21 Days left
Last afternoon I enlisted in the United States military, and I will ship out for boot camp in about 3 weeks(4-3-2006). But actually, I'll have to stay over night on the 2nd in a hotel near the meps so really I only have untill the 2nd.
A little about myself, I'm some where between 73-75 inches (oddly enough its changed from depending on who measures my height and what time of day) and around 265 lbs. Now by military standards im like 60 lbs over weight, they say I should weigh around 200 lbs, however I have a lot of muscule mass, but some body fat as well to go along with it, but however I do meet the required body fat % so I was able to enlist. I've always been a big guy, wrestling heavy weight div, and playing offensiveline in HS, and I cannot see myself at 200 lbs.
When I was first interested in joining I was about ~285, and I dropped 20 lbs of fat and maintained all my lifting and strength in about 8 weeks to make sure I was well under the req body fat %. I usually jog about 15-20 miles a week, doing pushups and situps, and lifting weights in the mornings around 4 times a week. This has been my "norm" routine, and hopefully this log will help me and I am hoping you guys can help me as well with advice of any kind.
My goal being to be in great shape for bootcamp.
As far as my diet goes, I eat as clean as I can, no whole milk, avoiding all sugar as possible, I try to eat good fats like almonds, I take a multivitamin, also take san tight to try to lose a few more lbs, whole wheat breads, lots of protein, etc.
So here we go,
Day 1: After being awake for about 21 hours from being in meps, and only getting 4 hours of sleep in the hotel... I sleept in today till about noon, probably around 12 hours.
Right when I was about to begin my morning lift I got a phone call to help a friend move some furniture, sadly it was nothing heavy... mostly light chairs and table.
So I got back home around 3, and did my lifting routine for the day.
Everything I did was 3 sets of 10 reps, and my main goal is to focus on my shoulders today.
One armed bench pressing, works the shoulder pretty good and all the little muscules in between.
Butterflies.
Bent over rows.
High shoulder shrugs, to the chin.
Military presses, one arm for the same reason as bench.
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After I finished my post workout meal I decided to type this up, and thats where I am now. Going to rest for a little bit and then start my pushup and situp routine (Normally I did between 100-200 pushups, and 150-300 situps. What I'm working at now is doing the same about, but increasing the amount of reps per set. For example instead of doing 10 sets of 20 pushups, doing 8 sets of 25, and the difference is very very noticible, and hopefully working my way up as I go.)
I will also run this evening (I like to run at night, so probably around 8 or 9 pm I'll start my run). Lately I've been doing what some people call "indian sprints", where you sprint for a little, jog for a little, and so on. Lately I've been doing this for about 2 miles, more jogging than sprinting, about 1.5 of it jog and .5 mile sprint, maybe tonight I'll up the the sprints to a 1:1 ratio, sprinting 1 mile and jogging 1. And after my little sprint/jog session I just do a normal jog for 2 more miles, totaling a 4 mile run.
Tonight I'll see how I feel, I might go for 5 and maybe if I feel really good 6 miles in total. But we'll see. I plan on updating what I've done today before I go to sleep tonight, so don't worry I will do more than just workout today!
Any feedback or advice on anything or everything would be awesome, and if I'm not doing my log right let me know whats wrong.
UPDATE:
Instead of doing my pushups, helped a friend plant some small plants in the ground. Which involved post hole diggers and a good back/shoulder/arm workout.
Dug 40-45 holes with a pair of post hole diggers about 1.5 feet deep and 2 feet wide. Kept a good pace going and didn't take any long breaks.
SECOND UPDATE:
Up'd the intensity on my indian sprints, instead of jogging 1.5 miles and sprinting .5, I did 1:1.
Jogged for 1 mile, and did sprints for 1 mile. The pace for jogging was around 1min20sec, and the eqaul amount distance for the sprint was around 40 seconds - and I alternated back and forth. So if I could sprint for 1 mile fully, I could run a 6min30sec mile if I could maintain that pace (of course I can't).. not bad for a 260+ lb guy.
After I finished that I jogged (slightly faster pace, 1min speed) 2 more miles, for kind of a cool down.. wasn't very hard at all being honest... but the 1:1 indian sprints were great... I felt my food from earlier coming up (which means I'm doing something, lol) but managed to keep it down and didn't vomit.
Aaaand the post hole digging and the added sprints drained all my energy for the day.. so I wimped out on the situps and pushups... I only did 1 set of 40 pushups, and 1 set of 30 situps... and I'm gonna call it a day.
, all good signs of hard cardio.
