Day 1: Little background on this. As of today I have been training for this for 6 months to date. I when I started I weighed about 205 pounds, today I am a whopping 229, as of a few minutes ago, and considerably more muscular. Anyway what I get asked most about this journey is why do it, and at my advanced age. (Advanced age is just a nice way of saying old I found out) First of all if anyone knows anything about bodybuilding, then you know its a lifestyle something you think about all the time, its not just a show, its a journey with a unknown destination. Hell even the Greats still have work to do, and can always be better. So for me its more a journey to be the best person I can, with a physical goal and venue to direct my ADD energy towards. So to the ones that call me advanced, screw you I know what that means, and to my loving classmates from High School, no matter how old I get, I will still be younger than all of you. Alright as I have stated there is a lot that has already happened so I am gonna give a quickie update and try my damndest to keep up on this thing, although I will admit I am horrible at staying occupied at something for too long besides lifting weights.
Quick recap, I went to Afghanistan, got skinny cause the food blew, and since I was given an opportunity to redo the way I looked I chose once again to fulfill a dream to compete in a bodybuilding show. Got back stateside and decided rather than become Husky again ( I know what that means too) I would refocus and redirect my energy to seeing how fit and muscular I could and can become.
Now that were caught up. I have assembled a great team that continues to keep up with me via email, Facebook, and texting. I would like to thank them. Thank you! My main guru is Steve Weingarten a former Mr. Kentucky. He is a Personal Trainer out of Louisville, Kentucky and so far the only one on my team that knows what the hell is going on, cause I sure don't. I am along for the ride and enjoying the journey. So now that we are caught up.
Workout it varies. I am currently doing two-a-days not by choice but my chosen profession currently is to be a pee-on in the Military, aka Enlisted Soldier. I do PT with my platoon in the mornings and this mainly consists of running, running, and oh yeah that fun thing to do again running. Ok so if you don't know I abhor running with a passion in fact I am thinking about making it a dirty word to say to me, well see how that goes another time. Anyhoo aside from that little distraction my day is spent mainly focusing on my evening workout and that's when my work begins. I am in the gym and in my element. No matter what has happened during the day those few hours in the gym are my baptism. I leave feeling refreshed, exhausted, and anew.
Eating, I eat a lot. I don't miss much food that is, and I have been learning that the more you eat the more your hungry. I have always been a larger guy however I am learning that if you wanna keep the internal metabolism fire lit, just got to keep feeding it. So once again I eat, a lot, and I wanna put special emphasis on this. Eating to me the way I feel is about 80% of how I look. 30% is the gym, but wait Jarrod that's 110% yes, that's what it takes to achieve the dreams and goals you set for yourselves. No one said it would be easy, just said it would be worth it.
Anyway as far as today went quick run down. Hope this doesn't bore you too much, but if you read to here there must be something your interested in, and if you are a friend, you are a good one and have done your duty.
Today:
Morning workout 5 mile run moderate pace
Weight: 227 am/ 229 pm
Food: 4 Egg's scrambled with ham and cheese, 6 pears slices, 15 red grapes seedless, 2 spoon fulls of raisins, cup of hashbrowns, and this was breakfast. Glass of Orange Juice and Apple Juice.
Lunch was some italian pasta thingy, not sure what it was called, and green peas, and beans that I realized were saturated in gravy so they went into the trash. Salad with the works, raisins, and cheese, bacon bits and croutons. Granny Smith Apple (my favorite), and 2 glasses of water.
Protein Shake--Whey, with peanut butter
Dinner #1 4 eggs, packet of tuna, greek salad dressing and cajun spice blend for taste, glass of water
Dinner #2 4 Mahi Fillets oven baked in brown sugar, and lemon juice. Glass of water
Protein Shake--Casein
Bed time now folks, my legs are screaming and I have a 6 mile road march in the morning.
"No one every achieved anything they didn't first try."
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