2008 Transformation Contest

I’ve been listening to this tune while doing cardio. I zone out from my surroundings and love the acoustic version here:

Some of my favorite lines from the song:

She’s suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
I wish I was beautiful

Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
I want to be someone who believes

I’ve been down the past two weeks, because my progress pics show little to no improvement, and the scale isnt moving down like it should. If you go one week with bad results you get pissed, go two weeks with bad results and I get down right mad. Everyone says oh dont go by the scale, its how your body is changing that counts. Your clothes might fit better before the scale jumps down, or you might gain some muscle and it even outs the scale.

Well I put the scale to the side this morning and went with nothing but measurements. I am happy to report, that I have lost 1′ off my midsection, 1/4" off my neck, approx 3" on my hips, but gained 1/4 inch on both arms.

These measurements have made me happier, there is change a taking place and I didnt even notice.

Have you ever been working out and catch yourself making some awful face trying to achieve that one extra rep, ever catch anyone watching you make that face? Well I ask you to take just 5 minutes from your next visit to the gym and watch the numerous face expressions you will see.
I never noticed all of them, but its quite funny to watch. The best face moves come while doing shrugs, trying to hit that last rep on shrugs, some people even lose their necks in the process for a moment. Some hold their lips so tight and dont breath that last rep causes a rupture of the lips blowing spit and every bit of air in their lungs out.
Then you’ve got the oh my hope no one was watching I nearly dropped that on my head face, they rack the weight then look around the gym with their eyes, hoping no one saw it.

Try it! I beg you to watch it for once.

Workout Video #3

Well here they are Progress Pics………I’m hoping my new workout routine, and diet plan will accelerate this slow start…..

When I wrote my intro video a few weeks back I made it clear that there would be no excuses for failure in this competition. I should have known that something along the way would come along, that would bump me off the wagon………..the other contestants are reachng out to get me back on. The good news is, I’m running to catch back up to the wagon so at least I’m getting a workout in catching back up.
I need not explain my issues, however lets just say I’m now up to 75+ hours of overtime since last Saturday night, and on top of this I’m plagued with a cold, the long nights, and sleepless nights have killed my immune system. It appears to be but only a head cold which is nice, beacuse if it reaches my chest it will turn into Bronchitis like it always does which will be a big show stopper.
All the work late nights, have killed my ability to get to the gym, of sure I’ll squeeze in 20 minutes here or there at the house, but after 18 hours of working in a day getting to the gym even though its 24hours seems to be an impossible feet for me. The only thing on my mind is sleep.

I’m looking forward to the weeks to come as my work has finally died down, the network restructure is finally over and I can proceed with a normal life. All the competitors are doing great here, enjoying the great results I see everyone making. All should be careful though, because its not the fall that counts…………its how you recover that counts……….dont look now but I just ran past the wagon, and now I’m driving it to success.

Short video of some bicep work that I do in my spare time at home, usually just whenever I feel the need to during the day.

Going the distance!

Hello to all. Week one has been really fun, my diet has been on  no cheats as of yet. Still fine tuning things but my workouts with the new Gaspari products have been great. Here are my progress pics.

I think its time to visit the chiropractor, my pants are way off level in the back pic!

So its 08 already..Man time flies! I’m looking forward to this year so much, since I plan on starting my business this month.

Here is a quick video of me on Machine Bench for my workout video this week.

Ah yes, today was leg day. I actually love leg day because my legs are well very strong, its even more odd that my wife says she likes my legs. Shouldnt I be telling her that.

Anyways its a brief entry here, since my internet is down at home. Grabbing a friends computer for a minute.

Today I stacked 5 PLasmajet Pills, and Superpump 1 scoop…I’ve never ever ever had intensity to keep on going with leg day like I had today.
Minus the stinkin 14 year olds hogging the leg press machine to try and hit 210lbs, all was good.
My after feel is not so much of a pump, but I can tell that when I leave the gym there is weakness, the legs have been worked. But these products have helped me thru every last rep, even ones when I would have normally bowed out.

Yet another promising experience with Gaspari products….

P.S. The vanilla protien powder, and sugar free cheesecake pudding are great. Its a nice snack if you have a sugar craving, not a huge fan of the Malodextrin…but I dont eat it non stop just once or twice a week.

One last note before I forget, I’m down 4 lbs since the Wed weigh in

So today was my first official day using SuperPump……..ok so I tested it yesterday right when I got it, and did a Dumbell routine at home…plus I had some PlasmaJet.

Anyways so this morning is back day, of course followed with cardio.

First things I noticed, energy is there, even though all I had this morning was about 4oz of chicken, and the superpump befor hitting the gym. My drive to succeed is way up, is this the focus everyone talks about with NO products..I’m working out starting with only 1 scoop. I’m about 30 minutes into my routine and just about wrapping up back day….and I suddenly realize, while I have done about 4 exercises, aside from my pumped up back…I have this aching desire that I havent even worked out. Its the weirdest feeling I have ever had. I mean come on its 6:00am, I am usually sleeping right now how is it that after 30+ minutes of back work, I feel as though I havent done anything. I pushed it hard, and can feel some burn..but I feel like I could go on for another hour, so to tide me over I did one more back exercise..then hit cardio.

I have to say I dont think this would have been possible without………..Superpump.

So its been quite some time since I got up so early for gym activity, in fact I think the earliest I’ve ever gotten up for the gym was about 6:15, and let me tell you when you have a 2 year old that doesnst like to sleep, getting up at 4:45am isnt easy. But non the less I did, got to the gym and did my chest/ab/carido routine for the day. You can read more about that in my personal workout tracker.
I will say it will be nice once my products arrive, I’m doing a similar diet to SCT but not quite the same, I have carbs throughout the day but its only complex low GI green fiber veggies mainly, which if you didnt already know do very little (at least for me) in the way of energy at the gym.
So to cover this right now I start the morning out at 5:00 with some lean protien, and 1/2cup oatmeal, and some almonds…Then about 30 minutes before the gym I’m taking down a whey shake to get some BCAA’s in me.
This morning felt pretty good, I’d like to say week one is conditioning week and thus the lower intensity but that isnt correct, I’ve just plain lost some strength since I layed out of the gym for about 4 week’s prior to this……this is what I get for being lazy, most of my routines are at least 10-20lbs down from normal.

Looking forward to getting my supplementation from either BB, or Gaspari

Ok so here they are..I’m so excited when 13 weeks is up comparing these pics to my new.

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Something is up, the day of the weigh in and my scale is on the frits..This morning I get up and weigh, I’m scratching my head thinking wow thats high..so I re-zero the scale get back on….and wham it gets to where it should be….whew..though I put on a few over the past few days. So I go get the camera and weigh, now the scale is in between weigh in 1 and weigh in 2, so I set the camera down…surely this thing isnt that heavy. Now its reading well past weigh in number 1. Something is off and I dont know what.

Perhaps the battery is going dead? But I thought this thing was supposed to last for decades or at least thats what the box said. Looks like I will be picking up a new scale today sometime, what a hunk of junk!

Lets get ready to rumble

Team xtreme is ready……………………are YOU!