Anthony aka Animal

Today i say good bye to all my friends on here…. I’m not done with working out…. that will never happen. I say good bye to bodyspace. It seems like all the new people in here think its a porn site…. We need to set some standerds here. were give out the wrong image here. were loseing site of why were here…. also it seem like this i a i have more friends than you type of place. and for all those type of people i say go to myspace…. its a sad day when i turn on this site and all every one is doing is tring to pick up people here. Mybe some dat i’ll be back……………….so eat clean and keep on lifting… think big,grow fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    peace out. ANIMAL…………………….

 It’s an itch you can’t scratch…….

"I’d scratch till every square inch of me was bloody and raw but it’s no use… This maddening itch, like maggots festering under my skin, is always ther, out of reach. We’re all the same. We are made of blood and bone. The difference lies underneath. The reason I am standing here is because long ago this great endeavor, this way of life, got under my skin… And ever since, I’ve been scratching away, clawing furiously for every last bloody pound."

You wouldn’t have it any other way…

"Though the road has been hard as the day is long, I wouldn’t trade in a second. The strenght that’s allowed me to endure doesn’t come from what you see—the thick slabs of meat, veins thick as rope, skin so thin the graing fibers show. No, it runs deeper. To get to it, you’d have to cut away all the layers of doubt and distraction till knife hits bone. The seconds are passing by. Find that itch… Scratch till there’s nothing left."

This time is the time I carved out of my non-stop smashing day, so I could give you the biggest and best Christmas gift of your life… I want to give you the gift of bone-jarring weight piled on top of you, of countless reps that leave you soaked in sweat and seeing spots on the floor. The gift of reckless abandon, of not caring what happens as long as it brings you one more ****ing inch closer to your goal. Reach down deep this holiday season and bear down on yourself. Tell Mom and Aunt Sally, “No more ****ing cookies please.” Put that shit away and focus on the battle at hand.

The battle I speak of is the battle for the best part of your life. How ****ing bad do you want it? How much abuse can you tolerate? I always get a lot of shit on that one from people. They look at me as if to say,” It shouldn’t cause you physical distrss to train and compete in this game.” If you believe that one then you might as well give it up and sell popsicles on the ****ing beach or some shit. The ones who will push the envelope and meet their destinies are those who can absorb the most pain. It’s just that ****ing simple, and please don’t get bullshitted ito believing otherwise.

So then, there it is, the biggest and best gift of your lives, the cold hard truth. Don’t waste time ****ing around. Get down to business. Fear and laziness bring shame and dishonor. Let failure never see the light of day. Do this with me because I am there with you as well. When people look into my eyes, they see how I burn to be better. They know I won’t be stopped. They know when I come into the gym I’m gonna drop the shitload, so they better be someplace else.

I want all of these things for you too. I want you to eel the power of reckless abandon. I want you to gain the respect of friend and foe alike. I want them all to clear a path for you as you come through. Go over, under, around or though whatever or whoever stands in you way. Put that steel on your back and give it a mother****in’ ride, son. Then let them make you a place at the table… Then you’ll be a man……………………..

Looking at my new pix that i took last night are showing me that i lost to much size in the cutting stage… I don’t know why but i lost alot of size and cuts…. what the **** happend….. Thank god that i stoped cutting last week. I should be back to size in 4 weeks…. The only thing i see good on my pix is the tan……

Just anuther day at the office…. For me its shoulder and bicept day. Today i will have some carbs. And alot of other things that are not for bodybuilders….. I’ll keep the meal size smaller than what i would have if it was Steak and veg…. And so it begins. It’s that time of the year were people over eat and get stressed. So if your reading this stay on track. Don’t **** up what you have done all year round. Eatting clean and hitting the weights…. Don’t forget what will happen if you pig out on shit……. So good luck. Good lift. And good eatting……

I’m getting ready for back day. A day I fear. I Just started walking again a few years ago. Ya i hert my back… I couldn’t feel my legs for 3 years. So I do fear some thing?… And thats why I push my self with bone crushing weight… I don’t fear the iron. I don’t fear any man. I do fear not pushing my self every day. If i’m not pushing all the time my back will stop working again… The iron is my friend… I eat it,sleep it, think it and i will be it. The weight is waitting for me. I hear it as clear as day. Its talking to me. Telling me push,pull get lifting. That cold hard iron is mocking me. Begging me and dareing me. Telling me lets do this NAW. Its wantting me to move it. Ya i hear ya. It wants my pain,swet and blood. Well gut to lift. The iron is calling me…. 

