Health and Fitness

I’m gonna be posting full body progress bodybuilding photos real soon…

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Just for fun, I decided to take a photo of myself wearing nothing but boxers and doing a bodybuilding pose for the camera. When I saw the pic, I was actually pretty impressed of what I saw. Not being egotistical or arrogant or anything but I really was impressed of what I saw that I decided to throw it on my instagram stories to see what kind of reaction it got. The reaction turned out GOOD and I got a few more instagram followers because of it.

For that reason, I think I’m definitely gonna be posting a lot more bodybuilding progress photos. I’ll be doing full body progress photos. I’ll be showing it all off. However, though, I’m noticing that posing in boxer briefs isn’t gonna do it so sometime this summer I’m going to be ordering a pair of bodybuilding trunks.

Some people may think that what I’m about to do pretty soon is pretty egotistical and arrogant and some are gonna be offended but whatever. After years of hard work in the gym, why hide what you got, ya know? That’s what bodybuilding is here for to begin with. Build muscle, get lean and you can show off your hard work. Why hide it?

I may never compete for the bodybuilding stage but I will show off like that for photos. I want to show it all off… upper body and lower body. I’m getting more chest development and my pecs are improving greatly so I think it’s finally time to do a photo shoot like this. I’ll take a series of pics of me trying to pose like a pro-bodybuilder.

I think it’ll be fun and it’ll be interesting to see what kind of reaction these photos will get.

While I am a full time powerlifter now, I still see myself as more of a bodybuilder, though. I may never be a “Mr. Olympia” but I would like to get that look. That’s what I’m aiming for.

Kev

WWE

RAW last night was surprisingly a pretty great show… I enjoyed it all the way through… wasn’t bored at all this time…

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I was considering taking a long break from watching WWE since it’s been so bad for a long while but now I don’t think I will and will continue watching. I was really surprised to see how great RAW was last night. It was actually an excellent show all the way through. Why? It’s because Vince is no longer in control of RAW now and Paul Heyman is in charge of running RAW. Paul Heyman is on fire and is already doing a great job.

Why was RAW so good last night? Well for starters, there were a lot more wrestling matches than superstars cutting promos which was shocking. For months and months, there have been less wrestling on RAW in the past but there were a lot more of it last night. Every match on RAW last night were really good too.

Paul Heyman really knows his wrestling and I’m glad Vince put him in charge. It was a smart move.

While it’s a nice idea that AEW is gonna be bigger than WWE, it’s never gonna happen ’cause all AEW is gonna do is force WWE to do better. WWE could quickly go back on top in the ratings again now that Paul and Eric are in charge of the two brands.

Now I’m gonna be watching Smackdown tonight to see how much that show has improved now that Eric Bischoff is in charge of running SD Live. I actually can’t wait for tonight. WWE is trying all they can to improve themselves and it’s great to see actually. I think Vince finally woke up and now wants to give fans what they want… “wrestling” and they gave us that on RAW last night.

This is definitely gonna be a war between WWE and AEW. No doubt.

Kev

Health and Fitness

The reality of plateauing in strength training & powerlifting, I’m not plateauing at all… it’s just that strength takes time…

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Ya know, after thinking about it a long while, I’m not plateauing at all. I did a lot of research on how to “bust plateaus” and most information I see through the weightlifting industry is really all a joke. I mean, a couple of weeks ago I deadlifted a 280 lbs. for a double and did a 285 lbs. as a heavy single. If I’ve been doing that, I’m not getting weaker at all and getting stronger every time. I gotta stop worrying about hitting 300 lbs. deadlift and keep doing what I’m doing. Before you know it, I’ll be deadlifting over 300 lbs. for more reps pretty soon so I gotta keep at it and strength will come in time.

All these guys in the fitness world worrying about losing strength, well, I don’t think they lost any at all. Strength gain is a slow process that’s the thing, ya know? I look at all these info on blogs and powerlifting websites and they give you all these “magical” programs that promises to break through plateaus. It’s all just a bunch of click bait bullshit that does nothing but help trying to promote their sites so don’t believe everything you see on the internet when it comes to weightlifting info.

