jason_wtx’s Big Wild Crazy BodyBlog

So since I posted my before and after pics in the forums, I have received a few requests on my diet and training regimen. This post will be a reply to those request.

The biggest thing that I can think of for those needing to lose weight is this: It an’t freakin easy!

It is work, it is hard work and it is very, extremely, a joyful and proud moment though, to look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself…You look good. But remember we will always find something wrong with our bodies. We will always have something that needs extra attention. The will always be some part of our bodies that we focus on improving.

Its just like marriage, so work at it okay!

My Diet state of mind:

To start with, I really didn’t know anything about dieting when I started February ‘08. It was mostly from the resources of Bodybuilding.com that I learned how to diet. The biggest key to dieting that I found out through experience is, you have to do what you body will react to and your body will adapt to what you do, so you have to continue to do something new.

Overall I ate clean, you know, turkey, chicken, tuna, the veggies and the stuff you didn’t want to eat when you were adding inches to your waist. That also meant no more Jack in the Box’s Double Ultimate Cheeseburger
First off set your goal, notice I didn’t say goals. Set your short term goal, whether you weigh 210 and want to get down to 205 or drop a pants size. Here is the thing, we all have a ultimate goal, we know where we want to be in the end. Truthfully, we may never reach that ultimate goal because we will always have something to improve on. You do this one goal at a time.
Now I am not going to tell what meals I ate and when I ate them and how many times I ate them. For one, I don’t remember. I dieted like this: don’t eat fried foods, go for grilled and if you can’t get that look for baked or smoked.

I do stir fry a bunch and here’s how:

I use olive oil in the pan and heat that baby up. Cook your meats first, scoop out the meat when it is almost completely cooked. Drain most of the oil but not all. Heat the pan back up and add the veggies. Cook the veggies until they are almost done then add the meat back and whatever spice/seasoning cocktail you might have.

Macros:

This is simple, I keep my protein high, carbs on the low side of medium and my fats low. I do this for a couple of days and then raise my carbs close to even with my protein for a day maybe two. Keep in mind, I cook with olive oil and eat a bunch of fish so that most of the fats I get are good.
Protein Shakes, don’t get overzealous with them. Try to get your protein from whole foods. I take shake first thing in the morning and one after workouts.

Closing thoughts about my diet:

• Be sure to up your fiber
• Take breaks from strict dieting — some people call it a cheat day, I think of it as a meal or two off. like a day off from training
• Set a diet reward — for me it was Double Ultimate Cheeseburger one year later. I learned that I didn’t like them as much as I thought.
• Treat yourself from time to time — for instance I might take a week and eat 2 Chips Ahoy! cookies when I get home or maybe a brownie or two on the weekend after dieting hard for the week
• Don’t be so stuck on how fast you lose the weight but acknowledge how much you have lost and how good of a job you are doing at keeping it off — what good is it if you lose 20lbs in ten days but put 10lbs on in 20 days that follow

Training: Yeah!!! Buddy!!!

No great secrets here, do your weight training and DO YOU CARDIO!!!

I changed my weight training program in 4-6 weeks cycles. Currently, I have been training just upper body and concentrating on one muscle group per workout. I have been doing a lot of cardio and that works my lower body. I will do this for another week and then back down the cardio and start moving my focus to my lower body.

Some cycles I did high reps, high sets, and medium weight, while other cycles were low reps, low sets and HEAVY FREAKIN HEAVY weight. Take days off, know your body and know the difference between needing rest and just being lazy.
<<<< This post is a work in progress and will be edited and added to as I get it done. Oooppss >>>>

Since I started this 16 week program I have been weight training ever-other day. And I have to say I think that my body is reacting to the program quit well.

The 340lbs on squat felt like the 315lbs the week before. That is nice to see an increase in strenght. I already have a 1RM on squat somewhere around 415lbs. So working out with 340lbs is not a big deal, its just the number of sets that is different. 9 sets of 3 reps.

Tonight, I will do cardio, abs and calves. I think that I am doing a good job in procceding towards my goals. I have been working towards getting my BF% down to 4-5% and increasing my strength along with muscle size.

Now granted, my muscle size development has not been what I would like. But this is directly related to me dieting and cutting. At this point, I am more didecated to decreasing my BF% than increasing my muscle size. Once I reach my BF% and hold it for a couple of months, I will then concentrate on increasing muscle size.

Lift hard, lift heavy,

Jason

Okay, so I have been working on losing the body fat and getting better muscle difention. So I figure it is about time to start training for strength. I have set the following goals: Squat - 500lbs., Dead Lift - 450 lbs., Bench - 325 lbs. These goals are very achiveble for me.

I came across this from the Periodized CAT Bench Program.
Okay, I know this is for bench but I am using it also for squat and dead lift.

Here is what I have for bench:

I guess I should have mad this a page;)

I had been on NxLabs Ripped for so long, my body got use to it and I got tried of it.

So, I know most people won’t even read this but if you do tell me what you think about Dren.

To be honest, I haven’t reall noticed anything different. I mind was a little bit more busy this morning on the way to work. It was thinking of stuff from all different directions and chasing rabbit trails just the same. I have been a little bit more hungry today. If it is because of the Dren, then good that should crank up my motab a little.

