Week 101 — I’ve been lifting for >100 weeks!
Passed a milestone this week, I have been lifting for more than 100 weeks! If I do say so myself I am rather proud of that. If you’ve read my profile you know that before I started into this seriously nearly two years ago my attempts at lifting were half-hearted, unguided and never continued more than a week or two. (What? You can’t look like Arnold in a couple of half-assed workouts whilst stuffing your face with cookies?)
Had a setback this summer with the additional weight that I put on. My waist is up a quarter inch since the beginning of the summer and my weight is up 4-5 lbs or so, but I am trying hard to get it back down again.
In the great news department, there were a couple of gains to note in the monthly measurements tonight, namely my chest, bis and forearms, clocking upward ever so slightly… a half inch on the chest, an eighth inch on the bis and another eighth or so on the forearms. Sweet. I have done some tweaking in the routines to hit the bis, lats and delts a bit harder and it looks like it is working. Now to get the belly fat back into recession mode…
Gotta love the commenters on the pix. Received a comment from someone about a recent pic telling me that I need to keep hitting the cardio — no argument there — but then socks me with a "3" rating. WTF. This after I gave this particular rater a "10" on a pic of his. I’m all for reciprocation on pic rating (I rate you, you rate me), but really. Ok, yeah, I’m still a bit of a lard butt and I need to work on the BF, but I think an 8 would be more fair, IMHO.
Now, granted the ratings each poster uses are extremely subjective and there are many who give "10"s for everything, and I am in that catergory. My own philosophy is that if you’re lifting and/or dieting and/or hitting the cardio and think you’re making some progress whether it’s real or imagined and you have the balls to post a pic to the world, then dammit you deserve a "10" for the effort if nothing else. My "ratings" are in the written comments in a good-great-awesome-incredible sort of scale, if you can call it that. Occasionally I’ll not rate a pic of a first posting of a starting point pic of some guy hoping to make some changes with 30%+ BF, and I’ll write something encouraging in the comment field… I was there myself at one time. I have no problem with those who use a 7-8-9-10 scale for ratings, saving the 10s for the awesome bods out there and I know I am not one of those. But a 3? Good grief. Lifting and busting my arse for nearly two years for a 3 from a noob? Pshaw. When I first joined bb.com and was extremely reluctant, hesitant, etc. about posting pix, a lower rating on a pic would send me into a grumble for a while, and had I gotten a 3 back then, I might’ve left for good and given up completely on the lifting. Now I just shake my head and chuckle.
I am coming up on the two-year mark for my joining bb.com and getting started making some body changes and I don’t want to lose any momentum… so I’ll keep liftin’.
September 27, 2009 at 2:17 am
D.Alan
Delete that damned "3" from your memory cos it’s a load of c..p coming from that undesirable who (unjustifiably) enjoys belittling people cos he himself probably has many big chips on his shoulders. If he goes thru life like that ,don’t worry,society will punish him in the end !
Congrats to you on having come this far and do remember you are one of the best body transformers on this site.
Oh, I have seen this obnoxious a/h (and I don’t mean after hour) ’s pic….he has no chest !
Have a great day
September 27, 2009 at 8:12 am
My absolute favorite was when a guy told me I needed to work on my abs. I went and looked at this profile and he had a beer belly. WTF?
Good job on sticking with working out.