Yeah, you will see your numbers stay the same and lose some and so many powerlifters and bodybuilders gets pissed when they notice that stuff happening. They shouldn’t get upset and not get so worked up over it ’cause every weightlifter out there goes through it. If you keep doing what you’re doing, strength gain will come on its own. It just comes whenever it wants to. Don’t believe all these magical tricks that you see online, ya know what I’m talking about? Blogs that are titled, “5 ways to never hit a plateau again” and blah blah blah blah. That’s what I’m talking about.

While I find most of that stuff a bunch of bullshit… I do agree with a few things here and there. One thing that I agree with what they say is that I need to sleep more ’cause I admit, I’ve been hitting the gym first thing early in the morning. That’s what I do during the Spring/Summer is hit the gym early in the morning as soon as I wake up. That’s not good and I gotta stop that. You need more sleep if you want to smash the big weights.

I also agree that I need to do less cardio and stop cutting weight. I don’t want to eat too many calories ’cause I don’t want to become a fat powerlifter but I’m definitely gonna eat more though instead of less. I need to educate myself on calorie deficit and all that stuff.

I also agree with them on taking deload weeks more often which I just started doing and that already seems to be helping I’m noticing. Take a week off or a deload week. I’m planning to take a week off from the gym completely pretty soon ’cause I’m going on vacation on the first week of Aug.

There’s no such thing as a “plateau” when it comes to strength training. It’s just a silly myth. I see so many new powerlifters online getting so mad when they notice that their numbers stay the same or dropping. Too many newbie powerlifters want to rush the big numbers and that’s what I don’t want. I don’t want to get too ahead of myself and I’m gonna take my time.

I’ll just continue to do what I do. Just train for strength on the big three for like 1 – 5 reps for 5 sets each. Just gotta be patient, ya know? Of course, a lot of lifters don’t know what the word “patience” means anymore.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Found a great video by Alan Thrall on how to break plateau’s on the big three lifts… I got to learn how to do volume training which sounds like a good idea…

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Ever since I’ve gotten into powerlifting training full time, I’ve noticed that I’ve been plateauing a bit. I’ve plateaued on the bench in the past before but doing great on bench again. I’m plateauing on deadlift now and trying to come up with a plan on how to break through and overcome it.

I think I’ve came up with a plan. I think I need to start learning “volume training” which I will read more into it this weekend so I can start “volume training” right away next week. I want to get stronger faster and go up in numbers each time I hit the gym.

I’m not gonna lie that it is kind of frustrating seeing my numbers staying the same or going down. “Volume Training” sounds like a good idea and I’m gonna be looking into that.

I don’t have a powerlifting coach and doing this all by myself so I have no choice but to teach myself.

This is a great video and Alan Thrall is one of my favorite weightlifting youtube channels.

Kev

WWE

Paul Heyman to be in charge of RAW and Eric Bischoff to be in charge of SD Live… interesting…

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Well this is interesting. Just announced today, Paul Heyman has been named by WWE as the executive director of Monday Night RAW and Eric Bischoff has been named as the executive director of Smackdown Live. Both of these men were hired to be in charge of those brands. While those two are now in charge of running those two shows; however, it looks like Vince McMahon is still calling the shots ’cause like the article says the two must report to Vince McMahon.

Both of these men have one thing in common, though. They have experience in running wrestling companies. Like the article says Paul Heyman used to own ECW and Eric Bischoff was the president of WCW.

https://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/article/paul-heyman-eric-bischoff-executive-directors-raw-smackdown-live?sf214941517=1

I know a lot of wrestling fans are getting skeptical of this but I think this is a pretty good idea. Heyman and Bischoff both know their wrestling ’cause they have a lot of experience in the business and they are very knowledgeable with wrestling. They definitely know their stuff.

I would give them a chance to see how they would do.

Some of you may ask, why is Vince doing this? Over the years in the WWE, Vince had full control of both RAW and Smackdown. He called the shots of everything and now it looks like Vince is finally giving up some control in WWE.

Is Vince finally waking up and realizing that he isn’t good anymore creatively? That could be a part of it but I think the real reason is that the XFL is about to be launched and he won’t have time to run both brands anymore. So he needs to give someone else to take over.