Tuesday was my back day. Ya I do my traps on back day. I did go up about 20 pounds more on my shrugs. And added 2 more sets. Naw i’m at 9 sets. Front shrug and 9 sets rear shrugs… It was the shit. I shrug with weight most bench… "Pat on the back." Then took my wednesday off like always. I did shoulders thursday and bi’s. I added 1 more set to my up right rows. And i added about 10pounds to curls… So far the week has been good to me. Here i am today 3 hours for leg day. But my traps are killing me. I don’t mind putting the bar bending, back brakeing, bone crushining weight on the traps for squats . But i do dead lift on my leg day. I can’t even look side to side today. Today should be a hell of a work out. Not pain No gain… hahahaha. I love the pain. I love the weight. This is me. I am an ANIMAL !!! 

In my book there are 4 stages. Beginer,Animal,Gladiator and Machine. I’m at the Animal stage. This stage is full of hunger,anger and a need to be better than what I am naw. Beginers are well beginers… Gladiator stage is when you know your at your best. You are king of the jim. And you look like a god… Machine - well. Naw thats were everyone wants to be. You live for the weight. You eat,sleep,think,need and talk about lifting all the time. Your unstopable at this stage. Your body is not yours anymore. Its the iron’s body naw. That is being a machine. What stage are you?

I just got done with shoulders and bicepts. What a pump. When I was done doing 5 sets of behind the neck Presses i did them in the front for 5 sets. Then did the 8 sets of upright rows to hit the rear delts. Naw time for bicepts. Half way thru them i couldn’t realy feel the pump. Do to my shoulders were thumping….Standing barbell curls were the hardest today do to the shoulders. When all was said and done i had the pump i was looking for on the bicepts and shoulders…. And 1 more thing. The pumps are the shit but naw i can feel it tareing the skin and it feels like the blood wont stop filling the muscle that i’m working. Its been 20mins naw and they still feel the same. Its all starting to get realy freaky. Don’t get me wrong I live for the pump. When done I also had 50grams of protein with milk. Is anyone else feeling the pumps like that? I can’t get over it. And what the hell am i doing differnt to get the pumps like this? All week for all body parts the pump has thumped…..

It is the only moment in the day which is truly yours. Your time. Your body. Your workout. You zone out and forget all the outside bullshit. There are no distractions, no women, no ****in’ cell phones, nothing except you and the weights. This is the time of the day that is solely devoted to your well being and imporovement. Your workout is the time to kick yourself in the ass and make yourself grow and mature as a body builder, whether or not you compete. Since this is your time, how do you approach it? What theory or philosophy does one follow in order to get the maximum results? I am here today to teach all you beginners what that hour shuld symbolize and what great strides one can accomplish in 60-90 minutes of focused training.

The first lesson that you will learn as soon as you walk into the gym-either before work or afer a hard day of listening to you boss chew you a new *******-is that you are now the leader and not the follower. You must become your own disciple. **** other people who tell you things that are irrelevant to your goals, don’t listen to the bullshit. You are there for one thing: to better yourself each and every day. You don’t go there to motivate anybody else. I have become the way I am because i don’t take anyone else’s shit when training. Don’t worry about the dude standing next to you who criticizes your form… If it works for you, then it is perfect form. You don’t have to listen to nagging and complaining form the girlfried about why you don’t spend more time with her. And you definitely don’t want to wait a half hour for your partner to show up late. This is you rime, embrace it and make the most of it; you are the only person in charge right now.

Focus and pride yourself on getting the best workout possible, with minimal distractions. Don’t bring your cell phone in the gym, waiting for one of your boys to call you to see where you’re going that Friday night. Chances are you’re not getting laid because you have no game. Dn’t bullshit for 20 minutes in between sets with the girl next to you because you think shis is cute. Chances are she just wants to be friends anyway. Monitor your progress and know that when you step in that 15,000 foot facility called the gym, that you are hear to lift weights and not socialize.

Focus on your goal, and proceed to take every step to actualize it. When you see 405 on the bench, you visualize the rep, how easy it feels, and the high that you get from pushing that kind of weight without a problem. You stare at the weights and then stare thirough them until finally something clicks and all you want to do is lift more than what is already there. This is when you finally realize that you need more of this, the motivation to keep going on and to leave everyone else behing. That is focus… That is the attitude without the works.

