King_Marmoset!’s BodyBlog

Twas icy in Marmosetia this past week.  Whilst springing from branch to branch an icy patch was struck and YOUR King Marmoset did lose his mighty grip and fall to the earth below; he fell into an icy world of besmirchment and ruin!  

Food:  While lurking on the ground, Father and Brother Marmoset did pay a visit to your humble narrator (great thieves of productivity they both are).  Pizza was the food they brought with them.  For the first time in 2007, pizza was consumed in mass quantities.  Pepperoni is not a good source of protein!  

Fermented Fruits:  Yes, my handsome friends, fermented fruits do lay at the base of the great trees.  What can start as a quick shot of 12 year old Jameson’s imported from Ireland with Father Marmoset can spiral into a blur of wickedness.  Fermented fruit juice known as Corona, Red Bull and grape vodka, and whiskey can lay even the greatest of marmosets low.  Ah, but were the marmoset mammaries of fallen lady marmosets worth it.  Of course they were.  They always are.  

Battle With The Beast:  There is a creature of great dread that lurks upon the ground:  the Jaguar!!!!!  

Mighty King Marmoset does enjoy combat with the beast, but it always leaves its battle mark on the King:  exhaustion, deep bruising, muscle strains, impact injuries, sleep lose, and lacerations from sticks (yes, the Jaguar employs sticks as weapons).  With all these ailments piling up, it’s hard to find the will to lift boulders.  

The King understands how he fell to the icy earth.  He also understands it’s time to dig thy claws into the trunk of tree and begin the ascent back to the heavens and greatness.  So sayeth I, KING MARMOSET, now and forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Nerd note:  Did you know the jaguar is a native of the United States, extirpated due to over hunting and predator control programs?  But low, it has returned to parts of its former range in Arizona and New Mexico.  Beware the desert nights, my pretties.  A foe beyond any man lurks there.

When a frozen piece of vulcanized rubber hits flesh at speeds around 90 mphs, horrible things happen.  Among the many wounds I’m currently sporting, I’ve got a nice purple blossom on my arm from a puck.  This one is unusual because you can actually see the vulcanized thread of the puck in my skin.  

I showed the wound to my 8 year brother and he described it as the "coolest thing he’s ever seen."  

I tried to take pics for everyone, but you could only see the purple and not the vulcanization.  Sigh.  

NOTE:  I took a pic, but as you can see, you can’t really make out the vulcanization.  If you click on the pic you can barely see it.  

Locked deep within the trunk of the Mayan date tree, KING MARMOSET licks the psychedelic skin of the Thunderpussy root toad to meditate and achieve the "big thinks".  With his brain swirling in colors and lights, your royal simian’s brain comprehends it’s time for a philosophy change!

Weight Lifting:  Being mentally bogged down with brokering treaties with the Raptor clan, battling constricting and poisonous snakes, wooing lady marmosets, and fighting off rivals to the kingdom of Marmosetia, the King’s brain is at capacity and didn’t fully get the message regarding fatiguing the muscle.  Sure, the King lifted hard, but something was missing.  Growth results were lagging behind predictions.    

The King gleaned a few fragments of knowledge from the blogs of Body Auditor and Just Dave and from an article by Derrick "the Beast" Charlebois.  The amount of sets and reps are all well and good, but the only thing that really matters is truly fatiguing the muscle.  It doesn’t really matter how you get there, but truly fatiguing the muscle has to be the end result.  Then, growth can fully manifest!  

Cardio:  Yee oldee KM has lost around 30 lbs in 2007 without doing anymore cardio than playing hockey 2-3 times per week.  The only difference between pre-2007, where hockey was still played 2-3 times per week, and now is eating clean and being fully healthy.  Yes, doing nothing more than eating clean shed 30 lbs already this year.  Behold the true power of eating clean!  

When it comes to hockey, the King is looking at being 33 years old soon (old by marmoset standards).  It’s not fair that there is a never ending supply of punk 18 year olds who seem faster and faster each year; speed does not get better with age!  Plus, the King felt his game slipped a little over the summer.  He wasn’t dominating, wasn’t showing that special burn he had to beat people, wasn’t manifesting that higher speed gear, and wasn’t leading his teams to glorious victory!  The remedy:  cardio!  

Cardio was done for one week and the benefits were unreal.  The speed returned, the power was back, and the late game low energy was completely gone.  It’s like the age clock has been reset to 29, when the King was at his best, all over again.  All it took was high intensity cycles of 1 minute hard 1 minute slow on the bike for 20 minutes total.  

Oh, and the fat loss!!!!!  Losing weight from eating clean is great, but it’s a slow process.  With cardio, the flubber flies off.  Who knew????    

Thus, cardio will continue.  Progress will be documented via the pictures portion of the progress page on a bi-weekly cycle.  We’ll see how far we can go with this.  

King Marmoset would like to thank the psychedelic secretions of the Thunderpussy root toad for opening up his mind enough to attain these "big thinks".  If you wish to attain "big thinks" of your own, please visit www.thunderpussyroottoad.com.