Dallas Supershow, bloated pig, and more cardio

Well, off to the show I went on Thurs. Hecktic trying to get out of town and make sure all the bill were paid and the house was left in some order. Scott picked me up at the airport around 6 or so and we went to Sean's house(Bad Attitude Gym Owner). He was nice enough to let me stay at his house. Thanks Sean, I apprecaite all the hospitality. YOu are a great host.
We stayed up BSin for alittle while after s a nice salad(yes, I stuck to my program all weekend, no drinking, no fatty fun stuff) Hit the sack around 11 or so I think. 5am was the first shake time. I basically ate shakes all day long on Friday and Saturday to stay in line. Went back to bed for a hour ot two. Nobody gets up early in Sean's house so I enjoyed some TV and another two shakes before he finally got up. We left the burds and head to the gym which is in a indoor sports arena. Great set up with lot of equipment. I helped Scotty Scott with his Bash shirt and did some pump up stuff inbetween his sets. We were suppose to be set up at teh show at noon but it never works out with guys, lifting and moving equipment. Sean loaned out some equipment for the show. You know what happens when equipment is being moved, guys scatter and haul ass. So I jumped in and helped out. We finally got to the show adn got everything set just in time for the 530-830 preshow. More shakes and a salad and bed time around 1am. We had to be back at the show by 730am-830pm so we were up at(or I wa) at 530. We of couse had to reset the booth up but no biggie. Right on time for the people.
This was a great show all around. Got to see some big benchs and great lifting and met a ton great poeple.. Meanwhile this was a high carb day adn the only way to do this was rice cakes and waxize maize. After 3 or 4 meals of this, the roof of your mouth is tore up but at the time they were great becasue I had not had any real carbs in days. I don't really count the shakes as they were low carb adn onlyh piss you off. I thought this was a great idea but later it was not.
We finish the show early with a great turnout at out booth. People in and out all day long. WE celebrate(Scott and I) by going to Bone Daddy's This puts any Hooters adn most stirpclubs to shame. It basically a BBQ joint with alot of hot chicks running around just about naked. Not a bad one in the house. Of course I ge salad with alot of japeno peppers. Felt that one all the next day by the way.
Another 3 hour nap and that was about it. I had to get my cardio n since I did none Friday or Sat. So at 630 am I am off to 24hour fitness. I can't believe how people are in this joint on a Sunday at 630am. I get my two hours in on the Stepmill with noo one bothering me. I listen to one of the trainers making shit up about training to some suburb housewife. I am feeling good so I ignore the two who needed a room as it looked from my vantage. I then joined the masses downstairs for abs and pump up stuff for about 30 minutes. It's all I can take.
We get to the Airport and I almost miss my plane as they have overbooked it but they get me in and off to houston we go. This was fine but Houston to Cola is not so well. We all load up and are ready to go when they inform up there is a mecahnically difficulity. We are off loaded like cattle and put in the pen for holding. They get it fixed about 30 minutes later and we are off.
Got home with a million things to do and prep for the next day when I look down and my belly has expanded greatly. i am pissed with a week out from the show. WTF happened? Well, all the shakes and rice cakes and numerous diet cokes were all loaded with sodium and bloated like a stuffed pig.I am freaking out because I don't want to go on stge with everyting looking great but the most important part, my abs. I am stunned at what my body has done. Zero and very low carb, follwed by rice cakes and waxize maize have done the opposite of what i want. I feel like I have regressed 6 weeks.
So I am up ass early for two hour cardio on MOonday am, one hour in teh evening, lunge around the building(about 500-600 reps) and then a ab pump adn arm pump up. That is about fours hours of work. Stomach, slightly better but suck ass. i have the Old Lady get me a sauna suit for the next few days work.
Tues, I wake up at the usual 230am and off to the gym wrapped in my sauna suit adn still on zero carbs adn I mean zero, just talapia fish and salad with shitty home made honey mustard(mustard, water adn sweet adn low) for a first two our session. Broke out the sled for the first hour fifteen. About lap 5 or 6, I notice the pants have blown out completly and now i have on vinyl chaps. Good thing I put shorts on beforehand. After the sled, I lay in the floor for 5 miuntes and literally pass out for 5 minutes. i Get up adn finish the time on the bike barely peddaling for 35 more miuntes. I get done, my eyes were crossing and trying to shut. i get some fish adn green tea down. It takes some time but I kinda come back to life. I am gald my clients understand as i had to lay on the floor on a MMA mat and just direct from th floor as my eyes try to shut adn cross up.
I get done with them adn then suit up again, at leat the top part. The chaps aren't my style adn hit the starmaster for a eternity long 35 minutes then all I had left was 25 on the bike and was good till about 15 minutes in when m eyes crossed. Fight through it I do and get done. More fish and cleint training or self training today.
My bloatedness wnt down considerably so that eased my pain but i also just deciced it really doesn't matter if I go in bloated or not. Just go in and do what you can. There is always next time if I decide to do so which is not likely after 10 plus months of dieting adn cardio for 500 people. Will start the other stuff sone.I picked out some music that will work. Now, I just have to practice some. Can't wait for that, already get the best posing routines from my crew. They are trully enjoying the moment.

