So upon doing my usual daily run through of article, research, and blog reading I linked up to a TNATION article via Mr. Bret Contreras. The article was written by Erick Minor, and he really touched on something I firmly believe in. If you’re in the business of fitness, you need to look the part. People need to see that you believe in your product and that you also utilize it. Practice what you preach. I have a hard time coming up with consistent programming for myself because I am always trying to sharpen my skill set, whether its mobility or speed drills, plyos, TRX or Kettlebells. With that being said, I’m not sure if I am pulling this one thing out of Ericks article, but I feel like we maybe on the same page as this aswell. Personal Trainers should have a Personal Trainer from time to time. How can you say you believe in a product you have never purchased yourself. Anyway, I’m getting carried away..the article is more about the contest diet in 6 weeks. I plan on doing my first body building competition next April. Obviously, I’ll start dieting in January, but I thought I would give this a shot for fun now. Sooooo, without further rambling here’s the article……..
Shredded In Six(weeks that is)
Plan is to follow this diet for the next 6 weeks and see where I end up. I will take photos sometime this week to see the progress I make in the 6 week time frame. I currently do not take any supplements or drink any form of protein shakes. I suffered from rhabdomyolysis over a year ago now, and my nephrologist pleaded with me to stop all supplement usage. However, it’s also been over a year since all my organs have been in probably the best shape they have been in during the past 10 years. I am going to chronicle my diet and workouts on here daily (hopefully). I am going to alter some of the variables of his diet program though. I will be choosing to cook with olive oil instead of butter, because I just can’t wrap my head around cooking with butter. I also may eat an additional meal on the low carb days. The fact of the matter is I wake up every morning at 4am and I don’t get enough sleep. A few days out of my week now are turning into 10-12 Personal Training session days. (NOT complaining…I need the $$$) So, these days I’m going to need the extra calories to keep me “Changing lives and transforming bodies!” With my schedule being as chaotic as it’s been getting the timing right will be a challenge and also I am going to have to go pick up the supplements. I don’t plan on taking everything he’s taking supplement wise, but I figure I will being adding one or two new ones weekly.
This is how today went :
Meal 1 – 5am : Omellete – 3 whole eggs, 3 egg whites, 2 pieces of American Cheese; 3 pieces of Canadian Bacon; 2 tbsp Peanut Butter; Coffee with half/half
Workout (Listed Below)
Meal 2 – 8 am : 1 package of tuna; 2 tbsp of peanut butter
Meal 3 – 11 am : 1 package of tuna; 2 tbsp of peanut butter
12pm – Starbucks Grande Read Eye —– eeeeowwwwwwwwwww 8)
Got my car inspected and oil changed with tire rotation…finally.
4pm – 17 oz T BONE, 5 Jumbo shrimp and a pile of asparagus.
5pm – Green Tea
5:30pm – Coffee and half/half
I happen to love coffee ice cream. Always my choice when it’s presented to me. I take my coffee black regularly, so when I saw this gentlemen was taking down cream with his coffee, I knew it would be an opportunity to help me in this. Coffee and half/half will be like dessert…every time 
7pm – Lean Burger patty with piece of American cheese
The Workout
As usual, I had many a task for today so my workout need to be put in the morning before my sessions. The weight training portion took me all of 30 minutes and almost lost my omelette.
SHOULDERS
1.SMR – Calves, Ham, IT, Quads, Lats, Shoulder girdle
2. Lying external rotation shoulder warm up with band.
3. Seated DB Shoulder Press – 45lbs x 15; 60lbs x 10; 65lbs x 10; 70lbsx 4 (I don’t know what happened here); 45lbs x 12
4. Standing DB Shoulder Press (2 extra drop sets) – 25lbs x 10; 20lbs x 10 ( performed right after 45lbs drop set above)
5. Arnold Press – seated at about 85 degrees on incline bench. 30lbs x 12 x 3 sets
6. DB Lateral Raise Drop set – 35lbsx8;30lbsx8; 25lbsx10; 20lbs x 12; 15lbs x 15
7. Front DB Raise Drop set – 30lbs x 12; 25lbs x 15; 20lbs x 20
8. Super wide grip upright row with olympic bar. Few sets of 15 for ROM purposes, right her is where I had to lay down on floor for second. I took no longer than 3o seconds between any set or exercise. Probably more like under 20 in most cases. Behrouz was killing it on my iPod.
I followed this with a touch of cardio on the Reebok Cycle Plus, which is kind of similar to an Airdyne (KIND OF). I did only 15 minutes due to the time constraints. But according to its calorie meter I burnt 450 calories in 15 minutes. Which is pretty incredible if I actually believed that was accurate, even though I did have the intensity level at it’s max.
As I’m writing this blog, I just received a Facebook message from my beautiful bride. Pretty much informing me she is going to sabotage my diet with Pumpkin Pie Blizzards from Dairy Queen. Perhaps I can fit this in on like every 4th of 5th carb day.
MUSIC PLEASE!
Another new addition to this blog I believe will be whatever I’m listing too musically. My music is who I am and defines part of who I am. So, I figure it should be included. I always use my iPod for cardio but I don’t get to use it as often on the fitness floor as I used to in the past. Fact of the matter is, I am a Personal Trainer and I train myself at my place of work. So, people want to talk to me and ask me questions. I am too afraid of losing a potential client by shutting everyone out with my ear buds and putting on my hard face.
That being said…peep this mix by Luciano. I download a lot of sets from this website Killingbeats.com
Luciano – Live at Mystery Land Festival 2010
That’s it for today at least, tomorrow is apple and pumpkin picking with wifey. Cheers!
