katt

wtf???? 54 sets of dead's????

Triple Threat

Wow is right.

Burner02

I'm just making up for lost time...


oh...and I'm REALLY friggn' SORE now!!! OWIE!
Gosh...wtf did Iever have toget lazy and stop???????

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Burner02

this is an article I found in T-Mag years ago that I kept to read when I et discouraged. I'ev put it in previous journals...will continue to do in the future:

"So, what are you doing for a living these days?" Bob asked me. We're sitting on the couch at one of those tedious holiday get-togethers, you know, the ones where you're supposed to be nice to family members you never see except during major holidays and funerals. I think Bob is my wife's brother-in-law's second cousin or something.
"I'm the assistant editor and a writer for Testosterone magazine," I say. Bob looks at me with a blank expression on his face, as if I'd just told him I sell handmade testicle warmers beside the freeway and was looking to open franchises across the nation.
"It's a bodybuilding magazine," I say.
Blank expression. Deer caught in the headlights. Ronnie Coleman doing trigonometry.
"Oh," Bob finally says, "I heard you were, like, one of those bodybuilder guys or something. So, what's that like, you know, working out every day and stuff? I just don't have time to lift weights all day, but I have been meaning to get rid of this beer belly." He takes another sip of beer. "What do you suggest?" Sip.
At first I was a little offended. I wanted to grab him up and say, "You can't tell I'm a bodybuilder?! Look at my ass! Now, if that's not a nice round squat-built piece of sirloin, I don't know what is! You think that comes naturally? I can crack walnuts with this puppy! Wanna see? Huh, punk? Do ya? Do ya?"
Then I realize this just might cause a scene and could cost me several Christmas presents. I was planning on returning any presents I got and using the money to buy a power rack, so I didn't want to jeopardize this gift getting opportunity. I also realized that old Bob probably had a certain preconceived image of a bodybuilder and I just didn't fit that image. I'm not gorilla huge; I weigh about 205 at 5'11" right now. (When I first started lifting I was a pudgy 159, so that's not too shabby.) Also, I wasn't wearing clown pants, a fluorescent string tank top, a hanky on my head and one of those little fanny packs. And isn't that what real bodybuilders are supposed to wear?
Bob continued to sit there drinking his Natural Light, smoking a cigarette and waiting for an answer, oblivious to the fact that he'd come this close to seeing some serious walnut- crunching ass power. I tried to figure out how I could explain to the average guy what the typical T-Man does and why he does it. How could I get him to understand what it is we do, how we feel, how we live? So I took a deep breath and told him something like this:
"Well, Bob, I guess you could use the term bodybuilder if you really need a label for what it is we do. Most of us actually don't stand on stage and compete, though. We lift weights and manipulate our diets so that we'll look good naked. Sure, it's healthy too, and we'll probably live a longer and more productive life than the average guy, but mostly it's about the naked thing. Truthfully, it goes beyond even that.
"Let's be honest here. We do it because of people like you, Bob. We look at you sitting there with your gut hanging over your belt and we watch you grunt and groan just getting out of a chair. Guys like you are our inspiration, Bob. You're better than Anthony Robbins, Bill Phillips, Deepak Chopra, and Zig fucking Ziglar all wrapped up into one. We love it when guys like you talk about not having time to exercise. Every time we see you munching on a bag of potato chips, you inspire us. You're my shot in the arm, Bob, my living and breathing wake-up call, my own personal success coach.
"You want to know what it is we do? We overcome. We're too busy to train, too, but we overcome. We're too busy to prepare healthy meals and eat them five or six times a day, but we overcome. We can't always afford supplements, our genetics aren't perfect, and we don't always feel like going to the gym. Some of us used to be just like you, Bob, but guess what? We've overcome.
"We like to watch 'normal' people like you tell us about how they can't get in shape. We smile and nod sympathetically like we feel your pain, but actually, we're thinking that you're a pathetic piece of shit that needs to grow a spine and join a gym. You smile sheepishly and say that you just can't stay motivated and just can't stand that feeling of being sore. (For some reason you think that admitting your weaknesses somehow justifies them.) We listen to you bitch and moan. We watch you look for the easy way out. Because of people like you, Bob, we never miss a workout.
"You ask us for advice about diet and training and usually we politely offer some guidance, but deep inside we know you won't take our advice. You know that too. We smile and say, 'Hope that helps. Good luck,' but actually we're thinking, 'Boy, it would suck to be you.' We know that 99% of people won't listen to us. Once they hear that it takes hard work, sacrifice and discipline, they stop listening and tune us out.
"We know they wanted us to say that building a great body is easy, but it just isn't. This did not take five minutes a day on a TorsoTrack. We did not get this way in 12 short weeks using a Bowflex and the Suzanne Somers' 'Get Skinny' diet. A good body does not cost five easy payments of $39.95.
