LOVEANDHATE’s BodyBlog

its been a long time since ive been on bodyspace and/or updated anything so i started this week again. ive gotten in alot better shape the past 6 months since i started lifting again after taking time off since my son was born. im getting back up towards my old max’s, but my main thing now that im a father is wanting to have energy for my son instead of just wanting to lift all weight i can fit on a barbell. im knocking out 3 and 4 mile runs like i was back in highschool or something, and i still feel i have a lot more work ahead of me. also, im about to start cutting carbs to try to drop a couple lbs that wont go away. im down to 209 which is less then i have been in more then a year, but my goal is 205. i would like to cut down to about half of what i usually take in during the day for carbs. this is only my second time cutting and hopefully it works as well as the first. wish me luck

today was supposed to be an off day at the gym. not an off day i really needed. just one of those " i’ll take the day off because i’ve lifted the past couple days and i’m lifting the next couple so i dont really have anything to do today" off days. So im sitting in my office at work and we have a small gym here, i dont have anything going on and my boss decided to come bust my balls about something that i’m already on top of, so i figured i would change and go do a light leg and ab workout and try a 3 mile run. i say try because, where i used to be able to almost sprint 3 miles, i just started running again and havent tried doing 3 miles non-stop in about 8 months. 8 months ago i could do 10 miles, 2 weeks ago i was dying doing a mile. so im pretty psyched. now i just have to keep up with it and also get my ass back in the pool doing laps.

So i have been without a lifting partner for about 8 months now, and around that same time i started slackin on the lifting, and then quit altogether when my son was born so that i could help out at home. well now my son is old enough to go to the day care at the gym and i have been getting back into lifting little by little over the past month or two, but i was just going through the motions. about 2 weeks ago i decided my sloppy ass needed to start hitting it hard core. so my lifts are starting to come back up again, and one of my boys, about my size, asked me about becoming my lifting partner. so we tried this past week to see how things would work and already im getting hungry to lift more weight, a feeling i havent had in a long time, too long. I didnt realize how much i missed having someone pushing me, and someone i can yell at in the gym to push more weight himself. He’s got me doing lifts if dont normally do, or have ever done. I’ve got his legs hurting like never before from my leg workouts. I still have alot of work to do. I figure I have about 2 months until i get back to my old max’s on my lifts, but when i get there i plan on blowing that shit out of the water and having great conditioning as well. I’m not one for the treadmill like most bodybuilders, i prefer swimming, basketball, biking, and running outdoors, and i cant call my self a body builder i guess. I dont do it to compete, i do it because i love it and im addicted to it. So now due to a new lifting partner and a renewed taste for the iron im planning on being in the best shape of my life in a few months. Now all i need is a new hard ass playlist on my ipod to work out to.

well today is officially 1 week since i started working out again. i’ve made it to the gym everyday except new years day, and i’ve done cardio, which i hate, almost everyone of those days after my workout. all my lifts have gone down from 50 to 100 lbs or more, but that was to be expected. i dont care for dieting, but i must say that i have eaten cleaner since i started lifting again. i guess its just natural, and its what my body is craving. dont get me wrong though, i’m still going to down some mcdonalds double cheeseburgers when i feel like it.

i figure its about time for a new years resolution. i think a good one would be to start lifting again. i got in the best shape of my life this year being over in iraq and getting to train everyday, sometimes twice a day, and having the cleanest diet i ever had. then a few things changed around the end of may. my lifting partner moved, i got an office job where i sit on my butt 12 hours a day and my son was born. i wanted to take time off though to help raise my lil boy but now he is old enough to go to day care at the gym and i tell you what, it is hard getting back into working out again. i love the feel of a good pump and getting one more rep then i did last week, and i miss that. so i did a light workout today and some light running and it kicked my butt. im going to do the same tomorrow. so wish me luck and hopefully i can be back to where i was earlier this year soon.

