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Background: Name's Steve, and I've been lifting since I was 15. I used to weigh at my heaviest 298lbs. Since then I've been a member at multiple gyms and experimented with many different workout routines, resulting in a drop of weight down to 153lbs. However, a good amount of weight drop was purely due to starving myself, most notable from the 210lb - 153lb range of weight loss. From there I started eating more and lifting to put on strength and size. My healthiest feeling weight was 173lbs and that maintained for about a year-a year and a half. Recently I started working in the realm of 56 hours a week at 2 jobs (Subaru parts delivery and zamboni driving at an ice rink) at the start of the year, all while attending school full time in addition, which in turn put me into a 4/5 month hiatus from the gym with very poor eating habits, which resulted in 27 solid pounds of fat and dramatic loss in strength....however, with all that said, the way in which I lost the weight originally (starvation) has caused me too look as if I had never touched a weight in my life. Even at 153lbd I had a lot of stomach fat, love handles, and my chest has a lot of additional deposited of fat as well, I also I have the bat wing effect in my triceps. My shoulders, collar area, legs and forearms, in addition to my back to some degree, look relatively fit. This is the first time in my life since loosing the weight that I've put on so much fat and have gotten weaker in such a short time. It has caused feelings of depression and low self worth. I lack motivation in life, and my confidence has hit rock bottom... Hence me getting more serious then I ever had in life, to get into Greek god, chiseled out of stone shape.
Prior physical capabilities before hiatus:
Pull ups in a row, including full lock out: 10 consistent with 12 being rare, and 14 on my best day
Push-ups in a row, with strict military style: 78
Sit ups, marine style with a 2 minute time limit: 128
1 1/2 mile run: 10 minutes and 30 seconds
Current standings: I weight 200lbs even and my strength has dramatically decreased... Ill try the above tomorrow and see where I'm at comparably
Supplements: EC stack
Dosing: 25 mg ephedrine (bronkaid) and 200 mg caffeine (cvs brand)
Goals in life: My life long ambition is to be enlisted in the military as infantry with hopes of achieving a ranger tab, but due to prior medical documentation that the meps doctors have received (which were crap and shouldn't have been an issue, being as its a misdiagnosis) that dream may no longer be possible. Other dreams of mine included being an FBI special agent and making it on their hrt team, but without my prior service that I would have received that dream may also be out, along with being on the CIA paramilitary operations officer teams...so again you can see where the depression and lack of motivation started. I had also recently put in a pre-app to the police department to see if I can still manage to achieve my goals of making onto the above FBI/CIA teams with prior swat training, but due to being a effing moron when I was younger, that might also be a dead end for me. My last resort is to go overseas and enlist through the FFL (French foreign legion) and get my prior service that way. I'm also currently getting my degree in law, and have law school as a back up plan to one day be a lawyer.
... Reason I shared my goals is so you can get an understanding for the workouts I choose to do, and the physical capabilities I'm striving to achieve and it also gives a little peak at who I am as a person....things such as a high bench press or how big my biceps get hold 0 value to me, and I could care less if I'm not considered "big", if I can do 25-30 pull ups, 100-150 push ups straight, 175 sit ups in 2 minutes, and a 1.5 mile run in 8 and a half minutes, I'll feel more accomplished then a 300lb bench... I understand some of you don't agree, but that's why they make different color tic tacs.
Log: ill be starting the log tomorrow after I go to the gym, since I haven't been recording anything until now. The majority of my workouts have been based on the 300 workout, with alterations and additions, but also less intense, in order to work out the kinks and prep my body for more serious workouts. I'm doing this to avoid injury and activate some muscle memory. I'll be doing this for 1 more week.
Personal effects I feel on EC:
-Mentality alert in a physical aspect (when doing thing with my hands, typing, lifting, reading, ect ect I feel enhanced)
-clouded thought process and lack of holding my bearings
-zero hunger (with feelings of being "sick" like I've eaten too much, only after a couple bites)
-the sh***s
-Dramatic increases of energy that comes in "phases"
-I notice my mind is tired but my body is still awake (if that makes any sense?)
-increased body temp (I'm currently sitting in an ice rink, wearing only a t shirt and I still feel heated)
-increased heart rate
Conclusion of introduction: this about sums everything up, and I'll update as I go along, thanks for reading and following along!
Prior physical capabilities before hiatus:
Pull ups in a row, including full lock out: 10 consistent with 12 being rare, and 14 on my best day
Push-ups in a row, with strict military style: 78
Sit ups, marine style with a 2 minute time limit: 128
1 1/2 mile run: 10 minutes and 30 seconds
Current standings: I weight 200lbs even and my strength has dramatically decreased... Ill try the above tomorrow and see where I'm at comparably
Supplements: EC stack
Dosing: 25 mg ephedrine (bronkaid) and 200 mg caffeine (cvs brand)
Goals in life: My life long ambition is to be enlisted in the military as infantry with hopes of achieving a ranger tab, but due to prior medical documentation that the meps doctors have received (which were crap and shouldn't have been an issue, being as its a misdiagnosis) that dream may no longer be possible. Other dreams of mine included being an FBI special agent and making it on their hrt team, but without my prior service that I would have received that dream may also be out, along with being on the CIA paramilitary operations officer teams...so again you can see where the depression and lack of motivation started. I had also recently put in a pre-app to the police department to see if I can still manage to achieve my goals of making onto the above FBI/CIA teams with prior swat training, but due to being a effing moron when I was younger, that might also be a dead end for me. My last resort is to go overseas and enlist through the FFL (French foreign legion) and get my prior service that way. I'm also currently getting my degree in law, and have law school as a back up plan to one day be a lawyer.
... Reason I shared my goals is so you can get an understanding for the workouts I choose to do, and the physical capabilities I'm striving to achieve and it also gives a little peak at who I am as a person....things such as a high bench press or how big my biceps get hold 0 value to me, and I could care less if I'm not considered "big", if I can do 25-30 pull ups, 100-150 push ups straight, 175 sit ups in 2 minutes, and a 1.5 mile run in 8 and a half minutes, I'll feel more accomplished then a 300lb bench... I understand some of you don't agree, but that's why they make different color tic tacs.
Log: ill be starting the log tomorrow after I go to the gym, since I haven't been recording anything until now. The majority of my workouts have been based on the 300 workout, with alterations and additions, but also less intense, in order to work out the kinks and prep my body for more serious workouts. I'm doing this to avoid injury and activate some muscle memory. I'll be doing this for 1 more week.
Personal effects I feel on EC:
-Mentality alert in a physical aspect (when doing thing with my hands, typing, lifting, reading, ect ect I feel enhanced)
-clouded thought process and lack of holding my bearings
-zero hunger (with feelings of being "sick" like I've eaten too much, only after a couple bites)
-the sh***s
-Dramatic increases of energy that comes in "phases"
-I notice my mind is tired but my body is still awake (if that makes any sense?)
-increased body temp (I'm currently sitting in an ice rink, wearing only a t shirt and I still feel heated)
-increased heart rate
Conclusion of introduction: this about sums everything up, and I'll update as I go along, thanks for reading and following along!