Posts Tagged progress

Addressing the Elephant in the Room – Pt. 1: The Elephant Itself

In a number of places, I’ve seen people who are dismissive of someone’s progress (including my own) or minimize it with statements like ‘Dat dere CellTech’, which is really just a euphemism for ‘He’s on steroids’. While this has bugged me, I’ve never posted on it mainly because I don’t feel like there’s any point. […]

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Injury Update: Now with more MRIs!

Take heed, boys and girls, here there be some foul language. Turn back if you offend easily. Well, now it’s settled: I’ve officially fucked myself up good and proper. As I told my office mate upon finding out the prognosis and degree of my injury, evidently I can’t do anything half-assed, even fucking myself up. […]

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Injury Update

Well, today marks the day I went to visit a new doc for ART therapy to try and resolve this injury. I went to Premier Spine and Sport, and met with Dr. Brink, who also happens to be the doctor for this guy: Anyhow, after a pretty long discussion about the issue and what I […]

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General Summary of Changes to Diet, Exercise, and Supplement Intake

NOTE: As an addendum to my progress post, I am still keeping a running tally of changes I make to my training, diet, and supplementation in order to trace back the effects further down the road. This post will be updated periodically to reflect that. Exercise Beginning: 5×5 From Bodybuilding.com 6/1/10: Added recumbent biking, ~40 […]

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Little Victory for the Day

When you are injured, you have to take training victories where you can get them, so here’s my victory for the day: Widowmaker – 275×20 at 215 lb bodyweight And for the record, if anyone ever tells you that anaerobic exercise (i.e. weightlifting) doesn’t improve cardiovascular health, please instruct them to strap 275 lbs to […]

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The Result of a Failed Bulk

Well, the results of my month-long bulk in Pensacola are in, and they are not pretty. However, if you’ve been following along, you know that things didn’t exactly go as planned. First and foremost, the day I flew into Pensacola, I tore my left trapezius muscle carrying my laptop gear through the abomination of an […]

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24 Months of Working Out – Detailed Progress, History, and Timeline

Basic Before and After Shots The Ubiquitous “New Body, Old Pants” Pic 24 Month Slideshow Jump to: Exercise Program  Diet  Conclusion and Results  Timeline  In the Beginning… Starting this out, I had a lot of fairly major challenges to overcome. I present all of these here in the spirit of full disclosure. In January of […]

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6 Month workout progress

6 Month workout progress This week marks the end of 6 months of working out after a ~10 year hiatus. I started out with the goal of getting as big and strong as possible in 6 months. I didn’t really care about losing weight so much, I just wanted a strong foundation and as much […]

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