Grammatically Incorrect

[jiggss73]

I’ve been away from this site for to long. It feels good to read and vent about some of the goals that I hope to reach this year in my new journal. I hope I don’t bore the readers that pass through to share thoughts, support, and advice with me and I’ll try my best to be consistent with my journal and regimen. Right now I’m dealing with Achilles tendonitis, it’s been about 7 months now—which is a very long time, but I didn’t have insurance over the summer and had to do independent strength training of my left ankle. It was a major mental blow for me, because along with lifting I feel like running is that personal time that I can think about everything. In 3-4 miles I would brainstorm the entire time, thinking about some of the short/long term goals I had going on at the time, clear my head, and just enjoy the beauty of life through every single stride. To get back on course, I’ve finally left the static of being another Jamairican with now insurance. Not to rant, but I wish everyone in the states received free medical care (to a certain extent—not b**b jobs, etc).

To get off the topic of injury I’m going to give something up completely. Being a student this thing is around me in abundance and it’s really destroying my body. I stand in the mirror and as soon as I look down a few inches I can’t believe it’s my body I’m looking at. This thing is beer… Not Bud, or that watered down lite stuff—But great Belgium Ales. I go to the gym 4 days a week, and sometimes even twice a day if time permits. I know it doesn’t make sense to pour all this hard work down the drain, but I still do it—and today… Right now, I’m going to stop all the partying and get my self in order. In less than two months I’ll be graduating with my Bachelors in Management (another piece of paper with ink to hang on the wall—Yippee). This has always been an accomplishment I never thought I would reach, and it’s so close I can hear my name being called. Now I feel like I might not ever return to another road race. At 25 years old, I’m too young not to be out there running and doing the little things (fitness wise) that make me happy. But I’m a hypercritic at the same time because I know although I can’t run at my full potential right now, I should be on top of all my stretching and strength exercises. I hope this journal encourages me a lot more to do more for my body and injury.

But now to the nitty gritty, I have the insurance—and I plan on looking for an Orthapedist in the area so I can get everything properly checked out. I’m plan on surrounding myself with a lot healthier foods, and keeping my protein intake high. I’m a vitamin whore, dispite some of peoples views about supplementation.

Morning:
100% Whey (Chocolate)
Multivitamin
Flax Seed Oil
ALA
Green Tea Extract
Cinnulin PF

Lunch:
100% Whey (Chocolate)
Protein Shake
Cinnulin PF
Citrimax (30 mins before lunch/snack)
Flax Seed Oil
ALA

Bed:
Micellar Matrix Protein
ZMA
Flax Seed Oil

Another major mistake I made over winter break was trying M-Stak (the roar monster, muscle pill). Did I get big? Surely… Did I get Gynecomastia? Got that too! I hear only surgery can correct the extract flab I’ve gained in my chest, but I’m going to change my lifting regimen up and hopefully I can work on defining my chest a little more? The bottom line is this—I’ve had enough of slacking off nutritionally, and drowning myself in Ale’s my taste buds enjoy. It’s time to think long term, while focusing on some short term goals. Rather than ask tons of newbie questions, I’m going to read a lot of the threads and take it from there. I don’t remember if any flaming takes place on discussfitness.com, but if I do get lit on fire—someone please put me out. Sometimes stop drop and rolling online is not effective.


Here is the change, here is to not slacking off, here is to learning how to actually cook food and stop relying on expensive supplements?... Here’s to something different… Good luck me.



Until next time…

[.V.]

You haven't been here in a while. Welcome back. Hope you stick around.

We don't do much flaming here but spirited discussions are always welcome.


About the gyno, if it's just chest fat, diet and cardio can help. If it's actual real gyno then surgery is required. Did you have itchy nipples or a hard lump under the nipple while it was forming? If not, probably just fat stores and you can likely burn it off. And if you were using animal pak's M-Stak, it's not likely gyno. Nothing in that to actually boost test resulting in the accidental boost of estrogen and progesterone that goes with that to cause gyno. So clean up the diet, drop the beer, and hit the cardio the best your ankle will allow and you should shape up in good time.

[jiggss73]

Originally Posted by a_welch503

You haven't been here in a while. Welcome back. Hope you stick around.

We don't do much flaming here but spirited discussions are always welcome.


About the gyno, if it's just chest fat, diet and cardio can help. If it's actual real gyno then surgery is required. Did you have itchy nipples or a hard lump under the nipple while it was forming? If not, probably just fat stores and you can likely burn it off. And if you were using animal pak's M-Stak, it's not likely gyno. Nothing in that to actually boost test resulting in the accidental boost of estrogen and progesterone that goes with that to cause gyno. So clean up the diet, drop the beer, and hit the cardio the best your ankle will allow and you should shape up in good time.

About the gyno, if it's just chest fat, diet and cardio can help. If it's actual real gyno then surgery is required. Did you have itchy nipples or a hard lump under the nipple while it was forming? If not, probably just fat stores and you can likely burn it off. And if you were using animal pak's M-Stak, it's not likely gyno. Nothing in that to actually boost test resulting in the accidental boost of estrogen and progesterone that goes with that to cause gyno. So clean up the diet, drop the beer, and hit the cardio the best your ankle will allow and you should shape up in good time.[/quote]

Thank you for that motivational feedback. I did forget to mention that I was using a test boaster as well, but I tossed all those in the trash because it's only going to set me back in the long run. For Cardio, I'm going to be using the bike for the next month, and perhaps work in some elliptical workouts as well. I have little to no itchiness in my chest, which I hope is a good sign because if it's fat stores I have to worry about-- then I'm looking forward to the results I will reach through hard training, a clean diet, and no beer.

Again, thank you for your feedback.

[jiggss73]

Last week I was really pleased with the amount of times I made it to the gym, and the level of focus I maintained while working out. Sometimes when I'm lifting weights without any music is my ears-- my mind tends to think about papers, quizzes, and all this colligate hoop-la. Today is a start of a new week-- where I plan on focusing on Chest/Tri's/Shoulders/Cardio with low reps and heavy weights. During class on Friday I started jotting some food to buy when I have a break today after work.

Shopping List:
Tuna
Yogurt (Light and Fit)
Water (2 Cases or Gallons?...)
Cashews
Silk Soy Milk (Mr. Lactose Man, but mixes well with protein)
Beef Jerky (picked that up already)
Wheat Wraps
Crystal Light (Fruit Punch)
Brown Rice
Honey Mustard
Frozen Veggies (Living out of a dorm isn't easy).

I'm sure I'm missing a lot of things-- but if you see anything you think would be great like Cottage Cheese, which I forgot to mention but I plan on picking up and suffering though because it's great for the body, but don't really agree with my stomach. Between lifting, and 25 minutes of cardio I think I should be on track for the day.

Until next time...