[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
[quote]pure_country wrote:
[quote]TheGodfather1991 wrote:
Finally figured this damn site out. It’s tough to really do much on your phone while at work. Just to give some insight on myself I played football/basketball in high school was a decent sized youngin at around 6’1" and during my seasons I stayed in the 188-195lb range. Slipped up fractured my left femur as a freshman in football went back and mentally couldn’t recover (very agonizing injury) ended up quitting after around 8 years of football.
Then I played another season of basketball got pissed at the coach quit that too. Therefore I discovered alcohol drank every free chance I had. Got a job in a fastfood restaurant and with these I began to gain weight and quick. I returned to lifting the later part of last year and going by what I had always been taught I was doing all the right things the wrong way.
The pure country came along and enlightened me and we became pretty close really quick because on a personal level we can relate in more ways than one. Now I have been training with PC and he is in the process of helping me get down to a more preferable (by myself) body fat %. He instructed me of the correct way to cut down and I was at around 236lbs with roughly 21% bf and within maybe a week of the intermittent fasting diet he has me doing on top of conditioning and training within around 2 weeks I was between 225 and 228lbs (unsure about body fat%).
I’m very very busy I work third shift at a mental health institution I’m an officer at a volunteer fire dept. And I’m also in college. But hopefully this week I can begin giving updates with a log as PC has requested. [/quote]
YES!!! Glad you made it here!! Thanks for the kind words man!! Very proud of you!!! Our gym is coming together and getting better everyday!!! Today is 3" deficit deadlifts no belts, were also finishing the platform tonight try to get pics, picked up a few 5’s and 2.5’s, gonna order a texas power bar soon, trying to also find a good competition bench and a better rack…any ideas from anyone here?!
We also are trying to think of a hardcore gym name, any ideas appreciated, we all enjoy the bible, greek mythology, intellectual things as well as hardcore things, we are all pretty religious so any of that is accepted in our gym, not required though! Hope to throw up a decent log tonight and maybe some videos!!! :)[/quote]
Hahaha that really sounds like THE perfect gym. The religious and Greek mythology aspect makes it that much more appealing. lol
Is there a reason why ya’ll seem to lift exclusively Raw? Like no belt or anything?? Just preference?[/quote]
Basically the more you support the less you use is my theory…I am kind of an “old school” guy and just wanted to push my body as hard as possible so i figured no crutches this time around, I’m sure there will be some belts/wraps/etc used, but for now i just want to push myself as far as possible without the aid of equipment, oh and i believe you involve more muscles so therefore more muscular hypertrophy 
I still wanna be a bodybuilder too ya know haha
I WILL GET THERE!!!