I'm back

Hey, I forgot about the Blogg because I didn't I forgot to update for a couple of days, hehe my bad ;)
But on the training part, it has been going really well and it feels goooood. My stomach has been stable for last couple of days since I started only drinking and I opt my dose of cortisone. You can feel a kick every time you drink it is like taking you from 0 to 100 so fast, you can feel the energy going through your body when you drink.
Today was a rest day and I have been holding on with my schedule as usual, I will be doing full body workout tomorrow. I can't wait. I'm so restless when I'm on my resting days I have like nothing to do, maybe that's the point? 
I keep getting more motivated when I go to the gym, honestly I have been trying to stay away from masturbating/sex. Only on the days when I will rest for 2 days I can do it because then my testosterone will build up, at least it feels like it. I guess it's the body's way of saying that you need to get more motivated and become more enraged to get a partner, I feel really angry when I'm not ejaculating and become a bit hostile to people in my environment but I become so pumped and the anger is really good for working out.
My point is that it's not good to masturbate and have sex while you are working out because it can affect your testosterone levels. Even tho it's good for you I don't think masturbating is something you should do unless you have a girl to play with, I rather stay away from it because it motivates you to getting a girl. Masturbating is a bad addiction since it affects your when you workout, if you over do it to much, it is a really bad addiction, depression also kicks in when you masturbates and it can also affect your workouts. And you can feel more attractive to women when your keeping away from it since it will trigger your body's way of thinking that you need to get a partner.
Anyway, I'm feeling better, I think that my Ulcerative colitis blossomed up because I had a really stressful time on the Easter brake since my teacher wanted us to prepare for the Nation test and hand some stuff in, I get really caught up and stressed when I get things to do. I get a problem to relax and get feeling like you have to empty your stomach because you have a anxious or nervousness in your system. I hate my Swedish Teacher sometimes. She thinks she is so "good" but she can't fucking control her self, she says to everyone to do stuff all the time while she cannot control her own work, if she keeps at this phase she will be incapable of work since it affects the students negative. 

Anyway again, I will post more tomorrow if I have time, I can't remember if I did an update post this Sunday. I took pictures but I can't remember if I uploaded them and I can't bother looking at  the moment because I'm in the "writing zone". If that is the case I will maybe upload them after this post or tomorrow.

Btw, I didn't write that good, can't be bothered more today.

Peace out! Project Shredded!

When you're at the bottom, it can only get better.

Been a while since I updated, 2-3 days I think (perhaps), I've been kind of bad because of my disease but I've been good enough to workout even tho, I have on the other side started with a food replacement of "Nutrison" so I will rest my intestinal for a week or 2, you basically drink down the nutrition instead of eating it. Every drink has 500 calories with 20g protein and I drink about 5-6 each day which brings 2500 calories and roughly 100g protein, that will do for a week until I get back into the game.

My workout schedule have been doing really well, my motivation has been really good and I just started the school week yesterday. Only downside of school is lack of sleep especially since we had National test the day after a 10 day holiday (Yaay) those who planned it out didn't think that clearly. So I had about 5 hours of sleep which is 4-5 hours to little. I could really feel the lack of sleep affecting my leg workout later that day, me energy was totally out and I was gasping because of how tired I was.

I will be going to the gym now and I will try to post an update after the workout. I will be doing back today and maybe put in some calves and my hamstrings since I was to tired to finish it yesterday.

Another thing that affects me negative is that the sauna in my gym is temporarily out of order, it is really good after workout since it really helps you relax and it feels really nice after your done.

On the other side the weather in Sweden has been really bad for a couple of days, it's kind of hard to stay focused when it isn't sunny outside but when you go tanning the feeling of the "sun" is really good and affects your temper a lot.

Forgot to post this Sunday about my weekly progress, posting pictures here.

As you can see the progress has been working, my quads starting to get more lines so has the rest of my body. Tho my back looks really awkward from that angle tho it's bigger then it used to be.

Music tip: I get really pumped from Tiesto - I Will Be Here (Wolfgang Gartner Remix)    It's a great song, it gets me pumped up like mad. And I also suggest listing to Trance around the world TATW, you can download it from their website or iTunes by Googleing it!

I take notice really well when I get daily readers even the days when I haven't posted anything, keeps me motivated to keep posting! Cheers!
TIME TO GET PUMPED UP FOR GYM!

Work your body till it's sore.

