You can learn more on the About page, but this is a blog about my progress at the gym. Very dry stuff.
I am 5 ft 11 in tall. This has not changed over time. Duh.
In high school, my weight was around 120 lbs. I exercised then, for a while.
In the Army a couple years later, I got up to around 135 lbs. Structured exercise consisted mainly of pushups, situps, and running for miles. Lots of it.
After the Army (and marriage), nothing changed much throughout college or at work, except that after work started, I began to enjoy beer and bratwurst. (Up to 145 lbs, and getting flabby.) We went to Hawaii for a few months to work, where we both went to the 24 Hr Fitness gym in Waikiki for about six months, and I started taking creatine (but no protein). It definitely helped with strength and stamina. I got a little stronger and my weight went up to about 160 lbs.
After returning home, we started going to the gym in town, and I was still using creatine. I gradually moved up to about 165 lbs, but my strength peaked. I eventually stopped growing and going, and started to flab out again. We had a couple kids.
In 2003, we next moved to Japan where I really flabbed out. This is when I was informed that I had high blood pressure, so I started taking meds for that (which helped a lot). I also promised my wife I would no longer take performance boosting supplements such as creatine, since it seems to raise my blood pressure.
A coworker there convinced me to go back to the gym in March of 2006, and told me about taking protein and proper diet. I still don’t know about proper diet that much, but we eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, yogurt and whole grain breads, and keep the fat and salt intake way down. We also do not drink sodas or go out for fast food (except for rare occasions), and we do not eat much sweet stuff. So I guess I eat healthy.
Since I started back in 2006, I have slowly found my groove and pushed myself further than I have ever gone before. Now that we have moved back to the U.S., I am starting up again (took a three month break). I have lost most of the flab, and weight around 186 lbs dripping wet. I do not measure but I definitely am no longer skinny. My chest and arms have almost outgrown my (skinny-guy) shirts, and at the peak, I was pushing almost 300 lbs (six 45 lb plates, hence the site name) on the iso-bench. Due to weak shoulders, I have never done more than 210 on the flat bench, so I work my shoulders a lot now to overcome that.
So ends the intro.
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