Saturday, March 26, 2016

6'1", 145 lbs -> 185 lbs. My 3 year journey in fitness.

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2 weeks after starting to today (can post more progress pics if there's interest)


Backstory:

I started working out right before my freshman year of college at 18 years old. What prompted me to start working out? I was working at a grocery store at the registers bagging the summer before I went off to college. One day a customer commented on how skinny I was and actually said to me that I looked like a starving African child. Something in my head changed that day. I began to see how seriously underweight I was and how tired I was of being that weak, scrawny kid my whole life.

I saw all of the progress posts on here and thought they were just outliers. There was no way I could gain weight and muscle like those guys, I mean I've been skinny my whole life after all right? I was one of those people that just thought I couldn't do it. Still, I pressed on.

In mid-July, about a month before I left for college, my future roommate and I started working out together. I could barely bench the bar, was unable to do any pull-ups, and struggled to do more than 3 pushups in a row. From 2013-2014 I worked out pretty steadily and eventually got up to around 160 pounds, which was a huge accomplishment for me. To do this, I literally had to constantly eat. I didn't have a diet per-say, I literally just ate everything in sight. I was lifting 4 days a week, but didn't apply myself as much as I should've. I didn't progress up in weights like I should have, just kind of hovered around the same area.

Eventually I got a girlfriend in the middle of my sophomore year of college and had some personal issues which led to me taking a long break from working out. I was swimming regularly though, which meant that I didn't get fat but I definitely started losing definition and muscle mass. At this point I was around 170-175 lbs and would probably classify myself as skinny-fat.

Fast forward to summer of last year, I decided to quit dicking around and take weightlifting more seriously. Since then I've been working out more intensely than I ever have before. I still don't follow a set diet and have to eat a lot of food to maintain/gain weight, but I still try to eat healthily. I'm currently hovering around 185-190 lbs.


Diet:

Eat everything in sight. Seriously.

Here's a sample day (varies a lot but this gives you a general idea of what I eat):

Breakfast:

  • Chobani greek yogurt (Coconut and Black Cherry are my favorites)

  • Protein bar (usually a Clif bar or Larabar)

  • Coffee

Lunch

  • Pasta with pesto alfredo sauce

  • 2 pieces chicken breast

  • Salad

Dinner

  • 2 pieces of chicken breast

  • Green beans

  • Potatoes

  • Steamed carrots

  • 1-2 pieces of pizza

Snacks/other things

  • Rice cake w/ peanut butter

  • Handful of mixed nuts

  • Protein shake


Workout plan here

No cardio currently. Used to be a swimmer, but took a break from that this year due to a busy schedule. Definitely looking to pick that back up (2-3 days a week, hour-ish session) when summer starts.


I still have a lot of room for improvement, especially in my core lifts. I stopped squatting for a while due to a knee issue, but just started back up a couple weeks ago. New to OHP as well.

Numbers:

Bench 1RM: 95 -> 250 lbs*

Deadlift 1RM: 135 -> 305 lbs*

Squat 1RM: 180 -> 295 lbs*

OHP: Bar x 5 -> 130 lbs x 1

Pushups: 3-4 -> 45+

Pullups (full ROM): 0 -> 15

*I haven't done 1RMs in a while, so some of these are calculated. Should be somewhere in the area, +/- 5 pounds.

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