Wasup, I feel kinda better today in my stomach, today as supposed was a rest day, I didn't do much at all and I think that may have reflected that my stomach went really bad. But today as to say I've been moving and doing stuff all day, feeling great.
The tanning was great and really motivated me to go training, the "sun" is a really good pre-workout IMO, better then anything I've tried. Got a new load of nutrition food from the hospital (Swedish health care is awesome), so i have loads of them at this moment.
I went whole body today, went easy om abs tho since I can feel the pain going up when I go hard on it but soon I hope I will get better so I can go HAM on abs.
When I look my self in the mirror I can see improvements, especially Legs, Shoulders, Traps and Back progression feels great and tanning makes it even feel better.
Since I seem to feel better when I'm out moving I'm going to go and do Biceps/Chest tomorrow at gym so I can get out and do stuff and I will not go easy I will go hard as hell and I think I might add some more exercise to biceps.
I can see on my overview of the blogg that I get some readers daily and still, I'm kind of just trying it out and see what I can improve till I get a familiar feel with this method till I will start "expand". I can feel that when I read other bloggs that pictures, music and tips are the best motivation to read their bloggs and I will see what I can do about that, post more pics of training, food etc.


Music tip: I will listen to Flux pavilions essential mix today, I hope that I will rock.








"To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore"
Rocky Marciano, boxer 

Shoulders and Triceps

Hey, today was shoulders and triceps, and may I say that it was one of the best workouts I've had! Wonder how long this streak will last.
I've learned that it's much better to not rest that long so you can keep your heart pumping blood, in that way you stay motivated as you can feel the pump in your muscles. I can feel that I'm getting stronger and see the different even tho I've just started this workout.
I've also been bad in my stomach for about 3 days, I think I may have gotten a bacteria in my intestinal, so I upped my Cortisone to 20 mg and that is a really great way to keep the pump up, I don't know what it is but when I take it I can feel my temper rising and I get angry and pumped up. I guess that is a good thing for my workout, but I'm now focusing on lowering the cortisone since you get allot of "water fat" that often sticks to my belly so I have more to burn of after, but it ain't that bad because "water fat" is easy to burn I've experience on my own.
Tomorrow is a rest day it says on the schedule and since it has been Easter break this week I've been doing this schedule one day early. But I'm thinking about doing some abs tomorrow and go for a walk outside and on Friday I will be doing Saturdays workout and maybe go tanning.


Btw, The new Bassnectar album is some beast music to get pumped at and a really good pre-workout.

Feel the burn, keep on going.

Today I did my back workout went really well, satisfyingly well matter of fact. I think that the tanning really had a positive effect on me performance today. I guess that your body is set to be in a sort of hibernation on the winter half of the year and it can recognize it because there is no sun so you lower your burn effect on your body since you need to preserve energy, and when I got exposed to the "sun" my body started to believe it's summer and hunting time is on. I really felt the burn in my back so I threw in some pull ups as well  for the extra burn.

And I also did some abs. I'm implementing shrugs tomorrow in the shoulder workout and I'm going to throw in another exercise to the chest and biceps to.

Pictures of back after the workout:

Week 1 progress pictures

Today's leg workout went really well, I can feel the burn in the legs and how I'm progressing. I think I will have some great weeks in front of me. Also went tanning today, it always feels good to get some sun into my system, it calms me and lifts me up spiritually.


As I said I was will post pictures of my first week of progress. I will try to use at least shorts and not underwear in the future. ;)


Week 1:

Hey, I had plans to post yesterday but I got stuck with my cousins and today i had some work to do so I'm posting it late.

This is the pictures of WEEK 0. I'm currently going on in Week 1 and will post another update tomorrow where I will post the pictures for my first week. Tomorrow I will also hit the legs at the gym and will try to get some pictures up on my legs.

Week 0:

I took some pictures of my legs but they ended up really blurry so I dissed them, wasn't anything special. Big legs with no lines indicating muscle.

Introduction

Background:

Hello everyone my name is Simon Andersson I'm from Sweden, I'm 17 years old and life in a fairly large city. I have in a long time though about starting a training blog where I can post daily (If I have the motivation) content of my workout progress. I'm currently 174 cm tall ( 5 feet 8½ inches) and at 73 kg ish (161 LBS). 

I'm in my first year of Swedish High School (Gymnasium) and I'm in the course work of Nature Science (NA). I have long been physical active in my life as far as I can remember, but I was rather lazy as a child and young teenager. I was playing allot of video games and such but I was even tho playing Ishockey from age 4 to 15. But I always was kind of tired and that was because of chronic disease I got diagnose about at the age of 15, ulcerative colitis. I'm taking medicine daily for the disease and I'm getting better at controlling it, I've learned that junk food, spicy food, "gassy" food, candy, sodas are not good for my intestinal and it has resolved me into me thinking more clearly and I'm now aware of the bad consciousness of eating bad food. 

For most of my teenage years I've been working out, running almost 10 km or more every day (6 miles) and I have been doing push ups and sit ups at the late evenings. So I had a really good base structure and a good physic even tho I had my chronic disease which really affected my body badly in durability and strength. As I said before I have kinda learned to live with it but I'm still taking lots of  medicine.

When I started High school I really felt like I wanted to start with more muscle building training since I was kinda getting tired from running and to look better for the chicks ;). I bought my first membership at a local gym in August 2011 and I'm still training in the same gym, the first half a year has been a great experience getting to know lots of new people and learning new techniques and learned how to build new muscle groups. The gain wasn't that tremendous. I no doubt gained allot of strength but I don't feel like I have grown much bigger, that is why I started this blog, to keep posting pictures and status updates so I can see that progress as it happens.

