43 dayz. I'm gonna call it!

I technically have 3 days left for my challenge. But... I'm going to stop my posts for the Xmas break while I focus on family and celebrating. So I will give my final results of my body fat percentage challenge now.

Started at 93.1kg and 35.2% body fat on my scales. Made it to 82.1kg and 18.6% body fat during this week.

I followed a fairly regimented meal plan during most of the week. Only breaking for the weekend as some meals where a little more on the fly. I kept a pretty intense resistance training regiment up, with a fair bit of cardio at the start to crank up the fat loss.

So, not sure what my next goal will be, but I really want to maintain this low body fat %.

So we shall see how I fair over the holiday break.

For all of my readers, I shall return in the new year. Ready to motivate you in all things fitness!

Have a safe and happy holiday season.

Supp review!!

For a long time I've been a supporter for the Max's protein products. Yummy cookies, yummy bars, good tasting protein powders and reasonable price. But in recent days the price of the 'tein has gone up. So I decided to follow a tip off from a while back about proteindirect.com.au.

10kgs later (I had my training partners order in with mine) and 4 packages of unflavored WPC was delivered to my door.

The price was good, the delivery, speedy. They suggested up to 7 days, it took 2, but the real test would be how did the product hold up?

To taste it on its own, it's not much chop. But ad a little brown sugar, honey or cocoa powder, you name it you can flavor it, and this stuff is essentially the same quality protein as the rest on the market. And by flavoring yourself you can adjust it to your sweet setting!

So my verdict at the moment... Double thumbs up for value for money in versatility and quality. Taste, well that's something you'll have to sot for yourself. You can buy flavor packs from the site, but my current flavorings of choice are finely chopped dried banana (turns it into a sweet powder to add) and cocoa powder and raw sugar. But with the right ingredients you could go crazy with all sorts of flavor combos.

I haven't tried it yet but since this stuff if unflavored you can even add it to mince to ad more protein to homemade burger patties.

I have however made some home made protein bars, which I will post my recipe too soon.

New workout music anthem.

Gotta get this one pumping through the ear holes.

I know, will I am and Brit... Not exactly lyrical genius. But hey who doesn't want to scream and shout and let it all out web they are at the gym?

Holiday food and fitness tip #3

During the holiday period a lot of gyms close down, sometimes just for the public holidays. Sometimes for longer.

Last year I used this time to check out some different gyms and test out what else was on offer. So what can you do to make sure that you are having a break from work and not your fitness?

Here are my tips for staying active during the break.

Go for a walk, jog or ride. Take a family member or even the whole family. While the weather is good and you have the time to share get mobile the old fashion way. Walk to the shops or the movies or walk to the beach to spend some time in the sun.

Find a small place at home to do a half hour full body work out. Sit ups, push ups, chin ups (if you have the equipment) skipping, ab bridges, star jumps, burpees, box jumping. You name it there are a multitude of minimal equipment exercises that you can carry out without a gym. Keep it intense and move from each exercise without much rest and in half an hour you'll be feeling it.

And last but not least, perhaps change your membership to a gym that is open 24/7. Gym loyalty is one thing, but having a gym open at any time can help in making sure you don't have a disruption during the break.

Holiday food and fitness tip #2

Sweet sweet candy!

Even if you let your friends and family know that you don't want to be gutsing chocolate and candy in a big way, over the holiday season... Guaranteed you are either going to be given a box of chocolates or stumble across a sweet treat to eat at some time.

So what are the tips for this sugary land mine?

If you get a box of chocolates, get into the Christmas spirit and share them with others. Also these candies are normally small and give you a feeling that you are only having a few when really you are having more sugar intake then you think. Limit yourself to 1 or 2 per day.

After meal sweets and deserts. This one can be a little complicated as refusing such a well made trifle or cake can offend your host. Instead of saying no straight up, ask for a small piece. Eat that small piece as slowly as you can. If you finish too quick...you'll be more likely to be asked if you want seconds. Your head will be telling you, "yeah sure, just one more piece" but that is just the sugar devil talking.

Eat fruit based sweets where you can, though once again too much is bad for you, at least you will get some good fibre and other nutrients from fruit.

And lastly, don't hate yourself if you break under the pressure of it all and give in to temptation. You will just have to work harder when the gyms re open after the break.

