Body Project

Going to put a chest shot together from December 2008 and the one I just posted this week to compare difference.  The location is different and lighting is a little different, but it is close enough.  I see the difference, hope others will too!  Next is to do some back shots and legs.  Really would like to get big and ripped for next year and maybe become a sponsored competitor for Gaspari or ON, love those products.  But love bodybuilding.com more than anything.  This site made so much difference in my life!  Can’t put it into words.  Keep kickin ass and getting strong.

So my avi pic is from my only contest I ever did back in 1999 at the age of 30, The Tampa Bay Natural.  I did not know a ton about what I was doing back then and while getting ready for the show I got shipped to Aruba to run several jobs for the company I worked for at the time.  I agreed to go if they flew me back for the contest.  Well needless to say I got to Aruba, yeah tough gig huh, but it was hard work.  I had to be outside all day running guys on a jobsite, and was wiped by the end of the day.  I kept doing cardio, but my eating was not that good, and my w/o’s suffered a lot.  Wish I had a picture of the rat hole gym I went to on occasion, something like you can only imagine.  Either way, and long story short, I came back for the contest and carb depleted the hell out of myself and did not carb back up too good. 

I look back at the pics and the shape I was in and know that I am in better shape now carrying more muscle and more knowledge.  I intend on stepping on stage next year ripped up and big, hopefully in the 190# range and somewhere in the 4-6% bf range.  The rest of this year is about working on diet and what works to gain clean size.  No more bulking and cutting.  I am all about body partitioning the rest of the year, i.e. converting fat to muscle.  I think my diet for the next month or so will be a 7 am protein shake of ON Whey with milk, bcaa, and glutamine for breakfast and simple grains oatmeal.  Then 9:30 will be 6-8ozs skirt steak(I want the fat for testosterone production), brown rice, and ruby red grapefruit.  Lunch I will use cjicken instead of steak.  Then 3 pm will be a pre w/o shake, maybe BSN TRUE MASS.  Then w/o will be around 5, and I will probably hit the Gaspari Superpump 30 minutes prior when I get home at 4:30.  Then during w/o will be Gaspari Size On.  30 mintues post w/o will be Whey shake with bcaa, glutamine, multis and milk.  That should be around 6 - 6:30.  Then either a piece of chicken or another shake 1 hour before bed with whey, glutamine, arginine, and falx seed oil for the GH cocktail recipe I found in Muscle & Fitness.  W/o’s will be heavy and basic compound movements for a 3 day week, with abs and calves on off days.  Still going to do 3-4 days of cardio first thing in the am, some HIIT to get off more BF.  Hopefully by December I will be in the 190 range and around 7% BF.  That is where I want to stay year round from now on, if not less.

I will try to post updates and try to stay injury free.

My mom will not call until 6:33 tonight to make it official, cause that is my birth time.  My rebirth has been taking place over the past year and a half and will continue.  I have come a long way, with a long way to go to reach my fitness goals.  I feel great, knock on wood, and hope to get even better.  My motto:  "There is no try, there is only do or do not."  Celebrating today with a big dinner at the in-laws, then back on the wagon tomorrow.  Goal to be 7% BF by end of year and gain around 10 lbs of muscle.  Going to be working on body partitioning to accomplish this.  Supplements will be ON Whey, glutamine, bcaa’s, flax seed oil, Sizeon, Superpump 250, glycerol(trying out) and arginine.  Oh and my mutil vitamins.