Thread: Whipping Myself Into Shape

Man I appreciate everyones stories and the sharing of your info and where you are as well, thank you all. It is encouraging to see the community we have here. I did not expect so many to come out and post about where they are, hats off to each of you for being willing to bare yourself in that manner in this community. I think that alone speaks very well of this community and its members.

If posting this helps jump start someone else, then all the better.

Me and the wife just back in a few minutes ago from our walk and working out on the exercise machine. Ive been doing mainly upper body work on the machine but Im going to have to read through the rest of the book I guess and figure out how to do lower body stuff, particularly abs since that is my weakest area. I have always had decent upper body strength and as mentioned I used to run a lot as well, but ab exercises always gave me a run for the money, even in the military. I could always max out on my push up and running scores but typically just barely passed in sit ups.

Anyway that you again, all of you for posting what you have here. I can hardly wait until I have the opportunity to meet all of you.

great job man, you will love the results after this i am sure as you can already notice some improvements...im glad to help you out too! keep up the great work!

<---- Whippin' out the credit card for a copy of Sweatin' To The Oldies.

Scotty,
Your story is eerily familiar. PM sent, As for your track times 1 mile is impressive. You edge my best by a few seconds, nice! But I have ya on the 2 mile LOL. Seriously though congrats on the will power to get started with the workouts. Keep it going!!

pulling my moms copy of sweatin to the oldies out of the drawer..... pulled the ab roller out of the closet, as well as the ab swing.

if scotty can do it, so can I!!

I am at 272lbs as of 4:30am 4/5/2008.

not a bad thread Scotty!

Awesome. I got a partner. Lets see how far we can go bud.

Status Report, 04.06.2008

I weighed in today and surprise, I gained a pound. Im now at 282.5. Not quite sure how that came about, but oh well. I'll just have to keep chugging along. I missed two days of working out this week, so Im sure that didnt help matters any.

Its getting warmer so that means things like yard work and such which when I start Im out there for a long time. Mowing the grass, edging, cleaning the sidewalk and driveway so that will give me some extra exercise.

Anyway, just thought I would post up a progress report. I still feel a lot better, definitely sleeping a lot better. So I'll keep on going until I get to where I want to be.

I'll definitely keep going, the alternative isnt pretty. Additionally, Im not using as much salt as I had been because Im eating more vegetables and salt draws the water out from them and makes it hard to store them (advance meal preparation) and makes them mushy which I dont like at all. I really dont care for them to be cooked all that much either.

So I would imagine the first weeks weight loss was from a lot less water retention, who knows. But I'll continue on.

I do take a multi-vitamin everyday and a fish oil capsule. I havent tried any of the other stuff you mention, but I work next to a couple of guys that are in the gym everyday and they are chocking down those protein shakes all the time.

I may hit you up for some more info in the near future as I definitely need to be on some supplements that will keep my energy levels up and Im not at all sure where to start with that.

not all the products from gnc are approve by the fda. just a waste of money imo. the only thing i would buy from gnc are vitamins and protein shakes that's about all i know will work. my old man, is an old school he told me when he won first place in the master class (40 plus year old) powerlifting contest, he said he never took any of those "muscle in the bottle" that's what he called gnc products. during his training he took vitamins, daily whole some meal and intense work out. at 56 y.o. now and he still active and ripped.