Finding your why in the gym and in life!!!!

Finding YOUR why, thats the million dollar question that one must answer to truly have purpose and intent with the things your trying to achieve. Without it progress will be subpar and focus can often lack.

When I first started bodybuilding nearly a decade ago I asked myself a simple question, why is getting big and strong important to me. The answer that I came up with was this. I wanted to look in the mirror and be proud of what was looking back. To feel confident and proud of what I was building and the progress that I was making.

Now this extends beyond the gym walls. This should seep into every aspect of your life and be the foundation that your life is built. One thing I like to do daily is write out each morning what I am trying to achieve that day so that I have a clear path for the next 24 hours. What are things I am trying to achieve today, what aspects of my life am I trying to improve. That was I have a clear vision as to what I am working towards on a certain day.

Too often we rely on external factors to influence our day to day actions. We rely on a doctor telling us we need to improve our health to get us to change, or attempt to change becasue again we dont have a clear why. We rely on a family member asking us if we have gained weight to get us to start exercising and eating better, and chances are you will fall off and be back to square one, becase again we don’t have a set WHY!!!!!

So one thing I encourage you to do is sit down and think about WHY are you starting? Why is this goal important to you? Why are you going to stick to this goal? And be as specific and personal as possible. Becasue once you do that you will be able to transform, not only your physique, but ultimatly your life!!! Time to go BEYOND JUST BODYBUILDING!!!!!

Leg Training 101

Leg day, hands down everyone’s favorite day of the week. I am going to give you a little insite into how to get the most out of your leg days to maximize progress. The first aspect that I am going to talk about here is volume.

Now I do not care if your natty, not notty or whatever, the same principles apply. Leg training takes volume and a good amount of it. We want to overload the muscle and create a good amount of blood flow. Remember we use our legs daily so it will take a good amount of stimulus to really get the legs to respond.

Now your probably thinking what exercises should you do? Well that depends on what’s lacking and needs to be brought up. But as a good rule of thumb, we should have an extension exercise, a curl exercise, a squating movement and a press movement. There are many different variations of these so it would be a good idea to mix them up every once and a while.

As for reps, one thing that I like to do is keep the reps 12-20 on the extension and curls, but focus/build up to one top set on the press and squat exercise!!!! Now this is a set you are pushing to complete failure. You are going to war here and you should be gased. Now if you want to add some fillers feel free but the bread and butter is executed.

1. Leg Extensions 5 sets 20 reps down to 12 increasing each set

2. Seated leg curl 5 sets 20 reps down to 12 increasing each set

3. Leg Press 1 top set of 10-15!!!! Complete failure

4. Hack Squat 1 top set of 10-15!!!! Complete failure

5. Lunges 3 sets of 30 per leg (best to find a long alleyway or walkway and use that strech)

DONE!!!!!!! Now its not a bad idea to throw a little bit of cardio into the mix here. Say 20 minutes on the stairmaster!! Overall your legs should be fried here if done right. Rinse and repaet next week either using the same exercises or slightly different.