Another lesson to learn is to attack each and every workout like it is your last. This all has to do with the proper mindset. Once you walk into that gym, it becomes war. The war is against you, your mind and against the weights. Everybody is trying to be like you and trying to beat you at your own game. But you’re one step ahead of the field, realizing that you are the predator and not the prey. Every rep, every set done by someone who wants to look better than you just motivates you to train harder. You know that you can train harder and you do. There is no limit to how much weight you can move. You will force yourself to squeeze out that last rep on a dead lift or squat. Then you leave you make sure that you made your presence felt be everyone in that gym. You want everyone leaving there to be agraid to train with you. "**** that, I ain’t training with Anthony." Those are the words I love to hear.

Training hard does not mean perfoming a marathon of sets and reps in the gym. Which brings me to my next lesson: Stimulate, don’t annihilate. Just because you train like an Animal doesn’t mean you should look like an ass hole doing it. You’re in the gym to build a pleasing physique, not look like the next great Olympic swimmer. Train hard, work till you get a pump, then go home. Do not work through the pump, but up until a maximum pup. Once you feel that you body has been beaten up an slammed around enough, you are done. Overtraining is common mishap with all bodybuilders who so often think more is better. How much can your body possibly endure in on ****in’ hour? Think about it… You are not a machine… You are a living mortal who needs rest, recovery, and calories to grow. You don’t need 30 sets for chest or 50 rep sets every week. You wanna know when you’re done? You’re done when some ******* is yelling acroos the gym, "that’s it man? Only doing a half day today?" This is after you finished your fourteenth set for chest and are about to go home to do something smart. Something like calling it a day while you’re ahead. Unlike the 6′0", 150 pound guy who just contributed his two cents.

Check your ego at the door. Nobody likes a conceited prick, big or not. Again, as I stated earlier, train hard, stay focused, enjoy your alone time, but don’t act like an *******. Remember the other people at the gym are there for the same purpose that you’re there-to better themselves. Be humble and people will respect you ( They may not want to train with a sick **** like yourself but they will respect you.) If you know you’re the best and that you can’t be beat then that’s great. Keep it to your self and show everyone else, because i will tell you right now, There are about 30 other people in the same gym thinking the same thing. Stay humble about your accomplishments. Don’t brag. If you stay level headed, more people will admire your achievements and the hard work that got you there.

These are the underlying philosophies that create a well rounded champion. Every champion has them and practices them daily. That is what mkes them the one to beat and not the beaten on……

"His place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." That is the real shit right there. words spoken by President Theodore roosevelt Al most a century ago. The man Teddy was speaking of id the kind of guy we all need to be… A Gladiator in the arena of life. The risk-taker, the warrior, the one willing to go all out and put it all on the line in pursuit of his dream. The man who talkes control of his destiny, antes up and puts it all on the table, Kowing that it is better to dare greatly and fail, than to play it safe and never try at all. **** That. Life is too short and there ain’t no reset button on this game. There ain’t no return flight on this trip, so it is about time we step up to the plate and go for ours today, because tomorrow may never come.

There are steps to be taken to illuminate the path of success. We always need to conceive a master plan to be executed and arried out, forever progressing towards a goal just over the horizon. Laying a foundation for the house of our dreams starts with just on brick. Once you start pulling those new bricks from the pile and laying them in place, the wall grows pretty quickly. Visualize your goals, pile up those brcis, and use these tools to lay them in place. Before you know it, you’ll be living large in a mansion fit for a king.

Conceive to Achive                   
                                                                                                                               

Befor we get ahead of ourselves let’s clear on thing up: You’ve first gotta know what in gact it is that you want out of life. Who are you really? What makes you happy? What makes you proud? What motivates you? What is your ideal life? You need the answers to these questions or you’ll go nowhere fast. You need to identify your goals clearly and in detail befor you can set out to achivev anything. The more you know about yourself and what you want out of life, the easier it is to map out a game plan to get there.

First Things First

Prioritize. If you want to be a bodybuilder more that anything else, then boybuilding has to come first-before everything else. shit, maybe i’m overstating the need for tunnel vision, but you must be consumed by your goals in order to reach them… You gotta do your homework. You get out what you put in, believe that. You have to find time to train, to prepare your food, to eat and to take your supplements, to be about the business of being a bodybuilder. Yeah, you need to be obsessive, but that is what it takes to be the best at anything. If that is asking too much, then get used to being an "also ran." Don’t worry; you won’t be lonely-that isn’t a particularly exclsive club.

