hey, thanks for the props, guys. Generally, it's eay to post a lot of smacktalk, come across like you know what you're doing, and in reality, you're a 125-lb beanpole who has yet to lift weights for 4 consecutive weeks. I just wanted to post up to make sure people realize I walk the walk AND talk the talk.

it is INSANELY difficult keeping the muscle mass in the military. I do a ton of zig-zagging. I just got back from Thailand, where I had access to a pulldown machine (which I broke....d'oh!) and a bench press with 150 lbs. also had a swimming pool and a whole lot of humidity combined with terrible, terrible food. You make do with what you have

When I went to Iraq, I took a bunch of supplements with me. I lived on Isopure + gatorade (whcih was free over there)

for the most part, you can't really do much with supplements and the like because you have to carry the shiznit, and you never know where you'll be able to store it.

While we were in Iraq, we were at Taji, which had a horrible gym near our sleep area, and a really good one on the other side of the installation.
Howevr, after a 12-16 hour patrol, walking across the FOB in your full body armor means you are completely SMOKED once you get to the gym. The chow hall there was good though.

At Fallujah, we had zero workout facilities and we lived on whatever garbage they brought to us in the mermites (little metal cans)

Once we got set up in Mosul, the last few months, the food and workout situation improved greatly. After the bad guys blew up our first chow hall, they rebuilt it (in a different area). For about 4 months though, I lived on MREs (all hail the mighty peanut butter-n-cracker meals!) and the chocolate rice krispie cereal boxes.

You do what you gotta do though.