Chemo, Radiation and a Stem Cell Transplant

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Your posts are inspirational, insightful, and you’ve prompted me to take a more positive outlook on life so as to live each fleeting moment to its fullest. We always get so caught up in the trivial things that we forget how truly fortunate we are to be alive and well today living in a time and world such as this. Your thread has brought me back down to earth and for that I am grateful. I’ll be following your progress and blogs.

I was going to suggest adding Pistols (1-legged squats) or even just body weight squats for legs but it seems like you’re progressing on to weights now.

Best of luck with school and training.

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[quote]Zooguido wrote:
Your posts are inspirational, insightful, and you’ve prompted me to take a more positive outlook on life so as to live each fleeting moment to its fullest. We always get so caught up in the trivial things that we forget how truly fortunate we are to be alive and well today living in a time and world such as this. Your thread has brought me back down to earth and for that I am grateful. I’ll be following your progress and blogs.

I was going to suggest adding Pistols (1-legged squats) or even just body weight squats for legs but it seems like you’re progressing on to weights now.

Best of luck with school and training.[/quote]

Thanks a lot Zooguido, appreciate it. I’m glad this blog has reminded you of that and can’t say I’m not guilty of it myself from time to time. Hopefully when you lose sight of that, you can refer to my blog or some other source to put you back on track. All the best to you as well. Pistols and BW Squats would be great, but I’m way past the point of that, I cannot even begin to bend my knees.

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Todays training went something like this :

L-Sit work
Front Lever work
Hand Stand Push Up work

At the end of every training session as something I’ve added to my goals next week, I’ve decided to take 1 movement for Forearms and 1 movement for Calves. I’ll just superset these. For forearms we have a machine at our gym that’s kind of hard to explain, basically a double hand crusher. For Calves, just a simple calve raise machine. I’ve selected a weight and at the end of each training session I’ll simply go do one set of each to absolute failure, not even counting reps. I never, ever train to absolute failure and want to see if perhaps I’m missing out on something. I’ve got nothing to lose trying this because it won’t affect my training in anyway. I’ve never been big on isolation exercises, let alone direct work on things like forearms, abs, traps, calves. I’m just throwing this in for fun to see if I get any benefit out of it.

Also…summer’s officially over. As sad as it is, looking at my school schedule today I realized the opportunity that’s before me and know that it’s time to go back to work. I’m always studying the “art of periodization” and it’s come to the point where I’ve naturally learned out of habit to just break things down into chunks in my life. Training, diet, supplementation etc Summer was a “chunk” so to speak. But starting tomorrow a new “chunk” will start. This “chunk” will last until Christmas/New Years. My 5 goals during this time period are as follows

-Go to bed at 9 and wake up at 5. I was going to do 8-4, but 9-5 sounds so much less extreme.
-Train everyday BEFORE school
-Except nothing less than a 3.8 G.P.A in any class
-Since my days will now be 16 hours instead of 12, I’ll have more meals. Here’s the plan:
5 a.m - Meal
Train
6 a.m-7 a.m - Post Workout Shake
10 a.m - Meal
1 p.m - Shake/Fruits and Veggies
4 p.m - Meal
7 p.m - Shake/Fruits and Veggies
9 a.m - Bed
-40 hours dedicated to school a week.

I think the last one is key to success. I was at the doctors and under full time occupation I filled in “Student” as a full time occupation I have the responsibility to devote 40 hours a week. A full time occupation requires the dedication of 40 hours a week minimum. I want to see if I actually did that, what the outcome would be. I mean would school and it’s exams become so effortlessly easy that I’d basically be laughing come an exam? I’m curious to see. I think it’s at least worth a shot. Dedication, Sacrifice and Discipline have never been an issue for me. They were not an issue before my life flashed in front of my eyes and now that it has they’re even less of an issue. I know most people are probably thinking that maybe this is a little obvious and that obviously school’s all about just putting in the time and that, that’s the hardest part. I know this as well. but am determined to do it. I know it won’t be easy and maybe even questionable at times. People have to understand that school is something I no longer take for granted after what I’ve been through. Whether it be my illness or that time I paid tuition and almost had a fucking heart attack. I guess maybe I’m just curious to see what my actual potential is. If I stayed on top of school as if it were my job, because that’s literally what it is right now. How would I do? Will I become so bored and ahead of the material that I’ll wish I had more of a workload? or will it just be so, so? I guess time will tell. My buddies leaving town though, so I better get over to his house and say goodbye before it’s my bedtime. Cheers.

