Personal Info
How I Started
My name is Chris Barker, I am 30 years old. Married with 3 beautiful girls. I have always been skinny all thouout school, I tried to have a physcal education class every semester, also playing baseball and other sports to keep me active. That was about 8 years ago. When I met my wife I weighed 155lbs and was skinny I could see ab muscles and I liked to take my shirt off and work outside, when my wife told me that we were going to have another baby, I gained weight. I went from skinny to flabby in only nine months and gained 50lbs and never took off my shirt. When my daughter was born my wife lost all the weight that she had gained but I was stuck at the most I have ever weighed at that time in my life, 175lbs and there was'nt any sign of it coming off. I worked very hard jobs production lines and pulling greenchain, until about 7 years ago. I became a Correctional Officer. I supervise men that are much stronger, faster, and seem to like lifting weights to get bigger, very motivated people. I have gone on crash diets and lifted weights and did
cardio for many days, weeks, and months and seen no results, my wife and I did a body for life challenge for 12 weeks. I didnt drop a pound and I didnt see any results. Dissapointed and fustrated I gained more weight. Now at 200 pounds sweating trying to put my uniform on for work I said thats it.
Chris Barker To be continued...
Well this was a long time ago, I brought it for a while but with graveyard schedules and loosing my workout buddy's changing my place of employment I kind of lost track of the workouts. I would workout every once and an while but never kept going, never took my end pictures. I am hoping that this time will be different, 11-5-12 starting my new workout program, I am only working out 4 to 5 days a week with P90x but I wear a weighted vest, After the first month I will do P90x plus also with the weighted vest if I can manage it. I plan to get through the first 2 months of doing cardio workouts and then change it to the weights doing a 5x5 program, I started doing this 5x5 program early last year went for about a month and a half was seeing awesome results thats when my workout buddy started to have some medical issues, (I really hate working out alone,) so that stopped my workouts. I have been going strong for 2 weeks I hope to keep it going for a long time. I am sick and tired of feeling like crap about my weight and the way I look at myself in the mirror. I am thinking about getting some supplements to aid in the fat loss that I want to accomplish and maybe after the first 2 or 3 months of workouts I will get some muscle builder supplements to pack on some muscle weight, but not to much. I don't think what I eat is my problem with loosing the weight, I think its the fact that I am on graveyard and don't have good motivation to workout, also I wake up to eat with my family and also take a lunch to eat when I am at work. As I read what I am writing I feel like all I am doing is making excuses on why I stopped working out or why I cant loose the fat around my middle, or why I invite people to be my workout buddy's and get answers like we have different days off, or I cant do that. Or I don't get any answers. So I guess I will see what happens in a few months, I will post as many pictures as I can showing all people my transformation, and I will keep adding more to this... Until the the end of my workouts which I hope will not be for a long time...
Why I Love it
There are many reasons why i love working out. i could list so many. beside all of the health benefits exercize has, I think its the way my wife hangs on to my bicep as we are walking, or just the way she looks at my body. makes me feel like i am doing something right.