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Originally posted by Wookie@Aug 7 2005, 01:08 AM
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@Aug 6 2005, 06:03 PM
Just one mans position.
I've been weight training for about 20 years since I was 18, I'm not super ripped, but I'm not a blob, I'm about 6 feet, 255.# Bench 275, arm curled up to 55 (until I tore a bicep a few week ago, etc etc.# Except for a stupid experiment with Steroids when I was playing high school ball, I've gotten my results without the benefit of supplements except for vitamins.# I eat 5 times a day and go through cycles where I eat an insane amount of proteins (lean chickens and fish especially)
The frustration point that causes a lot of people to just quit is that initially your results are huge, you can actually see pretty big changes in 6 week patterns, but every 6 weeks the results go down, so in the first 6 weeks you might increase your lift load by 25%, but then it shrinks after that.
I've read some horrible things about creatine, especially if you constantly use it, its like anything else where you need to give your body a break from it to purge it from your system.#
Where I'm weak right now is on my aerobic type work outs and because of that my belly don't look as good as it did when I was 25.
the hard part for me right now, it that my injury has pretty much stopped me from any kind of lifting beyond a ludicrously light weight for another 4 weeks.
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I thought you smoked and had a terrible diet and worked non-stop? No offense, but I have a memory of a post of yours saying so lol. Bench 275... panzy 
6-Foot 255, you're a pretty big guy, I'm 6-foot 190 - 205 depending on what I ate/drank that day and what not. I'd although I'm mod-twenties and I guess you fill out all around with age, cripes that has me nervous, I wanted to stay in the same shape for the next 30-40 years.. maybe get a bit weaker, but my weight makes me happy
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I changed a lot of things up, I slipped into a really bad diet and some really bad habits, but I never stopped going to the gym, because it was either that or start punching guys out in the office. A lot of my heart condition was caused by a viral infection, that compounded with some of the bad habits that I picked up, and I did some real funky damage.
My biggest sin is that I still smoke, its next on my list, but I'm down from about a pack a day to 12 smokes, but I balanced that out by pretty much cutting beer and booze out of my life. At one point I was about 280, I want to get down to about 235, that would be pretty good for the frame that I have.
There are things I could improve, certainly, but its easy to eat 5 times a day, you pack a lot of snacks tho.
Am I a paragon of health or some ripped guy, absolutely not, but I'm a huge amount above where I was 12 month ago.
And I don't work non stop anymore, I still work hard, and I travel a lot, but most hotels that I stay at have a decent gym, so instead of staying in my room, or drinking beer, I can work out, and try to pick up hot chicks at the hotel.
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Well that's all positive, I'm sure I could easily fall into the same trap, minus the booze, smoking and being consumed by work..
J/K
I'll always go to the gym I guess, I can't not go to the gym, it's like a sickness, which is good I guess.
But school and work I could see cutting into the weight maintanence, which for the past 7 years I haven't let happen, at teh expense of school work, lol.
Anyway this thread was inspiring, I jsut go back from a rollerblade.. wow, I love the bow river path, going to go again tomorrow, and now I'll take off to teh gime.. gime, ohhh GIime