My name is Julian and I live in Dallas, TX. You all can just call me V.
Age: 33
Height: 5'7
Weight: 155
BF%: too friggin much
Marital Status: GF
Ethnicity: latin and Asian
Interests: I play heavy metal lead guitar (Ozzy, Van Halen, Slayer, Metallica, Maiden, Priest), and I play only the V shaped ones, hence my board name. Im a devoted WWE fan and I also enjoy golf, chess, sushi, the theater, reading fantasy fiction, martial arts, shopping for nice suits and even the occasional girly movie even though my GF likes martial art and action movies even more than I do, lol. I collect blade weapons (swords, knives, axes, and polearms) and those are my 2 main swords in my avatar. They are real battle ready, hand forged carbon folded steel samurai swords that I had made overseas, not the 440 stainless crap. I have 2 identical sets of daisho (katana and wakisashi). I practice a dual sword style.
I was extremely overweight as a kid and I was the proverbial nerd, complete with greasy side parted hair, pants up to the chest, and even the ol' pocket protector. My family grew up in Mexico with the world famous wrestler Mil Mascaras (no, Im sure he does not remember us) and my father had a big interest in bodybuilding, wrestling and boxing. I guess he passed all that on to me.
I started training in kung fu for health reasons at the start of my 20s when I met a master of chinese descent here in Dallas (no I am not a badass). He me taught his family's style but I never attained black belt because he moved out of state. My next master taught Tibetan kung fu and he introduced me to a diet very similar to this new south beach thing years before the public at large even heard of such a thing.
I have never been able to make decent gains no matter what diet and or supplement I tried, and I think Ive tried it all. I have worked out on and off for years and years and I can never get past the plateau I am at now, hence the giving up. Sorry excuse, I know. But in any case I wanted to try out for WWE's tryout camp this year (I did not make it) and I wanted to once again try and get a decently massed and ripped physique. I do not read or buy any magazines for reasons better not said, but along the course of my wwe quest I bought, against my better judgement, a magazine with Brock Lesnar on the cover just to read what he had to say. Try as I might, I just could not ignore the advertisements for all those supplements they have on every other page. Supplemet companies used to promise the world, now they seem to promise a few of the neighboring galaxies as well. Is it just me, or have the magazines gotten 2x as thick with the same old rehashed garbage articles only with more advertising? I dont remember such heavy advertising even 10 years ago.
At any rate, the advertisements that stood out the most were Nitrix and Musco MXT because I seemed to have seen Musco around long long ago. A friend that is almost as hard gaining as I am heavily suggested I try Muscle Milk and I do love it. So far it is the only supplement that has ever worked for me and Ive tried everything - I mean everything - with no results. Seems as though supplements just dont work for me, I guess. MM is showing me a bit of nice results, but not like I want. So I figured maybe I would learn about Nitrix and Musco by researching on the net. Thats how I found you guys and am I happy I did. I have learned more from my one month of lurking here than I ever did from all those years put together. I hope to one day be able to offer you guys something worthwhile. Thanks for your time, I am honored to be here. Maybe I can get my GF to join.
Heres some pics
My WWE tryout pic
My girl's favorite guitar
My Bulldog Hoss