DSMBIZ
12-28-16, 2:48 pm
9 months ago I suffered a near fatal overdose on heroin, I was found without a heartbeat or pulse, it took 8 hits of narcan, electric paddles and a breathing tube for 3 days to keep me alive. Today I stand before you with a truly grateful heart.
I started my fitness journey roughly 7months prior to that at 130lbs, I've always been a skinny kid my entire life but I was a mere shell of a human at that point. I got myself up to about 153lbs in that 7 month time frame before the overdose.
9month ago, fresh out of the hospital @ 149lbs I was weaker than ever my body went through a great deal keeping me alive and I could feel it in every inch of my body, especially my chest where the EMTs had done the sternum rubs. Making it so I couldn't bench press for a cpl weeks. I decided I wanted to hit the gym, and hit it harder than ever before! I found a Freind of mine from my sober living facility and so my journey began, I've been hitting the gym with an extremely high level of intensity over these past 9 months, we found a program by Mike rashid called over training and we killed it day in and day out. It's a full body program meant to hit everything twice in 5 days with weekends to rest, the split was as follows - back/triceps - chest/back - legs/shoulders - shoulders/chest - biceps/legs. This was a brutal program with every movement being supersetted with the opposing muscle group. This is how my mindset for training with complete and utter intensity was inspired. After blasting thru this high volume program off and on, mixed in with some of our own stuff, & some 5x5 style training I now weigh in at 170lbs, I'm lean and healthy. But I'm still looking for more size and any strength I can get. I've recently hit a plateau that's brought me here. I know I'm late to the party, but we are now in our second week of HRT! And loving it! I struggle with the lack of volume but I am staying true to the program, having patience and trusting the process!
...Here we go!!
I started my fitness journey roughly 7months prior to that at 130lbs, I've always been a skinny kid my entire life but I was a mere shell of a human at that point. I got myself up to about 153lbs in that 7 month time frame before the overdose.
9month ago, fresh out of the hospital @ 149lbs I was weaker than ever my body went through a great deal keeping me alive and I could feel it in every inch of my body, especially my chest where the EMTs had done the sternum rubs. Making it so I couldn't bench press for a cpl weeks. I decided I wanted to hit the gym, and hit it harder than ever before! I found a Freind of mine from my sober living facility and so my journey began, I've been hitting the gym with an extremely high level of intensity over these past 9 months, we found a program by Mike rashid called over training and we killed it day in and day out. It's a full body program meant to hit everything twice in 5 days with weekends to rest, the split was as follows - back/triceps - chest/back - legs/shoulders - shoulders/chest - biceps/legs. This was a brutal program with every movement being supersetted with the opposing muscle group. This is how my mindset for training with complete and utter intensity was inspired. After blasting thru this high volume program off and on, mixed in with some of our own stuff, & some 5x5 style training I now weigh in at 170lbs, I'm lean and healthy. But I'm still looking for more size and any strength I can get. I've recently hit a plateau that's brought me here. I know I'm late to the party, but we are now in our second week of HRT! And loving it! I struggle with the lack of volume but I am staying true to the program, having patience and trusting the process!
...Here we go!!