Bulk Day Seven: PROGRESS

Ok it's day 7 already. Another week has gone by and my weight has increased again. Is it too fast? Currently 71 kg. No, I'm not binging and fattening myself up my diet has been quite strict and ain't no way, no chance I'll binge back to 'fat' mode. The growth is all on the upper body.

Gym session as usual, good workout, pushed biceps hard today. I can't believe I'm being scrutinized for forearm bigger than deltoid =.= but now that I think of it it's really kinda weird and I have to start isolating the delts before I turn into grovyle =.=.

Oh, yea THURSDAY is a wonderful day to go gym! Good music, good 'scenery', no kids/arrogant people, lesser people than usual. As I said my weight taken this morning after gym was 71.1kg already. It's good progress since one month 15 days ago when I started. According to general belief it's only safe/normal to gain 2-3 lbs/month. So calculating for me, 4.5 lbs/1.5 months should be normal for me. My weight gain is probably (71-68=3kg) which is slightly over the norm but not too much. But like what I posted before just hit 72 kg, evaluate my strengths/look/gain, then see if to shred the fat or to bulk more (probably bulk more). My limit is 76 kg, because for my height (1.74cm) the normal weight should be 68-76 kg.

Current lifting stats:
Bench press: 47.5kg/5 rep
DL: 77.5kg/5 rep
Squats: 57.5kg/5 rep

According to strength standards I so at the 'untrained' level, WTH. But I understand it takes year of training to increase your strength. I've only done this for 1.5 months. So we will come back 6 months later and see where my standards are again.

Ate a lot today again, more than yesterday. Tried cooking fish, turned out better than expected BUT still tasted like shiet. Not viable for the long term. Haix. Looks like I'll be sticking to chicken for a while.

Protein intake: 250.7

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Bulk Day Six: STUFFED

Argh!! It's so difficult to eat so much!! Everyday lots of milk, lots of tofu and lots of MEAT. I need so much MEAT. But it's tough to eat so much. Sometimes, no most of the times when I can't keep on schedules and stuff everything at night, I really feel like vomiting. (Like now.)

Sigh...But never mind, in order to achieve this, any hardship is worth it. Rest day today, back really feeling it as usual. Tomorrow will be doing chest/B/biceps and we have to hit it HARD to make up for Saturday's disappointing session.

I Think I'm finally gonna start work, for real? Went for the interview today, and turns out this is just another one of those CNY jobs that is so rampant currently. Was mislead about the freaking pay! It stated $9/hr for 14th and after but when I clarified, they said it will depend, and $9 was if the client wanted to increase it due to festive season and/or performance basis. Which is BULL! I wanted to walk but since the schedule is flexible and $7 is still not the worst, I just stayed. And another bad thing is, I'm sort of lowering myself...inside the interview with me were actually 17 yr old KIDS...like OMG I really felt out of place. Yes I knew initially 16 yr old and above was eligible but I was interested anyway because of the $9/hr, but without it...I'm definitely shortchanging the hell out of myself, given my experience in temp promoter jobs. Which is quite extensive, might I add. It's ok, just do it, $400, GTFO, start school, SIM, study. We are only doing this to make sure my bank a/c doesn't drop below $****. My hard saved cash from being a CHAO NSF cannot be anyhow spent, no matter what people say!!

Alright, I've reached my blogging capacity again (LOL) and I might have to stop now. Tomorrow Gym, Friday work (possibly), Sat finally hanging out with friends.

Protein intake: 246.2g approx.

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Bulk Day Five: IMPROVEMENT

Hi blog I'm finally here for today's post..

So today had a great Gym session, working the back/shoulders/tris. Managed to once again, Improve my DL (now @ 77.5kg/5 reps). Also, switched from seated shoulder press to seated military press today, and it was much tougher. Could only go max @ 9kg each side, which shows how weak my shoulders are. Thats why it's so tough, so many different body parts to train, no wonder it's called 'bodyBUILDing". In the case of cutting, you only need to care about losing on thing and that's fats but for this, zzzzzz is all I can say. Also, the superset of close grip bench press+lying triceps extensions was very very effective, because I was working both aerobic and anaerobic sides.

Diet on track also, but it swear there's quite a bit of fats in also. It's ok, what I'm aiming for is size now. By the way I'm 70.5 kg now, which is seriously a bit faster than expected and not that good actually. The extra weight might be more of fats instead of lean mass, I'm not sure. In any case, the aim now is still 72kg, after which we will evaluate again and change from there. MYFS if you're reading, please eat something now. Your current aim is 60kg when are you gonna show me you've hit it?? 


Will my schedule be screwed up due to work? Because if I'm starting work soon (applied for a few just now) I may have to sacrifice gym timing... But since I already made a tough decision (and another risky + potentially foolish one) to choose that job that only burns my weekends, instead of the one until 22 Jan, I guess my sessions won't be interrupted. Of course, hopefully I get the job tomorrow. Oh my, the difference between the two jobs are HUGE, as I was calculating just now. Basically it was a case of $$$+sacrifice gym+time VS less $$$+GYM. And I was deeply considering because it was $1000+ vs $400+, HUGE difference. But if I get the less paying job, it would be mission successful because I can still gym on schedule which is the main priority now. 


