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Its time to lose that old belly fat. Man its the only place on my body that has a layer of fat – and I can do 1000 ab crunches straight. So much for spot reduction. What does work for me very quickly is long slow low intensity running. But after a week or two I get burned out.

This time I am swopping things around to try and avoid that burnout. I’m doing 20 minutes on the rower then 20 minutes on the … well I forgot the name for this machine but its just like a bicycle but you use your arms and hands not your legs, while standing. Then the rower for another 20 if i feel like it.

So this is upper body aerobics. In between these days I do weights and I will throw some running days in there too when the weather fines up. The problem for us weightlifters is that running gets dull – and like I said you get overtrained.

So I may experiment with some other stuff like hiking outdoors, playing squash and swimming.
I have to lose this belly fat, but I dont want to diet and lose muscle.

Hi folks, as some of you may know I have worked out consistently for twenty three years.
Thats more than half my life as I’m 39. I have trained nearly every week of those 23 years except when I am ill or when I have a deliberate lay off.

In this video I discuss the two simple factors that determine just how long most people last as athletes and fitness enthusiasts. It only a simple video but I hope you get the message.

Hey man I just made a youtube vid explaining where I get my cheap supplements from.

Check it out…

It doesn’t happen often but yesterday I was doing some construction work and stood on a nail. It went deep into my foot and got swollen later in the day. So today I can barely walk – I hobbled to the hospital and got it checked out… X-rays, Tetanus shot, antibiotics and crutches.

What a drag, so now I cant do any leg work for at least a week or so. I cant even put my shoe on actually. What I

CAN DO

is bench press, all sitting dumbell stuff, my abs, the rowing machine and a whole lot more. So even though I am hobbling around on crutches for a few days – that wont stop me from weight training.

Really I just have to watch out that it doesn’t get infected.

This will freak you out. This guy Gregg Valentino was juiced up and grew the world’s biggest arms.
Then they got infected and nearly killed the dude.

I’m glad I dont use steroids. No need to you can get big anyway (who wants cancer and heart disease) not me.

How many of you folks have heard of Clarence Bass. This old guy is 70 and has been pumping iron since he was about 15 years old. Clarence has written several best sellers on bodybuilding and on getting ripped in particular. Here’s a link to Clarence’s website http://cbass.com/.

Now despite the fact that I respect this guy and I want to be fit like him when I am 70 I still haven’t read his darn books. Well I better get some copies real soon and give you guys a review.

There are a number of articles and FAQ’s plus some excellent products on his website.

I really do need to work on my midsection now I am 39 and have allways been aware that 40 is a turning point as at this age you have to put more into the aerobics to protect your future health.

The belly fat is another issue at middle age. Its crucial to lose it and thats why I need clarence’s books. To motivate me to burn my abdominal fat away forever.

Hey I stuck a bunch of my bodybuilding illustrations of flickr last night.
Heres the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/freefitnessguru/

I’m having a long run to the beach today. Hopefully this will burn some fat off my guts.

This is the view where i run. Its kind of along a very long flat esplanade. Its a very beautifull view on a summers day.

That big cone shaped island is an extinct volcano called rangitoto island. There are about 40 volcanoes all around auckland city. One day I’m gunna catch a ferry over and hike up the volcano.

I stuck a second video up on youtube about my first ebook. This goes into the poser software a bit more.

Yeah man its nearly ready. This is my first free ebook for the BodyBuilding community.
Basically its a muscle anatomy manual with a bunch of weight exercises in it. I will release the first edition when it gets to 50 pages or so. This will be in about 2 weeks but later editions will be much bigger !!!

Anyway if you have a bodybuilding or fitness site you can make heaps of cash by giving these away too. I will embed your affiliate links into the ebook along with my own. So you get some hot content to distribute for free and everybody gets a cool ebook for free.

Check out my video.

Here are my Physique Pictures

Its not perfect as you can see. In fact there are two major things wrong with my bod.

1. My arms are too small for the rest of my body. All the rest has the proper bodybuilding proportions.

2. I’m a bit fat. I am smooth, my abs dont show and I have a bit of a pot gut from stuffing my face.

Positives –

I lose fat fast when I do aerobics (but I get overtrained).

I’m pretty strong and reckon I can gain strength from where I’m at now pretty fast.

I am in good general health.

My legs are lean and well developed proportionately.

I can do 1000 crunches easy. I bench more than my body weight easily.

Goals –

At present I am usually between 220 and 230 lbs at 5 ft 11 in. Steroid free for life.

I’d like to gain a couple of stone, get rid of the fat and enlarge my arms proportionately.
I’d like to increase over all size, strength and lean mass up to about 260 lbs.

At present I train 3-4 times per week. Splitting upper and lower body.
My workouts are 45 minutes and heavy. I do about 12 -16 sets per workout and some warmup.

My aerobics efforts are sporadic at best. I only run when its sunny and do about 45 minutes to
an hour on the rowing machine each week in total.