Thursday, April 23, 2009

Workouts

Well I have been getting back into my normal weight lifting routine over the past two weeks. Everything has been going very well but next week I will be bumping up the intensity. I will begin cutting (dieting down) starting around the middle of May. That should be a new challenge as I will be focusing on losing weight but keeping muscle mass. I currently consume around 4200-4600 calories a day to gain about .5lb-1lb a week. During the cutting phase I will cut back at first to a max of 4000 calories a day and take it from there. After a couple weeks into it I may carb cycle as well which is when you eat a couple days in a row of low carbs and one day eat a normal amount. 

I'll leave you with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"Every Artist was first an amateur."

Something to think about but more on that next time.....

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Dreams

We all have dreams don't we? Or maybe more appropriately we all once had dreams. I am not talking about the dreams you have at night, I am talking those dreams you used to have about your future. Maybe when you were a kid you used to dream of being an astronaut, or a movie star, or maybe being a great athlete. What happened? 

Well for many of us people told us that our dreams weren't very realistic. Instead, they said, why don't you focus on school work or getting a "real" job. The people that told us this had good intentions, they were our parents, our educators and our friends. They didn't want to see us get hurt. 

Then there are those people that had someone coach them along telling them they could have whatever they wanted, to keep at it and don't give up. While these people may have met with obstacles they never did give up and they went on to become some of the most successful people in their respective fields. People like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. 

If you have a dream I strongly encourage you to pursue it, never lose sight of it and don't let other people steal it from you by telling you that you can't do it.

Until next time.....

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Catching Up

Well I went back to the United States for 15 days and just came back. I hadn't been back in a little over four years so it was good to see my family and friends again. My wife and I finished up our LifeSuccess consultant training. Actually that was the first phase of training, we now move on to a more advanced one year training curriculum. 

Self development is a life long process and we have committed ourselves to it. I only managed to do one real workout over the last three weeks. I am currently overcoming a fairly severe sinus infection. I plan on doing an easy Chest workout on Saturday and my first week of workouts will be light.

Until next time.....