The Gym

As a young lifter, I remember going into the gym and seeing some really big, strong dudes lifting heavy weights, clapping chalk, and making a lot of noise. The music playing on the stereo made you want to work out the moment you walked inside. This has been replaced by a bunch of pencil neck “trainers” with extra-medium muscle shirts and small shorts running around with clipboards having their clients balance on top of a swimming pool ball, juggle dumbbells, and recite their ABCs backwards. - Paul Caldwell

BSN Junkie

I've tried muscle tech products, cytosport, anator p70, muscle milk, cell tech, hydroxycut, atrophex, mass tech, everything, jumping all over like a hyena. Well finally atrophex lists an example "stack" on their packaging, and suddenly this whole hysteria makes sense. Even as I type this I'm looking at a floor full of supplements- but now knowing that as soon as I've finished them I'm sticking with BSN products. It's not magical, there's a forumla. Protein here, creatine there, increase in certain body hormone productions here, and boom you're done.

When I have a routine perfected, I'll post it up. For now, I'm finishing up 2x muscle milk (long way to go), whey protein (almost gone), mass-tech (yuck), and cell-tech.

I start nitrix and resume n.o. explode next week, keeping atrophex, and will start cell mass as soon as cell-tech from muscletech is gone. See, all those stupid names. Pick a brand and just stick with it already.

I miss the feeling of lifting, muscles ready to pop at any given moment. It's time to bring that back.

The Gym

I am now have memberships allowing me to enter 4 gyms, and in this desolate area that's absolutely overkill :) No matter where I am, a gym is near by. No more missing a fat burning workout!

I Am Fat

I haven't been to the gym in nearly 3 months, and I've shied away from the sun longer than usual. While physical energy is down, logical thinking is at an all time high related to work. This morning, my head hurts like I spent the entire night drinking.

This is the time of year to be contemplating so-called New Year's resolutions. Originally I felt these sorts of things were merely excuses for people to procrastinate actually doing anything useful for themselves. Today, I'm telling you that it should be looked on as a yearly business plan for yourself.

So on to my checklist then right? Well, no not really. I did make some good progress in the gym this year, but that innertube ring of disgusting belly fat is creeping back up on me. It took about 3 months to get that thing to disappear last time, we'll keep better tabs on it now.

My excuse is the gym I'm at now is really totally off the beaten path from my day to day. The last gym I was at had 3 locations that I could always find some way to use one or the other at any given time. It was superior, in those respects. The only way I see myself getting to the gym at least regularly is to bring clothes with me to work, and force myself to take a round about way home.

I was going every single day, then for some reason decided to cut out every other day. That lead to a couple times a week, and eventually I said screw it. The only reason I know it's been 3 months is because my old debit card had expired and now my balance is up. I need to get that taken care of.

I'm still having a hard time socially converting myself off of high-strung night game to normal (toned-down) person. Pft. :P