anonymous1

Profile

Personal Info

Name

Tony

Sex

Male

Age

34 years

Location

born in New York, currently residing in Florida

Occupation

computer networking tech

A Little About Me

5'8" on the button LOL, 217
Currently living in Florida, and working as a computer networking and fiber optics troubleshooting and installation tech

When I Started Working Out

senior year, high school

How I Started

due to a lot of external factors, including my own self conscious tendencies, hot girls, and just a craving to be big and strong

Why I Love It

It makes me feel better about myself, gets me more attention, makes me look better and feel powerful

How I Stay Motivated

motivation is always there, I've never been without it, like I mentioned, it's those external factors that caused me to start

My Worst Injury

Luckily, I've never had anything real bad. I had a broken ankle, no surgery required, cast for 5 weeks, then I was doing heavy reps right after. I tore a tendon in my pinky finger, LOL, when I was 19, was told not to lift on it for a month, did anyway, ruptured it again. It was the flexor tendon, so I cannot grasp with it, but has never been a problem. It did cause me to shy away from hoops a bit though.

I Would Love To Meet

Off the top of my head, any interesting person. It's nice too when you meet someone who likes some of the same things you do. I like meeting people who like weights, powerlifting, and bodybuilding as much as me.

Goals

Main Goal

to be as happy as I can be, and to be the best I can be

Short Term Goal

Right now I have my short term leg(squat) goal of a 585 for 1 squat. My short term bench goal is to just keep it comin'. In terms of physique, I like the way I look right now. There's always room for improvement though. I could lean up a bit but it doesn't worry me right now. No comp, and I think I look fine with my shirt off. Nice and big LOL. I've never competed but that might really be some fun some day. I have a friend who wants me to start competing in both powerlifting and bodybuilding.//////Let me update on that now if it's ok. I wrote that a while back, now it's Jan'09. I got that goal of 585 on the squat. When I weighed 245, sometime, early last spring or so, I did a routine that went, 135 8, 225 8, 315 8, 405 8, 495 7, 585 1. It wasn't my best workout, but I tried 585 for the hell of it (no spot) and got it. On my best days, I was consistantly getting 495 for 8. On those squats, I used a belt and knee wraps. I did not powerlift wrap though, just a light wrap. When I did that 585, I took it off, stood with it for 5-10 seconds, took a deep breath, descended (felt great), got to the bottom (said to myself LOL, "now put it up so you can tell your friends (as it was a life-long goal)," and began coming up with it. Coming up, for me, was ridiculously hard. I moved like two inches at a time, stopped, moved, stopped. I thought I had a hernia as well because of pain where ya don't wanna get it. At that point, I said to myself, "better put it up, 'cause ya got a hernia, at least take somethin' good, home." I did. The pain went away, saw a doc, no hernia, everything was peachy. Gosh I like talkin' LOL. Anyways, thank you, if you're interested. My short term goal is to enjoy myself, in life, and in training.

Long Term Goal

To maintain what I have, and improve on it as well. I've found, I think, that with my upper body, I don't have the brute strength that some guys have. While my muscular development is decent, my bodyframe is small. For instance, I've seen guys with modest muscularity throwin' around weights that I use, on the bench press. Most of these guys have one thing in common, large bodyframes/bone structure. My bench right now is 3 sets of 8, with 315. My legs, on the other hand, are strong. Right now though, I don't go super heavy. I'm very content doing 4 sets of 8 with 405. Deep though, all the way down. Just being honest, the last set is tough, sometimes I only nail out 5. I've found that I like bodybuilding more than powerlifting. With all this said, it would be nice someday, to be able to handle 405 on the bench for 6-8, but if it never happens, I won't be surprised. But........I will try to do my best.

Bodyfat Goal

Same as above. I don't like calipers. They always tell me I'm way less than what I really am though.

Weight Goal

Whatever I think I look good at. Numbers don't concern me at this point.

Favorites

Bodyparts (Opposite Sex)

everything

Bodyparts (Yours)

lower body

Exercises

Favorites are bench press (flat barbell), and free weight squat. Well, squats aren't fun LOL, but I really like what they do.

Healthy Foods

turkey subs, tuna fish out of the can, milk

Not So Healthy Foods

cheeseburgers, chocolate chip muffins, beer

Supplements

Simple. Things that work, not the millions of things that don't.

Hobbies

girlfriend, bodybuilding/lifting, movies, having fun

Magazines

Sports Illustrated

Books

I'm not a big reader, I used to love Stephen King books though.

Workout Music

Whatevers playing in the gym