Introduction

Barry

Apologies for not introducing myself sooner before posting, only just saw this forum here. I'm a London based, web developer/programmer with an interest in photography.

I re-started working out with weights very recently, I stopped training as a martial artist/fitness fanatic back when I was 27 and have since then pretty much lazed about as far as exercise goes. I'm an Ecto/Mesomorph as the Greeks classified body types and tend to put on lean muscle with minimal fat, but slowly.

Main reason for slow progress previously was incorrect diet, in a nutshell I did not eat anywhere near enough or the right types of foods. This time around I'm older, wiser and with a different goal, I just want my body to be the best it can be.

My favourite body builders of the past were Bill Pearl, Frank Zane, and of course Arnold Schwarzenegger, I have no clue about newer body builders and many other changes that have gone on but have noticed lots of new supplements and new gadgets, I prefer barbell and dumbells though.

This seems like a great website/forums and I think I will learn a lot here and hope to contribute when I can.

Barry

The Natural

Evening Barry,
i am fairly new here too. it seems friendly enough. i hope to learn and help others while i am here.

you got to be a Gunners fan, being from London, i hope?

Cheers.

Anonymous

welcome to the board barry

i see your a web developer,do u offer website building

Barry

Hello,

No, not into football, I watch the Euro and World Cup's only. Thank's for the welcome

Barry

Barry

Hello Steve,

Thanks for the welcome, yes I do undertake website development for both business and private individuals, especially professional community portal's, Paid Membership Sites, Online Shops and e-Commerce Solutions. Most recently creating a website for an international model to sell Prints/Posters of herself. I also do virtual product boxes, eBook covers, magazine covers and so on.

Myself and my business partner in the States also produce a pretty well known e-Commerce Solution written in PHP/MySQL, which has payment plugins for a variety of online payment processors/gateways like WorldPay, PayPal, 2CheckOut, authorize.net etc. it is unique and has a degree of artificial intelligence built in, our clients include everyone from Educational sites to Gaming sites and then some.

Heck you got me talking about work but basically, any kind of web development you might want done I can probably do and at reasonable rates including the images, logo's and banners.

Barry

themule

Hi Barry, welcome to the board, you have the same taste in bodybuilders as myself, i also like Franco Columbu, Tom Platz and Mike Mentzer, anyway welcome again mate.




Dave.

Barry

Hi Dave,

Ah, I remember them... the doctors, not sure what Tom Platz worked as though. Then there is Larry Scott, Dave Draper etc etc. Have you seen the Bill Peral website? It has a free 20 month training course there if any total beginners ask for online courses.

http://www.billpearl.com

Although, yes he is not a meat eater but don't seem to have suffered so much not eating the stuff I was a vegetarian until I restarted training recently but even now will only eat tuna, infact it's tuna with everything and a dash of olive oil.

On the topic of fish, it's the main source of protein that Franco Columbo recommends, he would not eat meat either. Having seen the price of Steak and Chicken Breasts I'm not surprised lol.

Thanks again for the welcome.

Barry

themule

Yep Barry, its one of the reasons why i like the research side of the sport, got a fair bit of literature especially, about Mike Mentzer, very interesting reading i think personally he was the most interesting of them all, by the way is pearl still going, i thought he died of a heart attack/failure a little while back, anyhow nice to see you still enjoy the golden oldies, catch you soon Barry.



Dave.

Gail

Hi Barry, welcome to the site!

Talking of Golden Oldies, I dug out old 'pumping iron' at weekend and watched it 3 times......its a classic!

While all those guys were great, my fave building of all time has to be Sergio, the myth. Used to have posters of him all over my walls as a teen. My mates thought I was freaky, cus they all had Wham and Boy George Posters....I've never been too conventional!

Good luck with the training, you'll get there

gailx

Barry

Hi Gail,

You know, Sergio was one of the few body builders to really worry Schwarzenegger. My video player busted and haven't got around yo replacing it yet so am envious about the pumping iron documentary viewing

Thanks for the good luck wishes, I will get somewhere that's for sure lol, but all the best for you too.

Barry