My 29th birthday recently passed. For my birthday my girlfriend got me two pairs of shorts, and neither of them fit. Upon reporting this to my friend Greg he sent me the following text: “Size, the best gift of all”. I found this text hilarious and realized that I have truly become a meathead. As most people are looking to drop a size or two, Greg and I are currently on the quest for “size”. We are both looking to gain about 13lb this summer (lean “size” if you will), this will put Greg at 245 and myself at 200lbs. We must be off to a good start because last weekend when we showed up at a beer distributor looking for two empty kegs we didn’t even have to tell them why we wanted them, the teller looked at his coworker and said: “they want them for the gym”. $60 bucks and about 10 blocks later we were sitting on our kegs in the subway. Part of our summer lifting program is to workout outside more often using odd objects like kegs, tires, sandbags, etc. We plan on doing this every Saturday, starting next weekend. We will finish each session with a cookout, it will be awesome.
We got some odd looks when we arrived at Times Sq. with two kegs.
During my recent blogging hiatus my inbox once again filled with health and fitness related tidbits from friends and family. Let’s review some of the best from the past month.
I can’t stand Jillian Michaels or anything related to the biggest loser. I threw up in my mouth last night when I saw a commercial for her new show, Losing It with Jillian Michaels, the biggest moron from the Biggest Loser. I wrote a blog post awhile back about the biggest loser. You can read it here.
The next one comes from my sister, apparently fat people used to be so rare that people would pay to look at them, check it out: America’s Obesity Epidemic: Bringing Sideshow Freaks Into The Discussion For some reason this makes me think about the time my Dad was at Wal-Mart and an obese individual in a scooter lost control and drove half way up a fruit display and got stuck, oh Wal-Mart.
Quite a few people sent me this one from the NY Times about lifting “heavier” weights and it’s benefits. It’s old news to those in the know, but hopefully some of those who aren’t in the know will drop the pink dumbbells and give it a go.
I often break cell phones, I squeeze them to death, throw them at walls, I don’t know what it is, they frustrate me. No this is not fitness related, but I’m worried about the future…Marty Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone predicts this:
Lastly my Dad always tells me that if I want to get rich in the fitness industry I need to make a gadget, preferably one that fits under the bed. He’s probably right, lots of people seem to be getting rich from making useless fitness products. Here’s a new one to put under your bed next to your shake weight:
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Nutrition Tip of the Week
Why Choose Oats by Dr. John Berardi
If you're looking to gain mass and have a good carbohydrate tolerance,
place a bowl of fiber-rich, low-GI rolled oats along with ½ scoop
of vanilla protein powder, frozen mixed berries, pineapple and a small
quantity of mixed nuts right next to your omelet. This is a muscle building
breakfast that's hard to beat. I place this bowl right next to my omelet
for a breakfast that's hard to beat.
However, if you tend to hold a lot of body fat, just stick with protein,
good fats, and veggies for breakfast. Save the non-fruit and veggie
carbs till after exercise only - yes, even oatmeal.
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