Peer pressure and progression

As hard as it is to stay on track on a diet, it's even harder when you're friends with a bunch of raging alcoholics (just kidding) who try to pressure you into drinking at a party! I honestly don't mind drinking cause I can easily fit it into the diet by just giving up on a few foods earlier in the day to compensate but it's the feeling of residual alcohol that stays in your body for the days afterwards. It's just a disgusting feeling that I never want to feel but, peer pressure hits hard. I guess, i'm just not strong enough mentally but it's just a speed bump on the road to the end game. Slows you down momentarily but you can accelerate back in no time!

Recently, i've started to eat better and have noticed some reasonable strength gains. So i just went for it in the gym. Ive been able to pull off a new pb, 40kg flat dumbbell press for a 5x5 workout and a 100kg squat for 5x5. With my squats, i'm quite scared when hitting depth cause i've been told that i do round my sacrum/coccyx at the bottom of my squat but hopefully it should be an issue that i can fix within the next few weeks. Other than that, OHP is set at a firm 60kg by 3 reps and deadlift at 140kg by 1. Deadlifting program has changed to 5 sets of 10reps at 80kg and hopefully, it should skyrocket in the next few months. Till then, have a peak at what i do have on record and let me know if there's anything i can improve on.

Happy Lifting! :)

Motivation 101

Its been quite a while.. But hey! Life isn't meant to be spent behind a computer. It's meant to be exciting, adventurous and most of all, it's supposed to be enjoyed with those around you! 

A lot has happened since the last time I've written about any of my fitness adventures and in most part, its been for the better. 

It's just been a crazy roller-coaster of diet and body shape.. At the start of 2014 I was looking along the lines of this:

But of course i decided to slack off and go on a seafood diet... 

"Bulking" was just a reason i gave myself to eat copious amounts of food but its always about the journey and i'll never stop my journey of self improvement. 

In comparison, today, 

I still look the same..

. Nothing much has changed except for my ability to lift more weight! 

Double overhand grip Deadlift 140kg 1RM

80kg Bench/35kg DB press

60kg Overhead press

100kg Squat (SHOULD BE > 9000 BUT IM JUST WEAK)

Majority of gym training nowadays has been focusing on the muscles in the back, lat dorsi, anterior delts, traps and rhomboids, and the subscapularis muscles.

Now don't laugh at this pathetic attempt of pull-ups but it has been a very long time coming and i'm quite proud of myself considering I've never been able to anything of the sort before. 

(sorry for not being able to rotate view)

Other than training at the gym, there have been many bicycle adventures since! Just not recently in the past few weeks with all the rain in Brisbane.

First of all, the trusty beloved was dealt a severe blow and well take a look at the damage..

In saying that, she'll soon be a phoenix and will be revived once I have the means to fix her. All replacement parts have been bought and hopefully, she shall be fixed in the next few days! Fingers crossed!

However, the new bae was acquired and well have a look at this beauty!

It's an Avanti Corsa DR 1 if you're interested.

Going from a bombproof bike (almost) to an aerodynamic carbon goddess was such an amazing jump, I could instantly tell the difference in the two different rigs!

And she shall be the one to take me across the finish line when i do the Brissie to Bay charity ride for Multiple Sclerosis.

Click on the link below if you're interested in knowing what it's about and i'd be grateful if you were to make a donation. 

https://msqldevents.com.au/champion/MS-Brissie-to-the-Bay-2015/WilliamDo

Personally, there's quite a few goals that I hope to achieve this year. 

1. The beach body!

2. Cycle 200kms in one ride

3. Acquire greater co-ordination in sport

But it won't be the end if i don't. 

Plenty of vitality left to go on and achieve them in the years to come!

It has been an awesome year and hopefully 2015 will be even better!

Cycle on!

-Will