[Missed Miss]

I don't know, I never did any weight lifting, gym type stuff or took and supplements. I'd walk a lot, ride a bike a few miles nearly every day, swim a lot and play drums at a gig at about 1 to 5 or 6 times a month and at rehearsals about once or twice a week and my bod was pretty ripping, but normal, not grossly muscular looking. Sadly, in the past 15 years, I lost the "ability" to do all of those thins as often as I'd like (I don't have a bike anymore, I'm way too busy at home or at work to go for long walks or bike rides, the pool had to be filled in, the band broke up and then my singer died 3 years ago.) The past few weeks, I've been noticing how I seem to be getting weak just from even not playing drums very often anymore!! I GOTTA set up the stage set and play more often!! The V-Drums are great, but I just can't do with them what I'd do on my acoustic stage set. :-\

What can I say, resistance is resistance. It's just that massive weights lifted in weight lifting is MORE resistance, but what you used to do was still a form of resistance. Also, you may have a body type like mine (at least my upper body) that easily responds to any resistance, which is awesome! But, I guess I really don't know what you mean by "ripping, but normal" because honestly "ripping" is not normal at all! haha. And of course you were not grossly muscular looking. Even the women weight lifting in the gym cannot get that look unless they take steroids. I hope you are able to get back to some of your preferred activities!!

What I meant was that I was very strong, but not like one of those muscle heads with veins popping out and a set of six-packs. A friend of mine recently saw a video of one of our gigs from 20 years ago and she went nuts over how "pumped" my upper arms were!! In the meantime, the only semi-regular "weight lifting" I ever did back then was carrying my huge set around and playing drums about 8 hours hours a week...and the other stuff I mentioned.