Lifesource ’09 Blog #01: Overweight & Understrengthed
July 1st is a very personal date for me. It was July 1st, 2007 that I locked myself in my room at the Vacation Inn in El Centro, CA and made the most dramatic physical and emotional changes that I ever had in my life. I was stationed on the US / Mexico border with the Cal. Air Guard and between July 1st and October 20th I was either at work, the supermarket, the gym, or inside my fortress of solitude; Room #123 at the Vacation Inn. The results were impressive; I lost 65lbs in 16 weeks and slashed my body fat percentage in half.
It’s two years later to the day that I started Coach Craig’s Model Body Rapid Weight Loss Program and I’m not proud to say that my personal quest for Herculean Power has brought me to a place where I feel about 50lbs overweight and under strength. No one understands what I mean when I say that I’m ‘under strengthed’. It has not all been for naught, I have made some decent strength gains and impressive lifts it the 20 months.
While still on the border in early 2008 I squatted 365lbs for 20 reps, following “Super Squats” by Dr. Randall Strossen. I spent a few weeks battling Forest Fires in the summer of ’08 in Modesto CA, again with the Guard, and ended by competing in a ‘backyard’ style Strongman Contest at American Iron Gym in Reno, NV. Had I more than two and a half weeks to train for it, I may have placed a little higher than I did.
’08 ended and ’09 began in San Angelo, TX at Goodfellow AFB and I undertook a strength and power based program, influenced by Strossen, Paul Kelso and Coach Craig, the results were a raw (shirtless / beltless) bench of 405, squat of 500 and dead lift of 615lbs. High highlight of my summer was the Hyde Park Games in Austin, TX, where I pulled up 650lbs with some chalk and a belt.
On one side of the spectrum these lifts are impressive, on the other, for many of them I was close to 270lbs. In all honesty it’s like this; I’m not strong enough for my weight, I’m carrying about an extra 50lbs, I think I could be just as strong (and look a hell of a lot better) at 230lbs with a little hard work and discipline and I have an Air Force Fitness Evaluation coming up in a month.
I’m currently stationed at Beale AFB in Nor-cal. I have a few passions in life, one of them is being and Airman, the other is moving big weights. Like two years ago, I’m living in a hotel all alone. It’s been a while since I’ve hit the gym, and I’m severely overweight and under strengthed. Today a case of Lifesource arrived from Coach Craig over at Iron Curtain Labs. I have three more 12 hour shifts and then it begins. Sunday the 5th I’ll be back on the system.
My name is Ronald A. Strahan and this is Savage Muscles.
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July 5, 2009 at 8:50 pm
RON IS BACK !!!!!!!!
FINALLY someone who understands , why and how i miss my workouts , and im wide awake from eating to much to recover today
MISS YA RON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU caN DO Anything you PUT YUOR MIND TOO, !!!
YUO KNOW YUO CAN HIT ME UP ANYTIME FOR HELP,
buttttt MOST PEOPLE DONT, that;s ok,
i wish yuo ALWAYS notihng but the best,
and would kill to workout with yuo as a training partner 1 day….
peaceeeeeee buddyyyyyyyyyyyyyy