This is a log just to track the progress of workouts and nutrition log.

Stats

weight : 302lbs
Body fat % : 36.9%
Bmi : 40.0

First of my weekly routine is

Monday - 4pm Workout.
Tuesday - Rest.
Wednesday - Wake up Interval training. (punchbag)
Thursday - 4pm Workout
Friday - Wake up Interval training (running)
Saturday - 4pm workout (i also regually play squash in the day with my best mate)
Sunday - Wake up Interval training (punchbag)

I started nutrition on Saturday as Friday is my shopping day.

At the moment I am waiting for my potein powder Promax to arrive so my nutrition so far consisted of.
Monday
1 = lean steak, boiled egg, banana 2 = chicken with red and yellow peppers 3 = steak and pilau rice with onion and an apple 4 = mince with sweet potato and spinach mash 5 = Post workout meal I was nakered and didnt want to cook so I had some tuna and a boiled egg I had boiled before and a orange.

Tuesday
1 = cherios (as havn't bought oats yet as I can get a big bag from my local wholesalers) and lean steak 2 = steak and peppers with onion and a apple 3 = steak and pilau rice with a boiled egg white. (lol needed to use up the steak) 4 = Will be having mince and the remaining sweet potato mash with some more spinach. 5 = on my break at work I will have a egg salad.

I will update what i had over the weekend later and update this post with information of my workout as I am in a lecture now and it has just finished lol.

any feedback would be appreciated.

well heres the conclusion to opening as I have just arrived back from work.

My sunday consisted of interval training and work (9 hours fun).

My meal plan for sunday was

1 = multigrain and a bananna 2 = chicken and pilau rice 3 = tuna salad 4 = steak and sweet potato spinach mash 5 = egg white pilau rice.

I decided as I enjoy hitting the punch bag I would use this as my interval training for sunday. It was a good session I dynamically warmed up then completed all interval sets and by the end I was nakered but felt great my meals I prepared in morning and mid day. All in all Sunday was a good day except work.

My first day of the workout 1 began yesterday on monday

My meal plan is above. I arrived back from college ate my 4th meal and prepared my garage / gym. As my pull up bar I had bought had not arrived at the time so I decided to do pull down instead.

I began the press up and realised "god I weigh alot" I was able to do 20 without break then began squat. This is when I realised I had forgotten to warm up in all the excitement I had forgotten to warm up, as I was already feeling pretty stretched from setting up I just continued the squats on the minute break I decided to pace back and forth while dynamically stretching. I did this between all the first supersets. on set 1 and 2 I was able to complete all 20 reps of each, on the 3rd set i reach 15 pushups and 20 squat.

Superset 2 with the lunge and pull down. By now I was feeling the overall burn however on all sets I completed all 20 reps on each leg of lunge however completed 20 pull down on set 1 15 on set 2 and 15 on set 3 with a few pauses.

Superset 3 by now I was in agony I really began to realise how outta shape I had become I completed all 20 burpees (well if you could call them that more zombiefied) on set 1 and 2 and only 15 on 3rd set and only lasted 20secs in plank on each set.

went inside ate meal five had a shower then went off to uni night course.

All in all im happy with the amount I did however anoyed at myself for forgetting warm up also not lasting as long as I wanted on plank.

I am looking forward to Thursday for round 2 also have my pull up bar however not sure if I can even manage 1.

Excellent work man, keep pushing hard and the results will come in no time

Looks good, Aaron.. Keep it up!.. Have you seen the alternative pull-ups on Arnels site? - Check 'em out!

We will have those abs showing by the end of the 16 weeks, no doubt about it.. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know!

Your not alone with forgetting to warm up properly i did the same. But we will get it right, and the results will be worth it. Keep up the good work.

Pete.

Nicely done Aaron. Keep up posted like this so we can help you out, even tho your doing a great job yourself.

By the way, i love your pic everytime i see it all i think about is you saying
"What the F*CK are you looking at.... MOTHERF*CKER !!?"

cheers guys for all the comments and help.

Lol manny its more like "ahh how do I get this camera to work ... ahh im falling into the mirror"

Today went great, woke up nice and early all ready for day 3.

My meal plan consisted of.

1 = muligrain with bannana in skim milk. I had for the first time 3 x egg whites. 2 = turkey steak and pilau rice (bought boil in a bag version as alot easier to cook however I couldn't find brown rice) 3 = Chicken salad. 4 = beef steak and remaining rice. 5 = salmon salad.

