RickkciR

Every year I 'get back into the gym'.  It's become an annual ritual.  I look through my workout notes and I see where I start making progress again, life is good... then .. nothing..   blank.   Months and months go by.  Zilch ...      Then later in the year or .. come January , I start over again.  A vicious cycle that's reason.... escapes me .  Until, this morning.   A decade of 'why' just hit me.  Hit me in the form of pain.   A pain so deep , I can't sleep on my side.  Literally, dreading having to somehow , get out of bed without screaming , after laying on my back for the last four hours.    My back .. is back. When my injury reappears, the pain is so friggn' deep, it takes me to a different place mentally.  When I finally recover which normally takes more than a week to 'put it behind me' ( pun intended) ..   the gym is usually the last place I want t...

Starting to feel good .. really good!    Weights are increasing , I feel like I've got lots of energy ...   filling back out where it counts.   Of couse, the f***ing manboobs and belly are still hauting me, but ..  I can sense a change coming on.    Pants aren't as tight... scale is stuck at the same weight for a week...but .. I can tell the change But, the lower back challenged me a few days ago.  My left elbow is begging for a brace.   Sholder is really tight.  Damned I'm getting f***ing old .. lol Five pounds to go to get to my first goal... five to go...

For two dozen decades... I loved to hit the gym. Was an integral part of my life . Over a dozen years ago , I built a commercial quality gym to work out in. ...but... over the years.. have waivered. Half a dozen injuries have plagued me. My job took precedence . It's gathered too much dust. When I retired from the USAF... I was 263lbs. Within a few years... I busted through to a larger waist size. Few more years down the road, again. Few flags went off, got back into the gym.. then repeated the cycle .. again and again. In '06 I'd hit 300 lbs body weight. I was working out, so .. let it slide. I shouldn't have. The last five years or so .. .. I told myself I didn't care. My focus has been my job. .. motorcycles... GOOD food .... and .... i enjoy my adult beverages. Max weight recently; 316lbs .. and .. belly was ( is ) proof, I was lying to myself.  But damned, I was enjoying that lie! But.. something has to give. So .... ba...