Transformer in training

Excuse me sir #1, please do not walk around the locker around as if you are looking for Waldo. Then as you can see, I just got out of the pool and YES I am sitting here looking at you because I think you are acting really suspicious. Also sir, please do not go and turn on the shower and then LEAVE THE LOCKER ROOM?!?!?!? WTH? R u weird or what?

Sir #2 & #3, I can see that you all are clearly fascinated with you bodies as you check yourselves in the mirror and each other in the locker room. But, excuse me I just got out of the shower and it is a little weird for you to stand behind me…since you have already been in here for about 10 minutes now putting on your clothes for the sauna??!!?!?!?(Shorts only). Can you all please do your business and move on? I think I am just being over paranoid.Now, I must agree that I maybe in the locker room and check myself out a little but checking out other people and being mesmerized by myself in the mirror for several minutes????Probably not! I guess I am not that enamored with myself? I dunno.

In other news, I haven’t ever been in the armed forces but my mother was an MP, my uncle fought in several wars and my good friend and his wife currently are in the army. To all of those,past and current, who have taken the time to protect the U.S., THANKS A MILLION!

No…this is not some new technique or revelation…it’s just a mark of my slow progress back into the gym.

Man, I have gotten so lazy that I didn’t even want to hit the gym today. Okay okay…so I have been out of the gym for about 2 weeks. To get a sense of what that feels like….imagine two months for most people and thats what it feels like.

Anyhow….life has happened alot over those two weeks especially my doc program.Today, I just eased back in the groove with some swimming…but I gotta see what tommorow will bring.

Positives

While "resting" my body actually showed more muscle development…I guess it finally had time to rest and rejuvenate? But, if you "rest" to long it will soon disappear back into oblivion…especially if your diet goes straight to cookies,chips,taco bell,captain d’s.burger kind, doritos, jolly ranchers, hot wings and the rest of the mess that I have been eating over these past two weeks.

Aight folks pray for me…I should be back soon.

Yesterday, I was talking with my sister about this pull over that our parents bought for me last christmas. She started talking about me and how small it was…and I was like I know…then she said…you all like it like that and I said…nnnoooooooo……yall(As in guys her age like that).

Maybe its just me…but I think the fashion poice should write people tickets who are my size 6′0 213 and they were anything below an XL shirt. I mean I wear XXL. For some reason, the tightness of shirts and polos, especially in the work environment is not kosher. Lesson, there is a time and place for everything and everywhere is not the time and place.

Today, after doing a good chest workout I decided to take my weight and see if I am improving on my "Size me" program that I mentioned in my earlier blog….and the results? It’s working!!! Today, I weighed in at 213….a big jump from before. Much of this could be water, so I am going to do it again after I have sat in the sauna for a while. Anyhow, any progress is good progress.

So, people constantly going through cycles in life…sometimes your up and sometimes your down…there are moments of great confidence and then moments of great shyness. Then people fall into ruts, into categories where they are apathetic and unwilling, for one reason or another, to live up to their fullest potential…aannnndddd that is me.

So, I am trying to vow to do several things:

1. Realize that I actually am making good progress and I have a decent physique.

2. Gotta start realizing that bad nutrition and heavy weightlifting is sooo counterproductive.

3.Focus more on my assets than my negatives.

So, today I got over myself….and hopefully some of you will too. It’s a hard process…but somebody’s got to do it.
Today, while eating my chicken nuggets and french fries,I realized that I could do so much better. Sometimes…okay many times…I get on here a complain about my progress and how I am not where I need to be. Well, hell the nutritional facts on the back of the chicken nugget and french fry bag will tell me why I am not progressing!

Excuse me sirs, the sauna is meant for the enjoyment of everyone WITHOUT having to thinking about nasty funguses that may be prevalent because of misuse of the facility. Excuse me, but please don’t walk into the steam room with your boxers (Guy 1) and briefs(Guy 2). First, for your safety you should wear something more than that….and for our safety we would not like to have germs from your nuts that may have slipped through thin underwear. I mean really people?!?!?!?!

Excuse me sir, I know that you have a shirt on that says "Lambuth Football" and you are probably very interested in strength,size and power seeing your stature. However, can you please not, in stalking manner, walk over to where I am on every set…even though where you are working out at it on the other side of the gym, to see what I am doing. Oh and sir…it is not kosher for you to follow me back to the sauna, which is in the back of the gym away from everyone else! I make look small…but that won’t matter because you might not see me at all after I press your button from you making some aggressive move!

