GITJ Tangent: The Ballad of Big Body Jim, p1

Here we have it - another offering to higher-level Patrons, a contribution from reader Frag592. He gives us a peek into the life of Product Study Subject #F8-040-RK aka Rachel Keller, as told to us by her husband "Big Body Jim". His first journal entry comes from a number of years before where we are in the the main story Enjoy!

Excerpts from the journal of ‘Big Body’ Jim Keller: 

Entry 1: 

WOW! Never thought the day would come, but the gym is finally open! It’s been a whole year since I had to stop competitive bodybuilding because of my injury (spinal disk herniation ssssuuuuccckkksss). I totally thought my life was over then, but now I’m standing here inside my very own gym, up and running. Even managed to persuade Jay Cutler (former Mr Olympia of course), to cut the ribbon and say a few words at the opening ceremony. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to wiping away a tear or two haha. The emotion of that moment, all the blood, sweat, and tears I put in, it really got to me!

Rachel has been my rock through these past couple years. I don’t know how I would have coped with all the ups and downs without her at my side. Ever since we met at the NPC Midwest two years ago where she was competing in the amateur physique category and I was in the main show we’ve been - I admit it -  joined at the hip. Our marriage, a year later, was the happiest day of my life. Even my injury couldn’t keep the smile off my face. Watching that tall, in-shape young beauty - god she looked great in her wedding dress with those new tits, best money I’d spent in my life haha - walk down the aisle? Who wouldn’t smile?

So anyway now it’s official - me, “Big Body” Jim Keller, twenty-eight years old and a gym owner! The media coverage was great, and so far things are looking promising. We’ve already signed up close to 150 members and I’m excited and anxious to grow the gym to its full potential. Location is excellent, we got prime real estate at a steal, mostly due to the businesses that had to close during the pandemic. A former Bed Bath and Beyond was easily converted giving us 2 floors and 30,000 square feet to play with. Gym equipment and classes upstairs, for those that are starting out on their fitness journey, and heavier free weights downstairs for my meatheads. That’s where I’ll be spending the majority of my time coaching. I’m pumped! I can’t wait to get started!

Big Body Gym is in business!!!

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Entry 3

Had sex w R on one of the benches. One of the benches in the gym. The gym that I own. Life is AWESOME. 

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Entry 55 

It’s the gym’s first anniversary today and business is booming! We have over 350 members! Maybe around a hundred are what I would say are hardcore guys (and some girls too!) who train 5 or more days a week. 

I still lift, pretty heavy, I just have to be careful. It’s good for business, I think, me still looking like I could compete even though it’s just for show. I’m coaching my meatheads, and Rachel and my crew are focused on the more casual crowd. I  have a team of 4 personal trainers just to help me out with the meatheads and give some general classes on the side, while Rachel has pulled a couple of shifts worth of kids from the local community college to keep the place cleaned and cared for. What with the gym being open 24/7 all year round except Christmas and Thanksgiving we’re pretty much maxed out with what we can handle. It's awesome!

Rachel has quit her retail job, and now puts 100% focus into the gym. She teaches some aerobics classes and the “Buns ‘n’ Tums” sessions and Monica takes the spinning classes. We’re thinking of adding Yoga and Pilates classes as this would really round out our offerings. Rachel also takes the AMRAP (As Many Reps As Possible) sessions which are very popular with our female clientele who might be intimidated by the free weights area which is still almost exclusively used by men. I’d love to get more ladies into bodybuilding! Strong is sexy, haha right?! 

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Entry 113

So yeah I hired a business analyst a friend of mine suggested and she identified several areas for growth and one of those was to encourage more patrons to become hardcore members. That’s easier said than done for sure, but she recommended really focusing on our female demographic.Get women to start working out with the equipment and weights downstairs rather than just attending classes and using the cardio machines. Weightlifting is really getting popular among women.  Create a more ‘welcoming’ atmosphere, they said. That gave me a great idea. We've been talking about doing commercials for a while, but I didn’t want to do it until we had a really good idea. Then it hit me. If they wanted us to be more welcoming and ‘inclusive’, why don’t we do a battle of the sexes thing? Something funny? Just for the commercials of course. Me and Rachel could star in them and do competitions like lifting, pushups, yoga, whatever and at the end we come up with a funny way that one of us can win. I even came up with a tagline ‘Go Big Body or Go Home’. Cool right?? Rachel took a bit of persuading, but in the end I got her onboard, all in the name of getting more ladies into lifting. Their money’s green at least!

