2008 Transformation Contest

Hey everyone, Alen here. I will be jumping in instead of SCT. I was following you guys so far and now it’s time for us to do it together. I feel very motivated and I hope I can pass on some of the good vibes on to you people and make you come out of this as winners. OFC, I will give you some hard time as I can be serious competition

This is supposed to be my introduction post so here it goes.
My name is Alen, but you can call me mali, it’s a nickname that stuck over the years and it translates to “little” it was a joke in the beginning but over the time everyone started calling me like that and now I have people who only know me by that nick.
I am 27 and I work as IT consultant and I also like to think of myself as an artist. I have about a million of ambitions and things I want to achieve I just have to find the way to stop sleeping and make my days last a week
Anyways it wasn’t always like that. Strange, but many stories start like this I used to be competitor back in my junior days and a successful one too. I won several medals, including two times junior state heavy weight vice-champion. By the year 2000 I was in the best shape of my life and then came the great disappointment. It was my last year as a junior and competing as a senior in a heavy weight meant taking loads of steroids and generally not living healthy. I have a father who was a competitor during 70’s and 80’s. He spent his life devoted to healthy living and never injected anything stronger than a vitamin C and I wasn’t to be the one to turn into a black sheep. Decision was to continue with competing as natural and probably never enter finals or quit and go to college. So I went to college and almost forgot about the sport.
What I realized several years after was that competition was only a way, a simple goal that made all the hard work make sense. Without it I was clueless and wondered in the dark. Of course I went to the gym from time to time, sometimes even for a whole year but in the end I would give up and fall into decay again. During college and two years after I led most unhealthy life style. Partying, drinking and eating one fast food meal somewhere in the 02:00AM and sleeping all day or working some crappy job that made no sense to me, but I had few choices. Point is I woke up one day and decided to change all that. I stopped smoking and drinking all in the same moment, five years ago and never took a cigarette or a drop of alcohol again.
Thank came five years of trying to get my life where it should be. For a while I had a hard time finding a good and steady job. I worked as an instructor in the gym for a while, but they closed the gym and finally some two years ago I got the employment as an IT consultant in a largest meat factory in my country. Good and steady job with decent pay. It wasn’t a dream come true but it was a starting point.
Anyways, working in a meat factory has its own drawbacks, like eating meat and fat all the time LOL. And so one day I was facing the monitor, breathing heavy, sweating and feeling like I will never get of the chair.
Some three months ago I found bodyspace.com and started my own account. That was a beginning of my journey back to normal. I made radical changes and made great progress, in only seven weeks I was reborn and felt much better. Then came Steph a.k.a. Daretosoar and she pointed to me there was a competition for all who want to transform their bodies. That gave me the greatest motivation possible and even I wasn’t chosen for the first five I never gave up on the idea to transform myself.

My goal is to get down to 100 kg and 10% body fat, but for now 15% is more realistic and 105kg. Right now I am 115kg and 25% body fat. I will lose those 10% by the end of this competition and I will also help you all guys to achieve your goals. There will be no looser on March 26th.

Here are my most recent before photos:

Please don’t mind the gloomy face I am just trying to scare you out of winning this race

I’ve received a number of emails and messages asking where my photos are at and what’s happening with me. One of my goals it to motivate people here in a variety of ways. Lately I’ve been using music to help motivate others. Don’t be fooled, that doesn’t mean I’m hiding or I’ve fallen off the workout wagon. My man Jumbo asked me a few questions and check out my responses below. I’ve also posted my progress photos that were taken on Monday, ya nothing like a few days late eh? As a reminder I am not competing against the other five for the prizes but rather lend a hand at some advice and inspiration while going through the same transformation process. Aight, enough babbling. Here are the questions/answers and my progress photos.

