Days 5-8

Day 5 - Scheduled rest day. Worked out 4 days straight after not working out consistently for over a year; so rest day.

Day 6 - Kung Fu day 1:15 minute kung fu class, always good exercise

Day 7 - Missed working out at the gym due to timing conflict with dropping the boys off as the Escondido Chuze closes at 7PM, found out the Carlsbad Chuze fitness closes at 8PM, Mission Valley as well. RB closes at 7, but would be OK for a short workout after dropping the boys off if I hurried. All in all, I don't want to let it happen again, as my workouts at a gym are much more focused and intense.

Day 8 - Ah back at the gym, and even though work was from 7AM to 7PM today, I was still excited to head to the gym. After an hour and 15 minute workout my muscles were exhausted but my brain was wide awake, I still feel energized.

I began my journal today:

Here's what I did at the Gym today,
Cardio around 15-20 minutes on the Circuit training area. I used a burst technique, so I only used middle resistance, but used a bursting technique (like a fast punch, with a controlled ending.) This really burned out my muscles while I was working out, and if I got to the point I couldn't do more easily, I dropped the weight and continued bursting through. Got my heartrate to around 135.

I immediately continued to the split benchpress machine (it's a flat bench without a bar.)
20 burst reps @ 110# (wide grip)
16 burst reps @ 160# (wide grip)
8 reps @ 200# (wide grip)
8 reps @ 200# (narrow grip)
12 burst reps @ 110# (narrow grip)

Incline press (at this point my muscles were already flagging)
12 reps @ 110# (wide grip)
failed 3 attempts to push 201# (wide and narrow grip)
dropped to 161# 5 reps, failed on the 6th.
10 reps @ 111# (narrow)
10 burst reps (wide) +2 regular reps

Pec Fly nautilus machine
16 reps @ 130#
12 reps @ 160#
8 reps @ 190#
16 reps @ 115#
20 reps @ 55# (too light, I had to go slow so I didn't break the machine)

Abs
Finished off with some leg lifts 3 sets of 10.

Day 4

Just a quick post today, ended up working 10-1/2 hours so the gym trip was just about under an hour including cardio.

Went with Ian for the first time, I did 1.75 miles on the bike.

Then worked with Ian on some arms
Abdominals
Tricep extensions
Dumbbell curls
Deltoid extensions


I also did some light clean & jerks

Day 2 & 3

Day 2 

Yesterday,  I took Sean to the gym for the first time. Ian was going to come with me today, but they got to go to a friends instead.

We did bikes for cardio, 15 minutes, I rode 3.2 miles in the training mode, topping out at a 142 pulse.

We went over and worked some abs, pull-ups and dips, to begin helping him with his Parkour aspirations, then we did some lat pulldowns, some curls and I finally finished with some incline bench. I was amazed that I was able to push up to 245 for a set of 6.

Day 3 

I'm already feeling the tiredness of working out, but I know I need to push through this.

Today, I decided to work my back, I started out on the rowing machine, this was probably a mistake for muscle building in my back, but was likely a great way to burn the fat out of my muscles.

I only did 10 minutes of rowing since my knee was popping for most of the time, I did however over 1.2km rowing, and maintained a pretty decent clip.

I then went and worked my back weight wise. I did some rowing; then some dumbbell rows, dumbbell extensions, and finally some lat pulldowns. It was short, but pretty decent. There were LOTS of really ripped people at the gym today, and that was a little frustrating, but I then decided to use it as inspiration instead.


Continuing:

As I continue this Quest for 18 Con,  I will be utilizing a more regimented routine. I'm picking up some composition journals at the store this weekend.

One thing you won't see me doing it starving myself, I'll be utilizing new and larger muscles to burn fat, therefore I will be eating healthy, but heartily. Muscle burns calories, lots of calories, thus I will need those calories, and proteins to build more muscle.

I will add sidebars for my current max lifts, my routines, and much more. 

The Quest for 18 Constitution

Welcome to my new Geek Fitness blog.

So a little about my past and my current life for those unfamiliar with me. I am going to give my general stats in D&D terms, as this is a Geek Fitness blog.

I first began working out in High School, I graduated at 5'7" and 135 lbs. (Strength 11, Dexterity 13, Constitution 12). I had a little chub around my midsection, but not too much. Prior to that I was a skateboarder, so I had some serious endurance; unfortunately I also had a pretty serious Big Gulp addiction. I also ended up with several injuries. (Strength 12, Dexterity 13, Constitution 13)

I danced a lot in the years between high school and joining the Navy; but I did less body building. In 91, I joined the Navy, boot camp of course increased my endurance. (Strength 13, Dexterity 13, Constitution 14).  During A-School I let me endurance start to slip, which would continue to slip throughout my entire time in the Navy. After A-school (Strength 12, Dexterity 12, Constitution 12) 

While I was stationed up at Whidbey Island, I really started to workout...Greatly increasing my strength, but not my endurance. (Strength 16, Dexterity 13, Constitution 12). This is when I was at my strongest; at one point I carried 300 pounds of tie-down chains out to the aircraft to tie down the jets during a detachment at El Centro. I was able to bench 275 in sets of 10 reps; and 60 lb dumbbell deltoid lifts.

When I transferred to Lemoore and went on WestPac, my trips to the gym began to decline, and I stopped my increases, my endurance fell a lot, and I eventually got kicked out for Physical Readiness Test fails for not doing the 1.5 mile run in 12:45 or less (though I failed one by 6 seconds.) (Strength 14, Dexterity 12, Constitution 11).

After Sean and Ian were born I was doomed, now 13 years later, I would put my stats at (Strength 12, Dexterity 12, Constitution 7). My endurance is shot; my weight is over 225, and I need to get back in shape, and push through my borderline diabetes.

My goal is to drop at least 50 lbs of fat by building a lot of muscle, I don't care about weight, it's a number, I care about health.

The boys want to learn Parkour and we're continuing our Kung Fu. I want to get my stats to: (Strength 16, Dexterity 16, Constitution 18)

I work a sedentary job, I do my blogging, and I have my freelance work, so I don't really have a lot of time. So IF I can do this, so can you.