I haven’t updated this site in a long time and there’s a very not-fun reason for that. Workout Experiment is supposed to be the site where I write about various workout routines and related stuff that I try out and report on my progress. Unfortunately, there’s been no progress to report on. In fact, I have never been less fit or less strong than I am right now (except maybe when I was a toddler).
What Went Wrong
Right about at the beginning of this year, I caught some virus that had me coughing and lying in bed most of the time for about four weeks straight. That was bad, but it wasn’t the worst of it. Even before that, I had somehoe managed to injure my right-hand pectoral muscle and couldn’t work out properly anymore. Any pushing motion caused pain and made the injury worse. That meant no bench presses, no shoulder presses, no dips, no push-ups or anything similar for me.
I tried to keep up some kind of training routine, but it was all a bit half assed. Then, when that virus hit, I couldn’t train at all anymore and since the chest pain persisted even after that, I stopped working out entirely.
Part of this was because I wanted this thing to fully heal, part of it was because I’d just fallen out of the routine of training and was extremely busy with everything else in my life.
No matter the reasons, the bottom line is that I haven’t followed a proper workout routine in more than four months (which is by far the longest stretch of non-training I’ve ever had since I was about 12 and first learnt about the concept of training). The results of this aren’t pretty. I’ve lost muscle-mass very noticably and gained a spare tire around my mid section. This looks bad and it feels even worse. Seriously, it is no fun at all, living inside a slightly flabby and non-fit body. I have no idea how overweight people cope with that and I’ve zero desire to find out.
Time to Get Out of this Mess
Today, as I write this, is the first day in months that my chest is not hurting when I do pushing motions. I don’t know if I can dive back in and start piling on weights to bench again, but it does feel like I’m back to a point where I can do at least light variations of most exercises.
And even if this takes longer to heal, I’m fed up with sitting on my arse, so it’s time to take up a regular training routine of some sort again and get myself out of this mess.
Here’s the action-plan in a nutshell:
- Find a routine that I can do right now
- Take size measurements every week
- Weigh myself every week or even every day
- Take a snapshot every day
Goals:
- Lose the spare tire
- Get back to the level I was at before
- Then start pushing to new limits
I’ll be updating this site with progress reports again. Stay tuned.
