sbirgel
06-28-2010, 02:18 PM
Well, after having been a member of this site for 6 months and reading countless articles on training and diet I've decided to try out HCT 12 and see what all the fuss is about. I've been lifting fairly consistently a little more than two years now (started when I went to school) and my routines have mainly consisted of whatever I felt like doing that particular day for that particular body part.
As for diet, I have mainly been just eating whatever was around and at random times during the day throughout those two years as some of you will know, it's pretty hard to maintain a strict or regulated diet at college for monetary and time reasons etc. But now that I'm home from the summer and working 9-3 I can finally get good food (i.e. parents' cooking) pretty regularly so I'm attempting to clean up my diet and set a daily calorie goal of 3300 calories of mostly healthy food in order to bulk my way up to 195 over the next few months.
Anyways, to get back to HCT-12, I settled on the second routine, the 4 day split and will be doing the following exercises on each day. Any comments and encouragements are greatly appreciated :)
A: Weighted Chinups, DB row, BB flat bench, OH BB press, Weighted Dip
B: BB curl, Back squat, Romanian DL, seated calf raise, and weighted crunches
[B]DAY 1 6/27/10
A-Routine-Current Body Weight :176lbs
All weights in pounds
Chins: BWx6, 15x6, 25x6, 35x6+2+2+2
DB Row: 65x6, 75x6, 85x6, 100x6+2+2+2
Bench: 135x6, 155x6, 175x6, 185x6, 195x6+2+2+2
Felt like I could do more on bench but I'm struggling with setting up a proper arch and maintaining it, need to do some work on this
OH press: 45x6, 75x6, 95x6, 115x6+2+2+2
I really struggled with my last set of this benching just makes my shoulders shot, might rearrange so I do this at the end of my workout and give my shoulders a break instead of right after doing bench the +2s were almost impossible haha.
Dips: BWx6, 25x6, 35x6, 45x6, 55x6+2+2+2
these felt really good
My first impressions other than the comments I listed below individual exercises overall were good, I liked doing this routine a lot. The clusters do really force you to dig deep to get them. My only concern is that I'm not doing enough volume at a bigger weight. I want to trust the program but for example I feel like 3 sets of chins ups of 6 reps just isn't enough. Please post way criticisms or encouragements!
As for diet, I have mainly been just eating whatever was around and at random times during the day throughout those two years as some of you will know, it's pretty hard to maintain a strict or regulated diet at college for monetary and time reasons etc. But now that I'm home from the summer and working 9-3 I can finally get good food (i.e. parents' cooking) pretty regularly so I'm attempting to clean up my diet and set a daily calorie goal of 3300 calories of mostly healthy food in order to bulk my way up to 195 over the next few months.
Anyways, to get back to HCT-12, I settled on the second routine, the 4 day split and will be doing the following exercises on each day. Any comments and encouragements are greatly appreciated :)
A: Weighted Chinups, DB row, BB flat bench, OH BB press, Weighted Dip
B: BB curl, Back squat, Romanian DL, seated calf raise, and weighted crunches
[B]DAY 1 6/27/10
A-Routine-Current Body Weight :176lbs
All weights in pounds
Chins: BWx6, 15x6, 25x6, 35x6+2+2+2
DB Row: 65x6, 75x6, 85x6, 100x6+2+2+2
Bench: 135x6, 155x6, 175x6, 185x6, 195x6+2+2+2
Felt like I could do more on bench but I'm struggling with setting up a proper arch and maintaining it, need to do some work on this
OH press: 45x6, 75x6, 95x6, 115x6+2+2+2
I really struggled with my last set of this benching just makes my shoulders shot, might rearrange so I do this at the end of my workout and give my shoulders a break instead of right after doing bench the +2s were almost impossible haha.
Dips: BWx6, 25x6, 35x6, 45x6, 55x6+2+2+2
these felt really good
My first impressions other than the comments I listed below individual exercises overall were good, I liked doing this routine a lot. The clusters do really force you to dig deep to get them. My only concern is that I'm not doing enough volume at a bigger weight. I want to trust the program but for example I feel like 3 sets of chins ups of 6 reps just isn't enough. Please post way criticisms or encouragements!