Pre P90X
Why did I want to start P90X? Well. I used to be a severely addicted world of warcraft gamer. I used to play anywhere from 4-12 hours. PER DAY! Yes. That hardcore. I think I even played 15 hour straight at one time. Sitting in my chair. Playing a video game online.
I had a girlfriend that also played the game with me. We were both pretty much addicted but I played more than her. So when we were together she would crack jokes at me like. “are you sure your strong enough to pick me up?”. Now she was a petite girl at like 130 pounds. I was 118 pounds.. even lighter than her. So it hurt my pride a lot and made me feel bad. Of course I could pick her up but she said those things to degrade me. After a while I had enough. She was always indirectly implying I was weak because I was only like 118 pounds at 5″10. Pretty much skin and bones.
Then I had finally had enough. My feelings for her were slowly dieing because of her treating me that way. After a few months I told her I was breaking up with her because my feelings for her were pretty much all gone. Obviously, being a girl, she had to hit me back with something harsh. She said all her feelings for me were pretty much gone too and she liked some other guy at school already. I was really crushed by that because I wasn’t expecting it. I took the blow and moved on. I haven’t contacted her since. That was about 7 months ago.
After I broke up with her. I looked at myself. A skinny 17 year old kid at 5″10. Weighing 118 pounds. Addicted to world of warcraft. Weak and scrawny. According to her. Then it finally hit me. I was done with the game. Over the next few days I quit world of warcraft cold turkey. I uninstalled the game and burned the CD’s for it. Then I bought P90X and my live forever became changed.
The addiction I had to put into world of warcraft sometimes 15 hours a day. I put that addiction I had for that game into working out. So now my addiction is fitness and staying healthy. Follow me on my journey as I see just how.. I can turn a scrawny ex world of warcraft nerd into a beast. Lets get started shall we?
and so it begins…
Pre P90X, September 25 2009.
17 year old male
NOTE* These measurements were rounded to the inch or tenth of an inch
- Weight: 118
- Chest: 34″
- Waist: 29″
- Hips: 32″
- Right Thigh: 18″ (measured at midpoint)
- Left Thigh: 17.5″ (measured at midpoint)
- Right Arm: 12″ (flexed, measured at peak of bicep)
- Left Arm: 11.5″ (flexed, measured at peak of bicep)
- Right Wrist: 6″
- Right Wrist: 6″
- Right Forearm: 10″
- Left Forearm: 9.7″
- Resting Heart Rate: 62
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*for anyone that thinks the back flexed shot is muscle, I regret to inform you that it’s bone mostly lol!
and yes I did weigh 118 pounds.