Wed, THur and off to Dallas for the SPud Inc. Booth and Europa Super Show

Wed action started with teh usual. My energy is so low and the fourth day of zero carb forced me inside as sledding is too much right now. Besides, I am not killing it now, just doing the time on the machines. Split the 2 hours on the Stepmill, Stairmaster, Rower and Bike
Wed pm- Beat up so bad i went ahead and diet some leg training early. -
Leg ext and leg curl 4 sets each-
Supersetted with Spud Inc Hanging Ab straps and ab pull downs 4 sets each-
Leg press 4 sets-
Close stance squat 4 sets worked up to 315x8-Pull ups 5 sets

Did 20 extra mins on the stairmaster with my client.
-Had to leave early as my eyes were closing right after training my clients. The guys had a easy night with no suit work so I felt okay cutting out early.-Went to bed at 8p and sleep like arock till 130am and then wide I awake I be. Went on it and did my 2 hours splitting them again, 60 min treadmill, 30 stepmill, 30 stairmaster. Then had the guilts because I will be in Dallas all weekend so I did another hour on the bike.

The show is going to be great. THere will be a big meet there too with cash on the line. Bad Attitude Gym is providing the equipment so I will help out as much as my 200lb body can give on no carbs. If you are there, stop by and see us at the SPud Inc. booth,we will have all our stuff there. If you can', sorry we missed you. We will have cash and carry so come on save some bucks on great equipment.

Monday and Tues

Monday cardio am-Stepmill 35mins, treadmill 25-pm cardio 35 treamill, 25 bike
-Pump up stuff Bench to one board 315x6x2,
-Dumbell incline 3x20-Rolling tricep with seated dumbell press 4x8 each supered-Standing rows to chest 4x8
-Spud Inc Hanging Ab straps and green band side twists 4 sets of each-Green band pushdowns and curls 3x20 each one.

Think that was it. Monday Night I took 1.5 ambien, 2 sleeping pillss and a xanax. Managed 3 hours of sleep and was wide awake at 230am. Went in and did Sled dragging for 1 hour 15 minutes and 30 minutes bike later on. Surprisingly, was good to go on the sled and bike.As I get closer to the finish line I always have to find another way to test myself. This week is no different. The finish line has been moved up to the 23rd so I have to get that last little bit of old man sag off before then. To do this, I am zero carbing for 5 days. The only carbs I am getting are from good fats-pb and almonds and fiborus carbs. Oh, I forgot about the Orbit gum it has like less then one but I chew like 8 pieces at at time. Today is day 3. Was great until 1pm and then started crashing. Made a mistake a drank a 7 hour energy and 2 meltdown pills. Exact opposite affect. Don't know if it's the lack of sleep or the carbs or both. Shoudl sleep great tomight though. Wishme luck

Weekend Training and whatnot

-Had the guilts knowing I am heading to Dallas this upcoming weekend for The Europa Super SHow. Spud Inc. will have a booth there with all our stuff on display. HAts, shirts, straps,etc. THere is aPL meet going on to so if you are there,stop by and see Spud Ultra Light. I would greatly appreaciate it!
-35mins stairmaster-
light upper speed to 305 with fat bar, 8x3-
Spud Inc Susupension strap push up 4x10 with hammer curls 4x10
-Lateral triple seted front ,side rear 4x8-
lower sumo 405x3x5-
GHR 3x8-Hack Squat 3x8DOne

We had Trey Brewer is this weekend. His promoter lives in town so I said wha the hell. He is one giant dude. Arms bigger then 3lb protein jugs and legs as big around as 300 Spud's waist. He was a super nice guy and we ahd a good time. He hit 500x6 pretty easy and then wore out my 150s for several sets of reps.HIs chick works for Gaspari and was hot but down to Earth. GOod day all around-

Determined t sleepSat night, I took a Ambien, 2.5 sleeping pills and a xanax. Slept like a10 hours. Got up at 6am and took off to do my cardio. Nothing special agian. I am letting the diet finish off the fat right now and easying up on the cardio,still 2 hours but nothing hard. -35 mins stepmill-25 rower-30 mins treadmill on 15% incline(have not done this in 10 years at at least)-Finished up with 20 on the bike.-Packed up for the show and went home to watch the clock every 2.5 hours to eat. Long days on low carb.

Wed all nighter and other stuff.