This is gonna be fun!!

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Entry 256 

Membership peaked at 375 but soon after declined and as of now, we’ve settled at a steady 280. Our business analyst tells us that it’s fairly typical for a gym of this size to see a drop off in numbers after the initial euphoria has died down. The ad campaign and the commercials did help at first I guess, got us to 375. Plus It's kinda cool to be recognized around town with my wife and stuff. Gotta keep lifting, keep the bulk on cuz now everyone out n about calls me ‘Big Body Jim’! 

And Rachel does it in bed haha. Love it!

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Entry 290

Even with all the advertising we’re seeing another drop in memberships. It really  worries me to see any decline in membership and we’re trying out all kinds of creative solutions to try and turn things around- promotions, no fixed contracts and free classes for gym members - you name it. We just can’t seem to get out of this slump.

As a last ditch effort, I decided to do a weekly competition between me and Rachel, in person. I figure we can use our commercial’s popularity to our advantage. It draws a good crowd. A lot of new faces you don’t normally see come in just to post about us on their instagram, or Tiktok or whatever. I definitely had to handicap myself to keep things interesting, lift twice the weight or do the exercise one handed, but we kept things fun and light. Rachel was definitely the crowd favourite, being the underdog and all. Of course, who doesn’t want to cheer for the busty fitness chick? I’ve got to hand it to her, she’s nothing if not motivated. Right after our first competition, she started lifting more and taking things pretty seriously. Maybe even too seriously. That girl does not like to lose. Week after week, she started trying to narrow the gap between us. She is starting to almost match me for squats - one of the things I have to be careful with cuz of my injury, so my weight is way down, but her leg strength really is phenomenal. My ribs can attest to that haha - she’s started to like using them in bed. I’m not nearly as strong as I was when I competed but Rachel is getting to be in the best form of her life.

Well it might hurt my ego just a bit, but the competitions are definitely working. We are pulling in more women now than ever. In fact, I think we have more women signing up than men for the first time. We’re like 55% girls and we’re seeing women using the free weights more and more, while at the same time the number of men hitting the heavy weights is down a bit. This ‘Battle of the Sexes’ thing is really working, I guess haha. 

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Entry 380 

The numbers are not great, to put it mildly. In fact they’re awful. No way around it. The expected new-year’s resolution uptick in gym membership in January hasn’t really happened this year for some reason. 

Maybe it is part of this new crazy ‘vulni’ fad, where women don’t find big guys as attractive anymore for some reason. Even advertising is starting to use smaller slimmer men. It’s almost like encouraging guys to stay away from the gym. Whatever the cause is, it’s hurting our bottom line,  I mean look at me. I’m the face of this place and I’m 230, mostly still all muscle - I’m not what people seem to want anymore. I don't know what to do about it, but I have to do something soon.  We had to take out some pretty heavy loans from the bank…and payments are due at the end of the month. Rachel’s suggested maybe I slouch down a bit, try to make myself look smaller haha. 

On the other hand, for women now, being big is “in”. Strong is sexy. Rachel joked that should be our new motto. She's started lifting regularly now, 5 or 6 days a week, and says she is excited to get even bigger and stronger. She sees it as a challenge, and good for business, which it probably is. Mentioned something about getting bigger than me haha. I know it was just another joke, but it made me feel weird. 

She is already pretty strong though, for a woman, I mean. She's tall. Her legs stop traffic when she wears shorts and high heels and her shoulders are getting huge, giving her body a tapered V shape. God, she looks great, and she knows it.

Rachel has been very vocal with her opinions lately. Apparently, she wants to try some kind of new approach with the gym. Normally, we would talk about this a bit more, but it seems the more weight she lifts the more confidence she has.

Plus, I mean, technically she is half-owner, we’re in this together. I should support her. She wants to encourage even more women to join. Change the focus from what was once an almost exclusively male gym to something where women are ‘welcomed and encouraged’. I thought we already did that to be honest, but she said it's ‘not enough’. She wants, like, more of it. 

There is, already, this small but growing group of hardcore women who work out regularly with her. Some follow her around and take her lead, some are serious gym rats (the term they’re using now is ‘muscle mommy’ haha), and some are actually real budding professional FBBs. They all seem really dedicated. Rachel tells me one was a former Olympic hammer-thrower and another is a bouncer at a fancy nightclub in town. They're naturally big girls with bigger ambitions. Some of them might even give my guys a run for their money haha. 

