Some people ask me what my goals are in bodybuilding and what I want to achieve. I used to not want to get as big as I possible can. I used to just want to get a small physique and become in decent shape, but I changed my mind. I DO, want to get big as possible. I want to take my bodybuilding dreams to the next level and try to look like a real bodybuilder. Bodybuilding is awesome. It’s an amazing feeling changing your life like this. I love getting feedback on my physique everywhere I go, and I love being at the center of people’s attention about my physique. It’s a great feeling, and that’s what pushing me to get bigger. The feedback from people is my motivation.

While I’m very proud of my physique, I still have work to do on a few body parts. I still need some improvements on the chest, need bigger chest pectorals. I also need to improve my calves (the muscles on the lower legs). I’m pretty happy with the rest of me though. The chest is the hardest part to improve but I’m trying. I just train the chest real hard once a week, so I can give it plenty of resting and healing. Not sure if my chest is better now, I plan to take new pics soon to see. I do various exercises for the chest each week. Something different. One week, I do a bunch of push ups. The next week I do free weight stuff like dumbbell presses. I don’t do bench pressing too much, I think it’s overrated. I just want to see how else I could get a bigger chest other than the bench press.

I don’t do bodybuilding just to get attention from people, I do it for me. To look better, and to live a healthy lifestyle. Not trying to sound like an ego maniac, but I still believe I’m the only true bodybuilder in my hometown of Greenwich. I go to the Y on a regular basis and most of the physiques that people have at the gym aren’t really that good. I haven’t seen much guys with true bodybuilder physiques, yet. A lot of people are pretty flabby and mostly skinny. I haven’t really seen any huge guys with monster arms yet. Sure, there might be a few guys with decent medium sized physiques, but not a pro bodybuilder physique.

My goal is to look like an actual bodybuilder, like my heroes, Stallone and Schwarzenegger. People say it’s impossible, but I can prove I can get there. I’ll get there in a couple of years or more, watch me. Like I said before, I may have started late on bodybuilding but it’s a good time to start. I’ll get bigger and leaner when I reach Stallone and Schwarzenegger’s age.

I know what I’m doing and doing an okay job so far, with no trainers or anything.

Kev

If I can think of a new fitness topic to discuss here, this is one. Some of you may notice that I look after Arnold & Sly, and other professional wrestlers when it comes to bodybuilding. Some of you may think it’s kind of gay for me to do, but it has nothing to do with being gay, since I am not. Why do I look after these muscle guys? Well for starters, I look after them for inspiration and motivation. I always think to myself, someday, I’m gonna look like these guys. When you want to have a muscular body, you have to look at these guys. I’m sure they had a past with steroid use, but they can still be good inspirational material. I look at Arnold and Sly more than anybody though. I think I’m already starting to look like them a little bit, so I ‘m doing good. I get made fun of a lot for looking after these muscle celebrities, but again, inspiration and motivation. These guys help me keep going in the gym. It’s why I continue to do what I do. Why I got into it in the first place.

I’m never going to compete in a bodybuilding show, not my thing, I just want the look. I think this is my 5th year doing it, pretty sure it is, but still have lots of work to do. A lot of people claim that you can’t look like those guys you see in the action movies, but I believe you can get that body if you do it right, and naturally. Just eat really well, work out hard and you’ll get there with no problemo. I wanted to change my life, hoping for the better and it is working. I also wanted to look better for the performing stage for my music.

If others find it weird that I look after other famous fitness people, I don’t care. I just do whatever motivates me. When you want to be a bodybuilder, you have to have influences, and Arnold & Sly are my influences.

I know I haven’t posted progress pics in a while, I think I will soon.

Kev

Last night, I attended a pretty important family wedding, and people were pretty much all over me, giving me feedback and commenting how muscular I look. I was all dressed up, with dress pants and a white dress shirt, and people still noticed I’ve been working out. People would comment it a little bit, but later on during the reception, when I had to change out of the white dress shirt into a wifebeater instead because of the heat, that’s when people started going crazy even more. That’s when some people at the wedding reception last night, started to feel my arms and especially my biceps.

