Lessons learned through the semester

I never thought that I would run a blog. I used to think they were kinda silly but I was introduced to many types of blogs through my mass communications classes at Texas State. Last semester I ran a Tumblr blog and I really enjoyed it. This semester in my Digital & Online Media course was the first time I had heard of WordPress. I love writing and it motivated me to continue writing when others comment and drop insight. I will try to make more room daily to attend to my WordPress since the summer brings more freedom. I have really enjoyed this experience! Time to take a test!

End of Semester Progress

April 8th 2013

Keeping Track of Ones Fitness Progress Through Photographs

Documenting photographs of your personal development as you continue to push for a better physique will help to increase ones motivation tremendously. Being able to actually see and recognize how your body is changing through all the various exercises allows you to see which type of exercises or set/rep combos best work to get the most progress. I have included a SLIDESHOW OF PROGRESS PHOTOS (click the caps!!)from about a year ago and the last three photos are recent photos from about a month ago. Hope you enjoy and start keeping track of your own progress through photographs.

Inception Directions Morning Smoothie.

Video inside a video describing how to make a morning smoothie I like to make before tests and after runs.

14oz of chicken breast from Harvest Farm

Post-Workout Nutrition
Last week I decided to go ahead and figure out exactly how much protein, fat and carbs I was getting with my post-workout meal. I only figured in the chicken breast for this and was actually very surprised. 93.6 grams of protein, 436 calories, and 3.6 grams of fat!

Looking for a Pre-Workout?

Looking for a Pre-Workout?

Thinking of experimenting with pre-workouts? My favorite is Assualt by Muscle Pharm

Before trying any supplement make sure to do your own research on the ingredients, some people are more sensitive to caffeine than others and most pre-workouts do have caffeine, but you can find some without it.

Sterling Nutrition: App Idea of mine.

So I thought, ‘how convenient to have an app that would organize recipes according to what they will do for our bodies after we intake all the nutrients. Being able to find recipes easily that would help you to bulk through high caloric, high protein meals or fat-burning recipes that have certain ingredients that ignite our fat stores would make it much easier to be able to reach your own personal goals. Whether trying to gain mass, burn fat, prepare for a contest, or any other goal one might have, the recipes would be here.

I build the app demos using a website that gives you free templates to experiment with ideas on how the app may look if one decided to follow through with your own ideas.

 

Changing breakfast up a bit today:

Whole wheat toast, eggs, bacon, cheese!

Whole wheat toast, eggs, bacon, cheese!

I dont really know what to call these, just felt like getting creative this morning.

So I sprayed a muffin pan with pam.

Used the opening to my shaker cup to cut out a circle of whole wheat bread to fit in the pan.

Baked two slices of bacon, (cut each slice in half) baking it makes it easy to wrap inside the toast.

Cracked an egg in each (just all it a breakfast muffin) yoke and all.

Sprinkled a bit of cheese and viola!

I baked mine at 400 for 15-20 minutes or however long till your satisfied that its cooked to your preference.

Pop those babies out and enjoy!

Late night attack on the Chest!

Tonight I did a quick but very effective chest workout for building a stronger foundation. Start with a weight that you can easily rep out for 30 reps, then rack the weight. Your next set you will increase the weight by 5 or 10lbs and do 20reps this time around. Continue to increase weight as your rep count goes from 30 to 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 2, and then go back to your original weight that you did for 30 reps and do a burnout set (rapid, in control reps until failure) be ready to be exhausted! I included 3X8 dumbell flies after completing the benching pyramid to end my chest workout for the night.

So I replied to a comment and one of my followers suggested I make it a separate post so here it is!

This is Nutrition heavy!

I never had any very concrete or reliable training so I had to teach myself and learn from trial and error. Each persons body is different in how it is affected by training and the types of foods you put in your body. I have a very high metabolism so I always ate a lot but when I really started to see a difference in muscle tone, size was when I began paying attention to what I was putting in my body. I used to eat anything I feel like eating without a care in the world and never gain fat, but I could also eat as much as I wanted and never gained weight. I finally decided to be more strict with my diet and this is when I really began my training I guess you could say. I developed the mindset that our body is a machine and a machine running on shitty fuel would never run the way a machine with premium fuel would. Why put sub-par food into your body and expect the type of results one would with a healthy diet. I started to avoid processed foods, especially anything with enriched white flour (human digestive tracts can’t completely digest white flour and it eventually finds its way to your pooch area). Breakfast I always have fruit and oatmeal, eggs/egg-whites and, depending on how hungry I am that morning i’ll ad some breakfast sausage and or whole wheat waffles. I have a huge appetite.
Lunch and dinner are always a different mix of meats and veggies.
Meats-wise, I tend to keep close to chicken, tilapia, salmon and lean ground beef, which I cook on my George Foreman grill. If your serious about getting bigger, healthier and making your life easier get a george foreman, they make cooking so easy and fast while cutting down tremendously on fat. My favorite foods to pair these with would be brown rice, asparagus, mushrooms, broccoli, and green beans but I often will have any sort of random veggie. The more your veggie cabinet looks like a rainbow the better. Obviously everyone gets cravings and want snacks throughout the day so if you like peanut butter then your good to go, I put peanut butter on everything: apples, graham crackers, whole wheat bread/tortillas, bananas.