Progress pics of The Project

[tsarleon]

how u doing now????

 

[spatts]

Those pics were just over 8 weeks ago, so we haven't taken any more recent ones.

 

[TheProject]

how u doing now????

Yeah, no new pics yet. I'm a little leaner now, down from 15.4% to 12.6%, but that's about it.

Gonna start bulking here again soon.

 

[tsarleon]

nicely done man, i myself will look forward to the 1 yr mark. What problems as far as motivation, eating, friends etc did you encounter???

 

[TheProject]

nicely done man, i myself will look forward to the 1 yr mark. What problems as far as motivation, eating, friends etc did you encounter???

Thanks!

To answer your question:

Motivation: The first two weeks, I trained on my own, at my house, using one of those old concrete weight sets. I hated it, and felt like I didn't know what I was doing. I expressed my frustration to spatts, and she encouraged me to join a gym, and volunteered to train me. From there on out, it was easy. I couldn't skip out, because I had someone waiting on me at the gym. She pushed me harder than I pushed myself, taught me the proper way to do things, and gave me the encouragement I needed to keep going. My first set of progress pics was also very motivational for me. Seeing visible change was huge for me.

Eating: Around the time I started training, we had a firewall crash at work, and I had to stay late several days in a row. Rather than just give up on eating right for those days, I just made the best possible choices I could at the time: burgers with no ketchup, grilled chicken sandwiches, etc. In general, eating right wasn't hard for me. Spatts gave me a diet to follow, and it was routine, so it was easy for me. Now, the hardest part for me is eating enough. I was cutting at the beginning, and have been mostly trying to gain mass ever since the first 2 months. Trying to eat 6000 calories a day is hard, harder than cutting, I think. One other reason the diet was easier for me was that I'd had bad heartburn for several years prior to changing my diet, and having that slowly go away was a huge change.

Friends: none of my other friends work out, or understand what I'm doing. At first, I caught a lot of hell about it, because that's what we do: give each other shit. Now, they've pretty much accepted the fact that I'm going to eat "weird" stuff, or drink protein shakes, and workout 6 or 7 days a week. I have noticed that I spend less time with them than I used to. It's harder for me to sit around, and just hang out, when I could be doing something more active.

 

[b fold the truth]

I met Project a couple weeks ago and he is NOT a small guy by ANY means!!! Much bigger in person!!!

B True

 

[tsarleon]

good job the project, im about 3 weeks into all this stuff, it is fun, but hard. I guess if it were easy everyone would look like B and needsize etc etc etc... keep us updated on your trianing. Im learning how to do some html trying to create a webpage where i can list my training and diet etc. anyways, congrats.

 

[b fold the truth]

I wanna see more progress pics big man!!!

B True

 

[TheProject]

I wanna see more progress pics big man!!!

B True

Not for a while yet. Got some more growing to do, then I'll take some new ones.

 

[b fold the truth]

Well...if you insist!!!!

B True