Fitness Challenge Introduction: Tyler (@tylerthebadwolf)

Gentlemen.  You know bout me already.

I’m glad to be part of the team here at U101 and some fresh gymbros might be just what I need to get 2013 in line for me.

This is where we started And how I STILL feel some days.

If you follow me on twitter, you know that I yell about #GettinBIG2012 a lot.  Not as much lately, but for the bulk of the year, it was my mantra.  Not much has changed for 2013; I put on about 20lbs over the course of the last year, and I’m lookin to do the same for the next year.  My goal is to land at about 180lbs with about 10% avg body fat.  For the last decade, I hovered around 140 with about 7% body fat, because I was a skinny bastard, and have a long standing poor relationship with food.

I’m a freelance designer and escort, so I don’t really have trouble finding time to get to the gym – my challenge has been and remains FOOD.  I cannot consume enough calories to compensate for my ridiculous metabolism, and so keeping enough FOOD in me at all times is a Sisyphean challenge.  To top that off, I’ve been a vegetarian for the last decade and a half, so protein is also a challenge.  But it means that the food I am consuming tends to live on the healthier/more whole side of things, so good and bad, I guess.

THIS is where we’re headed.

The idea behind #GettinBIG2012 was never to be a huge body builder or have a porn star (ass/titties/calves/abs) physique.  The goal is and stays: STRENGTH.  I’ve watched what I can move, and my total pounds moved per workout climb with few plateaus pretty much evenly through the year.  I’m excited to push it higher.

I make it a point to always seek out other peoples’ thoughts and opinions about things, so if you a gym dude who knows about shit, get at me.  I want advice.  I always need protips.  And I would love to have a gymbro with a NYSC Passport Membership who wants to spot me sometimes 😉

-ty

PostScript- It’s not TOTALLY outlandish that Thor is my bodymodel. This is what Chris Hemsworth looked like before he became Thor.