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Back To Reality…

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Well, I’ve been back from my Honeymoon for about two weeks now and I’ve had to get back in touch with reality.  The nice thing about the all-inclusive Sandals Resorts is that you don’t have to think about a thing.  I was able to eat all day long whenever I wanted as much as I wanted.  One of my biggest problems here is that I don’t eat nearly enough times throughout the day.  The main reason being of course I’m lazy to make all the meals I need to.  But my goal is to get up to 235 pounds, so I know I’m going to have to learn to kick it up a notch and get my meals in.

Realistically, I’m going to have to cook a lot of portions at one time and divide them up.  For years, I’ve watched my cousin Patrick (a personal trainer in Houston) cook all his meals for the week at one time.  I didn’t quite understand at the time because I would rather eat fresh food than food that is reheated.  But I understand now.  People like Patrick, Joe Tong, Mike O’Hearn and Sherlyn Roy cook all these meals at one time because time is of the essence.  If you have to eat at least 6 times a day, cooking 6 meals a day is too time consuming.  Even cooking 4 meals.  So they cook it all at one time and eat them quickly throughout the day.

So before the honeymoon, I was all about leaning out.  Now I want to get bigger, but not a great deal fatter.  So I’ll choose my meals carefully, train heavily, and get back on Creatine.  I’m hoping to build up mass through January and then lean out for next summer.  So let’s see how it goes!

Honeymoon Shape Part 2!

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Hi Everyone!

I’m actually writing this blog from the Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort in the Bahamas.  Our blog for the site wasn’t quite working properly and took a little bit of time to fix, so I’m sorry about that.  We’re back up now though and I’m ready to catch you up!

So my last blog was about getting into honeymoon shape.  Here’s what happened…About ten days before the wedding, my then fiancé (now wife) and I were having dinner with Mike O’Hearn (Titan from American Gladiators) and our newest addition to Instructional Fitness Sherlyn Roy.  I was telling them that I wanted to get into shape for the honeymoon.  Mike told me he was getting in shape for a magazine cover shoot (what different lives we lead) and that I was welcome to train with him twice a day.  The first session being at 4:00 am.

From there, my wife Mikela said that she didn’t want to watch me get into better shape than her for the wedding so Sherlyn offered to train her.  So of course, this lead to a competition between my wife and I, and Mike and Sherlyn.  The competition was to see who could get the closest to losing 15 pounds the Thursday before the wedding.

During this time, they designed our diets (the biggest component to fitness), and helped us with our workouts.  Let me tell you, training with Mike O’Hearn is probably one of the most difficult and painful processes I have endured in the gym.  I have trained with Joe, but that was a different process.  Joe doesn’t put a lot of focus on the amount of weight.  He focuses on form and shaping the muscle the way he wants.  Mike however, loves to train for strength and is just a freak of nature.

Anyway, I’m off track.  As I mentioned, I began training twice a day and limited myself to chicken breasts several times a day.  I also was doing about 2 hours of cardio per day.  Mikela was doing weights and about an hour of cardio but missed a couple of times due to the wedding planning process.  We were also both taking two different fat burners.  During the day, we took VPX Meltdown (capsule form) and at night, we took JS Nitro’s Burn Extreme PM.

We were both able to watch the pounds shed off our body, which was a great feeling.  In the end, Mikela managed to lose close to ten pounds which was about a pound more than me, but somehow I still feel like I was the winner. J

So that’s it for now (sorry for rambling)…I got to get back to my honeymoon.  Talk to you all soon!