Ok, such a long post. For current standards anyway. I'm becoming lazier and lazier to blog. Please keep this up, ALREADY 5/15 days completed!!!

Protein intake: 243.8g

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Bulk Day Four: STAGNANT

Ah, it's day four already. I guess I started at a good timing, since time is just flying by so quickly.

It's been an extremely uneventful few days, but I'm glad I've been able to keep my diet strong.

Today was a good example of eating everything on time and eating the right stuff. Eggs, bread, YTF, chicken (loads of chicken), rice, soy, whey.

Decided against gym today since I knew I was going to be half hearted if I went. Tuesday would be a better day instead; gym in the morning and MONDAY NIGHT RAW (WITH 2/1/2012 MYSTERY REVEALED TML OMG) after that! Just the way I like it.

Sometimes, when I look at the mirror and yea, there's a bit of progress but I'm still so far away from my goals (STILL so damn skinny!!). It's terribly difficult to bulk up cleanly. It's way more difficult than cutting for sure. I can definitely vouch that this phase is much more difficult than "ST65". It's so demoralizing but every now and then I will have visions of all the haters and all those idiots who think I'm a joke. Yea, it gets my mind back into the game immediately and keeps me going.

Anyway my body is well rested since last Thur's A SS workout and tomorrow I am SO READY to do 77.5kg DL!! Breaking personal bests every week is gooood!!

Ok, that's all for today.

Total protein: 230.3g

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Bulk Day Three: CONSISTENCY

First Day of 2012!

It's gonna be my year YES!!

Anyway, today is obviously a Sunday but I keep thinking it's Monday already. Can't wait for the kids to go back to school already!!

Nothing much going on at all today, which makes it all the harder to motivate myself. But I have the time and I'm not gonna waste it so I'm keeping my diet on schedule.

Realised a stall @ Teban Gardens had exactly what I wanted: Chicken breast rice (PLAIN RICE) with duck rice soup (weird) and most importantly, CHEAP.

Argh, we will see if tonight I've anything else to add other than protein intake. Gym Day Tml!

Update:
Protein intake:193g

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Bulk Day Two: NAYSAYERS

Wow, I didn't expect to jinx myself when I said today was gonna be tough. I don't mean physically, but it was a tough gym session mentally, a tough pill to swallow.

I was judged on my poor form and looked down upon on my capabilities. I won't forget the comments. I won't forget the smirk look.

In any scenario, I would be beaten down and discouraged. But no, my character through army has evolved into something bigger. So I will not allow myself to be disheartened because they think I'm a scrawny little guy or because of my poor form.

THANK YOU, because all of you idiots are just FUEL, fuel for me to improve. Please, PLEASE, P-L-E-A-S-E insult me and laugh at me more because everything you do, I will train harder, I will bust my ass more in order to overtake you. Thanks!

But seriously, today's gym session is only 70% complete because of the lack of facilities in Delta Clubfitt. I will not go there again for a long time.

Anyway, time to prepare my chicken then sleep.

Countdown at night, maybe?

Update
Protein intake: 243g

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Bulk Day One: RESTART

Ok, so I'm 90% recovered from my flu and cough, which was horrible for the past five days. An update, I've been constantly Gyming for the past month three times a week and I think I'm learning a lot of new things. The key point to highlight is that I'm doing compound lifts now, (deadlift, squats) instead of being a curlbro. I know that will help in my mass gains. Feels like I've been enlightened on the actual workings of how to body build. The past few years that I've been going to gym were all either useless or not very effective, because I wasn't hitting correctly and I didn't have the ''gym psychology". But it's ok, now I know, and with so many peers around me doing the same thing, I am ready to maintain and overtake them.

There's only one month left before school starts. I've hoped, or rather I thought it would start at Jan 1 but no, it actually starts on 30th. Which basically leaves me with another month to utilize. It's good and bad, but I guess I just have to follow suit.

Today I'm not gyming since I already did yesterday, so I'll focus very much on the nutrition. So far it's as planned, 3 eggs and 2 slices of bread in the morning, and YTF for lunch. I need to cook my chicken breast also.

*comes back from taking chicken out of fridge and drinking my whey*

What. If I didn't blog I'd probably have forgotten to do those. Oh my god. Anyway I already commited the first mistake which is forgetting to restock my chicken this morning!!! Now I'm only left with I think half a breast (sad) but anyway I'll just cook it and maybe have a heavier dinner.

That's pretty much it, will update numbers tonight, hopefully.

Update:
Total: 211.9g protein

Anyway for tomorrow, day two, will most probably hit the gym for B plus lats/biceps/chest. It's gonna be very tough tomorrow.

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