Maybe she has the right idea. If we can’t recruit more male members, with these weird fads going on, then let’s focus on the other 50% of the population a bit more. Not only is Rachel  beautiful, and stunningly fit, but she is also super smart, and she's definitely more tuned into  what is happening in the world than I am. My focus is pretty much just the gym. I honestly don't know what I would do without it. She mentioned something about some kind of ‘Lean In’ program that promised us a grant if we became more ‘female focused’. Honestly, it's all a bit over my head, but let’s give it a try. What do we have to lose, right?

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Entry 391

I know I haven’t been writing as much or tracking my workouts. We’ve sorta decided, for marketing purposes, that I was going to stop lifting as heavy, or as often, kinda take it easy to ‘present the right image’ I guess. This whole Vulni thing has really caught on, so I guess it’d be better if ‘Big Body Jim’ was at least ‘Medium Body Jim’ or whatever haha. Rachel said that would be a good start anyway.  

Money is a bit better now, Rachel says. She got us on that ‘Lean In’ program. She wouldn't tell me the details, but she did say she had to own 51% of the company to be accepted into the program. That rankled me a bit, but, hey, money is money and we've always been co-owners. Is 1% really going to make all that much of a difference? Apparently, they said I wasn’t allowed to look at the contract details but Rachel told me not to worry about it. It was something about being a ‘female led business’ that meant only women could be involved in the finances. That sounded a bit silly to me, but she assured me that she could handle the business aspects on her own, and that I, as (pretty much) an equal partner, could spend more time looking after the gym. 

All she would tell me about this deal was that it was a win-win, for marketing, and the gym’s bottom line.

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Entry 393

I’m below 200 lbs for the first time since I was a teenager. Rachel’s got me on this plant-based diet now, lots of cardio and doing fucking yoga. She tells me it’s sexy that I’m getting slim and flexible now, so, haha, I guess I’m alright with it. Especially if all this flexibility means getting these lunchtime blowjobs in the back office when she stretches me after our daily weigh-ins.

Entry 394

Rachel is getting really aggressive in bed. I mean it’s like, surprisingly sexy and all but like she's really into my new look I guess. I don't think we've ever gone at it this much. She just can't seem to get enough, so…yeah. 

Entry 395

So along with this Lean-In money thing is that they’re setting her up with some new nutritional supplement. She’s been going to a clinic for weekly injections. I tried to find out some information about it online but there’s nothing. Not a single mention anywhere. She promises me they’re not steroids - though I dabbled with them in the past we really try to keep away from them now. This new experimental product shit works, though. Her results so far are totally nothing short of spectacular. You should look at her PBs and maxes.

She also bought herself a new truck. Bigger than mine.

Entry 396

Rachel’s PBs have been skyrocketing.  At our weekly competition on Wednesday she lifted more than me on deadlift for the first time ever, flexing a massive bicep in my face in a victory pose for the cameras, everyone was laughing, and quite honestly it made me feel a little weird. It was a humbling, and kinda disturbing experience. Honestly, it made me feel…small. I asked Rachel if I could get on this Product stuff too - I don’t want to be left behind! -  but she tells me it’d be bad for business, and anyway it’s specifically formulated for women. The side effects for men could be really bad, she says. Maybe fatal. What sort of shit is this?? Something about this doesn’t sit quite right with me, but Rachel is a total convert and won’t hear a bad word said about it, or Evolution Pharmaceuticals, the rinky-dink local drug company that makes it. She gets kinda pissed when I talk about it, and I’m learning not to argue. 

Entry 397

Some of Rachel’s ‘Big Girls’, the squad she works out with every afternoon, started catcalling me today. It made me feel weird.

Entry 398

I passed Rachel coming out of our bathroom this morning with her bathrobe on. Oh my god I had to do a double take. She’s always been a tall girl at 5’9” and I’m not the tallest guy at 5’11” but I found myself what the fuck looking right in her eyes, which is crazy. I checked to see if she was wearing heels but she was barefoot and just gave me a smile and a knowing wink before almost brushing me aside.

Is this shit making her taller?!?

Entry 399

Her tits are getting bigger. I fucking knew it. I checked the tags on the new bras she just bought. Also her shoes. She’s gone out and bought new shoes because she’d outgrown her old ones.

