Here you go Acela
Sadly that is my progress in about 2.5 years. I had a medical scare in the middle of 2004 that turned out to be false, but in gave me motivation to make some changes. It had been after a 15 year gap of doing nothing.
My body fat had gotten up over 40% and my strength was nothing, the hazards of an office position. I started out doing full body workouts with 20 minutes of cardio 3 times a week and eating healthy. After a year of that I started some of the popular routines like a modified HST and also the 5X5 madcow routine. The 5X5 routine peaked out with my bench press being 265X3, deadlift was 405X2, squat ended at 385X3, military press ended at 185X5. All of that with no increase in size. The HST routine did seem to make a few changes in my body but nothing to brag about. During this entire time I was eating healthy but not exactly for lifting. Now there was a time after Hurricane Katrina that I missed 3 months and other times when I took a few weeks off because of various reasons. Now during this time I did have a few issues with my tendons and joints and did a run with gh - growth hormone (somatropin) - - growth hormone (somatropin) - - growth hormone (somatropin) - and IGF(on and off) for 10 months. Being in my late 30's it made a wonderful change in those issues, plus the anti ageing effects were great but never any fat loss. Now to give you a mental image of the before you have to picture a skinny gangly teenager being 9 months pregnant, hence my term skinny fat guy. Even if its my own opinion I have made a lot of progress. The funny part most people comment about not realizing my size till I am next to them and I have an athletic look when wearing a shirt. When the shirt comes off its a different story. I guess that due to my back width, traps and having narrow hips it makes shirts fit with the tapered look. Just so you know I was a little over 240 in the pictures and for the past two days I was between 230 and 232lbs at a height of 6'4".
After talking to Omega before the program he did not seem to be concerned that my main limitations are long work hours, 6 to 7 hours of sleep and being worried about the diet being easy to pull off. I was convinced that this was a great opportunity to set up a plan that worked around my life instead of the other way around. Now I know only working out 4 days a week and little sleep will never allow me to keep up with the rest of you but I like the progress I have made so far.
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