Took a look in the mirror today.

[blinddeafmute]

This evening I looked at myself in the mirror and took a good hard look at the results from a few months of training and a good diet have made.

I started out looking to see how bad I was burnt from going tanning today. Im fair skinned and am going on vacation in about a month so I decided to tan for it. I noticed my chest first. It looks much fuller and rounder now. Of course that led to me looking at everything else. I have noticed some nice improvements in my traps, lats, quads and hams. I hadnt looked myself over very well since I started working out. Mainly because I new the gains would be slow and I didnt want to get discouraged. Now I can see a pretty good change and I am impressed.

I started out in January on a 3 day split. I gained around 11 lbs in 2 months. Not too bad, but I couldnt tell by looking at myself in the mirror of the changes. I read a lot about DC training and switched to it about 3 weeks ago. Today I can see the changes and I like what I see. I wish I had taken before pics so that I had something to compare to. I think I will take pics now and compare again before I go on vacation.

I would like to thank everyone here. I have learned a bunch from this site. I dont think I could have made these improvements without it.

 

[bigstve12]

Keep up the good work bro, it sounds like you got a good thing going for ya. Theres no better feeling than looking in the mirror and liking whats looking back!

 

[spatts]

Congrats! Nice to see a positive post after someone looked in the mirror, for a change.

Progress Karma for you!

 

[Lee]

nice man, i cant wait til then end of this year when im done with my huge bulking, then cutting routine. i think ill like what i see when im all done.

 

[gonelifting]

You have officially been bitten. Now you will never look back. keep it up. good job

 

[casualbb]

heh...I look in the mirror WAAAYYY too often to judge progress that way.

-casual

 

[Zander1983]

heh...I look in the mirror WAAAYYY too often to judge progress that way.

-casual

Likewise. I can't really tell if I'm bigger, smaller, leaner, fatter etc, just by looking in a mirror.

 

[blinddeafmute]

I look in the mirror everyday to shave, and that is about it. I didnt want to get frustrated with slow progress.

Im not where I want to be yet, but I notice progress, and that makes me happy.

I even went and asked my wife if my chest was getting bigger, or if it was a figment of my imagination. She didnt even look at me and quickly replied with, "No, its definetly getting bigger." She had already noticed.

Thanks for the karma.

 

[T-Rage]

The key is to take pictures. Pick up a digital camera for a couple hundred bucks. I just take pictures of myself all the time just so that I can go back years and see what I looked like. The amazing thing is there was a time when I was lifting for around a year straight (a few years ago) and back then I thought I was nothing. Well, looking back I'm amazed at how lean and thick I was. One other neat thing to do is simply where a sweat shirt always when lifting or looking in the mirror. Then after 2 months finally look at yourself without the shirt and you will be amazed.