"Either you run the day or the day runs you. "

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[quote]EF5127 wrote:

[quote]Zooguido wrote:
Your posts are inspirational, insightful, and you’ve prompted me to take a more positive outlook on life so as to live each fleeting moment to its fullest. We always get so caught up in the trivial things that we forget how truly fortunate we are to be alive and well today living in a time and world such as this. Your thread has brought me back down to earth and for that I am grateful. I’ll be following your progress and blogs.

I was going to suggest adding Pistols (1-legged squats) or even just body weight squats for legs but it seems like you’re progressing on to weights now.

Best of luck with school and training.[/quote]

Thanks a lot Zooguido, appreciate it. I’m glad this blog has reminded you of that and can’t say I’m not guilty of it myself from time to time. Hopefully when you lose sight of that, you can refer to my blog or some other source to put you back on track. All the best to you as well. Pistols and BW Squats would be great, but I’m way past the point of that, I cannot even begin to bend my knees. [/quote]

I enjoy your quotes at the end of each post. This one is pretty awesome and motivated my last workout:

Sorry to hear you can’t squat… that really sucks, man. Is it permanent or do you know if you’ll be able to later on down the road?

Also, I’m just beginning my 2nd year of school and I must say that schedule sounds fucking awesome. I’m going to try it myself. Also the 40 hours a week goal. Normally I just study when I feel like I need to and get all my homework done ahead of time and do well, but I think putting in 5-6 hours of studying a day is an incredible idea since it literally is our job. You can always read ahead and get on top of classes too if this 6 hours a day of studying just straight dominates classes. Then later on down the semester take a “break” (like a job, ofc) and study, say, 1-2 hours a day just to review and maintain your knowledge when you get so ridiculously far ahead of lectures. Obviously, still go to class and what not, but a 4-5 hour daily break over the course of a week would surely be welcomed after having studied 5-6 hours a day for 2 months straight, haha.

You definitely appear to be capable of obtaining a 3.8+ in all of your classes. Despite being a smart guy, I believe hard work and dedication to be the most important factors in learning new material and you seem to be very driven so that shouldn’t be a problem for you.

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[quote]Zooguido wrote:

[quote]EF5127 wrote:

[quote]Zooguido wrote:
Your posts are inspirational, insightful, and you’ve prompted me to take a more positive outlook on life so as to live each fleeting moment to its fullest. We always get so caught up in the trivial things that we forget how truly fortunate we are to be alive and well today living in a time and world such as this. Your thread has brought me back down to earth and for that I am grateful. I’ll be following your progress and blogs.

I was going to suggest adding Pistols (1-legged squats) or even just body weight squats for legs but it seems like you’re progressing on to weights now.

Best of luck with school and training.[/quote]

Thanks a lot Zooguido, appreciate it. I’m glad this blog has reminded you of that and can’t say I’m not guilty of it myself from time to time. Hopefully when you lose sight of that, you can refer to my blog or some other source to put you back on track. All the best to you as well. Pistols and BW Squats would be great, but I’m way past the point of that, I cannot even begin to bend my knees. [/quote]

I enjoy your quotes at the end of each post. This one is pretty awesome and motivated my last workout:

Sorry to hear you can’t squat… that really sucks, man. Is it permanent or do you know if you’ll be able to later on down the road?

Also, I’m just beginning my 2nd year of school and I must say that schedule sounds fucking awesome. I’m going to try it myself. Also the 40 hours a week goal. Normally I just study when I feel like I need to and get all my homework done ahead of time and do well, but I think putting in 5-6 hours of studying a day is an incredible idea since it literally is our job. You can always read ahead and get on top of classes too if this 6 hours a day of studying just straight dominates classes. Then later on down the semester take a “break” (like a job, ofc) and study, say, 1-2 hours a day just to review and maintain your knowledge when you get so ridiculously far ahead of lectures. Obviously, still go to class and what not, but a 4-5 hour daily break over the course of a week would surely be welcomed after having studied 5-6 hours a day for 2 months straight, haha.

