PROGRESS PICS 13 WEEKS IN MY PREP

I apologies to my fellow reader that I haven't been blogging post that often, the truth is that ive been really busy with work and most of the times im running like a headless chicken. But anyways heres a few progress pics that i took just to get a idea on how im doing.

Love peace and big muscles

HOW DO I GET MOTIVATION? EVEN SOMETIMES IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE....

How do I get the strength to get myself out of bed and train even though I sometimes feel like my body’s energy is on empty?

I’m not gonna lie, there’s day where the idea of having to go the gym is just so unappealing to me. Having to do that cardio is the last thing that I want to put myself through.

So what makes me push myself to do it?

Waking up in the morning, going on Facebook and seeing you guys liking and commenting on my pics, blog posts and statuses really gives me my morning boost to get up and do what I have to do. I feel that I am here not only to better myself but to inspire my fans. Just seeing some of the motivational pictures you guys post or the “likes” you have put is enough to get me out the house and down at the gym. I mean, the way I see it, I don’t really have an excuse to sit and whine and bitch when I can see that you guys are also pushing hard and working out.

What about when it comes down to pumping that iron? How do I manage to lift such heavy weights even though at times it could be considered almost impossible? For me, lifting weights is a type of therapy; I gather together all the negative thoughts, feelings and emotions I have, e.g. past mistakes I’ve made, failures in terms of not achieving a past goal and combine them together to create an intense energy which allows me to have the power to lift those weights.

For me, it’s all about using what you have experienced in your past to better your present.

Love peace and big muscles.

NOBODY IS PERFECT AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES ITS IN OUR NATURE

I can honestly say that I have f&^%#@d up a decent amount of times in my life up until now. Some mistakes I am still paying for in one way or another, and others I managed to learn wise lessons from. The trick is to always move forward and never look back. There really is no point of looking back, it will just set you back. There is no point of thinking ‘what if’ or ‘maybe if I had done this’... sorry darlings, we do not have a time machine yet and thinking in this way is only a waste of time and energy in this day and age when we need as much as we can get. But I do believe that these mistakes and imperfections we have is a stamp of our originality and character – if we didn’t have them we would be a bunch of identical clones. And if anybody tells you that they never made any mistakes, they are lying. They are probably too scared to show their real self.
My message to you is yes, we all make mistakes. The sooner we accept them, the better it is for us because that is the only way to move forward towards better. Once a very respected English bodybuilder of the early ‘90s told me that if I looked back on my mistakes I probably wouldn’t be here right now, doing what I am doing...

Love, peace and big muscles always.

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO GO THROUGH 'THE DOWNS' IN ORDER TO APPRECIATE THE 'UPS' IN LIFE.

Once again I don’t know why the hell I am posting this, which is not really directly related to training or sports in general, but I do believe it might help some of you ... or at least give you something to think about.

So a couple of nights ago I was sitting at a friends house just chilling, and as always, there was a girl there nagging for a good hour about how her relationship, and how it’s not going anywhere and the guy is not showing any interest in her anymore. And basically I got inspired and turned around and told her: life is like a rollercoaster. When you are going up, it is the best feeling ever. But going down, it’s a different story :) Yet you need to go down to realise how good the going up was... it is just like a wake up call saying ‘hey, did you see how good that was?’ Almost like when you lose something special... and you realise it was special only when its actually gone.

It is just human nature that we think the grass is always greener on the other side, and we forget how green our own grass is. So what I am saying is, sometimes you should take time out to appreciate what you have before you lose it!

Love, peace and big muscles.

LIKE IT OR NOT THE BODY NEEDS REST AT TIMES

As time goes by, I learn more and more about my body. One of the most important things I have learnt so far is that sometimes resting is a must to achieve better goals. At times we might think we are a Ferrari, and that we can race ahead until our hearts are content, but even those cars need a servicing now and again.

I am writing this, because in these past, I had been getting injured more and more often. First there was my outer calf muscle, where I had fibers toughen during a heavy set of leg press exercises…. This set me back nearly a month of training legs, and I could walk without crutches for over 2 weeks – it made going to the toilet fucking hard! Lol. Next thing to happen was an injury to my front left delt during a heavy set of front presses on the smith. This time I had felt something after the set but didn’t accept that it could be an injury and that I might need some time off… and yes, I know that I am a stubborn when it comes to these things but I did pay the price.

I’ve been going to get laser treatments on my shoulder every day for weeks and I am still i was not quite 100%. Guess it seems that the only way for me to accept some good rest was to get injured… and if you burn the candle from both ends you will always end up paying the price whether you like it or not.

Its just like back in the day, when we were all in school and our teachers would tell us (or at least mine would) not to revise all night until early morning as nothing would stay in your head – just study a couple of hours a day because the brain needs some rest in order to remember and process all the stuff you have been reading.

So as I have said previously regarding training…. Too much of a good thing can actually be bad, and often we don’t realize what we have until something bad happens to make us step back and think. Just like with everything else in this world, we need to have some balance…

Love, peace and big muscles.