Conflicted Fitness

The names David, I live in Brisbane Australia and I'm 20.
I love Comics, Manga, Anime, Gaming and I live a very active lifestyle training in Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu.

This blog is mainly to keep a journal of my training and diet as a few other things I enjoy.

Sleep when you’re dead.

I never really sleep, which I know can be horrible when trying to lose weight, gain muscle or train in general. This week I’ve had an average of 5-6 hours a night, I don’t ever feel tired, I rarely ever nap. I guess I don’t have much time too sleep, I work 6 days a week, I train in martial arts nearly everyday, I go to the gym most days, full time study at university and I still have time to head out and see everyone I wanna see.

Whenever I tell people they often freak, you get used too it I guess.

Day 4

I woke up early this morning and instead of rolling around in bed I decided to do something productive so I took the dog for a walk. I love how cold and crisp the air is early morning during winter, amazing. You feel so refreshed afterwards, I love winter.

Anyway, to the workout!
Back/shoulders

Wide grip pulldown
Single arm Db row
Straight arm cable pulldown

Superset;
Close grip pulldown
Cable row

Barbell front raise
Machine shoulder press

Week 1 day 2

Chest/shoulders

5 min cardio
Db chest press
Db flyes
Straight arm pullover
Cable flyes

Db shoulder press
Side lateral raise
Upright row
Rear lateral flyes
20 min cardio

My left shoulder gave me a bit of grief towards the end, but other than that another good session! Loved it.

Day 3 is a rest day, so I’ll just hit the ring/mats for an hour or two tomorrow. Maybe even go for a jog in the morning! Who knows!

Week 1, Day 1

Arms/Legs

5 min cardio

Triceps dumbbell overhead extension
Lying tricep press (cable)
Tricep pulldown (rope attachment)

Concentration curl
Db alternating curl
Cable curl

Squats
Hamstring curl (machine)
Leg extension (machine)
Deadlift

20 min cardio

Felt pretty dam sore after this. It’s been a while since I’ve done legs properly, was a little wobbly during the dead lifts which made cardio after really hard, so I jumped on the bike machine. All in all, a good way too start the week. Feeling motivated.

Basics.

Training;

The main muscle groups I’d like to work on during the 12 weeks are my arms, shoulders and chest. I’ll be trying to work those groups earlier in the week with a heavy workout of an average of 4 exercises or high weight low-medium rep range, give at least 48 hours of rest and hit them again with a 2 exercises of lighter weight but high rep/set workout. Start each workout with a 5 min cardio warmup and finish with 20 mins.

Through this ill also be training in Muay Thai and Brazilian jiujitsu, I don’t really count this as exercise as its just something I enjoy, I see it more as a hobby. I’ll be doing it mainly on rest days, but if I ever have the craving to get in the ring I’ll go for it.

Diet;

My diet is going to be simple, eat small portioned, high protein, low fat and low dairy meals every 3-4 hours. Lots of fruit and vege and a hell of alot of water.

Supplements;
I’ll be taking:
- Whey protein isolate
- L-carnathin (metabolism)
- Bcaa and Ecaa (to maintain as much of the current muscle mass I have and to aid in further muscle development)
- Daily multivitamin (general health)
- Glucosamine

Not really a supplement but I’ll also drink a mug of green tea every night before bed. Just because green tea is the shit.

Nothing else too say.. Let’s do this!

12 weeks until Greece!

I’m by no means unfit or overweight, I regularly go to the gym an train in martial arts everyday. But I’ve become bored with my routine, I’ve hit a plateau in my gains and need to challenge myself. I’m going on trip to Greece, hitting Paradise beach and a few other places in August so I’ve designed my own 12 week program, which includes a personal diet plan and training regime.

I’ve pre-cooked 50 meals the other day and frozen them, I’m a little nervous to see whether I’ll be able to stick to it or not, but we’ll see. I’ll be posting about it regularly on here, the weekly program and my basic diet as well as any supplements I use during the 12 weeks.
Wish me luck! :)

Muay Thai

So today things were a little stressful, there’s something about Muay Thai that calms me. You step into that ring and all your troubles disappear, it’s just you and your opponent, one on one until that bell sounds off. I’ve never felt that with any other sport, I’m covered in bruises, lumps and abrasions but finding something you enjoy that also had amazing training or fitness is rare. So I’m grateful I found a passion like this one.

The crime; 1245

Average kilojoules in one average size bowl of ice-cream

The punishement; 50

The number of minutes of sweeping floors you’d have to do to cancel it out.

The crime; 5714

The average Kilojoules in one donor kebab with a portion of chips.

The punishment; 8.5

The number of hours of lawn mowing you need to do to work off that meal.

Well that puts things in perspective =\

Climbing mount warning early tomorrow morning my best friend Marlo!
Can’t wait, early night for an early rise!

Tumblr.

So I’m new to the whole tumblr thing, literally made my account 1 minute ago but I’ve heard good things from it, my girlfriend and most of my friends have an account so I thought I’d give it a shot.

I’m also planning to use this as a personal progress tracker. I’m starting my own 12 week transformation workout and diet routine in two days. I’m going to write almost everything on here, routine, diet plan, personal blogs transformation pictures, basically going to use this as a personal journal and tag anything related to it ‘12 week transformation’