As February approaches and the weather gets warmer up here in the great white north, we shift our focus from gaining weight, to shedding those unwanted pounds. In the next week or so i will run down my plan to get myself in beach body shape and make sure by June first (my personal deadline; or D-Day if you will) i am in prime shape and all the hard work that i put in this winter pays off.

The most important factor in any fat loss system is nutrition, most will tell you that any gym regimen consists of 75% nutrition. That’s the big boys talking so you bet your ass its probably even more vital than 75% I’m thinking 85%-90%. Just like a car can’t run without gas, our bodies can not run without fuel. So that will be the first topic that i will cover before February hits.

The next thing i will cover will be my gym routine, consisting of my cardio ad well as my weight lifting routine. Now as important as establishing a proper, effective weight lifting routine, consistency is the main factor in a gym routine. Now my routine will have a major shift this season, and for the first time i will be finding myself doing more cardio and less weights. My biggest struggle will be staying consistent with my routine and keeping myself motivated in doing the cardio.

The last thing that i will cover will be supplementation. As important as supplementation will be i strongly feel that without proper nutrition and exercise you are just pissing away your money. I will be taking a few supplements on top of my vitamins and protein. I will be taking fat burners starting in April and i will continue to use glutamine and creatine. There will be reviews of the supplements that i am taking as well.

Some other things that i will be trying to do will be taking progress pictures every 2 weeks, with accompanying measurements. I will also add some recipes that i like to cook and eat, and i will be trying to add some video footage whether it be webcasts or footage from the gym, if i can manage to find a camera man.

That being said i strongly encourage you to keep checking in on my website Http://www.titanicproportions.com for updates in my quest to live life titanic!

I have just uploaded a new product for your health and fitness needs, it is an ab workout and nutrition program for a fairly cheap price, I encourage you to check it out.

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Hello Folks,

After an extended hiatus to enjoy the summer sun and the outdoors with my family, i will be gradually gearing myself up to contributing to this site every day or two. I have still been going to the gym just as hard as i can and i feel like i am making some great gains. I have started taking a new product, that being Nutrex Lipo6 Black, and i have to say it is absolutely incredible. I will be writing a full review of lipo6 black in the next day of two. If i get ambitious tonight i will be doing that. Other than that i hope your summers have been going well and i will be keeping you update on my comings and goings with regards to my transition into the bodybuilding world.

So as i sit here and write this article i am watching the mighty ducks. Pondering over what i am going to write this week as my exercise of the week. Before i get into this article, i must apologize for not blogging at all last week. It was a very hectic week and i should have made time to write, but i got consumed in my work and my family. This week is a bit less high paced so i should be good to write all week. I would like to thank everyone for their comments so far, they are appreciated and any input you have will be used.

So on to the article.

The exercise of the week this week will be of a different sorts. Many of you gym goers will not have used it. Some of you may have, but i dont anticipate alot of you have. That exercise is called Chaos Shrugs. First off the chaos concept is a very excellent concept as it works the muscle very thoroughly. The basics for chaos exercises is that you will suspend a kettlebell or a plate, or a dumbbell with tension bands, and the harder you work the more the weight will bounce thus creating more tension on the muscles.

For this exercise in particular all you need is a pair of kettlebells or dumbbells and some tension elastics. All you need to do is fold the elastics so that they will hold the weight, then thread it through the handle. Wrap the other end of the elastics around your wrist to set yourself up to do your first lift.

Now you are going to start slow, and lift up the weight using only your traps, just like a normal shrug. Hold for 2 seconds and release the tension in your traps. You will notice that as you lift and lower the weight it bounces. This is good, it is the whole concept of the exercise. It will work your muscles from a totally different angle and way then doing shrugs with a dumbbell or a barbell.

I would suggest keeping the rep range in the mid-range area. 8-10 should do. As with all of my exercises i will do 3 sets. You are welcome to do more or less if you so please. So try it out. Do the sets for a couple weeks, see how you feel, and let me know how it works for you.

Happy father’s day to ll of the fathers out there. Enjoy it, go golfing or spend some time with your kids. I know this is my first one and i am looking forward to a relaxing day. Workout log and exercise of the week coming up. I think its going to be chaos shrugs, or maybe rest/pause sets. We shall see.

Ok so im a little late on this one, yesterday was an involuntary off day lol. My back was aching from doing shoulders and traps the night before. That is fine, i did some situps at home, it was supposed to ba an abs day anyways.
It hurt to do the situps but my back is fine today so it is all good. We went for an extended drive yesterday, and talked. It was good to just get away and get ourselves back on the same page. Then we went out for a beer with my girlfriends friends.
Today will be a leg day, providing i can get to the gym, as i missed the boat this morning. But if i do make it, i will be doing legs. I also plan to take my daughter for a walk, down by the beach. She will hopefully enjoy that.
Anyways Thats all for now, i will check back in after the gym.

