12 Week Body Transformation Challenge

terizius

I've always been a hard gainer. Part of that is an unusually high metabolism (RMR at age 25 = around 3500 calories. I'm 31 now so I assume its slowed down some). I've also been pretty physically active most of my life with a variety of activities. About 3 years ago, I finally got interested in actually working out. I started going to the gym following, of all things, one of Bruce Lee's first weight lifting routines (I'm a martial artist as well). Unfortunately, I injured my wrist about 2 months into it and that was that. I started again about a year ago, with the idea to try to gain weight. For about 10 years, I've hovered around 135-140 (5' 9"). I did a ton of research on how the body responds to lifting, hypertrophy, etc and have a rather in depth understanding of what it takes to reach various fitness goals, but actually making it work for me was rather difficult. Nevertheless, I did see some gains of about 10lbs in a two month period while following Jim Stoppani's Shortcut to Size program on Bodybuilding.com. Unfortunately, a pulled hamstring (tennis) took me out of commission and I kind of let lifting fall to the wayside. Regretfully, I also lost the 10 lbs I gained. Well.. I'm back. And this time, I have decided to join my communities 12 Week Body Transformation Challenge. I'll be going back on the Shortcut to Size program, using myfitnesspal to track my calories (have a goal of 3500 calories today), and hopefully seeing some great results! If anyone has any specific tips or advice, feel free to let me know

terizius

BTW, I'm 142lbs now, around 9.5% BF. My ultimate goal is about 165 lbs at about 7.5% BF. For the 12 Week Challenge, I'm hoping to get to about 155 with an expected 10% BF.