My Challenge to myself

My challenge to myself is to enter the Transformation Challenge so that I can transform myself. My whole body, mind, spirit and soul have been held victim to inactivity and lack of discipline and the only way to change those circumstances is to dedicate myself by transforming myself. I myself, offer the spirit of competition to all but my fullest intent of competition will be directed toward myself. If nothing else, I hope to learn and gain true determination and a level of completeness like I have never had before.

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glad to see you join in!!@!!! And i see you joined in at 11:59 pm!!! you had less than a minute (based on EST). I am in the same boat, this might just crete the structrure and some discipline to go further.

good luck and looking forward to hearing about what you will be doing....

Today I begin my training with a 3 mile walk. I walked because I wanted to clear my head of the negative thoughts that I have in my head. I also had to tell myself that the only way to do this transformation was to concentrate on me. I am the only person who can do this for me and in doing this I will be a lot better in a lot of things. Leaner, stronger, and determined equals better and being those three things are my goals. I would like to appeal to those who have lost a lot of body fat to educate me on what worked for them. I will do the lifting and the cardio but is l-carnitine the best or is there something better. For many reasons I am in this challenge but the two main reasons I am on this site are to learn and achieve. Sronger, leaner. determined=better.

Good luck :)

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The journey of my transformation is into its third day and my walking has been consistent and done with no excuses. I was to begin my weightlifeting today but it must begin tomorrow. In order to achieve you must have organization and I am a bit unorganized. I also am developing a plan for this transformation and I am also reading all I can about other people transformation. Yesterday while doing my walk I created another concept to be added to my philosophy of achieving this transformation. While Bigger, stronger, and determined = better will always be my base, I also must add that extending the journey, will increase my horizions and together armed with those two will increase my efforts and in turn lead to greater success. The journey of now has begun, and the horizion of it can happen to me has just been expanded to, with effort and dedication it will happen to me. When the possibilities of accomplishment are endless, the destination of the journey is also endless and when the journey is endless the pursuit of success is always looming. While this day is all I have, I shall work on preparing my mind, effort and dedication for not only what is needed to make this day complete, I will also contemplate on what is needed for tomorrow

Good luck on your transformation.

Today for the first time I got to see and read the well wishes from the people in this group. As I have stated in my other post my competitive juices flow within me and to me because if I can compete against my obstcles and expand my desire to work and achieve then the biggest trophy of all will be the transformation in my total self. Today I made a foolish decision, I made the decision to rest instead of work. I told mysel today that you may cry yourself a river but you will never float to success, success comes from a determined mind, a willing spirit, and a body in motion. To those fine folks who were gracious enough to drop me a line of encouragement and well wishes I oblige this to you, I will never feel that rest over work will get me to my desired goal and I will never take your words in a matter of fact manner. The work has not only begun it will be done in a manner that says you are worthy of being a Iron Mags member and it will be done in the manner that says to all here, I truly do appreciate the opportunity to be included with all of you. Thank you

Best of luck on your Transformation!

Today I must admit that I did one of those little things that will help me to accomplish that much bigger thing. This morning when I first woke up there was heavy rain, at first I said that my morning was shot and I couldnt do my walking, but then I remembered the previous day and how I cowed down to fulfilling my mission. I then said I would waif the rain out and about one half hour later I was able to begin the journey. I not only completed the journey but I took the journey a bit further. While walking I started thinking about striving to be better than I have ever been abd striving to be what has always been intended for me to be. It also occured to me that you can't strive until you realize who you are, what you really want and what you are really willing to do to get there. Striving is not only wanting to be it is intendinding to be and working to be. I am striving to be better and I am not only striving to be better I am willing to be better and willing to work my butt off as well as my gut off so that one day I will not only say I transformed, I am going to say that I made a definite transformation. Tomorrow is just another day, for some it is a day of reckoning, for others a day of hope, and for even others it will be a day of despair but for me, with every ounce of man that is inside of me it will be a day to get up, get out, get busy and dont stop until you have fulfilled the transformation limit

