Operation : Body Iraq

Well my first pics are posted.  My work and body are out there now for the world to see, and judge and scrutinize…  Its a big step for me, I know the pictures are better than when I started (which I will try to find my picture before I started working out and posting it….  Anyone say fat boy? lol…  I am doing this as much for personal motivation as much as hoping to get positive feedback from people who know what they are doing and can help me in a good way to get bigger, stronger and all around feeling good about myself!  So don’t hold back, I am at the mercy of BodySpace users…   Plus my wife is going to be checking them out… lol.  If all goes as planned I should be thinner by the time I come home (in 2 months) so I won’t look exactly like those pictures…. If all goes according to plan lol… 

Stay motivated and stay pumped!!!

P.S. — I know I need a tan, leave my white @$$ alone lol…

Well I have decided to set an accomplishment goal, my first ever self contest.  I am going to go for the 800 lb Ironman at the main FOB.  800lb combined Squat, Deadlift and Bench Press.  Well my "test" run of the event I maxed my bench at, of course, 250.  My squat I was able to pound out an amazing (for me) 330 (thats with a towel around hte bar to relieve some stress off my shoulders, not sure if it will be ‘legal’ for the event, but if its not I will suffer a bit of pain for the gain lol) and after finally researching it on BB.com to find the ‘proper form’ for the deadlift, I was able to do (without straps..) 265×5.  So according to the ‘One Rep Max’ calculator I should be able to throw 300.  Not sure I can hold 300 without straps and I am pretty sure straps are not legal so…  Either way… 250+330+265= 845!!!  Which means I am GOOD!!!  All I have to do now is get back to the FOB and line up a ‘test’ with the ‘judges’.  Since I have pretty much already accomplished that I am now going to aim for the 1000lb by the end of deployment…  165 more lbs to be dispursed over those events….  To me, it sounds like its going to be a hard road, but it is a road I will be traveling! 

I would just like to thank my first workout partner for showing me the wrong way for doing a dealift… (Not the wrong way as in I could have hurt myself, just not doing a real deadlift… Once I found out the proper way I jumped up almost 100lbs just in doing it right lol)

Well I reached my benching goal of 250… only 81 days ahead of schedule?!!!  I am amazed how fast its going up, 60lbs in about 4 months…  It makes me wonder, when am I going to start slowing down?!  I know its coming….  I can’t continue to get these kind of gains forever.  If that was the case I would be doing like 400lbs by the end of deployment???  Seriously I do not even imagine that happening lol!  I just hope when I do reach The Slowing, as I am calling it, that I will still maintain motivation!  Its easy to stay motivated when you jump weights and get noticable increases pretty much every time you lift…  We can only wait and see and keep the motivation and the pump up!  Stay frosty… lol

Well….  To start last week sucked…  My workouts sucked.  I don’t know why they just did.  I was motivated to do them and when I did them they all fell short.  My head was saying lets go my body said screw off.  Was not a good week at all.  I took a few days off, figuring I was just over-training and just needed a bit of rest.  Started again. The same.  Was just not living up to expectations.  But finally…  I am back in the flow.  Last 2 workouts have been intense and turned out excellent.  I guess I just had a bad week, hopefully its done and over with so I can get back to the task at hand!  I also managed to get my BF % yesterday and was surprisingly happy to find out I am down to 16%!!  That is about 4% lower than I thought, or even really hoped to be.  So I am gonna stick with it and hopefully get well below my goal of 15% by the time I go on leave!