Maybe it’s because I have worked in the judicial arena that I am so cautious of my surroundings…sometimes it seems borderline paranoid. But, for the most part….people, as usual, in my gym just do some really awkward things!!!

Frustration seems to be abundant in this hobby called bodybuilding. I mean there are 80 million things to do and remember in order for someone to achieve "that physique". Well, they exponentially decreases if you have lots of money to buy many supplements. But, man over the past few months I have just been struggling on gaining weight and maintaining muscle. It seems as if I have been able to balance this out okay. But, man food has been getting the best of me…stress makes your body go into the conservation mode where just look terrible, and my time is becoming more and more limited….therfore not allowing me to hit the gym as much.

The real question is how much of this I am going to let hold me back? That is to be determined….knowing my past I’m better than that…I’m just saying…I know most of you all are and I’m trying to be like most of you all.

Happy lifting and stay motivated.

So, yesterday I uploaded some new pictures and can finally notice some progress from my beginnings this summer…whew!!! Thank God, for a minute I felt as if I was just spinning my wheels at the gym. Feeling much better about my progress…just hopefully I can maintain. For any and everyone who reads this blog….word of advice? Do all you can, within reasonable means, to stay motivated…best of luck to you.

Secretly…I love the smack out of some snacks….so here is what I have sometimes after a workout….especially now since I am this ’size me’ tip.

1 scoop of Butter Pecan Ice Cream

3 to 4 sliced strawberries

50g Whey Protein

Some water

Blend it up!!!!!!

In other news? My weight is up from 203 to 212…Thank you McDonalds!!!!! No I’m kidding about the McDonalds…but the weight is really up.

I really don’t know how many people can say that they have made it through the world alone? Sometimes, you have people who say "I did it all on my own" and, to some degree, that is most likely true. However, it seems to me that many times when have informal mentors and inspiration that seem to come from someone and sometimes….somethings.

Rationale
Since I know people won’t read long blogs…let me put it to you like this. I often times peruse this site and am very critical of some of the people who use this site. Why? Because some people are super vein, pushing their own agenda, or are trying to sell you something….like ‘on-line’ training or some supplements.

What I am trying to say.

In all of this, I may fail to mention the bigger purpose that this site provides…mentoring and inspiration. I stil consider myself to be the novice bodybuilder (No planned routine, no real knowledge on good nutrition and not dedicated as much as others).So, for me this site gives me the opportunity to meet people who are more advanced at this who can provide a form of mentorship and inspiration. I also can just find, at times, pictures of others guys who provide inspiration for me to ’stick with it’ or ’shut up and lift’!

So, with all of the things I have to say about bodyspace and some of what I believe to evil tactics…there are many good and I am appreciative of that! So, go out!!! Use the site to find you a mentor or some inspiration! It may actually motivate you to stop slacking (Like I am currently doing) and get to the gym!!!!

Best of luck to you!

But I do like to think that I, at the least, train like one! Well maybe not…anyhow today was another day at the gym. I started this morning with a good back workout this evening I think I will try to start pushing instead of pulling and do a chest workout with some light cardio.

Well, not exactly. This is just my take on some stress points, if you will, of bodybuilding. Total health and development is key into becoming a 2009 bodybuilder. So, here is an ultimate novice opinion on the sport

1. All abs and no legs does not define a bodybuilder.

2. Leg development is a key component, as they are often times the hardest to develop and could possibly be a sign of much dedication to the lifestyle.

3. The kitchen is where a lot of the basics for bodybuilding starts.

4. You won’t be able to purchase supplements your entire life.So, why not start now and wheen yourself off of as many as possible.

5.All work and no play makes you an overworked and underdeveloped fanantic.

6. Big necks and big arms are not praise worthy.

Today was my first day back after a week or so that just flew by…man here comes the winter and here comes dnsigma’s lazieness!!! To be honest, I don’t really think it’s laziness…these are just really stressful times…my teachers act as if 99 percent of my doctoral cohort doesn’t have full-time jobs and families at home.So, often times I have to decide between the gym or school work…and school work wins…as it has for most of the week. So, I am going to be tuning down the motivation factor for a while until I can get some sense of normalcy again.

Maybe I should go and get hypnotized into being confident about all of these things I am trying to do?

Anyhow, happy lifting.

