Level Up Fitness

Hey, everybody.  This is my very first blog post.  The pictures aren't anything to brag about...neither is my physique, I suppose....But that doesn't really matter!  I happen to have decided to accomplish some specific fitness goals and figured somebody might find it helpful for me to document it here.

I know a lot of people have issues keeping weight off and have trouble empathizing with somebody who doesn't.  For some reason, I seem to have the opposite problem.  When I get lazy about my routine, my body kind of starts wasting away.  The typical response I get to this is something to the effect of, "Seems like a good problem to have".  Well, not really.  It gets to the point that even the connective tissue holding my joints together starts being broken down by my body and it literally starts to feel like my body is falling apart.  It's really a weird thing when you think about it.  I'm not exactly sure why this is an issue for me but it does illustrate a point: Everybody benefits from exercise.  I happen to feel my healthiest when I am very lean and muscular.  Other people have different goals, which are achieved a different way, and that's OK.  Consider this a case study.

I am on a mission to increase my lean muscle mass and improve my body composition.  As of today, I am 131 lbs. and 6.2% bodyfat.  At this point, I am up about 4 lbs. 5 weeks into a program, a motivated and properly educated exerciser could reasonably expect to have seen a little more progress than we see here but I very recently got back into the gym after a motorcycle injury.