"We like it that while you're eating a candy bar and drinking Mountain Dew, we're sucking down a protein shake. You see, that makes it taste even better to us. While you're asleep we're either getting up early or staying up late, hitting the iron, pushing ourselves, learning, succeeding and failing and rising above the norm with every rep. Can you feel that, Bob? Can you relate? No? Good. This wouldn't be half as fun if you could.
"We do it because we absolutely and totally get off on it. We do it because people like you, Bob, either can't or won't. We do it because what we do in the gym transfers over into the rest of our lives and changes us, physically, mentally, maybe even spiritually. We do it because it beats watching fishing and golf on TV. By the way, do you know what it's like to turn the head of a beautiful woman because of the way you're built? It feels good, Bob. Damned good.
"When we're in the gym, we're in this indescribable euphoria zone. It's a feeling of being on, of being completely alive and aware. If you haven't been there, then it's like trying to describe color to a person who's been blind since birth. Within this haze of pleasure and pain, there's knowledge and power, self-discipline and self-reliance. If you do it long enough, Bob, there's even enlightenment. Sometimes, the answers to questions you didn't even know you had are sitting there on those rubber mats, wrapped up in a neat package of iron plates and bars.
"Want to lose that beer belly, Bob? I have a nutty idea. Put down the fucking beer. I'll tell you what, Bob. Christmas morning I'm getting up real early and hitting the iron. I want to watch my daughter open her presents and spend the whole day with her, so this is the only time I have to train. The gym will be closed, so I'm going out in my garage to workout. You be at my house at six in the morning, okay? I'll be glad to help you get started on a weight training program. It'll be colder than Hillary Clinton's coochie in there, so dress warm.
"But let me tell you something, Bob. If you don't show up, don't bother asking me again. And don't you ever sit there and let me hear you bitch about your beer belly again. This is your chance, your big opportunity to break out of that rut. If you don't show up, Bob, you've learned a very important lesson about yourself, haven't you? You won't like that lesson.
"You won't like that feeling in the pit of your stomach either or that taste in your mouth. It will taste worse than defeat, Bob. Defeat tastes pretty goddamned nasty, but what you'll be experiencing will be much worse. It will be the knowledge that you're weak, mentally and physically. What's worse is that you'll have accepted that feeling. The feeling will always be with you. In the happiest moments of your life, it'll be there, lying under the surface like a malignant tumor. Ignore it at your own peril, Bob.
"Don't look at me like that either. This just may be the best Christmas present you'll get this year. Next Christmas, Bob, when I see you again, I'm going to be a little bigger, a little stronger, and a little leaner. What will you be? Will you still be making excuses? This is a gift, Bob, from me to you. I'm giving you the chance to look fate in those pretty eyes of hers and say, 'Step off, bitch. This is my party and you're not invited.' What do you say, Bob? Monday, Christmas morning, 6am, my house. The ball's in your court."
Okay, so maybe that's not the exact words I used with Bob, but you get the picture. Will Bob show up Monday? I don't know, but I kind of doubt it. In fact, Bob will probably take me off his Christmas card list. He probably thinks I've got "too much Testosterone," like that's a bad thing. I think Bob is just stuck in a rut, and as the saying goes, the only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.
The way out of the rut is to make major changes in your life, most of which won't be too pleasant in the beginning. The opportunity to make those changes seldom comes as bluntly as I put it to Bob. Most of the time, that opportunity knocks very softly. What I did was basically give Bob a verbal slap in the face. You can react two ways to a slap. You can get angry at the person doing the slapping, or you can realize that he was just trying to get you to wake up and focus on what you really want and, more importantly, what it'll take to get it.
If you're a regular T-mag reader, I doubt you need to be called out like Bob. But maybe you've caught yourself slacking a little here lately. Maybe you've missed a few workouts or maybe you started a little too early on the usual holiday feasting, like, say, back in September. Just remember that the time to start working on that summer body is now. The time to get rid of those bad habits that hold you back in the gym is now. You want to look totally different by next Christmas? Start now. This isn't because of the holidays or any corny New Year's resolutions either. The best time is always now.
Christmas day I want you to enjoy being with your family and friends. I want you to open presents, sip a little eggnog and have a good meal. But if your regularily scheduled workout happens to fall on December 25th, what will you be doing at six o'clock that morning?
That's what separates us from guys like Bob.

