SS Housenuts - cut and jaucked

Didn't know what else to call this and am almost at 7700 posts so figured I'd just give it an easy name.

Basically I'm looking for somewhere to record my workouts. Back in 02-03 I had a journal on musclemag.com (I think) and it worked out well. It's good for motivation and also marking progress.

Little background story....

I've always been fairly fit and active, but never been terribly strong or stuck to a good work out routine. In the past have primarily stayed in shape from playing sports, but am getting too old (28) to play anything competitively or often enough to stay in good shape.

I've always been a good runner, but muscle mass is something I've never had much of. Not that I'm that skinny, but am looking for more strength.

In early August I was sucker-punched and ended up in the hospital for 3 weeks and had head surgery. Around mid-October I started feeling good again and able to do active things. I've sort of pushed it off for about a month, and I'm at the point where I want to pursue it more. I'm 6'4" and currently weight 200lbs which is 15-20lbs less that what I was in August. I assume half of that is probably lost muscle mass, and the other half probably lost beer belly/other weight due to the fact I don't really drink any more.

So I just did my first work out today. Was pretty bad for my normal standards, but I'm happy with the results and hope to build up back to my old level quickly, and then push past that. I hope to work out 4-5 times a week, and maybe throw in a run or two as well. The area I live in is all hilly, and I don't particularly like running on hills, but will have to do it. Also need to buy an mp3 player because my 2 ipods are broken.

Today's Workout
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Bench Press - 3 x 10 x 135lbs
Incline Bench - 3 x 8 x 95lbs
Tricep Pressdown - 3 x 10 x 110lbs
Flies - 3 x 10 x 25lbs per hand
Skull Crushers - 1 x 10 x 40lbs+bar; 2 x 10 x 20lbs + bar

Pretty short work out overall. Didn't want to push myself too hard. Tried doing my second set of skull crushers at the original weight and completely failed after 4 reps. By the end of the 3rd set at half weight I was spent, and felt like a good time to leave. Didn't want to end up injuring myself. For the last couple years I've had a bit of a bum right shoulder. It comes and goes. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes I can feel it. I noticed it a little bit on the incline bench today. I think a good strategy will be to work out really light for the first few weeks, but do lots of reps. I have a hard time mentally to do that because I'm inclined to push myself, but it's probably the best strategy.

Naturally I went back to my chest/tris routine. Followed back back/bis tomorrow. Then should be legs/abs/shoulders the next day. Then a day of rest. That's always been my routine and haven't really looked at changing it, but am definitely open to ideas, since that's what I did 7 years ago, and maybe other ways are more effective. Before my head injury I'd also been doing some crossfit workouts from time to time. They are completely killer. I'd always do them with a friend. I'm not sure if I can drive myself enough right now to do them on my own.

Well that's it. Feels like a good start to my blog. Just slammed back a protein drink too that I haven't had since April. Hope to be back tomorrow, but it's possible I won't be back until Thursday because I have a fair bit of stuff on my plate tomorrow. I thought about posting some goals, but I don't really have any. I guess continuing to work out right now is my only goal.

I will say workout 4x/week until January 1st is my goal.