What can I say about myself - um, I like long walks and evenings sitting by the fire...
Okay, sub "tearing it up in the powercage" for sitting by the fire. Okay, and I hate cardio.
A little more description is, I suppose, in order: I am a middle-aged woman who, at the age of 38, stepped away from the treadmills and into a whole new world.
Thing is, I WAS trying to be fit. I did all the bullshit toning and cardio crap the industry spoonfeeds to women. The thing is, it didn't work and it wasn't my fault it didn't work - but it took me a while to figure out why. See, while I do have a formal education in science, it's in Math/Stats and Operations Research, not fitness.
But I can read - more importantly, I can read peer-reviewed research.
So in the fall of 2001 - with no experience, no personal trainer, no dietitian, no coach, and no drugs; using ordinary food and the most basic of community-center equipment - I set out to change myself from a fat, middle-aged jogger into this.
I journaled everything I did, wrote it all down and give it away to the world for free.
Dunno if any of you read my stuff, but I published a few articles and ran a monthly Q&A column on wannabebig for about a year - you can read all the stuff I wrote for them (and a few more that I didn't write for them) on my blog if you're interested.
My goal - I guess you could call it my mission in the iron game - has been to deconstruct the process as much as possible - and lay it out in a way that anyone can approach it - because care and feeding of the human body shouldn't be a trade secret.
Now, partway into menopause and enjoying the newfound world of bioidentical HRT (currently transdermal testosterone and progesterone, and oral DHEA and T3, all medically supervised), I am entering into a whole new uncharted dimension to this sport.
Hmmm... maybe that's my new sig: The Bioidentical Bodybuilder.
yea, welcome to IM, built.
i'm liking the excellent muscle definition in your back and shoulders
Posted by: PreMier
wow, you look amazing. welcome to IM
Posted by: Built
Awww, thanks fellas.
Posted by: powerrack
Welcome Built, I haven't been around here much myself lately, will be on here more often.
Posted by: Built
Dude!
LOVE the sig!
Posted by: gixxer0.6g
I sure wish more girls followed your advice. My buddies girlfriend just kills herself on the treadmill everyday. I've asked her a few times to come lift with me and my girl but she seems to think she'd doing the right thing.
You give a whole new meaning to the word cut-up. Wow.
Posted by: Built
Thanks Gixxer - maybe send her to my blog. The cardio article could help her a lot (I sneak my lifting split into it, maybe she won't notice... )
