Here’s the starting point for all my workout experiments to follow: This is what I look like on April 15th, 2010, before launching into my first experiment:
Measurements
| Weight: | 76.4 Kg / 168.4 lbs |
| Waist: | 82 cm / 32.3″ |
| Arms: | 32 cm / 12.6″ |
| Chest: | 104 cm / 40.9″ |
| Shoulders: | 117 cm / 46″ |
| Thighs: | 54 cm / 21.3″ |
That’s it. That’s me in all my current glory. It’s not hideous, but it’s nothing to write home about either. I’m very grateful for the fact that I’m not and have never been grossly overweight. But neither have I ever been particularly muscular.
I’ve been exercising regularly in one way or another for years. For long periods of time, I even did weight-lifting with the specific goal of building muscle, but it never really showed. Even after 18 months of doing the famous HIT (high intensity training), I had made almost no gains. My friend, whom I was doing HIT with, gained muscle very visibly during that same time.
In other words: I am a hard-gainer. I’ve looked the way I look for as long as I can remember. When I do very little exercise, I don’t lose muscle visibly and when I do lots of exercise, I don’t gain muscle visibly.
I now intend to embark on a series of fitness experiments in the hopes of gaining some visible muscle mass and putting on some lean weight. On this blog, I’ll describe what I’m doing and keep track of my progress.
