mquang’s BodyBlog

Have you ever workout while you’re angry? or better yet, have you ever workout while you’re angry and had SuperPump in you? I have.  Today, I was angry with my current job, with these customers that I am supporting, with the things call "salary increased".  I was in the stage of "I’m doing so much work, taken more responsibility and don’t get pay enough" while, I see people getting pay more, and do nothing.  I picked up the phone and blasting out at my manager, now that I think about it, I was wrong, I feel bad.  I went to the gym, took 1 and 1/2 scoops of SP.  Today, was Legs, and I did 12-10-8-6 Leg Pressed with weight increased, I thought I couldn’t do it, but because the music was screaming in my headphone, hateful music (Lil John–What you gonna do) lol…I pulled it through.  Also did Leg extension, Calf Raise.  Then I did a bit of abs work, (cable side crunch),abs on a bench (not sure what to call it).
Eating…Subway/Tuna + Diet Coke + Two cookies (chocolate chips) for dinner.  Protein bar for lunch.  Tuna out of a bag for snack and Diet Coke.  lol.  I might as well make it a cheat day.

I performed with excellent today in my workout, by completing the workout as I planned.  I felt a great dealt of energy, great dealt of intense focus, great dealt of strength, good mood, and all for 1 scoop and 1/2 of SuperPump.  Now that I thought of it, the price for SuperPump wasn’t too bad.  I also noticed I must be doing the Dumbbell Row correctly, because I started to feel a burn on my sides.  For my biceps, I did Hercules curl on the cable machine.  For abs, I increased the weight and did cable crunches, and side cable crunches.

I felt good today, because two of my friends, who I used to think look good, asked me to provide them my workout plan, I guess I must be producing the result on my body, and they noticed…how cool is that.  I gave it to them, hopefully, they don’t waste my time by tossing it a side (I know, because some of my friends already did that), oh well, it’s their decision.  I truly believe CT (ChickenTuna) was right, that there really is no magical workout program, it works because you committed to it, and you do it regularly.  Consistency is truly the key.  I told my friends to drink plenty of water, eat lean whenever possible, commit to your workout and devote at least 30 minutes on yourself then you’ll see the result.  I wish my friends would understand that fitness is a life long commitment, it’s not something you do for a short term purpose.  I feel if they set unrealistic goal i.e losing weight as quick as possible, then when they don’t see the result, they end up quitting.

I can’t tell them what to do, all I can do is to work on my body, and produce result, and when they see the result they know it works.

Quang is one day closer to getting the Body That He Deserves.

The alarm woke me up at 5:00am today, another Monday morning, I wish I could hit the snooze button, covered my face with my warm blanket and went back to bed, but I didn’t. I know that if I would, then the rest of the week, I would just make excuse and doing the same things and when you’re doing the same thing over and over again, you’re going to get the same result, and who wants to be the same for every week? I don’t want to look the same for every week, I want to see muscles on me ?. I went to warm-up my car, it was 35 degree outside, freezing cold, but I was glad that there were no ICE and no SNOW; therefore, I consider it was good weather.

Today, I did Triceps/Chest, and Abs then 15 minutes on the treadmill. Great energy today, must be the Super Pump (1 and ½ scoops). My mini Ipod was playing this disco song titled “Self Control” remixed and sang by Infernal (I think) hahaha …the music just stuck in my head, specially this line “I, I live among the creature of the night.” Lol….

Anyway, I am in such a good mood right now, it’s hard to explain. I scared my co-worker away with the supplements I am taking, let see 2 BCAA, 1 fish oil, 1 Multivitamin down it all with yummy extreme chocolate whey by ON mixed with Creatine, and water…then I ate oatmeal with cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top.

 Quang is another closer to getting THE BODY THAT HE DESERVES!

Yesterday, my friend held a small dinner party/pot luck at her place, it was an opportunity to meet all of my old friends from high school through college.  Funny as it may seem, I noticed all conversation started out revolved around look.  I listened to all the conversations, all the what to eat and what not to eat, and ummm I can’t eat that, it’s fat, and I’m trying to lose weight (speech during dinner).  I was laughing inside, because to me it was like them saying not eating tonight meal, is going to help them shape their bodies.  They failed to understand that dieting along won’t help, there is no such thing as spot reduction, starving yourself doesn’t help you lose weight, and 30lbs of fat don’t just appeared on your body overnight.  I was asked about how I accomplished my goal like usual, but I didn’t said much, I just told them one part of the truth, because I feel they’re not going to do it, so why bother waste my time like all those previous time.  I love them, but I truly believe if you are truly committed then there are great resources out there for you like bb.com, there are wonderful people here who truly provide great support.  Like my good friend Tiff, who I met online, who provides great support to all of her friends and motivate her friends to reach their fitness goal–Thanks TIFF.  Out of all my old friends, I only find three that truly taking care of their body, and they do look good.

Today, I went to Giant (super market) got 10 bags of frozen vegetable (broccoli, corn, red bell pepper) at $1 dollar each, 3 tubes of Peanut Butter (low fat) for $5 dollars, 15 multi grains bread $3.50 dollars, Skim Milk (fat free), I was going to pick potatoes, but i forgot if it was a good source of Carb. Is it? Is it? I think it is.

Have a great week everyone

Workout was good today, currently experiencing setback, but I figure exercise is a long term process not a short term so I’m not too concern or crying about it.  Tomorrow, I am going be at the gym after church, train myself because I’ve been missing some quality gym time due to the beautiful snowy and icy weather at where I am.