I’m NOT trying trying to sound like a self centered, egomaniac. I’m only giving you an example of how fitness & bodybuilding can change your life and how you can be more sociable and outgoing with people. I didn’t change into the wifebeater shirt just to show off. I had to change my shirt ’cause of the heat and I was dancing to EBJ playing the reception last night. Yes, EBJ played at our reception. They played a killer set like usual.

I was dancing all night last night, and still tired from it too. I love dancing to live bands, and have been dancing to live music for years. A lot of people don’t see me as a dancer but I am. I had a few nice women that came up to dance with me, and I didn’t even know them. They didn’t come up to me at the same time, just one at a time. Even though those two different women who danced with me last night have boyfriends probably, it was still cool of them. I don’t know what it is that attracted women to dance with me. Women I don’t even know, asking me to dance with them doesn’t happen too much. If you don’t believe me, I may have photos to prove it, there were photographers all over it, I think. When they get ’em up on facebook, maybe I’ll post a few here.

The blog was kind of slow this weekend ’cause I was busy. Today I’m just taking it easy. Just getting back from the gym to train back and shoulders.

Yep, when you get into bodybuilding, the more muscular you get, the better your life gets. People will respect you more, attract more women, etc. Getting into bodybuilding is not an attention whoring thing at all. It’s about life changing. Period.

It was a blast last night though. Even though I gave up drinking alcohol because of the bodybuilding, I had to have 1 or 2 alcohol drinks last night, to help celebrate. I had a whiskey sour cocktail drink and just a Budweiser, that’s it. I didn’t over do it, and I didn’t get hammered, so don’t worry. 1 or 2 drinks won’t kill your bodybuilding and it don’t hurt to have a few once in a blue moon.

Kev

I haven’t posted a fitness topic in a long while, so I figure I post one now. I had to take a full week off of fitness ’cause I came down with a bad cold this week. Coughing like hell, runny nose and all that stuff. Felt like shit for a few days. You don’t ever want to workout with a bad cold. I plan on going back to my fitness routine tomorrow ’cause I’m feeling a lot better. I still have the runny nose, but no more coughing. I haven’t had a full week off of bodybuilding in a long while. I went through pretty much the whole summer working out non stop, 3 days a week, and doing plenty of cardio (either jogging, walking or biking is my preferred cardio). The best time to take a full week off of fitness is either when you’re sick or you’re on vacation.

For the past couple of weeks now, I’ve been experimenting with something a little different with my set of reps. Instead of doing the boring 3 sets to 12 reps for each workout. I decided to move on up to 3 sets to 20 reps, when doing moderate heavy lifting, hoping to get even more gains and it kind of works a little bit. I just want to change around the sets and reps routine some.

I was going to start my workout routine today, but the show I went to last night, made me tired, didn’t get home til past 3 and only had 3 hours of sleep last night. I’m still doing the fitness thing, and will never give it up. My second passion behind music.

Kev

There is this fitness youtube blogger, named Lui Marco, which I’m sure some of you may have heard of him, he’s from Sweden. He likes to promote that “bodybuilding” doesn’t have to be a religion. Meaning, that you can workout, but doesn’t really have to be a strict thing. You see, my nutrition is not all that strict as people think. I just had to cut most junk food I’ve been addicted to, and start eating mostly healthy, but I still do eat everything, here and there. I still like to eat hot dogs, hamburgs, Chinese food, ice cream, etc. In my belief, I always thought it’s okay to eat whatever you want as long as you eat healthy most of the day, wouldn’t hurt none.

I honestly find it kind of laughable that fitness people that would eat everything healthy all day, and every day. They won’t eat things they disagree with, all that stuff. I just watched this inspiring video by the Ultimate Warrior, and he too, even said it’s kind of bullshit that bodybuilders have to get all strict on protein and carbs.

