I wanted to share my fitness journey with everyone before I start going into sharing tips, meals or acting like I know it all about healthy living – I don’t I am always learning. I am not a registered dietitian, yet I am someone who has had a good transformation throughout the past 3 years of putting on weight.

The Beginning

I was always the skinny guy, like always! When I was younger I was very into skateboarding so this was another reason I was skinny, I would go out skate for hours and hours each day without eating proper meals to prevent me from being as skinny as I was – but at this point of my life fitness and muscle building was not even a thought.

As a late teenager when I turned about 19 and some of my friends were leaving skateboarding and getting into fitness I thought I would take the leap and give it a try!

When I turned 20 I realised I had a fast metabolism therefore for me, it was much harder to put on weight (I will do another post on fitness and metabolisms), I wasn’t going to just wake up one day and have more muscle and look how I wanted. If I wanted to put on weight I knew I had to eat a lot of calories and start working out 5 times a week!

I had no idea what I was doing in the gym at the time, nor where to even start but the main important thing is, I STARTED! Around the age I joined the gym I was still in college so this gave me free time to spend going to the gym and learning more about it. I had my own little routine I made up which mainly consisted of sitting on machines!

My nutrition side was very different to most peoples when starting the gym because I was trying to gain weight I wasn’t so stick and I didn’t have to cut out what may have been “bad” I just had to eat even more and worry about cutting down (loosing fat gains) when I had a good start of muscle growth. I would watch the scale each week, some weeks see no changes, some weeks see maybe 1lbs gain.

3 Years Later

3 years later into my fitness journey, I had educated myself a lot! Mainly through YouTube videos, seeing what the best were doing and starting to implement that into my routine. I now have a different approach to training in the gym and ways of eating the right foods to get the right results.

I hope everyone enjoyed that little intro into my and my fitness journey, in my next posts I will go into more depth of diet, and training splits to help out as many people as I can!