Another reason Vince is doing this is that ratings for both RAW and SD are still in trouble and this could be a ploy to help bring the ratings up. Could Paul and Eric shape up the wrestling business and take it to the next level? AEW is exploding and you can see that Vince is trying everything to compete with them.

I’m going to wait to see how Paul and Eric will do. I know a lot of wrestling fans out there will be skeptical of this but I’m gonna give these guys a chance. Paul and Eric could bring wrestling back to the WWE and that’s what I’m hoping and praying for. We’ll have to wait and see how they do.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Not doing so good on squats and deadlift lately but killing it on bench… wonder why that is??? Am I plateauing? I could be, not gonna lie…

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I tried maxing out on the big three lifts this week but wasn’t very good again. I’m killing it on bench. My bench numbers are going up as I just smashed a whopping 165 lbs. pr. on bench this week. Not quite at 170 lb. bench yet but I’ll get there in a few weeks. I’m on the road to a 200 lb. bench. Looks like I won’t get to 200 lbs. in time before the Aug. 30th push/pull meet at Albany Strength but I’m still gonna try to get there.

As for squat and deadlift… the squats, I had to go do lighter weights so I can get the correct depth that the USAPL asks for. The right depth for the USAPL is that the upper leg area and crease of the hip needs to be lower than the top of the knee. I hit that depth and it’s very tough. I couldn’t smash a 150 or a 140 lb. squat when I tried so my estimated pr on squats right now is about 135 lbs. I’m gonna take my time and really bring up my squat numbers this summer.

The same goes for deadlift. I still can’t get over 300 lbs. again. I did it once in the past but can’t seem to do it now. I think I’m plateauing on deadlift and I’m going to figure out a way to bust through it. Maybe I keep deadlifting the same weights every week ’cause you don’t want to do that. I gotta keep adding more weight everyweek and mix it up and I will start doing that from now on.

When I train for strength in powerlifting, I do 5 sets of everything on the big three and started training for 1 – 5 reps. I used to start with 8 – 10 reps and go 1 – 5 later in the sets but from now on, I’ve been doing 1 – 5 reps for each set. I feel that I’m getting pretty close to 300 again ’cause a few weeks ago, I smashed a 280 lb. for a double and a 285 lb. for a heavy single. Someday I want to start doing 300 lbs. for more reps and I’m gonna take my time to get there. I can get there this summer if I’m lucky enough. Just gotta find a way to break out of this plateau and I’ll be back on fire before you know it.

Every powerlifter goes through plateaus, even the greatest powerlifters of all time go through ’em. We all have our bad days in the gym and at the powerlifting meets so I’m not mad about it. I’ll find a way to get back on track on deadlift so I can fucking kill it at the push/pull meet in August. At the push/pull meet in August, I’m hoping to smash over 300 lb. so I’m gonna take my time and come up with a plan.

When you “plateau” in the gym, it means you notice a decrease in strength like staying the same or going down. You don’t want that in powerlifting. I want to become a great deadlifter and don’t wanna mess it up.

Kev

Politics/war

It’s interesting that lefties want to act like children being separated from families is like an evil thing and ridiculous how they think Trump is evil for it… who cares???

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Yeah, I watched the Dem Debate last night. The full three hours of the debate. While I despise the Democrats and the left, I thought I would watch it to keep myself informed ’cause it’s good to do that to see what both sides are saying. It’s a crowded election so the Democrats had to split the Dem Debate in two parts. I watched last night’s debate and I’ll probably end up watching tonight’s debate where Biden, Bernie, Kirsten, Kamala and everyone else will appear.

As far as last night’s debate goes, I was bored to tears like everyone else. The Dems don’t have much of a platform from what I’m seeing. All they have is mostly Climate Change, Health Care for All and Donald Trump hate. That’s all they got from what I saw last night, though.

Like everyone else, I was pretty shocked to see all the Spanish speaking last night and I have a feeling we’ll see even more of that tonight. Dems pandering for American hispanic votes and possibly illegal alien votes too.

At first, I was liking Tulsi Gabbard ’cause she was the only likeable Democrat but she lost me when she started calling out Trump for continuing the Afghanistan wars.

Last night was very comedic, though. It was fun seeing Cory Booker going off on bullshit like usual and those funny facial expressions he always makes.

