Posts Tagged ‘training’

Happy New Year!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Hi Everyone,

First off…Just want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!  This is a very popular time in the fitness world as many of us decide that we want to be in better shape for the coming year.

Today my body part of choice was chest.  My workout consisted of incline dumbbell press, pec deck flys, and the Hammer Strength bench press.  I did 4 sets of each exercise and was getting ready to finish off with decline bench press.  That’s when I ran into Mike O’Hearn and he told me I was doing too much.  Seeing that I was feeling a little lazy, I listened to him. :-)

Sherlyn Roy was also at the gym today getting ready for the Arnold Classic in early March.  She’s training hard and looking good.  I believe today she did chest and shoulders and a bunch of cardio.  I’ve trained with Sherlyn a couple of times and I’ll tell you, that girl trains hard!  She put me through some of her routines and I was sore for days!  I’m sure if she ever gets around to blogging she’s going to make fun of me.

My goal for this upcoming year is to get up to the 230 pound range and lean out somewhere to the 215 to 220 pound range.  Given that I was 138 pounds at the same height (6’2) when I graduated high school, this will be a huge accomplishment for me.

Whatever your goals are, I wish you all the best of luck in reaching them and I promise we’ll do our part to help however we can!  Good luck everyone!

Holidays

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Hi Folks!

Hope you all had a very happy Thanksgiving!  I spent my very first Thanksgiving with my in-laws in San Jose, CA.  I can’t speak for them, but I had a great time!  Mike O’Hearn and Sherlyn Roy also happened to be in town during the same weekend so we all got to hang out and hit Dave & Busters.  I had the misfortune of playing Sherlyn in Ms. Pac Man and got absolutely destroyed.  What she did to me should seriously be illegal.  I’m not 100% convinced that she isn’t the love child of Mr. and Ms. Pac Man!

Anyway, like most people around the holidays, I managed to eat quite a bit and I only got to the gym once during the weekend.  My body part of choice was back with some ab work at the end.  Truth-be-told, I’ve been a little disappointed with my training over the last week.  I feel like I allowed the holidays to throw me off.  Some people would say that it’s the holidays and not to worry about it but my feeling is that given the fact that it’s the holidays and that most of us are not only going to be eating more, but probably not very clean, the best thing we can possibly do for ourselves is to get to the gym and push ourselves that much harder.

So my challenge for myself, and perhaps a challenge you would all like to take on, is to push myself that much harder during this holiday season and not put things off until the New Year.  As tempting as it is to overeat and be lazy, my goal is to push through that laziness so that no matter what I have going on, I still find my way to the gym.  Let’s hope this works!