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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Get Dem Big with Big Plans

What's up guys!!

 I'm going to touch on Big Plans particularly to Gem Dem Big.


Believe it or not we have plans for everything, life, money, partners, friends, career and the other nine yards. Unfortunately, to get in shape and healthy you'll need a plan also; Fortunately the PLAN to get in shape and healthy is or it should be a simple plan. Life is complicated enough with us living other people's plan or your other plans going to the dump.  Speaking of plans, nowadays if you're young, still figuring out what you want to do and you go up to someone saying you have NO plans. This would be their reaction man.
No future plans??!! You're about to cross some fuckin' lines



So, I'm going to give you the simplest plan for your complicated life to get in shape and be healthy.

Here are 3 things that you need to plan for yourself.

1) Plan your workout time. Come one, 45mins to 1 hour a day is only 5% of your day. You can definitely hit the gym or get your ass down to a home workout. Simplest thing, start walking for 20 minutes every single day or start with 10 pushups everyday. Small daily improvements will lead to long term results. I have my proper workouts 3 times a week about an hour every session.


2) Plan your workouts. Alright when you're in the gym, you'd really want to optimize your whatever time you have allocated in the gym. Go in, hit it hard and leave. Keep the rest time short too. I still remember that 1 semester in school, Mondays training which focuses on my back and core strength.. My class ends at 3.00pm, I head to the gym at 4.45 pm because the gym opens at 5pm. I leave that place at 6.15 on the dot. Why? Because I planned out what I wanted to do and I had my trials and errors to figure out what's best for me and I optimized it. So, as an example of what I did. 

6 sets of 10s: Deadlift, Seated V-bar cable rows and Lat pulldowns . Back to back on all this bitches with absolutely no rest. After I complete all 3 of this shit. I counted to 30 and restart until I finished. After these shit I go on to other shit like my arms for example until I did my time or until it was 6.15 at least.

This is why planning your workouts is important because similarly we don't have all the time in the world to train. I  had some other shit i had to deal with at 7.00pm so I get my shit done! I did this for 6 months and I rarely miss my workout. In fact, i had this situation at every session. I only have an hour in the gym and that's about it. I went through it with a mindset of knowing what to hit before going to the gym.


3) Plan your food. Your diet is important when you're raining, you need the energy and calories to get you big. Based on what are your goals are. if you want to bulk then get yourself a shit load of food in you. Your food can be simple. It should consist of Carbs, protein and vegetables. Simple as that.. Here are some videos that has some good shit about your food intake and how you can prepare them ahead of time.
BULKING ON A BUDGET #4 - Jr. Bodybuilder Nick Wright - MEAL PREP 
or you can check this cool rendition from sixpackshortcuts Healthy Meal Time (Epic Meal Time Parody) 


From my experience, I live on campus, so I can't prepare my own food  What I did was go the food stalls before lunch hour, brought my Tupperwares because I am environmental friendly and bought my food. A whole days worth of food. I had 1 cup of white rice( coz I couldn't get brown rice), lots of veges and lots of meat. (any kind of meat) . I ate about 4 meals a day and I drink 2 shakes. I spend about RM15.00 a day for these kinda food everyday. I want to get big so no excuses.     

This is a sample of one of my meals



So here are my simple plans to get in shape and for my case I want to get big. Planing is important in every aspects of our lives. This includes fitness. Like it or nor if you want to get the body you always wanted, you need to plan so that you can optimize your time and potential. It doesn't have to be perfect, as long as you have a rough plan, DO IT! Of course it plans will blow up in your face! When that happens don't just abandon the plan! F**k your plans up. Make it do-able for you, improvise and adapt it to your life. Make it work for you!

 
Make sure this time you do it for yourself. You plan for yourself. You owe it to yourself!!

Paste this on your wall and keep all these in mind!!


With everything that is happening in your life, I dare say that these are the simplest plans and one of the best things you can plan for YOURSELF. NO EXCUSES


Get Dem Big with Big Plans


Sincerely 
Dom
#strength4good
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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Get Dem Big with DEADLIFTS

What's up people!!
Today we bring you a great exercise that will help u build a stronger body!!

We have the DEADLIFT!!

This is a killer exercise, it works your core, it works you legs, it works your shoulders, It will tear you apart(metaphorically and literally because if done wrong, you can snap some shit up!)
This is some tough shit! hope you're ready or this!

So the breakdown of the Deadlift




Type: Strength
Main Muscle Worked: Lower Back
Other Muscles: Calves, Forearms, Glutes, Hamstrings, Lats, Middle Back, Quadriceps, Traps
Equipment: Barbell
Mechanics Type: Compound
Level: Intermediate
Force: Pull

How to do it?!

you know what, the best way to learn this movement is by watching it! We'll hook you up with videos from youtube, what we think are the best explanation for the deadlift. 

First off we have one from Elliott Hulse  

 Awesome detailed explanation of the deadlift above by Elliott Hulse. 

If the ones above are a little to many for you, you can check out , Deadlift short explanation
This video covers all the basis of a deadlift in a very short video. 
Warning: from this video, you can see that he does not keep his head straight in this video, instead he looks up. 
Please keep your head straight during the entire movement, or you might break some shit up. Dont look at yourself in the mirror when u are performing a deadlift. 

Comment:

Personally the deadlift is my favourite exercise and the most effective exercise for strength gains. As you can see, it work all kinds of shit in your body. You want a strong, thick back?! Get you ass to the bars and do the deadlift. 
I always start my workout with deadlifts or power cleans (get back to that later). 

Here's what I do on my strength/back and leg day, (Mondays)
I start my deadlifts with 20kgs as my warm-ups (2 sets)
work set 1 : 40kg (2sets, 12 reps each)
work set 2 : 60kg (2sets, 10 reps   ")
work set 3 : 70kg (2sets, 7 reps      ")
work set 4 : 80kg (2sets of 5 reps   ")
work set 5: 90kg (2sets of 2 reps    ') This is my limit.
Then I go down the ladder with 1 set, till failure

After deadlifts I proceed to my workout
Pullups (4set till failure)
Barbell rows (4 sets of 10 reps)
V-bar Cable rows (4sets of 10 reps)
Leg Presses (6 sets of 10 reps)
3 position Calf raises (4 sets of 15 reps for each position)

Then, I'm done for the day

I've always participated in sports like Discus throw, javelin and the occasional hammer throws. After I started dead lifting, i feel like my back and my shoulders has more power. Especially when I do a spinning motion for discus throw, my lower back has more of a kick to it. 
 
Precautions:

1. Get the form down!!! Go with lighter weights when you first start dead lifting. Don't be a cocky dude with all kinds of snapped up shit.
2. Keep a neutral spine. What's a neutral spine?? Check this Awesome stuff with some pictures for you to see here
3. Don't round you back. It will injure your lower back.  KEEP YOUR SHOULDER BLADES TOGETHER and maintain THORACIC EXTENSION !!
4. If you have back issues, then don't do this exercise. We will not be held liable if you snap some shit up.



Sincerely
Dom



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