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Day 39

Legs

Squat - 25(8) 30(5) 35(3) 35(3) 35(3) 30(5) 30(5)

Wide deadlifts - 20(8) 25(6) 30(4) 30(4)

Leg extensions - 65(8) 65(8) 65(8) 55(8)

Calf raises 30(15) 30(12) 30(12) 25(15)

Chest & Tricep

Dumbell press - 26(8) 28(8) 30(8) 30(7) 30(7) 22(12)

Incline dumbell press - 28(7) 28(7) 26(8) 26(7)

Incline dumbell flys - 22(7) 22(7) 22(7) 20(7)

Pull overs - 20(8) 20(6) hurt my shoulders too much and will change the exersize

Tricep extension - 35(8) 35(8) 35(8) 32.5(8)

Overhead - 20(8) 20(7) 20(6) 17.5(7)

Skullcrushers - 7.5(8) 10(6) 7.5(7)

Kickbacks - 14(8) 14(8) 14(8)

Shoulders & forearm

Military press - 17.5(8) 20(6) 20(6) 17.5(7)

Arnold - 20(8) 20(5) 18(8) 18(5)

Front raises 10kg and upright row 25kg superset x4

Side raises - 16(8) 16(7) 14(8) 14(8)

Shrugs - 32(8) 32(8) 32(8) 32(8)

Forearm - 20(12) 20(12) 20(12) 20(10)

Back & bicep

Machine row - 85(8) 95(8) 95(6) 85(8)

Lat pull down - 70(8) 70(7) 65(7) 45(15)

Corner row - 60(8) 70(6) 60(8) DS 40-30-20(12-8-5)

Pull down - 75(8) 75(6) 70(6) 70(6)

EZ curl - 15(7) 15(6) 12(8) 12(8)

Incline curl - 16(6) 14(8) 14(6)

Preacher curl - 7.5(7) 7.5(6) 5(8) 5(8)

Concentration curl - didnt do them as i got to the gym a bit late and so it was closing

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It is clear when i compare this image to the first one that my shoulders have grown. My arms have also improved in this aspect, which has resulted in them having more shape, there is evidence that a V shape is forming between my tricep and shoulder. My abs are slightly better but they still need improving. My weak point is my chest, it has not improved as much as everything else and this isn't a great surprise to me as i have not been working at it as hard as everything else, for no particular reason. The image comparison has definitely shown me i need to stop slacking on my chest. My legs are not in the images but i can assure i am not turning in to a pigeon.

Yes i also now have a tan...which definitely helps with the aesthetics.

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Day 17

I have decided to make this a weekly update as i am eating the same thing pretty much everyday and so it would be boring to say the same thing everyday.

I stuck to my diet all week perfectly, excluding my sunday cheat day of course.

Shoulders

Military press: 15(7) 15(7) 15(7) 15(6)

Arnold: 18(6) 18(6) 18(5) 18(5)

Plate front raise and barbell upright row superset: 10 and 25 (10-8) (10-8) (8-7) (10-7)

Side raises: 14(8) 14(8) 14(7) 14(7)

Shrugs: 30(10) 30(9) 30(9) 30(9)

Notes: Next session i am going to do my first military press set on 17.5. My break between set 3 and 4 of my superset was too long, my reps went up. Shrugs first set will be 32 next session.

Back and Biceps

Machine row: 75(8) 85(7) 85(7) 85(6)

Lat pulldown: 65(7) 65(6) 60(7) 40(15)

Corner row: 60(7) 60(7) 50(8) dropset 40-30-20(11-8-4)

Pull down: 65(8) 65(8) 65(5) 60(7)

EZ curl: 12.5(8) 12.5(8) 12.5(6) 12.5(7)

Incline curl: 14(7) 14(6) 14(6) 14(6)

Preacher curl: 5(9) 5(9) 5(9) 5(7)

Concentration curl: 14(6) 14(5) 12(7) 12(6)

Notes: First machine row set will be on 80. Corner row start on 70. Pull down start on 70. EZ curl start on 15. preacher curl test out 10 but at least start on 7.5. 

Chest and triceps

Bench press: 15(8) 20(6) 25(6) 30(5) 30(4) 20(11)

Incline press: 24(8) 24(7) 24(6) 24(6)

Incline flys: 20(7) 20(6) 18(7 18(6)

Pull over: 18(8) 18(8) 18(7) 18(7)

Tricep extension: 32.5(8) 32.5(7) 32.5(7) 22.5 (15)

Overhead extension: 17(8) 17(7) 15(8) 15(8)

Skullcrushers: 7.5(7) 7.5(6) 7.5(6)

Bench extension: 14(8) 14(8) 14(7)

Notes: Bench press will be much better next session, this was my first benching since i started again and i didnt have anyone to spot me. Incline press start on 26. I could definitely do more on pullover but it hurts my shoulders so i will see how i feel on the day. Tricep extension will start on 35.

