The Goal
Workout. Gain muscle. Profit.
History
I’m a skinny guy and I’ve always wanted to be a little less so. Freshman year of high school I bought large shirts, certain that mediums would not suit my forthcoming muscles. By sophomore year when I joined the crew team I weighed a meager 107 lb. Three years later at 155 lb. I packed my still oversized large shirts off to college. Through college and work, between my love of cardio and some other excuse I’m still mulling over, I never achieved my weight gain goal. I did eventually realize I should be wearing medium shirts. So progress.
The Opportunity
I’m 27 and taking, what I’m currently branding a sabbatical from work. So, I’ve got some time to spend as I like and an unfulfilled long-term goal. A match made in heaven.
The Goal: 180 lb. by September 11th.
According to the Withings scale in my parent’s bathroom I am 172 lb. with 10.3% body fat. According to the (hopefully) temporary tattoo on my arm my goal is 180 lb. Why? I was 155 lb. last July when I started working out with an awesome personal trainer in Chicago named B and around 165 lb. when I got the tattoo last November; so 180 lb. seemed like a nice round number off in the distance.
So let’s keep the goal and make the due date eight weeks from now on September 11th. A pound a week. This is doable according to a Men’s Health article I read while a pop up video of Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) working out played.
“the general rule is that you can gain about a pound of muscle mass each week safely”.
For those of you not in the know, MGK is a skinny blonde guy who has made questionable tattoo decisions. The parallels are evident and seem to me a glowing endorsement of this mission from the powers that be. So let’s do this, I’ll give updates as I go.
p.s: Who am I talking to? For now just an imagined audience but I hope to share this with my friends and family so they can help support me as I shoot for this goal.
