I’m done with all this BBing business
Well, I haven’t been here on a while. I know.
After the food poisoning in Feb. I basically lost motivation. I did get my weight/strength up to a bit over what I could do before (I believe my bench was 240 max), but no major changes. Then summer hit and all went to hell. First few weeks I worked out fine, but then, as usually happens in the summer with me, a string of things happened that made me lose much weight/strength. Well…I wanted to cut a bit, but since I wasn’t eating enough protein I cut much muscle as well.
All started with me trying to lose a few pounds in like 2 weeks because I purchased a trip to Barcelona. Then a few weeks after that camp started (and it goes on for 6 and a half weeks, ending this Sat.) The working hours here leave me pretty tired so I don’t make it to the gym more than 2-3 times a week (and it’s closed on weekends). Besides, I figure why go to the gym too much if I eat very little protein here, and it’s hard to time taking a shake since most of the time I’ll eat 1 or 1.5 hours later anyway. Oh yeah, my last meal is at 6PM. My arms probably shrank over a half an inch. Back is a lot weaker. Chest suffered the most strength loss. Shoulders about the same.
So, with that all said, I say forget BBing. I get OK results and then through life circumstances I lose them. Most ppl that have been here as long as I have had achieved tremendous results, and I don’t know how they have the time with school, work, and having some social time in between. Plus, my GI tract is thanking me for not drinking milk. Looks like I was more lactose intolerant than I thought, since I can feel a clear difference in my well-being.
I will continue working out, and taking some protein (in water). I will also start running. I am not going to waste money on things such as weight gainers and excessive food, and I will not try to gain weight anymore (though hopefully a few pounds of muscle for the year will be achieved. I am hoping to lean out while staying roughly the same weight, to get my abs to show well (top 4 already show, bottom 2 are extremely faint but hopefully they’ll come in). Hopefully I will get back the strength I had before, getting my bench to 240, but if I don’t go higher it’s OK I guess. I’m just tired of getting to the point of a strong fatass by May, and then cutting down improperly (because I really can’t find much time to do it properly with gyms being closed a lot) and getting weak. Happened last summer, happened this summer, will probably happen next summer. So I just want to have a generally athletic shape and that’s it.
August 3, 2009 at 6:08 am
All of this boils down to, "you have to do you". Although others that have been here as long as you may have made more gains than you, they could have better genetics and/or could have made more sacrifices than you are willing to make in your social life. So in the end you have to decide what is right for you as a person, and go with it. I work 92 hours per week and still go to the gym 6 days a week. My social life absolutely suffers, but to me, it’s worth it to be my best. I don’t compare myself to others because they’re working with different circumstances.