3 WEEKS OUT...GETTING TOUGH

SO....its 3 weeks away the biggest show of my life thus far, and man am I feeling it. I was looking through my diet log for the Mets and the Jr. USA's, 3 weeks out from the mets I was 190 lbs, currently 3 weeks out from the Nationals I am 182 lbs. I am looking a lot better than I did for my last shows but as always my body gets very stubborn due to the fact that my body does not want to be this weight (as Palumbo would say) so this is the point where I start to get tortured. Dave made some changes in my diet today, if you kept track of my blogs the past few weeks, two weeks ago he cut my cheat meal and I was doing 2 days without fats, 2 days with. The following week he changed it to 3 days no fats, 1 day with. Now, today he changed it to 6 days not fats, 1 day with fats (That day is like a cheat meal to me). Along with that I am also training 5 days a week and doing 2 1/2 hours of cardio a day, 75 minutes in the morning on an empty stomach and 75 minutes post workout. The diet I can deal with its the boring cardio that I have to do, there's nothing fun about that crap. But hopefully I will be in shape early so I can get a good carb up for the show and be the biggest and most ripped in my class. But 3 weeks until show time, and only 2 weeks left of cardio and training so just got to keep the warrior mentality and keep getting after it.

On a better note, this past Saturday I was at the Gold's Classic in Jackson NJ, where Calro Filopone and myself where the guest posers. I had a good time there, their were 80 competitors because that show is a National Qualifier so a lot of competitors are trying to get qualified for Nationals in November. That's the original show I got Nationally qualified at back in 2005. My routine was good except I put on an oil before I went onto stage which I never do and the stuff was horrible I couldn't grip any part of my body for any lat spread poses so it threw a monkey wrench in my routine but all in all it was fun Karen and Mike Stienfield ran a very well organized show. Thanks for having me guys, greatly appreciated.

Also, today I had a photo shoot at strong and shapely gym with my good friend/photographer Tony Monchinski, who is a great guy. He has his own column in Muscle Mag which focus's on a lot for East coast bodybuilders. He shot 8 bodybuilder total including myself. So keep an eye out after Nationals for my write up in his column...Thanks Tony for all your help the past year. Tony is the man, he shot all my Amazing Amateurs videos for MD, and I had a full page article that he put in Muscle Mag which I received a lot of emails and complements on. He's a great guy, and a huge impact in the East Coast regime.

Until next time Stay Focused and Keep after your Dreams, you only live ONCE, make it well worth it....
Guy

The Two Families That Have Been Here For It All

This blog is for the two families that mean more to me than anything that I haven't mentioned throughout my website being up. And if it weren't for them I don't know how I would have done it all.
My family, mom, dad, Lisa, and Anthony. You guys are my life. You guys have put up with more shit of mine (well until this show because I just got my apartment), than anyone else. My mother who for some reason I fine a reason to yell at about everything, but she's the one always checking up on me to make sure Palumbo is killing me. My father for giving me the tools I have to become the dedicated person I am, and who can forget, the one who is always calling me letting me know whats on sale at the super markets and pick it up for me so I can have food on stock at all times. My sister, well my sister and my brother are like my two best friends, my sister would just be there for me, she would always want to do things to get my mind off dieting, shes the best sister God could have given me. As for Anthony, this kid is something else. When I was home, dieting for the Mets and the Jr USA's, he was like a slave for me, anything I needed he would do, go up the stairs to get this and that, drive here to pick this up for me, and the biggest pain in the ass thing, he put over 10 coats of protan on me for each show, and I know how much he enjoyed that. My family is my saving grace when I diet, when things are going bad and times are getting tough, they are always there to push me through it and keep me level headed. I love all of you to death, you guys are the best family that a son/brother could have asked for, thanks for all your support and I love you all!!!!

As for my "Second Family," Mrs. B., Leah, and her brother Peter. I started dating Leah in March of 2005, and she had no clue what she was getting herself into..lol...We were together for two years. Leah has been a big savior for me, she's not the biggest fan of bodybuilding, but the biggest supporter that I have. She has been there wen I won the Golds Classic in 05, she's been there in 07 when I won the Mets and the Jr USA's and she told me she wanted to come to Dallas because in her eyes she's been through it all and wanted to be there for in her words the "grand finale." Leah and her family have been a huge part of my life for almost 3 years, I met her right before I graduated college and after I graduated I stayed in Connecticut to be close to her, they live in Westchester NY, so I was only 20 minutes from her. Her family was like my family away from home, I was there every night with or without Leah being home having home made meals with Mrs. B. and Peter (Mom is a great cook by the way.) Peter and I would relax and play x-box for hours on end. Peter would occasionally come along for a gym workout with me, when the time was there. Mr.s B. is a Elementary teacher, Leah works for a marketing company, and Peter is a Freshman football player in high school, who one day I can see playing pro ball. The kid is a monster. Big, tall, and strong as an ox, the kid is gonna turn heads when he gets older. You guys have been so much to me for the past 3 years and I hope you guys continue to be here for me for years to come. Thank you for all your help and support through the years, I love each and everyone of you guys.

