This is my site!
Build Muscle UK is my site, I created it. You may say that this explains why it looks like shit, why the content is out of date and why nobody wants to join up on it.
I would say you are right, this site was started as a hobby, and frankly it has never progressed much from there, it was a way of allowing me to learn how to make a website and it has served that purpose. I had to choose something that I was interested in, something that I would be able to make more than a couple of pages of information out of, something that would ultimately be useful to somebody.
I thought long and hard about this, and I decided that I spend a significant amount of my time in the gym and visiting other gyms, I spend lots of time reading magazines like FLEX, MuscleMag and Muscle and Fitness, and I also eat lots of foods and take supplements and shakes in order to maximise my muscular development so why not make a website about this?
Quite a few people signed up in the early days, after I had mucked around for months and finally put on a registration page and a database at the backend to store information etc, but recently it kind of died off, nobody signs up any more and I only get a few hits. Oddly this seems to have coincided with the tailing off of my weight training. See last year we had a baby, this effectively killed off my workouts, with so much to do at home and then obviously there is work to do as well, working out has taken a bit of a back seat, see this... I only trained on average two or three times a MONTH. At the start this did not bother me all that much, but as time wore on, and I could visibly see myself getting smaller it started to piss me off. My clothes were getting smaller whilst my waist is getting bigger. Its time to start going to they gym again.
Last weekend I started my new regime, the weights are back and with any luck, this blog will help me stick at it. We will all see.
I would say you are right, this site was started as a hobby, and frankly it has never progressed much from there, it was a way of allowing me to learn how to make a website and it has served that purpose. I had to choose something that I was interested in, something that I would be able to make more than a couple of pages of information out of, something that would ultimately be useful to somebody.
I thought long and hard about this, and I decided that I spend a significant amount of my time in the gym and visiting other gyms, I spend lots of time reading magazines like FLEX, MuscleMag and Muscle and Fitness, and I also eat lots of foods and take supplements and shakes in order to maximise my muscular development so why not make a website about this?
Quite a few people signed up in the early days, after I had mucked around for months and finally put on a registration page and a database at the backend to store information etc, but recently it kind of died off, nobody signs up any more and I only get a few hits. Oddly this seems to have coincided with the tailing off of my weight training. See last year we had a baby, this effectively killed off my workouts, with so much to do at home and then obviously there is work to do as well, working out has taken a bit of a back seat, see this... I only trained on average two or three times a MONTH. At the start this did not bother me all that much, but as time wore on, and I could visibly see myself getting smaller it started to piss me off. My clothes were getting smaller whilst my waist is getting bigger. Its time to start going to they gym again.
Last weekend I started my new regime, the weights are back and with any luck, this blog will help me stick at it. We will all see.
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