Thursday 3/28/2013 (am)
weigh in: 144 lbs
500 reps core
stretching (core)
notes:
-surprised at how light the weigh in was. woke up pretty hungry so i’m curious how much variation levels of recent food intake and hydration play, even if I do weigh-in’s when I first wake-up. The day I cracked 148 lbs in the morning, I barely hit 150 before bed, so I wonder what I will weigh before bed today. what I think I will do, because I’ve seen this type of fluctuations, where even if I’m doing great and adding 2 lbs/week, that measuring weight gain and loss is difficult because I see my weight generally fluctuate up to 8 lbs in a given, normal day. I think what I will do is weigh in each day when I wake up and each night before bed and then will keep track of my weekly high, low and mode. I just wanto gain about 15 lbs over the course of about a year, so if I add 2 lbs a month I’d be more than happy, and that could definitely look negligible in terms of how I’ve kept track of weight. it’s just too hard to see the effects of medication, dietary, recovery and training changes, so i suppose I’ll just have to be patient, trust in my experience, make sure I’m getting stronger and, most importantly, eat a ton
-visually I definitely look the best I have in a while. seeing bulk on my shoulders, obliques and arms that I’ve never seen before, as well as mass in the smaller muscles in my upper back. perhaps I’m weighing light because I haven’t really squatted heavy lately so I’m sure my lower back muscles and thighs, which I believe were much bigger in high school, arent carrying the mass they used to. i read everywhere that legs respond to high reps training, but i’m just so week much above 5 reps that I can’t say I’ve ever seen any of my major muscle groups grow lifting higher reps