You definitely appear to be capable of obtaining a 3.8+ in all of your classes. Despite being a smart guy, I believe hard work and dedication to be the most important factors in learning new material and you seem to be very driven so that shouldn’t be a problem for you.[/quote]

Thanks again man and yeah, no squatting practically keeps me from sleeping considering I used to be into Olympic Weightlifting squatting 4 times a week. It’s hard to say whether I’ll be able to down the road or not. I’m suffering from loss of blood supply to the bones, so major parts of all 3 bones of the knee including my patella, femur and fibula are dead. Since I’m young there is a chance blood supply could return. If it does not however, if someone is willing to replace my knees, then perhaps. As for studying, I think putting in 40 hours a week is pretty extreme in comparison to the average person, but then again the average person is pathetic. If I’m awake 16 hours a day, I think studying and dedicating 40 out of 168 hours a week is no problem. I mean my week will basically be broken down as follows:

-56 hours spent sleeping
-40 hours dedicated to school
-72 HOURS LEFT!!! even if 10 were training and 20 more were just shooting the shit, that’s still 42 hours left!!!

I MEAN WHAT IN THE FUCK DO PEOPLE DO WITH ALL THIS TIME? I MEAN EVEN JUST LOOKING AT THAT MYSELF? WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THAT TIME?! well that my friend that is what we’re going to find out.

Remember if you’re doing great in school and you’re studying here and there then all the power to you. If you have to work and go to school and you’re getting by, all the power to you. I just figure since I have the time and the opportunity the least I can do is take advantage of it. Time to post and get my read on though. Cheers.

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Today was one of those days. One of those days were you just wake up and you have a revelation. As I heard my alarm go off today, I woke up and just said to myself “Here we go” Once I’ve set my mind to something there’s almost nothing within reason that will get in my way. My gym opens it’s doors at 5 a.m. I wake up at 4:30, cook breakfast, hit they gym then have my PW shake and hit the shower.

My writing may get sketchy, but bare with me…it’s early. If all of you see my post above you’ll see I’ve came to a realization: " As for studying, I think putting in 40 hours a week is pretty extreme in comparison to the average person, but then again the average person is pathetic. If I’m awake 16 hours a day, I think studying and dedicating 40 out of 168 hours a week is no problem. I mean my week will basically be broken down as follows:

-56 hours spent sleeping
-40 hours dedicated to school
-72 HOURS LEFT!!! even if 10 were training and 20 more were just shooting the shit, that’s still 42 hours left!!! That’s ALMOST 2 DAYS!!!

I MEAN WHAT IN THE FUCK DO PEOPLE DO WITH ALL THIS TIME? I MEAN EVEN JUST LOOKING AT THAT MYSELF? WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THAT TIME?! well that my friend that is what we’re going to find out.

Remember if you’re doing great in school and you’re studying here and there then all the power to you. If you have to work and go to school and you’re getting by, all the power to you. I just figure since I have the time and the opportunity the least I can do is take advantage of it."

I can’t stress that enough. People would kill for this opportunity, including me what seems like just yesterday. So like I said "This opportunity has practically been handed to me, the least I can do is at least try and take advantage of it. Hell, it’s 6:30 a.m and I still have 14.5 hours left in my day. Do you know what a man has the potential to do in 14.5 hours? I could have finals tomorrow. Walked into the gym today and saw more yawns than weights being lifted that’s for sure. Not big on coffee…thank god for Power Drive though. Todays training looked something like this:

15 min HIIT Cycling

5x10 Incline Press - Added 5 lbs

9x5 Wide Pull Ups - Added a set

P.M training will be TRX Push/Pull progression. God dammit I have so much time if it wasn’t absurd I have 3 a days.

Unfortunately I’ll now probably most likely post in the morning’s so perhaps I’ll be uninspired considering I’ve not yet experiences my day yet. This will probably most likely lead to me posting 1 day behind of everything, including my opinion of T-Nations daily articles, considering they’re not up this early. Anyways, post back tomorrow, or maybe tonight depending on the absurd amount of time I have left over. Time to get my read on. Cheers.

“Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.”

I usually end with a quote, but just want to say I like this. It’s incredibly weird how the absolute worst thing to happen to you or in your life can be in the end the most positive and motivating. I don’t know if I can be like Lance and say “Cancer’s the best thing that ever happened to me” I mean until cancer makes me a world renowned icon and millions of dollars I’m not so sure. I can say that it has and will always be my key motivational factor though. Just sitting in the hospital knowing that I had to get out of there. Knowing I wasn’t satisfied and that there was no way in hell that could be it for me. I guess just for good measure I will end with a quotes after all, just because of the fact that this one;s too damn good and true.

