Training yesterday and today was painful but good. I’ve tweaked the GVT program a little to my liking - calling it "NVT" (Nic’s Volume Training) LOL

Getting back from vacation also meant getting my butt back in the gym! Today I started on the program called GVT (German Volume Training) which very basically consists of a few basic movements done for 10 sets of 10 reps. Being used to low volume workouts this is a killer!

I hope everyone in here are doing great and I’ll be checking in on ya during the next couple of days. I still have one week off from work so I guess that means plenty of time to kill in front of the computer

]]> http://blog.bodybuilding.com/NicBrunicardi/2008/07/19/back-in-action-jackson/feed/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/NicBrunicardi/2008/07/10/wrapping-things-up/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/NicBrunicardi/2008/07/10/wrapping-things-up/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:44:25 +0000 Nic Brunicardi Training http://blog.bodybuilding.com/NicBrunicardi/2008/07/10/wrapping-things-up/ Like I wrote in my previous Blog I’m feeling ever so tired these days, probably due to a stressful time at work and maybe some slight overtraining.

The next couple of weeks it’s vacation time for this ol’ buckaroo! During the first week of vacation training is BANNED! Once I return to the gym, I’ll begin a cycle of GVT. If you don’t know what the heck that is, then here’s an excellent link: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/luis13.htm

Tomorrow I’ll do some light chest+shoulder+tricep workout and then I think I’m done until the new cycle begins.

I’ve switched my training style to a 3-split system using some of the DC principles but not religiously. My body is responding well to the new groove of things. However, I do feel that I need to take a small break from the gym pretty soon. I’m VERY tired at night even though I get my full 8-9 hours of sleep. Next week I’m taking a week off from the gym to recharge the batteries.

I’ve gotten some "new" DVD’s as well. I got the brand new vid from Mitsuru Okabe starring David Henry. He’s really into the DC training style, so I’m pretty excited about that one. Then I got 2 more vids with Lee Priest, my old hero. The vids are pretty old - it’s "The Blond Myth" and "Another Blond Myth" .. love the titles! It must have taken them years to come up with material like that! My collection of BB vids is getting bigger each month. I even got a special offer from Mitsuru, where I get one vid for free. Some people raise children and help the world keep spinning - I buy BB vids! LOL

I hope everybody is good and enjoying the summer…

It’s been a crazy week this past week. Like I wrote a couple of months ago, I just got in to management at my job and now I’ve tried just about all in my new position. The first month and a half was just about getting comfortable with everybody going from being a colleague and just one of the guys to all of a sudden being the boss. That’s a transition where you have to tread carefully, but I made it good and I made it snappy pappy But then a couple of weeks ago, we had to realize that we didn’t make enough dough … we had to let someone go. So last Wednesday I had to give two of my employees the boot. Even though there was no question who I’d have to pick, it’s not funny taking someone’s job away from them. Both of them girl and both of them started crying. Me no liky!

Workouts are going great. I’m not putting them in my workout tracker because of time and because I’m not out to set any new records at the moment. I’m training fairly "heavy" but I’m going more for the feeling rather than PR’s right now.

BTW what is heavy? What might be heavy for me is probably not heavy for you and vice versa. Is heavy 5 reps or 12 reps? It all depends… For me heavy is going for less that 15 reps and with a close to 100 % intensity. So I’d much rather talk intensity in workouts rather than light/heavy. I think intensity is the key…

I’ve always thought that only retards could hurt themselves doing leg presses - well people, I’m a retard! LOL I don’t know how I did it, but somehow I managed to strain my big toe while doing leg presses yesterday, and I only felt it after my set was done and I had to stand up.

That’s it for me today. I’ll be trying to make my rounds today and see how y’all are doing

Be easy everybody and have a nice Sunday.

One thing that is very important to me, is to have something visual in front of me - like magazines or bodybuilding vids. Here I find something very visual that reminds me WHY I like to train and what I’m striving for.

There are so many great bodybuilders out there, and I have huge respect for them all. No matter how much juice a guy had to inject into his butt, it took him blood, sweat and tears to reach the physique that got his name out there!

Now, in my last Blog I made some of the girls drewl all over their keyboards when I showed them a picture of Lee Priest. Lee is a pretty short guy, but man is he built! Huge arms, legs, shoulders and back. He is a true giant killer!

Some days ago, I also mentioned one of my other heroes, one which the BodyAuditor is very fond of too - the mighty (but short) Dexter Jackson. Now, it’s not that I have some weird fetish for short guys, but they do have the advantage that they’re able to develop huge mass on a small frame without getting a huge gut to go like so many of the much larger fellahs of the game.

Recently I got a new idol - a guy that hasn’t hit the Olympia stage but has an awesome body! He’s an Aussie and his name is David Rylah. Whenever I find myself thinking “Why do I even bather?” I only need to take a glance at one of his pics, and before you know it I’ve got the gym bag packed and ready to go!

On another note - I had to write to MD (Muscular Development) today because in the beginning of last month I paid for a year’s subscription and I still haven’t received anything yet. If they don’t make things happen pretty soon, I’ll have to unleash the mighty tag team of Ninjabill and Daretosoar - or better know as “The BodySpace Bouncers” LOL

I hope you’re all doing great and are punishing the iron!

I missed my workout the past two days because I had to leave town with my work - the annual summer bash where everybody gets together. It was loads of fun, but man did I realize that my lifestyle is way different from all of my colleagues (none who work out on a regular basis). And I’m not talking about lifting iron here - it’s F-O-O-D that sets us apart! How do they even survive on a 3-meal diet? Thank God, I remembered to bring along protein bars and a couple of shakes.

Summertime has hit Denmark HARD this year. The past 3 weeks has been nothing but burning sun and a clear blue sky. As a result the water is already nice and warm, so the beaches have been visited on a regular basis - today was no different

I had a great workout this morning (felt extra good because of the 2 days I’ve been gone), and tomorrow my quads and hams will have a score to settle with the barbells and machines!

You people be good

I think it’s a combo of a lot of things: summer’s here and everybody wants to look their best in the summertime and on the beach, I’m reading a lot of BB mags and books and watching some new movies as well (just got the new Dexter Jackson "2K7" last week), the great product Cell-Tech is starting to become its money’s worth, and of course last but not least I get so hugely motivated by some of the very great people I’ve met in here who are kicking their butts each and every day be it in the gym or running down the streets. No matter what the cause I’m lovin’ it! (and not like Mickey D’s cause I’m a King-man lol).

So this fire I got inside me these days is giving me great workouts. But that’s not enough - I want to become a little more fit as well, but instead of going on a kamikaze diet, I’m gonna up my cardio doing 30 minutes in the morning and 30 in the evening starting today. Then I’ll monitor the progress and see where it takes me.

Like Rainier Wolfcastle says in this clip: "Master your ass!"