Criminal Mind’s BodyBlog

Dear BodyBlog, I think the day we realize that we actually have pectoral muscles has got to be one of the happiest days of our lives! Despite them growing throughout our gym workouts, there’s a day when it actually hits you smack-bam in the face, when you look in the mirror and go, "Aaaaaaahh!" and then when you wear that polo shirt and see the silhouettes of pectoral muscles! Yes, I am obsessed, but I don’t care! Bring on those pec muscles!!

Dear BodyBlog, so I was doing some stat measurements today when I came across something curious with 20% strange. There was an option to put in shoulder measurements. What is this shoulder measurement? Is it from one shoulder to the other, or is it around the shoulder, or is it simply a make-shift measurement of our desired shoulder width/length?

I ran across this online stat thing that measured you according to your wrist size, and based on what the Romans viewed as physical perfection, my ideal stats were: chest size (42.25); waist size (29.575); hip size (35.9125); bicep size (15.209); forearm size (12.2525); thigh size (22.393); calf size (14.365); and neck size (15.6325).

I don’t know about you but I see no shoulder measurements in there.

Dear BodyBlog, alright so I’ve been bad for the past two months. While exams happened and then I went hiking Tasmania for a week then I went to Asia for a month, I didn’t work out at all unless you count the one time touch up at the gym in Sofitel. Yeah I gotta admit, the biggest thing I missed most when I was away was the gym! Gym, it is so good to see you again and have you back! The first thing I did when I got back (three days ago) was head to the gym!

So now I’m doing a three-day split and going on Rippletoes. Diet went to buggery as buggery can get during the past two months but now I’m on it again. My resolutions for 2007? Get so buff that Abercrombie & Fitch will be knocking on my door going, "Damn! You look so fine! You come model for us!" to which I shall reply, "Hell no!"

So in the past three days, I’ve been to the gym twice and went rock climbing twice so I’m feeling real buff; watch out! The gym membership changed a little at my university as they combined all fitness classes with the gym membership, so now I have free access to pilates, yoga, bodypump, bodyjam and a million other excercise classes that start with ‘body’.

Anyway, good to write in you again BodyBlog and this time, I promise you, I will not leave you for another woman.