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Having trained on and off for the best part of 12 years, I thought it was best to get my fat lazy ass back into the dungeon! It has been 3.5 years since I was last in decent shape, and quite possibly the best shape of my life. May 2005, Dean, Aaron, Dan (my bro) and I were kicking some serious ass. The gym became our battleground, and the free weights became our weapons of choice!

Back then I remember back squatting around 150kg, my best was 180kg – way back in my Olympic weightlifting days! I was bench pressing 120kg for multiple reps, and needless to say we were in the zone! So much hard work, naturally, without the assistance of performance enhancing drugs. Only regular intake of good quality protein supplemented with Creatine and Glutamine.

So here I am 3.5 years later, in a different country to my fellow warriors, looking rather worse for wear, and with the wife realizing that perhaps I am not quite the same guy she fell in love with. I am less than 2 years from 30 and hardly have the base fitness levels to compete in any sport (chess aside) so perhaps now is time I actually do something about it, before it gets too late to bother!

For some strange reason I found motivation? My brother in law Gary is currently living with us Down Under, and he found my motivation too. We decided to check out our local gym, yeah it is slightly commercial in that it caters for all users, but it has the raw materials to achieve godlike physiques! We joined, and so far having had just 4 sessions I have this amazing buzz back, just like I had in the trenches all those years ago. There are less warriors this time around, just Gary and I. But I am passing on years of knowledge, and years of battles won against the steel of barbells to my new young apprentice.

We are hitting our second chest & legs session tonight, and I am looking to bench press 75kg, and then squat 85kg. I know I can do more, but I am trying to break myself back into the zone. I am currently weighing about 93kg, no doubt my heaviest in my life and my new partner is not quite up to 60kg. We are complete opposite ends of the spectrum, I need to cut up, he needs to bulk up, but the common goal and focus to lift good heavy weights and look pretty good is the key motivational tool.

So this section of my blog will be dedicated to my fitness and workouts. I will endeavour to update it weekly, discuss training, muscle groups, nutrition and supplements. And I will also try and add photo updates!

This photo is a little old, taken about 10 months ago, when I was actually in better shape than I am now. Hopefully by the end of Feb (my 29th Birthday) I will be able to post a picture with a much improved physique. Unfortunately I don’t dare put a current picture live on the net.

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