EPTWell I decided to make a blog about my own life. I decided long a go that parties were highly over-rated, same for weed and alcohol (I have no problem with people drinking/smoking I just don't enjoy it much myself) So a year or so a go I was totally lost to what I wanted to do. I'm a physical therapy student just trying to make it through all this science and biology. I find i don't have nearly as much time as I used to. So, I developed a mission. I wanted to try to make myself the best person I can possibly be. This mission has come along pretty well. I exercise really consistently, it's become a major part of my life--I got a six pack for the first time in my life two years a go and got it again this past summer (10% bodyfat both times, got tested). Now I'm working on getting more muscular--my growth for my three big lifts (bench, squat, deadlift) consists of:
Bench: started out barely able to do 135 for 12 reps (3 sets
Squat: barely able to do 185 for 10 reps (3 sets)
Deadlift: barely able to do 225 for 5 reps (3 sets)
and now:
Bench: did 205 for 6 reps yesterday (4 sets)
Squat: doing it today. did 205 for 10 reps last week (3 sets)
Deadlift: did 245 for 10 reps (barely!) last week (3 sets)
I'm very pleased with how my fitness is coming but my goals do not end here!
my short term goals are 225 bench press for at least 3 reps, 245 squat for at least 3 reps, and hopefully 285 deadlift for at least 3 reps.
I had 10% bodyfat in september, but now i've gained a bit of fat but I can still sort of see the vague outline of my top two abs so hopefully not too atrocious.
while this covers my fitness progress and one part of my mission to be the best I can be that is nowhere near the end!
I have taken up guitar and voice lessons--these are going pretty well but they're not going as well as a lot of my other areas to improve myself. I don't dedicate enough time to practicing them. I am resolving to work harder on them!
a more challenging area is school. I honestly am not that smart and my gpa last year was a pathetic 2.48. This is because I was lazy and not dedicated to my schoolwork (I played more sc than I studied etc--that was a big contributor)
This semester, I am trying to dedicate myself to working hard on my college work. At this time, it is a little after midterm. At midterm, my grades look pretty good--A in chem, B- in bio, A in all my other classes (all easy courses). Bio is tough--I'm pretty proud of my chemistry grade but I am nervous about not keeping up the pace.
I also previously had been doing good at getting up early and going to bed early (I'd go to bed at 10 and get up at 5:30 and do yoga) but I've fallen off that recently. I need to turn that around!
Now, TL--I humbly request you help me in my quest for personal perfection. I still have times where I have a lot of freetime and I spend it wasting time looking up cool stuff on this site or other dumb things. Any advice on things I can do with this time? I'm using it as homework in some cases, but sometimes homework is already done. Any advice is great!
one last reflection: "Why?" Why did I decide to try to make myself the best I can be? Because I look at society at this stage in life and everyone says the same thing--this is the time in your life to explore and learn things about yourself; college is supposed to be your top priority and getting good grades is essentially everything. I have never been a straight A student, I've never been really strong or fast or athletic, I've never been very disciplined and most of all I've never really given anything my 100%--I've "claimed" I had but it was just a mediocre halfassed attempt with a lot more time spent doing other things. I want to learn to live my life with integrity and focus. I want to learn what I'm really capable of. There are some things (like martial arts) that I do not have the resources to do at this time (no where to train, times where most classes are held taken up by my weightlifting routine etc). But I want to live the best I can within the boundaries to which I am currently restrained to. (which really is not freaking bad at all! gym, college, guitar, computer, not bad!)
Alright well this rant turned out way longer than I thought it'd be. I hope this either inspires someone else to turn their life around, or gets someone interested enough to post a few good tips for me to improve myself even more!