Entry 400

I finally got the nerve to ask her about it. I went to her office after her second afternoon client and yeah she said she’d grown like two inches taller, almost three. She stood up, told me to close the door and backed me up against the wall, asked if I liked it. She asked if I liked being shorter than her. I could barely speak but fuck yeah, she’s gorgeous, and I admitted I kinda do. That turned her on. 

Jesus she’s a beast. She lifted me up like I was nothing and before I knew it she was fucking me against the wall. She growled at me, told me she wanted to keep making me skinnier and skinnier. She said she wanted to keep fucking growing. Damn it, I don’t know why, but it was so fucking hot. I nearly had to limp out of there. We almost broke the fucking wall.

Entry 401

She recorded herself taking measurements - biceps, quads, bust, everything - and I fucking jerked off to it today. She’s bigger everywhere.

Entry 402

Rachel is finally heavier than me. We went for our daily weigh-ins, and I could tell she was excited. We’ve been pretty close in weight for a while, so we both knew it was coming. She kept a chart with our weights on the wall. I honestly was kinda dreading it. I started drinking a lot of water just to offset the weight for as long as I could, but the day still came.

She squealed with joy, like a teenage girl, checking and rechecking the scale to make sure it was balanced. There was something about her smile that was a little scary to be honest. The way she looked at me…it was like she owned me. Her ‘Muscle Mommies’  were filing in getting ready for their workout and I could tell she was dying to tell them. Before I could stop her or even say a word she sprinted from the office and huddled with the girls. They laughed and yelled about it while I hung out in the corner, but then something awful happened: they insisted they wanted to see for themselves. 

Rachel dragged me, practically carried me, over to the scales set up in the middle of the floor, and all the girls celebrated as the weights came in. Rachel weighed five pounds more than me. How much bigger would she be in a week? How much sm-

Entry 403

Oh man, I had to stop writing and hide my journal. Rachel walked in and wanted to fuck her “little man”.

Entry 404

Rachel’s new successes, her finally being bigger than me, was big news. She immediately posted about it all over our social media, and then she decided to really make an event out of it. She offered anyone who showed up to our weekly male versus female competitions a free training session and a month of free membership. It was way overboard and definitely kind of embarrassing. I guess from then on I took it a little personal. No more sandbagging, I really gave it my all. Me and my  group of about 20 hardcore guys started really busting our asses in training. Rachel made sure I kept up with the cardio and yoga, but me and the boys really pumped some iron when she wasn’t looking.

Rachel was coaching some 30 or so women herself. Her new girls insisted on having female trainers, so we had to bring in a lot of outside people who quickly gained clients of their own. Day after day they seemed to be lifting more. It was kinda hard to tell since the men's and women's area were so far apart, but you could hear it. The clang of heavier and heavier weights being lifted and dropped to the floor. We tried our best to keep up, but it seemed like everyday there were less weights in the men's area. When I asked Rachel about it she said that she and the girls were just 'borrowing’ them. She thought I didn't need them anyway. She promised with a sexy voice that she would do all the pumping for the both of us.That made me shiver, and after a bit of alone time with her, I quit asking questions. 

That didn't solve the problem though. None of our male trainers could even spot Rachel or her top girls anymore. The weight they were lifting was beyond anything they could safely handle. As Rachel’s gotten taller and freakishly strong, so have a few of her Muscle Mommies. A bunch of them, actually. I heard some stories about them, what they were doing to their boyfriends and husbands. I can’t help but admit that as frustrating as all this is, stuff like this is kinda sexy. She whispers things about how dominant they’re getting in my ear when she jerks me off. 

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Entry 410

My hardcore group of guys has dropped down to 14. I tried calling the 6 guys that left but they each just muttered something about trying another gym that wasn’t quite so female dominated. It was a group decision apparently. I could hear it in their voices, the anguish, guys that I’ve known and trained for years, suddenly seeing women exceed their PBs and effortlessly push past them into new uncharted territory. Two guys said their wives told them to stop lifting anyway. I didn’t know what to say. 

The guys that have stayed seem less settled than ever. They’re shifty and constantly looking over their shoulders, especially when there are a cluster of women working out, being loud and boisterous, dropping incredibly heavy weights that the guys couldn’t dream of lifting. I swear to god they shake the entire building. I’ve asked them to be careful with the equipment but they don’t seem to listen, at least not until Rachel asks them. I’m finding myself using Rachel as an intermediary with the women more and more. Some of them are more than Muscle Mommies. They’re monsters. They’re taller than Rachel, much taller than me. They honestly scare me. 

