February 27th. Housesitting. Lee Priest.
So I requested Lee Priest to be my friend on here and he accepted! How cool is that?! I’m sure he says yes to every single person who adds him, but still….it’s pretty badass. Lee Priest was one of my inspirations to want to get big. Growing up, I worked out all the time, because my mom was a personal trainer. But I was a basketball player, and my workouts were geared towards improving my basketball skills more than getting buff and muscular. Anyway, I weighed 180 pounds from the time I was 16 until I was 19, and that was the first time that I came across a bodybuilding magazine. I remember that they had an article about Lee Priest and his arm training, and I was amazed at how big and incredible his arms looked. As a kid growing up, I watched Hulk Hogan wrestling, and he always talked about his 24" pythons haha. By comparison, Hulk’s arms just look like thick masses, while Lee’s arms looked huge, chiseled, veiny, and I thought that if Hulk Hogan had 24" arms, Lee must have had 36" arms lol. At about the same time that I discovered Lee Priest in a bodybuilding magazine, I ran into this incredibly buff black guy at the gym. I thought he was superhuman lol, and I found out later that it was Shawn Ray. So this is when I decided that I didn’t want to be 180 pounds anymore, I wanted to be huge like these newfound supermen that I had discovered. My goal was to gain 35 pounds and eventually weigh 215. Well, needless to say, I’m way past that now, and am trying to lose fat and get back in shape this year, but I would like to end up between 210 and 225 with visible abs if that is at all possible. Soo anyway. Thanks for the add Lee Priest. You have been an inspiration since the beginning, and its a shame that shorter guys such as yourself and Dexter Jackson have never gotten the true respect that they deserve compared to the "big guys." Bodybuilding used to be about the physique, but for the past decade it seems that is has been about size and mass, regardless of symmetry, conditioning, and all the things that made past champions so great regardless of their height. I’m glad that it is finally slowly turning towards rewarding a guy like Victor Martinez who has both size and symmetry, etc. But I will always believe that for about 10 years, all the shorter, lighter guys got screwed, even if they had better conditioning and looked better than the giant mass monsters with fat bellies.
So I spent the day housesitting my brother Jason’s house. He and his girlfriend had to work, but they were having a TimeWarner Cable guy come over and hook up digital telephone service. So I offered to stay there so that the guys could come do the work, and so they didn’t worry about theft. Laura came over and kept me company for a couple of hours. We watched a movie, then she had to go to class at 3pm. She is soooo funny!!! It’s really a crack up actually. I’m really glad that we have become friends. I have been depressed long enough, and it’s nice to have someone to make me smile and laugh again. That’s what drew me to Heather in the first place, she has an amazing sense of humor. Now if I can just find a chick who has a sense of humor, who’s also smokin hott lol, then I will be set. So anyway, I don’t know what happened, but my back has been absolutely killing me all day!!! Like, extreme pain!!! I woke up this morning and it felt a little off when I was getting ready, but as soon as I got to Jason’s house, it was just throbbing and giving me problems. As the day has progressed, it has gotten much worse. It’s in the upper right hand side of my back, and it feels extremely tight like I pulled a muscle or something. So tonight is supposed to be my back workout, but I am clearly not going to try and do a back workout while dealing with a back injury!!! So I may go to the gym and ride the stationary bike for 30 minutes, and then relax in the jacuzzi and see if that loosens up my back pain. I have never been a fan of pain meds, or anything like that, so I am just gonna try and relax later and see if I can get rid of it. I need a massage!!!
