My last batch of Weight gain did not last that long at all, I got it on the 25th Oct and already I was in need of something else. The main reason for the 5.45KG bag of Weight gain going so quick was the amount of stuff you add the the container and also the fact I took it three times a day. I did manage to put on half a stone which is not bad, so yes it does work. I thought this time I would go for some “All in one” and looking around, Garnell All in one seemed to do the trick. I found in my experience so far that the all-in-one products seem to suit me better.
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Garnell Nutrition As One 40
Training Rest Week – Did it work?
As part of my training schedule, I was advised by enough people that I should take a week out of training for one week, to give my body time to repair some of the damage that I had been inflicting over the last 6 months. The reason why I was so against this, even though it was good advice, my body never felt like it needed a rest and I felt like I was making good gains. I did my last session on a Friday and never did any training until the following Sunday, that’s 8 days without any physical exercise. Did the week help? Will the first day back been like day one in the gym?
Optimum Health – Ultimate Whey Protein
This is another product I bought from Discount Supplements and I shall be honest in that that thing that attracted me to this was the price and the size of the bag. The reviews on the site said:
Having had a bad batch of protein from a different supplier I thought I’d opt for this. It has a ‘polyfilla’ type powder, very powdery if that makes sense but it does mix ok. I do half water / half ss milk and chuck an ice cube in if I’m at home. Great for meal replacement so helps keep weight down with lean gains too.
I went for the Banana flavour as in theory this is least one they can mess up. I tastes very nice indeed and can even be mixed in a normal bottle without the use of a mixer. At £24.99 for 75 Serving , you cannot really go to wrong.
Training – Aug 2011 Update
As we enter August 2011, a journey which I started in March and is still going strong and I am starting to see some changes as I try and fool my body into getting bigger. I started this training as a means to get stronger and did not think I could get that big but with the right routine and dedication, anything is possible. I took some pictures of the gym I train at and as you will see later, it is not the biggest gym in the world, it gets very hot in there (no aircon) and at peak times it can be difficult to get on the correct equipment you need at that time.
Training cycle continues onwards
Seen as it was the 20th May the last time I wrote anything, I would hate to think that people thought I had given up this training schedule. The only difference is that I was sure people got bored reading about me keeping fit and thus why I have not posted as much. SO what has changed since we last posted? The first thing was I changed from a 5 day schedule to a 4 day schedule, this meant I trained Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday – giving my body more time to recover. I had a medical check at work for the over 40′s which tells you if you are due a heart attack and such – more on this in a bit though.
Training Update Month Three
I am trying to keep the number of posts about fitness and training to a low number, I would hate to force feed the readers with a weekly update of me going to the gym and brag about it – this is not my point but more of how much down the road to changing my lifestyle to be bigger, fitter, stronger and overall better (in my eyes). Fitness is not for everyone I understand and can be a annoying to read about even.
My original goal was to become stronger, maybe bigger but at no point did I expect to be like a “body-builder” – I had told myself that I had tried this a few times in the past (during my time in the army for example) and I failed to get big back then so I assumed that my body was just “not the type” to get big and strong. In this post I plan to lay out what I have learned along the way and my short term goals.
Five Day Strength Routine – Update
As we approach the end of April 2011, I thought I would update those interested in my current passion and this is going to the gym to get bigger, stronger and fitter. If you recall I got this Five day routine from the internet but never started the routine straight away. I joined the gym on the 7th March, spent one week on some general (and wrong) training, the next week I was ill – this meant I never started this routine until 21st March. The purpose of the routine is a simple one, you only do two muscle groups per day which means each muscle has 6 days of rest and you also have two days rest in the week.
Training 2011 Update
Its been a while since I last posted some information on how my training is going and no – that picture is not me but I thought it fitted rather well into the title. As a mean of a catch up, I train in my garage with limited equipment, I have some dumbbells and a multibar which allows me to do pull-ups and press-ups. They say training is half guess work in that you try something, see if it works and change on up and while I should really join a gym and do it properly.
Training – Still on-going
While I spent every waking hour training in the British Army, it has been some years now since I did any sort of work out and it was apparent by my skinny body and skinny arms – but this changed one day, it was time to get fit and get bigger (and stronger). It is all too easy to put this off, after all would you rather be sitting in front of the TV or a computer then pounding the streets or chucking weights around for hours at a time right? This is my story (so far) of how I aim to get fitter without spending lots of money on gym’s and the like.