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

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Hi little buddy,

I like your thoughts regarding time management. I have been very lazy lately and should make better use of my time. What do you study? What do you want to do?

Keep shuffling.

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[quote]EF5127 wrote:
As for studying, I think putting in 40 hours a week is pretty extreme in comparison to the average person, but then again the average person is pathetic. If I’m awake 16 hours a day, I think studying and dedicating 40 out of 168 hours a week is no problem. I mean my week will basically be broken down as follows:

-56 hours spent sleeping
-40 hours dedicated to school
-72 HOURS LEFT!!! even if 10 were training and 20 more were just shooting the shit, that’s still 42 hours left!!!

I MEAN WHAT IN THE FUCK DO PEOPLE DO WITH ALL THIS TIME? I MEAN EVEN JUST LOOKING AT THAT MYSELF? WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THAT TIME?! well that my friend that is what we’re going to find out.[/quote]

Exactly, hahaha. I already have to give 23 hours a week just to attend classes so I think I’m going to try for 30-35 hours studying to start out so it might look something like this (for me):
-56 hours sleeping
-23 hours attending
-34 hours studying
-10 hours lifting
-20 hours eating (14) /showering (2)/hygenic bs (idk lol?)
-which still leaves me with 25 hours to “shoot the shit” as you say hahaha.

Basically 3-4 hours a day doing whatever the piss I want to. Probably relegate that to ~2 hours a day on weekdays and then 6-7 on weekends to dick around extensively, lol.

I never knew how much time I really had in a day until I tried the periodization like you said. Shit’s awesome, yo.

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[quote]theBird wrote:
Hi little buddy,

I like your thoughts regarding time management. I have been very lazy lately and should make better use of my time. What do you study? What do you want to do?

Keep shuffling.

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Kinesiology - Exercise and Sports Physiology and I want to get into Strength and Conditioning. Work with athletes and help them achieve their goals. I actually think I might give women’s athletics a shot. Not that I’m a creep, but after training with some really hot, super strong, fast as hell girls I’m curious to see whether or not girls are actually worse/weaker than males or whether they just don’t get any opportunity/attention. Girls don’t even have the opportunity to have legit coaches until they’re at a fairly high level of athletic success. Obviously in the case of an olympic shot putter male vs female, males are always going to have the upper hand. When we’re talking sports like hockey, I know guys who play in the show who’re milk bags. Not saying that “How much weight you can lift” determines your success in hockey, but there’s no reason females have to be at a physical disadvantage when all they need to be able to do is power clean 155lbs. I know a girl who was going to the olympics and she had to quit her job. Females simply get no support. How many young girls have good strength and conditioning coaches? probably not many. Unless you’re raised in an athletic family you probably don’t have much opportunity. Shit’s not fair. I’m also considering a team sport where strength and conditioning is a major factor affecting success, such as football. The level at which I work for is also a question. I mean do I want to work on the development so I can make guys a career and help them chase their dreams or do I want to work with the pros? It’s a tough call. At the same time I really like Olympic sports, in particular track events. I just think training has more to do with success in olympic sports more than many others. I guess we’ll see where I end up. I never like to be goalless because that means you don’t know where you’re headed and that’s never a good thing. Right now I have my sights set on a D1 school.

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[quote]Zooguido wrote:

[quote]EF5127 wrote:
As for studying, I think putting in 40 hours a week is pretty extreme in comparison to the average person, but then again the average person is pathetic. If I’m awake 16 hours a day, I think studying and dedicating 40 out of 168 hours a week is no problem. I mean my week will basically be broken down as follows:

-56 hours spent sleeping
-40 hours dedicated to school
-72 HOURS LEFT!!! even if 10 were training and 20 more were just shooting the shit, that’s still 42 hours left!!!

I MEAN WHAT IN THE FUCK DO PEOPLE DO WITH ALL THIS TIME? I MEAN EVEN JUST LOOKING AT THAT MYSELF? WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THAT TIME?! well that my friend that is what we’re going to find out.[/quote]

Exactly, hahaha. I already have to give 23 hours a week just to attend classes so I think I’m going to try for 30-35 hours studying to start out so it might look something like this (for me):
-56 hours sleeping
-23 hours attending
-34 hours studying
-10 hours lifting
-20 hours eating (14) /showering (2)/hygenic bs (idk lol?)
-which still leaves me with 25 hours to “shoot the shit” as you say hahaha.