One of my faults is that I tend to question many things, if I verbalize them or not is another question. I guess that’s why I am the perpetual student?!?!?!?!? Anyhow, some people in the gym? I just wonder why they are there and what are they doing. For instance, you have the cruisers….people who cruise around the gym as if they are like the ultimate muscle man…but they cruise around the gym to see what everyone else is doing and looking at the weight they have or are lifting.Then you have the ‘Wait I got a message people’ who check their cell phone after every set as if it has a timer on it or is telling them the next thing to do. Then you have ‘I can out beat you’ people who will see you working on something and come up next to you (ALL IN YOUR SPACE) and workout doing the same exercise as you as if they look or can do better.

Seriously…..and you are doing this because of what?????

Today was a chest day in the gym and I usually use the smith machines as a guaranteed spotter for me…but nooooo I had to focus on the neuro response development of my chest muscles by using the free weights this time. Well it went some thing like this 2 sets of the bar for 15, 225 for 10 rest 225 for rest….135 for 15 then I push 245 for 3…I rested and asked a dude to spot me and told him that I could get it up off the bar it was later on of getting it off my chest I was worried about….and so I go 1……2…….3(I feel it)…..4(Mannnnn this is getting to me!!) 5…(Oooo crapp its going to stay on my chest) and so this dude is over with his finger on the bar like ‘push you got it push you got it’. I wanted to say ‘NO MF I DONT AS YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE’. Then? I thought about whopping his a#$ for potentially letting this heavyweight fall on me and next thing you know? The weight was up in the air!!!! Then the dude says…’I made you work for that one!’ and me being Kosher said ‘Sure did…thanks man!!!!"

Lesson for today: Good things can sometimes come from bad. Of course this is a very isolated circumstance but the quote applies! Happy lifting!

Excuse me sir,  I noticed that you are probably attempting to exceed your 1rm by picking up some super heavy weight. How did I know that? Your face expression, along with your constant movements of trying to keep the weight in your hand tell me so. Also, sir if you could just move slightly away from the dumbbells that you are guarding,breathing and sweating over as you attempt this….others would like to also get some dumbbells and work out as well.

Well, the end of summer has come, actually its tommorow…but it’s close enough. My goal? Was it met? Well not really…well maybe it was. I did meet a sub-goal….get stronger but can never reach that elusive goal off being lean…like competition type lean. Then…as I drove through the city, I figured I would stop in to Vitamin Shoppe. I was tempted…really tempted to by the nice shiny bottle of Hydroxycut Black label or rocket pills or Lipo6 Ultra…I stood there just contemplating whether I wanted to spend this mere $40.00 bucks to have those striations crawl across my body as if it they were the pieces of thread delicately keeping my body tight or if I wanted to remove that layer of fat to see the muscles that ache so many days after training?

Then I thought. HELL YEA!!!!! But, I want to be alive to see all of that too! So, I think I will just continue to diet and run and I left the store!!!
But it was soooooo sooooooooo tempting!
Whatever, we can’t all get what we want can we? Well most of us can’t at least!! Happy lifting folks and this blog does not mean that I have something against you because you use these products.

Often times, it seems really weird to me that I see people saying this in the gym (LITERALLY) or raising up their shirts in the gym after doing an arm workout….but their in the mirror,by me!!!!!, flexing their abs and then….omg…then….you have people on bodyspace who have all of these super creative pictures with these crazy lighting effects and titles. Is it me?? Am I just being to critical of some people and things? I don’t really think I am.

Now, let me just say what really gets me and I guess this comes from my lack of playing on sports teams. But, why do people in the gym seem like they want to compete with you? Is this some manly gene that i don’t know about. Why is that people act is if, while I am in my corner of the gym working out, that you need to come AAAALLLLL the way over where I am….load up some heavy weight and go to work? I’m not impressed! As a matter of fact, there are many things that I am not impressed with. What I am impressed by is people with hubris,tact,drive,a sense of reciprocity,excitement. If you can find a way to do that, even thought you are not looking for me to respect you, then plenty of people will respect you as hardworking honest man…not some weird show off!!

Okay…I’m off my bandstand!!! Man…I feel much better after this blog.

Peace!

