How much wood could a Woodchuck chuck?

Woodchuck · 02-Jun-04, 02:26 PM

After much deliberation and way too much time I got off my ass and joined a gym. They give trainer appointments as a part of my fee so I signed up for one. I get to meet with the trainer on the 13th.

In the mean time I went with my old stand by.....running. I think it's been about 2 years since I ran and I guess I ran about 12 laps on the 1/7th mile track. The lungs were done, but the legs wanted more. So I wandered the gym for about 10 min cooling down, fighting a few cramps. Lesson learned: less soda more water.

I figure I'll work my way up to 2 mile runs, and kick about 12 miles out before my appointment. Then maybe my heart and lungs will be ready for whatever this trainer has instore for me.

Vitals
age:29
sex:M
height: 6'1"
weight: 150 on a good day

Goals
Hide collarbones
Ditto hipbones
Would be nice to hide shoulderblades also

Diet
I'm on a very stringent "oppertunity" diet I eat whenever I have the oppertunity.

Perhaps I'm a little early for a journal but I wanted to hit the ground running. I figure with a journal, and trainer appointments I'll keep on target.

BTW hello from the new guy.

LifterMike · 02-Jun-04, 02:28 PM

nice to meet you woodchuck, good luck with your trainer, when you say hide collar bone and hop bone do you mean your too skinny and you want to add mass to cover it? :confused:

Woodchuck · 02-Jun-04, 02:30 PM

6'1" 150lbs boss

The goal would be mass for sure. But I'd like to be able to run a few miles a week too if possible cause it really lets me clear my head.

rrouleau · 02-Jun-04, 02:41 PM

Welcome and nice to meet you!

Cardio is great for the body and the heart. Its never a bad thing to have cardio. BUt when adding mass you dont want to over do it though.

One fo the most important things is your diet. Its never to early to have a journal. Also in this jounal that you have on this site, you can keep track of your diet. Then people can critique it and help you out. Well good luck on your journey and good luck with the Trainer. If there are any questions just post away and use the search button theres so much great info on here.

There are plenty knowledgeable people on here willing to help!!

**jgriffith** · 03-Jun-04, 12:21 AM

Glad you started a journal woody, and good luck with your goals, I'll be keepin up with you in here...

Woodchuck · 04-Jun-04, 04:42 PM

Ugh,

Yesterday I woke up with shin pain. It was muscle pain, but I didn't run anyway. Today it's a little better, and I'm going to run just to get the blood flowing. I'm going to do some crunches and pushups for good measure too. I'll probably shoot for 15 of each three times.

Diet has me worried. I'm a grazer, and pretty much eat what I encounter through out the day. Having to Plan meals is going to be a pain.

My buddy also told me today that alot of gym provided trainers are just front desk jockeys that wanted a change of scenery......great maybe he can at least show me how to use the equip.

Pretty downtrod for a follow up post, but I am a chronically happy person, so this is not my overall mood, more like a few facts I learned. That and I just enjoy being IN the gym. As a people watcher, being in the gym VS being else where is like looking at a Van Gough VS reading the newspaper funnies.

Acuarius69 · 04-Jun-04, 07:15 PM

Hi Woodchuck, I also just started a jounal here. I also love to run, but now my main focus is to build muscles. Anyway, good luck and see you around.
Jo

Woodchuck · 07-Jun-04, 11:25 AM

Yep,

My goal is to get bigger, and stronger also.

The last several days, I have been working furiously towards eating better.
I went to the store sunday and bought things I thought were healthy. But I've never been a hamburger and fries kinda guy anyway, and I don't have much love for sweets either.

So I ran last friday, and it was very easy to put down about 18 1/7th mile laps in about 20 min. I think I'm going to be healthy enough to lift without hurting myself. I'm supposed to go run today too, but I'd rather try some lifting. I've always been able to pickup running with little effort. There's a ton of machines at the gym so maybe I'll check those out. I'll do it after I run I guess.

SO after the grocery run last night, here's today's food.

Breakfast
Bowl of strawberry hiney bunches of oats
(Today is the first day in a long time that I've actually eaten breakfast, so bear with me on this one. It was like forcefeeding)

Lunch
I brought 2cans tuna, a bananna, an apple, a bagel, and a bag of carrots (3/4 cup maybe?)

It's only 8:20 out here and I've allready killed the banana in an hour or two I'll kill the tuna and apple, then after the gym I'll eat the rest.

Dinner should be a chicken breast with lemon and sage, a baked potato with some monterey jack and a two spoons of salsa

I brought a 1/2 gal jug of water with me. Drank about 1/4 of that so far, and scored a Dr Pepper from the break room.

