2010 Summer Body Tip 8
Get enough sleep. Your muscles recover and grow fastest when you are asleep. Specifically deep sleep is what you need most. During deep sleep blood flow decreases to the brain and redirects to the muscles , restoring physical energy. So you want to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night to maximize results. Also if you can a 30min nap during the day is also a very good idea.
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*good-bye* Daddy
One night a father put his three-year-old daughter to bed, told Her a story, sat and listened to her prayers, which she ended by saying: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma, and *goodbye* "Grandpa." Ah why yuh a say *good-bye* Grandpa'"fah? the father asked. "Mi noh know" the little girl said. The next day, Grandpa died. The man thought it was a strange coincidence. A few months later, he put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers, which went like this: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy And *good-bye* Grandma." The next day, the grandmother died! "Rahtid, thought the man, dis yah pickne can see inna de future." Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed, the man heard her say "God bless Mommy! and * good-bye* Daddy." The man practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous all day. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be OK He felt safe in the office, so he stayed until the end of the day, looking at his watch jumping at every sound. Finally, he went home and is wife asked... What happen?" "Mi no waan talk bout it," he said."Mi jus 'ave de worst day in ah mi life." "Yuh tink yuh had a bad day?" the wife exclaimed. "You'll neva believe wha happen' Dis mahnin', Desmond next door, drapp dead pan de verandah."
My Life
My life like everyone else's is filled with extreme highs and devastating lows
As they say who feels it knows
Never giving up the fight
One day I must take flight
Sometimes I'm only alive in my sleep
No matter what you never catch me weep
As along as the world spins around seeds I sow I must reap
Life
Life isn't a bed of roses...don't I know that all too well.
One of my best friends Santos Wainwright's son Jaiden has been in the hospital since Monday, however he is steadly improving thank God. They say God doesn't give us more than we can handle and if that's the case Saint is the strongest guy I know because he has been having to deal with one problem after another since the end of 2008. I'm praying this change for him in 2010 however it's not starting out very good.
Things have been up and down for me however they never get too bad. I'm still waiting on my start date for CCPD which I should get by next week. I'm very excited about that. I'm still waiting on my car...actually waiting on some paper work for it then I'll be good to go so I'm not worried. Next weekend I'll be going on the No Sleep Weekend Ski Trip with Marvin and Clint. Then next month I'll be going to South Beach for a week. Oh and the 22nd I find out the date for Oprah/Dr Oz.
I was speaking to someone who was saying that they don't trust anyone. I believe he who trust no one cannot be trusted and I have 8 close friends that I trust some of whom I consider brothers. I would trust Clint Reese and Jason Mills with my life and then the other 6 I trust are Santos Wainwright, Jason Nolasco, David Fajardo, Marvin Campbell, Richard Romero and Jason Marescie. Friends come and go but those 8 I'll forever hold on to.
Life isn't perfect but it's good.
The First Time
I think it's true what they say no one ever forgets their first time. In this case I'm talking about the first time you've had a serious workout. I remember mine like it was yesterday. It was 2 years ago when I started working out and trained arms for the first time. I couldn't sleep that night because I had to sleep with my arms straight because my biceps would hurt like hell if my arms bent. I would wake up in the middle of the night in pain because somehow my arm ended up in a slightly bent position. Man that was the best workout ever I was sore for almost a week. Every arm workout I chase that pain like a drug addict chasing his first high.
If you've never worked out intense before here is what to expect. I say intense because it is very possible to go to the gym and waste time, which I see quite a few people go to the gym and do. They never train as hard as they need to and as a result they see no result. Look at some of the people in the gym today and I guarantee a year from now some of them will look the same if not worst even though they go to the gym regularly. Now back on track, after an intense workout you will experience delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). DOMS is the pain or discomfort often felt 24 to 72 hours after exercising and subsides generally within 2 to 3 days. This is normal even though it may feel like you were hit by a truck. The only pain you should be concerned with is joint pain (however if you are doing plyometrics for the first time there might be slight joint pain after because of the heavy pounding, which is ok as long as it's not too much discomfort). If your muscles hurt after a workout you did your job.
If you've been working out and never experienced DOMS you should increase the intensity of your workout. You can increase exercise intensity by decreasing rest times, increasing the load, increasing the rep range or increasing the amount of sets.
Remember "pain is only weakness leaving the body" and chase or at least rember that first time you experienced DOMS.
Summer Body Tip 7
Take at least 1 rest day a week. If you train too much you run the risk of overtraining which is counter productive to what your trying to accomplish. Also Your body doesn't change while your awake, especially if your trying to build muscle. Your body grows while you sleep, so make sure you get at least 6 hours of rest each night.