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That it was important to rest. It may have been a bodybuilding magazine…but I am pretty sure I read it in the bible somewhere too.So, my latest workout regime and ‘dieting’ has brought me up in weight a cool 6lbs.Sounds good right? I think so. Over the past few days, I have been waking up every morning just aching…chest aching,legs aching…tendinitis of some sort in my elbow. I am literally over here tearing my self down.

Well, today? I decided a no gym day was going to be a good one.So, I took a break…well actually I had a busy day at work and meetings for most of the night and I have to study (That’s the real reason). But, I must give myself credit when I can.

Simple tactics,simple ways…doing what bodybuilders have been doing for years….Lesson # 1 - Rest

So, yesterday while sitting in class and listening and learning about terms like de novo…I, of course, thought about weightlifting. Am I turning into a meathead??? Hopefully not.Anyhow, my professor…an attorney for the university tells me of how things should not be approached as if it was new. Then ‘Ding’ I thought about how I have tried all of these new things and make up stuff to achieve this ‘ideal physique’ when people have been doing this stuff for years….Duuuuuuhgggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!! Time for me to get back to the drawing board…find out what a maverick bodybuilder would do…and do that!

Today, I finally hit the pool again after ripping my shorts a couple of weeks ago. I did about 40 lengths / 20 laps and that was that on that. I am really pleased with my current progress and not taking fat burners!! I seem to be keeping the fat off by using my core muscles heavily during all other exercises.But, I have a question…I need some suggestions on any types of routines people do for mass building. I think I have tried almost every combination and I don’t want my body to get use to them.So, if you have some suggestions…please offer. Thanks in advance!

Usually, when I work out, especially after lifting heavy weights, that body part is sore the next day or so.But today? It’s sore all in the same day. Today was a back day…lat pulls at 260….pull-ups,dumbell rows,seated rows,dumbell flyes,back extensions….man…I just got home from work and I am sore!!! No pain no gain right????Sure….

Today was my first day actually lifting towards the goal of getting ‘bigger’. I used bigger in quotations because, of course, its relevant to what you define. i define it as being 6′0 about 215 to 220 with lean muscle. So, today I did a good leg workout and did good an actually hit another personal goal: 235 for 6 on ATG squats…Well, I was excited about it? After 6 sets of squats…I was exhausted.

So for now…it’s a slow and steady road…

Happy lifting folks.

Yup that’s what I am trying to do all the time ‘Either learn or leave’. This is a personal note that I seem to be making some decent gains…POWDER PROTEIN. Over the past few months or so…three to be exact..I haven’t been able to spend the extra money for protein.So, I have just been winging it. It’s kind of bad though because…I am now just imagining the possible gains if I was taken it?!?!!? Whatever….I’m learning and I’m not leaving.

Today I was talking with my coworker outside and she was slurping down this smoothie that her husband(The trainer) made. I then thought to myself…Why haven’t I been making smoothies? See when I think about smoothies…I think about smoothie King…and I know I probably can’t make those..BUt me being my self tried anyway…a little strawberry daiquiri mix(I know I should not have used it)…a banana.and some ice in the magic bullet?!?!?!?!? VOILA…very nice strawberry banana smoothie…Man I’m hooked already…off to the market tomorrow to get some fruits!!!

Anybody got some recipes I should try?

Yesterday was the first day of class and I had a later workout than usual. Since school is back in session the gym now closes at 10:30pm. So, I am like "Cool nobody will be there it will be great". So while I am in class learning about holdings,dicta,Stare decisis et non quieta movere,  and how reasoning - facts = rules…I also pondered on the time I have spent trying to upgrade my physical health. As a result of that, I decided this morning to review past journal entries that have marked my trials and tribulations and success during this awesome quest over the last few years. If you look to a previous blog…I have always seemed to have this uncanny knack to say some of the dummest and sometimes funniest things! Speaking of that…let me try again today….

I know that everyone has to start somewhere. Yesterday, the gym looked as if most do after the New Year…crowded as heck!!! Man, people where in their playing on the cell phone, hanging out in there as if it was a club, talking about fighting and beating up people,yelling across the gym about how they are just hitting light weights today..when some of them were clearly struggling, and others who act as if we are on the prison yard and they mug you around the entire gym (You move to one machine…they move to one next to you, mug you and when you are finished with that machine they go check out the weight  and see if they can increase it or not and so on and so forth)and then you had the ones who were just starting to hit the gym. You know, those who seem to be intimidated by the crazies I mentioned above.

So, yesterday? It was a an interesting one…but tonight? I gotta feeling it’s going to be a good night!

