Evilpie's get off your lazy arse and get back to the gym diaries

[EvilPie]

Thanks all, looks like I'll be getting me a proper dietplan over this weekend.

Let me know if you want to hit this together mate.

I'm looking at adding some mass over the next few months so we could help each other.

At the moment I'm about 15st 10lb give or take the odd bit.

I'll be targeting around 16st 7lb but maintaining whatever my current waist measurement is (probs about 35/36")

I've just gone crazy buying loads of protein type stuff to help get the calories in.

Got some sorting to do to make sure I'm eating enough.

Could be fun racing to pile on weight instead of the usual thing people do to lose it.

[boldie]

Thanks all, looks like I'll be getting me a proper dietplan over this weekend.

Let me know if you want to hit this together mate.

I'm looking at adding some mass over the next few months so we could help each other.

At the moment I'm about 15st 10lb give or take the odd bit.

I'll be targeting around 16st 7lb but maintaining whatever my current waist measurement is (probs about 35/36")

I've just gone crazy buying loads of protein type stuff to help get the calories in.

Got some sorting to do to make sure I'm eating enough.

Could be fun racing to pile on weight instead of the usual thing people do to lose it.

Yeah sounds like a plan. Motivation is always my biggest downfall, especially as I'll be really needing to put some effort in so seeing how someone else is doing will definitely help.

As Cos asked, what supps are you taking? I'll spend a couple of hours tomorrow getting everything in place for a dietplan, inc supplements, for myself so that when I go shopping on Sunday I'll buy the world

[EvilPie]

What supps do you take Matt?

Not many at all mate. For breakfast I have oatmeal mixed with a protein shake.

I have a couple of flapjack bars whenever I'm hungry but that's it at the moment.

I'll be upping it very soon though.

How would you reflect on this year of training so far?

I've been thinking about this quite a lot recently.

Overall I can't be too upset because I've stuck with it and definitely made some positive gains especially in strength.

I can't help but feel that I could've achieved a lot more though.

One of my problems has been not going to physio often enough.

I need to go at least once every 3 weeks whilst I'm training or I can't train at my best.

I blame this for my lack of progress on the dumbell thing. I should've been on 50kgs by now but I've not been able to go too heavy because of injuries.

I've had a few tough weeks where I'd have probably quit were it not for our prop. That's not ideal to say the least as next year I won't have that to motivate me if it gets tough.

Overall I'd say I'm over the moon to be back at the gym and looking a bit more like my old self. It could've been a lot better though so there's a bit of a downside too.

[GreekStein]

why are you so injury prone bud?

[EvilPie]

Thanks all, looks like I'll be getting me a proper dietplan over this weekend.

Let me know if you want to hit this together mate.

I'm looking at adding some mass over the next few months so we could help each other.

At the moment I'm about 15st 10lb give or take the odd bit.

I'll be targeting around 16st 7lb but maintaining whatever my current waist measurement is (probs about 35/36")

I've just gone crazy buying loads of protein type stuff to help get the calories in.

Got some sorting to do to make sure I'm eating enough.

Could be fun racing to pile on weight instead of the usual thing people do to lose it.

Yeah sounds like a plan. Motivation is always my biggest downfall, especially as I'll be really needing to put some effort in so seeing how someone else is doing will definitely help.

As Cos asked, what supps are you taking? I'll spend a couple of hours tomorrow getting everything in place for a dietplan, inc supplements, for myself so that when I go shopping on Sunday I'll buy the world

20% off everything at http://www.thesupplementstore.co.uk

As I just said I'm hardly taking any at the moment.

Will be adding meal replacement shakes, whey protein shakes, recovery shakes and mass building shakes when I start my bulk up plan.

I might add creatine and glutamine as well but only because I got them in a free offer.

[EvilPie]

why are you so injury prone bud?

Old injuries coming back to haunt me I'm afraid.

I had my neck badly cranked at BJJ once which didn't help also my shoulder got dislocated which never seems to get fully fixed.

A shattered left elbow as a kid and a broken wrist probably aren't ideal either.

None of it's so bad that I can't train, I just have to be careful.

The problem is that most of it is skeletal and if you leave it you develop muscle problems.

The muscle problems then pull more of your skeleton out and you have a vicious circle developing.

If I get straightened out regularly it's no problem at all.

[smashedagain]

Do you have any footage of you fighting?

[EvilPie]

Do you have any footage of you fighting?

I believe the local law have some on CCTV.

[boldie]

Do you have any footage of you fighting?

I believe the local law have some on CCTV.

lol

[smashedagain]

Do you have any footage of you fighting?

I believe the local law have some on CCTV.

lol

Lol

[leethefish]

Good result last night mate well done

[EvilPie]

Good result last night mate well done

Cheers buddy

[GreekStein]

incredible tbh

[boldie]

Right, menu for today;

6AM Glass of milk and a bar.

8AM Scrambled egg taco (surprisingly tasty, with 2 eggs)

10AM peanuts.

13.30 Lunch; Mexican chicken (3 chicken thighs) with chorizo and various veg, kidney beans + brown rice (approx 150 grams)

15:00 Protein shake with creatine

17:30 glass of milk before leaving work and some peanuts

19:30'ish Salmon with watercress salad.

More milk before going to bed and possibly protein shake

Total milk intake approx 1 litre.

Not easy eating this much TBH but I'll give it a go without any supplements (other than protein and creatine)..if that doesn't work I might try one of them bulk up type things.

[EvilPie]

Right, menu for today;

6AM Glass of milk and a bar.

8AM Scrambled egg taco (surprisingly tasty, with 2 eggs)

10AM peanuts.

13.30 Lunch; Mexican chicken (3 chicken thighs) with chorizo and various veg, kidney beans + brown rice (approx 150 grams)

15:00 Protein shake with creatine

17:30 glass of milk before leaving work and some peanuts

19:30'ish Salmon with watercress salad.

More milk before going to bed and possibly protein shake

Total milk intake approx 1 litre.

Not easy eating this much TBH but I'll give it a go without any supplements (other than protein and creatine)..if that doesn't work I might try one of them bulk up type things.

Lol. Tell me about it mate. It's much harder doing this than dieting to lose weight.

You need to get much more accurate if you're really serious about this though.

You need to know your exact calorie intake every day otherwise you won't be able to gauge whether you need to make changes and how big those changes need to be.

Calories, protein, carbs and fat all need all need to be accurately measured.

Pretty much everything is well labelled these days so you should be able to do this easily.

If you've got everything logged you can see how things are going and make adjustments. If you notice a bit too much body fat you can adjust fat intake.

If you're lethargic you can increase carbs.

That sort of thing.

Eventually you won't need it because you'll know yourself a lot better but for now I'd be weighing or measuring everything you eat or drink (not water obv) and writing the lot down.