I would have to say though that I find it laughable that the Dems and the hardcore left finds it very evil that illegal immigrant children get separated from their families at the border. I mean like, really? My thoughts is who cares about those children in cages. There are more problems in America with children like we already have. Dems and hardcore liberals have the audacity to feel sorry for those immigrant children when they have no problem killing babies with abortion? Think about that. There are still thousands and thousands of children who are missing. Children gets murdered by their own parents all the time. There are homeless children in America who live in the streets with their homeless families all over. There are children living in hospitals who have cancer and all that. Once again, lefties have the audacity to feel sorry for immigrant children than American children? Again, I don’t give a fuck about those children in cages and they weren’t Trump’s doing to begin with when it was Obama who started that. No outrage against Obama but of course, they blame Trump like they blame Trump on everything.

And about that guy and his daughter dying while travelling to the border, I don’t really care about that too. They want to blame Trump for that garbage like I saw last night? He wasn’t there when it happened so how could it be his fault? And that picture shown all over the news with their bodies in the water… that’s cruel for the Dems and news media to post a picture of that and show it all over the news. Really? It was the father and daughter’s fault that happened ’cause from the looks of things, they were travelling during 100 degree weather and they probably had no food and water on them from the looks of things. They should have stayed home instead of trying to cross the border. How is it Trump’s fault?

Anyhow, I’m going to be watching tonight’s Debate just to keep myself informed. I’m sure tonight’s debate will be worse than last night. Bernie is gonna be on so watch out. Tonight’s debate will be even more entertaining than last night. I’m sure the Trump bashing will get a lot worse tonight. Gonna be interesting. Yeah, I’ll be watching.

Kev

Health and Fitness

Even though I don’t compete for bodybuilding, I am still a “bodybuilder” either way…

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Ya know, it is interesting how some people wanna say that I’m not a bodybuilder just because I don’t compete for the stage. As long as you’re in a gym, lifting weights and building muscle, you’re a bodybuilder. You don’t have to compete for the bodybuilding stage to be considered a bodybuilder. You can always have an amazing bodybuilding physique and not compete for the stage at all.

Standing on a stage wearing nothing but tiny trunks in front of a live crowd has never been my goal and I’ll never wanna do that. I respect the bodybuilding competition but that has never really been my thing. I respect all the competitors who won Mr. Olympia over the years whether they were on steroids or not, I don’t care.

I don’t wanna compete for bodybuilding. Don’t want to become a fitness model or a fitness guru or none of those things. I got into bodybuilding ’cause I just want the look.

Yeah, I kind of do want to look like a young Arnold and look like other guys such as Jay Cutler (who is my favorite Mr. Olympia, btw). I also want to look like movie stars and pro wrestlers like the Rock. Yeah, most bodybuilders with huge physiques like that always get accused of “steroids”. I know Arnie’s used ’em in the past but he still was a great bodybuilder back in the day. I think it’s unfair that every bodybuilder out there gets accused of juicing up. It’s just wrong. You can’t judge the book by it’s cover. I definitely do believe that it’s possible to get that “Mr. Olympia” look naturally. A lot of these guys just ate really good, worked really hard and stayed dedicated. I’m tired of people accusing bodybuilders of using “roids”… it’s getting old and tiresome. We’re living in that world right now. Most of those accusations are coming from people who don’t even lift or they’re completely out of shape.

I do want that bodybuilder look. Try to get huge as much as possible. Even though I’m into powerlifting now, I still train like a bodybuilder too. I still train every body part even though I’m into powerlifting training. I do both strength training and hypertrophy so I can build strength and muscle. That’s why I got into powerlifting ’cause I want to get stronger faster.

Since I got into bench pressing full time, my chest pecs is finally improving. I can feel them getting bigger and bigger each week and I’m finally looking like a “bodybuilder”. Big arms, improved pecs and abs. Yeah, I got it all pretty much and feeling really good.

I got into bodybuilding ’cause I just want that muscular look. I look at all these guys in Mr. Olympia, the action movies and pro wrestling and I thought to myself, “Geez, someday I’m gonna look like that”. That’s why I got into bodybuilding, to get healthy and get in shape. I want to look great.

