Strong Lifts: Before, After

I guess I should be giving the customary before and after photos. So here we go. The left photo is before I started strong lifts and the right one is after. As I mentioned in my previous blogs, I do not maintain photos as I should be. Perhaps I never will. We will see. However I do have several photos from my various visits to friends / parties / outings / hiking trips. So I should be able to find something for almost anything .

Don’t know if anyone can notice, but I have gained a few pounds in the right image. The right photo is not from my peak weight of 127 lb (think I was 125 lb at the time), but I have slightly bigger arms, shoulders, chest and belly. Here is one more.

This is the photo that is taken when I was at my peak body weight. But since my hands are not visible I did not use it for the before after comparison. I look bigger than the previous 2 photos. But at 17% fat I am not sure if the size increase is a result of muscle or fat. Whatever the case may be, I am definitely stronger than 3 months ago. I will take that any day.

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Strong lifts was a good experience

After doing strong lifts for 3 months, I was very satified with the results. I did not become huge but I did become strong and I was more confident about myself. During the strong lifts phase I made a small home gym with all the barbells and weights. I always worked out at home after coming back from work. I was very shy to go to gym because I was so skinny. I was worried that everyone will make fun of me if I could not even benchpress the empty bar that weights 45 lbs.

Strong lifts helped me come out of my shell. So I decided to go to gym at my workplace along with my colleagues who have been asking me to join them ever since I told them I wanted to become strong back in december 2008. Since I have gym partners now I wanted to do what they were doing so we can spot each other at one place instead of me running all over the gym with the strong lifts routine. That was the main reason I stopped doing strong lifts.

It was fun while it lasted though. I would definitely recommend any skinny guy to start with strong lifts. Definitely not P90X . In my next blog I will try to upload some before after photos.

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The very first attempt

As I said in my previous blog, I started to think about getting fit and strong about an year ago. Over the coming few weeks I will post what I have been doing the past year and soon I will catch up to what I am doing now.

First I will start with a photo as usual. I looked like this around august of 2008.

 

I was looking skinny. So, I wanted to get fit. Alright. But I did not know where to start. I decided to do my own stuff (without even thinking to consult any websites), and brought myself a couple of dumbells of 15lb. Seriously that is how much I could lift in those days. I used to do dumbells everyday morning. I did not know about sets or reps at that time. I just did as much as I could. That is all I did. I did not do any other exercises. Can you believe it? Can I ever build muscle doing just bicep curls?

Anyway that continued for a while. But nothing improved much. I was not any stronger but my biceps were slightly better. I have always eatten junk food all the time and it still continued during that time. I ate what I found. Drank a lot of coffee and mountain dew. But overall I think I did not eat enough to gain any weight. So I was still around 115lb.

In my next post I will write about my next attempt at building muscle.

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