Def2k1’s BodyBlog

Had a really good workout today. I overdid it a lil bit on chest day so I tried to go a bit easier today on back day but I’m stronger with pulling exercises than pushing so I went kinda heavy. All my lifts felt good and my cardio was pretty good too. I’m not quite back up to where I want to be strength wise but it’ll come.

So it’s pretty much my first day back into the gym today and I feel great. I’ve lost a good amount of my strength I once had but, in time, it will return. It definitely felt good to be n that atmosphere again. Plus the gym itself is ****in GREAT. All of the people feel like real people and not salesmen trying to sucker me into some super expensive contract like they do at a certain large chain fitness chain.
Ate 5 meals today (which were okay but they could’ve been a bit more clean) and drank enough water that I had to go about every 5 minutes. Also haven’t had a cigarette since Sunday afternoon and don’t really want one either.

Admittedly it’s gonna be tough to quit again but I know I have to do it. Well one day down, I’m gonna try to make tomorrow as good as today was.

I haven’t been around this website in forever cause I fell off track in a major way. Just so much stress from work added to my money issues, moving, relationship problems and just so many other issues I fell right back into who I was BEFORE I started working out. Smoking again. Drinking almost every day. Eating whatever whenever I felt like it. All the muscle I had built? Gone. Picking up smoking again has made me feel ****in terrible and seeing all my hard work go down the drain just made me feel like a failure…..

Then I thought about something. Who says it’s over in the first place? There’s no reason I can’t start over. Do it all again and go into it as hard as I can. And so that’s what’s going down. I don’t think I really wanted to lose the weight for the right reasons…bullshit girl’s attention and so forth. Now? I want to do it so I can feel good about myself. I’m tired of being the fat funny guy that gets no respect and people don’t take seriously.
So I start over tomorrow. In an attempt to stay motivated I have a bet/challenge going with some guys at work that whoever loses the most weight at the end of 13 weeks wins a pot of about $600.

Money or no money, it’s time to work.

So I fell off the wagon a while back but I’m back on and going harder than ever! Somewhere in this last weekend though, my workouts have changed.

So I was watching The Ultimate Fighter marathon and something about it really inspired me to get off my ass and work harder.All those guys in MMA train hard as HELL for their fights/making weight and i makes me want to work hard too (minus the fighting of course!).

Anyway, so I hit the gym and hop on a treadmill. Normally, I’d just walk fast on an incline but I thought about The Ultimate Fighter guys running to make that weight and I took off running! I get shin splits and somehow, they didn’t bother me! I had been using the elliptical this entire time but NO MORE!
A few days later and I’m totally hooked. I went running on the beach this morning with some friends of mine and I’m completely obsessed with it.

You’d be surprised where inspiration/motivation comes from sometimes!

Peace

So I’ve basically been MIA lately thanks to me moving to the other side of town into my new apartment. Everything has been great so far except I definitely fell off the wagon a bit. The good news is I haven’t GAINED any weight but I haven’t LOST any either. I’d much rather maintain than gain.

The bad news? Pretty much everything else.

The closest Bally’s around here is about 25 minutes away and it sucks. There are others in the general area but they’re both about 35 and 45 minutes away respectively. There is a fitness center in my complex which is great for cardio but the weight lifting side is lacking a bit. In short, I haven’t really trained in a while. And, to top it all off, I live RIGHT around the corner from a Powerhouse which I can’t join because I don’t have the money thanks to Ballys raping my wallet each month.

Well at any rate, I live down the street from the beach and I’ve been making it a habit to get up and go walking/jogging/running around it so that’s cool.

ON top of all that, my eating has been all over the place.

The good news is I’m getting focused and ready to jump back on track.

Now if I could just figure out what to do about those damn weights.

Well, after 3 years of lifting off and on, today, May 27th, I have experienced my first training injury. I pulled my lat on my left side and it hurt like a bitch. I barely even felt it when it happened, just like a slight "pop" and once I got up that was all she wrote.
I’m frustrated as hell cause I know it’s my own fault. So now I’m sitting here with a bag of ice on my back as punishment for not paying more attention to good form (though the ice is working and feels pretty good.)  and now I’m gonna have to take days off thanks to this shit (which REALLY pisses me off).

Ah well…..

Weight lifting and exercise, from what I’ve seen, is probably 85-90% mental. People quit because they psyche themselves out, tell themselves it’s too hard or get impatient with the results or lack thereof.

I’m in that 1st category…..or at least I used to be.

Lately I’ve been, for lack of any better terms, kicking my own ass physically and mentally. Since I work out alone, mentally, I have to be my own training partner. Every time I push out a sloppy, half assed rep I call myself a bitch and throw in another perfect rep in it’s place.

Sloppy reps don’t count as reps in my workouts.

Every time I want to cut the cardio short, I call myself a fat ass and ride it out.

If you’re not gonna do it right, don’t waste your time doing it in the first place.

I’ve never been the fastest, the strongest, best looking, tallest or any other shining attributes but, every time I walk in that gym, I AM the hardest worker.

I’m gonna drop this weight cause the quitter in me is scared of my "training partner".

Free your mind and you ass will follow! Lol.

Happy Lifting!

So the last time I posted I had a shitty workout. I regrouped, got back in the gym……and had another shitty workout. I’ve been spreading myself pretty thin lately between my workouts, working 6 days a week and getting ready to move, I’ve just been a wreck lately. I hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in about 3 weeks.

I’ve been grinding and I’m tired as hell but, when I want to give up, I tell myself "The end is gonna justify the means".  All this overtime is gonna pay off and all these workouts are gonna pay off as well. So I cut my phone off and slept like a baby, jumped back in the gym today with that mindset and had a killer workout!
If you ever think about quitting or giving up at anything, try telling yourself that or find something else that can push you. Working out is hard but, in the end, when you reach your goals, you’ll be see it all pays off in the end.

Happy lifting folks!

So today I went to the gym and, as the title implies, had a pretty shitty workout. I’m used to hitting my back and my biceps together but this new workout makes me hit my back and my shoulders.

Everything was just bad. My grip was weak, I couldn’t get through my sets, my rest periods were too long and I just wasn’t focused. Not to mention there was a news crew in there filming some story segment for the local news so, as a result, the gym was extra crowded today. I just got frustrated as hell and left.

I hate days like this. You’re all pumped and ready to get in the gym and once you get in there, you start stinking up the joint.

Even one guy asked me if I was alright. He must’ve seen the frustration in my face.

Ah well, it’s cool. Just gotta regroup and work harder tomorrow.

I decided to weigh myself for the first time in a while this morning just to see where I’m at. My original goal was to get under 236 which is the lightest I’ve ever been as an adult.

So I step on the scale.

226.

Huh? So I step off and try it again.

226.

I did that like 4 more times. I can’t BELIEVE I’m 226! This is the lightest I’ve ever been and it’s good to see my hard work is paying off!! I’ve lost 36 pounds since the beginning of the year and I ain’t stopping now! Gonna try to get down to about 200 then will come the BIG goal: getting under 200 pounds.