gizmo
05-21-2005, 12:33 PM
Before 117lbs After 157lbs
Having learned some weird news about my family, I cut some ties and attempted to stand on my own feet. With several attempts at temporary work assignments, I was unable to land a job I could hold on to. Then some crazy events happened between myself and the local force. To make a long story short, I was incarcerated for just over four months. Pre-lockup, I would check my weight to be in the ball park of 110-122lbs. I had purchases the weider home-gym equipment with minimal weights but enough to start some growth, right at home. Circumstances led to a situation where I was living in a car for around 7 days, pennyless, in the great canadian winter. This before landing myself at the correctional complex. The shrink put me on some meds, antipsychotics and later antidepression...zyprexa and praxil i think.
I started doing exercises using my own bodyweight...some pushups but mostly dips(reached 1000dips every other day) since my toothpick arms still gotta catch up with the rest of the body. Arms began to respond. Later as I moved from suicide watch to segregation and eventually up to a range, where finally I could lift some heavyweights. My workout partner was pretty serious about working out, and carried some BB magazines to inspire. I quickly started liking the squats with the 230lb person sitting on my shoulders. The squats were easy to perform heavy without iron and my legs started to grow. We would also do 10 sets of chinups on the tv stand with someone holding the feet. Then there were also the rows with a t-shirt holding on to the rails. The food being fed was healthier than at my east indian home and I would
often trade my chocolate bars for a hot tray.
I began to grow...but I had 130lbs or little over in my mind. Especially true since the highest I have ever weighed was 138lbs of lean muscle after being consistant for six months at the local golds gym. So in my mind, I was at 135lbs or lower without any iron. Pleading guilty to mickey mouse charges, I got released and hit the scale at a surprising 157lbs. Its been 4 days since getting released and I still cant get over this :). Prior to this I'd pretty much sworre to myself that I could only hit 150 with a cycle and see how the body would respond. I understand that most of the weight could result from the meds and most of it could be bodyfat but I dont care. Knowing my body, I can easily 'change' that into muscle. I am now shooting for an all-natural 170lbs(keep in mind i'm very small boned). Quite honestly I've been wanting to hit 150 so badly in the last few years that I'm having a hard time believing my eyes at 157 on the scale.
I guess the next step before hitting the gym again is that I need to train my mind before anything else. The crappy part is starting all over with joining a new gym and commuting back and forth. You see I kinda screwed up with mylicense for an year. But again this way I could save my pennies and devote to the gym.
I gotta say though that the thought of having to post the results on this board certainly did sound fun and I could not wait to share the results with you WBB peeps ;)
Having learned some weird news about my family, I cut some ties and attempted to stand on my own feet. With several attempts at temporary work assignments, I was unable to land a job I could hold on to. Then some crazy events happened between myself and the local force. To make a long story short, I was incarcerated for just over four months. Pre-lockup, I would check my weight to be in the ball park of 110-122lbs. I had purchases the weider home-gym equipment with minimal weights but enough to start some growth, right at home. Circumstances led to a situation where I was living in a car for around 7 days, pennyless, in the great canadian winter. This before landing myself at the correctional complex. The shrink put me on some meds, antipsychotics and later antidepression...zyprexa and praxil i think.
I started doing exercises using my own bodyweight...some pushups but mostly dips(reached 1000dips every other day) since my toothpick arms still gotta catch up with the rest of the body. Arms began to respond. Later as I moved from suicide watch to segregation and eventually up to a range, where finally I could lift some heavyweights. My workout partner was pretty serious about working out, and carried some BB magazines to inspire. I quickly started liking the squats with the 230lb person sitting on my shoulders. The squats were easy to perform heavy without iron and my legs started to grow. We would also do 10 sets of chinups on the tv stand with someone holding the feet. Then there were also the rows with a t-shirt holding on to the rails. The food being fed was healthier than at my east indian home and I would
often trade my chocolate bars for a hot tray.
I began to grow...but I had 130lbs or little over in my mind. Especially true since the highest I have ever weighed was 138lbs of lean muscle after being consistant for six months at the local golds gym. So in my mind, I was at 135lbs or lower without any iron. Pleading guilty to mickey mouse charges, I got released and hit the scale at a surprising 157lbs. Its been 4 days since getting released and I still cant get over this :). Prior to this I'd pretty much sworre to myself that I could only hit 150 with a cycle and see how the body would respond. I understand that most of the weight could result from the meds and most of it could be bodyfat but I dont care. Knowing my body, I can easily 'change' that into muscle. I am now shooting for an all-natural 170lbs(keep in mind i'm very small boned). Quite honestly I've been wanting to hit 150 so badly in the last few years that I'm having a hard time believing my eyes at 157 on the scale.
I guess the next step before hitting the gym again is that I need to train my mind before anything else. The crappy part is starting all over with joining a new gym and commuting back and forth. You see I kinda screwed up with mylicense for an year. But again this way I could save my pennies and devote to the gym.
I gotta say though that the thought of having to post the results on this board certainly did sound fun and I could not wait to share the results with you WBB peeps ;)