The last few years I have been working my way up a mountain trying to reach the fuckin top. Now that I have reached the top, I see that the mountain I was climbing was only a small hill at the base of something bigger. Only finding a new starting point at the bottom of something much larger. The path up this mountain is steep and only a few have come out on top. I am wide eyed and want to be the king of the mountain someday. Only time will tell, but it all starts here as I prepare for my first growth season as a pro. The House is going to step his game up for the '08 season.

During this growth season my ass is focusing on front to back thickness. I am also going to focus on my biceps and hams. So you could say I am going to be working on my whole body. People tell me that I am in the big leagues now, so I better bring my “A” game. Every time I hit the stage I want to say I brought my best package… What the hell is your excuse?

During this growth season I am going to try something different. I usually do a high volume workout, but this time around I am going to do fewer sets but with heavier weight. I am going to try this to see if it will help me grow more. This is totally different for me. I am doing this to try and add some size. In the past I did twenty plus sets for major muscle groups and twelve to sixteen sets for the small muscles groups. Now I am going to do sixteen sets for the bigger muscle groups and nine to twelve sets on small groups. Quality over quantity this year for The House.

For my reps I am going to keep it basic. For my core exercise I will do around four sets of eight reps, and for the other exercises I am going to do 3 sets of 12, 10, and 8. I still will try and find a weight where I will fail in this rep range. If I go over the reps then the weight was just to light.

I don't stop at a number that is in my head. I think this is one of the hardest things to do. It is so easy to set a number in your head and stop at that number. You must go until failure with form. My workout split is different this growth season also. I have always done a five day split, until now I am doing something way different. Here is how my split is going to look this year…

Day #1 Chest
Day #2 Back
Day #3 Off
Day #4 Shoulders
Day #5 Arms
Day #6 Off
Day #7 Chest
Day #8 Back
Day #9 Off
Day #10 Shoulders & Triceps
Day #11 Legs & Biceps
Day #12 Off Then Repeat

I am doing this split because I am not working my legs as hard as the rest of my body. This will give me more recovery time and energy to bring up my upper body. I am trying to even my body out more. It is a workout to focus more on the areas I need to grow and letting the other areas maintain their mass and only grow slightly. It is all about balance. Only time will tell bro. I have never tried to focus just on certain body parts as much as I am doing this growth season. You could say these are the Pro blueprints to The House. I hope the results are as good as the last set of plans.

With all this said the workout does not mean shit if you don't have some other key components like diet, supplements and rest. No one likes the word diet, but diet does not always have to be a diet to lose. Because right now I am dieting to gain weight, and it is all good.

A few things I did different this year is I ate cleaner in my rebound. I feel this real worked well. All I did was take what I was eating on my contest diet and eat more of that and added carbs with each meal. Doing this bounced me back fuckin sixty pounds on my rebound.

I did that for six weeks and then I gave myself two weeks to eat all the shit that I was craving when I was on my diet. That was a great two weeks but it got all my craving out of the way and even made me not want anything to do with that food for awhile. Now for the real deal the weight gain diet I am on now. I am eating clean five days a week and the other two days I eat what ever the hell I want. On my bulk clean days my meals go like this.

Meal #1 Twelve Egg Whites, Half Cup Oats
Meal #2 Real Gains And Some Fruit
Meal #3 16 Oz Of Beef, 1 Cup Of Greens
Meal #4 Sixty Gram Whey Shake, Half Cup Oats
Meal #5 16 Oz Of Chicken, 1 Cup Of Greens
Meal #6 Twelve Egg Whites And Some Peanut Butter

I try to eat every three hours and if at the end of the day all my meals are done I drink another shake to hold me over. Now the supplements I am rockin this growth season are as follows: good old numero uno--my Animal Pak in the a.m. with my first meal. With my second meal I slam my Animal flex so I don't feel old when I hit the iron later on in the day.

Before I train, around my fourth meal, I hit my Animal Test, Animal Pump, and Storm with BCAA Stack when I am working out. Now for my favorite supplement… My post workout candy, my Torrent. You got to love this stuff. I look forward to this drink after my workout. When my workout is getting ready to end all that get me through the last sets is knowing my Torrent is waiting for me. I also take Animal Nitro with my Torrent. Last I take my ZMA and NOX3 before I go to bed. This helps me get the rest I need to grow.

Which leads me to my next point, I am also trying to get more sleep. Sleep is one thing I lack the most. Since I get up early to work my day job, my sleep suffers. I am trying to get my tired ass to bed earlier so I can grow more. We all know you tear the muscle down in the gym and grow when you sleep.

All in all, this is going to be a tough path for me to take, but I am up for the climb and will reach the top. We will see how my climb starts in 08 when I hit the pro stage for the first time. I know I will have all the support I need from my family and my brothers in iron from Animal. I could not ask for better corner men. When it is all said and done we will own that mountain brothers, and take names on the way up.

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