Back to the grind....

Well thanksgiving proved to be a wonderful adversary. After i exclaimed to my wife Nicki that it was my favorite holiday, I was poised to do some damage on the lovely abundance of food laid before me. I cant wait for our new house so I can cook the meal!!!. Next year i promise. As you may know , I am on a clean eating plan to lean out not to compete but to finish a few photoshoots i have been asked to do. right now im about 9% bodyfat that would give me 172 lean mass which is almost 9 lbs higher than the beginning of this year. my new training split will be MON pull TUES push THURS legs and FRI Shoulders and and arms. Ill use as many kettlebell exercisess as i can and def will do kettlebells as HIIT. i Seem to have gotten much stronger since last year which makes me happy. Biking season seems to have come to a close and i had many great times on the trails with friends new and old. But back to thanksgiving day....

7am Trained legs and hit them hard with high volume to deplete glycogen to eat the thanksgiving carbs

ate a low carb postworkout meal and went to gramdmas brunch. CITRIMAX (garcinia cambogia fruit) works it apparently has properties that keep calories partitioned to muscle and not fat but it curbs your appetite. the whole rest of day i was having a hard time being hungry. I went to my brothershouse to eat with my parents. great food but Dinner at Nickis parents afterwards was very hard to get an appetite. food looked so good ad i was determined to eat homemade apple pie. It was all I could do to get one piece down!. I got home and realized that I didnt even take any leftovers home!!!! oh well. i do eat turkey and sweet potatos everyday….. so i guess my point is every day is thanksgiving for me. By the way i weighed 191.2 thanksgiving morning and the same the day afterwards. so no harm done!!!!

summer in november.

Well today was the first day i did not have to wake at the crack of dawn to train anyone. i have to admit it feels pretty wierd. so i figured i would have a day of total relax. dog walk? check. started getting ready for a few photoshoots in the next 6-8 weeks, so i hopped on the bike trainer with a copy of Tom Robbins' "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates" mmm hmm. rode for a good 25 min pre breakfast while sippin on some glutamine and bcaas. google it. im here to blog not describe..... after feeling the summer temp outside, my mind was racing to find something to do that didnt involve three layers of clothes. as always, the first thought wasto mountain bike... but i went yesterday and frankly legs were very fatigued. scratch that. cut the grass? im sure that can wait. So i figured id have a recuperative day. eat clean, clean the kitchen, read the social media bible and look where that took me .... blogging for the first time. if only i could type faster/better. Fueled by my wifes overly strong coffee, (i prefer the low acid weak morning brew) i watch these letters appear from taps of my shaky fingers. i suppose i am being productive and motivating myself to grow my business through an outreach into cyberspace, but chances are most of you know id much rather work with people than spend my day behind a computer screen. well this coffee is kickin in so i wanna go work out, i guess ill end up pushing the mower all around the yard for the next hour....