Journey, Not A Destination

I'm off to a bday dinner in a bit for my cousin. I missed some meals earlier so I'll more than make up for it tonight at the buffet. :)

Keith, if you're reading this, we're hitting up Shady Maple!
 
Howdy Steve.

Hope your weekend went well. Mine was really fun. This Sunday my main buds and I replaced my mom's suburban's control arms, both upper and lower on both sides, and that was cool. Likely we could have simply replaced the ball joints themselves, but. Seeing as how those control arms have been in there for 15 years or so, I figured might as well remove and replace it all.

Took all day but got it done and working well.
 
Trevor M. said:
Howdy Steve.

Hope your weekend went well. Mine was really fun. This Sunday my main buds and I replaced my mom's suburban's control arms, both upper and lower on both sides, and that was cool. Likely we could have simply replaced the ball joints themselves, but. Seeing as how those control arms have been in there for 15 years or so, I figured might as well remove and replace it all.

Took all day but got it done and working well.
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Damn man, you're handy as hell!

Bet your mom loves that... that's a nice savings.
 
I'm glad to hear you got some relaxation time this weekend, I think we all needed it after last week!

Are you bulking up for any reason? Or just because? I don't think I could eat 5-6 full meals a day!! I would burst!!
 
I'm bulking up b/c I feel small, for the most part. I like filling my shirts out. My life for the last few years has been one gigantic cycle of bulking up and cutting down. I bulk up until I'm uncomfortable. Then I cut down, while doing my best to preserve the new muscle. Then I start over. It's simply about fine tuning what I currently have... I'm not a fan of maintenance.
 
Steve said:
I'm bulking up b/c I feel small, for the most part. I like filling my shirts out. My life for the last few years has been one gigantic cycle of bulking up and cutting down. I bulk up until I'm uncomfortable. Then I cut down, while doing my best to preserve the new muscle. Then I start over. It's simply about fine tuning what I currently have... I'm not a fan of maintenance.
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Ah I see. I agree about maintenance, there is always another level you can reach no matter what your status.

I don't think I would put you in the "small" category, I'm sure even at your smallest you are still larger than most!
 
You'd be surprised. Yea, I'm muscular. But if I have clothes on, which is most of the time, lol, I look like your ordinary guy. My pictures make me look much bigger than I am.

I'm not trying to be freaky big or anything. I'm just trying. Trying to improve myself in a number of facets. I like to be strong first. And I like the side effects that accompany being strong... one of them being bigger muscles.
 
I'm only weighing in at 180 lbs right now.

I don't have my measurements in front of me at the moment but I know my waist, chest and arm measurements were disappointing relative to where I was last year.
 
Trevor M. said:
Haha - I meant strength numbers. Like squat and so on.
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Ohhhh....

I haven't really been pushing the weights all that much. I usually don't when dieting. Considering I just got done dieting and I did a long stint of general conditioning, speed and power work using field drills... strength is underdeveloped at the moment.

I did pause press 315 on bench easily the other day. That was more out of chest puffing though, lol. A guy I know who competes in powerlifting told me I should come out to Pittsburgh this year and compete. He asked what I could bench with a pause. Told him no clue, maybe 315. He says 'yeah right.'

So I had to prove him wrong.

That was tough as hell though!

Squats are down big time. I have no clue what I could do but I've been getting my groove back with 250.

Same with deads.

You watching the republic convention? Bush is speaking right now.
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I watched some of it. Man did they botch that Bush speech with their feed. I mean I knew they fucked it up and we were supposed to hear the applause but it just looked and sounded so stupid. And he sounded stupid since he was reading the entire thing from a teleprompter... even "I love you guys" when talking about his parents.
 
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