Holiday food and fitness tip #1

You are bound to go to a barbie or two during the holidays.

So the barbecue tips are such.

Avoid excessive sausage in a bun (bread) syndrome as the carbs will be your undoing.

Minimize your sauces. Sauces contain loads of sugar. So smothering all of your meat in the rosella is going to ad the pounds. Savor the flavor of the foods without sauce or with a small amount on the side to dip into instead.

Keep your salad to meat ratio higher on the salad side. Fill up on healthy greens and veg instead of plating high with meat and few sticks of carrot. Fresh salad will become less edible more quickly than meat will. So you can afford to have left over meat to store in the fridge but you don't want to be throwing the salad away that evening.

And alcohol... Have it but be moderate. 1. You shouldn't really be the drunkard at your house or a friends house and 2. Too much will lead to your fitness undoing. If you are thirsty have water in between drinks and stop when you are feeling full.

1 year

Happy birthday to my blog.

8776 and counting views and 161 and counting, posts. May I have many more years and encouragement to post.

And I hope everyone continues to stay fit and motivated!!

13 dayz left...

Well not long to go now and then it's crunch time on my challenge. But with the end of that challenge what's next? This is the perpetual task that we all need to ask every day. What challenge and goal am I stepping up to next?

I think firstly I'm going to have to face the challenge of Christmas Day food and Boxing Day feasts, New Years boozing and Australia Day barbies.

If I survive that... Then I shall see what my new goal will be.

Stay posted for my final results AND some tips to keep it trim over the break period.

Upscale, downscale

Measuring your success can be done in many ways. Depending on what you are chasing as a goal you can measure with personal bests, goal achievements and of course the oldie but goodie, scales and body fat measurements.

But if you are so inclined to measure yourself upon the scale, be warned!!! There are some inherent issues with doing this and if you know some of the pitfalls you can avoid disappointment and also avoid false results.

Firstly, if you have an old set of scale that you think might be out of calibration, go buy some new ones. You can get new scales from as little as $20 or even $50 to $60 dollars can get you one with other fruit on it like body fat % and bone mass etc.

Secondly, use only one set of scales for results and recordings. Soooo, if you have been weighed in at your gym for appraisals or by a personal trainer, put your scales away and ONLY use theirs. Using multiple scales can skew your perception of weight and results. I use my own scales as I’m a self-measurer and just today I tested the theory by using the scales at the gym. My results that I had taken the night before changed from 83.6kg and 19.2% BF to 84.4kg and 11.2% body fat. Now I know you burn calories in your sleep but that amount of body fat in one night’s sleep is inconceivable. The real story, different levels of body fat calculation from machine to machine. The weight stayed similar but this could also be due to varying percentages of accuracy that each digital scale can provide.

Thirdly, try and record yourself less times in a week. I currently measure every two days, some even measure weekly. What this does is takes away the obsessive day to day small results which can get you down and hopefully turns them into a larger result of change, which will make you feel better about what you are doing. Sometimes looking at the bigger picture can help, what sounds better in your head, “hmm I’ve only lost 100grams (when measured daily)” or “wow I lost a whole Kilo!(when measured at the end of the week)?

Fourthly, take photos of yourself to keep a visual. Sometimes you may only loose a few kilo’s by the scale but your body shape may have changed dramatically. When I looked at my pictures in between, from 15 days apart, I was amazed at the difference. So just because you aren’t dropping to your goal weight in a week doesn’t mean you are not already starting to look like the body that you are aiming for and the hard work is paying off.

And lastly, don’t beat yourself up if you slip up. No one said reaching your goal would be easy. If you find your results plateauing or moving in the wrong direction. Don’t sulk and give up. Use the data to see how you can change what you ARE doing to start the results back into the right direction.

You CAN change your body with time and effort and you will become better for it both for your health and your own self confidence.

Be prepared for weight loss

So you have your weekly routine or plan for the gym, great. What about your weekly plan for the other side? The yang to the ying, if you are burning it up at the gym, you need to plan for what fuel you are going o put in. And if you are looking for weight loss it helps to be prepared, because you can't just be eating everything in sight (those who are bulking only get this pleasure)

Portion size and what you take in is important, so having pre portioned meals is a great start. I utilize a large can of tuna for my lunch meal, however my wife hates the stuff. So I proposed a lunch time meal set up that should do the job for taste, protein and energy.

