The Skinny

Web designer told me this weekend, maybe sooner! So I guess we got a date…Just outside August too, oh well, more people subscribed to it:-)

Thank you everyone with all the comments and support! Its kind of surreal to get all this exposure at once! LOL…its a great feeling though and without God nothing is possible, through him anything is! You guys keep training and stay focused!

I want to thank everyone for all their support and patience with everything! My website is just waiting on the design to be finished up so then we wil launch. Check out the muscle mags to see me in the Bodyspace.com ad. Also Men’s Health is out to the subscribers and will be in stores soon for everyone to see! This has been a crazy few weeks and I will try to get back to everyone who is leaving me comments! Once again I thank everyone and God Bless!

I have a few guys at my gym that are all about Cross Fit. I have read up on it a lot and think it is good to do 1-2 times weekly, but I dont agress with the 3 days on 1 day off approach. If you are out of shape and weak I believe it will get you better, but eventually you will be tapped out and overtrained. A guy had been bugging me to do the "Murph" workout. Now from what I have heard it is one of the hardest exercises to do that you can get off of the site. I LOVE bodybuilding, but I still do conditioning training once a week. I am not the "all stuff no buff" kind of guy. I love runnning, jump roping, swimming, and love the TRX training. So I thought I would endulge my boy Nate at giving this workout a shot. The workout consists of" Start off running a mile, perform 100 pull ups, 200 pushups, 300 bodysquats, then run a mile again…add your total time. You can partition the pull ups, pushups, and squats anyway you want. I did the suggested partition of 20 rounds of 5 pullups, 10 push ups, 15 body squats. Heres where my meat headed competitive side came out. I saw they had the "Body Armor Murph". This is where you do the whole routine with a 20lb vest on….I WAS SO IN! I was being told it was gonna kill  me since I never done a single cross fit workout. Oh well, such as life, HA! My goal was to get done with the workout, not go for time. I knew though after getting into the workout I was gonna challenge myself. My goal turned into knocking it out in under a hour. From what I was told that would be phenominal! I ended up finishing it in 59:54….YA BUDDY! It was a great workout and might throw a workout into my weight lifting routine once a week. I love the weights though. But I would recommend looking into some of the workouts to kick your ass once in a while!

I have a lot of people that approach me in the gym..They say they are getting leaner doing my diet, but they want to get ripped. They usually go through a bunch of things they are doing and then I end it all with the question "What cardio are you doing?" Then I smile and they look at me usually with no answer at first. I just shake my head and say, "CARDIO IS A MUST!" LOL…same goes for diet…If you are busting your booty in the gym and going to Mcdonald’s afterwards to "treat" yourself for a hard days work, you are just spinning your wheels. Then you get frsutrated, then you give up. We dont want that! Put everything together, make it work, and give your all. Allow yourself the chance to succeed. This stuff isnt easy, but thats what makes it great!

Well I have decided to quit the bulking stage…and go into getting cut. I tore myself UP at the gym today! It felt good….Time to get cut up! Heading out to NYC in Sept. and hopefully LA in a few weeks.

                      
    Just want the sites opinion on something. I got a lot going on right now, which most of you know. When the site gets launched Iam going to start a new venture. Clothing line…..HA…ya heard right! I need some suggestions on names. Get at me with your ideas….

My goal was 10 lbs in a month. Well since I deprived my body for solong of carbs and then jumped right into eating like a beast, I have actually filled out quite nicely QUICK! People at the gym say I look like a different  person. I am just fuller with the leaness, I like it! This time around I have been eating a lot smarter with the carb intake. Not as high, and protein is clean. Saturated fats are somewhat high post workout, and I am liking what I see. I have put on 8 lbs in 2 weeks. Looking to go another 2 weeks to see what I can do. Carbs will lower and protein will go up…very little cardio. I am up to 192lbs now. Will post some new pics. Thanks guys for the support!