Introduce Yourself

Re:Introduce Yourself (crownedzero)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:18:09 GMT

Hello all my name is Phil.

I'm 29 years old.
6 ft tall
135 pounds

According to http://www.bmi-calculator.net/body-fat-calculator/ I'm sitting somewhere around 7.5% body fat.

I've been exactly the same size for about 15 years now, and I've finally come to the conclusion it isn't going to magically appear one day as most of my family has told me since I was in high school. I've come to dbb in hopes of finding a diet and routine that I can relatively easily accommodate into my current lifestyle.

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (connelly)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:00:49 GMT

200-210? Honestly i'd have guessed 180-190 but it might just be hard to tell anyways welcome to dbb.

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (Watermelon Man)

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:30:22 GMT

My name is Joshua Caserta

16 years old at 6 feet tall and around 200-210 lbs. Trying to gain more lean mass and lose more fat.

It's hard to cut out all the unnecessary fat because I have to rely on my mom for food and she's reluctant to buy good foods and hates fish, so I have to make due with what I have.

I look like this:

A more shirted picture of me would look like so:

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (priceizrght)

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:43:26 GMT

Hey all

New to this forum so thought i'd intro myself on this thing

21 y/o full time college student/barista/actor. haha. i have a lot goin on in my life for sure. I've been consistently working out now for about 7 months and have definitely seen a difference in my body. currently here are my stats

5"3'
124 lbs.
5% body fat

Im lookin to gain about 10-15 lbs of lean muscle mass. I recently started a new workout program which is in a book i bought from the Men's Health series and i definitely love it. I'll be starting a BSN stack soon so hopefully my gains will be here in no time. :)

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (Rece)

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:14:18 GMT

Hi my name is Rece iI am 34 yrs. old. My bench is about 320 my squat is 405 deadlift is about 505.

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (Ironclad)

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:14:01 GMT

Hello everybody . Just started lifting about 8 months ago and found this sight while looking online for advice . Looks like lots of info to go thru . I have made some inital gains , but not as much growth as i would like . I'm sure i can find the info and get the answers i need here.

Re:Introduce Yourself (KappaRaiders)

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:24:53 GMT

new guy here. looking for a message board with less attitudes and more useful info.

i was a pudgy kid through high school, got started lifting junior year of college. started off just lifting and eating like crazy, bulked up a bit, now im cutting until i have visible abs lol. ive lost a tiny bit of size, but am getting pretty cut in the process. when im satisfied, clean bulk until im huuuuuuuge.

hello all.

need some help getting started...again (highoctanefighter)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:39:23 GMT

ok im 26 years old 6' 190 lbs. i have fat in places i dont want it. my arms are not as big as id like. neither is my chest. i have a gut. just wondering what i should do to burn some fat off and also stay this weight, just turn it all to muscle or build it back to muscle....i need someone to give me like a detailed meal plan...supplements..detailed workout...creatine? noxplode?cellmass?
what is best to take when..i'm an mma fighter so im not that out of shape just wondering how to beef up muscle and shred it up...all advice is appreciated

Re:Introduce Yourself (creampuffgoodness)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:41:36 GMT

Hello Everyone! Im 21 years old and I've been struggling about weight problems ever since. Due to my job's nature, I tend to eat a lot eventhough I want to control myself, I find it really hard not to resist temptation and I have no time to work out. I hope I could get helpful information here.

Re: New Guy (KublaKhan)

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:25:46 GMT

hey everyone. well i'm 29 now and have worked out a lot on and off as life permets. i wrestled all through high school. i can say that i'm still in pretty good shape because of how active my life is. currently in afghanistan on my second deployment and i finding my favorite part of the day is going to the gym. i'm 6' at 185 pounds at the moment. i've been working out here pretty steady for 5 months now and am now ready lift hard and heavy to pack on some weight. thanks to DB and all the users as i come to the site for advice. glad to be here....
here as a DB member, not afghanistan

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (buffske)

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:00:21 GMT

hey wats going people well my name is leroy i been working out for about a year now, i guess ill say a lil about my self i have always been an active type of guy played football all 4 years of football and i wrestled since 4th grade nut after high school it all went down hill i gained 30-40 pounds in like 3 months went from 195 to like 240-235 i wanted to join the marines so they made me lose some of the weight, after all the wrk i wsnt able to go because of my vision:( , so i just kept running since thats all i did, until some of my friends said i looked like i was dieing haha i weighted 190 so it was a change then i went from the tread mills to the weight and have not looked back i weigh 223 now and its mostly muscle weight i really hope this web site can help me take it to the other level

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (bairdstudio)

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:51:10 GMT

Hey guys... The name is Anthony. Living in Nashville, but originally from Knoxville.

I use to be a serious lifter from about 7th grade up through my sophmore year of high school. At the end of my freshmen year in high school I was benching 300lbs, squatting about 625lbs and weighed 200lbs.

Ripped my left hamstring. Ended up being a unique tear, where instead of actually the hamstring tearing, I actually pulled out a chunk of my pelvis bone, where the glut and hamstring connect at the pelvis. Doctor said its typically a type of injury gymnasts see, because the muscles are so strong and not flexible enough. Long story short. That was that... Didn't do anything for a few years, and got into rowing. Went from about 190lbs, up to 215lbs from rowing!!! Transferred universities, and couldn't row (no crew). So I got fat. Im now 25 years old, 5'10'' and about 240lbs. Though people are often shocked when they hear I weigh as much as I do and don't look nearly as fatty. Which, hey! Im okay with that.. Hell I weigh more than a couple of my friends that are 6'4'' and look much much much larger and fatty than I am and Im actually about 10lbs heavier.

