Glen's BUFF Blog http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192 *"Finding my inner Rockstar"* Mon, 12 May 2008 14:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=0.32 en SUMMER BOOTCAMP ‘08 http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/05/12/summer-bootcamp-08/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/05/12/summer-bootcamp-08/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 18:06:29 +0000 justglen192 Training http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/05/12/summer-bootcamp-08/ All I need is room to fight
Hand in fisted glove.
Point me to the sky,
It’s my turn to fly.
I have exactly two more ten page English papers to write. Once this meagerly difficult procrastinated task is completed it will be officially summer vacation/break.
Dictionary.com defines this lovely period in time as:
a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
The exciting and/or sad part of this statement is that in order for me to live my life and be successful I need to more or less skip this event.
i am an actor
The day I chose to sign my life away to conservatory was the end of a summer driven life.  Nearly every adult I know lives there entire life in pursuit of the two weeks a year they get in vacation time.  I decided I didn’t want to work a nine to five job.  I decided that was not for me.  I decided I wanted to live my life doing and engrossing myself in something I loved.  I was going to to not spend my life sacrificing my energy and time doing something that had little or no meaning to me in order to get a mere two weeks to spend releasing the stress that that certain something gave me.  I chose to be an actor.
Theatre is the coolest and most exciting art form, I believe, on earth. It is the sole element in this world that drives me, motivates me, and challenges me beyond belief.  I have just finished my freshman semester at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.  It has most difficult and challenging year of my life thus far.  I have had to overcome emotional, physical, and mental obstacles beyonds understanding.  The sad and eminent fact as it all comes to an end is that this is just the beginning!!!
“…you want to make God laugh,
just tell him your plan…”
-Rondi Reed
Summer Goals
a. dance three days a week
-I want to be a better dancer
-I will be a great dancer
b. play piano five days a week
-I want to be a stronger pianist
-I will be an accompanist
c. put on ten pounds of muscle
-I want to be healthy and marketable
-I will be able to utilize my strongest tool(mybody) as an actor
d. eat healthy and properly
- I want to feel and look healthy
- I will be able to utilize my strongest tool as an actor
e. live life the the fullest; spending every moment filling my soul
- I want to learn and do everything
- I will be a stronger and more complete person
“This must be the most important thing in your life — more so than your mother….”
-Robert Scogin
Mon May12th -Day one!!
Mon Aug 25th — Fall Auditions!!
]]> http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/05/12/summer-bootcamp-08/feed/ Motivation… http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation-2/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation-2/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:59:25 +0000 justglen192 Training http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation-2/ I am sitting on my desk chair, breathing heavily.  I just got back from my first workout in a long while.  I have set out once again to achieve my bodybuilding goal.  I am unsteady, shaking, pumped, uneasy, jittery, exhausted, and excited as hell.  I just drank my fruity flavored creatine and am watching my arm vein look thick and pumped.  I want so badly to be Massive!  The only thing standing in my way is time and my brain.  I wanted to write this to let myself remember how difficult it was to get through my first workout.  I plowed through and worked through my winded breathing.  I am out of shape.  I will soon be in shape.  I will be muscled.  I will grow!  

The first step in my motivation was to set a goal.  

I WILL COMPLETE A 12-WEEK STRENGTH TRAINING PROGRAM

The second step was to do everything in my power to motivate and achieve my goal.

I STARTED A GYM JOURNAL

This will include pictures of myself on a weekly basis to compare my progress.  This will also include motivational quotes and pictures of my ideal body.  I will also track my nutritional food intake.  It will def. include a detailed record of my workouts.  I want this to be my bible and to help me learn about what works and what doesn’t.  I will be 100% truthful in my journal and include anything I do that isn’t the best eating/lifting decision.  

I WILL ACHIEVE MY GOAL.

I WANT TO BE THE BEST ACTOR I CAN POSSIBLY BE!

