Originally Posted by
SClark08
Its been roughly a year since I started dropping weight; I started at 221-223 in September 2020 and have been hovering in 205-210 territory for the past few months. I made this decision not out of a performance of physique oriented goal, rather, to provide other benefits. In the event that I were to collapse at home, I wanted to be sure my wife could move me/pull me out of potentially dangerous positions/environments. On deployment, same thing; most people are obsessed with looking pretty now that they are weaker than shit... It does me no good to be the biggest AND strongest, when most people I work/deploy with cannot squat or deadlift curl-weights. A side benefit is, I am now lighter for my annual fitness assessment; its a hell of a lot easier to run 5Ks and repeat 800s when you're 200 as opposed to 220+.
Conditioning is a mainstay of my training now; one session for short, intense bursts, and one long-duration/low-intensity (distance running).