A Weekend In Chicago...

Last weekend I had a chance to go to Chicago Illinois to visit my good friend Mike Liberatore. For those who have had their head in a cave the past few months Mike won the heavy weight class at the Nationals earning him his pro card. I went to Chicago for a job interview that I might take sometime in the late summer, it's still pending so I'm not sure what the out come would be. But I also had a chance to catch up and train with Mike whom I haven't seen since we were in Cali shortly after the Nationals. Mike weighed in at Nationals at a ripped 212 and when I arrived he was around 240's and climbing looking thick and hard. We both had a great time over the weekend we trained Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, at a variety of gyms within his area. We had a great time working out together and I met a ton of cool guys that Mike trains with on a regular basis. The weekend was pretty much filled with working out, going out to eat, and my job interview which I had on Friday afternoon. Mikes wife Trina is dieting for this up coming year and I'm sure she'll do great by the looks of things. Also a big shout out to Mike this month was his first month that his column was issued in MD, congrats bro!

As for other things, as soon as I got back to Jersey I caught the bug that's going around. I still was able to train but with having a bad head cold and being all congested it's hard to keep a good pace in the gym when you can't really catch your breath. I was going to take off the week, but I would go stir crazy if I didn't get to the gym. I was using fst-7 for the past 8 weeks, and now I have gone back to my traditional way of training hard and heavy, with a combo of straight sets, super sets, and giant sets, but I am still using fst-7 on certain days. I would like to become more of an instinctive person when it comes to my workouts, what I mean is that not be a schedule train what body part when I want depending on how I feel. For so long I have been on a strict regime of how I work out I think it might be good to switch up how I do things for a change. I'm not exactly sure of how I am going to break it down but I am in the process of figuring it out. My weight is staying around a good 210-212 which is fine for me right now I would like to stay at this weight for awhile before I try to increase everything to pack on some size before I start dieting again. A question I keep getting is when am I going to compete. The truth is when I am ready to or I feel my body is ready to compete again I will. I have gone balls to the wall since 2003 competing almost every year, and it's about time I give my body a rest from the torture of dieting and cardio and grow into my body. Only time will tell, but when I am ready I'm sure people will know.

This past weekend was a quite one, had a nice visit to my man Dr. Mike at Physical Synergy in CT. I try to make it there once a week to get worked on, he does his own method of ART and let me tell you it works, but the pain you go through while it's getting done is no joke. I went up there with two close friends Jenn and Kris who both got some work done on them, and Dr. Mike had all three of us moaning and groaning while he was working on us. At the end of the sessions you feel like a new person, he stretches the fascia out and releases a lot of the tight muscle fibers in the area he's working it feels great when your done.

I have gotten some emails regarding my blog and I am not trying to ignore my blog, but since I'm not dieting it's hard to write something every day, if there's something you guys would like to know or question you want answered in detail feel free to send me an email and I'll answer it in a blog on here. Or if there is something I haven't talked about that you want me to touch on let me know.
We were all put on earth for a reason and a purpose, stay true to your heart and never let anyone change what your creator has made.
GUY