Stage 4 Thor

2 weeks into the bulk  3052 calories   a day 189.3 pounds 14.9% body fat + 0.6 pounds of muscle in 7 days Recently I was asked by a client what to do to gain weight.  The truth is, no one wants to "gain weight", what we all want is to gain MUSCLE and to do that efficiently and faster you need more calories and with more calories comes more fat.  By following this bulk with me you will see that we can keep the fat at reasonable levels while building lean muscle.   Being close to September I am getting ready to do some bulking with the goal of adding 5-10 pounds more of muscle by March while keeping my body fat under 16%.   Now, this might not be your goal at this time, but there are lots of people out there who are interested in an emphasis on muscle gain as opposed to fat loss.  Most of what I write about encompasses how to do both at the same time, but for those of us who are trying to pack on some weight quickly, I will do my best to explai...

At what point, should you start to get moving and back in fitness after an illness or injury? There is no direct answer to this.  Injuries and illnesses are so different across the spectrum, as are things like age, weight, etc.  What I can shed some light on is when I started, why, and how.   When I was getting treated with the first line of chemotherapy I was left with uncertain results.  Was cancer gone?  Was it simply scar tissue showing up on the scan? Nothing to do but "wait and see".  I certainly wasn't healthy, but I couldn't discern between whether that was an effect of the chemo or cancer.   So, with no known answer here, I chose to start the comeback. I was originally optimistic and started to go to a few workouts with my.. .keep reading

I compiled a list of facts that people often ask and some that you might find interesting about my fitness journey.   I hope you find them to be encouraging and maybe prevent you from using some of the more common excuses that we all struggle with. I left some of them deliberately vague so that if you are interested in how I do it, you can ask for more details! 1. I do not do sit-ups or any abdominal exercises. 2. keep reading

Anxiety and worry might be the largest contributor to stress that I can think of and stress is the largest contributor to death.  If you have any hope of living a healthy and successful life or recovering from an illness or injury, limiting your stress needs to be a priority , and the first step in limiting stress is limiting your anxiety! We all understand and hear about the power of positive thinking, and how you can manifest dreams by creating vision boards and meditating/praying for what you want out of life.   Worry is like making a vision board of all the things you DONT want.    If you believe manifesting works, then it should terrify you to know that you can manifest the negative even easier than the positive.   When you worry about something, you invite that which you are most worried about into your life.   The good news is that 98% of all the things... keep reading

  Prior to me getting sick, I had been a bodybuilder and powerlifter most of my adult life, and I have heard all the jive about Planet Fitness and the rap it gets for being "soft".  Now at 47 and post-cancer, I have really come to appreciate it in many ways.  So much so, that I deliberately like to check in on Facebook to irritate some of the die-hards.   I think there was so much good that came out... keep reading