then and now.

I dug out some of the old photos I had uploaded in several locations on the web. I just thought it would be a fun. You know, comparing myself then and now.

I couldn’t stop laughing at my old photos, dreaded if you ask me. I guess because I have forgotten how thin I was back then. I mean I have haven’t inched that much but you can really see the difference at least. You can see two inches more on my biceps. And a lot on chest and shoulders. I can't even begin to imagine how I started with the workout that I have been doing, getting me this far.

My decision to take working out seriously was because of only person. The one person who influenced me and motivated me so much. One that I thought would be proud of what i would be able to achieve with the workout.

I guess it would start and end with Mark Anthony. You may ask why and who?. He WAS a good friend of mine, my ex-boyfriend nonetheless, who pictures you may be able to find in my private photos (friendster.com account).

Mark’s been working out for years already. And have developed from no less than how I am back then to a totally buffed hunk. And have made a little reputation out of it. He’s made a mark in Bikini competitions. I fell in love with the idea and thought of having a ripped and well defined muscles. Let's face it, if you're not gifted with good looks, you better be good at something else to make yourself marketable, even just your brains wont sometimes work.

I may not be handsome, but I were to consider getting myself all buffed up, I'd givfe a pretty good fight a looking good. hehe..

Bottom line is, I wanted to equal Mark's figure after a year I told him. He did not make any comment on that but I’m pretty sure at he back of his mind he went; “Yeah, right! Top the two years of heavy lifting I’ve done so far.”Heheh… No. I just felt uncomfortable being around him public because, we'd always get a stare, I mean he's always get the stare of people.

Mark has a real good structure though. I heard from a friend - a PT - once said that a persons muscle growth also have everything to do with his bone structure. Meaning if you’re a person with thin bone structure, you’re less likely to grow bulky muscles, and so on. And those with big bone structure are likely to get big bulky muscles with workout. But with modern science almost everything is posible already.

I hope it’s ok if I quote a URL I read about it from a website.

BodyBuilding.com . all credits go to the author of the site. There describes the different bone structures from a body builder’s point of view.

Anyways, as I was saying, I had a good laugh at the old photos I found, just before I started lifting dumbbells , plates and bars. When I first started I could barely do 16 reps of 30 pound plates