I have always been interested in lifting because like most people I played sports all throughout high school. Never really was too serious about it until this year in college. In 2009, I was working for the summer for an oil company. One day we went out to the field, and to make a LONG story short, I had a 3000+ pound pipe drop on my foot. I was wearing steel toed boots, but if you know how still toed boots are suppose to work, they are ment to bend the metal inside the boot to cut your toes off. Well, what had happened was, I lost 3/4 of my big toe on my left foot. I was in the hospital for about 2 weeks while the doctors were trying to save my toe. The toe ended up dieing, and I had to get it taken off. I was out of lifting any sort of weight for the rest of the summer and some of the school year. I lost a lot of muscle and strength, which really sucked because I had worked hard to put all that on. Once I was able to start lifting again, I started back up and still to this day my toe is numb sometimes and the nerve still is messed up. It is hard for me to do lunges on leg days and when I do, I have to adjust my foot so I can. Another injury that I recently hard during December 2010, I was diagnosed with biceps tendonitis. After days I would lift, my arm would just pound in my left arm, and I had no idea what it was. I couldn't sleep at night or anything. I kept lifting though, until one night I couldn't take it anymore so I went to the hospital. They told me what I had and told me I couldn't lift until it was healed. So that set me back about another month, which I lost strength and muscle, especially in my left arm. I started lifting again in January 2011, and finally am getting all my strength and muscle back. Injury's are never good, but the only way to get past them is to let the injury heal, and take it day by day.
I love to workout to see the progress I can make. Also to just make myself feel good and the summer time. Working out is something that I realized I loved doing during the summer of my freshman year in college. I knew I liked working out and staying in shape, but it wasn't until then that I realized it was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Ever since then, I have researched about lifting and supplements and nutrition. There is still so much more information out there to learn, but I learned enough to get me started.