What's up everybody? I have really been slacking on updating my blog but I really want to grow it and add more great content that everyone will benefit from. I apologize for the drought! Tonight, I am going to add something very cool to my blog.... a button to give my viewers the option of using my personal training services over SKYPE! By clicking on the blue box velow, you and I will be able to communicate through either internet phone or type-chat so that I can help you achieve your fitness and nutritional goals. You will need to have the Skype program downloaded in order to do this. If you have not downloaded this FREE program just go to skype.com

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Have you ever heard someone refer to someone with a good attitude or great laugh and say that it is contagious? Well it is! Even more than that though, is that humans in general are contagious! Good or bad attitude, it is contagious. There are always those people in our lives who sort of lure us in to become like them. We feel like we have to be negative and sour around them or we don't fit in. Or we feel and act much happier around others. And then there are the people whom everyone enjoys spending time with, which are the ones where we can just be ourselves. It is said that we become the average of the personalities of the 5 people we spend the most time with. But what if we used a positive perspective and joyful outlook to influence those 5 people? Their demeanor would become more pleasant which would in turn help us to become even more so, which would elevate and improve our lives and our friends' as well!

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I think if there is one thing I am noticing more and more in myself and in others is that we just don't THINK! If we just thought before we acted, I think we would not be so complaining, derogatory, and at times - just plan dumb! One little example of this. People always complain about the traffic, right? "The traffic is terrible." "The traffic is horrible." "I hate the traffic." "If only THESE PEOPLE would get out of my way!" I find it absolutely hilarious when people say this. It's like - OK DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT YOU ARE THE TRAFFIC?!? So just chill! Use the time for something worthwhile. Call your family, call a friend, listen to a self help tape, memorize Bible verses, use some relaxation techniques. Everyone on the road is complaining, and complaining makes you a crap magnet and does not move the car faster along the roadway.

I think if there is one thing I am noticing more and more in myself and in others is that we just don't THINK! If we just thought before we acted, I think we would not be so complaining, derogatory, and at times - just plan dumb! One little example of this. People always complain about the traffic, right? "The traffic is terrible." "The traffic is horrible." "I hate the traffic." "If only THESE PEOPLE would get out of my way!" I find it absolutely hilarious when people say this. It's like - OK DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT YOU ARE THE TRAFFIC?!? So just chill! Use the time for something worthwhile. Call your family, call a friend, listen to a self help tape, memorize Bible verses, use some relaxation techniques. Everyone on the road is complaining, and complaining makes you a crap magnet and does not move the car faster along the roadway.

How to enhance your life!

Wow, I had the most incredible revelation the other day! Here it is: Everything we do in our lives is in some way an effort to make our time on earth better. Really think about that! We NEVER wake up in the morning and say to ourselves, "Well, here's another day, I wonder what I can do today to make today miserable." It's ALWAYS ways that we want to enhance our existence. From the moment we realize we are awake until our last conscious breath at night we make decisions like, "Hmm, which cereal would I like best this morning, or what water temperature feels most comfortable to me, or which combination of clothes looks and feels best and on and on and on! If you really think about this and how it applies to your own life it's really quite amazing! I should also mention that sometimes we realize we need to go through discomfort in order to achieve a goal we set for ourselves. For example, in exercise sometimes it can get pretty painful but we do it because we know that if we toil through the pain, we will achieve a result that makes us look and feel better about ourselves which enhances our lives. So many times though, we subconsciously do things to shoot our legs out from under ourselves and undermine our own efforts. I guess the best way to say this is just to say that, "We reap what we sow....." and "What goes around comes around...." In other words, the Golden Rule! People treat us the way we treat them. You can even think of it in this way - in most cases, you only receive emails from people whom you take the time to write yourself, right? Like the Bible says, "To have friends one must show himself to be friendly." We have to take the initative and what we put out recriprocates and comes back to us like a boomerang! So, if we want someone to treat us with more respect but we are constantly cutting down other people with our attitudes, more than likely, we are going to get treated the same way. It becomes a vicious cycle and the only way to break it is with doing the exact opposite and treating that person how you'd like to be treated and they will begin to treat you the same way. It is very counter-intuitive but it's an amazing testament to how radical the teachings of Jesus are and yet how we can use them everyday to relate to people to make our lives and the lives of those around us better. Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. And your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil. Luke 6:36 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:37 Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven. Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given to you, good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over, they shall give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you measure, it shall be measured to you again.

Post Workout Nutrition

Post workout nutrition is the one time that will make or break your efforts when it comes to making real progress in your fitness and bodybuilding goals. Catabolic hormones are surging and anabolic hormones are surpressed, you're fatigued and need energy, so how do you reverse these variables? With a post workout shake, that's how! There are a couple of different methods, but the main concept is the same - simple carbohydrates and a fast digesting whey protein to begin with. Glucose is recommended (over sucrose, fructose etc) for the carb source and Whey protein for the protein. Whey protein isolate that is hydrolyzed would be optimal as far as quality and speed of digestion. Along with these mainstays, taking other supplements after your workout will faciliate their uptake and usage because the body has been depleted. So, a multivitamin, creatine, glutamine, BCAA's etc can all be taken with the shake and shuttled into the muscles with the help of the simple carbohydrates. Now, most people have never heard of having something like this after a workout and many think it is unnecessary. However, if you invest the effort, this way pay off more than anything else. However, there slightly different variation of this that I have found to work even better and here it is with exact product recommendations as well. An hour before your workout, eat a complex carbohydrate and lean protein (no fat) source. (oatmeal and can of tuna is a great example). Then, 15 minutes before you hit the weights, take some Essential Amino Acids (EAA's). I recommend Champion Nutrition's Amino Acid Shooter for this, and it tastes fantastic to boot! During your workout, drink only water. Immediately when you are done, have a shake with 60g Waxy Maize Starch with glutamine and creatine. (Waxy Maize is sold under the name "Vitargo" however it is expensive, so I recommend buying from trueprotein.com, it is exactly the same and much much less expensive.) Wait 20 minutes, then consume a whey protein isolate shake. (I prefer Isoflex by Allmax Nutrition) 1 hour after finishing that, eat a whole food meal consisting of a quality protein, complex carbohydrate, vegetable and healthy fat source. (Chicken, broccoli, flax oil and sweet potato) Do that after your next intense weight training workout and I guarantee you will recover and grow faster than you ever thought was possible!

Anything is possible

If you only take one thing away from my blog here it is: NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK OR HOW YOU WANT TO LOOK, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR BODY TO LOOK, FEEL AND PERFORM HOWEVER YOU WANT. PERIOD. And that's fantastic news for 99% of the world who didn't know that. Just ask me how!

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

-Rudyard Kipling