Jumbo: I was wondering if you would give us a little more information about yourself. I see that you got into tremendous shape and competed on stage. What was that like?
Me: Yes I have competed in bodybuilding contests 2x. I work with a number of the top fitness, figure and bodybuilding personalities. Many times clients would say "oh I’m dieting" or "I can’t worry about this now". I decided to go the extra step and find out what it would be like to compete. Are these people full of crap or is it really that tough? If you haven’t stepped on stage to compete, you really truly have no idea what is involved. I am 5′11" and weight 167 my first show, the second show I weight 176 on stage. Both times I was ripped and I had fun. It was an experience that was unlike any other. Lots of people can look good in the gym or in street clothes but to be on stage in nothing but a speedo is an : entirely different experience. I gained perspective on what my client went through and while I never claim to be a bodybuilder I do understand what my client go through by having lived through it and followed through.

J: Did you find the last few weeks leading up to competition to be harder on your body than the previous months of dietand workout?
Me: It wasn’t harder because I was "in the zone". I still went out with friends but I would drink diet coke and water while they got wasted. I’d disappear to go have chicken and rice while they ate fries and onion rings. I also did Yoga a couple times a week which improved my strength and flexibility. Guys in the gym asked me if it was to pick up women but ah no, it was to improve me mentally and physically. The last week going into the show was tough. I wanted to quit more than once but I knew it would be worth it. I would get up at 5:30am and walk on the treadmill (yes walk as to not loose muscle at that point) and then go back in the afternoon, workout and do more walking. This was only for the last 3-4 weeks. The thing I grew tired of was eating. If I went longer than 3 hours without eating I was not fun to be around.

J: How much gym time were you spending?
Me: 1 hour or less. I’d run around the park in Denver in the morning and then hit the gym for an hour of weights. The last 4 weeks I did cardio 2x a day and stopped running and went to walking on an incline. I was boring ass hell but it worked for me. As I leaned out I spent more time in the gym because people would constantly be talking to me. Asking me what I was doing, what I was eating, etc. Even the trainers in the gym would hound me for tips. I started going at different hours to avoid crowds and have my space back.

J: You said that you had gotten out of shape, though we have no real proof of that…  Was it the work or family that caused a slide?
Me: Jumbo see the photos below. This is my out of shape. Last year I traveled at least 2 weekends every month. Photographing shows for bodybuilding.com and occasionally FLEX magazine kept me busy. My downfall was not planning and resorting to airport food or going all day without eating. If I eat 2-3 meals a day I pack on the pounds. I have to eat 6-8 small meals to keep my metabolism sped up. I let my workouts slide and in the process found myself at a weight where I wasn’t comfortable. That’s all changing now.

J: How did you get into the Lift Studios thing? Did it blossom out of your gym work or did the lifting blossom out of you studio work?
Me: I read FLEX and Muscle and Fitness mags growing up and at one point tried weight gainer 2000. How funny thinking back on that. I was very active in high school sports and then went into the Army National Guard. I was in awesome shape coming out of basic training. I tried my hand at college football but after pulling my hamstring and being too small I hung it up. I only weighed about 170 at that point. I proceeded to drink a bit too much and eat like crap for a few years. I found myself eating ramen noodles and vending machine food when I was attending art college. I decided to do Body-for-Life and lost a great deal of weight. That motivated me to not be complacent. At the time I was working at a large ad agency with a great career. I was tired of living in Omaha so moved to Denver. Worked for a small design firm as Interactive Creative Director working with outdoor/sports related clients. My boss at the time thought I was conspiring to steal her clients with a former co-worker and friend of mine. I went in one morning and she told me I was fired. This was the best thing to ever happen to me. I had been procrastinating on starting my own business like I had about my weight for some time. It took a drastic change and challenge to force me to put up or shut up. I took the challenge and ran with it. That was nearly 6 years ago and since that time I’ve combined my love for fitness and sports into my other talents of art, photography and marketing. I believe in the cliché “everything happens for a reason”. Fired from a job for the first time turned into a career I love with my business Lift Studios.