I’m proud to be a bodybuilder and powerlifter and I’ll never give up both. I want to show people that I can be good at something and inspire others to hit the gym too hopefully. Like always, I’m very proud of what I look like now but still got work to do, though. Still got some bodyfat to drop and working on that also.

Kev

WWE

I’m thinking of taking another long break from WWE… probably gonna… they aren’t getting better…

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Ya know, now that AEW wrestling is finally here, I’m definitely thinking of ditching WWE for AEW. Well, I’m going to ditch WWE for a little while at least. I take long breaks from watching WWE every now and then and I may just do that starting next week. There is a WWE PPV on the WWE Network called “Stomping Grounds” and I don’t know if I’m gonna watch it. Even though I’ll probably take a long break from WWE again, that doesn’t mean I’m quitting the WWE Network streaming service ’cause I need to keep that ’cause it has a lot of old-school wrestling on there.

WWE isn’t getting better. Their shows RAW and SD keeps sucking week after week and both shows are getting worse too. Like everyone else, I’m fed up with how WWE is getting and I can’t really take it anymore really. We are all fed up with Vince and the WWE creative/booking.

We all definitely believe that Vince is out of touch of what we want and he doesn’t get it yet. We want to see good wrestling back but he keeps giving us storylines and wrestlers cutting promos than wrestling. That’s why the wrestling world has jumped shipped to AEW ’cause they give us wrestling… think about why AEW is exploding and WWE is tanking.

I’m probably gonna end up being a full-time AEW fan ’cause I admire what they’re doing. AEW on TNT Network won’t start airing until the Fall ’cause I keep hearing that they are planning on doing a weekly two hour show. They won’t be doing three hour weekly shows thankfully.

It’s a shame to see WWE doing so horribly ’cause I’m a long time fan and I’m probably gonna give up on them again. Each week when I try to watch RAW, I fall asleep through like half the show and I miss the end but that’s okay. I don’t miss anything ’cause RAW endings every week have been so horrible. RAW’s been a sleep fest.

That’s WWE, though. Sometimes they get really good and sometimes they get really bad. I want to see “wrestling” like everyone else. Yeah, we all know wrestling is “fake” but they are still great at what they do. There’s a lot of talented people in the business. I don’t blame the performers for a bad product in WWE ’cause they are being paid to perform. Vince is the problem and everyone knows it. Even the superstars know that Vince is the problem, that’s why you see a lot of them leaving WWE nowadays. I don’t like the way WWE is going myself.

WWE better step their game up now that AEW is here. AEW could easily become bigger than WWE and they already are getting bigger. AEW is an awesome company and I’m gonna be keeping an eye of what they’re doing.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

Would I ever make my own dance & pop album someday? Sure I would… I would absolutely go for that…

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Ya know, I love dancing. It’s just one of those things that I love to do when I go to things like at live band shows, DJ parties and things like that. I just love dancing. I feel I’m a pretty good dancer even though I could be a little better. You have to see me dance to believe it.

A lot of people see me as this bored person who is shy and quiet. I am in a way but I do like to have fun.

Someday, I would like to make my own dance and pop record where I sing the lead vocals over. Yeah, I’m talking about dance/techno/electronica. Stuff you hear in a nightclub. You can easily make that type of music with just about any DAW nowadays especially Apple’s Garageband and Mixcraft.

I would like to try making music that would absolutely shock people and dance music could be it. I do like listening to hard rock and metal but sometimes I do like listening to dance and pop.

I remember in the past that people actually wanted me to make a rap/hip hop album ’cause people liked the way I wrote my lyrics. Only problem is, I don’t know how to rap and I wouldn’t be very good at that at all but I know how to sing. Singing my own pop music is something I could be pretty good at.

I don’t know if I’ll do a project like this right away but it is something I’d like to think about in the future. For now, I want to concentrate on hard rock music. I want to make a hard rock album/demo soon and then I’ll think about a dance/pop record. If I ever made a dance/pop record, it would be something that you would hear at a dance floor and nightclub. I’m already getting some original dance songs spinning in my head right now. I think it could be a kickass and fun project if I ever get it going.

If I ever did it, I think I would need to collaborate with a techno/electronica musician. I don’t think I could do this on my own but it would be badass.

Kev

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