I kept seeing myself as a beginner ’cause sometimes I can’t tell how my physique looks and sometimes it even feels like I just started bodybuilding yesterday, even though I’ve been working out 5 years. After doing a little reading on how you can tell whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advance. I’ve read that if you’ve been working out between 3-5 years and lifting kind of heavy which I have, you’re in the intermediate level. You’ll move up to the advanced level if you have 10 years or more of experience and lifting extremely heavy weights. Something like that.

Already in pretty decent shape in a short time. I just started changing my sets and reps ’cause it’s getting boring doing the usual 3 sets to 10 reps thing. The 3 sets to 10 reps thing is good to do when you’re just starting out, but if you’re lifting for a while, you need to do start doing more like 4 to 15 reps. That’s what I’ve been doing for a while now with all my workouts.

In the gym, I mostly like to do free weight stuff like various dumbbells and barbell stuff. I only use machines for a few things.

Other goals I hope to achieve is that I want to improve my cardio. I want to start doing better at doing long runs or jogs, maybe a 5k. Since it’s getting colder out during the Fall, I’m gonna have to start doing cardio indoors throughout the cold season. The Spring/Summer I always do cardio outside like jogging or biking. I don’t over do it on cardio ’cause I’m already pretty lean. I only need cardio a few times a week just to keep the muscle moving and the heart rate racing.

Question you have to ask is, do I stop working out throughout the fall/Winter like a lot of people seem to do? OH HEEEELLLLL NOOOO! I keep going, all year round! If I wanted a break from bodybuilding, I would take a full week off, once in a blue moon ’cause you need that. I don’t over do the breaks, like so many do. You’re going to lose what you got if you take too much time off. If my goal is to get bigger, I need to keep going.

I want to become the best shape of my life. Even if I may not compete for the competitions or anything like that, at least I’ll look good for the performing stage when I play my music. So that’s using the bodybuilding physique for something. I don’t do this for nothing.

Kev