My body seems to be finially doing something. I attribute that to the Gaspri stack SP250&SizeOn. My strength is going up, my weight is the same, and my BF% is slowly, I am almost not at all, going down.

Any suggestions?

Lift hard, lift heavy,

Jason

Well it has been one of those days. Our youngest was up a lot last night and neither my wife or I slept very good.

This morning instead of eating eggs like I normally do, I had a bowl of Special K. Yeah, that just left my stomach upset all morning. It wasn’t until this afternoon that my stomach has settled down. But now I just don’t have much energy and this sucks. I want to get to the gym but I feel like my youngest could out-bench me right now.

None the less, I will hero up take my stack and hit the weights. Tonight is back and tris, I think I will put the intensity of tonights workout into my tris. Na, screw it, I will just go all out on everything I do. -even my tanning!

This day is just leaving saying What tha …? How are yall feeling?

Lift hard, lift heavy,

Jason

Well, I started this stack Wednesday. Since I don’t workout on Wednesday, I took one scoop of SP250 during lunch and the the SizeOn around about 6:30pm which is a little bit before the time when I would workout.

So yesterday I took the SP250 at  6pm and then drank on the SizeOn during my workout at 7pm.

WOW, that says a lot about it. I was very pumped. I did chest and tris, chest first. When I got done I thought my chest was going to rip open. It felt great! I also moved up in weights but this is somewhat misleading becuase I knew I was due for heavier weights. But none the less, this will be a great month journy with this stack.

I almost can’t wait for tonight, what am I saying, its Friday and there is not that many people at the gym on Friday nights.

I guess those lazy people would rather go out to the movies on a date. Well, my wife and I have date night at the gym!

Lift hard, Lift heavy,

Jason

Okay, so this is yet another review and opinion on Gaspari Nutrition’s Super Pump 250.

My overall assessment on this product is very good. I believe that if used according to how your body interacts best with it, SuperPump 250 will surely help you out. The key thing I believe is trying it out for more than a 2 or 3 days. I read through a lot of reviews and forums post before writing this blog. The one thing I was finding was people would take it for a couple of days, not like the way it was working and then quit. Now, let me state that SP250 will give you the unwanted need to stay near the bathroom when you first start using it. But on the other hand, almost all the Muscle Tech stuff gives me, crap-my-brains-out-runs. So keep in mind that our bodies are not all the exact same, somethings that upset my stomach may not bother the next guy. Moving on.

Here is the quote from the product page:

Felt like crap all weekend, didn’t work feeling drained.

I feel better now, but I don’t have much desire to head to the gym.

I am going to do it, my workout partner is not going to let me break for to long.

Gotta find my motivation!!!!

God Bless,

Jason

Well, it is Cinco de Mayo and I am about 20 days from my first goal.

My wife and I set Memorial Day as our first goal date of transforming our bodies. We set it back at th beginning of February, so I am really looking forward to the end of the month. For the most part, we have been taking Hydroxycut Hardcore and I have been on the Nitro-Tech, Cell-Tech, and a few other Muscle Tech Supps. I do have to say this, the Gakic supp from Muscle Tech really works great for me. If you haven’t tried it do so, also take a gram or so of Vitamin C with it.

So, as this was our first time to really care about getting ripped and building big muscles we made some mistakes. The biggest for me was dieting. I tried hard but just did the dieting part wrong for the first couple of months. I was losing wait but slowly. Could not figure why the scale was taking so long to go down. Well, hindsight is 20/20 and I have seen that my diet, although good intents, was wrong. Oh well, live learn and don’t make those mistakes again.

Now I got about 20 days left. I have been off of the  Hydroxycut Hardcore for  a little over a week. I was giving my system time off from a ‘fat burner’ and yesterday I went and bought a different brand. I got the NxLabs  Ripped Hardcore and while I was there I saw their test booster METHYL TEST.  So I snagged it too.  The box said 21 day cycle, that was about how many days I had left and I have never taken a test booster. What else was I suppose to do but give it a shot. One thing I have learned, is that a supp. that works great for you may not work great for me and how else are you  going to find out unless you try them.

Come May 25, it will be real interesting to see if I get my BF down to or below 10%, I am at 15% now. My weight was 202 this morning and I would like to be close to 195 by the end of this month. Lets recap this goal, drop about 5 pounds in weight and about 5% from my BF all in 21 days. Can it be done? And one more goal to add. On my bench I am doing 3 set of 5 @ 285lbs. I want that to be at least 3 sets of 5 @ 300lbs. Wish me luck!!!

God Bless,
Jason

In this battle there is only one.

And he knows his enemy well.

As he moves forward, his enemy matches his move.

To me weight training is a fight, a battle between me and myself.
Its the best fight I have ever been in!

On a side note started doing my cardio in the morning.
So to have time I have to get up at 5am.
I know that is not to early but we train weights in the evening around 7pm.
And sometimes after working out, getting home, getting kids in bed, getting us feed, getting a shower and getting in bed.
It can be close to 11pm.
So nap at lunch have become a pretty nice thing.

God Bless,
Jason