For some quick background, I used to be a big gym guy. Used to go minimal three times a week for about an hour and a half (hour weights, half hour cardio). It was even more often when I was briefly in wrestling school when I first moved to Toronto.
Yes, I was in wrestling school. The Hulk Hogan "fake" kind of wrestling. Me and a friend figured out that my ring name was going to be Nick "The Brick" Brunswick (rhyming and allusion to my home province, New Brunswick).
I was chatting/flirting with a friend of mine last night on MSN and she was looking over some older photos of me. Like this one:
(Ignore the really forced smile. Just look at the arms
)
Goddamn, do I miss my guns.
So, after her drooling over this particular photo and thinking about maybe doing some more lifting, I headed to a gym that's a mere 5 minute walk from my house. Got me a 7-day trial membership.
Just got back from there after and hour and a half and...goddamn, do I feel good! Been down in the dumps lately and...whew! Why did I ever stop lifting? I had given up on it in favour of yoga...which I haven't been doing much at all since the beginning of the summer, when I started bike couriering.
And now, I'm biking a minimum of 6 hours a week (it takes a little under an hour to bike 17km to school three times a week). I've slimmed down a LOT. A friend of mine really pointed out this when I showed an older picture of me.
Comparison:
2007 (July-ish)
Last Night (said flirty girl asked for a reaction pic while I watch The Last Airbender movie)
Anyway, the TL;DR version is I think I'm gonna start hitting the weights again. Time to bring back the guns and live up to the name "Brick".
However, I could use some help. I need some new music to listen to while lifting. Some of my favourites for getting pumped include Motorhead's "The Game", "Weak" by Skunk Anansie and "Push" by Moist and . If you guys could find some more music along those lines, that'd be awesome.
Yes, I was in wrestling school. The Hulk Hogan "fake" kind of wrestling. Me and a friend figured out that my ring name was going to be Nick "The Brick" Brunswick (rhyming and allusion to my home province, New Brunswick).
I was chatting/flirting with a friend of mine last night on MSN and she was looking over some older photos of me. Like this one:
(Ignore the really forced smile. Just look at the arms
)
Goddamn, do I miss my guns.
So, after her drooling over this particular photo and thinking about maybe doing some more lifting, I headed to a gym that's a mere 5 minute walk from my house. Got me a 7-day trial membership.
Just got back from there after and hour and a half and...goddamn, do I feel good! Been down in the dumps lately and...whew! Why did I ever stop lifting? I had given up on it in favour of yoga...which I haven't been doing much at all since the beginning of the summer, when I started bike couriering.
And now, I'm biking a minimum of 6 hours a week (it takes a little under an hour to bike 17km to school three times a week). I've slimmed down a LOT. A friend of mine really pointed out this when I showed an older picture of me.
Comparison:
2007 (July-ish)
Last Night (said flirty girl asked for a reaction pic while I watch The Last Airbender movie)
Anyway, the TL;DR version is I think I'm gonna start hitting the weights again. Time to bring back the guns and live up to the name "Brick".
However, I could use some help. I need some new music to listen to while lifting. Some of my favourites for getting pumped include Motorhead's "The Game", "Weak" by Skunk Anansie and "Push" by Moist and . If you guys could find some more music along those lines, that'd be awesome.
