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Saturated Fat Evil?

oldsuperman — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:47:17 +0000

Actuallyyyyy,…… this is a myth! The American Heart Association recommends that one third of the fat intake comes from saturated fat! That means the AMA is actually RECOMMENDED taking saturated fat. And the American heart Association has ALWAYS recommended having SOME saturated fat.

It IS true that too much saturated fat is bad for the body, yet the idea that ALL saturated fat is bad for the body is blatantly untrue. The body needs saturated fat for a variety of processes, including growth!

From the web site News letter, “Jigsaw Health”, it says,

“Although they have received a bad rap, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD, of the Weston A. Price Foundation, have been leading the charge to systematically and scientifically reveal the importance of saturated fats. In a study entitled, ?The Skinny on Fats,? they cite the following:

Saturated fatty acids constitute at least 50% of the cell membranes. They give cells their necessary stiffness and integrity.
Saturated fats play a vital role in the health of bones. For calcium to be effectively incorporated into the skeletal structure, at least 50% of dietary fats should be saturated.
Saturated fats lower lipoprotein (a) ? A substance in the blood that indicates proneness to heart disease.
Saturated fats protect the liver from alcohol and other toxins.
Saturated fats enhance the immune system.
Saturated fats are needed for the proper utilization of essential fatty acids. Specifically, omega-3 essential fatty acids are better retained in the tissue when the diet is rich in saturated fats.3″ http://www.jigsawhealth.com/articles…rated_fat.html

Soooo, go ahead and have that Ice cream, hamburger, T-Bone steak, pop corn with coconut oil butter at the movies!

Just know your ratios and numbers so you don’t over dooooo it! Hmmmmmmmm….. I’m hungry.

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50 WEEKS TO MASTERS NATIONALS

oldsuperman — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:00:14 +0000

50 WEEKS TO MASTERS NATIONALS

BACK ATTACK!!!!

Seated cable rows close grip 4 sets.
1st set 25 reps 100 lbs
2nd set 20 reps 140 lbs
3rd set 20 reps 140 lbs
4th set 18 reps 140 lbs

Seated lat pulls close grip 4 sets 25 reps 160 lbs
I sit on the floor when I do this so I can get a full stretch and keep the elbows in front and not too wide. This way the lats are really isolated.

Single pole bent over rows fairly light weight 90 lbs 3 sets 18 to 15 reps.

Thoughts. Still pumped about my training this season. Sean, my conditioning coach will sit down in a few weeks and work out another contract and plan for the year. Brandon, my trainer is pushing me as hard as ever! He is training for the Jr Nationals next July. Man he’s a big gorilla!

Tomorrow, GRILL THE GUNS AND CARVE UP THE CALVES!

50 WEEKS TO MASTERS NATIONALS!

oldsuperman — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:57:18 +0000

Cardio 31 mins AM

Delts or DIIIIIIIEEEE!!

Single arm fly’s. 4 sets. 15 reps each side. Between 2nd and 3rd sets and 4th set and after 4th set, sit down lateral fly’s 15 lb DB’s 15 reps
1st set, 35 lb DB’s
2nd set, 35 lb DB’s
lateral fly’s 15 lb DB’s
3rd set 40 lb DB’s
lateral fly’s 15 lb DB’s
4th set 40 lb DB’s
lateral fly’s 15 lb DB’s

Shoulder press 4 sets
1st set, 10 reps 130 lb’s
2nd set, 12 reps 120 lb’s
3rd set, 12 reps 110 lb’s
4th set, 12 reps 110 lb’s

Bent over rear delt fly’s. 4 sets
1st set, 35 lb DB’s 15 reps
2nd set, same
3rd set, same
4th set, same

A few thoughts.
Well, my wheels or really tight and my glutes are going to fall off by tomorrow! LOL! Man they’re sore!
Diet is weird! As of Sat I weighed 223 lbs. This morning I weighed 213 and my six pack is almost back! My body is still burning the carbs faster then I can eat them. Never had this problem before! SOOOOoo, gonna eat more for now! Funny how the body changes in time, even at 54! Just odd! Taking Wed’s and Thurs off as I’m heading to the mountains to visit my wife as he shave been gone since last Wed’s camping at a family reunion. Friday will train back.

50 weeks to Masters Nationals!

oldsuperman — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:23:57 +0000

HERE WE GO AGAIN! 50 WEEKS TO MASTERS NATIONALS

Ate clean alllllll day!

