Fitness Whole Pizza In My Mouth

[Jake]

Hey cool, congrats on the progress so far!

I fell off the fitness train about a year ago when life got too stressful to bother. Eased into it last December at my apartment gym, then my buddy Will and I signed up together at Gold's. Turns out going with a friend a few times is all you need to establish a routine.

My focus thus far has been on strength and better eating. I got a free session with a trainer when I joined the gym, and she had me initially doing three days a week, with each day a different focus. Chest/biceps, back/triceps, Leg Day Fridays. I've been soooort of doing that, but now that I've established my "initial gainz" I have been trying to just generally mix it up and keep things interesting. I start each session with a 5-minute warmup on the treadmill... 15% incline at 4.5-5 mph.

Eating cleaner has helped a TON with how I look and feel. The trainer emphasized the value of getting enough protein to gain muscle. I've been struggling to gain a ton of muscle mass and realized that even eating cleaner, I'm not intaking enough. So, I finally am "that guy" with a 4 lb jug of protein powder in my kitchen cabinet. Should be interesting to see if that helps out.

All of the training has definitely helped my results at the various Spartan Races I do. Easier times lifting shit, easier to run for longer periods, less sore and exhausted the day(s) following the events. I want to keep seeing progress there as "functional fitness" is what I'm after, no real care for being super sculpted unless it's a side benefit.