hey guys. I've copied one of the blokes formats from above for my intro...
Name : David
- Age : 25
- Gender : Male
- Location : Perth
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Job : Engineer (Mechanical)
- Training experience : not much, trained with some weights for 18 months 3 years ago, nothing until now
- Any Interests : work, 4wheeling, camping, spearfishing
Current Weight: 93kg's
Height: 183cm
Goals:
- recover fully from back injury in past
-get good mobility and strength back into my life, feel strong again
-lift heavy, be strong
-I'd like to post 140kg squats, 150kg deadlifts, 100kg bench (or thereabouts) in 12 months time
-Just gonna focus on core, compound lifts for a long time yet. The beginners workout in the strength/PL section seems a good place to start so might just do that, but replace barbell curls with pull-ups (personal preference)
I'm really just focussed on getting strong, for its own sake. not too fazed about physique or bodybuilding or anything like that. When I was a bit younger I had half-decent lifts, with crap form, crap nutrition, crap attitude (arrogant young welp) and all that goes along with it. So I want to start properly, this time, and avoid a recurrence of my past injury (hearinated a disc, L3/L4 lumbar I am informed!).
I've designed a fold-away squat rack with integrated spotter bars I'm building myself, and bought a cheapy olympic bar and 100kg of rubber weights. Gonna set it up in my garage and go from there! don't have anyone to lift with (mates not into it) so look forward to chatting to some people on this site to keep in touch and motivated, ha-ha.
I'm embarassed to only be throwing the empty bar around at the minute

but hope to soon enough be requiring to go back to the shop and buy some more weight than what I've got! soon enough, anyway
I'm an engineer by profession and proficient in mechanical design and fabrication so I'm always happy to consult, help design, or knock up some fab drawings for any home built equipment anyone wants a hand with! (obviously I can't/won't for commerical equipment for liability reasons) but if anyone wants a hand let me know!
I'll be starting a training log to keep myself motivated.
cheers fellas.