Peace out folks and happy lifting.

I was reading my blogs from a while ago and came across this hilarious statement on the subject of me swimming.
Swimming

I think I swam another mile or so yesterday. Many times, I am in another world while swimming, so after I count to the 36th lap I just let my mind wonder about things like sex, math problems, current world issues, the doc program I am trying to get….just random things. Then comes the realization,***HELLO SIR, THIS IS YOUR BODY AND IF WE DON’T STOP SOON YOU WILL BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS 15FT POOL!!!****and I get out of the pool.

Well, the summer is almost coming to an end. And this in now a time for me to get me size on…so over the next few months..I’ll be trying to size me…or bring my size up. Here’s what I got so far…please tell me what I need to change:

• Protein intake: 230g proteins per day
• Be sure to take a multi-vitamin everyday
• Reduce cardio to about 1 day a week instead of 3 days cardio and 3 days of lifting
• Be sure to take some glutamine after my workouts with my protein shake.
• Try to stay away from all of this good ‘ole soul food that I love so much.
• Give up candy for lent this upcoming year.
• Attempt to hit heavier weights for a period of at least 6 weeks and then go back to doing light weights for reps.

As usual, I am doing some random plan for the massive amounts of information I have been reading on the net…so let me know anything that may be helpful. Happy lifting!

Sounds weird right? Well probably not for most of you. Anyhow, putting up a blog like this is a struggle for me because I don’t really say stuff like that. So, here is the moment of honesty. I think that I have achieved a pretty decent physique and status of health. My problem, as some would say, is that I don’t give myself enough credit for the work that I have done. So, hence you see the title of my blog today…I think this provides for me a stepping stone to recognizing my achievements more.  I look good..I look nice..I’m swole? That’s one that my students use…..So, for all the people who have been telling me, in so many words, to stop playing the pity party…there it is…I have  finally admitted for myself….and yes it does feel somewhat nice and somewhat weird too. Whatever, everyone has to start their levels of confidence somewhere right?

Happy lifting folks!

So, today I was reading around on the web and saw all of these forms of protein that I have never heard of before. They all begin with Protein and end as follows:

Isolate -
Blend-
Concentrate-
Opti-Blend

If someone could tell me which is the best for weight gain…that would be great! Thanks.

So, I finally uploaded some new profile and progress pics. I think there are some gains? Really, it seems as if I am maintaining. Whatever…I do know that strength wise? I am making some gains. While in the gym now, I seem to be lifting more than I have in the past. But you know what? Since I don’t keep journals my…dumself won’t really know!

So, I would like to try something….if you want to be anonymous that’s perfectly fine. I would like to get some real criticism…on my blogs,pictures,whatever. I got a trick for you…sign out (If you are logged in) and comment on my page as a guest…that way I won’t know who it is..(Only use this option if you feel like it…..its not mandatory of course).

Peace out and happy lifting and trust me I won’t cry or hold it against you…I’ve been talking myself up for it.

Yesterday I did a leg workout and was working on heavy sets. So instead of doing standard squats…I did them on the smith machine. When doing squats off the machine I can get up to 225 on the rack and may squat for 5..I might be able to do more…but I just get fearful that my knees would give out and I would be on the gym floor with weights on top of me. So anyhow, I load  295 on the rack and squat it for 5…I do some leg presses at 325 and then go back again and do another 5…What is this? Smith machines seemed to be sort of a cheat ooorrrrrrrrr I am underestimating my potential on the squat. If anybody knows…help me out.

Happy lifting!

Over the past few years, there have been several challenges with me and this journey called bodybuildng. With those challenges and subsequent accomplishments, has come pain…some explained and others very unexplained. For quite sometime it was really difficult for me to do seated shoulder presses or upper chest barbell presses. When trying to do the movements, it just seemed as if something in my shoulder was in a knot of some sort and it would always hurt. Over the years, I have continued to slowly work on my shoulder…which I figured has been the main problem.

The moment of change came after my chest and shoulder workout the other day. First, the workout was wonderful because I was felt really good and was really tired after the workout. Secondly, after I got home and the day after I felt some notable improvements in my arm…the rotation and positions. It just seems like as my shoulder gets stronger…the pain seems to go away.It may all be a figment of my imagination…then it may be that all of this is really paying off besides the aesthetics point of view?!?!?!

