuff inflamation my bench press hasn't been the same for over a year, and comments on this would be great.



Anyways my workout today was fairly decent, I worked out with my buddy today.

Chest/arms

Flat dumbbell press- 90x7, 90x6, 80x8 (the dumbbells felt rather heavy today should be good next week)
Incline dumbbell press- 70x12, 75x6, 75x4 (holy **** that last set was crap)
machine flyes - 175x12, 187.5x8
CG bench press- 135x4, 2x115x8 (I overestimated my strength a bit on the first set)
Tricep pressdown-140x15, 160x8 (I did a drop set with the 2nd set)
Barbell curls- 95x6, 85x8,85x7
Hammer curls- 30x12, 35x10

That was the whole workout, I think I'm gonna make some adjustments though.

Thanks for reading any comments would be great

[eazy2juice]

wassup cateater...

your journal might be interesting to read.

im wondering if u are going to be able to overcome your rotator problem and up your bench.

anyways....

good luck

[CatEater2000]

Tuesday, September 7/2004
I forgot to tell you all my physical stats.

175 pounds
13 percent bf last time i checked.


Well today was the leg day. It begins with squats
SQUAT-315x7, 320x4(my friend told me to put those 2.5's on), 295x6
HackSQUAT-230x7,250x6
Seated hamstring curl- 130x12,170x10
Standing calf raise on smith machine- 315x15,385x15,405x10

Pretty good workout, lower back felt a little sore, but got through it with mental determination, and some Ronnie coleman before hand.

If you haven't watched ronnie coleman's vids I suggest you download them. They're really good for pumping you up! Light weight baby

[CatEater2000]

I was out with a nasty fevor from wednesday to saturday last week. So glad to be back hitting the iron.

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Chest, arms.
Flat dbell press 90x8, 95x4, 85x8
incline dbell press 75x8, 80x6
machine flyes 187.5x10, 200x8
Close grip benchpress 115x10, 135x6 (this is very difficult after hitting the chest)
Tricep pressdown 140x15, 160x8(drop set)
Preacher curl(using curl bar) 35's6, 30'sx7, 30'sx6
Dbell curls 40x8,40x7

pretty decent workout, my throat is still a little sore from being sick. Tomorrow morning is legs I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for reading

[CatEater2000]

Monday, September 13, 2004
Legs
Squats 315x6, 315x4, 295x5
Leg press 240x20, 260x20
Ham curls 165x12, 180x8
One legged calf raise 3x90x12

[CatEater2000]

Wednesday September 15
Shoulders, tris
Military press
135x8
145x4
135x5
Lateral raise machine
2x105x12
Frontal raise
35x12
35x10
Rear delt flyes on machine
175x12
200x9
Skullcrusher
35's + curl bar x 10
40's + curl bar x 5
35's + curl bar x 7
reverse one arm press down
40x10
40x9

Overall pretty good workout, I had a little trouble with military press today, and I forgot to do cuban rotations so i'll put them in tomorrow.

[Ballou]

Do whatever is necessary to preserve your rotator cuff... I would try to back off a little as far as your weights go and focus very intently on your form, especially with dumbbells. I'm not saying that you have bad form because I don't know. But, what I am saying is that improving your form, as all of us can, will help strengthen the stabilizing muscles around your rotator cuff. Anyway, congrats on deciding to both make progress and to track it. Keep us updated. One other suggestion is to take the obvious "before" and "after" pictures.

[CatEater2000]

Friday, September 17
Friday night time for a nice intense backworkout

Deadlift
315x8
335x4
225x12
Chinups
bwx10
25x6
bwx5
Seated row
175x8
175x6
162x8
Closegrip pulldown palms facing back
140x8
my tricep had a weird pain when doing this so I stopped

Seated calf raise
90x15
180x12
180x10
One legged calf press
270x12, 150x12, 70x12 (this was a drop set)


Pretty good workout other than the tricep giving out. I haven't done deadlifts for a while either so my back is going to be super sore tomorrow.

Have a good weekend

[CatEater2000]

Sunday, September 19
Sunday starts again the never ending battle with the chest.

Chest, arms
dbell press
90x8
95x4
95x3
Inc dbell press
80x5
75x6
machine flyes
200x8
200x8
Close grip bench press
135x6
135x5
135x4
Tricep press down
160x6, 110x12, 60x12 (drop set
Preacher curl with olympic bar
65x12
75x8
80x7
alternate curls
40x6
35x6


Pretty damn good workout I felt good through the whole thing. Finally close grip bench press didn't feel to bad