After the workout, I looked in the mirror and realized I am beginning to lose muscles, my body is getting skinny and it’s not what I want.  I want to look cut, ripped, not skinny.  I will be in the bookstore today, and I am going to get that book written by Tosca Reno on eating lean.

I am currently waiting for an offer letter for a new job, with the new salary, I am going invest in myself–I’m going to have a trainer   Excited and patiently waiting for the good new

Workout

Today, I worked on Back/Biceps/Calves, and I threw in ABS.  I took two scoops of SuperPump, and within 15 minutes I could feel the effect already.  I thought because my stomach was full, therefore it would take a bit of time for me to feel the pump, but boy I was wrong.  After 1 hour and 1/2, I still have energy, but because the weather doesn’t look promising I decided to leave the gym.  Hercules curl was the BOMB, I could see my biceps working.  Dumbbell row, I still have to work on that and the Cable Side Crunches (blah, I still don’t feel much from it).

Meal

Protein Shake with Oat mill and Strawberry

Chicken breast with Salad and Red wine Vinaigrette Almond dressing with Cottage Cheese

Rice and Peanut Butter (I know, but I love it)

PineApple

Peanut Butter and Bread

Tomatoes and Cottage Cheese

1 cup of coffee

1 cup of Tea (Anti-Aging) got to have it

Protein Drink

My new goal is to review all exercises before hitting the gym, I am starting to feel like my forms are incorrect, and therefore, I haven’t feel the burn on the muscle I work at.  Like today, I was doing chest, but I feel mostly on my biceps and shoulder when doing dumbbell press.  Also, I’ve been doing side cable crunches for obliques, but I didn’t feel anything.  It feel like I got rid of most fat junk on my body, but still feel like I’m carrying 5lbs of fat on my abs.  need to work on that too. Oh Joy!

I’ve been having stomach problem, I thought it is because not eating enough fiber, so I intake more fiber even using those Fiber drink, but I still have the problem. But I noticed those days that I eat carb, I feel much better (both in term of bowl movement) so I am going to intake carb not over do it, just to have it on my meal–before I completely avoid it.  Let see how it gonna go for this month.

I have an interview tomorrow, hopefully I get it, need money for supplements and chicken breasts and tuna. Oh boy, this body is getting expensive.

One day closer to getting the Body That I Deserve!

I ate ½ of a medium supreme pan pizza and 4 wings from PizzaHut today.  Now I feel bloated, I feel the food just stuck in my throat and not going anywhere.  Did I make a wise decision of choose my food today? No, but not having it creates pain in me and finally I gave up.  But my action taught me one thing, and that is when I communicate with myself, when I think that I cannot have certain things, I started to want it even more.  I started to think things like “Why am I starving myself?”, “One slide of Pizza is not going to hurt, beside it’s your cheat day”, “Pizza provides good source of Carb for you, and you needs carb  in your system, else your body become sluggish”, “cans of cold Pepsi and Coke are perfect companionship for your delicious pizza”, “You can work it off tomorrow at the gym”, “Your progress pictures look good, one cheat meal won’t hurt”…I gave in, after all, these are valid excuses.  Are we eating because we are hungry or are we eating because of the emotional way we feel?  Because I know food can changes stages of emotion. Think about it, if we are drinking a lot of soda, which is a lot of sugar, we will be happy for awhile because of all those sugar rushing in our system.

Today, I loaded two scoops of SuperPump, 15 minutes later and ½ way to the gym, I started to noticed the intense pump.  Crap! I thought to myself, because I wasn’t ready for it, and it supposed to provide pump 30 minutes after taking.  I started to noticed things goes by extremely slow, especially those cars in front of me.  I couldn’t help but wonder if it’s the SuperPump effects ?

Dumbbell press, cable cross over, triceps kickback, chest machine, cable side crunch, cable crunch, incline dumbbell press, dip and finished it off with 15 minutes of cardio.  I have to condition myself to do cardio again, because cardio started to get boring to me, and things that are boring to do, I won’t do it.

Reasons to do cardio after weight training

-Achieve the body like JdChristie & JoshBme

-Reaching a single digit of BodyFat for ABS to show

-Have a Healthier Heart that keep going and going like the Energizer bunny

-Look shredded, so veins could have an opportunity to show

Accomplished this week included

-Ability to say “NO, thank you” to birthday cake, cup cake, cheese cake, and candies offer

-Followed the workout schedule, and stick by the schedule

-Close to complete reading the Body For Life book

I’m one day closer to achieving the Body That I Deserve!

Today motivation quote:  “For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.” (Tony Robbins)

According to Wikipedia the term Self-discipline refers to the training that one gives one’s self to accomplish a certain task or to adopt a particular pattern of behaviour, even though one would really rather be doing something else.

Although, training for today was not as great as other days, but today I am proud that I was able to discipline myself for not putting foods that would eventually clogged my system.  Today was Valentine day, there were sugary treats everywhere at work, colorful treats, heart-shape treats, treats with the word "love" on it, treats with the happy face on it, but they are all illusion, one they goes into the system, they would turn into fat.  Sat across from the treats table, I saw many faces could not resist the temptation, although I know they’ve tried to, but they’ve all failed.  <strong />

"ABS tastes sweeter then these cup cakes", I told my friend, who insists that I have a cupcake.

Today, I have eaten:

Salad & Tomatoes & Chicken breast & Fat free Raspberry Vignette and Almond

15 multi-grains breads & Peanut Butter

Pineapples & Strawberry

Cottage Cheese

Rice & Pork & potatoes
2 cup of teas

Waters

I am one day closer to achieving the BODY THAT I DESERVE!