Some know me on here. I was an avid lifter and Forum member from 2008-2009 on here. Started lifting and supplementing with all that I learned from The Forum while I was in Korea. Saw real good gains after I learned what worked for me with diet and body part splits. Left Korea and hit Ft. Campbell at the end of '09, got back with family and friends and let myself go. Gave into their negativity.
Managed to deploy to Afghanistan at the beginning of '10 and got with a beast of a man who got me back to doing what I loved. I was eating right, supping right, and even established an ABC at FOB Salerno Afghanistan. Sad to say no one wanted to take over on my way out so it died after only one event. I felt like I was a beast, an Animal.
During that time in the dirt I maxed a 325 bench, 410 Squat, and pulled 450 at 195lbs. All feats I never thought possible. With that I lost cardio. We all know how the Army is with running.
Towards the end of my tour in Afghanistan my lifting partner left and I re-united my love of running and began to lose weight, with this I lost muscle mass and my lifts plummeted. I than found CrossFit. (I know a dirty word to some). I have been experimenting with that and my running for the past year.
Shortly after Afghanistan I began to go through a rough divorce. You would have thought I would have turned to the weights to help, but no, I turned to drinking and partying. Than I met a great girl who has helped pick me up. Someone I wished I would have met the first time around. Luckily she is into fitness and weight training as well. I finally have a support base at home. Not someone I feel kept me from being who I wanted to be.
I am now in Hohenfels Germany and I am ready to get back to what I know. Powerlifting and Bodybuilding splits. However I still need to find a happy medium between those two programs while maintaining my ability to run 13+ miles at one time in under 2 hrs.
Luckily I know what works with lifts, food, and running programs. It's just a matter of getting them to fit into a program to compliment each other.
Right now I am running Routine #16 off the Animal Pac website. Some very small tweaks included to accommodate my style.
Time to wash away all the nay sayers and keep them away forever.
"It is the only moment in the day which is truly yours. Your time. Your body. Your workout. You zone out and forget all the outside bull****. There are no distractions, no women, no ****ing cell phones⦠Nothing except you and the weights. This is the time of the day that is solely devoted to your well being and improvement. Your workout is the time to kick yourself in the ass and make yourself grow."
-Schak