MicheleBrock’s BodyBlog

Michele’s Journal 2/6/2009 @ 9:30 PM

Minor setback! I am supposed to be starting both the BODY FOR LIFE and BILL PHILLIP’S TRANSFORMATION Challenges on Monday, February 9, 2009!

However, I had an alleged Chicago based Personal Trainer who turned out to be extremely unprofessional, unreliable and untrustworthy!

I had to quickly regroup and backtrack to a professional trainer whom I trust explicitly! Worked with him BRIEFLY in 2007! He’s based out of Memphis, TN! However, he is extremely well known throughout the bodybuilding circuit, 100% reputable and trains the pro athlete bodybuilder competitors working with “A” list clients in the NPC, and IFBB! I am both lucky and proud to have him as my Personal Trainer…no matter the distance between us! I wasn’t as focused or driven when he and I first met and am lucky that he remembered me and wants to work with me! His name is Cliff Bomar aka Rolex of HardBodies International!

http://www.911fitness.com/trainerherodirectory.html

Cliff Bomar
TENNESSEE - Director
National Physique Committee Judge
Founder, HardBodies Int’l Training Systems
and Sports Supplements
Most successful trainer (100%) of multiple Body 4 Life Grand Champions
ACE,CPT,NPC Official
Physique Augmentation Specialist
Body Symmetry Expert

Because of Cliff, I have my meal/nutrition plan, my list of supplements and he’s getting me my workout regimen! The other part of my delay in starting the challenges is waiting on my shipment of supplements to arrive! It is going to take 3-8 days for delivery via UPS and I just placed the order today! Remember, Cliff and I reconnected today (Friday, February 6, 2009). I could kick myself, but, I’d probably pull a muscle! LOL The only reason why I didn’t reach back out to Cliff was because of the distance. I was hoping to find a Personal Trainer who was reasonable and local so that I could physically train with that person at least once per week. Well, after some of the ridiculously high quotes that I’ve been given by Personal Trainers and then the fiasco with the one I am going to pursue in court, I am going to work with Cliff Bomar and relocate to Memphis, TN, if it comes down to that and I’m dead serious! If that is what its going to take, I’ll relocate in a heartbeat, but, I’m going to see if he and I can make a go of it with the distance between us! I think that with his tenure as a pro trainer and my drive, I think that the probability of he and I making this coach/client relationship work is EXCELLENT!

Finally, I will be journaling online and hopefully video blogging frequently, on a number of different sites! However, the primary sites where all of this will take place are, but, not limited to the following:

1. http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/MicheleBrock/

2. http://www.transformation.com/Michele

3. http://michelebrock.blogspot.com/

4. http://www.youtube.com/MicheleBrock

So, please, STAY TUNED! THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/newyearsguide.htm

Kris Gethin Made An Amazing Transformation.
Learn How He Did It Here!

Tiffany Forni Went From 235 lbs To A Healthy 142 lbs.
Find Out How She Did It Here!

OH, HECK YEA!

As most of you already know, I plan to do both the…

1. BODY FOR LIFE 12 WEEK CHALLENGE

2. BILL PHILLIPS 18 WEEK TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE

…simultaneously. I’ll just continue on with the TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE at the end of the BODY FOR LIFE CHALLENGE.

I always knew the approximate date of when I was going to start. The delay is due to me finally making the decision to build my Pre-Paid Legal business and structuring my process around the fact that I will also be in school full-time this semester carrying 15 hours. I have also been interviewing for a 9-5. Wanted to position myself financially so that I could afford the EAS supplements in addition to being able to shop for the types of foods that I will be eating, 24/7. The other thing that most of you have been unaware of is my impending divorce. It’s fine! Don’t frown! Ha, ha, ha! Everything is amicable and we’ll still be friends, but, financially, this whole transformation process just wasn’t or isn’t feasible, but, will be by my official start date of Monday, February 9, 2009!

So, now, I’m combing through the BODY FOR LIFE website for both the nutrition and workout plans information. Will do the same on the TRANSFORMATION.com site. Just attempting to kind of map out every minute of this process.

The first week of February, I will take my BEFORE PICTURES! I will shoot my first video on Saturday, February 7, 2009 which will be VIDEO 1 OF 18! On that piece, I will have my measurements taken again to see if they are the same or different from the ones that I took earlier this summer. They are posted on Bodybuilding.com - MicheleBrock’s BodySpace at…

http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/MicheleBrock/

I will also highlight both my weekly workout plans, my nutrition and meal plans and the EAS supplements that I plan to take! Then each week, I will shoot a new video which will primarily start off as a type of journal of my experiences for that previous week and there’ll be shots of me working out at the gym. As of this moment, my gym of choice will be BALLY’S TOTAL FITNESS! There’ll be live clips of me struggling through routines, reps and also getting my cardio in which will include the treadmill, both at the gym and at home and perhaps some aerobic classes, if they will allow me being filmed during the class.So, as you can see, this is being extremely WELL THOUGHT OUT! I’ve been attempting to do the BODY FOR LIFE CHALLENGE now for the past couple of years! Now, I HAVE TO DO IT for a myriad of reasons! There is NO TURNING BACK even though there are some health issues that have started to rear their ugly head to try and stop me from this forward momentum that I am on mentally, but, you know what, as the church says…

“THE DEVIL IS A LIAR!”