Sooner or later, I am going to learn that I won’t achieve my ideal physique because of my lack of discipline in the nutrition department. Case in point, this past weekend I was just hanging around the house…decided to fire up the grill…invited over some neighbors…and then it was over. Mannn… I ate like a ton of chips, cake, sweet seedless grapes, popsicles…then I ate some grilled chicken,fish,porkchops and a ton of beans?!?!!? Am I crazy or what? Probably so…but man…it was soo good!!! LOL!!!

On the flipside, I had someone to compliment me in the gym and ask about my diet. Unfortunately, I didn’t have for them some grand master plan. This weekend, however, I have finally come to the conclusion that I should think a little more highly of myself and physique.Apparently, I am in a better physical fitness stature than most and maybe I should start owning that a little more?!?!?!? It may be beneficial to take a page from some people on here who have let the invention of the digital camera and be your own photographer go to their heads a little to much? But,the underlying truth in their, what I call, sometimes wacky photos often close to nudity and pages that akin themselves to be Greek Gods is that…..people are attracted to it. Hmmm…that’s something I will have to think on….is it confidence or ego? That is the question! LOL!!

Peace out folks!

Saturday morning was a chest and shoulders day. I followed a plan by levrone where I did a giant set of behind the neck press followed by side dumbell raises, then front raises, then dumbell chest press followed by flys…whew! That didn’t sound like so much when I was doing it….now wonder I was super tired after each set. Anyhow, I did about 5 sets which accounted for about 75 reps of each exercise. I then moved onto to do some other few ‘touch up’ things while I was there. I attempted to bench 245 a couple of time (Something that I haven’t really tried before) and surprisingly I got it pushed fairly easy. It was only for about 5 or so…but that’s a start.

Saturday morning was a chest and shoulders day. I followed a plan by levrone where I did a giant set of behind the neck press followed by side dumbell raises, then front raises, then dumbell chest press followed by flys…whew! That didn’t sound like so much when I was doing it….now wonder I was super tired after each set. Anyhow, I did about 5 sets which accounted for about 75 reps of each exercise. I then moved onto to do some other few ‘touch up’ things while I was there. I attempted to bench 245 a couple of time (Something that I haven’t really tried before) and surprisingly I got it pushed fairly easy. It was only for about 5 or so…but that’s a start.

Don’t be tricked..First let me say that this about someone I saw at the gym…not me. There is a guy, who comes in every time I do and does squats and a few bench presses. He does about 3 plates on the left and three on the right;when he bench presses he does two on the left and two on the right.

Well for the first time, in at least about 3 to 4 weeks of training..I saw him do bicep curls. He was using some 30lbs and had a hard time with them?!?!?!?!?

I know there is someone out there that can explain this phenomenon to me.

Everybody has different goals on this journey called bodybuilding. My goal is to gain some mass and look as if I actually do lift weights.Well, let me be honest..I kinda wish I could have the build of somebody who participates in a bodybuilding contest.However, my lack of discipline in eating choices and many times weightlifting has impeded that process throughout the years.

Anyhow, enough of focusing on my flaws…Lord knows I have to many to count in this blog. Now for the positive. Since my goal is to build some serious mass and increase definition…I have come to this conclusion from reading different websites and watching different videos. Lifting heavy shocks muscles and helps them to grow large.Doing light weights helps to increase the size of capillaries in the blood vessels.As a result, more blood is able to get within those veins and helps to increase definition and also mass when you go back to the heavier weights. I think that it is really all about the amount of blood you can get through your vessels.

The Plan

Joe Plavick sent me a book not to long ago about a mass building plan. It was here, just 2 months ago, that I learned some techniques to ‘polish’ my look. So, If you have read this blog in its entirety…I hope that it helps with your bodybuilding development. Over the past 2 months I think I have made some considerable progress using this method.

Best of luck to you all.

Excuse me mam who just walked in the store with the gentlemen who is about 5′6′’ at around about 400 + lbs. This gentlemen barely made it into Lowes and apparently would like some assistance to get around the store and enjoy his shopping experience; he might need to use the assisted mobility device offered in the store. You however mam are the same height, was well ahead of him in walking from your car and into the store and you ppprrrrrooobbaaabbbblyyyy weigh about 130 lbs….wet. Can you not hop on a device as well? I am sure there may be other people who reeeaaallllyyyy nneeeeddd to use those devices.Maybe you have a hidden disability? But I doubt it, because you sure had perfect posture sitting on that scooter and when you walked in the store you only seem to get on it because you were fascinated by it.

