Fitcent’s Gym!

So I’ve noticed that a lot of people who are wanting to eat clean and are trying to stay healthy and work out have the same problem: people offering them fried crap all the time.
Co-workers, friends, family, strangers on the bus, you name it, if you’re eating "clean" you’ve probably been offered SOMETHING by SOMEONE that is fried, dipped in chocolate, is made of fried chocolate, is covered in sugar, is made of fried chocolate sugar or potato chips.
So I’ve compiled a list of "common courtesies" for those of you who INSIST on asking if we who are attempting to eat “clean” would like some of your fried/chocolate/cheesy/sugared lard.
For the love of Pete, read them, memorize them, write them down and paste them to your forearm if you have to before you get pounded by a carb-cutting, fat-burner-taking, weight-lifting maniac who’s dehydrated and three days out from a body building contest because you thought you’d be “polite” by asking him/her if they would like some curly fries from Jack ‘n the Box.

1. Ask once. If the person refuses, BACK AWAY SLOWLY WITH YOUR OFFERING STILL IN HAND. After a good safe distance (I’d say about 10 feet) turn around and silently walk away.

2. If you choose to ignore rule number one, don’t ask, “Are you sure?”  If they weren’t sure when they said no the first time, then they’d probably be in the same sad shape that you’re in.

3.  If you’re idiotic enough to ask a third time, then you deserve to be back handed. Once is polite, twice is pushing the limit, three times, well, that’s just asking for an ass-whopping and you should probably question your motives as to why you’re such a masochist.

4. If you actually see the person you’re thinking of offering your crappy food to eating the following: plain tuna fish, chicken breast, or turkey breast with any combination of: fresh spinach, plain oatmeal, yams, brown rice, and/or broccoli, DON’T EVEN ASK. Just tell them how good their food looks and how good they look. They’ll appreciate the compliment to both and you’ve just saved up a brownie point with a person who’ll probably be who you go to for advice when you decide to get up off your couch-lovin’ arse and start living.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of things that will keep you from getting pummeled if you decide that you’re going to see how “the intense guy/girl who goes to the gym every day and eats nothing but tuna fish” will react to you asking them numerous times if they would like to have one of the cheesy-chili-death-dogs you got from the vendor outside your work place, but if you follow the gist of them, you’ll live a…well, not sure if I’d say longer or healthier life…let’s just stick to you’ll survive in peaceful co-existence.

Hey! Right now, I’m waxing my legs! I’m using Nair on my arms! While I’m doing laundry! What the hell!? Is preparing for this contest turning me into a…GIRLIE MAN!?!?!

It smells like someone’s giving me a perm in the bathroom. Seriously. It’s going to take me longer to get all the hair off of my body with this crap than it’s going to take for me to condition my body for the contest!

I know that in my previous post I had writen that I am no fan of MuscleTech suppliments and that its tranformation challenge is out of the question for me. 

I am now considering giving their suppliments a shot and moving forward with thier challenge.  I am not 100% sure yet but I do not have much time to make an order and to go for it.  I have always felt that their prices and the type of advertising that has gone along with their suppliments hurts their credibility.  I know that there are many who do swear by their products but at the same time I know many that have not been happy with the results they recieved. 

Maybe it is time that I take them on and see what their suppliments can do for me during a short period of time combined with strict diet and training.  What do I have to lose????

I will make my decision one way of the other tomorrow evening..

Feel free to share your thoughts with me.

FitCent is EXHAUSTED. Mainly, I believe, from cutting out pretty much all carbs from his diet for the past couple of days. He only has a full two more days to go before the end of the contest that he’s in for work, and it’s going to be a fun time in the ol’ FitCent household!

Oh, let me introduce myself…I’m FitCentsWife. I’m writing his blog entry with his permission because he’s sleeping right now. He wanted to let everyone know how he’s doing. Anyway, on with his progress!

Okay, so, I can’t give too much away because apparently a few people where he works are monitoring his progress through this site. That’s the main reason why he hasn’t posted any current progress (and he’s had PLENTY) except for pictures. The last weigh-in, from what he’s said, is on Friday at 10:00 A.M. It’s so exciting!

He’s been keeping in close contact with Bill Grant concerning his diet and what he should do as far as training goes, and I believe that it’s showing that he’s been dedicated to doing what needs to be done. I mean, just LOOK AT THE PICTURES! I tried to talk him into doing another one tonight, but he was just too tired. Waking up at 5:30 A.M., only taking in about 5 to 7 grams of carbs a day and having to deal with a wife who, apparently, is having "sympathy tiredness and grouchiness" (hey, I’M writing the blog and that’s my excuse so I’m sticking with it) with him has wiped him out.

We’re supposed to go to see my relatives tomorrow and Thursday before they go back to Alaska. It’ll be interesting to see how that goes, what with his dietary restrictions and all. I’m thinking of slipping everyone a Micky right after I get there so there’ll be no problems, but I’d like for Brian to actually interact with everyone rather than just sleep through it. We’ll just have to see how it goes.

OH LORDY I’M TIRED! Like I said, I think I’m having sympathy exhaustion, so I’m going to go now. I’m sure that FitCent will be the first to post about outcome of the contest as soon as he finds out about the outcome. Look, I’m repeating myself. Not a good sign.