We spent around a half hour preparing over a weeks worth of lunches for her, season and flavor some chicken breast, cook it. Make some rice and boil up some greens. Then using some food storage containers, portion out the goodies. Whack em in the fridge and now each day her lunch is sorted.

If you are used to big lunches this methodology might cause some hunger grumbles through the first week. Your stomach is going to shrink and the grumbles get less after the week. The other thing that you will need to do is eat every 2 hours or so. Breakfast, morning snack, lunch, arvo snack, then tea and if you need to a very small power snack before bed.

Now before anyone starts preaching that I'm not a nutritionist and such... Bear in mind that this is only advice. If you find yourself feeling weak or sick, increase your portion size to energize. And make sure what you are eating as snacks in-between are healthy and not junk. And if you are finding it hard to adjust your eating habits or not sure what you shod be eating, seek advice from a nutritionist. They will be able to suggest what foods you should be eating to fill any nutrient voids.

Motorv8ting music.

Here are a couple of fresh beats to ad to the workout playlist to keep you sweating!

24 dayz...

Ok so 24 days into my challenge and I can see the body fat slowly dropping. Last week saw a stale mate in that department. This week marked the start of my PWO supp. And according to my scales I have drop down to the 19.1% and weighing in at 83.6kg. That is now 9.5 kg of weight loss and 16.1% body fat drop.

At Christmas I will be at my fittest I'm sure.

Get your juggs out! Supp review

Juggernaut HP

Well, after a fair bit of research and review reading, I decided to bite the bullet and choose a supplement to see if I could get myself over a plateau. For the last week I have been steadily sitting at 20% body fat according to my scales. And with carefully crafted small meals with minimal fat and no excessive carbs this % hasn’t dropped.

Solution? More cardio and more work and more intense workouts. But at the end of every workout so far I have had a massive drop in energy and keeping the intensity throughout has been hard. Don’t get me wrong I have given it all I’ve got, but all I’ve got isn’t enough. So I decided to get back onto the PWO supp train.

Welcome to the fray, Juggernaut!

I have had some experience with PWO’s before but this one was a different experience for me.

I got the goods Saturday and took 2 scoops (one was recommended but hey you gotta live a little) and I have to say, I’m not sure if it did anything. I pumped out a chest workout and I did do more than the usual and there were little breaks in-between which kept the intensity up. But I can’t say I had the weights being thrown around the room experience that some had reviewed about. So I was a little disappointed. However…this was only 2 scoops. So after a days rest, Monday came about and I decided to hit up 3 scoops and carry out the same chest routine.

Wow! I think I could have stayed at the gym an extra hour smashing my chest. I like to finish up with a ladder finish of dips and push ups. Saturday… 5 dips,3 pushups,4dips,2 pushups,2 dips, faceplant. Monday…7 dips, 7 pushups, 6 dips, 6 pushups, 5 dips, 5 pushups, 4 dips, 4 push ups, 3 dips, 3 push ups, 3 dips, 3 push ups…I had to stop because I ran out of time.

I still have plenty of energy, so no crash effect, which is something that most PWO’s are touting now.

Perhaps this PWO is going to live up to its claims. I shall keep taking it (no point in stopping, as I have the tub) and we shall see how it effects my growth and body fat %. For now I am slightly more impressed with it, and I am pumped to see how the rest of my workout week goes.

Break time is over! Make way for progress!

It's only been a week, but I have been satisfied with my results so far.

9 days and I have dropped 6.3 kg and dropped 14.5% body fat. So that's 93.1 kg at the return from my honeymoon to currently 86.6 kg and 34.2% BF to 20.7% BF. (as per my home scales reading. )

So far the hardest bit has been getting back into the jog! You get half way and then turn around, only to remember that you still have to get back home. Not like on a tread mill, where you know once you stop, you are right where you left off.

But I shall continue my shredding quest... Keep watching this space.

Albuterex!!

There is a bit of hype going around about this particular supplement. Touted as having clean thermo genic energy and the power to activate your hormone designed for fat loss. Many are using it as a preworkout supplement, others for that added weight loss kicker.