I feel that in this stage of my life, and hurdle leaped is a call for acknowledgement. I last posted one week ago today and my kick was that I had been lazy two of the past five days and had not gotten out and done what was supposed to have been done, which was very true. One week later I would like to say that for the past six days, on 5 of them I have gotten up and gotten out, I have added an additional half mile or so to my distance which now stand at very close to a 3 mile trek round trip and if anyone knows the Churchill Downs area of Louisville there is the college football stadium which contains a very steep hill and that is part of my trek each morning. Two of my journeys were spent in the rain and my only off day was because of the downpour we have been receiving.I am in this to transform, I not only want to transform my body but I also want to transform my approach to exercising and my reasons for wanting to and quit undersetimating my ability to do so. The one thing I desperately want to transform is my self confidence and awareness, a man who truly committs to the sweatt and sacrifice is a man who always stands up and never cows down.Every morning I walk like a man, I have started going back to the gym whereas I will work like a man and one day my pictures are going to be me standing and looking like a man who is dedicated to the cause of total transformation should look. My pledge today is that I will do those things that are needed to replace the "B" that sits at the end of fla and replace it with the "T" that sits at the end of fla. Replacing the B with the T is what I call total transformation. Stronger, leaner, and detrmined = better
Fredderick

Good Luck, hoping the best for ya :)

The Formula
A good friend of mine once told me that in life you do two things, you either run to something or you run from it. Most of my life has been running to the wrong things and running from the wrong things. I ran to sit down but ran from my walks, I ran to hangout but ran from the gym,etc. In my transformation my first job is to reverse my actions and run to that which is needed for my transformation success and run from that which has gottten me to this point. While walking today I really concentrated on creating a formula that would guide me to those things that will not only transform me but would define me for life. pmt -> fla-b+t=c broken down this means pushing myself toward fla-the b but with the t equals confidence. Confidence is better accomplished with the layers that are trimmed away. Stronger, leaner, and detrmined = better

Good luck bud

We're rooting for you, Fredderick. Let us know if there's anything we can do to help.

Keep working at it! stay motivated You are doing this for yourself!

"I want to be fit and strong"

I want to be fit and strong

Will power over Still power
To a person who is exercising there are two different powers, willpower which gets you to the gym and then there is still power and that is the power that I have to over come. Still power is that power of mind which says be still, don’t move and watch TV. Rest, take it easy, don’t hurt or strain yourself and before I can ever transform my body this is what I have to eradicate from my mind. Still power has done more to hurt a person than will power ever has. I am happy to report that for the past 12 days I have missed out on my 5; 00 am walks twice and both days were because of the downpours we have been having in this part of the country. Not only do I still walk the steep incline by our local college stadium, I have also added 25 leg raises to my regiment and I really am seeking abs training so if anyone out there has ever reduced their abs I would appreciate some advice. If you would look at my picture my whole area in the chest to pelvic area needs heavy work. I am also happy to say that I returned to the gym this week and had an awesome workout. Once again thanks to all and to all I say lets transform all aspects of our bodies as well as I lives because underneath those layers is where the best of all of us truly lies.

No one takes you serious
No one will ever take you serious until you take yourself seriously. I never looked at my body image from a truly serious light.I was either making excuses, searching for the end when I exercised, never having a long term plan nor goal and just outright doubting of myself. I was telling myself that I would never look like that guy or he had an advantage he was born slim or tall. When a person takes his/her self seriously the first thing they will truly see is themself. The person they really are and be willing to become the person they would like to be. Myself I want to be suit size 42 with a 36 or 34 waist. Today I am about suit size 52 with a 46 inch waist. I know that I can become 42 because I once was 42 so it is not out of the question. The question is, am I really ready and truly dedicated to become 42-36. My transformation is to engage my body, will, spirit,dedication, and soul to become this. In my heart I am truly ready to say that the man I am is not the man that is within me. I have not only looked at myself seriously, I have also looked deep within me seriously and I will not only go deep to rescue that man buried within my layers that have for so long covered him and I will become him only this time I will not only be him I will be the one that has transformed him, for the the last time I was him I was him without the C,that will be the transformation, this time the C will live not only within me but all over me

Keep on working on yourself! Keep on man!

The Real McCoy
:rocker:While doing my walk today I discovered the two W's, wanting it and working to get. The gap between these two phrases is monumental. In exercising many words are used to describe a person, words like bulked, fit, whimp, weak, lazy etc. I have had some of these words used at me and at times I have used them at myself. The one thing that I want to do for myself from this point forward is define myself.I want my definition to come from my want for this achievement and how hard I am willing to work to achieve.Everybody wants something but a far few number is willing to work to achieve it. I am,I must, and I am willing to sweatt the sweatt and receive the pain. Effort is the real McCoy for without it you will never achieve in this arena. I also want my efforts to be backed up with willingness and knowledge, I want to be a contributor and achiever. Definition both in the visual of the body and the ways of the individualis what I am seeking from all of this and that definition can only come from me. I will, I shall, and I must, improve every aspect of the man I am. The real McCoy only lies in the real person:shooter:

i feel I am at a tony robbins seminar when I come here... great job at setting your mind up for success!

