My journey to become the best Athlete I can be.

[KiddMuscle]

I'm gonna start off with my stats. I'm 15, 130 lbs. at around 5'6, 5'7. Before you turn away, I would like to say I am very dedicated and very motivated. I do the best i can anytime i'm in the gym and I have turned myself into a very decent athlete. Not because of my genetics (frankly, they're not really helpful at all) but, because of hard work. My goals are not to get bigger, as far as I'm concerned, appearance has very little to do with what I'm striving for. I'm looking for strength, power and speed. And I'm going to try to do this while maintaining my weight. Which is working out so far.

My max. lifts: Bench-185, Deadlift-260 (although I feel i can do more), Power Clean-150(as of today)
Here are my goals- Bench-230, Deadlift-350, and Power Clean-160.

Here's my schedule:

Mon-Sprints
Tue-Strength Workout #1/Strength Workout #2
Wed-Abs
Thu-Complexes and Explosive lifts
Fri-Sprint
Sat-Sprints
Sunday-Strength Workout #2/ Strength Workout #1

First off, you may question my constant sprints rather than LSD. My first problem with that is LSD has some negative impact on fast muscle twitch. Which, isn't very helpful. Whether that is true or not, I'm not 100% certain. The second reason they're not included is because I do not have any grappling matches coming up anytime soon, so I feel like I can slack some now and pick it up when it's closer to fight time. Sprints help with the power and acceleration which is great for me.

The workout I did today is Strength Workout #1. Which is simply exercises that I think will help improve my deadlift. I will alternate #1 and #2 every week. Here's what #1 consist of:

Power Cleans: 125-1x3, 130-1x2, 135-1x1, 140-1x1, 145-1x1, 150-1x1
Deadlifts: 200-1x5, 230-1x1, 260-4x1
Upright Rows: 110-3x5
Shrugs: 210-2x5
Good Mornings: 160-3x5

I would also like to say only two weeks ago my power clean max was only 135. And my deadlift max was only 235. I'm not sure whats been going on these last 2 weeks but I'm making great gains.

[KiddMuscle]

After my strength workout #1. I ate a banana and a glass of skim milk.

FUCKING DELICIOUS.

[KiddMuscle]

As of late I've been stretching alot. I've heard that the more flexible the athlete the better the athlete. I feel like thats true. I can do the butterfly stretch and touch both knees to the ground and i can get both my legs behind my head. (Not at the same time though). I'm waiting for the Bravo dexterity to come in sometime. haha

My MMA schedule:
Mon Submission Grappling
Tue Muay Thai and Gi BJJ
Wed Submission Grappling
Thu Muay Thai and Gi BJJ
Fri Open Gym.

I plan on Joining the Wrestling team this year. I've never wrestled before but, I'm hoping something I've learned from all of my classes will carry over. I have been watching alot of Wrestling videos to try and get some feeling on it and I checked a couple of books out from the library to read, too.

[joe broadway]

how long have you been lifting?

[KiddMuscle]

Originally Posted by joe broadway

how long have you been lifting?

Seriously lifting; maybe 6 months. I'm not gonna lie, I had always fucked around with weights on and off when I was real young. Like before puberty and all that junk. But, I never saw great progress. As you could have guessed, because i had no idea what i was doing. But to sum up your question about 5 or 6 months.

And because I moved I can't find a gym to lift at so I'm currently lifting in my backyard which is kind of a bummer. But, I have 260 lbs. of weight i can fit onto the bar so I do okay with that. But, i can't squat or bench so that sucks too.

[McClure]

Welcome to the logs. You're doing alot of training - at 15 you probably recover fine. It's probably a good time to start taking some whey protein. And to start eating like a horse.

Only exercise choice I question is upright rows. I'd drop it altogether, or drop it and replace with high pulls or rack pulls.

DB snatches are a nice unilateral posterior chain exercise, too. At your age I think some early unilateral work would help minimize left side/right side imbalances most people deal with through most of their early lifting days.

And, 'abs' means core work, right? I assume you're not doing ab crunches or something similar? There's a wealth of information in these forums regarding ab work.

Good luck.

[KiddMuscle]

Originally Posted by McClure

Welcome to the logs. You're doing alot of training - at 15 you probably recover fine. It's probably a good time to start taking some whey protein. And to start eating like a horse.

Only exercise choice I question is upright rows. I'd drop it altogether, or drop it and replace with high pulls or rack pulls.

DB snatches are a nice unilateral posterior chain exercise, too. At your age I think some early unilateral work would help minimize left side/right side imbalances most people deal with through most of their early lifting days.

And, 'abs' means core work, right? I assume you're not doing ab crunches or something similar? There's a wealth of information in these forums regarding ab work.

Good luck.

Thanks man,
I originally started to do high pulls, but after the first 2 sets i think, i changed it over to upright rows because i wasn't feeling them. :\
I've also been meaning to do the DB snatches. Just never got around to them, possibly next week.
My ab work consists of primarily dragon flags..lol
That sounds weird I know, but the first time i tried these things I got hooked on them. I've never found an exercise that works your core so much. I reccommend them to anyone who has never tried them.

[KiddMuscle]

Just woke up. Had a bowl of Raisin Bran with skim milk. It's actually a decent meal if you can over look the 13 grams of sugar in the Raisin Bran.

Getting ready to go to school. I only have to go 2 days a week (I have a condition, It's called being fucking handsome. ) so that helps with all of my training alot.

I just took two Acai berry pills for the first time today. I'll have to see how that works out. I also take a multi vitamin, vitamin C and Potassium Pills everday.
Does anyone know if taking potassium everday is bad? I googled it but to no avail so i just assumed that it is safe.

[joe broadway]

Seriously lifting; maybe 6 months. I'm not gonna lie, I had always fucked around with weights on and off when I was real young. Like before puberty and all that junk. But, I never saw great progress. As you could have guessed, because i had no idea what i was doing. But to sum up your question about 5 or 6 months.

And because I moved I can't find a gym to lift at so I'm currently lifting in my backyard which is kind of a bummer. But, I have 260 lbs. of weight i can fit onto the bar so I do okay with that. But, i can't squat or bench so that sucks too.

backyard/garage/basement lifting is king. you are lucky to have figured out some the basic principals of getting stronger early (lift compound, lift heavy, eat a lot, and rest HARD).

it sounds like all you need a power rack or squat stand, do you have the funds to pick one of these up?

also, high pulls > upright rows.

want another good core exercise? try overhead squats!!!

[KiddMuscle]

Originally Posted by joe broadway

backyard/garage/basement lifting is king. you are lucky to have figured out some the basic principals of getting stronger early (lift compound, lift heavy, eat a lot, and rest HARD).

it sounds like all you need a power rack or squat stand, do you have the funds to pick one of these up?

also, high pulls > upright rows.

want another good core exercise? try overhead squats!!!

Thanks man, I've actually tried overhead squats but I never got into them because I thought it was kinda dangerous. Actually, we do have a squat rack. It's in storage and the reason I'm not using it now is because our weights wont fit around the Olympic bar. So it's pretty much just squatting 45 lbs. continuously. It's kinda pointless?