Operation: Get Jacked - Preliminary Stuff

Hi everyone!  My name is Daniel; you may know me from my other blog, Stuff That I Like (but probably not).  Anyways, Operation: Get Jacked is something I decided to do once school finished, and wouldn't ya know, school ended for me today!  Thus, I have a nice 5 month summer with which to get fit. 

I've got a fair amount of workout experience; I took a Weight Room class in Grade 10 which gave me a really nice basis for my own personal fitness, and I was pretty into it for most of that year.  I worked out fairly constantly for the rest of high school, but not nearly as much as when I was in Weight Room - went down from 4-5 days a week to about 2-3 (only once a week, sometimes not even, near the end of Grade 12).  And then university kicked in, and I stopped working out altogether. 

As you could probably imagine, this didn't have very many positive effects on my physique.  Due to my lack of working out I attempted to eat the healthiest foods on campus that I could when I had to, but I just couldn't bring myself to start working out again; there was too much work to do, I had to wake up at 6:45 every morning to get to school and twice a week had to stay until 5:30 PM, and (being a music major) needed to keep up a regular practice schedule.  Needless to say, by the time I got home I was too damn exhausted and lazy to workout.  I'm pretty sure that any good muscle that was built up has now been broken down; I am essentially back at square one.

But, alas, it is summer.  I wasn't planning to blog this, but I know that I sometimes get lazy, and having some support behind me as well as people to (hopefully) not disappoint will help me stay on track.  Furthermore, while I'm no "fitness expert", I do know a fair amount about working out, and hopefully some of the stuff I post might give you readers some ideas and guidance about where to start with working out.

So, 6 days a week.  I'll be doing a half hour of cardio on my elliptical machine each workout (Might do interval training a couple times a week once I get into it a bit more), and will cycle through all of my muscle groups twice per week (except legs; I'll elaborate when I post my workout).  Sundays I'm gonna take as rest days.  The hardest part for me is going to be keeping up this schedule once I start working full-time in a couple weeks, as well as keeping my diet in check (any tips on this would be greatly appreciated).  I'll be posting my whole workout routine either tomorrow or Saturday, and then Operation: Get Jacked commences on Monday.  Wish me luck.

-Daniel

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