The importance of a sleep

I need more consistency in hitting the gym nightly. Just that exams and studying from summer school is pretty busy and only time I have to hit the gym is at night and sometimes, I can't make it because I have to make up time to study because my schedule throughout the day is so busy from work and whatnot.

One of the key things that is MANDATORY is getting in enough SLEEP. Your body grows the most when your rest and sleep at night so try and get in a full night's rest if you can.

6 Reasons to get enough sleep

- Learning and memory is affected. By sleeping, it helps your brain commit to processing new information called memory consolidation. Studies show that people who sleep after learning retain their information better.

- Your metabolism and weight are affected. It affects weight gain by altering our levels of hormones that affect our appetite and can change the way our bodies store and process carbohydrates.

- If you don't get enough sleep at night, you tend to fall asleep more throughout the day and are more prone to make mistakes in daily tasks.

- You can end up being lazy, irratible, moody and not concentrate as well.

- You'll have more stress in your overall health and body and can cause irregular heartbeats

- Not enough sleep can affect your immune system.

Your muscles will start repairing themselves as soon as you stop working them. But Sleep is still an integral part of your daily regime!

Here's a good read.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/dean22.htm

I felt I needed to highlight this because this is one of the things that I need to focus on also in my course for building my body.

Here's a couple progression photo's from May 2011 and the meals I've been eating for the past couple weeks. Lunch, snack, and dinner

Chicken Breast cuts, baby carrots, and spinach in this tupperware

I've been packing 3 of these with me each day I have school so that I have enough meals to last me throughout the day.

Sorry for the bad pictures. My camera phone sucks.

Will have June progression photo's up later.

What to NOT do at the gym.

Gonna update with some pictures later on on what I've been doing and whatnot and progression photo's. I've been working out with my friend David lately and gotta tell ya. This guy's a beast. A lot of good stuff to update :)

This particular workout that we've been trying is specifically dedicated to ice1cube and Hanhchampion!!!!! Gonna update ya'll on it in the next post :)

I've been eating extremely healthy for the past 2 weeks and haven't splurged at all.

Been eating about 4-5 meals a day and loaded up with a lot of chicken, carrots, bell peppers, onions and a lot of spinach in my meals. Only thing bad thing I think is that I have to load up on caffiene throughout the day sometimes because I have a long day and I get tired >.

If there's ever an aerobics ball laying around you, don't even look at it, don't even think. Just walk away from it. or this will happen.

Back Attack

Had a pretty intense back workout today. Been hittin the gym almost 5 times a week and each time focusing on different parts of the body.

Today, did 5 sets of deadlifts, rows, and some other stuff I don't know the name of .

Here are some progression photo's for May.

Starting to get some more back now.

One of the most crucial things in working out and gaining lean muscle mass, is dieting. This is one thing that I am HORRIBLE at. I've tried to refrain from eating junk foods or carb loaded foods. But it's hard. Still trying to maintain my meals on a healthy basis. Still working on it. Seeing as how I am asian and still eat my mothers cooking, everything is loaded with carbs >.<

Also, have to work on getting more sleep.

Dinner for tonight

Lately, I've been eating REALLY unhealthily. Gotta change it up. Reason why I've been eating unhealthily? Because my house is loaded with tons of unhealthy food. Just loaded up on a ton of chicken breast and spinach. Here's my dinner for tonight!

Cooked chicken breast with some seasoning on a corn tortilla with spinach and swiss cheese.

Sprained Wrist

Damnit. I have a sprained wrist again. Probably gonna be another 2 weeks or so before I can hit the weights again. Gonna be doing a lot of swimming and Cardio in the meantime and legs.

First post of the progression!

Alrighty. I've been working out on/off since I think Aug 09 maybe But recently started trying to hit it hard since 2010 hit. But due to a wrist injury I haven't been able to keep up with it consistently for a couple of months but now I'm back in the game. I'm aiming to hit the gym maybe 5-6 nights a week.

My motivation started from this youtube sensation guy Frank Hwang aka ice1cube and Hanhchampion!! These guys are seriously beasts.

So anyhow, here's how I look as of now.

He had a lot of good workout video's and other stuff on life. Tryin to get like Hanh also.

So anyhow, here's how I look as of now.

After looking at these pictures, reality check...

I've been eating a bunch of junk food before and just taking protein post-workout.

Now, I'm going to try to eat as healthy as I can and keep it that way. But man. Shopping for food costs a lot.

This is the stuff I'm trying to stay consistent on eating.

Anyhow, for my workouts, I've been mainly focusing on chest and back. For my chest workouts, I followed the hanh/ice1cube workout.

Warmup with some pullups

2 sets of 10 reps

Next, I get into the dumbell bench press. usually start off with 2 sets of warmup light weight of 10 reps

2 sets 45 x 10

Now I start going heavier and my reps are 10, 10, 8 , 8, 6

1 set 45 x 10

1 set 55 x 10

1 set 70 x 8

1 set 85 x 8

1 set 90 x 6(or failure)

After this, gonna be heading to the incline or decline and do

5 sets 10 reps at 35/45lbs. Depends. Today, I think I'm going to go 45 on the decline today.

Afterwards, I finish off with supersets on the fly's and pushups.

5 sets 115 x 10 and 12 pushups right after each set

afterwards, head home and protein it up.

I'll update later on how it goes. Have been adding squats to the routine also on different days.