The male versus female competitions continue but with far less enthusiasm from the guys than before. Invariably the women win and I can sense a reluctance in the men to take part. Rachel particularly seems to delight in humiliating the guys she competes against. The men seem to be somehow less than before, and not just because they’ve been working out less. It’s as if they’re physically shrinking along with their egos while the women continue to go from strong to stronger. Rachel is undeniably much stronger than I ever was now, and while it’s still sort of  unspoken, we both know the truth. I’m actually intimidated by her size and strength. Never thought I’d admit to that. 

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Entry 415

I think I’m getting shorter. Rachel insisted I don’t worry about it, and even if it is true that’d be awesome for business. What the fuck what is happening?

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Entry 418

Brad told me today that the guys want to stop the male versus female competitions. They  don't want to continue getting humiliated. He was almost pleading, and the look on his face was pitiful. He said the guys are all finding it too emasculating. I told Rachel about it and she said “emasculation is the name of the game these days” - and then she gave me a blowjob making it hard to disagree. She probably knows better than me. 

Anyway, there’s only 5 guys lifting free weights regularly now. They haven’t  won any of our competitions in weeks and the women, led by Rachel, are continuing to grow and get stronger, crushing their goals. I fear that we’ll soon be down to a female-only free weight gym if this continues. Talk about emasculating…but that's good for business, right? 

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Entry 422

The verbal taunts and jibes are getting worse. I saw a girl lift Brad’s curl bar PB with one arm and effortlessly carry it over to her area without even asking. She laughed when I tried to stop her, saying he’d been hogging those weights for too long. He didn't need them anymore. That really got to him I could tell.

Not sure how much more these guys can take before they crumble completely.  It feels like we're a species on the verge of extinction. We’re being bullied by bigger, fitter, stronger creatures, and they are taking everything that we have. Apparently it’s natural selection, or that’s what Rachel tells me. It’s supposed to be this way. It’s better for everyone, she says, and I get it. It’s just sometimes hard to take. 

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Entry 424

Almost all my guys are gone, but there's been an uptick in men joining classes. Yoga and Pilates are both popular and I often see guys coming to these classes on the arm of their girlfriends or wives, who drop them off and then go hit the heavy weights for an hour or two before returning to collect their boyfriends and husbands. Often the men will sit in the juice bar after their hour long class is over looking forlorn and lost while they wait patiently for their better halves to finish their workout. I overheard one of the girls mockingly referring to it as the “Vulni Bar” and it seems to have caught on among the women. 

Entry 428

I’m 5’9” 160 now. She’s well over six feet, outweighs me by nearly 100 pounds (she really doesn’t look that heavy but she’s so dense) and showed me how she could pick up her SUV by the bumper last night. Then she laughed as she put me inside it and lifted the whole thing over her head. Holy shit what’s happening. 

Entry 429

I don't know what to do but Rachel assures me everything is fine. She said this is the way forward. Women are finally starting to fulfil their destiny. She’s been having regular meetings with the Lean-In women and says they can make sure we never have financial troubles. I’m not invited to these meetings. When I asked to be involved she just glared down at me with her hands on her hips until I couldn’t look her in the eye anymore. I said I was sorry, hoping she wasn't angry.  If we got into a fight, I knew it would only end one way. Luckily she was in a good mood. She said it was alright to stare. I just wasn't staring at the right place. 

Entry 430

I don't know when it happened. Rachel has taken over everything from me. We used to be partners, but now all I do is look after the ever decreasing cadre of guys that are brave enough to run the female muscle gauntlet and lift free weights. I’m no longer consulted on decisions, just told about them after they happen - but I have to keep smiling, keep up appearances. Rachel and these women from the Lean-In program are pulling the strings and I can’t help but feel like a marionette dangling from their strong, beautifully manicured fingers. 

Entry 431

They seem happy just to have me watch. Every day I’m a little smaller and a little skinnier. All the girls enjoy working out for me while I just stare at them like some creep. I'm not sure when it happened, but I actually look forward now to our daily weigh-ins and measurements. Sometimes she brings in other Muscle Mommies  to watch, and they help 'take care of me’ afterwards. I should be embarrassed, I should be fighting, but part of me…likes it. When Rachel strips me naked and gets me spread-eagled on her desk for all of them, when the girls all laugh, I just can't wait to get even smaller.  

Oh jeez I gotta go. I think she’s coming….

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thanks so much to Frag592 for the entry, and for allowing RiF and myself our edits.