The real pain will be dropping soda. I had some friends over for a few hours last sunday, and we bought 2 24 packs of diet pepsi, we all drank 24 in about 5 hours, and then I drank the other 24 by tuesday. I figure if I can wean myslef down to about 2-4 a day in this first "real" week I can drop the rest in the following 2 weeks. I'll update this later as to my lap count, and numbers of crunches, and pushups

AnnaD - TX · 08-Jun-04, 09:11 AM

holy smokes thats a lot of SODA! WOW!

PLease put the soda down and step away slowly! Anyways, good luck on your new journal!

Woodchuck · 11-Jun-04, 11:43 PM

Holy crap what a horrible week. I have engineers from japan at work with me for two weeks. They leave next thursday, and they like to work from 7am - 9pm, and then go out on the town (I live in Vegas) I managed to run on monday, but that's it. I am totally exhausted from work, and playing tour guide.

I'm hoping to squezze two trips to the gym this weekend to maybe make up a little bit. The only good news is that I managed to drop myself down to one soda per day. I am drinking a ton of water. These guys think I am part fish I think.

I do still have my trainer appointment at 3pm on sunday so I am excited about that. Oh well at least I dropped the soda, if I can do one thing better each week I guess that's not too shabby.

Woodchuck · 13-Jun-04, 08:56 PM

Well, I returned from the gym a little while ago after my appointment with the trainer.

I am very certian that I do not want to go back to the trainer. He sat me down asked me about my goals, and proceded to tell me I should do a full body work out 3 times a week.

I'll line out what he said I should do......I'll be impartial also.

Warmup: 15 min run
Legpress machine 5x15 @ 90lbs (yea I'm a wuss)
Leg curl machine 4x12 @ 30-45lbs
Lat pull down machine 5x12 @ 85lbs (I'd rather do pullups)
some seated chest machine where you push straight out infront of you 5x12 @ 60lbs
some seated chest machine where you push upward out in front of you 4x10 @ 50lbs
dumbell curls 5x12 @ 15-20lbs
overhead tricep machine 4 x 12 @ 40lbs
ab machine #1 the weight pulls on your shoulders and your legs, and you sorta fold like a taco 5 x 12 @ 70lbs (I feel absolutly ridiculous on this thing)
ab machine #2 the weight is pushing on your chest and you push it forward benging at the waist 4x10 @90lbs
He said I should do this three times a week, and be sure to concentrate on flexing in between sets to "build size and strength"

I'm pretty sure at this point that I will be keeping the dumbell curls, replacing the lat pull down machine with pullups 3x15, and 86ing both ab machines for standard crunches, and "bicycle" crunches.

Anyone else have any advice....please?

I'm kinda stuck, I was hoping he'd line me up with deadlifts, clean and presses, dips, skull crushers, and crap like that. I like the clean and press, but in three weeks I haven't seen anyone do them at the gym, so I don't know where to do them. Ditto deadlifts.

I guess I wanted them to show me a good routine, and help my form. I know I should have said something, but I was feeling defeated, and of the 5 trainers that were there (the ones that work for the gym that is) not one of them showed anyone any free weights except the guy doing dumbell curls with me.

Any links toward form demonstration, or anything like that would be awesome.....anyone live in Vegas??
NOTE: I just found the sticky in general forum, I'll start there.

Woodchuck · 18-Jun-04, 02:43 PM

Crow.......Humble pie,

I had some and it was tasty.

I decided that I did not know enough to make my own routine yet, and that I was probably not going to hurt myself doing the given routine. SO I went tuesday

So I started with a 10min run (about 1.5 miles)

Then I did the bicep curls
15lbs x12
17.7lbs x10
20lbs x8

Then leg press ( I used the sled in the free weight area cause the machines were full)
180lbs x12
180lbs x12
90lbs x10
90lbs x10
(I think 180 was too much, so I took a 45 off each side dunno how much the sled weighed either)

Then I went to do triceps on the tricep machine
30x 12
35x 10
40x 8
(that burned nice)

So I went to the lat pull down machine

70lbs x12
75 x10
75 x 10

Then the chest machine where you push straight infront of you.

30lbs on each arm x10
30x10
(then it happened)

I got very queasy and light headed after this. I had eaten, and I had been drinking water all day, and inbetween exercises. I couldn't finish though.
I took the stairs down to the locker room (couldn't bear to take the elevator)
Got a shower and lurched my ass home to lay sick.

Wednesday morning I awoke feeling frikkin great. I could get used to waking up like that.
However I think I will either run afterward, or not at all. on times when I lift.

I may just make wakeboarding my cardio for the summer. I'll be doing it for a couple hours every saturday or sunday for the next few months so that should be enough.