Fitness contest so-far

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In the week after my wife left me, I lost 7 pounds – partially because I couldn’t force enough food down and partially because your body releases drugs when you feel horrible that make you deteriorate (endorphins, etc.). This contest started a few weeks later and seemed like the perfect opportunity to give myself a nice measurable goal to help me rebuild, give me an outlet for my frustration, and to keep my mind off the problems at hand.

It is a 16-week contest, there appear to be about 100 people entered in it, and at the end the person with the most improvement wins a game console or something. I just want to win for the thrill of accomplishing something and overcoming a challenge.

As I mentioned earlier today, I’m going to start tracking my progress on this blog. Since the contest started on a monday, I’ve been taking pictures every monday, so I’ll put them all up here.

The contest has a special focus on abs, runs for 16 weeks, and the winner is picked based on improvement between before/after pictures (which have to have a newspaper in them to show the date).

Side-note:
The faces are blurred because I’m planning to stay anonymous throughout the use of this blog. I don’t really have the hang of that yet though… if you prefer a certain blur method (spiral, horizontal, etc.) please leave a comment. Another possibility would be to just crop the pics off above the shoulders, might also look weird (again, please leave comments with opinions).

June 09, 2008 – Week 1

ENTRY-PIC (this is where you try to look as mopey as possible):

The same day, me flexing as absolutely hard as I can. These are the two best from that day (they’re pretty blurry though). In retrospect, the damage doesn’t look nearly as bad as it felt. I felt super-skinny when I first looked at these.

If you want to track my progress (for whatever reason), subscribe to the feed for this blog since I’ll be uploading each week’s photos after I take them.

~ by rebuildingmyself on July 21, 2008.