The "Before" Picture

So your small and frail and no girl ever gives you a second look? you struggle to compete with other men your age at sports and you have a lack of confidence that you not even aware of? you are tentative about taking off your shirt at the beach and always look in the mirror or step on the scale and think, "just 10 more pounds" or look at your arms and think, "just an inch, thats all i want an inch". Well thats where I was about a year ago. I did all the wrong things and worked very hard at it. I lifted wrong, I ate wrong, I motivated myself wrong and I took the wrong supplements. All the hard work in the world could not change how genetics had build me and I was on the edge of defeat. Then I went to college...

One of my best friends who, If you track our progress you will get to know intimately, is my lifting partner. We went to high school and now college together. I will mention his name later because I havent yet informed him that I will be blogging our progress. However you should know, we are both a little insane when it comes to working out and we feed off each other. I wouldn't go so far as to say we enjoy pain but to be fair we have an unhealthy lust for it. I would argue that we are always the hardest working guys in the room and often times some of the smallest. He is practically a professional and im lucky enough to have found him and meshed with his personality. During our first year in college this man changed me, and not just physically, in fact the physical change was the least important. Because of my new found size and strength I found confidence and personal motivation, I valued myself and my body and began taking better care of it. My attitude completely changed with ten pounds. Im no longer frail and scrawny, lean and athletic is a slightly better description but not physically impressive in any way. I am currently a candidate of Marine Corps officer candidate school and spent a lot of time running to prepare for this summers session, losing a lot of muscle in the process (my girlfriend was not happy). Unfortunately I was sent home due to dental complications and will return to finish next summer. Until then I have a few weeks extra to begin a 5 month bulking cycle. The goal of this blog is for you to track our progress and mirror it if you like. We dont allow other people to lift with us but I will tell you everything you need to know to get our results and to train yourself with this mindset.

I hope you all track our progress and take advantage of the tips and notes. Id also like to hear updates from you.

-Sean