MiKeY ReSp
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Hey guys it’s been a while... I’ve been a longtime lurker and just recently started posting over the last year or so. I used to frequent this board multiple times a day because of the great information. I started to post to try to give back some of what I have learned, from what I have read within threads here and of in my own experience. Ither factors in life came into play and I had to withdraw not only from this board, but from bodybuilding itself, too.
Due to long hours at health issues, major family issues, living situation problems, and college, stress began to take its toll both mentally and physically. What was once a physique I became proud of through hard work in the gym began to turn what I never had wanted too see again, remnants of how I used to look. I can only imagine what my cortisol levels were like. I couldn’t tell you the last time I ate nutritionally a sound meal. I know sometimes it’s easy to say that there’s always a way to eat healthy, but mentally nothing mattered because of the issues I had been dealing with.
Wow things have been kind of tough lately. You know how there are those stages in which life seems so terribly challenging? And when how you are faced with challenge after challenge? Yeah, that’s what I’ve been going through pretty much for the last few months. Things are starting to get a little better, in the sense that I due have time to make it to the gym a few times a week. However I have not been able to keep a consistent workout schedule, unlike the rigid workout sessions I once endured. I guess it’s a start though to be going again.
My last posts here when I was able to I was even setting PR’s for myself, as some of you may or may not have remembered. Some of those included a 405 deadlift (nothing to some of you but was a milestone for me) and an improvement which wide grip chins, something I struggled much with. At my best, I was 230 lbs with 18 inch arms, 18 inch calves, with an overall decent build. Conditioning wasn’t particularly strong point of mine as I held some extra baggage and had a 36 inch waist. But I was in pretty good shape, and continuing well on my way from my past of being severely overweight. Lately I feel like I’m returning to my old-self.
So here I am, trying to get turn it around. Why? Because I remember what bodybuilding did for myself. It gave me such a good sense of well-being to the point where people said I possessed a “healthy glow”. I want it back. I want to be bigger, stronger, and better than I was before. I know once I look in the mirror, and start to see a change, things will rebound for my health, both physical as well as mental. It’s time to start…..now.
It’s good to be back boys.
Mikey
Hey guys it’s been a while... I’ve been a longtime lurker and just recently started posting over the last year or so. I used to frequent this board multiple times a day because of the great information. I started to post to try to give back some of what I have learned, from what I have read within threads here and of in my own experience. Ither factors in life came into play and I had to withdraw not only from this board, but from bodybuilding itself, too.
Due to long hours at health issues, major family issues, living situation problems, and college, stress began to take its toll both mentally and physically. What was once a physique I became proud of through hard work in the gym began to turn what I never had wanted too see again, remnants of how I used to look. I can only imagine what my cortisol levels were like. I couldn’t tell you the last time I ate nutritionally a sound meal. I know sometimes it’s easy to say that there’s always a way to eat healthy, but mentally nothing mattered because of the issues I had been dealing with.
Wow things have been kind of tough lately. You know how there are those stages in which life seems so terribly challenging? And when how you are faced with challenge after challenge? Yeah, that’s what I’ve been going through pretty much for the last few months. Things are starting to get a little better, in the sense that I due have time to make it to the gym a few times a week. However I have not been able to keep a consistent workout schedule, unlike the rigid workout sessions I once endured. I guess it’s a start though to be going again.
My last posts here when I was able to I was even setting PR’s for myself, as some of you may or may not have remembered. Some of those included a 405 deadlift (nothing to some of you but was a milestone for me) and an improvement which wide grip chins, something I struggled much with. At my best, I was 230 lbs with 18 inch arms, 18 inch calves, with an overall decent build. Conditioning wasn’t particularly strong point of mine as I held some extra baggage and had a 36 inch waist. But I was in pretty good shape, and continuing well on my way from my past of being severely overweight. Lately I feel like I’m returning to my old-self.
So here I am, trying to get turn it around. Why? Because I remember what bodybuilding did for myself. It gave me such a good sense of well-being to the point where people said I possessed a “healthy glow”. I want it back. I want to be bigger, stronger, and better than I was before. I know once I look in the mirror, and start to see a change, things will rebound for my health, both physical as well as mental. It’s time to start…..now.
It’s good to be back boys.
Mikey
