44 y/o wife, homeschool mom, surgical nurse, Sunday school teacher, once and future bad *ss lifter, and ex runner. Been struggling with everything fitness related since Covid… I used to go to the gym 4x a week, right after work, and run one day a week. Since 2020, the gyms shut down, and I dropped to working 2x10+hr shifts, so I can homeschool a middle school and 1st grade kid. Built an amazing garage gym, that I don’t take advantage of, because when I’m at home, there is always work to do…in the midst of all of that upheaval, I also discovered that both of my knees have no cartilage on half of the patella and femur, so my heavy leg days, and beloved running are gone. I’m waiting to be old enough for knee replacements.
And lastly, I discovered that while I was excellent at eating well and staying lean when I had training goals, as soon as I wasn’t eating with a purpose any sort of sensible diet when out the window…which is how I got here: fat and weak and in desperate need of a reboot.
Waiting on my kit, but have already started walking daily, and drinking more water, which is something I’ve always been chronically bad at. Also programmed a modified “washed up meat head” (DeFranco) workout, subbing hip thrusts and leg ext/leg curl for squats, and some modified pressing motions for a cranky AC joint.
Stats as of 5/21:
5’5”
168 lb
Chest 40
36, 38, 40 waist
22 thigh
Left arm 14
Right arm 13.5
All measurements relaxed state…