Tiny + Small + Little = One Big Mother****er

If your goal is to gain twenty quality pounds in the next year, know that it ain’t going to happen overnight. That isn’t how this game works. Not to mention the fact that running to the scale everyday with you twent-pound goal in mind is going to make the incremental daily progress seem minute to the point of being inconsequential. Break your goals down ito their simplest terms. Twenty pounds in one year works out to five pouds ever three months, which is less that two pounds a month, less that half a pound a week. When stripped down to its bare essence, the final goal seems far less daunting and each tiny target needed to get there seems all the more attainable. Set up each little challenge and knock it down. Only then move on to the next. Sometimes all it takes is some finely tuned perspective to put us over the top.

Be That Guy

You see him in your head, in your mind’s eye. His is as clear as the image in your bathrrom mirror-the perfect you. The best friend, the perfect husband or father, the ideal businessman, the best bodybuilder who ever lived… i your mind, in the depths of you being, "he" is " you."  that vision can be your greatest ally on the road to success. When faced with a particular situation-punking out on a training session, calling out of work, sheating on your diet- stop and ask yourself, "What would the perfest me do in this spot?" Answering that question honestly makes giving anthing less than your best effort nearly impossible. The more often you behave in keeping with how your ideal vision of yourself would act, the closer you are to bringing him to fruition. One day he might wink back at you in your reflection.

The status quo is a mother****er, Animal. It hangs around out necks every day of our lives. Sociery calls us to be less. It demands that we be average, cuz the less we make of ourselves, the less the rest of the world has to live up to. Who the **** cares what the next man expects of you if it doesn’t jive with your dreams? Free yourselves of the timy, narrow-minded expectations imposed upon you and go for yours. Criticize no man but yourself. Do what it is you feel you were put on Earth to do and **** everything else. Our time here is short, so don’t waste a second of it being anything less than you best, anybody other that yoursel. Do "you" until the ****in’ wheels come off… 

You stand alone. It’s you versus the weight. You’re thinking, " I’m gonna get friggin’ crushed." You’re thinking, " I’m not gonna get up." But you will. You always do. Yeah, you’ll puke. Yeah, it’ll be hard getting off the shitter the next couple of days. But it’ll be worth it, cuz when there’s chalk on your hands and sweat on your back, there’s no better place in the world. This is pain….

Well the past 2 months I have changed it up. I’m tring to bulk. And its work just fine. I’m doing about 7-9 sets on everything naw. I’m doing 8 reps slow and steady. I’m working the muscles right naw. I’m only takeing 30sec. rest between sets. I feel the muscle i’m working to the fullest naw. The pumps i have been getting are the shit. Like arm and chest day. I do 3 work outs and 7-9 sets of each. By the time i’m into the 2nd work out i can’t curl my arms all the way. They are in the way of them selfs. What a pump… Chest. Ha hahahaha. Same thing. by the time i’m done you can take shelter under them….. I’m seeing it naw. And for legs. When i do a squat naw i make sure every rep and every set is done perfect… I go all the way down to my feet. I have the drive naw. I can see my goal much better naw. I work out naw like its the last time i can. I feel like a brick wall. I will be putting a new pic up soon. Just want 2-3 more weeks to show the big pic. I feel i’m much bigger naw. My close tell me so…

The unmotivated. The weak. The ones that always have an excuse for why they have not yet reached their goals. You know the type of person I’m talking about. The "could have been", the "should have been", the almost was something" type. Are you one of them? Or do you grab your dreams by the balls, take control of what you want, and go after it? Do you have the heart, determination, drive, persistence, perseverance, and that Animal lust for that which will undeniably be yours one day? Do you want to be big? Strong? Can you muster up enough drive and ambition every time you are in the gym to give your all? Can you mentally say **** the world and everything in it cuz all that exists right now is this weight i am about to move, no matter what?

Listen up brothers. Motivation is the key to anything in life. In the world of iron, only the motivated will survive. There is nothing like the feeling of adrenaline coursing through your veins like a jacked up hydraulic pump makeing you shake, sweat, and filling you with anger and rage right before a heavy lift. It’s the ****ing best. I love it. You have to love it. If you don’t you should probably go buy a fitness magazine and read up on the latest to firm up that fat ass of yours. Did I say that? Sorry, I guess that may have been a little rough, but **** it, so is training like an Animal.

Moving iron takes motivation. Frowing to those sick proportions of the ones we consider freaks takes motivation, Some oof my favorite motivators are heavy music, new gyms, and different training partner to bang heads and compete with while training. Training with someone who is stronger and much more developed is a great motivator. Lastly and probably the most  powerful motivator for me is finding that one thought that enrages me enough to rip someone’s arms and legs off.