J: Is there a food you must avoid because it would start you off on a crazed binge?
I LOVE a number of foods but it is all about balance. My vices are chips, Italian and Mexican food. I love to eat those foods but I don’t buy them and only have healthy foods in my place.

I’ve babbled long enough here. Thanks for the questions and if anyone has any others feel free to email or post them here. This has been a very productive month for me both physically, mentally and with my business.

My progress pics:

Da back.

Da Front.

Where will I end up? I know this much, much happier in all facets of my life. Rock on!

I’ve been down the past two weeks, because my progress pics show little to no improvement, and the scale isnt moving down like it should. If you go one week with bad results you get pissed, go two weeks with bad results and I get down right mad. Everyone says oh dont go by the scale, its how your body is changing that counts. Your clothes might fit better before the scale jumps down, or you might gain some muscle and it even outs the scale.

Well I put the scale to the side this morning and went with nothing but measurements. I am happy to report, that I have lost 1′ off my midsection, 1/4" off my neck, approx 3" on my hips, but gained 1/4 inch on both arms.

These measurements have made me happier, there is change a taking place and I didnt even notice.

As I approach the 8 year mark since my first transformation, I am stoked to be participating in another transformation challenge. I’ve gone from over-weight to ripped and competing in two bodybuilding shows over the last 8 years. The past year I’ve traveled nearly every weekend photographing and reporting on bodybuilding/fitness/figure shows. I’ve gone from having abs like those on stage to looking like a walking cheese ball. Airport food, not eating enough to eating too much. Poor eating habits and not hitting the weights have been my downfall. Traveling and being "too busy" is no excuse for letting my physique slide to what it is now.

While I am not competing for prizes or against the 5 competitors, it doesn’t mean I won’t approach the next 13 weeks with any less intensity. I started my transformation challenge last Monday - December 17, 2007 weighing 219lbs. Today 9 days, later I am at 213.5lbs. I cleaned up my diet and drinking more water. This has made a HUGE difference in my energy levels over the week. Hitting the weights again has been a challenge - I’ve lost a good deal of strength and I’m walking like an 80 year old man with a walker. I over did it a couple days and reminded myself to not over due the weights and I’m not out to set any lifting records. Aight - enough babbling. Here are my "Before" photos and as soon as my camera is returned from SONY - be on the look out for some training videos, visits with some of the pro bodybuilders, top trainers, various classes and more. I’ll also be using my network of contacts in the industry to provide insight into products, training and more. I’m here to show that you can accomplish anything when you put your mind to it. Join me in not only watching the five competitors transform here but also set your own goals and do it with them. My goal - drop 30lbs in 14 weeks and see the six pack again.

BEFORE PHOTOS - December 17, 2007 - 219.3lbs

9 DAYS into it - December 26, 2007 - 213.5lbs

The Ab Hunt Begins!

Ladies and Gentlemen (and SCT),

Weighing-in in front of people is a very hard thing for me to do.  My body is not a source of pride at the moment and showing it to the world is humbling.  This is probably the case for many in the western world.  As I do this, and as my anxiety grows, I continually remind myself that the fat is not me.  The fat is a mass of cells, a coat that I am working to take off.  If you allow yourself to be a fat person instead of a person that simply needs to lose unhealthy fat you will struggle with emotions of poor self image.  Everyone,  you are all wonderfully and majestically made.  You must be able to look at your true state and smile.  

I will reshoot this weigh-in because I did not include a good shot of the paper or me standing on the scale.

Ok! Here it is.

My video introduction:

Goal:  Fat Loss

Age: 37

Gender: I am all woman.

Location: MO, USA

Starting Weight & Bodyfat: Initially 245 lbs.; 67% bodyfat.  

NOW:157 lbs, 24% bodyfat.

Goal Weight & Bodyfat: >140 lbs., >17% bodyfat.  (Ideally weigh 135 lbs., and b.f. 15%)

"No one can go back and change a bad beginning.  But one can start anything, anytime, and create a successful ending.”
                                                                  -Author Unknown

I am Maddi.  I am a 37 year old mother of three daughters in Mid-West USA.  As time goes by you will learn my story in full.  (A good place to start is to read my very first bodyblog on this site.)