***Sometimes in life we look past the most important things, and those are the things who made who we are today, sometimes, we all need to stop, take a step back, and look at the whole picture, and realize who we are and how we got to be where we are at...Thank you for showing me that today...You know who you are
until next time
Get After it
Guy

BEVS POWERHOUSE GYM

Again, today, was another one of those traveling across the world days for me. I took a trip to see Palumbo to evaluate me since I am 4 weeks out as of today. Me and my training partner Dom went to Bevs gym in Syosset NY, which I workout at every time I am in the area. That gym is the mecca of gyms around. By mecca I say that because there are so many pictures and collages of old time and up and coming bodybuilders, along with fitness models, figure competitors, and athletes. I mean the gym just has an aura about it that when you walk in the only thing you want to do is throw around weight. I met Colette Nelson there (Dave Palumbos finace), and her, Dom, and myself all got a great arm workout in. Wanted to give a thanks to Steve and Bev, although they are usually not there on the weekends, the staff always welcomes me with open arms and that means a lot when your a bodybuilder trying to make a dream come true. So THANKS TO STEVE AND BEV AND POWER HOUSE GYM FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!!!!!

So on a worse note, my diet, and cardio changed as of today. I saw Dave, he said he thinks I am right where I need to be, but wants me to come down lower than I was for the Mets and Jr USA's so I can get a better carb up. For the next 4 weeks I am doing 3 days of just protein, NO FATS OR CARBS, 1 day of Protein and Fats, but here's the worst part my cardio is up to 2 1/2 hours a day, which sucks when you work over 40 hours a week and try to keep a level head. But this is why its bodybuilding, you have to build your body to the best it can be, that's why there's only few who can do what I/We do. Until later on, Stay Strong All, because God knows I have to right now...lol
Guy

Bob Bonhams Stong and Shapely Gym

I finally took up Bob Bonhams offer, he emailed me a few weeks ago and told me he would like if I came to his gym and trained, he said he would set me up with a membership and I could train and change my atmosphere since I am dieting for Nationals. Any bodybuilder knows training at the same place all the time can get to be an annoyance at some points unless your at the hard core gyms like Strong and Shapely, Diamond, Bev's, or Golds New Haven. So I took Bob up on his offer and went over to his gym in East Rutherford today, which shockingly is only 25 minutes from my house if that. So my cousin Dave and I headed over there around 1:00pm, and started our workout Bis and Tris today. I have worked out at Bobs gym before but hadn't been there for at least 2 years, so I had to get my senses of where everything was, once I did, it was GO TIME! Dave and I blasted out 12 sets of hard core bis and tris, my arms were jacked up, sometimes I am amazed how I get such sick pumps on no carbs and my body just running on ketones, but in all honestly I have gotten some of my best workouts and pumps on NO CARBS. My workout was great there I will be there a lot more now that Bob talked with me, each gym has different machines that targets the muscles differently so each workout you hit the muscle in a different way, which in my opinion is optimal for muscle growth.
I got into talking with Bob before I left, I have talked to him in the past but real quick, we talked for about an hour. We hit on every topic from girls, bodybuilding, gyms, training, the Olympia, he is a very down to earth, great guy, one who loves the sport of bodybuilding. You would think by his demeanor that he was a bodybuilder, but actually he has done everything but. He is a gym owner of one of the best gyms on the east coast, he was a promoter, judge, photographer, and a trainer. He is a well rounded individual and I Thank You Bob for all your support and appreciate what you have done for me....Thanks, until next time.
IF YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO IT, YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT!!!
Guy