But before I go on any further, let me just say, if you are planning to utilise a supplement and you have never had it before…read the instructions, talk to a reputable supplement supplier before taking and always proceed with caution if you have symptoms that are abnormal or cause you discomfort.

Now I’m a sucker for trying new things and I have in the past taken a couple of different preworkout supplements in the past such as Mesomorph, Hemorage and even a fat blasting pill with similar claims as Albuterex. So when the opportunity came to test this supplement I was excited and ready to test it against the background knowledge of my own experience.

I got no tingles. I didn’t feel super energised from it and it didn’t make me sweat any more than normal. It did keep me awake till around bedtime, which recently has been a struggle whist relaxing at night watching shows (normally I start to doze off real easy). But it didn’t impede my sleep throughout the night or prevent me from falling to sleep. I guess you could say it kept me alert, but not bouncing off the walls. This was after dose 1.

Dose 2, for the morning weights session, was taken in the same amount and at a similar time frame before workout. Once again, no tingles, no excessive sweating or irregular heartbeat or anything like that. I did notice that I didn’t yawn once. Normally I slip a couple of yawns in throughout a morning routine, but today this did not happen.

I also gave a sample to my training partner, and besides the fact that he took it with milk…weird, he didn’t have any side effects or notice a large boost in power.

So for now, I’m going to post my review as, a poor preworkout, energy boosting type supplement. It may however by an excellent long term fat burning supplement, which I will update the results of this through a fellow gym goer who is taking this supplement over a long period of time. There is also a female formula of this sup, as for the difference in potency…unsure. If anyone has experienced the effects of the femme version I would appreciate a comment on this page.

How do you break your fast!

Breakfast is the most important meals for the day. It starts off your energy levels for the day and begins a time base for the rest of the day.

But what do you have for breaky?

I enjoy on a regular basis about a half cup of oats and milk, with a scoop if protein and creatine.

If I'm exercising in the morning I make sure I do it before my breakfast. This is better for me for 2 reasons. 1. More fat burning. 2. No having to wait an hour after eating to exercise.

But some other options that I have had I the past are, egg white omelette., weet-bix, scrambled eggs or yogurt fruit and muesli.

For some out there alternatives to this are equally as good. But some options that you should avoid if you are serious about losing weight and starting your day right are.

Fast food breakfast wraps and sandwiches. Dripping with fat and preservative loaded goodness.

Pretty much every kids cereal on the market. Full of sugar which might work well for a parent on kids as they get energized for school then once at school they crash from the sugar high.

Too much toast. Simple, equals too much carbs and most of the time it is white bread. If you stick to one or two pieces you had better be having eggs with that or you'll find yourself hungry in an hour or two.

Bacon and sausages. Cure for a hangover but the fat content alone should be your warning for how bad these are for you as a breakfast meal.

So if you feel a bit lack luster for energy through the day, perhaps you should look at how it starts and begin adjusting your eating habits.

Power wall of inspiration and super motivation!

Here are a few icons that I look up to, aspire to and generally take inspiration from.
Bruce Lee - his dedication early in life and his general fitness principal.
The Hulk - I feel I channel my inner hulk every gym session. As I step through the gym doors you get me angry...
Akuma - a dark and broody Street Fighter character that possesses power and great strength. I even dressed up as him some years back for a New Years party.
Dwayne Johnson - among the very rare fit looking wrestlers, and I don't like wrestling.
And last but not least a young Arnold. - his dedication in his younger years lead him to the success he enjoys today.

Home gym 101.

This afternoon I whipped up the first piece of homemade gym equipment for my outside gym area.

I sacrificed my afternoon run to build a chin up/wide grip bar, incorporated with a boxing bag hanger.

Sooo, I must go for a run tomorrow... And carry out a boxing session combined with some chin ups and such.

I had the materials already all I needed to do was cut, weld and dig two giant deep holes to plant the sucker in.

Voila!

Bring on Saturday!

46 dayz!

There are 46 days till bright and early Christmas morning. By then I have a goal to lower my body fat percentage significantly.

