Dontrunwithknives's Journal

[samoan_muscle]

Not when you are working in a building with explosives and ammunition where you are not allowed food :roll:

You sound to me like you've got enough excuses for your shit diet to last a lifetime. Stop making excuses for yourself and find a way around the obstacles that are hindering you from what you want to achieve. If you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way regardless. My younger brother is a grunt and has a mean natural physique….weighs around 105 with around 8-9% body fat. He encounters the same problems as you if not worse. When he goes into the field for 3 or 4 weeks at a time he takes a sack of protein in with him to keep his protein intake up. In camp it’s easy for him. Yeah mess food is shit but no reason why you can’t swipe your pay to dine card twice to get an extra meat serving. I don’t see any reason why you can’t take a couple of protein shakers out on the range either…

You crack me up because you’ve got an excuse for everything…

[samoan_muscle]

all of my mates that went on basic lost at least 5kilo of muscle i dont see how you could gain weight when your living off rat racks and getting thrashed all day :doh:

His genetics were temporary altered during basic training....must be something in that Waiouru air ae....

[thatwaslight]

:ditto: exactly what sm said about paying for 2 meals put the extra meal in a container. there are plenty of boys in the army who have serious physiques and have all the same issues as you. im still LOLing at putting weight on over basic :pfft:

youve got more supps than most gyms do so put them to use id be sipping on protein all day if i had your range of supps :shock:

[rose]

You sound to me like you've got enough excuses for your shit diet to last a lifetime. Stop making excuses for yourself and find a way around the obstacles that are hindering you from what you want to achieve. If you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way regardless...

You crack me up because you’ve got an excuse for everything…

:nod: Go hard DRWK. Or you might look back one day be really fucked off with yourself for wasting time etc.

[Dontrunwithknives]

Ok

[two_phat]

Oh and I had to really push myself on pack marchs, I think my legs just knew they had to grow :pfft:

that sort of training would not make your muscle grow. its essentially cardio, as tough as it is, its cardio.

[Dontrunwithknives]

Oh and I had to really push myself on pack marchs, I think my legs just knew they had to grow :pfft:

that sort of training would not make your muscle grow. its essentially cardio, as tough as it is, its cardio.

[two_phat]

Oh and I had to really push myself on pack marchs, I think my legs just knew they had to grow :pfft:

that sort of training would not make your muscle grow. its essentially cardio, as tough as it is, its cardio.

[holdenman]

Oh and I had to really push myself on pack marchs, I think my legs just knew they had to grow :pfft:

that sort of training would not make your muscle grow. its essentially cardio, as tough as it is, its cardio.

[Dontrunwithknives]

Oh and I had to really push myself on pack marchs, I think my legs just knew they had to grow :pfft:

that sort of training would not make your muscle grow. its essentially cardio, as tough as it is, its cardio.

[becbec]

He's right man. Sure it makes your legs sore but the type of exercise you're doing is catabolic not anabolic

[two_phat]

Oh and I had to really push myself on pack marchs, I think my legs just knew they had to grow :pfft:

that sort of training would not make your muscle grow. its essentially cardio, as tough as it is, its cardio.

Yup because carrying a heavy pack up and down hills is nothing like doing leg weights in the gym... :roll:

[holdenman]

running a marathon would have your legs hurting pretty bad too, but funny enough you never see a runner with any muscle on his legs!

Cardio creates a catabolic environment.

[samoan_muscle]

Look I'm not saying that it would be hard work - not at all. But it would not build muscle. Theres no way 2 ways about it. You can take all the sups you want, but pack marches will not help you grow.

Almost true...I swear my traps grew from carrying a pack.

[Dontrunwithknives]

Hmmm well I was talking to my mates and they all say there leg muscles grew during basic training so it must be magic Waiouru or something... :roll:

[Luigi]

Hmmm well I was talking to my mates and they all say there leg muscles grew during basic training so it must be magic Waiouru or something... :roll:

you should post up a leg pic bro to prove them all wrong :nod:

[Dontrunwithknives]

That is a good idea.

But I am in a computer cafe in Wellington right now so I can't.

I need to go home to Auckland with my laptop and upload them from there.

Will try to get home next weekend and do it.

I will see if I can find a picture from before basic training to compare it too.

[Dontrunwithknives]

Ok this is going to be my split:

Mon - Chests and tri's

Tues - Legs

Thurs - Shoulders and traps

Sat - Back and Bi's

Moday's workout exercises:

Bench press (flat bench)

Dumbell tricep exstensions (flat bench)

Dumbell flys (flat bench)

Tricep pulley pushdowns

Dumbell press (flat bench)

Restarting my diet log and starting a workout log.

I am also thinking of starting a new journal for these new workouts.

[Dontrunwithknives]

Ok this is going to be my split:

Mon - Chests and tri's

Tues - Legs

Thurs - Shoulders and traps

Sat - Back and Bi's

Moday's workout exercises:

Bench press (flat bench)

Dumbell tricep exstensions (flat bench)

Dumbell flys (flat bench)

Tricep pulley pushdowns

Dumbell press (flat bench)

Dumbell tricep kickback

Tuesday's workout exercises:

Still being decided

Thursday workout exercises:

Seated bent over rear delt raise

Seated side lateral raise

Dumbell shrug

Upright cable row

Arnold dumbell press

Smith machine upright row

Saturday's workout exercises:

Seated cable row

Standing cable curl

One arm dumbell rows

Zottman curl

Bent over barbell row

Lying supine dumbell curl (flat bench)

What do you think? \:D/

Restarting my diet log and starting a workout log.

I am also thinking of starting a new journal for these new workouts.

[two_phat]

much better! :clap: :clap:

I'd only have one big of advice for ya; maybe think about putting the isolation exercises for triceps and biceps at the end of your workouts instead of inbetween. You might find that you've exhausted your triceps too much early on in your workout and can't really give your best for the remaining chest exercises.

[Dontrunwithknives]

Yeh I know what you mean but I was thinking having them inbetween would allow them time to have a small amount of rest between the isolation exercises so that I don't hit them all in a row and cause them to be too fatigued to finish without increasing my rest time.

I will just try it out and see how it goes. I can always restructure it next week :nod:

And I added some exercises I left out 8)

Oh and how many reps and sets should I be looking to do?

I was thinking something like 10 reps 3 sets? :think:

[Dontrunwithknives]

:-s

[Dontrunwithknives]

Wow today was full on :|

Just finished work now (6:45pm) lol

Hope I have energy for the gym :shock:

[becbec]

Wow today was full on :|

Just finished work now (6:45pm) lol

Hope I have energy for the gym :shock:

and you don't get paid more either :pfft:

[two_phat]

Yeh I know what you mean but I was thinking having them inbetween would allow them time to have a small amount of rest between the isolation exercises so that I don't hit them all in a row and cause them to be too fatigued to finish without increasing my rest time.

I will just try it out and see how it goes. I can always restructure it next week :nod:

And I added some exercises I left out 8)

Oh and how many reps and sets should I be looking to do?

I was thinking something like 10 reps 3 sets? :think:

Thats probably a good start - after a couple of weeks you might want to change it up, but I'd stick with that rough idea for now. Figured out what your legs day is gonna look like yet?