As a young woman I dreamed of going to school to get "a degree" in women’s issues.  Instead, I developed "a large degree" of woman’s issues of my very own.

We all have issues don’t we?

In fact, we all have BODY ISSUES.

But BODY ISSUES has such a negative ring to it.  Instead, we are just going to say, that WE CARE FOR, AND LOVE OUR BODIES, VERY, VERY MUCH.

Or at least we should.

For the next 3 months, you are going to watch me love and care for mine.  

My intended goal is this;

I will come out the other side, a FOCUSED, LEANER, MENTALLY STRONGER, and BETTER PERSON.

In the process, I will be fighting tooth and nail with the strongest opponent I have.

Myself.

I plan on lasting all 12….(or is it 13) rounds.   YOU can call them weeks.

I don’t anticipate it all to be fun and games.  In fact, I expect this to be one of the more challenging times of my life.

Yet when I come out of that ring, victorious against myself, I will have won this contest.

But before victory comes the battle.  

I have many demons to face along the way.  

I invite you to share this journey with me.

SHORT TERM GOAL?

I want to face my demons.  Of which include;

fear of failure

fear of success and envy

fear of discomfort and hunger

food addiction

gluttony

insecurity

lack of vision

failure to plan

weak mindedness

LONG TERM GOAL? 

I want to teach others that on the road to improvement it is imperative to love oneself along the way.

Oh.  And I wouldn’t mind ending up in a magazine someday.

And without futher ado………………………

Team Xtreme ready to Rock and Roll baby!

Who:
I am Dave AKA Jumbo Rider, a 43 your old, 6′4", and 364 pound man. Diabetes and depression are being treated with medications at this time. My family is filled with fat people that die in their 40’s from cancer or diabetic complications. My genes and my mind must be overcome.

Why:
I was a chunky kid until my Junior year in high school when I thinned out and got into lifting. Then my weight crept up in college where I decided to enlist in the Army. In the Army I was in the best shape of my life. After the Army, without Uncle Sam cracking the whip, I ballooned quickly to the 270’s and then slowly added another 100 or so pounds to that number.

I just accepted that I was going to be fat.  Accepted is the wrong word.  I gave up on myself.  Suffering from depression and diabetes, and having a family history of early death by cancer gave me an eat, drink, and be merry attitude.  The only issue was that I failed to be merry.  As I became less healthy I became more miserable.  The more miserable I got the more I hoped the reaper would come.  I ceased to live.  When you are too big to fit in an airplane seat, ride a carnival ride, or when you go to specific movie theaters because you know they have armrests that lift up to give more room, you know you are too fat.  But it did not matter to me.  Frankly, I had given up on life and just decided to go through the motions of living until I died in a few years.

Then a number of things happened in my life that changed my way of thinking.  My mother died last Christmas. Before she died she fell in our basement and had to be taken up a narrow flight of stairs to the ambulance. I will never forget how helpless and sad she felt at that time. In the hospital on her death bed she made me promise to walk a 1/4 mile every day. I promised and she died.

A week earlier I had watched a show on the Discovery channel about two women who lost a combined 400 pounds. They went the route of surgery to lose their weight and, in my opinion; they were as unhealthy after they lost the weight. One woman on the show had a glandular problem in her leg and she had a leg the weighed 200 pounds by itself. For some reason the doctor’s could only remove some of the tissue mass at a time. It was disgusting but it helped me view me as separate from my fat. I was no longer a fat guy but a guy enshrouded by fat. This was the spark that lit the fire to removing the fat from me.

My daughter was married last January and told us that she was pregnant this past July. I am going to have a grandson that will be named after me. It is imperative that I break the fat cycle in my family and it is imperative that I live long enough to help little Dave battle his genetic makeup.

