I’m breaking from the typical tech posts with this one to talk a bit about how I maintain physical fitness. The topic is occasionally brought up while at conferences or chatting with colleagues so I think this would be a good time to document my process. And before I get into it, I am NOT a jacked bodybuilder or anything like that, just a lean, fast, and agile nerd.

I have always been an athlete and drawn to competition. In early years I played any sport that my various schools offered. To me (at that time), sports essentially boiled down to who had the most speed and endurance, so I naturally gravitated to track and cross country.

After running so many miles for so many years, my body was tuned for speed & distance. I decided to hang up the spikes and forgo running in college and instead, shifted my focus to gaining muscle mass (tired of being so skinny). Protein shakes, pre-workout, more protein shakes, gym every day (sometimes twice per day)… lifting was my new running (I still mixed in some miles here and there ^_^). Without getting into the specifics, I put on roughly 40 pounds of muscle over 3.5 years.

(more updates coming)