I KEEP FORGETTING TO WEIGH MYSELF 

I am going to start weighing myself every morning before eating and every evening when i go to bed.

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Day 11

Ok i haven't written anything for 3 days, things have been going on that haven’t given me time. My diet has stayed largely the same but on Sunday i had what many people like to call ‘cheat day’. Im not going to state everything that i ate the last 3 days but i will state what i did in the gym.

Back and Biceps

Row machine: 75, 75, 75, 75

Lat pulldowns: 65, 65, 60, 30

Corner row: 60, 50, 50, 40-30-20

Pull down: 65, 60, 60, 55

EZ curl: 12.5, 12.5, 12.5, 10

Incline curls: 14, 14, 14, 14

Preacher curls: 7.5, 7.5, 5, 5

Concentration curls: 14, 14, 14

Shoulders and traps

Military press: 20, 20, 15, 15

Arnold: 16, 16, 16, 14

Plate raises and upright rows: 10 and 25

Side raises: 14, 14, 12, 12

Shrugs: 30, 30, 30, 30

Chest and triceps

Dumbell press (some twats were on the only bench press for about half an hour): 20, 26, 28, 28

Incline press: 24, 24, 24, 22

Incline flys: 20, 20, 18, 18

Dumbell pullover: 18, 18, 18, 18

Extension: 27.5, 32.5, 30, 30

Overhead: 17.5, 17.5, 17.5, 15

Skull-crushers: 5, 5, 5, 5 

Legs and core

Squat: 10, 20, 25, 25, 25, 10

Deadlift: 20, 30, 30, 30

leg extension: 60, 60, 60, 60

Situps with 8kg

crunches with 8kg

Twisted sit-ups with 8kg (i cant remember the proper name this second)

For the rest of my gym sessions i am going to be writing down my reps. Oh, one other thing, my legs and ass are fucking killing me.

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Day 7

It was a slightly late start on me and my new life’s one week anniversary, i didn't eat until 10:30am. I woke up at 8am and i was scrolling through twitter, like i do every morning, but thanks to my shit WiFi a picture took slightly too long to load so i put my head back down and fell asleep for another 2 hours....whoops. When i did go downstairs to eat i found that my Alpen had been stolen, so i was forced to eat some porridge instead. I could hear the continent of Africa sobbing for me at that difficult time. this provided me with 8g of protein. The porridge is incredibly thick and so i felt too full for anything more than some strawberries. 

Total: 8g

At 12pm, after an hour of cutting a tree down in my garden, i ate four fried eggs (26g) and 35g of peanut butter (8g). I am getting a lot more used to the peanut butter now but i would still not be able to eat it without the water mixed with it. Everyone says to me ‘why don’t you just have it on toast’. The answer to that, is that the toast is a waste of stomach space and will just slow down the eating process of it anyway.

Total: 42g

 At 2:30pm, after two and a half more hours of cutting down the tree and bagging it, i had 110g of tuna (27g). Then after a 20 minute episode of The Big Bang Theory (i fucking love that programme) i went back and had a 120g pork (33g) and 60g cottage cheese (5g) sandwich. This sandwich is quickly becoming one of my favourite meals to eat. I had no never had cottage cheese before i designed this diet and its proved to be a big success.

Total: 107g

I completely forgot it was my cousins 21st birthday and so when it got to 5pm and i went to have a protein shake i was quickly told that we were leaving for the party meal in half an hour. Shit. When we got there i was relieved to see that a fantastic chilli and rice had been made. I obviously have no idea how much beef i ate in the chilli but i had two great plates full and would say without a doubt i had at least 250g. I again obviously have no idea what type of beef was used, but according to sainsburys beef has about 31g of protein to every 100g so i had >74g of protein.

Total: 181g 

I definitely didnt quite reach my goal of having at least a gram of protein for every pound of body weight but family, of course, comes first. Looking back on it i should have had a 2-scoop shake of casein before i went to bed, which would have taken my total to 230g of protein. However, hindsight is a wonderful thing, its easy for me to say it now but after that a nights sleep but when i got back after that huge meal and a few beers i felt like i could explode and fell asleep instantly.

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Me on day 5. Its a difficult thing to voluntarily upload pictures of yourself that you know you look like shit in. I know my future self will feel so good about himself looking back on them though.