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Burner02

Oh, I'ev started populating my new blog.
Stop in, say howdy and lemme know what you think...will try and spruce it up once I learn more about it.

Life In The Desert

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

katt

The article you posted was so.... 'hit the nail on the head' true..

That's a great inspiration to remind anyone (my especially) why I do this in the first place..

Burner02

14 Mar 09

Shoulders:
Seated DB Mil Press:
5 sets: 30*12

Standing Lateral Raise:
20*10, 20*10, 20*10

Seated BO Lateral Raise:
20*10, 20*10, 20*10

Standing DB Shrugs:
60*10, 60*10, 100*10

Tris:
Press Downs, med Grip:
60*10, 60*10

** Still get a little gassed towards end. Felt ok about this...just gonna keep it light till I get the 'rust knocked off' before picking up the pace.

I did take off yesterday, body was still too sore to go...I refuse to say that 38 is old...ubt I don't bouce back as fast as I used to...something I'll have to adapt...

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

sara

Good Morning Burner

katt

Dude... you're only 38??? Oh, come on, suck it up and get going.

Burner02

good morning, my half-nekkid lady who's visiting my journal!

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Burner02

Originally Posted by Burner02
Wednesday, 17 November 2004.
CHEST / Bis
***Compounded Chest w/ biceps
Incline BB Bench Press:
135*15, 185*10, 225*8, 275*4, 275*4, 275*4
***the guy I had spot me was another baraly speaking English hispanic male. I even told him how I wanted to be spotted, but he STILL helped when I did not need it, so I cannot confirm those 4- 5 reps @ 275...fuqqer...

Bench Press:
5*225*5, 225*7 (last set, had spotter ((different one..goodone) )

Wide Grip BB Curls:
65*10, 3*105*8

Flat Bench Flyes:
4*50*8

Alt. Standing DB Curls:
3*40*7

**Time
GOOOOD Worjkout! THe weights felt great! When they got heavy, I was able to tap into the raw power and pull just a little more juice out! Now..if I can get that when I do my back, it will start to respond again...will find out tomorrow!


Dang....can't wait to get back to this....
I know...one workout at a time...

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Burner02

15 Mar 09

Back:
Single Arm Pull Down machine Thingie:
45*12, 90*10, 90*8, 70*8, 70*8

BO BB Rows:
95*8, 95*8, 95*8, 95*8

Single Arm DB Rows:
4 sets: 40*10

***WOW....talk about rubber hitting the road...this road is hitting back...HARD...

*** THOSE #'S SUCKED!!!!! But, gotta start somewhere, right?
***trying to get used to the equipment here. It's not a FULLY stocked gym...needs a couple more things.
*** Pull Down machine wsa broken.
***"Pull down thingie" is like a cybex. Can work arms separately.
** Saw a guy doing curls in the 'Curling Cage'...nice to know we have one of those here...(squat rack)
**Tomorrow is off day. Both work and gym..then start fresh!

