I hope everyone is watching and getting inspired to kick up your workouts. I'd like to hear from people who are honestly pushing themselves everyday. Tell us about you and your workouts and what your goals are please. The goal of this thread is to post and share a little about our personal journey and where we wish to take ourselves in the future. Your goals could be anything as specific as a weight deadline goal or taking off 30 seconds from a particular run. Whatever your goal is post it up along with everything else and share your current program with us. We wanna hear all about you and what you are up to during your workouts. Please feel free to open up and share.
Also feel free to share current/before/after pics of yourself in this thread. Any and all update/imput is welcome. To all my gym rats out there. This is our first real thread/challenge. Lets represent ourselves well and show the rest of the board what we are all about.
Hi im john im 25 years old. 13 months ago I weighed 445lbs. I've never really accepted defeat on anything. So for me realizing I was killing myself with food was hard. I didn't see myself for whom I had become. I still saw the skinny go getter who kicks ass and takes names. Waking up after nearly dying april 06' and looking at myself after 2 weeks in ICU in the mirror and seeing myself for the first time was hard. I cried and vowed I was going to physically show on the outside who I truely was on the inside. A guy who gives no bullshit and takes even less. Someone who was strong physically as well as mentally. A leader, someone whom others look up to in a professional sense as well as a emotional sense. It was that day that changed it all for me. I got home from the hospital and started doing research on a radical surgery that I thought I needed.
Getting the surgery done wasn't as quick as I had hoped. After a consult due to my recent serious medical condition I couldn't get clearence for the operation for another 90 days from the surgeon. My insurance company was gung ho from the get go thank god. July 25th I went under the knife and started this journey. I also started my video diary that day and have kept updating it(last update was two nights ago). I may get around to posting that sometime. 3 weeks out from surgery I got cleared for real exercise and so off I started. Still a staggering 414lbs at that point heart was the only thing getting me through my ashtma attacks(born a heavy asthmatic I've had problems all my life and had several near death expeirences earlier in life) and my physical pain. I finished that first week covering 24 miles and the rest is as they say history.
Over the course of the next year I continued my training everyday regardless of how I felt, I always pushed myself with my workouts. I spent my free time doing research on the internet and in book stores learning all I could about nutrition and eating balanced while needed to loose weight. Reading book after book from tri-athletes and marathon runners(people I looked up to who had already done what i needed too). Learning all I could about mind over matter. Truely plugging in and overcoming. I've had many break throughs during this time so much so that I could type for days just telling about events and things that have happened to me during my journey. Needless to say i've lost at a rate never previously done by anyone at my hospital or doctors office. I like breaking records and barriers and now its time to break some more.
Im now shifting my program to build bulk and muscle mass. Luckily I have a great basis since i've been training for 13 months straight I already have a good bit of muscle on my frame and my cardiovascular system is in shape I can safely push my body beyond where I have before in a new way.
Goals-6 pack abs arms/chest/back I can be proud of. Benching 250lbs free weight and curling 70lbs. Looking to add 10-15lbs of muscle. Remaining less than 8%BF during the entire program regardless of weight change.
Time to complete total transformation- most likely another 13 months.
My version of the bigget loser workout.
2 miles a day jog average heart heart 120 or better(on weight days)
6-8 miles a day jog average heart rate 150 or better
Weight training is every other day allowing 1 full day of rest inbetween
curl(dumbell)-5 minute rest
3x12-20lbs
3x8-30lbs
3x4-40lbs
incline bench(dumbell)-5 minute rest
3x12-30lbs
3x4-50lbs
lat pull(dumbell)-4 minute rest
3x15-15lbs
3x8-25lbs
3x4-30lbs
flys(dumbell)-4 minute rest
3x12-20
3x8-30
3x4-40
seated press(dumbell)-4 minute rest
3x8-40lbs
3x4-50lbs
side raises(dumbell)-3 minute rest
3x12-15lbs
3x8-25lbs
bent over raises(dumbell)-2 minute rest
3x8-25lbs
one arm rows
3x6-50lbs
extensions(dumbell)-3 minute rest
3x15-35lbs
3x4-50lbs
bench dips(5 minute between)
3x25
bent-knee leg raises(5 minute between)
3x till I feel im gonna puke
full upper/lower crunch(5 minute between)
3x till I feel im gonna puke
jumping jacks(4 minute rest)
3x50
pushups(4 minute rest)
3x till I feel im gonna puke
pullups(4 minute rest)
2x till I feel im gonna puke
rests-filled with 1 other small set of above(i.e crunch/pullup ect)
betweens- supersets 1 min or less of actual rest
I do change up some things add/take away weight where needed add/take away a set as needed. But, there is a pretty good breakdown of what im up to these days. Its import to push yourself adding weight and reps every week otherwise you will become stagnet.
Here's a link to another thread in the socialize section if you wanna further discuss the show(anything you don't feel belongs here)
watching the biggest loser
Change your life people. If you can't push yourself as hard as you should hire someone to help push you. Get some......