PROPS TO JOHN KEEMPERS DIAMOND GYM

I had the opportunity to workout at John Keempers Diamond Gym in Maple wood NJ. Being a native of NJ I do not live far from his gym, and made the members there aware that I will be there more often now, since I have gotten a grand tour of the place. I went there because my good friend Evan Centopani was shooting with Universal Nutrition along with Frank Mc Grath and Erick Frankhouser. I showed up there today around 3:30pm with my posing coach Kenny Wallach who is a gym lover himself, loves to travel to all the well known and legendary gyms. We walked in and both said "Holy shit, this is awesome." I mean I have been to hard core gyms before, Strong and Shapely (which is where I am training tomorrow), my all time favorite gym Gold's New Haven, and know Diamond gym which is twenty minutes from my house. The gym is off Irvington road in Maple wood on a busy road, and if you were driving by you might miss it, but if you were strolling by, you would know where the gym is, with the music blaring and the doors open, to the sound of dumbbells clanging, and grunts and groans it's hard to miss. The gym was wall to wall with old pictures of all the greats, along with pictures of the up and comings. Every single room had a different atmosphere. It was like a bodybuilding of Ronnie Coleman that you see, weights every where, the heaviest of all dumbbells stacked away in the corner only for the big men to use, machines that I'm sure some of the Old time greats used back in their day to build their top physiques, and the best part is everyone there...EVERY SINGLE PERSON was there for one reason. TO WORKOUT. Most gyms I go to you have your club goes with their hair all gelled, the ones who talk on the cell phones, the ones who read half of a newspaper in between sets, not hear. After a great shoulder, hamstring, and calf workout with Evan we finished up with some cardio, and headed down to make rounds saying good-bye. I was leaning over the counter talking to an employee Greg, and I looked down on the desk, they had TOP 10 HARD CORE GYMS, number 1. Diamond Gym, and ya know what who could argue. If you guys/girls ever around the area and want to get a feeling of how bodybuilding became and how working out was like, and still should be, take a trip to John's Gym, you can guarantee it won't be your last...
Also want to shout out to Erik Frankhouser, we got into talking a bit he's a great, stand up guy, and has one of the sickest wheels and calves I have ever seen. He's 27 years old with so much potential, he's already up to 250 from 202 since Aug 31st at the North Americans where he won his pro card. Good luck Erik you'll do damage in years to come.
So check out Diamond gym, I will be writing about Strong and Shapely tomorrow when I get back haven't been there in a few years so very pumped up to make an appearance there. Until tomorrow...Get it done
Guy

BIG PROPS TO DAVE PALUMBO AND SPECIES

Since I have been working with my nutritionist and good friend Dave Palumbo, I have been using his products since day one. I was always sceptical about all products I would always use them, and never feel any different taking any of them, aminos, nitrix oxide boosters, fat burners etc. But when I started on Dave's diet he told me he was coming out with a line called SPECIES. He suggested I try his Lipolyze (day time fat burner), Somalyze (night time fat burner and sleep aid), and his protein (Isolyze.) His lipolyze is a non stimulant fat burner with essential fatty acids in it that keeps my body burning fat all day long. Along with that his protein is a filtered whey protein, but unlike any others out there, you don't get that bloated gassy feeling you do with regular whey, it mixes in seconds and there's no chunks or bad taste. Actually its probably the best tasting protein on the market right now. Well you can't get it on the market yet, only on his site www.speciesnutrition.com . And the somalyze is a night time burning fat burner that has melatonin in it to help aid sleep, anyone who's a bodybuilder knows when your dieting it gets tough to sleep sometimes when your starving this helps me fall asleep and keeps me in a deep sleep all night. Dave does not pay me to write this and does not pay me for being a sponsored athlete, I get use of his products that's it, and when your using products that work, that is more than money can buy, and I think my conditioning at my last two shows proves what Dave's products are all about. Make sure you check them out at www.speciesnutrition.com and also check my profile there about my meals and my workout routines....Stay big, stay strong..
Guy

CONGRATS TO A NEW DADDY

GOT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT TO MY BOY CECIL AND HIS FIANCE LIZ WHO HAD THEIR FIRST CHILD TOGETHER TODAY, GRACE SNOWDEN...CONGRATS GUYS, CECIL LOVE YOU LIKE A BROTHER YOU'LL MAKE A PHENOMENAL FATHER...
My boy Cecil is a good friend of mine, we played football throughout college together and after that we moved in together along with another friend of our Mike Walker. Living with those guys was a great experience for two years, I got to know both of them on a totally different level than just the football player, meat heads in college. Cecil, Mike, and myself became like brothers, laughed, fought, made up, went out, worked at clubs together (Oh the stories from bouncing we could tell). But Cecil came from a tough background, lost both of his parents a a young age, and the type of person he became and morals he developed as a person are outstanding. He is a role model to myself, I ever wondered what would happen if I ever lost my parents how I could ever survive, but Cecil did, and you would not know that he ever had any tragedies like that by the type of person he is. Very caring, loving, and emotional person. Him and Mike were training partners of mine for awhile until we all parted our ways in March of 06 when we had to move on with our jobs and life. We all still keep in touch Cecil lives in CT with his fiance Liz and newly born Grace, and Mike lives in NJ close to me....Love both you guys and Cecil once again I love bro Congratulations
Uncle Guy...