I’m up 20 fatty, fat pounds since Masters Nats! LOL! Man it was fun while it lasted!!!

Woke up a little late. Did cardio 6:30 AM; 31 mins, HR 115 BPM.

FREAKEN LEG DAY! God I hate Brandon! He enjoys this waaaay toooo much! Something sick about it! It’s not normal!

Leg press. 6 sets
4, 45lb plates 15 reps warm up.
8, 45lb plates 25 reps.
12, 45lb plates 20 reps.
16, 45lb plates 15 reps.
Dido, 15 reps.
Dido, 15 grueling more reps! A crazy LOL!

3 sets of 10 alternating lunges with DB’s. Drive hard pushing hard on the up swing!
1st set, 50lb DB’s
2nd set, 60lb
3rd set, 60lb
OOooooo! My ass is gonna be soooo sore!

Leg extensions 3 sets 130 lbs
25 reps of hold and squeeeeezzzzzz! OOOooo these realllllly hurt!

Ham extensions I think that’s what their called.
3 sets, 25 reps. Hold and squeeezzzzz.

Wobbled out of the gym in a daze.

THOUGHTS.
Friends, I have never been sooo excited about getting ready for a competition. It was so great to compete at M Nationals and receive so much encouragement and praise. The main compliment I would get is, “You have amazing symmetry! You have the best condtioning in your class.”

I looked at myself long and hard this year after my two comps. I could see that all I need to do is put on 10 more quality pounds and I will make my mark next year at M Nats for sure. I think my trainer, conditioning coach, and posing coach are more excited then I! I’m so blessed to have these men behind me! It truly is humbling to have them believing in me and supporting me as they do!

I have great friends in the sport that have encouraged and supported me when I really needed that extra push!

Mostly tho, Judy, my precious sweetheart for 31 years has always been there with unreal patience and support. I truly have no idea how she puts up with it?! Yet, thank God she does!

50 weeks, of hard, consistent, intense training! Quality diet! It’s doable! I know it! I feel it! I have never felt so sure and so committed!

So, I start this new journal with a commitment, I know I can make! I know I can do it! It’s more then a belief! It’s more then trying! I know it will happen, because I already have created it in my head. I have caught the vision! ed

2008 NPC OREGON STATE BBING CHAMPIONSHIPS REPORT

oldsuperman — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:38:45 +0000

This year at the Oregon was great! kudo’s to Dre Scott for putting on a great efficient competition! I easily won the Grandmasters again and moved on to the Masters Overall. I was a little concerned with it as the "T REX flew in from San Fran to compete and he took the 40 yr old Masters class easily and the Novice Heavy Weight and Novice Overall easily too. When went into the Masters Overall I could see he is bigger, younger by almost 15 yrs, yet not that much bigger and I had the conditioning tight and dry. I think that carried me to the winners circle! It was a great way to go out and my trainers and coaches have retired me from Ammeter comps and Nationals is the focal point of my sports carrier now. Claiming that elusive Pro Card is the only goal!

Blog Entry

oldsuperman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:19:01 +0000

2008 NPC Masters Nationals Report!

oldsuperman — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:56:02 +0000

I placed 3rd and am very happy. I’m grateful for the support I had there and here on this site. I’m already planning for next year.

There was no dought I had the best condition and symmetry in the group, yet it takes more then that to win. I lacked the size I needed to seal the deal. Several of the winners, that placed above me and below me said I placed too low, yet, I’m grateful and pleased as hell for the placement and the experience.

I had many fiends there to compete and one placed first in his weight class and the others all placed! It was great!

As usual, Judy was the perfect spouse and support to and for me. Thank God for that woman! THANK GOD! She was diagnosed with Breast cancer 3 yrs and 2 mths ago. I had just chose to compete. During her trial, she still encouraged me to train and compete. How AMAZING is that! Blessed man I am!

My posing routine killed the audience, and several of the judges HIGH FIVED each other after my performance. It was fun and the judges will never forget me! As I was going to my room, many come up to me to tell me how great I was, and at dinner I had many people come up to me and say I was the high light of the night! That was fun for sure. Just as soon as I get the DVD I will post it on youtube.

It’s late here. Gonna try and sleep! Next week, I’ll start my new thread. 50 weeks to Pittsburgh!