I always seem to draw inspiration from a holiday. This time it was a holiday to Phuket. I remained as active as I could on the week away. Busting out 45 minutes sets on the small amount of equipment provided at the hotel. But it was the eating out every night, and lunch...and the buffet breakfasts that pull a number on the body. Ad to that I had started a bulking phase before my trip (those who read my blog might remember I was going to go into a cutting phase before my honeymoon, but due to some disruptions in plans and the addition of a new gym buddy, I stuck with the heavy lifting and bulking diet.)

So now it's time to get serious with some extra cardio, really thought out eating choices and a general amp up of each and every workout!

So I will start with the workout schedule.
Monday through to Friday I shall remain with my morning weights session. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday arvo jog. Sat and Sun, some backyard gym sessions which will include some boxing bag rounds and burpees and chin ups and junk like that.

So I guess I better pull my finger out and weld up my bag hanger and chin up bar...

BRING IT ON!!

Doms Doms Dom!!!!

I have posted on this topic before, but as it turns out there is a term for it, DOMS.

What the heck am I talking about?

Well those who do any resistance training will have experienced it at some point, and those serious to the sport of body building will crave this, because they know they did good on their workout the days before.

I'm talking Delayed Onset Muscle Sorness. Wiki explains it as such; Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), also called muscle fever, is the pain and stiffness felt in muscles several hours to days after unaccustomed or strenuous exercise. The soreness is felt most strongly 24 to 72 hours after the exercise. It is caused by eccentric exercise. After such exercise, the muscle adapts rapidly to prevent muscle damage, and thereby soreness, if the exercise is repeated.

So top tips for making that ache more of a friend then a foe? Here are 3!
1.Nutrition!!! After a resistance training session, eat good protein and complex carbs. These will ensure your muscles have the fuel to start repairing straight away. If you want an easy option here, perhaps it is not time for a meal after your workout, have a protein shake.
2.Massage. From some gentle rubbing to a deep tissue massage, before you get sore and in they days after. A good massage can make you feel better, as you stimulate the blood flow in the muscles, purging them and allowing temporary relief.
3.Stretching. Many of us do it, we DON'T stretch. But we should. A light stretch before the workout, targeting the areas you are going to hit, will help. Along with a cool down and stretch after the workout session. Then in the days after, some gentle stretching.

So as much as you might feel like a bag of dropped spuds in those days after, remember that this is your body telling you, you did something right the day before!!

Crave rave!

If you are looking to take control of your weight and get in shape, controlling what you put into your body to fuel it is key to your success.

Cravings are inevitable especially if you are used to a pattern of eating things at certain times or for certain things. You might go to the movies and always get a large coke, large popcorn, bag of sweets and a bag of chips... just for yourself.

Or you might be used to eating morning tea and lunch from a Gutz truck at work. So if you go cold turkey, chances are you might only last a week or so.

So here are some tips for pushing those cravings aside.

1. Know the difference between being hungry and having a craving. Hungry means grumbly tummy and still feeling hungry after 10mins. If you distract yourself for 10mins and you are still feeling it, then you are hungry.
2. Plan your days meals ahead of time. This will mean less chance of impulse food eating.
3. Be prepared to say NO! If you are offered unhealthy snacks or food outside of your plan, just say no.
4. Don't buy bad craveables! If you do the shopping, don't buy things that tempt you. If someone else buys, ask them not to buy those things that you normally crave for. If that fails get them to place those items out of common sight so you wouldn't normally see them.
5. Have one day of the week as a cheat day. On this day giving in to a craving or treat will be your reward for being so great for the rest of the week.

So first things first, if you have crave treats that are not good to eat in the house right now go throw them out or put them well away.

And next thing, start today. Don't say I'll do it tomorrow, start right now.

It's been a while.

It's been a little while since I last posted.

I shall keep posting however. Ff2f isn't dead. I just need to re asses what exactly I want to post about.

If you have any ideas or liked a particular type of post more than others let me know.

But for now here is a visual for those that might be struggling.

Freebie!!

Just finished a 2 day learning course. Away from my usual routine of things due to having to travel north to the big smoke.

This could have meant 2 days taken out of the week where I couldn't train. Aside from the non gym stuff you can do while traveling, I think it is important to plan how you can get your fitness kick in while you are away.

