I'm currently doing the second semester of a masters in Grenoble, France. I'm here until the end of April and since arriving I've done a whole lot of nothing, gone for one run and other then the daily walks around town i've been living a highly unhealthy lifestyle.
Too much drinking and a diet consisting largely of premade white pasta with sauce with the odd bit of chicken stir fry and steak thrown in.
So this will be about my third or fourth attempt to become a gym going regular. My last gym session was about three months ago, workload in college got very heavy and as i didn't manage my time very well, the gym got the boot. Prior to that I had been doing the starting strength program and making good gains from it.
My max lifts were still pretty underwhelming but I was happy with the progress I had been making.
Max squat was 72kg (body weight at the time) Bench was 60kg and Deadlift was 85kg. I was doing one arm db rows with max 5 rep set using a 28kg db. Standing dumbell shoulder press was done with 14kg db's. I could never do more then one pull up, so had just begun working on body rows in the hope of improving that.
I would describe myself as a lanky 5ft 10. I have skinny arms, skinny legs and a nice little beer belly going for myself. Although I don't have a weighing scales here, my weight always seems to fluctuate a few kg either side of 72kg.
Aim: 12 weeks of stronglifts 5x5 program. See stronglifts.com for more info.
So it will be three days a week with two days of cardio on non lifting days.
I'm going up to join the gym now and should do my first session later this evening.
I think my main problem is going to be my diet; looking like it will be something like this:
Breakfast: 3 egg omelette with onion, peppers or Mellors Oat pancakes. Glass of multivitiman juice and some green tea.
Lunch, cold wholegrain pasta with chicken.
Dinner: Chicken/ Steak, boiled vegetables (mixed veg that you find in freezer section of supermarket).
Snacks: nuts etc.
I don't tend to eat a lot of bread, but I am finding myself eating a lot more croissants over here then usual, not sure just how bad these are.
Any advice or hints tips would be most appreciated.
Also any links to good meals which can be prepared frozen and then microwaved for later would be amazing.
Too much drinking and a diet consisting largely of premade white pasta with sauce with the odd bit of chicken stir fry and steak thrown in.
So this will be about my third or fourth attempt to become a gym going regular. My last gym session was about three months ago, workload in college got very heavy and as i didn't manage my time very well, the gym got the boot. Prior to that I had been doing the starting strength program and making good gains from it.
My max lifts were still pretty underwhelming but I was happy with the progress I had been making.
Max squat was 72kg (body weight at the time) Bench was 60kg and Deadlift was 85kg. I was doing one arm db rows with max 5 rep set using a 28kg db. Standing dumbell shoulder press was done with 14kg db's. I could never do more then one pull up, so had just begun working on body rows in the hope of improving that.
I would describe myself as a lanky 5ft 10. I have skinny arms, skinny legs and a nice little beer belly going for myself. Although I don't have a weighing scales here, my weight always seems to fluctuate a few kg either side of 72kg.
Aim: 12 weeks of stronglifts 5x5 program. See stronglifts.com for more info.
So it will be three days a week with two days of cardio on non lifting days.
I'm going up to join the gym now and should do my first session later this evening.
I think my main problem is going to be my diet; looking like it will be something like this:
Breakfast: 3 egg omelette with onion, peppers or Mellors Oat pancakes. Glass of multivitiman juice and some green tea.
Lunch, cold wholegrain pasta with chicken.
Dinner: Chicken/ Steak, boiled vegetables (mixed veg that you find in freezer section of supermarket).
Snacks: nuts etc.
I don't tend to eat a lot of bread, but I am finding myself eating a lot more croissants over here then usual, not sure just how bad these are.
Any advice or hints tips would be most appreciated.
Also any links to good meals which can be prepared frozen and then microwaved for later would be amazing.
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