Overall Goal: Get healthy. Been in hospital with colitis for a week. Again. No more weight or 'bodybuilding' goals. Need to focus more on internal strength/energy to get and stay healthy.
Fit Status:
Healing slowly. Probably not going to get much training done before the New Year. Slow and steady.
Motivation Level: 2/10
Personal Info And Background:
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Male
Age:
25
Location:
United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Occupation:
Civil Servant: Housing
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When I Started:
How I Started:
I was born with a hole in my heart. As a result, all my life I was (and had felt) thin and weak. When my 17th birthday came, I made the decision I was going to change. I began training in my room using bodyweight exercises. When I went to University a year later, I joined the Kung Fu club and have busted my ass ever since. I now hold a Black Belt grade in both Contact and Lau Gar Kung Fu, and am a qualified instructor. With will and time, I will become a living titan.
Why I Love It:
Strength is an absolutely vital human quality - it not only encourages health and confidence, but one day might also save your life or the life of someone you love. How can you justify not developing this quality when the stakes are so potentially high? It's in my blood, heavy and hard, give it all you've got - I can't be any other way.
How I Stay Motivated:
Stop whining. Just do it.
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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Last Updated: Nov 14, 2008 6:08am
What Drunken Panda Is Up To:
Nov 25, 2009
Drunken Pandaupdated Motivation Level from 3/10 to 2/10 and said: "Body too broken to train. Need to heal, but it takes time...very frustrating."
Get healthy. Been in hospital with colitis for a week. Again. No more weight or 'bodybuilding' goals. Need to focus more on internal strength/energy to get and stay healthy.
Goal (Long):
I was born with a hole in my heart and, in January 2006 was diagnosed with Severe Ulcerative Colitis. My health has taken a beating, my body has been damn-near broken...but I don't give up. Ever.
I've finished hibernating, and I'm ready to kick ass and take names in 2009!
1: Live a healthy life, managing colitis. 2: Take my strength, speed, conditioning, flexibility and all-round physical capabilities to preternatural levels. 3: Do so while living a life of ethics, honour, creative power and titanic potential.
I am not a man, I am dynamite. It begins…now!
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Last Updated: Nov 16, 2009 10:43am
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Do you have any type of chronic disease or condition?
Yes
What is it?
Severe Ulcerative Colitis
How does fitness help you with your condition? What do you have to do differently in your program since you have this condition?
Ulcerative Colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease - no (known medical) cure, just try and keep it in remission. I must watch my diet very carefully so as not to trigger a relapse. The condition makes weight difficult to maintain but easy to lost, which means that with my already furious metabolism I really struggle to keep/put on muscle, or weight of any kind. Still, adversity pushes us to higher heights...Ulcerative Colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease - no (known medical) cure, just try and keep it in remission. I must watch my diet very carefully so as not to trigger a relapse. The conditi...more
Another aggressive flare-up of colitis. Another week in hospital, hooked up to all manner of tubes, chemicals and, at one point, an oxygen mask. Another terrible week in a year that has seen me in and out of hospital with this thing like a yo-yo.
Hey Panda - not much going on here - traveling as usual. Went to Louisiana a while back, New York will be next (2 trips for a total of 3 weeks), and then Japan.
Hope you are doing well!
Weight is the same. Body fat is the same. I did have a few cheat meals the past month so I understand the standstill. It still sucks though! How are you?? Didn't you go on holiday (isn't that what you call it?)?
Weight is the same. Body fat is the same. I did have a few cheat meals the past month so I understand the standstill. It still sucks though! How are you?? Didn't you go on holiday (isn't that what you call it?)?
Het Panda- just riding the excercise bike in the morning. Not very hogh intensity, but it's right hrer at home and doesn't wake up the family, so it's OK for now...!
Not sure what my new goals are yet, but probably similar to my old ones...! LOL My digital scale broke a while back, so I am getting the old-school dial scale (less accurate, but less likely to break) instead. after I get my current weight, I will make some new plans to get back to where I was. Of course, I am still traveling all the time, so I may have to rely more on cardio, because a lot of hotels don't have much in terms of weight-training equipment.
Your plan of getting ripped sounds good - like you said, may as well look as good as you can! While I struggle to lose weight, I souldn't want to trade places with you. You have my sympathy, but more importantly - you have my encouragement! You are always trying to think outside the box,a nd come up with new ways to work through your condition - kudos to you & keep up the good work!
Hey Panda - somehow I responded to your earlier email with a comment intended for a new friend - sorry about that!
Sounds like you are still having some struggles - sorry to hear about that!
My weight's not changing at all but I can see/feel a difference. Unfortunately my sons broke our camera or I'd post pics. I'm THINKING about competing in figure in October!