So im getting pretty good at this whole technology thing here. We have recently signed up for the twitter service, so you can follow us here! Follow Us

Creatine. Creatine. Creatine. How many times can I say the word? If I were to say the name as many times as there is products out there I would easily have a 500 word article in its self. But this article isn’t about just any old creatine. Wait, that’s exactly what this is about. Old school creatine. Creatine Monohydrate. This is creatine in the purest form and the current supplement of choice for this man, and we will see in about a month how that treats me.

Now for the basics. Creatine monohydrate is a molecular compound of 3 basic amino acids, those being l-methionine, l-arginine and l-glycine. 95% of creatine is found in skeletal muscle tissue, coming in 2 different forms. Chemically unbound creatine which is in a free flowing state and creatine phosphate.

Now creatine can be found in a natural form, but due to the process of cooking, and evidently cooking out the creatine, it is best ingested in powder form. So unless you feel like shoveling down 2.2 pounds of raw red meat, or fish a day to get the recommended 4 – 5 grams a day. Take the damn powder.

Now creatine’s Performance enhancing properties are still after all these years up for debate, and can be sometimes hard to understand the mechanics of it, but one thing is for certain, it builds big muscles. When creatine enters the body, it rushes to the muscles and in there it attracts a great deal of water to the muscle cells therefore enlarging them quite a bit. Now one would sit back and think, why would I want to fill my muscles with water. Well it’s quite simple when you sit back and look at it. While studies have tried to prove better protein synthesis as well as minimized catabolism, one thing is for certain. You receive boosted strength, as well as the psychological benefits of having visibly larger muscles.

Creatine will also give you a faster recovery time while at the gym and it will give you greater tolerance of the workload you are taking on. Now for one to really understand the benefits of creatine they will need to understand what Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) is and what it does. In a nutshell ATP is the compound that you muscle uses when it makes a contraction. So every curl, every squat, your muscles are burning ATP. In taking creatine, you are essentially boosting your body’s ability to regenerate ATP levels, thus making you be able to work out more intense as well as recover faster.

Now believe it or not there a few myths surrounding the use of creatine. Gym Heads, or Gym Rats will sometimes say that you need to be loading on and cycling off creatine, like taking 20 grams a day for 5 days or taking 40 grams a day for a week. Well here is only so much creatine your body can handle. Creatine has been proven to be highly effective without a loading phase. 5 grams a day will give you solid results in 2 weeks or so. Creatine is perfect to use because it allows continual use without cycling, a process used for fat burners and other supplements so that your body doesn’t get used to them.

All in all, with the only side effect being gastric upset in the first few days, you will find that creatine is a very solid supplement, one that should already be a staple in your gym bag. If it isn’t yet, it soon will be.

Ok….. So i finally made it back to the gym.

I woke up this morning and my back just was not feeling it. After doing alot of running around this afternoon/evening it was not feeling any better at all. I decided to do some surfing on bodybuilding.com and my motivation came back really strong. I decided at 9 that it was time and off i was.

Im very glad that i made the decision as i had one of my best workouts i have had in a long while. Today was a shoulders/traps day and i decided to cut the traps short just to be cautious about my lower back.

It was a very good workout, the weight i pushed was not through the roof, but my shoulders and traps felt blasted after. I also picked up a new creatine product that i started trying today. It is AllMax Nutrition Creatine Monohydrate, let me know if you have tried it.

On to the workout:

Dumbbell Laterals: 15lb x 20 warmup
Dumbbell Shoulder Press: 50 x 10 + 2 Rest-Pause/ 45 x10/ 45 x 10
Dumbbell Laterals: 15 x 10/ 15 x 10/ 15 x 10
Rear Delt Laterals: 10 x 10/ 10 x 10/ 10 x 10/
Rocky’s: 50 x 10/ 50 x 10/ 50x 10
Barbell Shrugs: 180 x 10/ 180 x 10/ 180 x 10

Thats all ladies and gents

So this will be the section where i will post all of the links that i have collected over the past week. They man not always be bodybuilding related but they will always be interesting. Enjoy:

Building Muscle For Newbs
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Re-Tooling The Beginner Diet
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Kevin Kearns Interview
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Troy Alvez’s Arm Day
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Lou Ferrigno Trains Michael Jackson
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Brock “Best Ever”?
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Couture vs Nogueria Confirmed
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Cro Cop Win Stands
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Gain Muscle, Discover Your Six Pack
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