According To Statistics, 97% Of You Will Fail! Will You!

oldsuperman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:32:36 +0000

In the sport of Bodybuilding, it is said that 70% is genetics when it comes to having the kind of body to compete successfully. One can have size, definition, stratified and vascular muscles, have personality and the classic looks of a leading movie star, and yet if you lack “symmetry”, you will always struggle to succeed in the sport of competitive bodybuilding. What is symmetry? It means “BALANCE.”

So, if you lack the “symmetry” or “Balance,” do you give up and stand at the sideline, and let your dreams fade away like “Dust in the Wind”?

NO! You humble yourself! Let go of pride! You train hard developing hard sinewy muscle. You study the masters that have gone before. You practice posing for hours and hours perfecting every move. One posing trainer told me that “posing is mostly smoke and mirrors.” It’s like a magician doing “slight of hand” expressing the positive and doing suttle moves to make the weak parts of the body appear better then they are.

You need to be humble so you can be teachable and learn or you will be humbled, and then it is a matter of choice! Do you humble yourself and continue to strive and improve? Or quit!

When you look at my slogan it says, “Consistency with intensity brings DENSITY!”

When you first look at my mantra, you most likely think that I’m talking about the “physical” part of the body, yet actually that is the last part of what I mean. That mantra starts with the “Spiritual,” part of our life, then “Mental,” then “Emotional,” and finally the “Physical body,” in that order.

The Spiritual body is the “foundation” of our life, then we educate ourselves by mentally working and studying, taking in as much knowledge as possible. Then we ask ourselves, “How does that feel? Does it work for me?” Then we act on it, and DO IT all with, “Consistency and Intensity, and that will give us the, Density we are striving for Spiritually, Mentally, Emotionally, and finally Physically.

I compete mostly because I’m an obsessive compulsive. I am driven in every aspect of my life by OCD. It that a bad thing? Not if I keep balanced by keeping my mantra balanced with keeping the Spiritual balanced with the Mental, and the Mental balanced with the Emotional, and finally I can go at it Physically and train like hell. If I get one of the four parts of my body outta balanced, then the physical part will fail.

OK, the “Smoke and Mirrors?” That is acting as if, Faith if you will! You create the dream and live it, weather it materializes is up to you. If you believe you will succeed, then you will. If you believe you will fail…. then that will be you destiny.

The reason why I’m giving this little sermon, is because people ask me all the time, “What can I to to change?” “I want to look more like you!” The key to change isn’t just changing physical habits! One must change all aspects of their lives starting with the foundation, not the roof!

You are miserably fat and, or outta shape not because you’re doing something physically wrong creating bad habits! That is just the symptom of an inner struggle that needs to change first before you change the Physical body. That is why 97% of all people who go on diets and or exercise programs fail. They attack the symptom, not the problem. Start with the foundation first then work yourself up to the roof.

Where is your Consistency? Where is your Intensity? If you are outta balanced, and you have put the Physical before the Mental, Emotional, and most important, the Spiritual part of you life, then you are doomed to be one of the 97% who will fail to change your physical body. ed

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Be Consistent! Be Intense! Become your Goal!
Consistency with intensity brings DENSITY!!

Hey! I’m better at it than men HALF my age!

Check out my trainer, www.seancalder.net

I’m the “ORIGINAL” Mirror Whore!

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A Bodybuilder Is Like a Pregnant Worman!

oldsuperman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:30:17 +0000

While Ron, another master BB friend, and I were in an elevator at the Shilo Inn Hotel, leaving after registration and weigh ins at for the Oregon BB Comp. A man and two ladies about my age, stepped into the elevator from another floor.

The 3 of them started to ask questions about BB and working out! “How many hours a day would I have to spend in the gym to look like you,” one lady asked? “Oh bout 40 to 60 mins, 4 to 6 days a week,” I said.

“Is that all” the other lady said, and just then I felt two hands going up and down my left shoulder and then squeezing my biceps!

I guess my face went into wide eyed shock and the elevator doors opened and they got out!

I guess I looked a little out of sorts, cause Ron burst out laughing and said the look on my face was priceless! He has been telling everyone we know the “elevator story” for the last 3 days!

I asked Ron what she looked like as she was stroking my shoulder and arm? He said, “She looked like she was loving it! LOL LOL LOL!!!”

OOOOooooooo! I want a shower!