I am not only going to do this, but, I am going to exceed my wildest dreams in this endeavor and be extremely successful in all my goals thereafter! I claim it and I’m walking in that belief and in the faith that I am on the path that I should be on! THIS IS MY SEASON! Nobody knows where I’ve been mentally and in the depths of my soul these past few years! Only me and my God! It is not my intent to come off preachy, but, I know where I’ve been! I know where I could be! I know where I should be by the life that I’ve lived, but, I also know that God had an order of protection on my life! His angels surrounded me and when I walked away from the church and my church famly and had basically given up on my life, God never gave up on me! He was always in my ear telling right from wrong, letting me know that He was there, but, I tried to pretend like I wasn’t hearing Him as I made my own decisions, opposite of the decisions that He wanted me to make. It got easier and easier as time passed on to where I stopped hearing Him, but, no matter what, He was in my heart. I couldn’t get Him out, even if I’d wanted to. So, with each passing day as I drifted deeper and deeper in that dark place, He kept tugging at my heart and thoughts of my church and His word could never be completely suppressed. Then something began to happen! I began to see my own destruction and I knew that I was letting a lot of people down, starting with myself, then my children and then my Father! I knew that there was a purpose for me being here and that the reason I remained was that I had not yet fulfilled that purpose, but, more importantly, God had not given up on me to the point where He would reassign whatever it is that I am charged to do, to someone else. I am slowly, but, surely, getting reconnected to Him and He is ordering my steps. I was heading down a path that in and of myself, I would have been unable to recover from, but, when I began to acknowledge Him with all my heart, he’s lifting me out of that place and has placed a quickening in my heart that makes me feel that I can’t do enough in His name! I can’t do enough to praise who He is in my life! I don’t care what anyone else says, I know who and what He is and has been in my life! I can’t speak for anyone else and no one else’s experience is mine, but, I have my own to go by! I am unstoppable! I am a warrior for the Kingdom! These CHALLENGES are as much for the world as they are for me, preparing and strengthening my temple, the domain in which He dwells within me, for battle as I fight whatever fight in whatever war that He places me in! See, the United States Government have our children and we go off to war, NO QUESTIONS ASKED and we fight and kill whatever and whomever the government tells us to without blinking an eye! Well, that is my position with the Father! That fact will be evident in my workouts as I push myself towards excellence! As I push myself towards a body of perfection which will in turn not only strengthen my physical being, but, also my mental and spiritual being! It would be great to have others to join me in this fight, first for quality of life; to once and for all, quit talking about it and just being about it; knowing what we should be doing and not doing and simply DO THE RIGHT THING, but, if I have to stand alone in this fight, that’s alright because I now know that even as I stand alone, I AM NEVER ALONE! There may not be another human being standing besides me, but, I’m flanked by the Almighty, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and with that type of connection, I CANNOT FAIL…AT ANYTHING THAT I DO GOING FORWARD!

My name is Michele Brock! Those of you who join this group will witness first hand a transformation like you wouldn’t believe!

It is said that America is the most obese country in the world! Research shows that a lot of our ailments are a direct result of our lack of exercise and poor eating habits! It’s time out for DIETS, but, instead, it is time for CHANGE! A CHANGE in how we choose to live, extending our quality of life, truly being the best that we can be!

First of all, I can be found on a number of different sites that I use for promotions, but, when it comes to…

HEALTH & FITNESS (Mind, Body and Soul)
…the following sites are the ones that I most utilize, right now:

<strong />http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/MicheleBrock/
 

 
<strong />http://www.menshealth.com/cda/homepage.do
 
Body-for-LIFE Challenge

http://bodyforlife.com/challenge/index.asp

 

<strong />

Transformation Challenge / Bill Phillips Transformation

http://www.transformation.com/challenge/

Prevention Magazine: Health, Fitness, Weight Loss, Diets, & More
<strong />

http://www.prevention.com/cda/homepage.do
 

<strong />http://www.webmd.com/
 

<strong />http://east.ballyfitness.com/
I will be entering into both the 2009 Body-for-LIFE 12 Week Challenge and Bill Phillip’s Transformation 18 Week Challenge!

The Body-for-LIFE Challenge is a 12-week healthy living contest based on the proven principles in the best-selling book Body-for-LIFE. Participants are encouraged to record their progress with before and after photos. They are also asked to record their inner transformation in a short essay and they are judged on the quality of their outer and inner transformation.

