WOW, 150 LBS, Chris. In high school and college I struggled to weigh 148. Now I am closer to 238 at 4 years younger than you.
In High School I could do 17 pull ups, 50+ dips, Bench Press almost 300 lbs and do 54 reps of 100 lb bench and 205 for 10-12 reps.
Like Adrian, I am in the same back boat since I was basically 17, but seems to have worsened the past 10 years. Sadly I am barely able to walk or stand without low back or hip pain many days. I see a chiropractor who has a pair of Hydro massage beds and a rolling massage one. MY own Homedics massager my girlfriend bought for us is awesome too. As for the extent of my weight work, I have spent a lifetime lifting lumber, concrete, steel, stone, dirt, shingles, windows, cabinetry, sheetrock and all manner of tools and supplies as well as logs, tractors, chainsaws, ladders, staircases and countless other heavy items.
As for RVA who knows stress, if stress worked for me, I would likely be 1/2 my weight from life with my bipolar dad since I was 8, and now being his main source of transport and mobility since he is basically wheelchair bound at 82. Plus now on a total different front, I am also taking care of my mom in a different state ( Delaware) who is showing the effects of dementia and the ramifications she has created because of that. And to only add more fun to the equation, she now has had to get her apartment exterminated due to a bed bug infestation which she can't grasp the ramifications of why we need to disrupt her belongings for at least a 6 week period and have all her stuff bagged and sealed and basically heating all her clothes in the dryer and being hyper vigilant not to carry any hitchhiking monsters elsewhere in public where she may travel. Add my almost disabled sister and her Autistic son who we weren't sure would graduate on time now that he is 18 and just finished High School. He obviously doesn't drive yet, he recently started becoming uncooperative and disrespectful of his mother and to top it off of course at 18 she will lose child support from his pretty much good for nothing father and she struggles to work without enduring great pain in her legs, hands and feet due to car accidents, poor genes, aging etc. Her work is no picnic either as she spent a lifetime of child care but has been doing a stint of caring for a 60 something year old man with Alzheimer's who's condition is also deteriorating. She may be out of work if he has to go into a home soon too.
Needless to say, when I come on here to post my nonsensical and even helpful posts, I do find some sort of relief from the stress.
If only I could find easier answers to my mom's future on several legal fronts and my dad and mom's medical futures. Sorry for unloading all that JUNK.
Maybe the MUSE I adorn or at least adorns me are the clothes on my back and a sane mind.
