Making_Changes, time to live up to the username, transformation log

[Making_Changes]

Alright, I'm going to throw my name into the transformation log as my girlfriend, daughter and friends said I need to get back on point and I agree with them.

I've been in and out of the gym for years, never been a bodybuilder, just a gym rat that loves to lift. Somewhere along the line, I just lost motivation and the workouts went from hard, to less and less, and eventually to just going through the motions. No excuses, it is what it is and I need to fix that now. So that is what I'm aiming for. I've already dropped about 30 pounds of fat over the last couple of months, so I just need to keep improving.

I've never done a log before, so if I need to add more details, please let me know. I also apologize for the pics, my camera is crappy and the dog kept wanting attention.

Gym will be every other day as the following, I also do several warm ups, then my heaviest set, then lower weights and increase reps, or try to anyway, for about 3-5 sets, depends on how I feel.

Day 1
Chest shoulders tri
For chest:
flat bb
Incl bb
flies

Shoulders:
DB Side laterals
cable laterals
DB Uprightrows

Tri
CG BP
weighed dips

day 2-off

Day 3 Back, rear delts Biceps
Bar rows
DB rows
Chins (as many as I can do until I can no longer pull myself up)
( Building back up to deadlifts, I do them every other backworkout)
Rear delts-- Bent over laterals

biceps, hammer curls, db curls (by this point, my bi's are fried)

day 4 off

day 5:
Legs
Squats
leg press
lunges

hams: leg curls
stiff leg dl

calves: calf raises on seated calf press machine,
standing calf raises
(i'm also thinking about doing calves at the end of every workout for a couple of high rep sets)

day 6, off, then 7 repeats ect ect

I'll do this for a month, then if no real improvements, I'll move to 2 days on, 1 off, 2 on, 2 off. Maybe that would be better?

Nutrition will be 300-350 grams protein daily. from whole food and shakes.
As for the carbs and fats, I'm starting off around 300grams of carbs, and about 60 grams of fat. The carbs and fats will change depending on if I'm not dropping enough fat quick enough. My goal is to recomp, add some muscle mass and drop a more fat.

Hormones:
Test e, 500-week
Tren A-350 a week
Sdrol 20 on workout days, 10 on non workout days. (I'll try to make this go for 3-4 weeks, but it depends on if I can handle the sides. Don't want to screw up my nutrition because this makes me sick or feel toxic)

Money is a little tight right now so I can't do GH or anything too expensive.

 

[Making_Changes]

more pics

 

[Love_to_Bodybuild]

good effort getting your log out there

 

[Making_Changes]

Day 1
Chest shoulders tri
For chest:
flat bb ----these went fine, heavy set was 7 reps, then dropped weight-9 reps, dropped again hit 11 reps final set was 14 reps

Incl bb---shoulder started hurting to bad even on light weight, changed exercise to incline flies 4 sets of 12 reps,

flies, 4 sets again of 12 reps with declining weight each set.

Shoulders:
DB Side laterals 4 x 12
cable laterals 4 x 12
DB Uprightrows 3x8

Tri
CG BP, scratched, shoulder was hurting to bad.

weighed dips, doesn't seem to be any pain when doing dips, even with added weight, so I think I'll put more focus on these instead. will try different angles, see how it works out. 4 sets, started heavy for 2 sets, then dropped to bw for 2 sets, don't count reps for bw, just keep doing until i burn out.

 

[Marvin Martian]

Good luck to you man

 

[Making_Changes]

Good luck to you man

Thanks,

Yesterday was back, rear delts and biceps. Couldn't make it to the gym, so i worked out at home.

bar rows- 4 working sets, x 6, 7, 11, 10, couldn't keep raising the reps at the end.
chins, did sets of 3-4 until i reached 30 reps.
rear delts, bent laterals, 4x8,10,,12,12
hammer curls, 4 sets x 5, 8, 8, 6.
threw in 2 sets of reverse ez curls, 9 reps each set.

today will be legs. will post those up tonight, and also better pics come tomorrow when i have my daughter retake them

 

[Making_Changes]

Workouts have been going decent. Right shoulder/bicep have been giving me some issues, so I need to redo my entire workout plan and switch exercises up.

My daughter took more pics of me last week, but it's an old camera that doesn't have a micro flash, it has a USB and I had to track down and buy another cord for it. I'll post those pics tonight.

 

[Making_Changes]

pictures are still shit. maybe I should invest in a new camera too.

These were done last week, but I had to move them over to my laptop from the camera. Quality is still, not so great.

 

[Making_Changes]

Pulled my right bicep last week, so I've just been slamming cardio, dropped carbs and fats down very low will see how my arm is monday and start lifting again, maybe give it a few more days of rest. I haven't given up yet... just going to take me longer to reach my goal. No biggie.

 

[Making_Changes]

Right lower bicep still giving me issues, Did light bench presses last week, along with dips which were fine. Tried to do back and biceps on Saturday, went extremely light, didn't feel any pain doing cable rows, but when I did hammer curls, even with very light weight, still felt some stress in my right bicep. Not as much though, so I'll give it until this weekend for relaxing, hit the cardio, and avoid any direct or even indirect bicep stress. Hopefully in a few days, it'll be feeling back at 100%. Fiid intake has been high protein, low fat and low-moderate carbs.

 

[Making_Changes]

Went to the Dr last night for my bicep, he thinks it's strained, he's the General pract and he advised me not lift anything, not even light weights, so not sure how right he is. I'm off work from this friday and all of next wek, so no lifting, i'll just hit cardio in the AM and the PM for the next week and a half. I have a follow up visit on May 17th, so we'll see. Diet is still high protein, low fat and low-mod carbs.

 

[Marvin Martian]

When I was first coming back to the gym late last year - I grabbed a cable and curled it. I felt a pop and pain shot up my arm from my mid forearm to my bicep. Of course I used it as an excuse to stop lifting again and came back in February. I do think I needed to lay off of it though, just had no reason I couldn't do legs and cardio.
The good news is that now I cant even tell that it happened.

 

[Making_Changes]

When I was first coming back to the gym late last year - I grabbed a cable and curled it. I felt a pop and pain shot up my arm from my mid forearm to my bicep. Of course I used it as an excuse to stop lifting again and came back in February. I do think I needed to lay off of it though, just had no reason I couldn't do legs and cardio.
The good news is that now I cant even tell that it happened.

Thanks, I think by me trying to rush the healing and even lifting light may have kept it from fully healing. Going to keep doing cardio daily with lower cals, and will do legs twice a week. Since I'm off next week and live close to the gym, I'll do cardio in the am as soon as I wake up fasted, then on the days I do legs, I'll do legs in the evening, and a 2nd short cardio session afterwards. I plan to try to bring up my calves by hitting them every other day, I used to do only twice a week, but I keep seeing some people recommending hitting them more frequent, so i'll try that also, see how it works.

 

[Making_Changes]

It's been a couple of weeks since I updated. Started lifting again on Tuesday night, did back and biceps last night. Went very light on Tuesday and yesterday with only a couple of exercies, I went back to my Dr, he said I should be back to normal soon, give it more time if it still feels stressed when I lift.

Legs are tonight, I've also been doing calves every other day. Cardio is daily. Not sure how I'm going to look at the end of the contest, but at least it got me back into the swing of things.