This helps in a few ways.
1.keeps routine, which means your body clock stays in time. On a short trip away this is important. On a long trip... Not so much.
2.energy!!! Keeping up with your regular level of gym going fitness will keep your energy high as it normally does. Leave it for a few too many days and you can become lazy and tired. And if your trip is for learning, you won't retain as much, as you will be fighting to stay awake.
3.you can have your rest days after you return.

If you can't make it to train while you're away... Then you will have to resolve to catch up when you return.

On this trip I was lucky enough to get a free once off access to a gym. The gym was a buzz with great energy. And the work out was great!! First time in a while I got the jiggly legs by the end of it.

And it isn't too hard to find a gym near where you're staying, these things are popping up all over the place.

Stahp!!!! You're doing it wrong.

I keep seeing people at the gym doing their resistance training all wrong.

Bicep curls turning into ab workouts, TuT thrown out the window in lieu of freight training a heavy weight up and down like you have a bad case of the shakes.

My training partner and I have a saying and moto when it comes to weight training.

"There is no shame in dropping down in weight (if you start at a higher weight) form and TuT should not be sacrificed."

If you start to twist in the wrong direction or lose your locked in core. There is nothing to be gained if you continue the rest of the workout like this.

Something good TuT promotes is the full range if motion. All too often you see bench presses where arms barely even make it to 90 degrees and the speed of the reps look like they are going for a speed record. Slow it down and get full extensions and contractions.

So stahp doing it wrong and start doing it right, you will start to see more results and feel the full effect of the workout.

Gotta make the time AND take your time!

It was put to me the other day when discussing what we (my gym buddy and I) would be doing tomorrow, legs, shoulders and back… "I don't know where you get time to go to the gym!"

And my immediate answer was, "you have to make time!"

The plan at the start of the week was to go to the gym after work. BUT work dragged on too late and forced a missed day due to appointments that couldn't be moved.

SO the plan was made to gym first thing!!! 5:30 gym opened giving us plenty of time to get a session in enforce work.

It's important to not let "TIME" become an excuse! As long as you get enough exercise in to reach your goals and targets.

What's your excuse?

Motivational Music!

Finding it hard to get pumped for your workout? Perhaps you have just woken, or driving in the car to gym? This song is sure to get you pumped. It might be about rappin but the beat and the strong sure lyrics make it a great workout pre starter.

Resting ness

I know I’ve been a little bit quiet on the posts of inspirational-ness at the moment.

This has mainly been due to some well-earned rest.

Now it has come to my attention that many exercisers get a case of the guilt’s when they don’t exercise for a day or two.

Well you shouldn’t feel bad, unless you have decided not to go for slack reasons or because you’re making excuses for yourself.

In fact sometimes your body will tell you if you’re needing a break. If you have over worked yourself and you are eating well and haven’t increased your workload too significantly you may find that you haven’t given your body enough time to rest and rebuild before you start again.

For body builders this down time will normally equal growth rather than nothing. Which will surprise most. For those looking to lose weight, you should find that as long as you keep on top of the diet side of things, your metabolism will balance the rest, while YOU rest.

If you don’t rest and you don’t have the drive to push through it… you will hit a slump in your routine and your interest in exercise will begin to wane.

Don’t let this happen!

Take a break, 3, 4 or a whole week of days and then get back into it. I have spoken of this before, but you mustn’t give up!! Use that time off to get your mind ready to attack again, check your workout plan, look at how you can best utilise your time for exercise coming up.

A break isn’t a bad thing, see it as a necessity for your body to catch up to the efforts you have been putting in.

K²

For a fairly long time now I have been a self motivated fitness goer.

I've done at least one workout with my bro before but never had a long term workout training buddy. And for the most of this time it has suited me fine. I find I have a pretty good self drive and enjoy the solitary that it gives me. Time to forget about the outside world and it's problems, time for a de stress.

However over the last couple of weeks I have taken my name sake under my wing as a training partner. He has the same goal set in mind and I hope that we can achieve that goal.

What I have noticed is that on the days that I am still at the gym alone without the training partner I can easily cheat myself out of some training intensity. No one is there to challenge your concept of "to failure" or to give you a reason to show off and set the bar a little higher.

So if you have found yourself plateauing or feeling like your drive is waning, you might want to enlist a training partner to give your workouts a kicker.

Make sure they have the same drive as you. Perhaps not the same goal but at least the same drive will ensure you don't spend your whole time talking and not working out.

