Konkara’s BodyBlog

Ok I finally posted pics in the picture section of my page… I had no idea what was going on hahaha. Well any way those are the shots from 5/30/08 (today, friday) leave comments or whatever your supposed to do. hahaha.

Ok so I have pretty good arm development… but thats been from years of pounding them. When I started training thats all I did. No chest, back, legs, shoulder, JUST arms no tris now that I think about it… I mean I grew up watching Schwarzenegger movies and wanted guns like he had in Conan and Predator… can you blame me? I didn’t play sports as a kid and I’m really not into sports to be honest I’m a big game nerd hahaha. So my training was through a lot of trial and error and Flex mag. But now Ive got a lot of knowledge about lifting and here are a few tips for those that want GUNZ!!

When you do arm training I say start off light… work on your form and learn how to feel the muscle work. Yeah yeah yeah you’ve heard it before but have you actually DONE IT? Pick a weight thats not so heavy but not feather light either.  Pull the weight up when curling and squeeze. When you get to the top squeeze tight… I can do these and get at least 50 to 75% pump off the first set. If I wanted to do a ‘blood bath’ work out..

I’ve made up my own words for terms with lifting. For me a ‘blood bath’ is when I fill the muscles with blood and try to keep them pumped and swollen. A ‘power’ work day is just that… mostly heavy weights and not so much working on form and control to produce the pump but the heavy weight. Then there are the ‘murder’ sets, these are any were from tri-sets to giant-sets and beyond. If you dont know what a giant set is its four exercises in a row with on break (i.e. preacher, hammers, dumbell twists, ez-curls. all of that is one set).

I tend to do murder sets for big muscle groups, legs back chest. Sometimes shoulders but different heads so it doesn’t really count. Anyway getting back to arms learn to feel the muscle working and then see if you can FEEL it with heavy weight. Once you have a connection with your body parts move on to tri-sets.

Supersets are fine but to keep the arm burning tri-sets are where its at. Now Im just training arms to maintain size and bring up my triceps. So bicep work is easier than when I was younger. But I would say find 3 exercises and start off light, feel them then bump em up some in weight and do a few tri sets. Screw all that you need to work different angles and all that. Do a barbell wide exercise for width, a squeezing contraction for height and throw in some arm move you rarely do. Its usually the stuff you don’t do or don’t do correctly thats stopping you from breaking into new inches. I know a lot of this is rambling and incoherent but I hope it helps. maybe Ill try and make a video for arms or something. If I do Ill be sure to let you know in the blog ahead of time. Thanks for the compliments and support!

Well its been a while since I wrote a blog. Well I just posted some pics from a few weeks ago. I guess Im kinda half ass starting my diet for the summer. Ive stayed pretty lean this year so it not going to be that hard to drop weight too much. That hiesho problem is still a problem. Im cold and its MAY! True the weather has been strange over here but this is silly. Oh well all my co worker say its because my body fat is pretty low. If I were in the single digit range I might agree but Im not so  I dont think so. But then again I was really over weight for a LONG TIME so maybe my body just needs time to adjust or im dying hahaha Well thanks to those who check this blog and my pics. Hopefully I can find someone to get some good shots of me in the future. We’ll see.

Well since there was a mail about me not posting a new blog I thought Id make one now since there is something bothering me. I live in Japan and here there is something called hiesho. I’m from Chicago and this is all new to me since anyone knows America takes great pride in central heating of buildings and homes. Sad to say the Japanese dont do the same. So many buildings and homes are VERY COLD. Which has brought up a new problem for me. Since the summer I went on my cut up diet and I was really trying to motivate my family to take more of a look at their eating habits and try to watch their weight a little more for health reasons. Well that backfired and my mom got mad at me for looking good and saw it as an attack on her character and blah blah blah long story short she said I needed to eat because I looked ’skinny’ to her. True enough Ive always been one of the heavier boys so most of my life I was teased about being fat. Jump to this summer. I lose like 20 kg which is A LOT of weight over the course of 3 months. 5 kg was muscle and 15 about was fat. 5 Kg of muscle is quite a bit but 15kg of fat kinda out weighed it all in terms of success in my eyes. Which now leads me to my current problem of hiesho. Its really hard to explain what it is since we dont really have it in the states but its basically a problem with blood circulation and constantly cold living conditions and outside temps. I have to wear about 3 layers of clothes at work with a skully just to try to stay warm and im indoor at all times. My co-workers are walking around in tshirts, some in sweaters and such but I look like Im going to shovel snow. This year is the first time Ive experienced such a thing but I guess it goes back to my weight loss. Problems with hiesho are, poor blood circulation, numbness of the hands and feet, cold hands and feet, breathing problems for asthma sufferers, strange heart palpations, anemia and the list goes on…. I have asthma and have experienced pretty much all of what I listed above. Ways to fight this off are by building muscle. I work out pretty hard and when Im training I have no problem with any thing. Hands and feet are fine. But once I cool down if the room is too cold my breathing goes to hell. Luckily for me Im not TOO worried about it and Im pretty sure Ill live and make it through the winter. In January Im going to start a new supplement regiment and really try and pack on some more meat and post new pics. Wish me luck! Thanks to the people who check out my blog.

Ok well since Ive been on this site for a few months I thought I might as well start somewhere and write a blog. This is probably one of the first and few blogs Ive ever written. For those that are checking out my page for the first time or those that just want to know who I am and what Im about I guess I should try and introduce myself. Well Im T. I live in Yokohama Japan. Im not in the military never have been. Ive been here for about 6 years and I like my life here. I speak English (obviously) and Im learning Japanese. My spelling is horrid so if I make mistakes forgive me. Im from Chicago Il. and I got into training in Highschool. I actually started just doing curls. Can you tell? Im really not into sports actually Im a big nerd but Im happy with who I am and that works for me. As a kid I was pretty over weight and to some degree I still have a weight problem. Looking at the pictures you may disagree but thats because Ive cleaned up my act and I eat the right foods and try to take care of myself. Seems like something everybody on this site would know but just eating the right foods can really make a huge difference. For a long time Ive wanted to get my muscle up and ate all kinds of food just looking to get my weight up. But now Ive lost 20 kg about 15 of which was fat in the span of somewhere around 3 months or 3 and a half all with out doing cardio. Granted I do walk to work and its about 30 min so I guess you could say I do an hour a day of walking. But thats it. Some people here in JP friends and non friends included think I should get into some competition but to be honest thats never really been my dream. I love training and its just part of my life now. I hope that you too will find joy in training and find what it is inside you that brings you to the results you want.

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