jaxsonaj’s BodyBlog

That took long enough!  After three weeks of intense swimming I am finally done.  I spent those three weeks in a swim instructor course that is said to total 35 miles worth of swimming.  I have lost about 7 pounds and now have to work hard to get it back.  On the upside my back is alot more defined then ever before.  I can’t wait to hit the gym again and get some of that weight back. 

Thanks to the grand ole Marine Corp I have to change my workout routine once again.  I have been trying to gain weight with focus on heavy weight training.  Now I have had to do the complete opposite and do LARGE amounts of cardio.  I am now going to a school to become a Marine Corp swim instructor.  I have been swimming on average around 3000 meters a day.  I have already dropped about 5 pounds since I have not been able to do weight training as much.  Hopefully I can regain my weight once this is over with.  It is just frustrating, months of work wasted.

Well I have finally given in.  If you have not noticed I was born with a skeletal disorder called Pectus Excavatum or sunken chest.  For the most part it has never bothered me.  When I was younger my parents brought me in to see about having fixed.  However, thanks to Military doctors they refused the surgery saying it was to invasive and I would have to see a specialist.  Basically they said “We don’t want to pay for it”.  Well as I have gotten older my lungs have gotten larger and now my chest is crushing them making it hard to breath during any physical activity.  I have been able to ignore it for the most part.  At the most it just takes me awhile to catch m breath.  Now when I am in the gym I have been getting light headed.  At first I thought it was my breathing technique.  Then I went off the NO-Explode but that did nothing either.  I am also a Marine and have to run a lot.  My run time has dropped quite a bit and sometimes it takes me almost an hour or two to catch my breath.  So today I am going in for X-rays and hopefully the doctors can give me some idea of what is going on.  Hopefully! 

So after about two weeks of trying I finally got a muscle up.  Now that I got the form down for the most part I am able to do about two.  Hopefully within a month I can do 10 or more.  If you don’t know what a muscle up is check this out.  

So, I spent 7 months in Iraq at the same weight and nothing much changing.  I stopped lifting and lost some weight.  I got down to 141 and got pissed.  So, recently I started up again.  I have been lifting for a solid month and I am 155 now!!  What is with that.  I work out for 7 months and stayed at 150 now in one month I am 155.  I don’t know what I am doing different but I like it!!!!