Basically 3-4 hours a day doing whatever the piss I want to. Probably relegate that to ~2 hours a day on weekdays and then 6-7 on weekends to dick around extensively, lol.

I never knew how much time I really had in a day until I tried the periodization like you said. Shit’s awesome, yo.[/quote]

Word. On the weekends…shoot the shit and shoot the shit hard my friend. You’ve got to live life and this may sound contradictory right now but “Nothing in Moderation” I’ll elaborate on that for tomorrow’s post.

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Also, good article: Welcome themileshighlife.com - BlueHost.com
Might interest you, idk. I found the part about “coping with set-backs” quite insightful.

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[quote]Zooguido wrote:
Also, good article: Welcome themileshighlife.com - BlueHost.com
Might interest you, idk. I found the part about “coping with set-backs” quite insightful.[/quote]

Although I DON’T agree with his views on T-Nation :frowning: I could have skipped my pre workout stims and have just read that article…Awesome to see something like that, I mean no matter what the story, to see that kind of success is nothing short of amazing.

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Todays workout was just gymnastics work. I also continues my calf and forearm work, 1 set to absolute failure. Shit felt good. Nothing like digging deep at 5 a.m.

Lean gains is here boys. Welcome to the awful tasting world of powdered BCAA’s. It looks something like this for me:

5 AM: 5-15 minutes pre-workout: 10 g BCAA.
5-6 AM: Training.
7 AM: 10 g BCAA.
9 AM: 10 g BCAA
12-1 PM: The “real” post-workout meal (largest meal of the day). Start of the 8 hour feeding-window.
8-9 PM: Last meal before the fast

Today I said I wanted to talk about “Nothing in Moderation” I’m all about living a healthy, balanced lifestyle, but depending on what that means to you I think it’s total bullshit. There seems to be 2 definition on living a healthy, balanced lifestyle. The first are people who make an effort to live a real, healthy, balanced lifestyle to the fullest. These people live life everyday, not missing a beat. They train hard, eat well, get shit done, chase dreams and give nothing less that their absolute best at everything they do, day in and day out. Somewhere along the lines shit changed. People now find themselves boozing 3 nights a week, sucking back McDonalds, partying the night before finals saying “Eh bro gotta live” Fuck that shit. Living a healthy, balanced lifestyle means giving er in every aspect of your life, not neglecting the opportunity of good moments, but not going soft just drifting through life shooting the shit hard 24/7. I always say “Nothing in Moderation” is it extreme? Fuck yeah. That’s the whole point. Moderation is for the weak, the unmotivated and the pathetic. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again “Not everyone has to be good at everything, but at the very least, give it your best.” If I’m not going to give it my all, I don’ t want anything to do with it. I’d rather just not do it at all. “Man whether you graduate with a 4.0 G.P.A or just scrape by it doesn’t matter. When you go to get a job they don’t look at your grades” Well yeah, easy for you to say when you’re going to have some piece of shit job with no dignity, going through life not serving a god damn purpose and meanwhile you won;t ask yourself once “Is this life? is this what I lived for?” That thought won;t even cross most people’s minds. Get a real job where you impact people’s lives and well being and if you don;t know what the fuck you’re doing we’re going to have problems. Can’t tell you how many of my doctors were lazy fucking morons who were irresponsible and didn’t want to do their jobs. That’s how people end up dead. That’s how people like me end up with cancer that they never had to have. My head doctor of my transplant team still says to this day “You don’t just wake up with aggressive Leukemia…not when people had been following you for years” then he shakes his head. This is turning into a rant though, so the take home point is get the definition of living a healthy balanced lifestyle right and for the love of god “Nothing in Moderation”

Read Meadows article and live spill yesterday. I must say he’s bringing a new vibe to the site with both his knowledge and insight. I liked his quotes a lot :

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

I also like what he said :

“But please, no more talking about it! It’s time to follow through! Don’t become another internet expert that sits on a forum belittling others and quotes references and studies but never accomplishes anything.”

