Hello and sort of goodbye
Well Bros I’ll be down and out for a while and it sucks big time. I took up this sport a little over two years ago to lose weight and got bit big time by the lifting bug. All was going well, lost fifty pounds, and brought my bench out of the basement to a PB along with a PB squat. That was until three months ago. What I thought was a torn/pulled muscle turned out to be deteriorating bones in my neck that were applying pressure on my spinal cord. I’m over thirty and the cause of the problem is due to genetics and had nothing to do with the weight I was lifting. My strength (upper body) went down so fast it was alarming to say the least, to go from a 315 work set on my bench to a paltry 135 for eight reps (and I mean I’d struggle for those eight) sure took the wind right out of my sails.
Just about the time this started happening I stumbled onto this great board and I was so glad to have found it. I was deep into a depression. I kept going to the gym but felt I was just spinning my wheels. My diet went down hill and my weight started going up and the goals I had set for myself started to fade away. I needed something to help me refocus on my goals and to help me get past this situation. So I signed up and started reading. I’d read on breaks at work, during lunch and anytime someone was not looking. If I knew I was not going to be near a computer for the day I’d print off threads to read. Slowly I was working up the courage to reply to some of questions and ideas other members would post. I was kind of scared to reply to any of the threads I’d read because I don’t offer advice when I don’t know what I’m talking about or have the experience to do so. Not to mention I didn’t want to make an ass of myself by making a newbie mistake. I was lucky enough to see new members make some of the mistakes I might have and learned from them before doing so myself. I’ve replied to a few now (just in areas I know something about or general topics) but still have great reservations doing so. I’m not an intelligent man so I like to keep my mouth shut for the most part.
With all that said I have gotten to know a lot of you based on all the responses you’ve all posted that I’ve read. And even though I’ve never made a formal introduction or posted more than one thread of my own I wanted to tell you all I’m going in for surgery this Friday (Yeah Friday the 13th, like I said I’m not that intelligent but I’m not suppositious either) and will be flat on my back for two weeks and probably will not be able to lift for a while longer after that. I won’t be able to post after Friday but I rearranged the furniture in my bedroom so I can read the computer screen while recouping. My daughter promised me she’ll help me log in each morning. I knew having kids would pay-off someday! So if you all would do me a really big favor and give me a bump now and then I would be forever in your debt.
Thank you all very, very much,
Jugg