My interval training I decided to do in mid afternoon was punchbag. ( I recommend to tape the bag with duct tape around the chin height and make the side and stomach. This helps getting correct punching height. On of my problems i had when i first started punchbag a year ago was I kept hitting very low on the bag not by choice. By having the chin height it helps bring the punching level up while creating aim and power to vital areas).

As I was in a rush I was very focused and blitzed through the routine without a single problem.

When i arrived back from work at 9pm I discovered I had recieved my promax protein powder so that will be incorperated in my nutrition tommorow.

Only thing left to arrive is my woody bands which hopefully will come tommorow in time for my 2nd workout routine. At the moment my pictures im unable to get from my phone to my comp as my previous bluetooth dongle isnt vista compatible. I will work on my blog tommorow night as it my day off from work and only have 2 lessons at college in the morning.

Cheers to everyones responses any interesting recipes would be muchly appriciated also if any one has any way of more portable meals as im quite a busy person and finding it hard to settle down and eat food which isnt easy to hold. (example use to be a sandwich)

Hey man! Good job! Keep that motivation and stay focused as you are, and chances of success will be sky high!

By the way, thanks for the tip on the punching bag. I'll be getting one this week and i will sure do what you suggest.
Take care man.

well today was my 2nd day of resistance training dun dun durrrr.

Meal plan

1= oat porridge with scoop of strawberry promax. (wasn’t cooked well as I was half asleep)
2 = chicken salad + apple
3 = roast potato with lettuce and salmon
4 = 2 scoops of Promax while working out (it says 200ml of water per scoop but its so small) post work steak and lettuce.
5 = fish with mix veg and peas.
6 = blueberries and cottage cheese (I have decided after reading up on meals before bed as i've always known this to be a bad thing, however the info I read stated cottage cheese was brilliant as high in protein and preserves the muscle over the night. Due to this im incorporating the 6th meal only on resistance training days)

Resistance training

When I went into garage (aka the gym as all my equiment is in there) I was really worried as my legs had been hurting since first session however decided to work through it.

My first thing I tested was my pull up bar and woody band to see if I could do the pull up. Unfortunately not I think I bought the wrong strength band as mine it same weight as arnels in the pull up help video. I decided this didn’t matter as in a few weeks id be able to do pull ups all over again.

This time I remembered to warm up before the training, I spent time dynamically warming up and legs just stopped hurting.

My first superset routine the press up and squat went brilliant I was more surprised then anything, that my legs didn’t give in.

My second superset the lunge and pull down (instead of pull up read above). This went great again no problems realised my left leg is a bit weaker then my right though as it started burning a lot earlier then the right.

My third superset the burpees and plank. This time my burpees were fine and not zombie fied both feet together. The plank I still need to work on but I believe its mainly due to big shift in weight that im not use to it yet however pulled off 25 seconds straight each time.

warmed down and ate my post meal.

Main thing I need to focus on is the recovery time as I once got told being fit is not what you can do in at one given time its being able to do that and then be recovered enough within a few minutes to do it all over again.

Im still having problems getting the pictures from my phone to my computer as soon as this is done ill upload onto my blog and actually write on it lol.

Hi Aaron, i had the same worry with my legs Hurting, i got some deep heat cream and rubbed it in prior to warm up, found it realy helped. A heart rate monitor is realy good for keeping an eye on recovery times, and monitoring your improvement as time goes on, they are quit cheap from argos. Keep up the good work.

Pete.

I've always wanted to get a heart rate monitor to see if I'm overtraining or not, guess I just procrastinated so much that I forgot all about it. Might go out and purchase one this weekend

Does anyone know a site, where you can type in your stats and find out what your heart rate should be when resting? - I'm buying one today..

Heres a chart http://www.netfit.co.uk/ty13.htm I think its not so much as weight but lifestyle type which helps work it out.

Now I'm super keen to get a heart rate monitor to see where I stand on that chart

just a quick post today as fridays are my busy day work till 10pm

meal
1= oatmeal and promax shake
2= 2 1/2 boild egg whites and apple and bananna
3= Chicken with pepper, mixed herbs and lettuce o and a orange.
4= white fish with mix veg and peas
5= steak and basmati rice with an apple (o by the way me being dumb have realised its basmati not pilau so ive bought some brown rice now )

today was interval training was meant to run however weather is still horendous andI dont want to start my running on a bad note so I went on punch bag again this time I did the interval training however had so much energy I stayed on bareknuckled for another 20mins just practicing new techniques at quite a high rate.

went shopping and got lots of different fish (mackrels, sardines, salmon and prawns) so that'll be nice. Cant wait for resistance training tommorow