All great quotes. Not much time to elaborate, but just something to think about. Yesterday I found the time to copy all the numbers on my cell down on paper. I think this is important. If you’re not a complete sack of shit and the people in and around your life are generally important to you then you’ll make an effort to hold onto them. Don;t be that asshole who text back 'Sry who’s this? I lost my cell piss drunk last night and now have no ones numbers" I think there’s some people I know and if today was the last time I ever seen them it wouldn’t mean shit. Don;t be that guy. Realize what you have and what these people mean to you. Stay in touch and you’ll be golden. Don’t be that asshole who meets up with someone that they have not seen or talked to in years on the street because right there you’ll realize how bad you just lost connection with those people, how close you used to be, how special some days and moments in your life were and what the simple things truly mean. Don’t ever second guess yourself, but don’t be afraid to make sure you’re doing things for a or the right reason.

Everyone should go ahead and get up on “Watch the Throne” the new Kanye and Jay-Z album. An instant and timeless classic.

Post back later or tomorrow, cheers.

“Lost time is never found again.”

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Good ranting.
I remember when I was young at school with lots of ambition and “get up and go!”. Admittely I have lost alot of that “zing”, but I hope with all my heart it returns one day. I suppose getting older and life in general “zaps” away some of that “zing”.

Anyway buddy, keep killing it.

And here is one of my favourie work out songs:

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Yesterday I was asked a question in which people ask me all the time.

"I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy, nor do I think anyone deserves it, but I think you deserved it the least out of anybody I know. Did you ever cry and ask yourself “Why me?”

My answer to this question’s always the same and always will be. First off…I don’t cry. Unless I’m poked in the eye or it has nothing to do with me personally. Secondly I have to look at that person in confusion and shock and say “Why not me? I mean I had a horrific situation. I literally had a bad prognosis on top of a bad prognosis, on top of a bad prognosis. Even with everything I’ve been through I still consider myself lucky and to be truthful, a little bit thankful. Everything I had to deal with and overcome was something I dealt with really well and made it through no problem. Here I am today and look at me. I mean we’ve all got problems, but it’s not so bad. I’m just thankful it was me and not you or him or someone I love or care about because maybe they wouldn’t have been so lucky. If I had to bite the bullet on that one to spare someone else that I love or care about, I’ve got no problem with that. If there’s one thing I know it’s that everything happens for a reason and only time will tell. There’s things that happened to me years ago and I sometimes just now realize why they happened. Then there’s things that happened years ago and I still don;t understand why they happened, but I know I one day will.”

Training was good today.

Rowing - Holy balls is this hard

Push - 5x5

Pull - 5x10

Tri Set of Bi’s/Tri’s/Should’s x 3 - with this I WILL DEBUNK high reps as a waste of time. My arthritis is so bad that I can only handle extremely light weight for high reps. Lets see what happens folks. Fuck the studies…I am the studies.

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.”

This is a positive. Don’t be that asshole overcomplicating things just to use “this” or “that” word. First off…only plugs do that and secondly most people I know that have an education are morons and to be honest it doesn’t mean shit in most cases. Secondly you look worse than that asshole with half ass arms and chest walking around acting like he’s tough, meanwhile you just look like a fucking asshole. Every doctor I met writes chicken scratch, txt message lingo and does things their way. Spending 10-15 years in school/residency you’re sick of being proper. At that point you’ve realized things like “BRB” instead of “Be right back” is the way of the future. If we have all these abbre’v like “u” instead of “you” fucking use them. It only makes sense. There’s a time and place to write and speak proper, but in most cases…save your energy and your ego. This doesn’t mean talking like an un-educated homeless guy, just don’t try and be Bill Nye the Science guy when you’re chatting up some broads on the weekend. I’ve got to go get ready for BIo lecture. This means dealing with the assholes of customs. Everyone have a great day and for the love of god…get your knowledge on. Have a good one, Cheers!

“Two things scare me. The first is death. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.”

Everyone kick start their day with this in the car!

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Post for today is on the last page…sorry.

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Alarm didn’t go off today. I still woke up on my own about 5a.m though, just ran a little late. I did some gymnastics work, which looked like this:

Rowing - Great warm up for the mobility impaired and stiff guys rolling out of bed

L:Sit work
Front-Lever Work
HSPU work

“But man, shouldn’t you do your cardio after weights?!” fuck off…

I can already tell Biology is going to be a train wreck. Not that I’m not going to seriously kill that shit, but the teacher speaks really fast, not to mention awful english.

Today I have class from 9:30-3:30…

Part of my amazon shipment came in yesterday and although I’m in school, most days I will try and dedicate the last hour of my day divided up between 2 books out of a time to get some personal enjoyment before I cash in for the night.

