Advices: Shoulders

Building 'A-Frame' Shoulders
Deltoid. That's what your shoulder is, a deltoid. Three deltoid's to be exact. The middle one inserts itself under your arm muscles and starts under the trapezius or traps, attached to your clavical. Developing your delts can be more important to looking good naked than other muslces depending on your personal tastes and individual body type. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Like I said, there are three deltoids, front, middle and back. I personally see the back deltoid as the most important muscle in my workout. The rear delt is the muscle that doesn't usually get any good miror time and so can be neglected or forgoten. Remember the rear delt is not your back, but a part of your shoulder. One's shoulders needs two qualities, it needs to have 'width' and needs to be 'thick'.

My shoulders slope forward instead of stick-out naturally to the side like many 'broad' guys. Therefore I will work the middle delt to stick out a bit with 'Arnold Presses' to increase the 'width' of my look (I also build my back and slim my waist to plus up that 'A-Frame' look).

There are two types of shoulder exercises (1) presses and (2) Straight arm raises. I do and have done a lot of presses, I mean to say, I've always done presses. Push-ups are presses! Push-ups work your front delts and incline push-ups work your middle delts. (e.g. clean and press, military press, machine press, push presses, standing lateral raise, seated side/front/bent-over raises, cable raises, et cetra).

I probably should have front loaded this, but the point is rear delts are my weak point. Being my weak point I front load rear delt exercises in my workout (the front point is pointing point...what?). I do this to get that 'thick' shoulder look from a side view. I do 'Lying Side Laterals' an exercise that Serge Nubret professed help him get his champion physic. (Lying Side Laterals can be done every day, like push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups).

Three Delts: I would say that shoulders are the most important muscle group to mentally focus on for three reasons.
1. everything else will work itself out - pecks/legs/back/biceps/triceps/blah blah blah-cepts - you got that.
2. shoulders are vital to Look Good Naked, they give shape and display your athleticism
3. shoulders are a literal weak point in people's body, therefore the more stregnth focused there will allow more weight and harder work elsewhere.

The third bullet leads me to my closing, which is a warning of how shoulders are worked. Many times the ol' rotator cup becomes injured and hinders work-outs. Don't become a victim!
-Work out with lower weight to avoid injury, which leads to...
-Do at least 4 sets (starting with less weight and more reps 10-15)
-Concentrate on full extention and muscle tention throughout the exercises

Nutrition: Food Epidemc!

Food has Got a Fever!

This is not good. An epidemic has struck food all over the world. This murderous fever is killing every kind of food, left and right they are dropping like flies. Populations across the globe continue to suffer.

That's right, a food fever. Nearly everyone has ran a fever before and however uncomfortable it is to run a high temperature it never killed. Besides, fever does not kill anyone, it is a bug or sickness that kills you, fever is just a symptom...right? Well, yes, it's true that most people do not die of fever and a fever is usually a symptom of having a 'bug', if someone runs too high of a fever, they can die from that symptom.

The morbid number 105

One Hundred and Five Degrees Fahrenheit is the magic number. If you have a fever above this magic number or are flirting with it (which happens when one has Red Scarlet Fever for example) please stop reading and rush to the hospital. Because at this temperature your brain may actually be cooked. Yes cooked to death by your own body! Crazy right?

When you heat food to 105 degrees or higher you kill it. Now, of course meat is already dead, but actual food, i.e. fruit, plants, seeds, veggies, you potentially kill it, if not damage it beyond repair, recovery or usefulness. Hence, Raw Food.

So far we have discussed:

-You are what you eat

-Fruit is 65% to 95% water

-Protein = Amino Acids

-Assimilation and Elimination

-Two types of fiber (soluble and insoluble = sponge)

-The word 'Raw' should be thought of as Totally Extreme!

-And now: When you cook food above 105 degrees for too long you kill it!

You dry up any water it had, you change the proteins and chemical make-up of the food, the heat destroys the fiber and now you are eating dead food. Numerous study's show how much more beneficial uncooked food is for your body.

I'm sorry to have been so harsh and scare you with such histrionic titles, however to Look Good Naked one has to be educated, which usually implies one must change their perspective. Here's to your health.

D-Dub: 13FEB09

We suck and have not worked out this week. I took TOMPAINE to the hospital for a cracked rib yesterday and his pain is holding us back from Looking Good Naked...well, at least feeling good naked. I'm sure we still look pretty good naked because we've kept our diet on track with a lot of dark leafy greens and at least 7 peices of fruit per day.

Please comment on "Nutrition" and "Advices" so we know what our readers are interested in, questions you might have, we will be glad to research and answer. More to come, thanks.

Nutrition: Totally EXTREME!!

RAW!
The word 'raw' sounds like some kind of wrestling event or a radical surfing term, in other words, 'raw' implies cool to me. However, when in reference to food I continue to get a different reaction all together from people. When I speak about eating raw food people squint and frown as if 'raw' has transformed into a bad thing opposed to the 'raw knuckles fist fighting, totally extreme'!

Where as I still imagine a hardcore "'RAW DIET'!! Tattoo it on your forehead! AHH"! Countless people I talk to have a conception of an unsustainable diet, a thin layer of food for a starving and weak person eating raw 'rabbit food'. "Why don't you 'man-up' and eat a cooked beef patty"? Why do people turn their back on the extreme word RAW at the most vital moment?

That is more of a rhetorical question, I could make up theories and blame our past generations or the history of cooking to killing germs or I could scold advertisers and marketing or more conspiratorial I could shake my finger at the lobbyists of dairy farmers who whisper to our government and FDA or finally place blame on the fairly ignorant field of nutrition, which compared to space exploration is microscopic in funding. Who knows the true answer, I'm sure it's different per individual.

But consider this: Parsley (probably rabbit food) contains
3x Vitamin C as oranges
2x Iron as spinach
Vitamin A
Calcium
Potassium
And many potent chemicals that freshen breath, help the kidneys clean your blood and is recognized for its cancer-fighting potential

However, once you cook it, you kill a lot of its properties, making easy for any sissy digestive system to digest. Only hard-core systems can digest RAW parsley!
O yea, it contains virtually no fat...Look Good Naked!

D-Dub: 09FEB09

Just went to the gym:
50 - Some walking lunges with 30lbs. dumbells above head
25 - Russian twists (ab work out like in Rocky IV)
35 - Pull-Ups (broken up)
Some leg raises
Some dips
3 sets of Arnold Shoulder Presses

Tompaine did four hours of MMA style training

D-DUB: 8FEB09

0800-1600 (8 hours)
Ass-kicking nonstop wrestling action while getting Level II Modern Army Combatives certified.

D-DUB: 07FEB2009

Daily Workout (Both of us)
Decline Bench: 3 sets 135# (8-12 reps)
Hamstring Curls: 2 sets 40#, (8-10 reps)
Pullups

TOMPAINE (all alone)
WOD: Fran
3 sets of (21-15-9 reps)
95# thrusters
Pullups

Added:
Incline bench leg raises: 3 sets, 10 reps

Nutrition: Lunch=Pizza, Ten pieces of fruit throughout the day, (Tompaine had an energy drink) and ABC Dashwood had a Green Smoothie after the work out...had too late in the day, 9pm ::shrug::)