You don’t need to eat perfectly healthy, 24/7. Just take things in moderation. People doing all these 6 small meals a day things, intermittent fasting or IIFYM, it’s all bunch of crock. As long as you workout hard, and do plenty of cardio. You can still get some great muscle gains and even get six pack abs. All these fitness gurus online, just try to promote healthy eating and trying to get people to change their lifestyles.

I don’t take nutrition so seriously as much as people would want to believe. I do eat mostly healthy, and still like to eat whatever at times too. I try to eat whatever on weekends only though. There are plenty of stuff that I avoid though. The only time I’ll eat high sugary stuff is ice cream, that’s about it. I don’t drink soda and I avoid most fried food. I don’t eat fast food too much anymore, but I like to have either Chinese or pizza on the weekends.

If you want to go for that stuff, feel free to do it. You don’t need other fitness people telling you what you can and can’t eat. Like the Hodge Twins say, do whatever the fuck you want to do. I’m still pretty lean and muscular. I plan to post new progress pics soon.

Edit to add: Yes, I do get plenty of protein and healthy carbs, don’t get me wrong. I eat plenty of green vegetables and fruits, all that stuff, but you only live once. You don’t need to live your entire life eating healthy all the time. Eating junk sometimes, can actually help your physique, think about it.

Kev

I think the Hack Squat machine is a better quad workout than the regular leg press. The Hack Squat is more powerful. Last Sunday, I did the Hack Squat, and I decided to lift a heavy one. I put 90 lbs. worth of weights on it, and considering the machine is like 20 – 30 lbs to lift without weights, that adds a little more, so in reality, I probably lifted the hack squat a little more than 100 lbs. It was brutal but I did the full 3 sets to 12 reps each.

My quads has been really sore all week. Not injured, just really sore. They can get sore when I stand up from a chair or walk around. It makes your legs feel really weird. It’s not bad, it’s actually a good thing. You want to feel sore in your workouts so you can have some great muscle gains.

You don’t want to lift real heavy all the time, but it’s good to do once in a blue moon. I like to mix it up all the time. Lift light, medium and sometimes heavy.

I’ve been working out all summer long with no breaks. I used to work out 4 days a week, but now I dropped down to three. If I don’t feel like going to the gym, I just do the workouts at home with my dumbbell set. I’m not going to the gym today, just going to take it easy and relax. Plenty of resting is important.

Kev

Yes, canned tuna maybe a great source of protein, but you don’t want to be eating a can a day or worse a few cans a day. I used to think it was good to eat tuna every day, or at least most of the week. From this point on, I’m going to vary up my lunches during the day. Tuna has something called, Mercury Toxicity, or something like that. I don’t think you want to be eating fish of any kind everyday, doesn’t have to be canned tuna. 2 or 3 times a week for fish is good enough. Read more on it, here. Fish may not harm ya this early but it will years ahead, you could get an early death if you eat way too much tuna.

So I’m going to go looking for other sources of protein for lunch during the day. I think I’m going to start eating more boneless chicken breasts for lunch instead of fish. I’ll also eat a lot more vegetables. You can also find good sources of protein from healthy beans like Soy Beans or Black Beans.

I was kind of getting tired of tuna anyway. I’m going to do more research on nutrition, try to make it a little different.

That’s okay though. I’m still NEW to fitness and nutrition. This is called learning.

For breakfast in the morning, I would have either egg whites or plain oat meal, and I’ll have whole wheat toast to go with it ’cause you need your whole grains. Beginners make a lot of mistakes with nutrition and I do too. I’m not perfect with nutrition but I’m trying to get better as much as I can. Eating healthy is a learning experience, indeed.