What:
I need to lose at least 150 pounds and that will take me about 2 years if I do things right.  I plan to drop between 30-36 pounds during this contest.  

When:
I seriously started to change my life June of 2007. August of 2007 I stumbled and gained back 20 pounds lost. In September and October I refocused, made a new plan, and renewed my journey. Through the month of November I have lost 12 pounds.

Where:
I workout in my office at work, home, and at the St. Peter’s Rec Plex

How:
I am following the Precision Nutrition program and focusing hard on my food intake. I further restrict my food choices by following a Blood Type Diet. No grain has touched my lips in 5 weeks.

My exercise routine pales in comparison to many on this board. I swim 3 times a week for 30 minutes to an hour and work around the house. After Christmas I will begin Powerlifting band work and several other exercises that you will need to stay tuned to find out about.  I also ride a bicycle but winter weather has that parked. (Riding my bike is what gave me my Jumbo Rider moniker) When the weather allows I commute 14 miles to and from work.

I have enlisted the help of a trainer because I honestly don’t know my body enough to exercise it properly.   Weighing nearly 400 pounds will do that to you. Being a guy I am typically gung-ho but my trainer has slowed me down. It is with his advice that I swim 3 times a week to insure that I don’t damage my joints in the beginning of my weight loss journey. Coach has also provided me with my supplement protocol which you will find in my bodyspace.

My trainer is a noted Top Gun from Toronto, Canada, Mike Demeter. Mike’s a moderator for Dr. Berardi’s Precision Nutrition ( "Coach Mike") and draws strongly on its principles along with tweaks from the Blood Type Diet, Poliquin’s Biosignature and much of Justin Harris’ Carb cycling and other methods popularized by Troponin Nutrition. It sometimes seems well off the beaten path but I can’t argue with the results.

Goal:
Next summer I will be riding in the RAGBAI, a 500 mile bicycle ride across Iowa in a week with several thousand of my closest friends.

At the end of the 12 weeks of this competition I will lose 30 - 36 pounds. These pounds will be butter not meat.

I am living life every moment for all that it is worth!

I have been to several other sites that are health centric and none of them compare to bodybuilder.com. This site is filled with great folks from the super athlete to the super obese and everyone helps others. The information found in the articles and the weekly transformations have helped me tremendously.   Thank you bodybuilder.com and all of the sponsors of this contest for this great opportunity.

Daretosoar here! I am so excited to make 2008 Bodyspace Transformation Challenge part of my journey to a healthy lifestyle.  Before this journey begins I want you to know where I have been and where I am going.

CHAPTER 1:  The past

Let me give you a little daretosoar history.  Growing up I might as well have been an only child.  Single mother who worked long hours to pay for the bills racked up by an alcoholic father and to live from day to day.  Same story as a lot of folks. Because mom was out of the house most of the time, you know that there are a lot of things left untaught and major opportunities for mischief.  Now I was the shy child.  I still am until you reach that inner circle of friends.  I am the one that sits back and observes the room at parties.  Ok back to the point, despite my poor eating habits as a child, I grew up in pretty good shape.  I was athletic and on the go a lot.  I may not have eaten healthy but I ran enough and eat so little that the weight never had the opportunity to settle on the butt. Then a major event happened when I was in high school.  I am not going to be specific. I will tell you that it is something that no child should have to endure.  I blamed myself for a while.  All activity stopped.  I started eating more and putting on the weight.  It was about this time that I began being ashamed of my body.  Most people were not aware of this fact.  They seen what you guys are permitted to see. The positive side of me.  Anyway back to the story.   I graduate and went to college.    What little activity I was doing by this time, completely stopped.  Now I was sitting in class, sitting and studying, and I had a job that I sat at.  You know what happened.  The weight kept increasing.  The body image was declining rapidly.  I hated to see my self naked and I really hated to shop for clothes.  Maybe this is where my hatred for shopping comes from.

