Legs and Arms Workout 2 Weeks Out Vancouver Open

I have been asked fairly often to post more training videos especially when I am in Contest Prep, it can be hard as I am in there doing my best to get the job done and capturing videos does break up the workout a bit. My Insta360 GO2 camera does make it a bit easier to get those quick videos and so here you are... a rare Leg and Arms Training Day. I show only one set of each exercise that I did. For Legs I always hit a compound exercise like a press or squat or the likes and then I add in some extensions and curls, generally about 6 sets of each. For Arms I just pick one exercise and crush it with around 6 or so sets.

Keep in mind I do a similar Legs and Arms workout a total of 3 times per week, just like when I do Chest, Back, Shoulders and Calves. Abs and/or core is always added in at the end of every workout.

55 Years Old Post Open Heart Surgery 2 Weeks Out

Here we are two weeks out form the Vancouver Open, the time is really flying by fast and we are getting really close now. Only two more weeks to get in peak shape and right now I feel I am on track and where I want to be. I know being the biggest version of me is not going to happen but I do feel like I will come in perhaps as conditioned if not maybe even more conditioned than I have ever been and that is not an easy task as there have been a few shows where I nailed my conditioning so that is a hard bar to beat but I will try nonetheless.

Any way, you be the judge as it gets harder and harder to be objective the closer I get to the contest, as the cutting game does begin to play with ones mind and skew reality just a bit. I still have some work to do and I am looking forward to the final results.

One of my Favorite Contest Prep Dinners

This will be short... I wanted to share with everyone one of my favorite go-to contest prep dinners that I enjoy any time for that matter! But since it is a really high protein, low fat and low carb meal it works really well during a contest prep hitting my macros really well.

All you need is some halibut as your main protein source or some other white fish, some veggies like broccoli, onions, peppers or a salad to go with it. And for the add-ons I like to use some salsa and parmesan cheese as a topper.

Can You Really Trust Your Fitness Tech Devices?

I for one love a tech device that can help provide me with valuable information relating to my health and fitness. Info like how many calories I am burning, how many steps am I taking, how many active minutes am I achieving daily, how many miles am I walking and of course then there is the food tech devices and apps that help us track our food and macros so we can figure out exactly what we need to consume to balance our health and fitness activity goals.

The question is, should we really be trusting these fitness tech devices to be accurate and are they perhaps giving us too much or too little confidence in dialing in exactly what we need to do to balance everything health and fitness related.

In this walk and talk video I explain some of the shortcomings certain fitness tech devices have that can skew a reading and make you believe you are on or off track when in fact the info may not be accurate due to limitations of the fitness tech devices.

Getting it Done in the Gym - Vancouver Open / Pro Am 2024

I often get requests to make more Workout Videos or at least some video of me in the gym doing my thing. Usually when I am at the gym I just want to focus on the workout and so setting up and recording video can be a distraction so I rarely record my workouts.

I do have a very convenient camera for the task. My Insta360 GO2 and with its magnet case and built in mini tripod, I can fairly easily set it up almost anywhere which is what I did for this workout video. It actually was not too much of a distraction, so I will make the effort moving forward with this contest prep to get some more workout videos recorded for everyone. Not too many as they do get kind of repetitive after a while...

In this workout I recorded one set of the main exercises I performed starting with chest using the bench machine (also hit my lagging calf with it), then I moved on to back with some cable rows, followed by a mix of shoulder accessory work, I then finished up with some barbell shrugs and cable ab work.