D.Alan’s BodyBlog

Another month of no changes in the measurements.  Did the monthly measurements tonight and there is nothing changed from last month!  Weekly BF% pinch is nearly identical to last week.  Sigh.

I am sure my diet is a lot to blame.  I know I am not eating optimally for gaining muscle mass.  I need to work on that.  What also hasn’t helped is that my whey protein ran out earlier in the week and I haven’t had a chance to stop and get more yet.  Hopefully Monday. 

In an interesting turn of events this week, I had a round of email with BBer Dan Decker… but not about BBing.  Turns out he is into collecting items that I also collect and saw my web site on those items and emailed me for some advice.  I had no idea who he was at that point, but his email address intrigued me (it implies BBing) so I searched on it and found who it belonged to.  I played it cool, though, and we just discussed the item he was asking about.  I was thinking I would say something about the BBing, but I am such a soft tubby twerp in comparison that he didn’t need to have me bringing up the BB stuff.

Homework for this week is to study the diet and see what I can tweak to bring about some gains… and keep liftin’.

Still plodding along.  BF% pinch totals continue to slide down ever so slowly.  On the digital calipers I am down just shy of 3 mm in the time that I have had that tool, which is about four weeks now.  Nothing else has been particularly remarkable, like my weight hovering around 168 +/-, hence my not posting last week.

The last week or so I have been trying to go more slowly in the lifts, particularly in the lowering part of the lift.  Everything you read about lifting suggests that better gains are to be had by lifting more slowly.  We’ll see how that goes.  I know after doing bis and back tonight being conscious of lowering more slowly I have the best pump/burn than I have had in a while.  I just need to keep doing it that way.

The positive comments continue to come in and they are most appreciated.  There are weeks like the last few that I feel that I am not making any headway but then someone will comment on a pic or give me a profile comment saying that I am doing great, keep it up, and it gives me the oomph to keep at it.  Thanks to everyone for their support!

I don’t want to let anyone down, least of all myself, so I’ll keep liftin’.