Making Statements, Not Excuses

Yesterday my boy French Pedi worte a post about finding sorry CDs that somehow found their way into his collection…well today I decided to go through mine and I found what I thought were the best I’ve ever bought. So here’s my Top 10

10. Run-DMC…Raising Hell

9. Def Leppard…Hysteria

8. LL Cool J…Radio

7. Tupac…All EYEZ on Me

6. Notorious B.I.G. Ready To Die

5. NWA…Straight outta Compton

4. Bon Jovi…Slippery When Wet

3. Michael Jackson…Thriller

2. Beastie Boyz…License To Ill

1. Dr. Dre..The Chronic

List some of your’s…looks like i need to make a new playlist with some of these

Listen at the end what these cats are clowning about…This is INSANE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6QAdHUSrWM

I was going through my friends list and deleting a few people that weren’t active or hadn’t signed on in forever. My question is how come when you delete people off your mutual list, bb.com puts them into your fan club. If i no longer want people as mutual friends, why does bb.com think I want them in my fan club, particularly people whose profiles are not active? And there is no way ypu can get rid of them. For a site that has all these other advances such as bodygroups, and all these lists displaying popularity you would think they would eliminate people you no longer want around. Alright jumping off the soap box and time to lay some wood to my chest and triceps….DO WORK!!!

This morning i went out to do my sprints and stadiums and i now realize why i’m glad i started running sprints. As it turns out they came in handy. I was on my warm-up jog when i saw what appeared to be a cat cming toward me as it came closer to me i noticed it had a big bushy tail and it had a rusty color to it. That’s when i realized "holy sh!t that’s a fox!" I swear to you I haven’t run that fast since i was playing football in high school when i ran a 4.65 40-yd dash. It turns out there have been rabid foxes all over that area of town. I think i ran all ten of my 40 yd sprints in one jaunt from the track to my car. I never knew those things were so fast. Who knew a city park would turn into the set for Man vs Wild. Maybe I should call Bear Grylls the next time i go for a run. Man what’s next, doing stadiums only to see a mountain lion at the top?

I watched a video just afew minutes ago on a friends blog and saw this guy going nuts on the lat pulls. I mean if the cat was practically lying down of the bench as he was pulling down the weights. We wonder why so many people have injuries from training. Is it more important for you to outlift everyone in the gym or to keep your muscles in place and isolate them so they get get stronger by properly lifting the weight? I have separated a shoulder because i had to be the strongest guy in the gym before. It was a hard lesson to learn, but i don’t regret it now. I know i will get to where i want to be. I’m just comfortable with the fact that it won’t happen today but eventually by doing it right it will happen and i will keep making gains. Don’t be stupid guys, swallow your pride and get better as you go along.

Yesterday I went to Gold’s to look around and I of course was gonna need a tour. I had already made up my mind that i was gonna join. The guy that was there took me around and showed me all of the good stuff that i already knew that was there. Here is where it gets good. I was gonna join but i wanted to see just how much i can get from the guy. Most of us when we just want to check a gym out, the managers will ask you to come into his office and then try to force you into signing a contract even though you tell them, sometimes emphatically, that you aren’t interested at the time. Well i let him hang himself with his own rope. I told him, "well you know i just got into town and just want to check some other gyms out" to which he replied, "well they offer this much a month" and then i said "well liek i said it may be a while because i’m getting moved in". He come back with one of my favorite lines, "well are you gonna wait that long before you work out again?" as if he cared anything about me working out before i walked in. LMAO! Then my prowess came in. I said "bro even if i wanted to join today, i can’t afford the enrollment fee, I just don’t have the money. This is how you know how bad these people want to get you to join. He went to his boss and came back and said " Ok this is what we will do, how about I wave the $85 enrollment fee and you just pay the monthly fee of $20 to start. I replied, where is the paperwork? I used this guys aggression against him to pay 1/5 of what i had to pay. AM i a genius or what? I love making deals…I should be a businessman HAHA!

Just when we wonder why people in our country are so out of shape and unhealthy…here’s a good reson…WE WELCOME IT! I saw a promo last night for some new series about a man who will be given a chance to choose a woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. No, not the bachelor but a stupid take off from it. It’s called "more to love". In this show this man will have the pleasure of choosing a bride from a field of about 25 full-figured(politically correct) women. Now there are a bunch of women out there that will say that i am shallow by posting this but the whole premise of this show is that these women are fine with being in the condition they are in, unhealthy, lazy, out of shape and they just happen to find a man who will accept them as they are because they love being big beautiful women….I say BULLSH!T!! That’s all America needs is to have a show on that tells people its ok to be this way without having to change because there is a man out there even for a big girl like you. Now how many girls out there that may have wanted to change but probably will change their minds now because of shows like this. Are you kidding? Look i’m not trying to be shallow are insensitive but if being healthy is not a goal in your life, then this is one groom you’re gonna miss out on.

Well I finally was able to land a job. I am a merchandiser with a retail company out of Jacksonville. I will be traveling a lot though so i don’t know how training is going to work for me. I’ll just have to wing it to see how it goes. I’m so happy to be working again. It seems like forever, but one thing I do know is that i’ll never take a job for granted again. Hopefully some of the places i have to go will have a fitness center nearby. Preparing meals will be a beast too but as soon as I get more info on this gig, i’ll know what to do. I’m sticking with the plan though and pray it won’t be affected too much.

Well yesterday was my tuesday cardio day. While I was at the park doing my plyometrics, i was approched by a cute young lady that said she had seen me out there running before and wanted to introduce herself. I didn’t think anything of it so i introduced myself to her as well. Then she gave me a compliment about my shead dome. She told me how she thought bald was super sexy and how she loved the way my head glistened in the sun…I was like okey dokey…I’m not sure where all this was coming from but i thanked her and then said i was thinking about growing some hair back and you would have thought i shot her…she said " DON’T YOU DARE GROW THAT HAIR BACK!!…i hought to myself..OKAYYYY now i’m on psycho alert. I have seen many times when ladies have come in and said how guys come in with lame come on lines, but I didn’t know it worked both ways. Honestly I think she really is a nice girl but man i didn’t realized being shaved was more important to others than it was to me but one true thing came from all of this. SHAVED HEADS ROCK!!

I only tried one and it was a crazy rollercoaster. At my gym they are stocked full of them and people drink them like an SUV guzzles gas. I tried one before a workout and i thought my heart was gonna come through my chest but just as crazy as that high was, the crash was even crazier. I mean i went from 75 to 0 in about 4 seconds. So when someone asked me about them i suggested I wouldn’t recommend it. I of course recommended pre-workout drinks. Besides most of them are loaded on twice as much sugar and caffeine than sodas. I just don’t get the craze. Any of you guys ever tried them? What’s your take on them.