Recent Posts by graig

a couple of take aways from the pics

1) whitacre's quad's riiiiiddiculous! wow!

2) Sean ACTUALLY took his shirt off, first time in 2 yrs...looking bigger too me!

3) lucas- looking strong and massive ...awesome!

4) craig - your an animal...i can see the size and progress change...great job.

5)jordan can actually grow facial hair!! he is truly reach a DEEP offseason :) facial hair is the first sign.

lucas- where you day dreaming in class again???

yeah that makes sense because if you think about it, if you get 300cho a day you'd have to eat 15 meals a day!!!

no realistic or productive..you'd be eating too much and too often to take into body fat. i think lucas will be studying the film now! LOL :) 

welcome aboard! looking forward to following your progress...feel free to shoot any questions out that you may have.

PS- i didn't see any pics posted? 

you are in a better spot than you think annette...joe will probably stabilize you for a while and not change anything major..you have a TON of time!

7-8 lbs is not a lot. your mind is right in think that you just need to listen to the plan and go from there. 

hey don't you worry about waist issue....it's a pain in the A$$ to find pants...trust me...anyone with a sub 29 inch waist will find it tough to fit their legs and butt into them..they are made for little girls....LOL. all my pants have to be a 32 waist just to get into them, and then it's belt time, thank god for belts.

on a serious note, i'm glad you find me a value around here, it is what keeps me going to tell you the truth. i'm sure you can relate, ever since i stepped away from the stage for good i feel a little lost....i go around wandering aimlessly looking for young eager and talented BBer's to help out and live vicariously through. i love this sport and always will. i feel as if i have a good amount of knowledge to pass on to the other competitors, esp the first timers....they are always so eager and hungry!! being apart of such a great group is amazing..i'm glad to be apart of the team 

MOT-i am excited to see your progress..you are very determined this contest season and your tenacity and attention to detail will NO doubt pay off! i predict that you will be ready early, and eating more food than ever going into peak week,resulting in your best EVER.....just my 2 cents! :) keep up the hard work.

WOW! that was cool to be nominated...i really appreciate it.

Joe- if we voted already, do we vote again for the finalists? 

annette- i tend to agree w/ mot and tori....seriously think about it. just check out the progress mot made this yr with a controlled calculated offseason. ask joe and nock the idea around. sometime we fall in love with being in show shape and want to shoot for it all the time and that is not realistic...but just think about it and let us know what you are thinking? all the best

graig 

Hi Shelli,

welcome aboard!  you definitely have come to the right place, everyone here will vouch for dr joe's abilities to make you your best ever. i took alook at your pics on MD from the Team U and you look great...it's going to be amazing to SEE how much better you get with joe....there is no doubt you will be your best ever!! trust me!

what are you plans now?? and what shows are you looking to do? 

VP- I can personally comment on Max OT training. it is a solid training program and i made some solid gains from it yr to yr. the positives that i took away from it was that it was progressive in nature, in that you always strived to do more reps or add more weight. therefore it made you push harder in the gym and thus get more results. It also did a half way decent job of emphasizing recovery. they recommend 1 body part trained per wk(you can train anywhere from 3 to 5 dys/wk depending on your choice), and 1 wk off of training every 8-12wks. the way i view it is that Max OT is similar to dr. joes power week, in which you focus more on compound exercises and always trying to lift more weight workout to workout. the HUGE difference is that joe's NLP factors in high intensity wks to hit failure and intensity in middle rep ranges, using more intensity techniques, supersets, drops, yo-yo etc. this also serves as active recovery because while it is high intensity, it doesn't take as long as to recover, for example if you were to do squats...that takes longer to recover from then say a drop set of leg ext. 

the bottomline i guess is to look into NLP...it's the best of both worlds..strength and intensity! 

just for everyone to read:

Hometown-Buffalo NY

Current-Chicago, IL

2011?!?! i am pretty sure i'll have grey hair by then..no.. i'm just kidding. i'm glad that you have things planned out and it is def the right decision. the toughest part is going to be keeping the intensity high over that long of a period of time. it is amazing to think how your life goals have changed..you went from a guy trying to lose weight and stay healthy, to doing a bbing comp..to totally changing your perspective and gunning for a masters pro card...truly amazing and inspirational....awesome!!... keep us posted...

 ps what's the wife think?

Lucas- did you hear that!! two for one hip reduction...you can't beat that, have JC sign you up and you two can recover togther and talk about you cho intake....it'll be a blast :)

in all seriousness, i can't wait to see that video of jordan posing....lucas do you have that posted or somewhere i could view it?