Thursday, March 4, 2010

Week 7 ( Strength)

Still trying to recover/reduce the fat gained from reading week. Current weight is at 210 lbs, but the weight is not my main concern. I can easily drop 5 lbs in like 15 days if I cut my eating. I'm more concerned with losing my Body fat %, and I'm trying to lose minimum muscle while shredding down.

Strength phase is probably my favourate because you can see/feel the gains in strength and muscle size.... It's like a payday from all the bitch conditioning work outs I did in my previous weeks.

Shout outs to my work out partner Thomas aka. Big Spoon. He got his chest/shoulder/back w.e the fuk muscle torned cause he got tackled into the snow by two 120lbs chinese kids. (pussy) Get well soon, cause I can almost bench a plate too now ;)

Ladies that are down to run them late night cardio missionz, or down to do them late night deadlifts/squats holla at your boy ;)

The mid section still needs ALOT of work, Ill see you on the treadmill...
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Week: 6 (Strength)
First week back from reading week. You can definitely see that my mid section has increased a thin layer of fat on top. Trying to catch up on cardio, ease off drinking and get my diet back. Still in strength phase, getting stronger but not leaner :(

I was watching this show on SLICE network called X-WEIGHTED. The nutritionist came to one of the fat girls house and checked her fridge, found a shit load of "DIET" drinks and threw them out. Apparently aspartame kills your metabolism (aside from the 100000000 other negative side effects).
This was kind of a wake up call for me, because during reading week my momskers bought a 2-4 of Diet coke and I pretty much finished the whole box.

I admit I have a soft spot for "DIET" drinks because it's like a way of obtaining the pleasure without trade-offs. However I feel that this is one of the main reasons why I gained a lot of fat during the reading week and its time to throw that habit out the window.


"The fact that aspartame fattens people is generally well known. We have all seen the post cards and comics that depict an overweight person with a Diet Coke in one hand while reaching for a bowl of corn chips with the other hand. The reason aspartame so strikingly stimulates the appetite is it provides over half of its content in a form of a phenylalanine isolate.


The amino acid phenylalanine outcompetes all the other at enzyme sites in the body. This suppresses the formation of dopamine from tyrosine and the formation of serotonin from tryptophan. The serotonin is the neurotransmitter that reports carbohydrate metabolism. When your serotonin levels are not allowed to raise as they normally do when you eat carbohydrates you crave more and more food. The dopamine is the neurotransmitter that lets you feel satisfied, so when you use aspartame you have unsatisfiable cravings. The aspartame also poisons your metabolism so you cannot burn calories." ---> http://www.rense.com/general3/asper.htm
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Balling with PROTEIN :D
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Week - 5 (Slack, Reading Week Fail)

This week was particularly unproductive week because of my Birthday (excessive drinking) and the reading week (excessive drinking). Definitely put on a layer of fat. I cannot maintain a good eating pattern and a normal sleeping pattern when Im in Toronto.

This is also the first week of my strength phase, I definitely increased alot of strength.
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