Make sure you are both willing to push each other to the limits so that you can both achieve your goals.

Watch each other in-between sets to keep an eye on each others form and to be ready for any possible spotting that you might be needed for.

So what are you waiting for, drag along a sibling, work colleague, mother, father or just a friend and start motivating each other to reach your goals!

Below: one of the most famous training partnerships in the world.

Motivation from the King!

He can do it all!

Arnold gives so much back.

This is the answer to childhood obesity right here!

If the schools are not adopting it, parents should be.

If you're a parent and you are not fit...how do you expect your children to do something you don't?

I'm not sure what schools are like at the moment with PE but I remember having to do some, but there was never a huge emphasis on it. I imagine in this day and age of lawsuits, over protective parents and the heavier focus on other subjects that this is becoming more of an elective thing rather than mandatory.

I'm with Arnold, we need to have more focus on the exercise to make the minds of our youth stronger to cope with the new world we live in.

MOTORV8 MUSIC!!

Your History to Channel

A little more about me.

Knowing where you have come from can help you stay on track and push forward with your new goals. So perhaps looking into your history could give you some new inspiration to channel into.

My high school life was riddled with fat kid bullying, until year 10 after I shot up in height.

Then I spent the next 2 years taking control of my diet and by the end of high school, I was slender. A goal I had wanted to achieve for a long time.

Then many more years passed until a couple of years back on my birthday, my mom answered the phone. It was a random cold call for an exercise club in town. Mom was already a gym junkie so she passed the phone on to me.

Originally the plan was to use the two free weeks and then bail. The only gym work I had ever done was back at high school and it never did anything for me.

So I rock up and start on the circuit and the bug hit me almost straight away. The sweat, challenge and self challenge were a great feeling. I wanted more; my new goal was to be in a fitter condition for snowboarding in Canada by the end of the year.

By the time the trip came, I was fitter and my goal was achieved. Previous trip, massively sore legs from boarding, new trip, no sore legs!

However in that trip I ate quite a bit, one of the pitfalls of holidaying in the USA. So upon my return, the food side of things got a good kick start again. Smaller meals, healthier meal and in about 3 weeks I had lost around 10kg!

Now my goal changed to maintaining and gaining a bit more muscle mass.

So it has been a fairly long journey so far, with many smaller achievement goals in-between, I can still remember that awkwardness of going into the gym for the first time and feeling out of place. Now I can confidently walk into any gym set up and begin a workout with a very clear goal set in mind.

I urge you, if you have been scared to start or think you should do something about your fitness, begin NOW and see if you can get bitten by the fitness bug.

Your History to Channel

A little more about me.

Knowing where you have come from can help you stay on track and push forward with your new goals. So perhaps looking into your history could give you some new inspiration to channel into.

My high school life was riddled with fat kid bullying, until year 10 after I shot up in height.

Then I spent the next 2 years taking control of my diet and by the end of high school, I was slender. A goal I had wanted to achieve for a long time.

Then many more years passed until a couple of years back on my birthday, my mom answered the phone. It was a random cold call for an exercise club in town. Mom was already a gym junkie so she passed the phone on to me.

Originally the plan was to use the two free weeks and then bail. The only gym work I had ever done was back at high school and it never did anything for me.

So I rock up and start on the circuit and the bug hit me almost straight away. The sweat, challenge and self challenge were a great feeling. I wanted more; my new goal was to be in a fitter condition for snowboarding in Canada by the end of the year.

By the time the trip came, I was fitter and my goal was achieved. Previous trip, massively sore legs from boarding, new trip, no sore legs!

However in that trip I ate quite a bit, one of the pitfalls of holidaying in the USA. So upon my return, the food side of things got a good kick start again. Smaller meals, healthier meal and in about 3 weeks I had lost around 10kg!

Now my goal changed to maintaining and gaining a bit more muscle mass.

So it has been a fairly long journey so far, with many smaller achievement goals in-between, I can still remember that awkwardness of going into the gym for the first time and feeling out of place. Now I can confidently walk into any gym set up and begin a workout with a very clear goal set in mind.

I urge you, if you have been scared to start or think you should do something about your fitness, begin NOW and see if you can get bitten by the fitness bug.