What if...?

What is I continued to go to the gym 4x a week when I joined in 2006, instead of only going for six months and then dropping out?

What is I asked out Stephanie from my drawing class?

What if I asked that girl at Staples for her number?

What if I kept the paid-off Accord and didn't trade it in?

I am the king of What if? statements and I used to spend too much time regretting the decisions I made and I actions I took (or didn't) in the past. Recently, however, I realized that you just need to start from where you are and look forward from there. No point in sitting around and imaging how great my life could be, why not sit around and think of how great my life is, and will be.

So that's what I'm doing. That's why I've started going to the gym 4x a week again and why this time I will not stop. This way I won't be 35 and say what if I had kept going to the gym when I was 28.

I can't wait to be 35 now, imagine how great I'll look. ;)

The Gym Routine

So it's been a pretty decent run for me at the gym recently. I've belonged to Planet Fitness for about 4 years at this point, and used it consistently for maybe 6 months when I started, and then I was not so consistent, as in once every 6 months. However, Planet Fitness is only $10 a month, so there was that. Even when I had no money and was canceling cable I kept the gym. I guess canceling the gym felt too much like I would never go again. Like I was giving up.

This March, however, I decided that I needed to start with the gym again and since the tail end of March I've been good. My current routine is 4x a week and I like to go at around 6:30 in the morning and do 15 minutes of the elliptical and 25 minutes of weight training, which works out to be 5 exercises with 3 sets each.

What's your routine?

Starting Pic.

I like to take pictures of my progress, this way when I get approached about writing an awesome book about my inspiring journey I will have documentation. Wild hair and all!

Here's a pic of my starting weight 138ish.

Jeez the iPhone 3Gs doesn't take such hot photos. I think I'll have to use my point and shoot from here on in.

So it begins... again.

This is not my first adventure in blogging. I had created a blog last year about a vastly different subject (cars and photography), and I didn't keep up with it at all. I found I didn't have the time to post thoughtful entries. This time I'm going for something different, and my posts are going to be simpler. No aspirations for grandeur this time, haha.

My new blog is going to follow my progress as I work to build muscle and become bigger. I'm not looking to lose any weight, I'm actually looking to increase my weight with more muscle. Fact of the matter is, I'm a 5'7" guy who currently weighs 138 pounds. That's pretty sad, there are large dogs that weigh more than me. I know, I've met 'em.

So far, I'm 38 days at the gym since the end of March 2010 (I have to put the year there, because some years I probably went 38 times in a whole year). I'm trying to go 4 days a week at least and have been successful as of late. My starting weight was 134. Woohoo, I've gained 4 pounds. I'm probably one of the few people happy to gain weight.