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Day 6

So yesterday i got up at 8:30am and by 9am i had eaten 100ml milk with 100g of alpen, providing me with 14g of protein. I also ate a bunch of strawberries, as fruit is important no matter what diet you are committed to. I finished it off with 35g of peanut butter (with water, as PB is extremely dry), taking my protein total of the first meal of the day to 22g.

At 12pm i ate four fried eggs (26g protein), which took me quite a while to eat so i ate my 110g of tuna (a tin) at 12:30pm. Eating tuna and mayo without pasta isn’t particularly nice but its high in protein (27g) so i power through. The total protein has now become 75g.

At 2:30pm i had what i class as lunch, which is a pork and cottage cheese sandwich with a packet of rice-cakes. At least i think they are rice cakes, i bought them because they are high in carbs. It was a single pork loin steak which weighed 85g, giving 23g of protein. The cottage cheese gave an extra 3g. The protein total has now become 101g.

Unfortunately in the afternoon i got a bit distracted as i had decided it was time to start watching Game Of Thrones. This resulted in me not eating again until 6pm, disgraceful behaviour. When the episode finished and i realised what the time was i quickly made and downed a 2-scoop protein shake and ate two bananas. The shake gave 42g of protein and the bananas gave 3g combined. My total has now become 146g of protein.

Im afraid to say i did learn from my mistake and managed to not eat again until 10pm as i became increasingly invested in the goings on of the seven kingdoms and who shall sit on the iron thrown. This 5th meal was my dinner, which was two pork steaks (265g), sweet potato (200g), and some chopped up onion and pepper. The meat and chopped up vegetables were of course cooked via a frying pan. The meat provided 70g of protein and sweet potato 3g. I did not think it was worth my time figuring out how much protein i got from the chopped up vegetables as it would be minuscule in the long run and i wasn't eating them for the protein anyway. My total is now 219g of protein.

I did learn my mistake the third time and so i ate again at 11:30, only an hour and a half later. I mixed 100g of greek yoghurt (6g), 50g mixed nuts (10g) and 2-scoops of casein protein (50g). My final total came to 295g of protein.

I weigh around about 200lbs and the god that is Steve Cook said on his twitter to eat 1-1.5g of protein a day for every 1lb of body weight so at 295g i am right on track. I would rather be possibly thinking that i have eaten too much than eaten too little. The other times i have attempted this i have become so disheartened by days where i have eaten little, which was usually because i had been severely hungover, that i drifted out of it and gave up.

I am going to upload the pictures of myself but then must go now (not that anyone is actually reading this, but i enjoy pretending), as i have a meal to eat and a few kingdoms to catch up on.

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Day 5

I am clearly starting this blog four days late, but unfortunately it didn’t occur to me to start this blog until tonight. 

I am writing it primarily as a source of self-motivation, as i have tried a few times to physically change my body but have always allowed other factors of my life to perniciously chip away at the progress and continuity of the ‘project’.

Right...to business. This blog is going to be a daily update on my progress throughout the summer as i try to put a stop to my lifetime ‘lankiness’. No, i’m not entirely sure thats a word but i’m not going to Google it as i quite like it. I will call it ‘Schrödinger’s Word’. 

I have set up a diet plan, which im sure will be constantly adapting as i go on, and have designed four gym routines that i will complete every week. The diet plan has been devised so i take in 1g of protein for every pound of body weight and to be at least 4,000 calories, split between 6 meals that are (on average) 2 hours apart. The gym routines are  back and bicep, chest and tricep, shoulders and forearm, and last but far from least....legs.

Me: I am a 19 year old guy from England (thats in the United Kingdom for any Americans reading). I am 6ft 5in as far as i am aware, unfortunately my only reading was by my dad and so isn't the most reliable of data. I will be sure to get an accurate reading at some point in the near future. The last time i weighed myself about a month ago (in the morning without having eaten/drank anything yet) i was 88kg. I have now purchased some scales.

Some people may now be thinking ‘88kg thats so heavy, how on earth do you consider yourself skinny?!’ but i will be posting a picture tomorrow of myself which will clearly show just how skinny i really am, thanks to my well above average height. 

Each daily post will include what i have eaten and at what time, my gym routine (if it is a gym day), and my morning and evening weight. I’m thinking that i will post a picture of myself every two weeks but i’m not completely sure how often i should do that yet.

Please excuse the horrendous amount of hashtags you are able to see but i would love for someone to follow this with me. Even if only one person follows and interacts with me then my motivation will go up hugely. If you read them all then i hope you enjoy following my train of thought.

Thank you for reading.