I won’t share my thoughts, cuz they are mine and may be a little twisted, but they work for me. What’s life like without a spine? I don’t know cuz I have one. I imagine it would be a life full of fear of failing to the point that you are a doormat for anyone who wants to wipe his feet on you. Are you willing to let others wipe their feet on you? Can you find a way to light a fire in you to make you push? Take a look at some of the most successful people in the world and they are all motivated. Shit, even some of the worlds most notorious criminals have motivation to act out the way they do. One truly motivated person can inspire everyone around them.

Right now you are probably thinking how the **** is this article going to help motivate me? Here’s how, man. I want you to pick a goal. Wheher it’s a few extra pounds to a heavy lift, or a few extra inches of muscle on your body, take a look at what you want. Be realistic cuz you are never going to put on 100 pounds of solid muscle in a month no matter how motivated you are. Now ask yourself," Why didk i pick this goal?" Is it cuz you want to impress some hottie? Maybe it’s cuz you are tired of being the fat guy? Or is it cuz you want to break records in xompetitions and look like a ****ing Animal? The reason for picking the goal is the same thing that should motivate you.

Take the lead out of your dirty underwear and get moving. Not tomorrow, today. Don’t put it off. Get to work now. Believe in yourself and go get what you want. No, don’t just go get it. Attack it and take it cuz it’s yours. Take it cuz you know that in your heart if you don’t, you will never forget that it was there all along for the taking and you just bitched up and let it go. You have to be able to look yourself in the mirror everyday of your life. How is it going to fell if you let goals and aspirations pass you by? Love it, Live it,be it…

One thing I love about what I do is that I knew all along in my life that is was exactly what I wanted to do. I never let anyone tell me different. I have some very successful people in my family but mostly "could have beens" and "should have beens". They never took what they wanted. Most of them thought I was wasting my time. It’s funny houw those same people now brag about me. They doubt me no more. This is fuel for me. I am differnt…. Are you?

So what’s inside you? This is it. This is the time There is only now. Tomorrow is a dream and a day away. Can you go after what you want? Yes, only if you are motivated. The real question is, are you? Or do you belive that tomorrow will come and bring the motivation with it? Yeah wel while you are waiting for tomorrow, I will be doing heavy squats and deads today while you are watching me on TV. Animal? Yes

Be real, don’t be fake. Be smart, don’t waste your time. Find that spark inside you and make it the biggest ****ing fire around. Let it burn out of control. Take control of you destination and never give it up. Stop making excuses, make it work. All the pleasures in life cannot compare to living your dream If you dream of being big, strong, lifting heavy, competing, and winning then go do it. Get off you ****ing ass. The only thing that I fear is the thoght that one day I may not have a dream… So I will not let this one go until I get all that I want. Take it. **** EVERYTHING ELSE…. 

Leg day. You know it’s gonna’ hurt, bad. You know when it’s all over, you’ll have to drag your ass out of the gym and drive home with your legs shaking. You know if you don’t give it your all, your whole week is ruined. This is sacrifice.

Yeah, you pay your gym dues but it goes well beyond that. You pay your dues every time you squat. You pay them every time you choke down another can of tuna. You pay them every time you puke. This is what you pay just so you can respect yourself and call yourself a man. This is membership in the brotherhood of iron.

Eat much, young warrior and often. Every two hours all day long. Be it a shake or a meal. Be it steamed chicken and rice or Mickey D’s… By all ****ing means eat. Pack your food ahead of time in your cooler everyday and stash some goodies in your ride for when you are in a pinch. Eat while you drive, at school, at work, at the gym… Whatever, just get the food in. Don’t waste all of the blood, sweat and pain you are spilling on the gym floor cuz you are too much of a pussy to eat when need be. Catabolism. That is muscle wasting, bro-a frightening ****ing thought to any real bodybuilder. Keep eating and you stay anabolic. Stay anabolic and you’ll keep growing. So simple to say, so difficult to do…

What can i say but if you want size you need to eat.Eat,Eat,Eat….. You should be eatting snaks of good food every 2 hours. To keep your body building muscle. As long as you eat clean you should not be gainning fat. And add 15 mins of cardio after each work out.

I don’t feel like my self today. I wonder why? I think I caught a bug that has been going around. It usually only infects stone-cold achievers and champions. I’m shaking… I got cold sweats… Hysteria has set in… I need to be in the gym. "What do you mean you’re going to the gym…Again!?! You trained 4 times this week. What the **** is wrong with you?"