Yes, I cheated BADLY yesterday. It was like every day that I hadn’t ate any crap suddenly came flooding back at me and for some reason I had the feeling that I was being cheated by not being able to cheat so I CHEATED. Not cheated, but CHEATED. Does that bother me? Yeah, just a bit. I thought that I was kind of over WANTING the crappy foods that I know aren’t good for me, that I would be able to at least stave off any temptation long enough to suck down a protein shake or meal replacement. But, much to my annoyance, I’m not over the cravings for hot dogs and ice cream and soda and pretzels and candy.

That’s why I drove 180 miles to get a treadmill. HA HA! Take that, Cheat Monster! I was able to put in 30 minutes of cardio last night after my binge, and I am currently working on adding another 30 minutes as soon as I add this blog. And an intense cardio session it will be, for the binge was a big one.

But on to a new day and a new way of eating (again)! I shall vanquish the Cheat Monster for at least 24 hours, then go from there! There will be corpses of Cheat Monsters littering my home as I demolish one every 24 hours until this contest is over! And then it will probably be time for a little clean up, you know, a little bag and tag, and then on with the destruction!

My goal of being a lean, mean cut machine for the Bill Grant contest WILL  be realized, no matter how many monsters I shall have to squash with my big, meaty fists during the midnight snack runs!

Hoo-raah!!

I had a great workout this morning.  I had tons of energy and was in a rush because of the gym hours in the morning and my work schedule on Saturday.    I stuck to the program my BodySpace.  The exception was the major increase on weight being used.  I guess I have just been in a "routine" when it comes to the weight and have not added.  Another thing I added is to completely focus on the muscles being worked in each exercise and MAN does that make a difference.  Tomorrow I will be doing upperbody and will be bringing my 14 year old son with me.  We have an on-going basketball challenge on Sundays.  I am pretty sure he whipped me lastweek so I am looking for revenge!  Have a Great weekend everyone!

Today is kindof a relax day from the rest of the week.  I did start the day with 30 minutes of cardio on the Eliptical machine and burned some calories there.  I went on to workout  abs. After that I headed home slept for an additional 30 minutes.  I was awakened by my youngest son, who is two, saying, "Dad, Oatmeal please".  He likes to get his carbs in early you see (my wife and I have trained him well).  He is such a cute kid! 

Here he is on the treadmill:

The rest of the day we plan on just relaxing and then going back to the gym tonight with all 4 kids for what is know as "Movie Night".  On every Friday night our gym lets the kids watch a movie that they project the wall at the pool. I do not think anyone watches the movie but the kids have tons of fun on their rafts splashing around being kids. 

I may or may not do additional cardio this evening.  Well I am off to relaxing!

After a great workout this morning and fun day at home with the family, my wife, kids and I headed off to the gym.  Since I worked out this morning I wanted to help Michele with her "leg day".  She did an awesome job considering I know I embarrassed/annoyed her on more than one occasion. 

You know what I’m talkin’ about…when you’re in a playful mood and you know you’re not going to have to concentrate. Doing things like talking to her while in the middle of a set, secretly adding weight to the machine, flexing in the mirror when EVERYONE was looking, talking about people loudly while they were standing right next to us, ect… You know, the usual stuff that seems to embarrass women for who knows WHAT reason.

I got to thinking about those things that annoy the bejeebers outta me while working out and thought I would list the TOP 5 pet peeves I have.  I am going to exclude the one my wife does (clanking the weights) because we already covered that. I’ve already counselled her on NOT DOING IT AGAIN while I am in the gym with her and I trust that she will OBEY my orders. All the above do not count either because I said so.

 So, here are the top 5 I trust you WILL NOT do when visiting my gym…at least not while I’m there so I don’t have to go sargent on your buttocks! (see above cause that’s what I look like when I have to):

5. Talking/texting  on cellphone while doing cardio.

4. Talking on cellphone or texting while using a machine.

3. Making any weight machine or bench a personal gym couch and/or end table.

2. Naked dude talking to you in the locker room. (DUDE!!!)

1. Being THAT GUY! (every gym has at least one) (but it definately is NOT me) (just in case you were wondering). 

I just wanted to share that I had one of my most intense training sessions today.  I was pumped and motivated. It rubbed off on the guys in the gym that were training around me .  Since I have been going the the gym I have been keeping to myself, only talking to a few of the guys now and then.  Today was different.. a few of the "regulars" came up to me and told me that I am their inspiration.  I thought they were just messing around but upon further conversation they were serious.  It really made my day! 

We all began to talk and encourage eachother as we continued our workouts.  EVERYONE of us put forth a more intense workout and the energy level was INSANE!  It  made me think of what it must have been when all the Legends where training together in Venice( the Pumping Iron Days). 

I do not have much more to say except I hope that this energy level in the morning continues over the next couple of weeks.  Each of us that have our own goals and are well on our way to accomplishing them. It was upper body day and an KILLER workout!

This morning was different than my “normal” routine.  Today was strictly a cardio day and I did it from home.  It was really nice because I was able to get an extra hours sleep from the regular schedule I have been keeping.  I worked out on the treadmill for 20 minutes sticking to the HIIT program as layed out by Bill Phillips (Former CEO of EAS). I am going to add an additional 20 minutes of cardio each evening from home to my current workout up until the 6th. I emailed Bill Grant (Mr. America/Mr World and Muscle Beach Hall of Fame) about changing the program that he had suggested, which I have been following, to this:

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