Big Thanks

Got to give a big thanks for the promoters of the NPC Brooklyn show, Jay and Matt, for having me hear. And also for Arnold and Yvonne for inviting me to guest pose there...For all of you who haven't heard yet, I got stuck in a shit load of traffic, then the navigation system shit the bed, but I made it there with little time to spare. As soon as I got there, I got rushed right into the pump up room, threw on my trunks and my boy Dominick's girl friend Joanna threw tan on me, and I ran onto the stage. It was a good time the crowd was great and getting into my routine, which is always good when the you can please the crowd. I also had a chance to talk with Victor Martinez and Kai Greene, both very nice and stand up guys. It was an honor to be guest posing with some of the top dogs in the sport. Just wanted to give a big thanks to all who were there, and my buddy Rae Galan for being a very supportive friend, one of my favorite guys. Rae is going to turn a lot of heads next year as a light heavy weight, you all can put that in stone. Thanks to all again, there will be pics and video footage of the posing on my site in the gallery in a few days...thanks for all your support....Stay Big, God Bless
Guy

INSPIRATION

I have to say, yesterday at the gym, I just finished legs, I was beat 13 sets of hard core leg training and then I had to do cardio for 35 minutes. I was tired, sore, and just wanted to go to bed. I went on the treadmill, hit all the buttons to get started and began walking. As I was about 5 minutes into cardio a man came into the gym, who had no use of his legs, came in on his crutches and was doing chest and triceps. I was on the treadmill and watching this guy crank out chest and tris, and you would think he was a regular meat head until he got up and hobbled around the gym on his crutches. This was so inspiring to me, you know I was on the treadmill and thinking, "When we think things are bad, someone always has it worse." I am complaining about doing legs and cardio when this man probably would die to be able to walk on a treadmill and do 5 sets of heavy ass squats. I was on that treadmill thinking about all I do in a day, cardio in the morning, work for 9 hours, then workout for an hour, then more cardio, then bed.....all I do doesn't compare to what that man who doesn't have use of his legs has to do in a day. So just remember one thing to you all out there, live each day as if it's your last, you never know when your day will come when your needed upstairs. Be happy to wake up, be happy to work, just be happy for living your life and make full use of the cards you were dealt in life, because you never know when your hand will fold.....God Bless, stay big, stay strong.....
Guy

INSIDE 7

Today is 10/2, and I'm inside 7 weeks from the biggest show of my life. My weight stabilized this week at 189, but with the increase in the cardio, I'm sure the weight will start coming off. It gets tough with my body to strip the last 10-12 lbs off due to the fact that my body is not a middle weight, I should be a light heavy wieght according to my nutritionist Palumbo. I would be too small of a LH at only 180 or so lbs so he kills me with cardio and no fats for the last few weeks, it sucks worse than anything I have ever done but the ending results is what matters. Life isn't always easy, if it was we all would be making a ton of money, and drive nice cars, and have perfect bodies. But it's not it's the determination and heart that separates the winners from the losers. Those willing to do that extra rep, or wake up at 6am to do cardio, those willing to eat the right things and not cheat, its those people that will end up victorious. I had a friend ask me this week what my definition of success was I said happiness, she replied with I agree but its setting the goal and achieving it which will make that person happy and have a feeling of accomplishment. That's how I feel when I walk off every stage, I walk off winner or loser I know there is nothing more I could have done.
This time around is even harder, I am used to the no carb diet, but there's a good chance I might need shoulder surgery after the Nationals. My workouts have been awesome with regards to my shoulder workouts and chest. I have trouble doing any pressing movements, it kills me. I am naturally a very strong kid, a lot of people have told me pound for pound I am the strongest kid they have ever met. But just wanted to give all my friends and fans a up to date on whats going on....
BE SURE TO COME TO BROOKLYN THIS SAT THE 6TH WHERE I WILL BE GUEST POSING, ALONG WITH VICTOR MARTINEZ AND KAI GREEN....WILL BE A GREAT TIME...HOPE TO SEE ALL YOU THERE...GOD BLESS
Guy