Wed-am stepmill 65minspm-45 mins stairmaster-Wasn't feeling any squatting or leg pressin or anything so I went outside and lunged aroung the building(probablly 500-600 reps) and did some ab stuff and called it a day.-Wed and thur nightGot home earlier for once and thought I would ge some extra sleep . I must have Chad Aiches syndrome becasue i laid in the bed for four hours of tossing and turning. Finally very pissed i got up at 230am and went to the gym. thought I would get the cardio out of the way. The only people out are partying or emptying the trash cans. O fsourse I freaked out the garbage truck driver as he cut the corner at 3am and found some idiot dragging a sled. I thought for sure he woudl call the cops and I would have to do a sobriety test while driving my sled around and around in a circle. It was very creappy the whole time as I kept hearing things or maybe I was just going nuts from zero sleep. i figured I would do the usual, not too hard but pull forwards for 4 or 5 laps and then a backwards drag to give my low back a rest. This was not the usual. Evertime I pulled forward for more then a 100 yards, I felt sick at my stomach and would have to bend over just to take the pressure off. Thought I would puke for awhile there but it never came. I did have to lay down on one lap on the asphalt for about 5 minutes to recover. I decided to go all backwasrds from then on out. It was a tough hour and half. I got to lay down in the tanning bed and doze off for 20 minutes and then i was good. Came back in the pm and got my stairmaster in for 30 more minutes. Whent home and took 2 adn half sleeping pills this time.Slept great
Friday-nothing special or hard 35 stepmill, 35 stairmaster, 25 bike. Didn't even break mcuh of sweat.
I want to thank everyone for all their compliment and good words of encouragement. It's always alittle better and helps keep up the focus during the hard times even though there are only three weeks left. Keep 'um coming people.

Monday Pump

I have to take a small break from the sled until my calves and hips recover.Two straight weeks was alittle much. Did 60 am Stepmill and 50pm Stepmill
Monday Pump-
The guys were doing heavy bench ing with chains and I had no gas for it plus it was suppose to be a deload week for them with a meet coming up in Sept. Dale was the only smart one and did some BS work with me.
-Dumbells to 100sx10x5 sets
-rear delt pec deck. Managed half the stack with both arms. Before my right arm was the only one that could do the whole stack 4 sets
-Standing rows with Long Ab Strap 4x10-quarter dips 4 sets.
-Standing Long ab strap pulldowns for 5x10 adn long ab strap side bends for 4 sets. Gotta bring those abs otu you know.

Wed Squat Crap and the usual

Wed
-Hour stepmill
-Mixed wide squats and BB narrow squats. Dids 3s and 5s up to 455 and for evey wide set I did a narrow set next door work up to 315x6x3 sets. It was fun adn actually the narrow BB squats felt better on my hips and legs then the wide stance ones. It was quite funny as every set that I did narrow, I felt all eyes on me in disgust as I did reps with my shorts off to show off my how thighs.
-Then RDLs for 4 or5 sets up to 315
-back raises and pullups supersetted of course.

Thur
-420am Stepmill 1 hour
-7am Stepmill 30 mins
-6pm Stepmill 27. mins, 38 second
This was a very bad mistake. I took Yohimbe and tryosine on a empty stomacnh as usual to help mobilize fat. I went at a very slow pace about half the normal and almost thoguht I was going to pass out. Of course this was a 100g carb day and my body finally shut down. I went pale and tried to hand on. i managed to get home thinking some food would help. I had a big salad and myusual 2 tablespoons of PB and a small portion of almonds. This did not help. I ate the rest of the PB(1/3)jar. This did not help. The old lady had animal cookies and I ate most of them and this did not help. I laid in the bed feeling very woozy and out of it and then started hicupping uncontrollablly. So off to the store I went, 2 ice cream sandwichs and half a pint of Ben and Jerry's Cookie dough brought me back to life. All I could think of was I was so depleted from 3 days of 100g or less of carbs and my body was shutting down and the cardio finally set it off. I still could not sleep and it was about 2 am so I remember Dave saying Xanax helps AOLt. I rummage through all the cabinets and fianlly get to the back and find some. Amen. I fall asleep immediately and wake up feeling alot better. I decide to skip cardio on Friday and lesson will not be forgotten. The strange part was I woke up even leaner then day before. I know crazy but that is what it is right now.

Sat
-Was going to take the dayoff here too but the guilts got to me and I did 6 slow laps with the sled and then did a 30 minute circuit of ab wheel, hanging abs with the new Spud Inc. ab straps(Elite has them now.), and dumbell sides. then sets of 50 on the bench and barbell curls, and finally 3 sets of 50 each on leg ext and leg curls.
-We then had a booth a a local strongman competition where I got nice and burnt to make my arm veins stick out more.

Sunday
-Six hard laps that took forever of sled dragging at 745 am.