Well, we had five days in Vegas for the Mr. Olympia contest. The first thing I must say is congratulations to all the competitors and I mean all of them, body building (all genders and weight classes), Figure, Fitness, Bikini, Power-lifting, Grappling and strongman. There wasn't a competitor out there that didn't give their all. I also want to give Jay Cutler a big shout out for retaining his Mr. Olympia title and becoming a four time champion.
The Olympia experience is amazing. I went in there thinking this is a once and a life time experience but I left saying come hell or high water we will do this again. It's an amazing event, well organized and done to perfection. From the press conference, to the expo and the ending seminar. Damn! We had the perfect vacation.
The expo was amazing, I left the house with about eight or nine shirts for our trip. At the Expo we got about another fifteen FREE shirts and more free samples of powders and pills than I could imagine. I still don't know how we crammed everything into our luggage but it's safe to say that our luggage was screaming for mercy.
Me and barb got lots of singed autographed pictures and barb also got a lot of the athletes to sign her work-out journal. Mega cool!
We are back home and feeling very energized, I can't wait to get back to the gym tomorrow. The only downside to the trip was that I wasn't able to eat my seven meals a day. I did good by staying away from junk foods and sinful deserts but I came home about five pounds lighter than when I left. I will gain the weight back by the weekend and then I will continue my quest to 160 pounds.
While I was away my weight belt arrived and now that I'm back home it's day one starting my new supplement Animal test. It's a testosterone booster and estrogen suppressor. I will take that for 42 days and then report back.
It's great to be back home, we missed the dogs. Now it's time to SHUT UP AND LIFT!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
REST IS IN MY FUTURE.......SORT OF
2010 has been the year where I have taken weight lifting to new levels. I'm pretty sure I expressed that in past posts. This has been the year where I went for it all and hit the supplements too and I have had wonderful results but this has also been the year where I have backed off of my traditional rest weeks. I normally take a rest week the week of Christmas but I didn't do that and I normally take a rest week sometime in August. The reason I didn't do a rest week in August was because I knew we were going away in September. Right now we are eleven days out from hitting the road and going to Las Vegas for the Mr. Olympia weekend and contest. This also means that a much deserved rest week is on the way. My right shoulder has been yelling at me and my left elbow has a bit of an attitude too. I think this rest will shut them up for a long time. My original plan was to work out all next week and then start the rest week on Monday the 20th. We fly out on the 22nd and return the 27th. That would be eight days rest and then I would also hit the gym hard on Tuesday the 28th. But now I'm thinking of starting my rest week Saturday the 18th. I think the extra rest would do me very well and of course when your muscles are resting it gives them a chance to fully heal and grow. I'm strongly thinking that ten days of well deserved rest is the way to go. I also know that my workouts when I return will be hardcore. I'll be energized from Olympia and on Tuesday the 28th I start using Universal Nutrition's Animal Test.
So rest is in my future and so is the vacation of a lifetime.
So rest is in my future and so is the vacation of a lifetime.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Against The Grain
WOW! I can't believe it, tomorrow (Sept 5th) I'm going to be 45. That's right forty effin five! Talk about middle age.
I feel like once again ( this is a good thing) that I'm going against the grain. Legend says that I should be slowing down, maybe I should start to take it easy but I don't see any point in that. The human body is a machine that likes to be used and to me I can't see putting actions to a number and stop doing things that I enjoy. So that puts me in the category of a forty five year old weightlifter, maybe someone that will even compete in a contest under the Masters division some day. I feel great about things. I'm in the best shape of my life and I'm stronger than I ever have been. Each week at the gym I accomplish gains in the weights I can lift and actually there are more people commenting on the way I look. Thankfully they are positive comments.
Years ago I never thought I would be using dumbbells that had such crazy numbers on them as 90 or 100 and I never though I could do the things that I'm able to do. This is good stuff, I can't wait to see what I can accomplish at the gym at 45.
A few weeks ago I posted about goals. Goals are important and with forty five turning the corner and knocking on my door to greet me I thought I would review some of those goals. How am I doing? Where am I headed.
The first goal I posted about was to get to 150lbs by July. I put on seven pounds of muscle when I changed my diet and I'm at 152. My goal is still to get to 160 by January. I'm in the process of revising some diet things to reach that goal. I'm such a hard gainer this is going to be tough no matter what. I also spoke about doing 90lb Preacher Curls by the second week of September. Actually I have already reached that goal but I have decided to back that weight down and accomplish a stronger form. I'm still very proud that I made the goal ahead of schedule. I also hoped to be using 85lb dumbbells for bench pressing by the second week of September but I smoked that goal in August. My new goal is to be using 90's sometime in October. Another goal that I smoked was legs I was hoping to leg press 800lbs (45 degree) by the second week of September but I'm already up to 850.
So my goals are going well which means I'm focused and that's a great thing. This also makes it easier for me to maintain positivity through all aspects of my life. That's not always the easiest thing for me to do. I'm going to try to maintain where I'm at for now. Then on September 22nd we fly out to Vegas for Mr. Olympia which will also equal some well deserved rest time from the gym. Then by October I hope to work on some more serious gains.
Wish me luck!
I feel like once again ( this is a good thing) that I'm going against the grain. Legend says that I should be slowing down, maybe I should start to take it easy but I don't see any point in that. The human body is a machine that likes to be used and to me I can't see putting actions to a number and stop doing things that I enjoy. So that puts me in the category of a forty five year old weightlifter, maybe someone that will even compete in a contest under the Masters division some day. I feel great about things. I'm in the best shape of my life and I'm stronger than I ever have been. Each week at the gym I accomplish gains in the weights I can lift and actually there are more people commenting on the way I look. Thankfully they are positive comments.
Years ago I never thought I would be using dumbbells that had such crazy numbers on them as 90 or 100 and I never though I could do the things that I'm able to do. This is good stuff, I can't wait to see what I can accomplish at the gym at 45.
A few weeks ago I posted about goals. Goals are important and with forty five turning the corner and knocking on my door to greet me I thought I would review some of those goals. How am I doing? Where am I headed.
The first goal I posted about was to get to 150lbs by July. I put on seven pounds of muscle when I changed my diet and I'm at 152. My goal is still to get to 160 by January. I'm in the process of revising some diet things to reach that goal. I'm such a hard gainer this is going to be tough no matter what. I also spoke about doing 90lb Preacher Curls by the second week of September. Actually I have already reached that goal but I have decided to back that weight down and accomplish a stronger form. I'm still very proud that I made the goal ahead of schedule. I also hoped to be using 85lb dumbbells for bench pressing by the second week of September but I smoked that goal in August. My new goal is to be using 90's sometime in October. Another goal that I smoked was legs I was hoping to leg press 800lbs (45 degree) by the second week of September but I'm already up to 850.
So my goals are going well which means I'm focused and that's a great thing. This also makes it easier for me to maintain positivity through all aspects of my life. That's not always the easiest thing for me to do. I'm going to try to maintain where I'm at for now. Then on September 22nd we fly out to Vegas for Mr. Olympia which will also equal some well deserved rest time from the gym. Then by October I hope to work on some more serious gains.
Wish me luck!
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