Now I had several boyfriends throughout this time.  The man I married was with me through most of this.  By the time I got married I weighed 225 pounds. The weight I am now.  Full clothed, I could conquer the world.  Skimpily clothes and I wouldnt leave the room.  No sleeveless shirts. No regular shorts.  Baggy oversized clothes were my norm.  If you thought I was going swimming you were nuts.

Within a year I was pregnant.   Well we all know what happens when your pregnant.  You gain weight.  I was so freakin big that the last month of my pregnancy, I could fit behind the wheel of our 1969 Chevy truck.  Talk about a major hit to the mental body image.  The good news is that I lost almost all the pregnancy weight before I left the hospital.  The bad news is a came home with lots of stretch marks.  Another strike for body image. Three months later I was pregnant again.   By this time the stress of having a little one, holding a full time job, and the thought of not fitting behind the wheel of the truck really took a toll on my self esteem.  I put on a lot of weight. I was freaking huge and miserable.  I felt awful in everything that I put on. I breast fed and my boobs were so freaking big, it was uncomfortable.  I was a major milk cow.  I probably produced enough milk to nurse several babies.  I constantly had to change clothes because of leakage.  

Self esteem was declining rapidly. After the baby was born, not a lot changed.  I was big and had plenty of pregnancy scars to reinforce my low body self esteem.  My eating habits were horrible.  I never really learned anything about nutrition growing up.  I cant say I really tried to watch my eating.  I thought as long as I was active that the weight would fall off just like it stay off  in high school.  I joined a gym but never went enough to really do me any good.  I felt so self conscience and didn’t really know what to do.  I was the very fat lady among the cardio bunnies.

Several years ago my husband thought he would offer me encouragement to lose weight by saying he wanted a divorce if I didn’t shrink.  Guess what.  That just pissed me off.  If you cant love me when I am fat, especially since I was fat when we got married, then you sure as hell wont love me when I thin. Now he says that he just thought saying that would give me a boost to get the gym and clean up my diet but all it really did was hurt and make me feel like no one would want me.  I know I don’t need to point this out but the thought of not having sex was very unappealing to me but I was not going to give in to an ultimatum.  I was stubborn so I didn’t exercise.  My thoughts were screw him.  He either loves me or he doesn’t.  That little statement still causes a lot of hurt and resentment even though he swears he never meant it.

Don’t get me wrong.  He tried to be encouraging but it came across more hurtful and I resented it.  He had cleaned up his diet and dropped some weight.  He was working out regularly.  He just wanted the same for me.  Eventually, we joined the Y.  I began going and not really seeing results.  I think the reason for that is that I never made the personal commitment to me. I never found that passion with in myself to be able to stick to the program.  I excelled in other areas of my life but when it came to my health and wellness, I did nothing.  Everything else was more important.  

I realized that I had to start taking time for me.  I had to decide what I wanted out of life.  I began making a list of things that I wanted to do.  Not what others wanted for me to do but what I truly wanted to do in all areas of my life.  I wrote down anything and everything that came to mind.  After review this list, I realized that there were a lot of things that I couldn’t do in the shape I was in.  I had to reclaim my body.  I had to take control of myself and my habits.  I had to have success in this area of my life too.  I had to be more selfish.

I began developing my own workouts.  I read everything that I could get my hands on.  I hit the free weights hard.  I was only seeing little results.  As soon as I would lose a couple of pounds, they came back again.  I need to work on improving my eating habits.  I began making small changes.  I started seeing a little results.  Nothing major.  I yo yo a lot.   I was having trouble putting it all together and staying on the fitness wagon.  

I made myself read my goals daily to keep me motivated.  I was motivated but my intensity in the gym lacked.  I went through the motions.  My husband tried to praise my efforts and offer encouragement but they were still met with resentment from his previous statement.

Eventually I switched gyms. I got away for the social environment.  I told myself that my time in the gym was my time and I am not going to waste it.  The intensity level increased.  I added in cardio in the am.  I was seeing consistent and constant results.

