Another great way to learn to improve your physique, is to ask honest feedback from other experienced bodybuilders, yes, I’m talking about feedback from the experts. You can post your progress pictures online anywhere, and everybody will give positive feedback on it. Never really anything honest. If you want feedback that is 100% straight up honest, ask from the pros to get their opinion.

I asked for honest feedback on my physique from experienced bodybuilder Lui Marco, who is also a youtube sensation.

Here’s what he had to say about my physique when I released my latest Fall progress pic.

Abs are showing well in that pic. my guess is that you are probably working out your bodyparts more than once a week ( that’s good for the As but not that good for the rest)
you need to Workout each body part once a week not more cause the muscle will be built at home while you rest and eat well. Your Bodyfat is quite low so if you overhaul your training , results will show even better in just 2 or 3 months( lift heavy as well with a perfect form)
Cheers and keep us posted!

That response was surprisingly positive. I’m proud that he said my abs are visible. and bodyfat is low. I like to do a lot of push ups at home, so it looks like I’m going to have to cut way down on push ups so I can get better results.

I’ll ask feedback from a different bodybuilder in youtube and maybe he/she will have a different opinion than Lui’s. Every bodybuilder have their own views and opinions on things. I do like this one though. I’m proud of myself that I can get visible abs which not many people can do these days. Everyone seems to want to eat heavily and get fat.

Kev

Summer is over and fall is here. New progress pic. I see a chest improvement, starting to round out the way I want it. I’ve been hitting the declines and inclines dumbbell presses which is what’s helping it. The abs are really showing now. There’s still a little bit of lower belly flab which I’m trying to get worked on, but as long as I have a 4 pack, I’m getting leaner.

Yep, I know what I’m doing. 🙂

Kev

Since it’s been a little over a year since I got into fitness, I think I’m going to change my 3 day a week workout program to a 4 day week thing now. I’m changing my program around a little bit.

Monday would be chest day, Tuesday would be tricep day, Wednesday would be shoulders/traps day, and Saturday would be legs/biceps day.

What about abs? Well, I do abs at home. I do body weight stuff at home at night before I go to bed. I do various crunches on the floor. Floor crunches, bicycle crunches, etc. I’m also trying to find more workouts for obliques. I found a few of them, but I need more. One thing I need work on is obliques. The obliques are part of your abs and if you want to full six pack, gotta work on the obliques too.

I’m loving fitness and bodybuilding too much, I’m very happy that I got into this. I feel great, full of energy, and it makes you feel better. I thought about becoming a certified trainer someday. Maybe down the road that will happen. I would love to help other people. First, I need more fitness experience and knowledge, and I need a ripped enough body before becoming a certified trainer. It would be kind of silly becoming certified and not having a jacked body. I’d like to make a living helping others get in shape someday. That might be a good career I could take.

I still do help others though, by giving people small advice and tips when they ask for it. I’m still learning fitness and nutrition so I still have a lot to learn ahead of me. It is quite an adventure.

Edit to add: I forgot to add “Back” day on my program, but I’ll rework it again. I’ll figure something out.

Edit to add #2: I think I’ll do “Back” day on shoulder day. I don’t do too many back workouts just the lat pull down, seated row and the t-bar.

Kev

There seem to be quite a few fitness trainers on the internet that are becoming an online sensation. So far the ones that I could find that seem to be the most popular are Scooby’s Workshop, Scott Herman’s Fitness, Zuzana’s Body Rock TV “charliejames1975”, and Micah Lacerte’s “Hitch Fit”.

I will give each one a star review. * = means poor ** = means ok *** = means good **** = means excellent

Here are my honest thoughts on each one:

Scooby’s Workshop: Many of you know my thoughts on Scooby already. While some of his information can actually be helpful, he’s misinformed on a lot of stuff. He doesn’t have the greatest physique and his workshop seems to be more popular with kids & teens more than adults. He’s got quite a large fanbase, they all look after him like he’s some kind of hero. He wouldn’t have been this popular if he didn’t steal the name and the image after a legendary cartoon character, Scooby Doo. He likes to add humor to his workout videos by adding, Hans, who appears to be a toy gnome. His workshop is aimed at fitness people who don’t know what they’re doing and he wants to correct them. This guy Scooby, can be rude and negative in a lot of his videos. His screaming into a pillow thing is annoying and not funny. Score = *.

Scott Herman’s Fitness – This youtube channel would have to be my favorite. Why? His workouts and nutritional stuff is free to learn from. Scott Herman seems very friendly and gracious. He’s not brutally honest like Scooby is. Scott explains workouts and nutrition to make you understand him easier. When he teaches you workouts, he does ’em in perfectly good form. He’s a real professional as well. He’s got a great physique for a young dude like him. Pretty much all of his workouts really work and helpful. He seems down to earth and cool.  I would recommend looking after this guy. Score = ****

Zuzana’s Body Rock TV “charliejames1975” – This channel seems to be more directed at women, but a lot of her stuff can be helpful for men too. Her workouts are unique and different. She’s inspiring. Plus, she’s hot and sexy looking. Too bad though dudes ’cause look like she’s already married or something. Score = ****

Micah Lacerte’s “Hitch Fit” = His youtube channel is pretty cool and interesting, but my only problem with him that a lot of his workout lessons seems to be aimed more toward the experience and advanced bodybuilders. He doesn’t give anything on nutrition at all. When you go to the “Hitch Fit” website, you can see that his online training program is not free. He’s very expensive, it can cost you around 250 – 300  or way more to learn from him. You don’t really have to go for stuff like this, when you can lose weight and get ripped when not having to spend any money. Score = **

Hope this helps.

Kev

Today in Saratoga Springs, I picked up an Accumeasure bodyfat calliper that was pretty cheap. It’s a pretty popular device in the fitness world. Why? Because it’s cheap and it’s very accurate according to all the great reviews I’ve read about this device. So I finally picked up one from GNC today. I learned how to use it, and I’m pretty sure I’m about 13.7% bodyfat now. That’s pretty much in the “Ideal” range, so that’s good. It’s pretty close to becoming pretty “lean”. I don’t trust those electronic bodyfat machines at the gym. I want to do it my own way. With the accumeasure you only measure one spot and that’s all you need to determine your bodyfat. I can tell I’m getting lower in bodyfat ’cause my abs are becoming a little more visible. Eating right and doing plenty of cardio really pays off.

When you’re into fitness, you need a tape measure and a bodyfat calliper so you can tell how much muscle your gaining and how much fat you’re losing. Pretty important to do this stuff.

I’m pretty sure 13.7 % is correct, I tried measuring it more than enough times and everytime it came about that. I still need to go down though, my goal is to go about 9 or 10.

Kev