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Sassy69
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I used to run track in jr high & high school but always got shin splints from running inside (lived in the Great White North). I played basketball in jr high but always got shin splints and my best friend was 6'1" and it just wasnt' fun playing against her. I also started playing racquetball w/ my dad at the YMCA when I was 16 and after games I'd mess around w/ this old Universal machine they had -- and I could push 100 lbs pretty easily. At that point I was addicted. I'm not real graceful in "quick response" sports and I just never got into team sports much so lifting was perfect for me. But back then you never saw a girl in the weight room so I always felt pretty isolated doing it.
In college I started lifting in a Gold's Gym and found it was better stress relief than anything else I could find and my lifts were getting better & better. I briefly joined a Weight Watchers group sponsered by my work but quickly replaced that w/ a new gym membership & my first trainer instead of sitting in a room listening to fat women bitch about their weight. In 1991 I moved and had bunion surgery on both feet and immediately hired a trainer as soon as I was out of the casts to get back in shape. I was told I should start competing - but again, you rarely saw women in the weight room and you never saw them pushing 45 plates. I didnt' even know how to go about entering a competition.
Fast forward to 2000 - still training but want more. I never seemed to be able to get the diet & the training and the cardio (which I deplored) to work together - so I hired another trainer who suggested I pursue a natural show. I did, I took 2nd in the Novice group. Cool experience! Had a BS falling out w/ the trainer, got depressed, hired another trainer to go after another show - he trained me like shit and let me go on stage at 12% bf and I was humiliated and depressed for a year, blew up to 178 lbs (my life avg has been 155).
Now I lost the extra 20 lbs, back to "normal" and pursuing yet another show in Aug. The hardest part for me is focusing more on cardio than lifting. I *(#&@&#$(@!@A! hate cardio. But its the only way (along w/ carb rotation) that I can lose weight. So I am learning to tolerate it. Lifting is becoming less enjoyable as I continue towards this show, but I still go 2x/day. What I am waiting for is when I get myweight below 150 and the muscle starts coming out -- I know its there because I've got killer size (I think...) but I just need to expose it. But at the end of the day, I still feel so much better once I've mucked thru my training & cardio.
My other goal is to be riding a Harley, dressed in leathers and listening to old heavy metal when I'm 90. Therefore I need to at least be able to stand up by myself and not drool. That's a good enough reason to continue lifting.
In college I started lifting in a Gold's Gym and found it was better stress relief than anything else I could find and my lifts were getting better & better. I briefly joined a Weight Watchers group sponsered by my work but quickly replaced that w/ a new gym membership & my first trainer instead of sitting in a room listening to fat women bitch about their weight. In 1991 I moved and had bunion surgery on both feet and immediately hired a trainer as soon as I was out of the casts to get back in shape. I was told I should start competing - but again, you rarely saw women in the weight room and you never saw them pushing 45 plates. I didnt' even know how to go about entering a competition.
Fast forward to 2000 - still training but want more. I never seemed to be able to get the diet & the training and the cardio (which I deplored) to work together - so I hired another trainer who suggested I pursue a natural show. I did, I took 2nd in the Novice group. Cool experience! Had a BS falling out w/ the trainer, got depressed, hired another trainer to go after another show - he trained me like shit and let me go on stage at 12% bf and I was humiliated and depressed for a year, blew up to 178 lbs (my life avg has been 155).
Now I lost the extra 20 lbs, back to "normal" and pursuing yet another show in Aug. The hardest part for me is focusing more on cardio than lifting. I *(#&@&#$(@!@A! hate cardio. But its the only way (along w/ carb rotation) that I can lose weight. So I am learning to tolerate it. Lifting is becoming less enjoyable as I continue towards this show, but I still go 2x/day. What I am waiting for is when I get myweight below 150 and the muscle starts coming out -- I know its there because I've got killer size (I think...) but I just need to expose it. But at the end of the day, I still feel so much better once I've mucked thru my training & cardio.
My other goal is to be riding a Harley, dressed in leathers and listening to old heavy metal when I'm 90. Therefore I need to at least be able to stand up by myself and not drool. That's a good enough reason to continue lifting.