This is the typical reaction you get from someone who does not know why you do what you do. These people don’t understand the bug you’ve caught, the epidemic that can spread to anybody who wants to succeed in this sport. You got bit by the bug… The Iron Bug that is. This physically demanding hobby now turns into a second job that you know you must go to in order to achieve gratness.

Did you say greatness? You know what? Most dudes would settle for just looking good, but you need more than that. You need to be the ****ing best you can be to consider yourself a success. Success… Did you say that? How about you need to be a bodybuilder that looks good. Confused? I think you know what I mean. Performance and consistency is the key and you realixe that your hard work will sooner or later pay off (at least for those of you who have what it takes).

You cut out all the bullshit once you step into the gym. You don’t want to hear the woman next to you complaining about her boyfriend or the guy behind you on the ab machine talking about the painful hemorrhoid he had a week ago. You go in there to lift weights… To get bigger… To get stronger… To make yourself look like a freak. You want to be there. You know that you don’t have to be but you want to.

Every body looks at you as if you don’t belong there… "He is too big. Why does he go so heavy? That is disgusting…" Listen, no one asked for your opinion. Just let me lift weights and be happy because it is the smaller things in life that make me content, things lie squatting 700 punds or dead lifting 500 pounds for reps.

These ppeople wouldn’t understand because they never experienced The Epidemic. These upper class snobss go to the gym two to three times a week, do cardio for about a half hour then do a total body workout for 15 minutes thinking that they accomplished something. " I don’t want to gett too big because, you know, if i did what you did, I would be bigger than you." This coming form a middle-aged man who weighs 160 with quarters in hes pockets. Or, listen to this one, " I used to look like you then got tired of being big." You used to looke like me? You just shake you head,laugh, pretend to give a compliment and then walk away…

So you ask, why don’t people under stand the addiction and love of doing what you do? Because they never experienced the feeling of it. They don’t understand what it feels like for that one day up on stage, the high that comes with it and the low that happens the next day… You are back to being your self, not a winner, but a regular mortal being. They don’t understand what it feels like to be the best for that one day… You want it back, but unfortunately you can’t explain it to these people because they go home everyday to their mediocre lives… Because they hate the way they look and thy don’t have the discipline to bust their ass in the gym 5-6 days a week like you do. It is frustrating to them.

Thus thy look at you as being different. Yes it is true-men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and bodybuilders are the black hole. Appearance is everything to you-on stage but not in the gym. On stage, you want to look like the perfect physical specimen. In the gym, we sweat, breathe heavily, some of us smell, we grunt and yell (scaring people in the process). You’re focused and disciplined enough to realize that this is what it takes to become a champion.

You got to give a little to get a lot. **** that, you got to give a lot to get a little. You got to give up your lare nights out with your friends, going out and getting shit-faced, just so you can go to the gym on Saturday morning to do leags (who wants to be hung over the day that you have to squat!?!). Other people’s opinions do not matter to you, just thoes 7 judges critiquing your appearance. Because of this, you know there is no looking back-that it takes the will and the addiction to be in the gym and for people to look at you in confused amazement.

Listen, we are not normal people. We do and think things that most individuals just don’t understand. Getting excited to go to the gym is not a normal thing. But when you get bit by the bug, it is. You know that each day you train is a step closer to immortality, and one step away from your mortality and morality (yes, there is no doubt that we all have a screw loose). You keep saying to yourself, "One more day, one more rep, 10 more pounds." You better yourself everyday and everyday you train is one step closer to the overall.

Nobody understands it… They can’t fathom it. It is an indescribable feeling that makes you feel good (ironic but true), similar to getting laid for the first time. You know it feels good, but you don’t know why. How long will this bug last? How long do you strive to be the best is a better question. Do you have what it takes to better yourself everyday? Remember, a champion is never satisfied. Thus no aspiring bodybuilder should ever be satisfied.

Always keep in mind that the road to the top is a difficult one, but remaining at the top of the mountain is the most difficult. Everybody is gunning for you… Thus they get addicted. Also, some people, once they reach the top, lose all interest. That is not a champion, just a has-been who never was. Tale it from me and be forewarned-this epidemic is not to be taken lightly. it is not for the weak of heart, but for the passionate and disciplined. Catch it, before it passes you by and you are left like the other onlookers who ask themselves, "What is wrong with that guy?" Nothing… You’ve caught the bug!!!