The Plan

Alright, let’s briefly go over the plan here.  I’m going to be following a program that is a slight modification on Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength barbell training.  Why?  Because it’s proven, tried-and-true, gets results, really brings home the bacon and fries it too, etc., etc., etc.  If you want details, click here.  But the gist of it is training three days a week, alternating between two different workouts, which I’ll creatively call Workout A and Workout B.  The core exercises are all compound barbell movements, and eventually I’ll add in some accessory work.  Here it is:

Workout A

Squats: 3 x 5

Bench Press: 3 x 5

Deadlift: 1 x 5

Dips: 2 x 8-12

Abs

Workout B

Squats: 3 x 5

Standing Military Press: 3 x 5

Pendlay/Bent Over Rows: 3 x 5

Chin-ups: 2 x 8-12

Abs

However, at first I’ll just be doing the first three in each workout until I stop progressing and need to stress the body a bit more.  Pretty simple stuff.  I'll stay on the program until it stops working and it's time to move on to a more intermediate level program.

As far as nutrition goes, I’m sticking with what I've been doing, which is roughly 3200 calories and 170+ grams of protein a day.  As long as I hit those, I’m happy, although I do try to keep my fat intake around 75-85 grams a day.  If you really want to know why, watch this and this.  I don’t have much more to say about nutrition without going into a lot of boring detail.  I might increase the calories right off the bat, but we’ll see how my weight gain is.

I don’t plan on making an entry after every workout.  I don’t really have much of a plan for this, period.  I’m just going to let it ride, baby, go with the flow.  We’ll see how it goes.  I’m predicting something between useless drivel and winning the first Nobel Prize in Blogging.

So there it is.