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Name: Aaron Fisher
Before: May 15, 2007
After: April 25, 2008
I started lifting simply to get back into lifting. It had always been something I enjoyed since my high school weight training days for football. Our programs were geared towards strength and we never implemented nutrition into the equation. So when I started back up again in February 2007, I did what I knew and that was to get high strength gains fast and I ate whatever I wanted. Then I read a quote that kind of flipped a switch for me, "Bodybuilding is 70% nutrition." I realized that it didn't matter how much I lifted if I was covering up all my progress with 100+ lbs of flab. After that switch was flipped in my head, I lost on average around 4-5 lbs a week steadily with the help of lifting, cardio and most important a diet I could follow.
  Click Image To Enlarge.Aaron Fisher's Progress.
With the help of www.bodybuilding.com and all of the charting functions on my BodySpace account, I was able to chart all of my stats which for me was a big motivator. I loved watching those numbers slowly go down every month.
  Click Image To Enlarge.I Couldn't Wait For The Next Month To Roll By.
After I caught my breath and we had a chance to talk about the run, Richard asked me if I had considered doing a triathlon in the spring of 08. Something that had never crossed my mind, suddenly had me hooked. After that, I started incorporating running and swimming into my already established biking.
 Click Image To Enlarge.I Began Training For A Triathalon.
Now at this point I've changed my diet to more of a maintenance diet and am focusing hard on swimming, biking, and running. My summer is booked with triathlons and duathlons and I'm not looking back. Food doesn't rule my life anymore. I realize that food is fuel and nothing more, the body is a machine and if you put junk in, you get junk results.
From a bench/squat rack and dumbbells, I can do a wide variety of lifts, which I frequently change around and shuffle as I want to improve on different things. For my weight loss phase I focused on about an hour of doing 3 sets of 12+ reps on a certain muscle group eat day. The first set to 10-12 reps and the last 2 sets to failure and then partial reps past that.
As hard as it is to imagine, I found it difficult to eat that often. It goes against what people have been raised doing. Most eat lunch and a big dinner, which slows your body's metabolism. Keep everything sped up and eat small portions, more often.
Also, an MP3 player can take away the boring spells and keep your mind miles away and it allows me to keep on picking those feet up and putting them down.
I may not be the best example as my diet probably doesn't fit into what most people will stick too. I have a fairly addictive personality which lends nicely to doing things in excess. Which can be nice in sticking to diets that aren't that appealing.
10:00 AM: 12:00 PM: 3:00 PM: Dinner: After Workout:
My carb intake for an entire week would usually be less than what most people will eat at one sitting. Cutting carbs may not work for some people very well as it is very restrictive on things that we all love to eat like pasta, bread, fruits and veggies, and well most anything that is fun to eat. But eating is just like gassin' up your car, you're fueling up for the day. You wouldn't go to the gas station and fill your car up with gas and just continue to pump the gas onto the ground. So why would you over-fuel you're body? I never watched the fat intake or calories while I was dieting. Just the carbs got counted. I tried to stay under 5-6 for a meal. 0 was best. Since I was cutting out the carbs, to stay fuelled up I ate more protein. Without carbs, the body goes for fat and protein for fuel. I want to have as much protein in my diet to sustain muscle growth and still be able to function. So most of the time I ate meat instead of other low or no carb foods.
After I had switched from my high strength gain phase, I wanted something that burned fat and gained muscle. I went from an all around workout, to one that focuses on one muscle group per workout and worked that one muscle group much farther than I would normally take those muscle fibers.
Thursday: Biceps
My training has gone through many changes as have I. Now my focus has been on triathlons. I now eat carbs and lifting has taken a backseat to cardio.
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