Introduction

This is my first journal posting. The point of this journal is to record what i have been eating and how i've been exercising. I will leave fairly little info about myself and my personal life on here, i do this because i'd like to stay honest.

I've always been a classic endomorph. We gain weight ridiculously easy. We don't have a whole hell of a lot of cardio. We are as strong or stronger than many of our peers even though our muscles are covered.

My last successful major weight cut was summer two years ago. I had a hard job at a metal foundry and i ate diet tv dinners 3 or 4 times a day. I took myself from 230 to 180. At the end of that summer my S.O. broke it off with me and that lit a fire under my ass to go to the gym (circa august 2006). I wanted to look better than and beat the shit out of her new guy. that was my motivation to run my ass off even though i'm not fond of running.

I was spending 3-4 hours/day at the gym to keep my mind off things. I would start with 10-15 minutes of streching and do freeweights for most of it, ending with an hour on the treadmill everyday. I knew I needed a motivational goal so I ran a 5k that october. I ran it in 29 minutes 28 seconds. About a mile every 10 minutes.

I met my future wife that november. I hate to say it, but this is when my diet and nutrition started to wean. Italians love to feed people and some of them get insulted if u say no. But im really just making excuses, i need to get my shit together.

In the next two years my weight shot back up all the way to 260. I was smoking entirely too much ganja because i hated my job. That job was so sedentary it was ridiculous. Eventually i quit that job in september 2008. During my last two months there there was a gym put in the place and i was doing heavier weights during my half hour lunch. And with a decent diet i got to 245 while watching my deadlifts, cleans, and squats go up a lot. It's now my opinion that anaerobic exercise is the best thing for me. I decided this after reading a lot of crossfit articles and some of Pavel's stuff.

After i quit that job i started going to a brasilian ju jitsu gym. I love mma so this is fun as hell. My first month was great. Then I got some ringworm on my arm and i was waiting for it to clear up. It took 4 weeks for it to clear up all the way but i havent been back in 6. I've been slacking for 2 weeks.

I'm meeting up with a good friend later today at the gym. I'm going with a 1rm chart and a pen and paper, i need to get some baseline numbers for my new workout buddy. Get us both going on a 5 x 5 programs doing deadlifts and benchpress. I'll prolly mess with a lot of olympic variations when he's not around.

Right now the right diet is the zone and im gonna eat breakfast.

out