By the way…these people were adults? Seriously?

Seriously…a love triangle…at the gym…ends in death? Man this is so depressing:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/04/pennsylvania.gym.shooting/index.html

I figured this deserved a repost for the am crowds.

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So, today I had just finish swimming like 30 something laps and was tired as crap. I then walked over to the sauna to do some stretching and light ab work. There are two other guys in the sauna. So, I being my ab work (Unfortunately, with no headphones) and their conversation goes something like this

Guy1: " Yea..I can do the weightlifting or much of any of the things I used to do. In my younger days I would go over and do this and do that…."

Guy2: "Yea, I hear ya…I’m the same way."

Guy1: "The weights just seem so monotnous, blah blah blah"

Guy2:"I agree..blah blah blah blah"

The reason there was a lot of blah blah blah was because while they were talking…I mentally tuned them out and thought about the following people:

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Okay you get the point…why people why….if you’re going to go the gym be committed. I saw a guy in our gym that was twice theys guys age. The guy was on the lower back machine, working out with the dumbells, doing some cable machine work and then would go swimming!!! R U SERIOUS? Obviously so because you said it. Sometimes I just wonder.

Dora Dora Dora the explorer….my niece loves this character who obviously speaks a little Espanol in the midst of her journeys across different lands. Dora is a little interesting in that when she sees a challenge…she makes every last one of them fun and exciting with music and her friends to help her along.

Ho does this relate to bodybuilding?

The other day I was in the gym and I saw this guy…this is not the first time I have seen people do this,just exploring the gym they’ll jump on a machine over do the movements really hard for one set then move on to another machine.

The problem and a possible solution

First, doing one set of everything in the gym may not be the best approach to working out…especially if you come in all the time and do these erratic type of workouts.

A possible solution (LOL) be like Dora…get some music, get some friends and focus on a workout regime. It’s 2009! Most people have access to a wealth of information that will allow you to plan more carefully instead of just going into this venture blind….if you want to workout….learn the language and the technics. Just like Dora you’ll be a able to get a lot of done in a short amount of time!
LOL!!!!

I know this was really far reaching and crazy…but there might be some underlying truth to it (LOL!). Have a good one folks.

So, I just wanted to add that the reason I wrote about people and their huge traps and other lagging body parts kind of duped me for a minute. Often times, I would see people who would have shirts or tank tops on and look absolutely HUGE!!!!! Then they take their shirts off or put on some shorts and you’re like WTF??? People would have this HHHHUUUGGGEEEE traps to make them look so big and then legs were like 12 inches in diameter or chest were as flat paper! I mean really…stop fooling me…better yet…stop fooling yourself!

For a while, I was a little skeptical about the whole get your mind into it deal. But, over the last few months the techniques of getting mentally prepared before working out seemed like they worked.However, I really didn’t know if it was working or not. That was until i went to the gym today. The entire day I was dreading going to the gym at all…but then there was something that said ‘you need to go before you get on a trip of not going at all’ so I went.

Man, I was doing a leg workout and was not into at all and it was terrible…I mean I even the 50lb weights on the leg extensions were killing me!! It was terrible…I suffered through this workout all because I was not mentally focused.

So, lesson learned today? Like EA sports says….GET IN THE GAME!!!!!

Have you seen ‘em? There are some people on here with sooooommmm huggggeeeee traps and the rest of their body is just like ok. Interesting, I guess this is what people are talking about when people over develop one part of their body and forget about the rest….just a little interesting.

Man…I have enjoyed hitting the gym this summer, I have made a few gains. I should have probably catalog them better. Should could woulda..whatever.Today, I was thinking about how July is quickly coming to an end and my summer is almost over. Man…in just a few days I will be back in the books tough and then back at work…full blast with all my students nearly seven days a week. I am kinded excited, because I enjoy the thrill of my job, but then not because I won’t be able to hit the gym like I usually do.

But, I have a plan…this year, Like MJ said I gotta look at the man in the mirror and make a change. So, all of you as my witness…I VOW TO BE CONSISTENTLY IN THE GYM FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR. Now, after that? I don’t know.LOL!!!! But for all of my fellow bodyspacers who check in every once in a while…talk some trash to me if you see I’m not on it…I’ll need the encouragement and I really won’t mind.

Peace .