Goals and Method:

My goal of this blog is to keep posting about my goals, my routines, my food, my progress and some other misc stuff that I feel like posting. I will be focusing on how I can get even more healthier than I'm now and to keep control of my disease.

The main goal of the blog is that I'm starting this project, "Project Shredded" which will focus on getting much bigger, stronger and more shredded before the summer. Which will become a 12 week program, and if the blog becomes successful and I'm posting as I should I will keep on blogging and posting.

Food and Supplements:

When it comes to supplements and food, I take some special food which I get prescriptive from the hospital, which is some nutrition drinks with 500 calories and 20g of protein in each, and I also get 2 smaller drinks, one with more protein 18,9g and 250 calories and one with 15g protein and 300 calories. I still haven't figured out if I will be buying some extra protein or gainer since I got thees drinks i can rely on for extra bulking. Because of my medicine that I take (Cortisone, azathioprine , colazide,...,) most partly Cortisone I have no problems eating, matter of fact I don't really have a feeling when I get hungry when I'm eating so I can basically eat for how long as I want but it becomes hard when I can feel the food up in my throat which is a sign that I'm full.

I start my day at 07:00 by taking a 500 calorie drink and 2 "crispbread" with water and my medicine which keeps my energy up to lunch at 12:00 even tho I can feel a bit tired at lunch time I'm thinking of bringing something to eat to keep my energy up. But at lunch I'm eating about 400-700 calories of food depending on what they are serving. And I then have the hardest part of energy part when I quit school at 16:00 and I head home which takes about 15 min, when I get home my mother either have cooked food or I take a 500 calorie drink (takes about 15 seconds to swallow it) so you save a lot of time and I'm also to lazy to cook. Depending of the food I'm getting an intake of 500 ish calories. I then do some homework till 17:30 and right after that I head to the training I take a 300 calorie drink as a pre-workout which gives me energy the whole time. Right after the training I'm taking a 250 calorie drink so I can repair my muscles right after the workout. At home, later, at about 20:00 I take another 500 calorie drink or food if it's prepared so I can take my evening medicine. At 21:30 I'm at bed.

Breakfast: 500 Calories + 2 crispbread + Water = 510 calories 20g protein
Lunch: 400-700 Calories + Water = 500 ish calories 30-40g protein

Dinner: 500 Calories + Water = 500 Calories + 20g protein
Pre-Workout: 300 calories + 15g protein

Post-Workout: 250 Calories + 18,9g protein
Supper: 500 calories 20-30g protein

Total: 2560 Calories and 139g protein

Workout Program:

Monday: Chest/Biceps

4 sets of Incline Dumbbell Press, 8-10 reps

3 sets of Bench Press, 8-10 reps

3 sets of Incline Flies, 8-10 reps

3 sets of Chest Dips until failure

3 sets of Barbell Curls, 8-10 reps

3 sets of Preacher Curls, 8-10 reps, then drop the weight to half, and push out another 8

4 exercises focusing on abs 3x Max

Tuesday: Legs/Calves

4 sets of Squats 8-10 reps

3 sets of Lunges 8-10 reps

3 sets of Leg Press 8-10 reps

3 sets of Leg Extensions till failure

3 sets of Leg Curls 8-10 reps

Calves are self explanatory, just use some of the machines till failure, a lot of reps, feel the burn.

Wednesday: Back

3 sets of Lat Pulldowns 8-10 reps

4 sets of Deadlifts 8-10 reps

3 sets of Bent Over Rows 8-10 reps

3 sets of Dumbell Rows 8-10 reps

3 sets of Hyperextensions 8-10 reps

4 exercises focusing on abs 3x Max

Thursday: Shoulders/Triceps

4 sets of Shoulder Press, alternate with Barbell & Dumbell every week 8-10 reps

3 sets of Upright Rows supersetted with Lateral Raises 8-10 reps

3 sets of front raises 8-10 reps

3 sets of Lying Rear Delt Raises 8-10 reps

3 sets of Close-Grip Bench Press 8-10 reps

4 sets of Pulldowns 8-10 reps

3 sets of Skullcrushers 8-10 reps

Saturday: Full Body

3 sets of Deadlifts 8-10 reps

3 sets of Squats 8-10 reps

3 sets of Clean and Jerk 8-10 reps

3 sets of Weighted Pull ups 8-10 reps

4 exercises focusing on abs 3x Max

I got the workout program from some research from Bodybuilding.com most of thees exercise are from Zyzz which also is one of my role models when it comes to bodybuilding.

Summarize:

As I said I will keep to this program till the summer which is ruffly about 12 weeks, as you can see I don't have any cardio and that is mainly because I feel that my disease gets active when I'm out running and stuff. But most of the time I don't need the extra cardio since I don't sit still so often I'm always moving and such so I can have a good burn going throughout the day.