Movember - A Great Cause and Best Excuse to Grow Your Moustache

Looking for a great excuse to grow your Moustache while at the same time helping a great cause? Well it's that time of the year again where us Men, and perhaps a few Women get to grow out our Moustaches for the entire Month :)

Growing a Moustache is a great way to support Men's Health during the month of November but if you really want to help out than show some love by donating $5, $10, $20, or even more to this worthy cause. Your donation will go to help Men of all ages with issues like Prostate cancer, Testicular cancer, Mental health and suicide prevention.

You can doante directly on the Movember.com website or use my MoBro Page Here:

Why Am I Not Getting Any Bigger or Stronger?

Many of us struggle with hitting that dreaded strength plateau! If you're not familiar with what I am talking about, a body building or strength plateau is when it seems we are training just as hard as we always have been but are not seeing any more results? We are not getting stronger or we are not increasing the size of our muscles, usually strength and size go hand in hand.

This plateau effect does not generally happen to people who are new to weight lifting or body building since their muscles are in the early stages of their growth and strength gains and they have not gotten any where near to their genetic potential maximum. As a person weight lifts or body builds over time, and gets closer and closer to their genetic potential maximum strength and or size, their strength and size gains will progress slower and slower, eventually hitting a plateau. We will all experience the occasional short term plateau which is normal, what I am talking about here is that long term plateau that no matter what we seem to do, we just can not break through it.

In this YouTube Video I go over some of the most common mistake us long term and more experienced lifters may not be aware of. It's not how many days per week we workout that matters, or how many hours we are in the gym each day. Or even how much weight we are currently lifting. It all comes down to giving our bodies a reason to adapt and grow stronger and gain muscle. Doing the same thing over and over again after a while is simply not enough any more, you have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and push a little harder, try some new exercises and even change your entire program around if need be. Watch my YouTube video for more info on this subject.

GetFitOver40.com - October Update Video - DJI OSMO Mobile

This ones a short Update for October, I wanted to quickly test out my DJI OSMO Mobile in selfie tracking mode to see how well it tracked me while making this video. The DJI OSMO Mobile worked great but I accidentally had my iPhone 7's front facing camera set to 720p so the video quality is not as good as it could have been. Video quality aside the DJI OSMO Mobile did a fantastic job of keeping me in frame while I moved freely around the room, almost like having my own personal camera man at a fraction of the cost :)

I will be making a review video for the DJI OSMO Mobile at some point once I have played around with it for a while, keep in mind it will not be a full feature review but more so focused on what I find useful for my requirements.

Other topics I talk about in this October Update Video are my new workout program where I am hitting every muscle group every workout day. I have been doing this most weeks 5 days per week taking the weekend off. I can say I do not feel like I have lost any gains even though I did take some time off to go to Las Vegas and the fact that I usually train 6 days per week, there may even be some areas where I have progressed a little but it is still early on to know for sure.

I have even decided to trim my workouts down to 4 days per wee, so Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday with the weekend off still. I will still be hitting every muscle group every workout day so that means I hit everything 4 times per week. Keep in mind I do train at least 1.5 hours per workout so this is still about 6 hours per week of training and when I train it is very intensive with the focus on always progressive overloading.

I am hoping that at 4 days per week of training my life balance will be a bit better while still staying in relativelythe same shape, when I approach my next contest I will of course ramp up my workouts which should allow me to make some more gains prior to contest day.

Bumping into Dana White on Fremont Street Las Vegas Trip

 

Last week I went to Las Vegas with a group of friends to have some no kids fun with my wife Nicole and of course the rest of the gang. We stayed in the WorldMark Hotel on Boulevard Street just off the strip but with easy shuttle access to the strip.

We had a great time and spent most days at the WorldMark Resort enjoying the pool and lazy river with friends and a medley of assorted drinks... In the evenings we would then take the shuttle to the strip for food, shopping and fun! My Wife and I have a few favorite eats and we also like to drop by a Fat Tuesdays for our 32 ounce 190 Octane slushy with two shots of Everclear. I guarantee this combo will get any party started in no time!

I have to say the highlight of our trip was bumping into Dana White (The president of the UFC) on Fremont Street of all places. I had had my share of drinks which I think gave me some liquid courage, at least enough to go up and start a conversation with Dana. As it turned out Dana is super humble and cool and actually stuck around to talk with us for a while, Dana even came back after getting a slushy drink for some more conversation with the group. Thank you so much Dana for sharing your time with us crazy somewhat inebriated Canadians!

Train Everything Everyday Progress Update with Workout

I have been training every body part 5 days per week now for almost a month, well actually 3.5 weeks and I figured it was a good time to talk about how it is going so far. I plan to train this way for a good 2 months before I come to any solid conclusions but since I am near the midway point I can at least comment on how everything is going so far.

One of my big concern was overload on my body? Mainly in my joints an ligaments. I am not so worried about muscle soreness since I kind of like being a little soar anyway :) So far my joints are about the same as when I do traditional splits, most likely because at the end of the day I am breaking up about the same workload but with my train every day approach the workload is just spread out more evenly.

I do notice that after my 5th day of training I am pretty much beat and really need my 2 days off to recover. My workouts have been a little bit longer now that I am training every body part each day workouts but when I was doing split workouts I was also training 6 days per week so the workouts would be a little shorter.

In terms of strength and muscle gain which is one of the main goals in trying this approach out, it is a bit soon to really tell but I am making small incremental improvements but this may be simply a result of me getting to the new style of workload and order in which I am doing my exercises.

I will follow up again once I have 2 month under my belt and let you all know how this method of training works or doesn't work...