It was around this time that I found bodybuilding.com. I had never blogged before.   The day I started my profile was a major one.  I avoided pictures to this point.  I was so ashamed of myself the day I posted my first pics.  I told myself I was going to journal everyday.  I never thought I would receive comments or make the circle of friends that I have.  

Over time watching the charts make that down hill trend, receiving the encouragement, and stepping way out of my comfort zone has really paid off.  The day I posted the little racier than normal pics was very hard.  But the encouragement I got from them was beyond belief.  I think I became a c.w. that day.  LOL  

Chapter 2: The Challenge and closing the book on the past.

I signed up with hopes of being chosen as one of the participants in the challenge as soon as I seen it posted.  I knew it would be what I needed to keep me going on the right path.  This place has helped me maintain my drive.  It keeps me accountable and hardcore.  I need the support and the friends that I found here.   I knew being in this contest would keep those things constant.  It provides me with hope and motivation.

With the help of Team C.W and the team captain Ninjabill, I will lose a minimum of 24 pounds and ten inches overall.  Ninjabill has volunteered to take one for the team by eating all the goodies and thing thrown in my path along the way.  My competitors will do anything to change the view in front of them.  But Ninja and the other c.w. of bodybuilding.com have my back.  LOL

Seriously, the competitors here are fabulous and the transformations that you will see during this contest should provide hope and motivation for all that follow along.  My competition will be tough but with the help of my team, I got game baby.   I would like to thanks the sponsors of this contest and the folks at bb.com also.  Thanks for providing this site and the hope that we can overcome any challenges we come to with information, great tools, wonderful supplements, and fabulous friends.

Team CW is so ready for the games to begin!  

As promised, here is my video introduction. I tried not to look TOO sexy since we haven’t even started the contest yet, but I think I failed..

If anyone has any questions, comments, thoughts, etc please feel free to post away.

Thanks!
Josh

Welcome all to my first blog on the 2008 Transformation Contest Bodyblog. I will have an introduction video coming shortly, but YouTube seems to be running slow for me so I thought a brief text introduction would suffice for now.

Name - Josh (stonecoldtruth)
Age - 25
Location - Sioux Falls, SD
Over the next 12 weeks, I will achieve the following goals:

Goal #1 - Drop a minimum 35lbs from starting weight.
Goal #2 - Be able to complete 10 pushups with proper form (limit right now is about 4 or 5 to be honest, I suck at them)
Goal #3 - Be able to complete 3 pullups with proper form (limit right now is zero, I suck at pullups)
Goal #4 - Visible quad seperation.
Goal #5 - More of a peak to biceps.
Goal #6 - Some semblance of a ‘I can almost see a V-Taper’
Goal #7 - Clearly defined chin-line
Goal #8 - Visible back definition (kind of visible in person, not on camera currently)
Goal #9 - Bring it EVERY day, because if I reach this goal, the rest will come.

I will also be providing those who follow along a unique look into my everyday life, as I feel that the more you guys get to know me, the more fun this journey will be for all. Stay tuned for more on the next update tonight.

I will do my best to make you all proud, and invite you to join along for the ride.

Josh

Hello to all!

Brief intro here….

Me: Jason Elliott
Age: 26
Weight: Coming Soon
Location: Georgia
Team Name: Team Xtreme ( Results nothing short of Xtreme)

Primary Goals:

Weight Loss: 30Lbs
Goal Fat %: 25% currently around 35%

Additional Goals not listed by priority.

1- Improve Overall Health
2- Fit Into Size 36 pants.
3- Fit back into all my size 48 suit’s
4- Complete 10 Un-assisted bodyweight dips
6- Complete 5 Un-Assisted bodyweight pull-ups
7- Hope that no one gets to hurt with team xtreme stomps the competition
8- Wow people enough to ask how I did it!

Looking forward to the next 12 weeks (or thirteen if you live in Idaho and your name is Richard) it’s going to be great fun!