Life StoryShow
I was a sedentary computer nerd from the age of 12 until at 31 when my first child (daughter) was a baby. To take breaks during paternity leave, I started going outside to run (which I didn't know how to nor have any ability to do). I progressed from being able to run about 50 feet without stopping to being able to run about 8 miles at a 8.5 min/mi pace. This was my first experience with real training, or really physical activity of any kind. I motivated myself by rewarding calories burned with bags of tortilla chips and salsa eaten (burn 1000 calories, eat an entire bag of tortilla chips and salsa in one sitting). At this point my weight had dropped down to about 133lbs at the lowest.
After a couple of years my second child was born, which completely exploded my ability to train (which I was getting tired of anyway). From mid-2014 till mid-2016 I was back to literally never exercising at all. In 2016 I bought a new house from a couple who was moving to London, and as part of the deal they left behind a shitty but functional power rack and unlabelled bar. After a while of it staring at me judgmentally, a friend of mine told me about StrongLifts. I started doing it and have been strength training ever since. Eventually I transitioned to SS, burned out on "advanced novice" tapering and lots of resets, gained too much body fat (from peak to trough I gained 40 lbs from 140->180), etc. I did get decently strong though and now strength training is part of my life. My (now 6) year old daughter has been to Atlanta Barbell with me and seen my wife lift enough that she has an interest and periodically deadlifts, squats, and presses for fun.
After a couple of years my second child was born, which completely exploded my ability to train (which I was getting tired of anyway). From mid-2014 till mid-2016 I was back to literally never exercising at all. In 2016 I bought a new house from a couple who was moving to London, and as part of the deal they left behind a shitty but functional power rack and unlabelled bar. After a while of it staring at me judgmentally, a friend of mine told me about StrongLifts. I started doing it and have been strength training ever since. Eventually I transitioned to SS, burned out on "advanced novice" tapering and lots of resets, gained too much body fat (from peak to trough I gained 40 lbs from 140->180), etc. I did get decently strong though and now strength training is part of my life. My (now 6) year old daughter has been to Atlanta Barbell with me and seen my wife lift enough that she has an interest and periodically deadlifts, squats, and presses for fun.
PRs (all gym):
Squat: 340
Deadlift: 393
Bench: 255
Press: 152
I did that too when i joined. Was never a member over there, so i wanted to try and catch up on some of the stuff.
