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12 Week Champions!
I want to take the time to give a belated congratulations to my Gold's Gym 12 Week Challenge winners Michael Stewart, Jeff Kroll, and Steve Zivich! That's right; this year…
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Marcella Shoot Prep, Phase 3
The final pictures are coming in today, so without further delay I want to go into Marcella's final phase of photo shoot preparation! To recap a little: after Marcella's Phase…
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Derek’s Photo Shoot Prep Phase 3 – Derek
ANNOUNCEMENT: The final pictures will be released and posted shortly thereafter this Tuesday 5/18 so stay tuned! In the meantime I will describe Marcella and my 3rd phase of prep…
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Marcella Shoot Prep, Phase 2 – Derek
Great News! The final edited shots are starting to come in (behold one above), so I will be able to post them in all their glory soon. In the meantime,…
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Derek’s Shoot Prep, Phase 2 – Derek
I would now like to continue my series on our March barbarian photo shoot preparation by going into the second phase of my own program. Below is another unedited shot…
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Marcella’s Shoot Prep, Phase 1 – Derek
While I was busy eating to bulk up, Marcella's phases were geared quite differently. She has been making steady gains in strength and muscle size for the past year and…
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Derek’s Shoot Prep, Phase 1 – Derek
At long last, the shoot is complete! Not only that, but it was a great success and a lot of fun too. Above is a sample of how the pictures…
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Big Weights for Big Strong Muscles – Derek
I know not everyone reading this may see gaining muscle and strength as a top priority, but for those that do I wanted to outline some techniques that are a…
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New Weight Set!
I finished classes last week (yay), but have still found posting difficult, so I don't think I will be able to more than once or twice a week. For our…
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Try high reps for some good lean fun
The posting seems to have come a halt as life (school exams+work) has been busy lately, but with only one more week of classes things should slow down a bit…
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Weights, Nutrition, and Beer
The past week has been rather crazy. With school winding down, finding time to post has proven difficult. The same goes for working out, so my last 'official' workout was…
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Birthday Muscles
The strain of my birthday was such that I could not post until now. I have had a couple hurried mini workouts, but my last real one was on the…
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Moroccan Food and Relative Muscularity
For lunch we went to go to Cous Cous, and incidentally, if you live in RVA and get a Val-Pak in your mailbox every month, there will always be a…
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More big weights, and now on to something better
My final routine of this power phase is completed. I threw legs in with arms because the routine for them will remain the same until my knee feels 100%.…
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My Weight Loss So Far
Here's an interesting thing: even though I can't say I've really made any special effort to lose weight over the seven years that I've been vegan, I have lost a…
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More Great Workouts and Some Important Nutritional Observations
Two more workouts to list today. I am now in my power phase, so my workouts have been mostly me sitting around and once in a while lifting…
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Fried food makes my stomach hurt
We decided yesterday to get Vietnamese for lunch, at Mekong because they at least offer brown rice instead of white, and lots of vegan menu options (forgot to bring the…
Two workouts and a lot of food later…
I was too tired to post last night, so tonight without further ado I will put them up. Yesterday I managed to get both arms and shoulders in because I…
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Lions and Pizza and Pears, oh my!
Shoulders day is my very favorite workout day, something I never would have imagined. I used to have a lot of rotator cuff issues with my shoulders and couldn't extend…
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Hooray for Chest/Back Day!
My favorite day finally came around again today, and I also had slightly sore legs for the first time in ages. I had a cancellation this morning so I found…