Monday April 14, 2008 = DAY ONE

]]> http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation-2/feed/ Motivation… http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:58:23 +0000 justglen192 Training http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation/ I am sitting on my desk chair, breathing heavily.  I just got back from my first workout in a long while.  I have set out once again to achieve my bodybuilding goal.  I am unsteady, shaking, pumped, uneasy, jittery, exhausted, and excited as hell.  I just drank my fruity flavored creatine and am watching my arm vein look thick and pumped.  I want so badly to be Massive!  The only thing standing in my way is time and my brain.  I wanted to write this to let myself remember how difficult it was to get through my first workout.  I plowed through and worked through my winded breathing.  I am out of shape.  I will soon be in shape.  I will be muscled.  I will grow!  

The first step in my motivation was to set a goal.  

I WILL COMPLETE A 12-WEEK STRENGTH TRAINING PROGRAM

The second step was to do everything in my power to motivate and achieve my goal.

I STARTED A GYM JOURNAL

This will include pictures of myself on a weekly basis to compare my progress.  This will also include motivational quotes and pictures of my ideal body.  I will also track my nutritional food intake.  It will def. include a detailed record of my workouts.  I want this to be my bible and to help me learn about what works and what doesn’t.  I will be 100% truthful in my journal and include anything I do that isn’t the best eating/lifting decision.  

I WILL ACHIEVE MY GOAL.

I WANT TO BE THE BEST ACTOR I CAN POSSIBLY BE!

Monday April 14, 2008 = DAY ONE

]]> http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2008/04/14/motivation/feed/ “Every day is a New Battle” http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2007/12/05/every-day-is-a-new-battle-2/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2007/12/05/every-day-is-a-new-battle-2/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:30:10 +0000 justglen192 Training http://blog.bodybuilding.com/justglen192/2007/12/05/every-day-is-a-new-battle-2/ How does a man accomplish his goals?  What stands in his way? Can a man get past his self and accomplish the things he truly wants?  

I am a strong, confident, intelligent, and driven person.  I am young, ignorant, lazy, and oppressed.  My strength is found solely on the inside.  It is noticeable in small ways through gesture or action but in most cases is inhibited by fear.  This strength is fueled by my desires, wants, and passions in life. It is somewhere in between my desire to accomplish something and it’s attempt to execute itself outside of my self that obstacles rule.  Also, in turn I find that my own self becomes an obstacle.  

My long standing goal is to be a bodybuilder.  I love the feeling of being in the gym and doing something productive and healthy.  I love the environment nearly as much as I fear it.  I love to feel the pump and gain the confidence to someday take my shirt off knowing i worked hard for admiration received.  The inner teenager wants to look good, be shallow, and attract people.  It undoubtedly seems that the shallow goals tend to be the hardest of all to achieve.

I recently  moved to Chicago for school and the gym in my building is not necessarily up to par.  I go to a private college and cannot afford to buy a gym membership.  I don’t have the proper knowledge despite my efforts to develop a proper lifting program for growth and stick to it.  I cannot seem to find a lifting partner to help me at this goal.  I eat properly for four days then break on the fifth and head downhill.   I claim that because I am sore I cannot lift because I will injure myself.  Why is it these petty excuses that whine out of my mind prevent me from accomplishing what I want?

I have been to the gym 3x this week (sunday, monday, tuesday) and I am incredibly sore.  My free trial week long membership to a gym is up at the end of the week.  I will have to revert back to the little gym in my building.  Why is it I find so much to whine about and in turn prevent myself from just getting my ass to the gym?  My attempts to curve my negative nature seem to fail time and time again and yet help me at times.  

How can I make gains towards something I really do want when I find such  mental adversity?  Do I feel that because I am a gay male I cannot live up to the standards of sorts?  Is asking that question totally ridiculous?  Why do I feel intimidated by something that isn’t even judging me in the first place?  Why can’t I find a lifting partner to help me learn and grow as a bodybuilder?  Why am I typing my inner loser bodybuilding feelings on an online blog to people I don’t even know?  

That is all for now….

Please comment!

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do"

-Benjamin Franklin

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aight later

glenn

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