Originally Posted by Ken "Skip" Hill

Well, my fat ass took a few days off this weekend as I have shifted gears with my training just a bit. I admit that I got side-tracked after the show with my weight going up and it was easy to do because I was still in great shape all the way to pretty much 230. Even at 230 I was the leanest and strongest I had been at that weight but ..... as I started to slowly go past 230 and get even stronger, you guessed it, my back started fucking with me and giving me problems again.

I tried. I secretly tried to make a run at a relatively lean 245-250 by the end of the year (the leanest I would have even been at that weight) but I just can't do it. I fool myself because just like everyone else, I don't like to admit that I am getting older and have limitations that I just can't ignore. It is what it is. Plus, my gut was starting to get big again and I don't like that look so I was starting to feel a little shitty about my condition. I want to stay pretty lean and I was going against that as I got caught up in it all. It is easy to do.

Anyway, I will be starting this journal or log officially tomorrow and plan to detail my training and my philosophies about training, etc.. I plan to use a lot of pics and video, too, so I hope it will be fun and entertaining. I won't be taking this one down as I made sure that as I come into this log that it is something that I am willing to keep up. I feel better about this one because I can now be as detailed a I want to and not be giving up information that others may perceive as trade secrets and take them as their own. It also allows me to do some experimenting with my nutrition and not have it under a microscope, at the same time.

My training split will remain the same as I start this next phase of leaning out a bit. I don't have a goal weight or anything like that. I just plan to lean down and get the look back that I like.

Split:

Monday a.m.
chest, delts, tris, calves

Tuesday p.m.
back, traps, bis, lowerback

Thursday p.m.
quads, hams, calves, abs

Friday p.m.
repeat of Monday

The following Monday would have me doing the back workout and then repeating that on Friday. The upperbody workouts cycle through every 2 weeks but legs remain only once a week. This seems to be working well and my primary focus is on my back and then delts and chest. I plan to do very little calf, tri and bi training in relation to everything else due to them being very strong points. Obviously, legs aren't going to be trained with priority, either.

I will get a weight tomorrow after being a pig for the weekend and go from there.

I am also going to leave this thread open for questions and dialogue. That way, all questions and info about training is here and not going into my Skip thread.

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