The new Transformation Community is all about helping each other make healthy changes across the board: body, mind, heart and soul. For some this means breaking free from a lifetime of suffering from poor health and low energy. For others, it’s making the leap from a good life to a GREAT life! And for ALL it’s about going to the next level. There’s always a next level — there’s always untapped potential waiting for us to make a conscious decision to reach up and claim it. There’s a level beyond Body-for-LIFE, and that’s what Transformation is all about.

I plan to chronicle my 12-18 week journey through daily journals, providing my process, my successes, my failures, my measurements in both inches and weight, photos and also through video all across the Internet including IMEEM and YouTube as well a number of other sites including MySpace.com, BlackPlanet.com, Tagged.com, Multiply.com and Facebook.com to name just a few.

I plan to then begin doing the research necessary to take back to United States Department of Health and Human Services to get our government involved on a much wider scale!

CHANGE!

It’s my belief that the CHANGE that Obama has been speaking of is relevant to a number of different topics of issue that have been and continues to negatively affect this country and its residents! That CHANGE has to first take place within each and every one of us before it can have that trickle down affect to our children, our families, our friends and begin to spread throughout our communities on a local and then on a national level! This CHANGE CANNOT be like the fad diets that we go on so that we can hit the beach by summer in our new bikini wear or so that we can fit into our slamming attire in time for our class reunion and so forth and so on! It’s got to be the type of CHANGE where we move from a negative place to a positive place with the intent on staying in that positive place and then sharing our stories of what used to be to what is and what can continue to be an uprising of a more healthy America! I am not talking about what Dr. Ian Smith set out to do with the 50 Million Pound Challenge and I have NO PLANS whatsoever on getting a corporate sponsor who can see the dollars that they stand to gain by jumping on board this bandwagon! I’m talking about getting into people’s livingrooms and getting to the heart of the matter! I’m talking about making eating healthy JUST AS COST EFFECTIVE AND CONVENIENT as running out to grab a Big Mac from McDonalds or a 2 for 3 Whopper from Burger King! I’m talking about making working out on a regular bases as much of a necessity as BREATHING! I’m talking about just as companies have to post EEOC and MINIMUM WAGE statements in a place that is frequented by employees, restaurants have to visibly post the dangers of the foods that they sell to us, while they get richer off of us getting fatter or more infested with the things that causes many of our ailments! I LOVE THOSE COMMERCIALS (which I haven’t seen anymore in a while now) where the couple goes through the drive thru and they ask for things like a badonka donk and a side of fat and the drive thru waitress ask if they want a badonka donk or a BADONKA DONK and they respond, yes, give me a BADONKA DONK and add a large side of cellulose thighs to that please! OH, MY GOD! They need to be playing commercials like that every day, several times a day on all the stations! There are a lot of organizations who are trying to address this issue, but, I don’t understand why the government isn’t addressing this issue on a much wider scale, making their presence known on this issue that is slowly but surely killing us!

I pretty much know where I am going with this, but, understand that first, THE CHANGE HAS TO START WITHIN ME and that is exactly what I am doing! This is the cross that I am choosing to pick up and bear within the Obama-Biden administration so…STAY TUNED!

ADDENDUM

(as of Tuesday, January 27, 2009)

The start of 2010 will have me competing in the following:

Bodybuilding.com - The Hydroxycut® Max! Transformation Contest Presented By BodySpace.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/09muscletech_hydroxycutmax_contest.htm

"HEALTH AND FITNESS CHALLENGES"

Body-for-LIFE Challenge

http://bodyforlife.com/challenge/index.asp

The Body-for-LIFE Challenge is a 12-week healthy living contest based on the proven principles in the best-selling book Body-for-LIFE. Participants are encouraged to record their progress with before and after photos. They are also asked to record their inner transformation in a short essay and they are judged on the quality of their outer and inner transformation.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Transformation Challenge / Bill Phillips Transformation

http://www.transformation.com/challenge/

Okay, as you may know by now, the new Transformation Community is all about helping each other make healthy changes across the board: body, mind, heart and soul. For some this means breaking free from a lifetime of suffering from poor health and low energy. For others, it’s making the leap from a good life to a GREAT life! And for ALL it’s about going to the next level. There’s always a next level — there’s always untapped potential waiting for us to make a conscious decision to reach up and claim it. There’s a level beyond Body-for-LIFE, and that’s what Transformation is all about.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bodybuilding.com - The Hydroxycut® Max! Transformation Contest Presented By BodySpace.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/09muscletech_hydroxycutmax_contest.htm

Am getting active in The 50 Million Pound  Challenge!  Just updated my registration and will be logging into both sites, The 50 Million Pound  Challenge and the BodyBuilding.com, on a more frequent bases!