[hvac r us 2]

bodybuillders are friggin insane man. I actually did try it a few times but for me, quality of life just plain sucked! Life without beer...no way man. Not this Irish meathead.

Course I guess a bodybuilder's too busy getting laid constantly to be out drinking.

Diet was the hardest part, I would start my diet 16 week out from a show...it was a killer!

 

[hvac r us 2]

This is my home gym, I have collected stuff over the last 10 years. Still takes a lot to get up at 5AM each morning to train. I love it!

 

[Special-K]

This is my home gym, I have collected stuff over the last 10 years. Still takes a lot to get up at 5AM each morning to train. I love it!

Very nice! I did the home gym thing for awhile (not as nice as yours), but with my weird schedule it works better for me to go to a gym near my office.

I still have some equipment for sell if anyone's interested.

 

[Dowadudda]

I have fallen apart over the last few years. I was always in shape, very fit. I wrestled in high school, grew up baling hey on farms for extra cash. I joined the Army and in the Army your always running. I was in extreme great shape for about two years. Back then you could drink a case of beer, smoke a carton of cigarettes in 1 weekend partying and look perfect. And you could never really do all the time that cause you never could last during PT if you did.

I am 35 now and 30 LBS later. I had fits and starts over the last few years, but nothing I could muster to stay with it. I started to feel like real $hit i'd say over the last 2 years. Eating like a pig and drinking beer and just not doing anything after work. And you know, you alwyas figure, well I get back with it. And you say that to reckon for then that your not doing right by yourself.

I have finally have had enough. I am tired of being tired, and tired of worrying about how I look to myself.

I just in the last few weeks begun to do a half hour each night on the treadmill at my target heart rate. I felt sore and groggy and lazy the first week. I even skipped a few days because of being lazy. But this is my third week and I am now up to doing a half hour a day. I am beginning to feel better. Just an over all feeling of better. Not so lethargic like.

 

[hvac r us 2]

I have fallen apart over the last few years. I was always in shape, very fit. I wrestled in high school, grew up baling hey on farms for extra cash. I joined the Army and in the Army your always running. I was in extreme great shape for about two years. Back then you could drink a case of beer, smoke a carton of cigarettes in 1 weekend partying and look perfect. And you could never really do all the time that cause you never could last during PT if you did.

I am 35 now and 30 LBS later. I had fits and starts over the last few years, but nothing I could muster to stay with it. I started to feel like real $hit i'd say over the last 2 years. Eating like a pig and drinking beer and just not doing anything after work. And you know, you alwyas figure, well I get back with it. And you say that to reckon for then that your not doing right by yourself.

I have finally have had enough. I am tired of being tired, and tired of worrying about how I look to myself.

I just in the last few weeks begun to do a half hour each night on the treadmill at my target heart rate. I felt sore and groggy and lazy the first week. I even skipped a few days because of being lazy. But this is my third week and I am now up to doing a half hour a day. I am beginning to feel better. Just an over all feeling of better. Not so lethargic like.

Stick with it many D's! Here is my advice for keeping it up over the long haul.

Be brief, be bold, be gone.

Think about it!

 

[B_roche]

This is my home gym, I have collected stuff over the last 10 years. Still takes a lot to get up at 5AM each morning to train. I love it!

ya need to get a Forza in there brother...and maybe a monolift

naw nice home gym dude. I'd kill not to have some dude steal my equipment, at the same time some other dude stares at me for the second hour straight, while the latest pop song blares on the radio and some skinny weiner in under armor with "trainer" on the back asks me not to use chalk.....whew...

I'll stop right there. The gym crowd really sucks untill it thins out mid Feb.

 

[B_roche]

Diet was the hardest part, I would start my diet 16 week out from a show...it was a killer!

any show pics?

 

[hvac r us 2]

ya need to get a Forza in there brother...and maybe a monolift

naw nice home gym dude. I'd kill not to have some dude steal my equipment, at the same time some other dude stares at me for the second hour straight, while the latest pop song blares on the radio and some skinny weiner in under armor with "trainer" on the back asks me not to use chalk.....whew...

I'll stop right there. The gym crowd really sucks until it thins out mid Feb.

Now I can relate...used to piss me off every January when everybody would pack the gym with their new years resolution.

I loved the gym, still do...but with three little kids I have my own world now. Look forward to the gym again one day! I plan on doing a masters show in the next couple of years.

I hated waiting for the squat rack why some skinny f**k would be doing some 15 sets of half squats. I say, if you were really training hard you wouldn't be doing 15 sets of squats.

I did see a guy one time deadlift 5 plates for reps at a bodyweight of 150 pounds! amazing.

I do a lot of staggered sets and cycle training in the morning, big lifts I save for the weekend.

I train a little smarter now than I did in my 20's. But I love the heavy weights...just something about "lift this or it will crush you" feeling I live for. My wife keeps telling me I am getting older and need to stop that...but I just cant!

 

[hvac r us 2]

any show pics?

Uhhh actually yes! The problem is I am somewhat of a local figure in this area...and if I start posting pictures of myself in my skivies on the net it might not go over to well.

Not everybody appreicates bodybuilding!

 

[okctech]

I do, I can't even imagine being in the 45% Obese range. Pretty hard to be like that and do this trade.

It sure doesn't stop guys in that range of obesity from trying. "God Blessem" I'm not in the best shape, but I'm working on getting down in my weight by running. One thing for sure doing this kind of work will sure show you what kind of shape your in. That damn extension ladder starts getting heavier and heavier. Heck... I'm just 28 going on 29. Friends are always like: "your job must be a good work out" My reply is that it's not the good kind of work out It's hard on your joints!

 

[pilotlight]

I'd kill not to have some dude steal my equipment, at the same time some other dude stares at me for the second hour straight, while the latest pop song blares on the radio and some skinny weiner in under armor with "trainer" on the back asks me not to use chalk.....whew...

I'll stop right there. The gym crowd really sucks untill it thins out mid
Feb.

Lets not forget the woman that wears so much perfume that you can taste it. Or the fat person that sweats like a pig in an oven and never wipes down their equipment