After having fun last year, well at least as much fun one can have when pushing their bodies with insanely strict diets, restricted water intake at times, and constant monitoring of the body. Not to mention keeping yourself in check mentally (staying out of depression is hard the first time losing so much mass... previous year I went from 225 to ( Read more... )

See if this album works... photos from the prejudging before I puked and retired to my house for the rest of the day. Ever hear of a morning prejudging where competitors step on stage at 3:15pm ( Read more... )

well, i didn't place. i ended up puking 3 times to make it as a light heavy. digital scale had me weigh in at 199 and i needed to get down to 198. weird cause all other scales had me at 205 or so. anyways, held a lot of water. was dry on thursday. and cramped like crazy so sacrificed the show results for comfort and drank more water in final three ( Read more... )

Three wks away from the first of 3 shows. I must be an idiot to try and compete in back-to-back-to-back shows... but it will be one hell of an experience. Sometimes I feel as if I'm bigger and leaner than last yr at this time, but other times when I think of this 1st show coming up, I don't feel very prepared. Maybe I will be fine tuned by the 3rd ( Read more... )

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Paused Bench = 430 ( Read more... )

I guess I'll do the year in a bullet wrapup fashion, enjoy it for what it's worth ( Read more... )

-Looks like I'll be graduating. The only class in question is the only class that has posted my grade so far... thus barring some unforeseen failure in the other classes, consider me a graduate ( Read more... )

Ironic that the advisor who tells you what you need your final semester and sends you out the door happy and on your way to a final semester, can take it all back a few months later after re-examining things. Yes, you read that right... I still need 3 credits after this semester to graduate. So now I am scrambling to find a professor willing to ( Read more... )

- Just came out of a funk of a depression and sickness... I've been sick 3 times since school started. My GF has been sick twice... guess that's how relationships keep things going. No real reason as to the lil depression moody time... maybe a man period, maybe a culmination of things, but I'm on the up... except for a few things ( Read more... )