Originally Posted by davincirider

I'm in my third week of the program and it doesn't work. It induces me to work. Will this induce everyone to work? Hell no because not everyone wants the same thing.
In the I'm too skinny thread there are people who are super thin. They want that. I don't. When I moved in with my future wife, I was 6'2" 165lbs and looked like I escaped from a Russian prison. Of course I ballooned up to almost 280 within a year, she bakes, I eat. I went from working in a truck yard hand bombing tons of salt to security work sitting at a desk wondering why the new supplier of uniforms shrunk the 36" waists.

I was able to bench press my weight and am now having trouble knocking off 15 "man" pushups and have trouble doing two full pull ups.
But I can ride a century (flat) in six hours. Now I want my strength back. I want to be able to run with my kids while I'm coaching their soccer practises. I want to convey to them what I think healthy is.

I'm 215lbs now. My lightest in almost 15 years was 194. I'm looking to be 200+/- by the end of March. And I'll be able to shoulder my mtn bike up and over whatever obstacles block me. I'll be able to spin my road bike up and down the escarpment and out sprint the "climber".

I'm happy with myself now and am looking forward to being just a bit better.


I guess that sounds like a rant eh? Sorry.