GOOD PMA

Positive
Mental
Attitude

Stay strong and motivated You can do anything you set Your mind to!

Good to see your Really getting into this.
Wish you the best of luck bro !

The Man I Should Be
Today while during my morning walk I thought about changing my Journal. Everyday I try to write my true feelings about myself, pertaining to myself. I was going to make it the man I am, but honestly before I could analyze the man I am, I gave attention to the man that I should be. The man that I should be is the man I am working on now. A man of more thought than emotion, a man who is willing to pay that price of pushing himself toward rather than pushing away. I also have learned that in order to be that man that I want to be, and then I am going to have to accept that everyday is going to have to matter and everyday is a day of work and reckoning. Again I would like to thank all for their words of encouragement for in life sometimes it takes the words of others to make us see the words we need to use on ourselves. I am on a lifetime mission and that mission is to attain a better life. PMA comes from BAY Positive metal attitude comes being about yourself and being yourself. The man I should be is that man who has pledged to work everyday on becoming himself. Onward and upward with my feet firmly planted on the ground that is the man I will always do my very best to become

Good luck Fredderick.

make it happen....good work

Regaining

Maintaining is always a lot better than regaining. The man who has to regain is the man who has had it but lost it and now must worth twice as hard to regain it. I am such a man, I looked in the mirror today and for the first time in a very long time I actually got a vision of what was there once upon a time. The road ahead is a road that must be traveled if I am to meet my dream. I will admit I have been one who really thought destiny would come to me, I never considered that it might would help if I got up from my seat and met destiny half way, which would have been the maintenance stage, now in order to have the dream I want in my destiny, I not only have to get up and meet it, but I must travel all the way. Life is one hell of a thing, when we go a many of days and not feel the burn that comes from lifting. I have just stepped on a much longer road and I will not stop walking until I meet destiny and find what I lost once more

Push & Pull Method

Today as I began to do my early morning walk I hesitated a few minutes trying to decide whether to go or not when it suddenly dawned on me that by not going was the most detrimental thing I could do myself and going would be the most positive. I found out that when I push myself, I do what is needed to be done and yet there are times that I pull myself away from my physical responsibilities. I hereby declare myself a pusher; I will be a pusher of committing myself to the exercise arena and stop pulling myself from it. There is no greater picture than a body transformed but unless that person is one who pushes and not one who pulls his/her self away from the necessary, then transformation become body out instead of body in and my body is out far enough. My gym time will include the push and pull method but if I could I would like to appeal to those who often use this method to share their knowledge with me. I would like to include this method with my German Volume Training. My purpose is to not only transform my body but to also transform my mind and my methods. To be a person who accepts the fact that one’s body can look good through the dynamics of exercise and commitment.

"A man's ability to stick beyond the endurance point brings him in touch with
the mystic genius which bridges the chasm from failure to success."
Kopplin, Dorothea. Something to Live By. Permabooks, 1948, p. 65
For the past few days I have
made my trek back to the gym, for some who have always gone to the gym you may say what's the big deal but for me it was. I was always finding reason or making an excuse to stay away from the gym but because of the transformation contest I have cleared more hurdles in the last few weeks that I haven't been able to clear for the past 6 months and then today I find the motivational quote above. I am going to be one of those men who bridges that gap. While at the gym yesterday I said that I was going to be one of those guys that could differentiate between saying one more instead of no more. Saying one more gives you that opportunity to go forward, to get stronger and to not only transform the mind and body but develope them as well. I have always said that it is not so much I want to be a body builder but I have always wanted to be a body developer and the one body that I know that I can develope is my very own. In the race of life I have cleared a hurdle but in the process I have learned that the race of life is an endurance race and not a sprint and I also know that there will be many more hurdles to clear.Yesterday I cleared a hurdle but from this day forward I will be that man who bridges that chasm and find that mystic genius that Ms. Kopplin spoke of.