I’m sure plenty of people on here have already written this blog or something similar. I’d like to say we are all adults but not all of us are. Any person can get on the website and view the pictures we post, our kids and parents, our wives and husbands. But that’s not my reasoning for wanting to bring some attention to the activity and/or lack of clothing in the pictures on the site. No they are not illegal pictures and I don’t think bodybuilding.com should be held responsible, I think we ourselves should be held responsible. If someone doesn’t like what they see on someone’s profile they can easily click off of it, I know that. If you don’t like it, then don’t look at it, right? I’m just saying no one should have to get on here and see a guy spread eagle in his nut huggers, no matter your sexual preference or how in shape this gentlemen is. Now men aren’t the only ones, I actually believe I see more women on here pushing the boundries then men. I love women as much as anyone, and I believe we should be able to show off what you and I both know we all worked so hard for, muscle and health and fitness; not our butt cracks or buldges in our underwear or as much breast as possible. There are websites for that. Take your pictures there ladies and gentlemen. I don’t care how in shape or attractive you are, or how out of shape and unattractive you are, this applies to anyone on here that has pictures posted that are questionable. Please, show off your bodies but do it in a tasteful manner. Have a little self respect. This is a bodybuilding website, not a porn site.

so i was watchin a video someone was making fun of earlier because the guy lifting was grunting on every rep. sooooo what?! it iritated me because who cares what other people do in the gym. if it works for them then let them do it, dont make fun. maybe someone in the gym likes to listen to music and bob their head to help getting in the zone, so what, who cares. while all you people are wasting your breathe and time over on the side lines making fun of the sounds people make, they are using everything they got to improve themselves instead of judging your weak a** in the gym, and i bet if you’re doing a lift wrong they would come help you and maybe give you a tip because they remember when they were in your same situation instead of laugh inside about your form being messed up. yes i do make noises in the gym in case you were wondering, and im still gonna come over and try to give you a helping hand if you are doing a lift wrong or could hurt yourself even if the whole time i have been working out, you have been giving me wierd looks.

so im excited. i have been trying to find a triatholon in my area to compete it, not a big one like the iron man or anything, but something to give me something to train for. The other day i was asking around about it and found out about a short one on the 19th of july about 2 hours from where i live. perfect, it gives me about 6 weeks to step up training and get in endurance shape. on top of that i’m hoping to run in the Air Force marathon at wright patterson air force base in september, and even though im stationed all the way up in north dakota, i was planning on going home on vacation anyway in september. seeing as ill already be in pretty good condition for the triatholon, it wont be as hard getting into marathon training having 2 months to devote to that after my triatholon. but to kick this summer off im on a team running for a law enforcement special olympics torch run tomorrow from my base to my city which is 18 miles. the mileage is split up between the members with one person holding the torch at a time for a great cause. anyway, this is all leading up to the AF marathon in 3 1/2 months while im still going to keep up with my weight lifting and try not loose too much weight/ muscle. so ill be doing 2 a days, which i already started a couple days ago, and eating alot more. so wish me luck and if anyone has any tips on training for triatholons and marathons i would greatly appreciate it

gonna go kill my legs in the gym, first time doin legs with out my lifting partner that i have had for 2 years since he decided to be a d*ck and move. we had different views on legs anyway so today will be an excruciating high rep day, but i still wanna try 410 on the squat for 8 to get a new max. its also my first day in a month i have done a heavy leg workout since i took time off for a hamstring injury that i think/ hope is healed. whatever, somebody is gonna have to carry me out to my truck after this

so im outta the house here shortly to do shoulders, traps, and tri’s. its a toss up between my rear delts and my calves that need the most improvement. i cant stand crappy days in the gym so hopefully today isnt one of them. im riding my bike the 2 miles to the gym for a warmup instead of driving like i usually do. so that means when im worn out from my workout i have to ride it back which sucks but i need to do it anyway to keep burnin that evil fat.