Still busting ass on losing this weight.. started a 5x5 program, week 2 into it and already seeing improvement.

Down to 244, here's a sexy bearded man for you guys



And yes, my shirt says "Built4Speed", clearance bins ftw.

Good job

Which 5x5?

Good stuff

StrongLifts, I love the program already.. Failed today with squats, but I've already seen improvement.. In form especially.

Awesome. Week to week improvement is a good measure for motivation.

However, you should drop your weights 10% and start over.

Have to agree, form is everything. It's better to do a squat right with just the bar than to do it wrong with 400 pounds.

I 3rd that. And yeah I plan on dropping to 210 from 220 next time. I just couldn't get those last 2

Pretty close. If I can advise something here, it's to avoid planning to fail. If you felt all of your reps and sets were good, minus 2 reps, feel it out when you get in the gym. You can be on the safe side and drop to 210, or you can figure out your general energy and focus and try for 220 again. If you fail again, definitely curb it back. Up to you, ofc If you succeed, you'll probably want to hang there until it feels like you can move up.

In the weight room and in life, remember to treat failure as a form of success. Here's why: if you try and you fail, you can try again or you can try something different to do what you want to do. If you don't try, you will never learn and you will never succeed. People who fail more often tend to be people who try more often. Therefore, paradoxically, failure is the only road to success. I have this stupid thing I do if I fail on reps. In my head, and sometimes around other people, I'll treat it like success, but only if I tried really hard. Now if I missing 3s in a league game, I'm liable to punch the ball out of the fucking gym, but that's another story.

Nice to see someone who was in my current situation not long ago! Hopefully I can find the same strength and motivation as you to reach my goals.

You can!

There are two ways to find out what motivates you.

One is obvious: what bothers you? What are you running away from? What makes you angry or afraid? This is fuel. Get pissed off, get afraid, but then DO something about it. Anger and fear are signs that should not be ignored. When it comes to fitness goals, instead of running away from your anger and fear, you run toward it until you find it, choke the shit out if it, and do bad things to its skull when its dead.

The other is to do the opposite and follow your heart. Tune in to what your deepest desire is and allow yourself to experience it. If you allow yourself to experience what it is like to succeed, you will be more likely to work toward success.

And of course you could just happen to have an epiphany and decide to make a change, but why wait another moment? Life is short.