If I'm gonna be going to the gym everyday, trying to focus on my lifts and routines and have set goals I'm trying to achieve. Well then I got to be aware of what's going on in the kitchen. For a long time I had in my head and I just need to focus on low fat high protein low carb and that's all there was to it. Well that works for a little while I tried to bring my focus to just doing that but I wanted to be more aware of what was going on so I finally took the advice to some mentors that I know or other health and fitness guys and started keeping track of my macros. I found a really cool app that all you do is take a picture of the plate you're eating and the AI system sorts it all out counts the protein the carbs and the fats and charts it for you and you can keep track very easily what you're doing. And I found that it's making me be way more mindful throughout the day of exactly what I'm putting in my body and it just about a week's time I feel a lot better. I set my goals on there of what I'm trying to achieve and of course it uses some mathematical equation and I'm not exactly studied on but it calculates my height and weight and what my goals are and it sets out how much fats proteins and carbs that I need to achieve that. It made me aware of a couple different things that some days I was eating way too much fat more fat than I thought I was same with carbs and how I was falling short on my protein so all in all it just made me a lot more mindful of exactly how I was short-changing myself. The app is called calcountAI. And yeah I pay a little monthly fee for it but to me it's worth it.

It's always about trying something new . In weight lifting muscle confusion is a big deal or a simple routine switch up can keep things interesting. My son and I decided to switch it a bit Tonite. It was actually over the weekend that we talked about maybe doing something a little different to try to maybe Kickstart our bodies or try to maybe for some muscle growth there's a hundred different ways to work out. For example there's push-pull routines there's upper body lower body routines and then there is what I call standard routine where you do one muscle group per day every day of the week do you work out like I've promoted in the classroom I call that to try to true method because well it's tried out true method for the obvious reasons,it works . I am planning on going through some of this stuff in the classroom but switching it up tonight and for the next couple weeks should be interesting and should get my body something new and refreshing. My son and I decided to go ahead and try the upper body lower body technique in which we decided on Monday we will do upper body today we did shoulders and chest, Tuesday we're going to do legs in court, Wednesday we're going to do traps and arms which are bicep and tricep and then Thursday and Friday back to doing upper body on Thursday and lower body on Friday. The schedule helps us hit all muscle groups a couple different times a week. And from what I've studied and read upon it should help us grow.

I respond best to structured plans. Every week I know what I'm doing m,t,w,th,f so when that day comes there is no guess work just planned regiment. M-chest T-shoulders/arms W-back TH-legs F-weekly recap, full body pump. Lifting like this keeps your workout schedule on point and gives you the opportunity to research and find different workouts for each muscle group. You want to have your compound lifts followed by technical lifts. This will keep the gainz coming+

If you are unhappy about how things are going or you feel like things could be better but don't know exactly what to do . Put things in perspective and start with fitness goals. I think for most the concept or even the want can confusing. It might seem that every fitness buff is looking for the extreme of getting massive or getting that 6 pack. These are great goals but they don't have to be your goals. Start with a realistic type plan of just the wanting to feel better. Commit to walking out your front door and putting one foot in front of the other 3 days a week for 30 minutes a day and just start somewhere. I promise you will not regret and rather you know it then or not. Its the beginning of changing your life. If its not going to cause a financial strain, find a gym that has a low monthly fee and walk thru those doors. . . The beginner might not realize but the fitness buff was a beginner to at one point, then they fell in love with how it all made them feel and the health benefits attached and refused to stop because after someone works out long enough they wake up one morning and feel great.

Sometimes I feel like I have a lot of lost time I need to make up for. Specifically time with my kids. I unfortunately did a couple stents in prison and it took precious time away that I could of been spending with my family. That's a story for another time. I bring that up because my favorite time of the day now is when I get to go lift with my son. He is 17 yrs old and he is my lifting partner. The time we get now lifting 10 fold makes up for that lost time. I don't know if you know this but you really get to know someone working out with them every day. I wouldn't give that time up for the world. That is yet another way the gym has improved my life.