Muscle confusion;

Every once in a while it is good to change up your workout routine and throw the muscles a "curve ball" by doing something either a little different or completely different within your training routine. Ted and i do this in many ways and one such example of this is our most recent training schedule. We are currently training one body part a day and we are training six days a week, leaving sunday as the day off to spend with our families. This enables us to concentrate on the muscle we are working and we can give the muscle a good "thrashing" by doing a few more sets for that body part without the chance of overtraining it. With only one body part a day, we are giving the muscle plenty of time to rest before we go at it again and this allows us to really work the muscles in that area as hard as we need to in order to promote growth.
Last year we were on a two body parts a day schedule, whereas, we trained a large body part, such as chest, with a small body part, such as triceps. Currently, we are on an upper lower schedule, by this i am referring to the days of the week and the body parts trained each day. Monday is back day and tuesday is hamstring day, and so on. Each day is alternated to make sure that the upper body is never trained twice on consecutive days, therefore allowing the upper body ample time to rest before we do any exercises requiring the upper torso. The lower body is treated in the exact same way.
We start the week with back and hamstrings due to the fact that that is where the judges mentioned to ted and glen at the show in july, is where ted needs the most improvements to be made. So we leave the beginning of the week for the weak body parts to hit them extremely hard after coming back from resting on sunday.
Winter is finally here and it is time to get back to the big weights and to pull out the sweatshirts from the closet and to begin the quest for inhuman size. So start eating wisely with a little junk, for those of you out to put on size this winter and hit the big weights! Can't you just hear those one hundred and fifty pound dumbells calling your name, they've missed you all summer and it's time to give them the attention they so rightly deserve!!!!!!!

The mediterranean Diet

The "mediterranean diet" is a general term used to describe the traditional dietary patterns of people living in the regions bordering the mediterranean sea. The cultures of these countries differ dramatically however one parallel is evident, they share the common characteristic of being a primarily plant based diet with olive oil as the principle source of fat. In these regions heart disease is low on the scale of terminal diseases and studies show that the reason for this may be the ingestion of olive oil.
There are also other common traits as well they are as follows;
-Olive oil is the principle form of fat and total daily fat intake generally ranges around 30% of calories daily.
-Salt is rarely added in large quantities
-Wine is moderately consumed with meals, primarily by men.Women often do not drink wine at all and alcohol is rarely consumed without food.
I am not one to promote any "fad diets" and i am aware that there is a fad diet published about the fore mentioned diet, however in this case i am merely pointing out some helpful as well as "healthful" dietary changes that could easily be made in anyone's everyday life and Be of benefit to this out of control garbage eating society.
For more tips about the non fad mediterranean diet go to www.bu.edu/nutrition.

Another picture;Pittsburgh 2006;

This is ted in a "most muscular" pose in black and white, taken immediateky following the weigh in for the show.

Pittsburgh Master's nationals picture;

As promised here is a picture of ted from the pittsburgh master's nationals competition. There are many more pictures to be posted, however, there was a small problem that we are currently working on, so the rest of the pictures are coming as soon as possible.
Ted is at approximately five percent bodyfat here, if not a little less than that. Weighing around two hundred and thirty pounds he was one of the smaller competitors in the superheavyweight division. The difference between him and the rest of the competitors in his class was conditioning. He was the best conditioned, meaning that he followed glen's diet extremely strictly and came in extremely striated and vascular, more so than anyone else in his class. The only shortfall is the fact that he needs to add some solid muscle to his frame and an even ten to fifteen pounds should do the trick. If ted goes into the next show in two thousand and eight that much heavier and maintains the condidioning pictured, i think he has a good chance of bringing home a pro-card! Regardless, we are going to train as hard as humanly possible and as usual leave no stone unturned and be ready for any competitior that shows up.Please stay tuned for more pictures.

Ted's pictures; Weeks before the show;

This is just a reminder as to what ted looked like before the day of the show and i will post the photos of the show within the next week, i think that you will be amazed at the changes that were made to his physique.