Its been a couple months since my last post and I have been doing my best to really get some good news to give you guys. As many of you know the offseason is a long challenging time when you battle against your own mind to keep motivated. Its easy to fall off track and stop eating all your meals, eat crappy food or even go for a drink or two without realizing you're really hindering your progress.
I have never been one of those people that has a tough time staying motivated, I see the task at hand and go for it. That being said I know my genetics have taken me as far as they are going to take me. Its time I step it up and really begin dotting all the I's and crossing all the T's.
I have spoken to Hany in the last couple days and we are going to be revamping my training and eating to really maximize what my body can do.
I will be training twice a day about four days a week, I will still be hitting legs twice a week in an effort to bring them up. As for food I am not sure how Hany is going to change things, it might be subtle but I know one things for sure. We have decided that we are going to treat the offseason just like the precontest. He is going to give me my diet and I am going to eat exactly what is on it without any additions or fillers and only he will decide when I can have a cheat and what that cheat will be. It really is giving him all the control and I think its the way it has to be if I am going to get to the top!
Okay, as for the last couple months this is what has been happening. My training reached a really good point where I was really moving some heavy weight. I have changed my form a little too, slowing things down a little with a less sloppy range of motion. I have noticed some new growth, mostly in my legs but a little everywhere else. I have added in ab work four times a week just to keep them tight and really carve them in. This is something I have never done in the past.
My diet recently has been great, I have been eating lots of food maybe more than ever before (most of it clean). The problem was I began to look at the scale a little too much more than the mirror and I ended up at about 295lbs but not with the look I wanted.
Now the bad news is bad. I have had knee problems as some of you know and I have had to stop squatting. I have really increased the volume in my leg press and hack squats so I think it is actually helping me grow. I have also been sick the last two weeks and have not been able to get into the gym except for here and there and it really has taken its toll on my look. I always believed it was better to miss the gym and get healthy than go train when you're sick, so I have been watching a lot of TV and still eating.
All of the things I have said so far are part of growing and becoming better in bodybuilding. Greatness and success do not come easily in this life and even with great genetics you have to do everything right, you have to give your blood, sweat and tears, you have to avoid all the pitfalls and if you fall you have to get up and keep moving, you have to sacrifice....
Sacrifice Without Regret,
Fouad 'Hoss' Abiad
5 comments:
Hey Fouad:
It's always good to read a post where you lay it on the line and say this is how it really is. Probably lots of us who read your blog know how tough it can be, even when you're at your level. So thanks for sharing. You will get healthy again and you your knees might even be a little more forgiving at some point so stay motivated.
There will be lots of buzz about you as you get ready for the upcoming season, hopefully you can plug into that energy and blast through the hard times.
Hey don't back down you still have support, people are still looking to you for greatness, you will deliver. Those knees will heal faster than you think. More power to you Hoss.
Hoss you still have people looking to you for greatness, it's not a matter of having greatness thrust upon you but manifesting it from inside. Your knees are going to heal much faster than you think. More power to you.
Keep it up Fouad! Knees can be very unforgiving as time passes, but you know, as you take the time to your reps with full range of motion with less weight, you give the tendons and joint itself time to recover, heal, and come back twice as strong as they used to be! I am walking proof of that, I can't wait for this upcoming season. Best of wishes.
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