My goals are to basically get the built bad ass look I once had, twice. While I want to trim down and get smaller. Im naturally a big stocky guy, and realize there are some genetics to fight there.

Ultimately, I want to define my chest, back, shoulders, arms, and stomach. I can easily get my legs back up to where they were. I know how to lift, I know what exercises to do for the most part. So I thought... But Im particularly clueless on ab work out routines. And while I want to get leaner and meaner, I dont have the time to committ to hard core body building. Though I've often considered it.. We're talking Im in the gym lifting anywhere from 3-5 days a week, alternating upper and lower body days, and trying to lift as intese and hard as I possibly can for a period of about an hour and a half a day.

Probably going off to Army basic this summer since Im finishing up undergraduate school in Decemeber. So I've been trying to do some cardio about three days a week. Though for a while I was doing it every day for about three weeks.

Basically, I don't want to be a fat ass and decided it was time to start devoting time to not being one.

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (PedalFastBmx)

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:25:19 GMT

Hi all,
Name is Curtis and i'm Twenty years of age. Currently weigh in at about 150lbs, and am about 6'2". I'm tall and lanky, and I joined here to in hopes of documenting my weight / muscle gain progress, read and to learn.

I have always been very active and had fast acting metabolism, which is what has led to my stick figure size today. I ride a BMX bike, and have for over five years. I travel around a bit to ride different skateparks, and to go to different cities to ride the streets and what not. I walk a mile and a half to work, and a mile and a half back, and have a BMI of 19.3

I've yet to actually start training, but i've been getting ready for it by altering my diet to fit in more protein and calories, and doing the normal work out stuff at home (pushups, crunches, curls, etc). I am going to obtain a weight bench soon, so the day that gets here is the day I start really training.

My goal is just add some pounds to my frame, aswell as some noticeable muscle gain. My goal isn't to become overaly ripped or muscular, but I would like to have a body that looks atleast healthy and fit, and not lanky and too skinny.

With that said, i'll start reading more of the forums and get familiar with the place.

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (ChasingRadioWaves)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:34:50 GMT

Hey!

I'm 28 and have been obese, pretty much, since I was 5 years old, save for when I was about 13-17 and played football and threw discus and shot put in high school. Even then I was still a "big" guy, weighing about 240 but was really relatively lean, at about 18% body fat.

I'm 5'11", and currently weigh 263 lbs. My max weight was 325 lbs. about a year and a half ago; since then I've lost the weight by cutting out ANY fried foods, no soda, hiking and hitting the treadmill at my apartment's gym at a quick walking pace (3.5 on this particular treadmill) in accordance with an exercise plan my doctor put me on to get my heart in good shape to start more robust exercise.

Since Sept. 1st of this year I've cut my carbs significantly and haven't had an ounce of sugar since then either. It's not the Atkins diet, really; I've just been eating a ton of lean meats like fish and chicken with huge salads, though I do have fat in olive oils and sometimes creamy salad dressing. I also eat a lot of eggs; boiled eggs are a good snack about two hours between meals.

Also since Sept. 1st I've upped it at the gym significantly, doing an ascending scale 3-set regimen on the multi-use machine there, starting with 10 reps respectively of benchpress, then incline, then shoulder lifts (I start with the #5 plate, then the #7 plate, then the #11 plate). Then I move to 10 reps of butterflies and sitting leg extension lifts, then ten reps of pull downs, chest pulls, and full seated rows (I can max out the machine to the # 20 plate for 10 reps, which feels like a great exercise, hitting my whole body). Finally I end with 2 sets of 10 reps on preacher's curls on each arm (#5 plate). I can't get a good gauge for how much weight I'm lifting as the machine only has #s for each plate (small plate 1-5, medium plates 6-15, and large plates 16-20). After the weight lifting I'll get on the treadmill at 3.5 pace (I'm still not able to run on the treadmill) for 20 minutes which puts my heart rate at about 160 sustained, or on the stationary bike on the "weight loss" pre-program for 30 minutes which puts my heart rate at 135 for the 30 minutes.

This week I mixed it up a bit with some dumbell work like a standing iron cross with the 12 lbs. dumbell in each arm, and a one armed standing row with the 45 lbs. dumbell. I also did a set of 10 lunges (5 alternating each side) with a 40 lbs. dumbell in each hand (which was killer!)

I'm able to go to the gym for about 40 minutes, and I hit it regularly on Mon/Wed/Sat evenings. Just since Sept. 1st I've dropped 40 lbs. , dropped 2 inches on my waist, my shirts fit again, and I've gained 1 inch on my biceps, which is so rewarding!

I hope to learn a lot from this forum; just in the first few threads I've read (the stickies) I've learned about doing more back exercises (like those rows I started doing) and leg exercises (the lunges I started this week).

I think I'll enjoy my time here!

Re: RE: Introduce Yourself (Gottabefit)

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:43:36 GMT

Welcome to DBB y'all!