“The Downtown Athletic Club presents the 2008 Heisman Trophy to…Sam Bradford, University of Oklahoma.” My phone began vibrating and wouldn’t stop for hours. Texts and voicemails from teammates and coaches, all to the effect that we would take it to Oklahoma in the championship game. I wasn’t paying attention to the phone, though, as Sam accepted the award-the pounding in my head had continues to intensify.

Finally, at a break, I headed out to the bathroom to run cold water over my face. On the way, I passed Coach Meyer and Coach Marotti, and I could feel the intensity of their dissapointment and anger as I approached. They were obviously biased in my favor and were two of my biggest advocates. I caught their eye and mouthed two words…“Game on” - Tim Tebow - Through My Eyes

Florida went on to win that National Championship game by the way…

An epic and intense moment to say the least. Hopefully schools not as packed as it was yesterday. You figure 1000’s of dollars a year would get you a fucking parking space eh? Had to park on some side street and for those of you who are not familiar with Detroit…well…let’s just say you don’t want to carry a bag with you around campus.

Fuck, I always say "Carry 20$. If they jump you and you have nothing, you’re dead. If they jump you and you have a lot of money and valubles…that sucks. There has to be a happy medium. " turns out there was a parking meter, but I’m from Canada and had no American change. I thought “Uhh fuck it, I’ve got to get to class. There’s probably a shootout 2 blocks away, the least of their worries is my 2$ for parking.”

Anyways, running late. Time to get er going at school. Post back tomorrow. Cheers.

“Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

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Good to see your new routine is up and going.
You should get a kindle.

Detroit muthafucka.

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“Get Ripped, Get Walking” Definitely changed my views on walking and it’s effectiveness. I’m not willing to dump that kind of time into it at the moment. Not that “I don’t have the time” we all have the time, we all can make the time. It’s just not the best use of time at the moment for my goals and I;m more focused on other aspects on my life that I feel are more important. I think he pointed out some fair and obvious points, but yet I never thought or heard of them. Anyways…cool article.

“And this was all inspired by a little Marvin Gaye and Chardonnayyyyyyyyyyyy” is what i heard when I walked into campus Subway yesterday. As this was going on and he scrambled to turn it down, he also managed to put out his cigarette. Only at Wayne. I just walked out anyways. All I wanted was a water and the bathroom because it was right on the way to my next class. Calculus has begun and fuck me this is going to be a disaster. I havn’t done Math in years and when I did, I sucked balls at it. I mean numbers on top of letter, on top of more numbers, with a couple weird signs here and there.

If we got 5c and c=5, why the fuck can’t we just say 5x5. I mean since when the fuck did c become 5? Anyways, this is going to take some time. Physiology class looks dope though. We started talking about Micro’s and Macro’s and by the end it turned into a huge spew about JB. Turns out the Proff’s a fan…pretty cool. I got a chance to talk to the Proff and he seemed like a pretty cool guy, he’s currently doing some creatine and caffeine research.

Anyways, today’s training looked something like this

Rowing - Wow…Traps and parts of my back I didn’t know existed…

Push - 5x10 - will increase weight next time

Pull - 5x5 - will increase weight next time

Tri Set Bi’s,Tri’s, Shoulder’s x 3 - Increase weight on Bi’s and Tri’s, Shoulder’s was a good weight, just increase reps.

Not a lot of time today because I’m on a fixed schedule, but tomorrow spill will be long because I’ll have more time. Perhaps I’ll even have time to post tonight, considering tomorrow the weekend. Yesterday was a long ass day and had no time for personal reading, it was pretty much all school and then Calculus till bed. Don;t think for a minute I’ll let some numbers that don’t mean shit get the best of me.

Last night realizing how hectic and busy my schedule is going to be, I’ve decided to revert back to basics, the fundamentals. The initial strategy that made me everything I am and forever changed my mindset. This was the concept of better time management. From now on each and every night before I go to bed I’ll be writing down my exact daily regimen and things I need to get done. I’ll check those things off every day to male sure they got done and happened. Although I have great time management, I still need to work on efficiency, I hate doing a lot of work for nothing. A lot of work for positive rewards and outcomes…no problem. Hard work for the sake of nothing but stress and negativity? no thanks. Anyways, looking at my schedule it says time for Bio 7-8 a.m. Post back later, cheers.

“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.”

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Just posting to say I’m still reading. Too busy to comment, lol. Good shit, though. Keep it up.