Thought I'd at least get this journal a place on the forum. I'm hoping to be back in the gym next week. I feel as if the cold & sore throat I've had for nearly 3 damn weeks has nearly cleared up now.

For those who do not know me from MP, here s a little resume ....Trained for years but then had a gap of too many years after a divorce back in 1997. Ended up drinking too much, lost loads of weight. If I remember I went for 15ish stone down to 11 stone! I then suffered with depression in 1999 & went on a downward spiral again. This was a big one, lost my job at the time, and was unemployed for 12 months (first time ever in my life).

Anyway I did not train for several years but started back in late 2005. I had a journal at MP http://forum.**/showthread.php?t=928 .

Then after a rocky three year relationship and an eventual split last year I ended up 10 years later back on happy pills & stopped training again! I started to smoke after 4 years off the dreaded weed.

Well now is a new year & I'm off the fags completely. Still on happy pills for now but raring to get back in the gym. (Well actually I'm dreading those first few aching weeks lol! ).

So hopefully all will be cleared up by next week and I'll be updating this little old journal. I intend to start back with just a 3 x week full body workout until I joints, tendons etc are up to speed and one I feel ready I'll be switching to a p/p/l routine. I had some good results with this when I started back. So it will be interesting to see how things go.

So for now guys & gals thats it. I'm not going to bother keeping anything strict here whilst I'm just on the get back & adjustment phase but I will once I start in ernest.

Good to see you're getting back to it at last mate.

Great to ses Ressie back on form.

You're not getting the same good luck post twice!!..ok maybe you need it, good luck

Good luck with starting out tomorrow mate

Bag already packed

Bring on the DOMS. Have a great workout

Cheers GB

What is it tomorrow? be hardcore and tell me it's legs.

Karlos wrote:What is it tomorrow? be hardcore and tell me it's legs.

Look above dude

oops, i read it quickly and thought you were going straight into p/p/l. 3 full body workouts is good, just getting back into it or not. I've just switched from upper/lower split to 3 full body days.

Only thing to say is -

I'M GOING TO ACHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Resurrected wrote:Only thing to say is -

I'M GOING TO ACHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But it'll be totally worth it.

Resurrected wrote:Only thing to say is -

I'M GOING TO ACHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You love it.

How was it anyway?

Bloody hard work, even though I only lifted very light.

I'm getting old lol

Just a slight ache today. Tomorrow? I think it will be ouch time.

Guess what? This morning I woke up with a blocked nose & the sore throat back that I thought I had kicked last week.

So what do you reckon folks? Keep at it now I've started back with the first workout. Or lay off for this week & make sure I'm fully over this damn bug I've had?

Get loads of glutamine down your neck and continue training.

Take it light and remember pre and post workout supplements.

Also at your age make sure that you've got the Winter Fuel Allowance as it's getting cold next week!

Fucker lol

lol

Depends on how bad you feel Res. If I felt really bad then I wouldn't train. If its just a sore throat then I'd carry on. Only you can judge really

Just downed 2500mg of vit c powder

keep training up.

Still here & still taking it slow .

All I have done this week is increase from 1 set to 2 sets. So again not going to actually post any lifts etc as I do not think it is worth while at this stage.

DOMS were not as bad as I expected last week which is good as I normally always throw my self back in after a lay off so I end up hobbling around for a week.

Good to hear Resmond.

How does it all feel?

Bloody hard work Alex. But I expected that having not trained since last May.

Onwards & upwards as they say

It'll only get easier relatively as you know