***So...week one of...maybe 148 more weeks...DONE!

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Triple Threat

Yes, that's a great article. It never gets old. And as katt says, oh so true.

38? Old?

Burner02

well, never married, no kids...ifI stay the course...there I go saying that...I'll be 41 when I get home...single, no kids...gonna get kinda hard finding a girl sorta near my age thta isnt lugging behind a troop of kids...

How 'bout, 38 years young?
Was'sup, Trips!
Where's that pic in your avi taken? Now that I 'm in afghan, I may go to Bora Bora, as it is not too far from here, relatively speaking.
(Alot closer than the 'States)

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Triple Threat

Just like it says. It's the End of the World. Seriously.


The End of the World Resort is the Pearl of the Caribbean (Guanaja, Bay Island Guanaja, Honduras ). A remote exotic island resort tucked away under the jungle canopy right at the ocean's doorstep. You have to see it to believe it! The absolute best vacation we ever had!

Go to google.com, images, and enter "end of the world".

Burner02

sweet-
am looking to go some place exotic to dive while on this side of the world.

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

PreMier

you are 38? dam you is old son

P-side Inc.

"the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

Burner02

I KNOW, sonny.....

You still chasing the cougars?

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

Burner02

I'M SO FUQQIN WEAK...... I was all fired up for this day's chest workout. Got there to and reawake the within, but evidently it was still taking a ...

17 mar 09:

CHEST:
Incline DB Bench Press:
50*15, 50*15, 75*3 ?!?!?!?!? 55*12, 55*10


Bench Press:
135*5 WTF ?!?!?!?!?, 135*4, 135*4, 135*4


*** left the fuqqin gym.
-1) was getting busy and every other machine, bench wsa occupied
-2) too disappointed.

***WTF??? I was feeling good...'hungry'....and came away pizzled.
I know...ego...but DAM! Ever get under a weight that SHOULD be easy..and it nearly 'crushes' you?????

I'm hoping that the muscle memory starts kicking in...SOON!

SO...DEFLATED, WEAK, FAT, OVERWEIGHT BODY...YOU ARE ON NOTICE! THIS IS FOR YOU:


...thank you and have a good night

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

LiftinBear

Thanks for the note. I'll be keeping a watch here too.

the other half

now you know what i have to put up with on a regular basis!!!!

P, we old folks wont tolerate that. cause some day you will be there. it happens, you just get up one morning and you have gray hair and wrinkles.
not that i do, but alot of old people have that happen to them.

"katt's spotter"
" its not how much u can benchpress. its how much other people think u can." bob chicherillo

the other half

burner, i think you needed to throw one more in there to really get the point across.
keep at it, you will win the war soon.

"katt's spotter"
" its not how much u can benchpress. its how much other people think u can." bob chicherillo

Burner02

in honor of my friend TOH...here's yet another 'three-fingered salute'


fuqqin weights...mocking me like that...
They don't know who They're FUQQIN WITH!
- Blade II

Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results

Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem

THERE IS NO TOMORROW!
- Appollo Creed

PreMier

im 26 and i have gray in my beard

P-side Inc.

"the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

the other half

shit atleast you have a beard, i grow my out for hunting season and when i get back from our 10 day hunt(i start growing it out 10 days before we leave) people think that it is 5 days worth of growth. but on the bright side, i only buy 1 pack of razor blades a year.

"katt's spotter"
" its not how much u can benchpress. its how much other people think u can." bob chicherillo

sara

I have one gray hair too! and I'm 26

PreMier

i started t shave when i was 12...

P-side Inc.

"the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

katt

I started shaving when I was 50.....

PreMier

50?! damn grandma..

P-side Inc.

"the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

the other half

and let me tell u what, those where the nasty legs and hairest arm pits u have ever seen on some out side of germany!!!!!!!

"katt's spotter"
" its not how much u can benchpress. its how much other people think u can." bob chicherillo