In The Beginning….

All right lads and lasses, this is it, grip training from the beginning.

This blog will be dedicated to starting from near 0 and climbing as high as I can take it.

Me so far:
My name is Michael Amos and today I live in Greeley, CO. It’s a stinky, cow town in the front range of Colorado. I train at a gym called Workout West. Soon I will be moving to Baltimore, MD where I will be finding a new gym and new training opportunities.
I got started lifting about 12 years ago, when I was 14. I had been a super chubby middleschooler and for some stupid ass reason decided to go out for wrestling. So I went to a summer camp and had a great time and started to lift. Later that fall I was asked to join our football team, not because I was good. Mostly because they had 12 players left and really needed someone else to fill in. So I continued on with football and wrestling until my senior year. I was never great but I gave it everything and managed to make and impression on a few players.
Then it was off to college. There I had a great lifting partner, RJ. Huge guy, played linebacker for the college team. Unfortunately I did not adjust to college well and got depressed and quit training. So I floundered in college for a while, moved around to different colleges a bit and decided I needed to join the army. So I signed on as a reservist. I hated it. I quit as soon as I could.
During all this a I met a hot chick and convinced her was an okay guy. She moved from Des Moines, IA where we lived to Greeley, CO so I did too. Out here I found a posh job working in the local hospital and decided nursing was the way to go for me. So I went back to school to work on nursing.
While attending UNC I decided I was way too out of shape and it was time to get started lifting again. That was about 18 months ago. So I trained at the school gym in a very similar fashion to how I always have and had pretty good success. Somewhere along the way I started thinking about powerlifting and started to study lifting more than I ever had.
Since then I have moved gyms and as I said before I will be moving domiciles. I have achieved some lifts that I have enjoyed and I have learned of grip training. I first learned of the concept by reading John Borokfield’s books. Great books and a great starting point if you are new to the game. I then learned of gripboard and it has been nothing but warm fuzzies since then.

In my next post I’ll link to the workout I will be doing and tell you more about my grip status and goals. With any luck this will go on for a long time and we’ll all learn a thing or two.