Let me ask you a question and I would love an answer commented below.

What is your training goal?

BE SPECIFIC, what is it?

Do you have one?

Is it vague?

Saying something like “My Goal is To Workout More” isn’t a goal, or even better I hear this all the time “I want to lose weight”.

These are not goals, they are broad statements at best. To me that’s like saying your going to go to school to “Earn More Money”. It’s not going to work.

One thing we do in our Rippedin42 program is make it mandatory to set realistic, measurable, achievable TARGETED Goals.For example.

My goal when I finished this phase of Rippedin42 was to Weigh 176 lbs. This was one of my 4 goals that i had for myself. (the other 3 were Highest Level Plyo Box Jump, 90 lb Pull Ups, and a 315 bench, I got 3 of 4 goals, might try bench press monday)

Yesterday for my photos I weighed in 177. I was easily 176 after the photos.

The main reason I took a picture was to show below.

Here is my Facebook Post Stating My Goal from a few weeks ago in Kentucky (I had that number in my head weeks ago when I started)

I stated my goal and the exact end in mind.

Here is me on the scales weighing 177 lb.

My point for this is to show that in order to be successful at anything you need a SPECIFIC MEASURABLE GOAL. Which is why this is mandatory in our Rippedin42 Program.

When was the last time you had a exact specific goal?

Tomorrow we have over 80 Ripped In 42 Members both locally and online finishing their 42 Day Transformations. All of them had a goal, a plan, and weekly accountability to getting their goals.
No Goals = No Progress

Our Ripped In 42 Program is now open for local applications in St. John’s area more info at www.Rippedin42NL.com

Rippedin2 program can be done at home via Online at www.Rippedin42.com

Take our Rippedin42 Challenge, trust me it will be the BEST 42 Days Of Your Life.

“On The Day Of Victory, You Won’t Be Tired”

However it has been for good reason.  I have been insanely busy opening my new business “Heavyweights Fitness‘ which is a combination of my gym Heavyweights Training Center & my sports nutrition store Heavyweights Supplements.

More on this next week.

So aside from opening a whole new business, setting up the facility I have also been training my clients non stop.  With well over 100 clients I do my absolute best to train & teach them and help them attain their goals.  I am lucky to have great staff and the right people surrounding me.

One thing I have been doing as well is BUSTING MY BUTT training wise.  I decieded the last 6 weeks to really focus in on my own training and give it 100%.  I have some injuries that aren’t fun to deal with, and on top of an insane work load I said FU#K IT, time to focus on my training and see what I got left “In the basement” (Rocky Fans will get this).

Well here is an update of my training.

Today I hit my goal weight of 179 lbs (I am 5 7″), I have a photo shoot tomorrow with my head trainer Gill Whelan (you can check her blog at www.GillWhelanFitness.com).

So we have both been focused big time on reaching our goals, training our clients, and getting in THE BEST SHAPE possible.

I have hardly done any “BodyBuilding” workouts.  It has all been my Rippedin42 classes, circuits, interval training and some heavy lifting thrown in the mix.

Here are a few videos of me hitting some personal bests.

90 lb neutral grip pull ups

Me hitting a personal best on box jumps

And some glute ham raises for good measure

Oh lastly I got a nice big tattoo as a reward. It was my goal to be at MY BEST Shape for Oct 29th and to give my business everything I could. I said that “IF” I reached my goal I would reward myself a tattoo I have wanted for a long time.

Goal Accomplished, time for my reward

Remember, you ONLY LIVE ONCE! 

Make the best of the life you were given, there are NO excuses, and live like there is NO Tomorrow.

Memento Mori – Remember Your Mortality

My Physique Goal

So week 1 is in the books!

I will be doing a weekly update every Saturday about the program, my progress, my training, and what I am doing to maximize my fat loss!  Hopefully as I explain what I am doing you will learn from this!  Also by writing this down it causes me to be strict and really be on target with this!

Last week I weighed on Andy’s scales 197 (they are heavy scales I am sure lol), today I weighed in at 192.

That’s 5lbs lost in 1 week and I am very happy with that!

Keep in mind it is NOT 5lbs of FAT LOSS In one week as this is virtually impossible to do!

However my guess is that its about 2lbs of fat (which is great), and 3 lbs of glycogen & water.

Here’s the deal.  Usually for every 1lb of fat you lose you will lose 2-3 lbs of “other” weight.  This is not a science but it is how it works.  Basically your body holds a LOT of water and stored glycogen (pretty much stored carbohydrates in the muscles).  So when you lose weight you lose water and glycogen.

This is how someone can lose 7-10 lbs sometimes in a week on an atkins type low carbohydrate diet.  The big thing to always remember is that it isn’t all fat loss!  But in the big picture it adds up!

My training this week has been excellent.  Got in a lot of good classes at Bushido, the nights I couldn’t make class i did Warrior Built DVD at home.  I also hit in some extra light 30-45 min easy pace cardio sessions as i do enough HIT type cardio already.

My Nutrition (notice i will not use the word DIET), has been really sound all week and after the first 2 days virtually all cravings are gone!! Which is great!  My energy has been improved, concentration has improved, and overall just feel much better with the diet being really clean!

Even though I own Heavyweights I am not loading up on a ton of supplements.  Here is what I am using

• Myofusion
• NutraSea Fish Oil (And lots of it..bumping it to 20g a day soon)
• Opti Men Multi Vitamin
• Greens & Phytoberry
• Xtend (Can’t diet without Xtend)
• Jack3d (Amazing Pre Workout)

The biggest issue for me is usually late night eating.  I am a night person and love to eat!  However my nights have been reduced to the following

• Protein Pudding
• Jello (Fat free) with some low cal whip cream
• Steak/chicken with veggies
• Cottage Cheese (low fat), with some protein powder and a bit of yougurt (sounds nasty but tastes pretty good).

I am not a great cook so I will have to start getting more creative lol.

Overall the workouts are awesome, i feel great, I am Motivated like crazy to make some solid changes in the next 5 weeks!

We have a great group of people doing this and there is a real team effort.  It makes it a lot easier to stick to it knowing there are others doing this with me! Always get a partner or group to help with YOUR GOALS!

My goal for next Saturday is to be under 190 lb (Drop 2 lb).  Ifi can drop 2lb a week the next 5lb weeks I get to 180 lb which is my goal.

I have posted a older picture when I competed at a bodybuilding show and a picture of one of my idol’s Sean Sherk as both motivation and to have a TARGET for my Goal!  Without a goal or a set target you can’t move forward with the same intensity!

I would LOVE for anyone to post questions, feedback or anything here!  If you have fat loss questions, training, whatever they are post em here and I will do my best to help!!!

Keep an eye out Tuesday for a review of my favorite pre workout supplement JACK3d!