Ironroad
06-24-2004, 11:50 PM
Hello all, to start off I’m no stranger to the weight room. I have just recently graduated high school and I'm about to start college soon. When I first entered high school I was 275 lb of blubber. I started playing JV football my freshman year and the following spring I started lifting weights for the first time(but I mostly bullcraped around with it). My 10th grade year I sat out varsity football and wrestled. Boy did I get my a$$ handed to me lol :whip: . So after coming in fifth in the sectional tournament for my region I decided to take weight lifting more seriously. The day wrestling practice ended I went into the weight room. When I first got in there that year I could barely bench the bar and I was 280 something pounds. My squats and dead lifts where only 185. By the time I left when school ended I could squat and dead lift 315 but I could only bench 160 with a spot. That August I started Varsity football practice and into my 11th grade year I had toned up, cut 30+ pounds, and could do a full set of push ups and pull ups for the first time ever. I lifted during football season and well into the end of school. By the end of the school year I could squat 400lbs and bench 175 un-assisted. I sat out football again my senor year due in the part I wanted to graduate with honors and I had to work over the summer. Coach also kicked me outta the weight room because I didn't play. Now here I am, its been almost a year since I touched any iron and I'm more weaker, flabbier, and lazier than ever. Though my calf muscles and pecs have remained kind of hard, everything else has gone soft. I weigh much less than when I was playing sports, I'm about 250, but I'm all flab now.
Since I don't have access to a weight room now but might when I enter college, is there a way I can get back in shape, or get use lifting dead loads again by just doing exercises or work around home? Also I want to cut some more weight cause I'm thinking about joining ROTC. Now I try to do some push-ups every night before going to bed, but I know they don't really do much. On top of that, my upper body has remained weak due to separating my shoulders a few times on the incline press. But I feel I still need to get my upper body strong so maybe one day I can bench over my own body weight.
Since I don't have access to a weight room now but might when I enter college, is there a way I can get back in shape, or get use lifting dead loads again by just doing exercises or work around home? Also I want to cut some more weight cause I'm thinking about joining ROTC. Now I try to do some push-ups every night before going to bed, but I know they don't really do much. On top of that, my upper body has remained weak due to separating my shoulders a few times on the incline press. But I feel I still need to get my upper body strong so maybe one day I can bench over my own body weight.