Just a few days before that I was in the WinCo shopping for sweet potato’s and rice cakes. They were for the carb bulking to come for the competition. When at the check out stand the checker lady was staring at me, BTW I was in one of my superman string tanks, and shorts fresh from the gym, when she said,

“My husband would look just like you if he lifted weights!” “That’s right he would!” said the gal that was helping her check the groceries.

Just then the checker gal reached across and rubbled her hand across my chest and said, “Wow that’s so big!”, and just then the other gal started squeezing my biceps and said, “So how big are those arms?” in an inquisitive voice.

PEOPLE! I’M A FIFTYTHREE YEAR OLD MAN! OLD ENOUGH TO BE THESE GIRLS DADDY! I’VE NEVER EVER SPOKE TO AND MET THESE GALS!

Well after telling my sweetheart Mrs. Oldsup bout these gals, she said, “Well that’s what happens when you’re pregnant! When your tummy is sticking out their are people, and yes some are total strangers, feel perfectly justified to reach out, rub and pat your tummy, then start talking to you as if your were best of friends! Sounds like the same thing to me!” she said!

I knew it wasn’t them coming on to me cause it wasn’t that sort of thing, and even tho I’m in shape, the beard and hair is white, and the face is sagging just a bit! Besides, I may be up there, yet I still know what coming onto feels like! This wasn’t it!

Mrs Oldsup just smiled and said, “It could be worse? They could be rubbing and patting your TUMMY! LOL!!!! ed

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Be Consistent! Be Intense! Become your Goal!
Consistency with intensity brings DENSITY!!

Hey! I’m better at it than men HALF my age!

Check out my trainer, www.seancalder.net

I’m the “ORIGINAL” Mirror Whore!

++++++++Mirror Whore Coalitiion++++++++

Do You Train, or Just Work Out?

oldsuperman — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:27:58 +0000

You may or my not have noticed, I never say, "I workout"…..What I do is, "TRAIN!"

When most people go to the gym, what almost everyone says they are doing is, "working out". Yet, most, 97% to be exact, will fail at in their exercise and diet program in one year or less.

When you talk to someone who "trains" they have a goal in mind, like to "hit a lift" to improve in strength and virility. Some to get those Brad Pitt abs. Some to compete in BBing or power lifting competitions. There are many other pursuits that are rewarding and challenging for the BBer, like cycling, triathlons, marathons, even a better golf game and etc..

My goal now, for example, it to compete in 2008 NPC Masters Nationals BBing competition and win my class! There are many sub goals in place to reach that goal by a certain time to get to my ultimate goal. Therefore, "I’m in training." I have "trainers" that "trains" me. I have a "training" partner with similar goals!

What I have noticed over the years as I attend many of the same gyms from Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and other major cities foreign and domestic, that I frequent, I see many of the same people, some have improved, some maintained, yet most are newbies that will be gone the next time I visit, never to return again.

At least twice a week or more, someone will come up to me and ask, "How can I lose weight" or "I want to look like you!" Or "get more muscles, but not big like you! Just toned up." or "I wanna lose my belly, get fit, bla, bla, bla…" They are almost always short term lifters. Why? IMO, they come to "just work out." No goals, no vision of what that means. It is more than "just working out," it is a goal, and vision of what you want to accomplish. Therefore, they fail.

I rarely give them advice anymore to the people that approach me because when I do, 98% of them will not put forth the "intensity", or "consistency" or diet to succeed. They come to the gym to "just work out." They lack "intensity and consistency," with no idea of how to achieve the goals they seek. They come to "workout" and "train" for nothing.

Does a runner talk about his or her "working out" for a race, or do the "train" for a race. Do skiers "work out" or train? Do ball players go to "workout" camps or "training" camps? They have coaches and trainers, that train them.

Now, I’m not saying anything is wrong with "working out." I just feel to me, it means two different things, one has a strong commitment to a goal, a vision, and the other terminology rarely does. It just hangs there. To me, it is more than semantics!

So, the question is….. "Do you train?" Or, "Just work out?" ed

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Be Consistent! Be Intense! Become your Goal!
Consistency with intensity brings DENSITY!!

Hey! I’m better at it than men HALF my age!

Check out my trainer, www.seancalder.net

I’m the “ORIGINAL” Mirror Whore!

++++++++Mirror Whore Coalitiion++++++++