Kev

Yes, I completely understand that people don’t want to pay anything to learn to get ripped, and achieve the body of their dreams. So people go online looking for free information and there are tons of guys (or even women) in youtube trying to teach people how to get a ripped body. They go in there, giving workout advice, teaching different workouts and they give you nutrition advice. It’s mostly the experienced bodybuilders with the successful physiques teaching fitness, and they just want to pass along how they achieved it. All that is great, and wonderful how people want to help people, don’t get me wrong, but… you can’t trust their source.

You also have to be careful of their scams, ’cause some of them will want donations. You also have to watch out for the supplement products they push out there. When they teach workouts, their form is not always good. So you must be careful on that too. As I already stated on that video, some of these guys are almost always opinionated on stuff. Not giving actual facts. Sure, there are like one or two fitness gurus who really know what they’re doing and what they’re talking about. I’m also sure people have gotten results out of some of these online fitness gurus. The thing is, you can’t trust everything you see online.

I’m a self taught bodybuilder. I learned from Arnold’s “Encyclopedia” mostly, and I learned from other people locally around the Greenwich area. I just watch how other people did things in the gym. I would also try to learn new workouts from bodybuilding.com. I found my own ways of learning things. It is very strange how too many people go online to support these guru bodybuilders who don’t even look natural even though they claim to be.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to learn about bodybuilding. All you need is a set of dumbbells, your own gym membership, learn a few workouts for each body part, and a clean nutrition, that’s it!  I don’t want to have a Mr. Olympia kind of look. I think that look is kind of silly and disgusting. I just want a natural looking, medium physique. I respect the competitors out there, but that’s not my thing. Like I always say, I just want to get in decent shape.

Don’t learn from these so called fitness guru’s online. Like I said on the video, they’re all a bunch of whack jobs, and I meant it too!

Kev

Like I said before, I’m tired of the bigger and more ripped guys in fitness, putting down the beginner and the smaller built guys. It’s a pretty common thing that happens in fitness all the time. I do know that the bigger guys do respect the smaller built guys, but the way I’m seeing things, the bigger guys will only start attacking the smaller guys if the smaller guys will be critical to them first. The reason the bigger guys do it is because, they want to show you how it feels when attacking/bashing someone. It’s like a “There, how do you feel like it”, kind of thing. When the bigger and more professional bodybuilders attack the small guys in return, it comes off as very childish. Not only that it’s very childish, it also destroys their reputation as a fitness guru. When you want to be an online fitness guru, you have to be a professional and be respectful toward everything. Be positive but a lot of those guys don’t.

The beginners or smaller built guys have the right to criticize the experienced bodybuilders all we want to. Why is this, you may ask? Because think about… all those fitness gurus goal online is to help get new people in bodybuilding and help out beginners right? If us beginners don’t agree with how they are teaching things or if we don’t like their physiques or disagree with one of their videos, we have the right to call out on that stuff, because, simply the only reason, we just want stuff to work. Us beginners are trying to find source that are true and valid. Something real. It seems that a lot of fitness gurus out there just finds sources that are true only according to “them”. It seems a lot of fitness gurus just make up their own lessons, without any actual facts. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL OUT ON THEIR BULLSHIT. They are all wacky to be honest with you, I just watch fitness gurus online for entertainment purposes and laughs. A lot of these guys give out wrong information, and they seem to make things up as they go along.

If we disagree with their bullshit, and the fitness guru and his fanbase respond to you, it’s actually a good thing. People just want them to put out information that is true and factual, that’s all. This is why you shouldn’t follow the advice of fitness gurus online. I’m sure their little fanbase will think they are giving out the right information, but their fanbase worshipping their hero is just as annoying. Their fanbase can be a lot crazier.

Their fanbase attacks other people’s fitness physiques, when a lot of those people have the worst physiques I’ve ever seen. A lot of them don’t even look natural and most of them look like steroid monsters.

I will adress this in that upcoming video too. It could be a good video that may have potential for a lot of views.

Kev