3 days in and i’m so sore, but it hurts so good! I have to keep moving to get the lactic acid moving out of the muscles as this is imperative to faster recovery. A little on lactic acid if your interested;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acid

Ate clean, ate often-Had good results at the gym! Let’s see how long i can make this last

At this time of season, its really easy tangled up in work, school, and family-This just proves how tough it is to keep this sort of thing going based on my last posts about becoming more dedicated to my health :s

So using crosstrainer to track my calories the last little bit and I came to the realization that I don’t eat near enough. I was only consuming between 1500 and 1800 calories a day……This would explain why I’m sick and fatigued all the time. The last few days I have been taking in between 2500 and 3500 calories and I feel amazing. I had my first great workout today in a long time. Just in short…..don’t be afraid of calories they aren’t all bad

Today I vowed to get back into gym and do a workout after 2 weeks + of absence. First thing I did was hop on the scale…..Bad Idea…..I’ve lost 7 more pounds (puts me at 168lbs) from my poor diet and lack of weight training-This means that I’ve lost almost 20 pounds of muscle mass since I gave up training on a serious basis 4 years ago. This has forced me to conclude that the reasoning behind my lack of motivation and lack of health (I’ve been sick for the last 3 weeks…..go figure (eye roll)) is due to the declining lifestyle. I think its time to get serious and get back on track with my training. I’ve learned that its tough to maintain with life int eh way but we have to make room for it or else we will pay a price. I’ll need help getting me through the first 3-4 weeks to recreate the routine and patterns so feel free to post a comment to help me out! Beginning pics to come!

Chest workouts are always my favorites-I get alot of what I do from my friend and pro fitness model Tyler Sarry (in video above). If your looking for a great routine to help develop the chest-I’d advise you to watch the video

Everyone need a push now and again, whether it be for fitness, work, life, school……or whatever. Some people find it in music, some in reading, some in driving, or whatever it maybe. We all have our own ways of clearing our heads and reorganizing our priorities to make our lives more functional and manageable given our situations at those times. If your anything like me-you use a wide variety of methods. Right now I’m hooked on this new marketing campaign by Nike called “ALWAYS ON”. After watching this (above) I always feel like going for a workout or a run. Today I did just that after watching this. I’m not sure if it’s a case that I relate to the off ice training in my past and when I felt great with nothing more than weight lifting and hockey on the mind in my teenage years. Maybe its the simplicity of that point in my life that attracts my to video and the emotions that run through me when I watch it and hear that music that goes with it. Either one…..its working great and perhaps that all each one of us need…. that one method of getting us fluient with motivation and helping us take action.

Power Legs training routine on Crosstrainer pro online

Wednesdays were always staple workout days for developing power in the lower body. With the end of summer and the start of our hockey season, this day will become a practise day which see’s me on the ice for at least two hours inside of 2 sessions. Though developing legs is key to any athletes routine, people forget how important strength training to the legs is. The legs are the main contributing muscle to create secretion of GH (growth hormone) because there are more muscles and more muscle mass in the lower portions of our anatomy. This being said, stressing any muscle through training helps produce GH and thus helps us to develop our overall growth and wellness. Above is an example of a typical legs training day (power) for me. After everything summer, since I was 16 and started a similar legs routine, I come back and I notice significant power changes in my movements on the ice and likewise in everything else I do. Crazy as it sounds, training legs more often will increase your, bench press, shoulder press, and other major compound movements because of the GH produced from activating so many major muscle.

Train your legs!!

WOW! Its been so long! Getting at this blog again for the first time in over a year….jeez i can’t believe how fast time flies by. Though i have not been posting on my blog i have been working out. Infact i’ve spent the last year working at fitness facility while continuing my education! Well i’m back now and ready to continue my posts!

I lucked out about a week ago and got some really clean weight gaining from walmart on clearence. I paid 10 bucks for 10 pound of this stuff. Its nothing special, just weight gainer which doesn’t have much sugar in it. I have been taking t once a day as suggested and it is woring wonders. I think i have been lacking calories in my diet. I have noticed significant energy increase and my workouts have much improved since.