"You're too Skinny"

So I'm finally taking weightlifting seriously. Like...for real for real.

Ever since I was a little 5th grader trying to impress this girl I liked--I remember I started lifting those tiny little weights--and damn did I try hard. I remember every other day I'd be listening to Sum 41 on the radio trying to outdo my push-up record and just do stretches and what not.

I remember the first time I did curls. My older sister had a set of 3 pound weights, so I held them both (to make 6!) and did literally over 200 reps. I couldn't move my arm the rest of the week--but that's not the point. I was a determined little fucker.

Things really were different back then...I enjoyed doing homework--I enjoyed helping my mom cook and clean, I enjoyed exercising just for fun. ...before I discovered video games.

Well I'm a man of research--so I've spent a lot of time on body building forums, yahoo answers, and nutrition books at Barnes and Noble and have now set myself for a new nutritional lifestyle. (It's not a diet because diets are temporary.) So I'm trying to consume my weight in grams of protein. (That's around 130g of protein a day people!)

My eyes have been glued to the back of nutrition labels, adding up on my cellphone what has the most protein, and how much I can consume. I've learned that in order to keep your protein levels up, you need to eat basically every 3 hours. So a typical day would have me eating oatmeal and 3 eggs in the morning (say 7AM) a meaty sandwich at 10, chicken strips and hopefully veggies by 1, a protein bar at 4, dinner (God hope mom made some meat!) at 7, and probably another sandwich at 9. It's just kind of sucky because...I really don't eat a lot. In fact, I'm used to going for days with just a bowl of cereal and orange juice all day. ...what's the opposite of anorexic?

I went to the local Vitamin store off Nicholas. Walked up to the buff store clerk, and told him I wanted to basically look like him. So he took the liberty of explaining for over half an hour how protein works to rebuild and repair muscles and how his supplements helped etc. etc. I was also glad that I gave him something to do and made him feel knowledgeable because damn--did he look bored when I walked in.

As he says: "You don't need supplements kid, it's just for people who don't get enough protein from the regular food they eat...and that's basically the case."

So I bought a fat jar (see above) of protein powder for protein shake, to take after a workout.

The thing is...I spend all my time eating, and about 1% of the time actually working out. It's fucking amazing--I don't even lift weights that much, I'm just stuffing myself. According to body building pros, 60% of body building is just what you fuel yourself with. It makes sense. So I look forward like a little kid on my work-out days because it's only for an hour.

I also realized I've been working out wrong my entire life.

I've always used light weights, a shit load of repititions--and sometimes the next morning my muscles wouldn't even be sore! (that's ...really bad because you need to "tear" your muscle so that it rebuilds itself to get bigger. Just like when we tore down Germany and then they came back with WW2 and a fucking holocaust, except all that is suppose to be going on inside different parts of your body)

But now I know I need to load enough weight on so that I am physically only able to do 5 reps, for 5 sets. And VOILA! it takes no time to finish the workout, and I feel sore as hell the next day.

Yep, I overkilled you with too much information, but I just wanted to write this all out so that 10 years later I'll read back and say: "Oh, I remember that's what I did." Whether future me will be muscular or just fat--as long as its documented.

My goal is to weigh in at 150 pounds (I'm about 130 now) by the end of this year.

I think it can happen...