competing put on quality muscle again slowly and effectively for my body . The whole time following the plan and trusting the process , but I didn ’ t and ultimately I sabotaged myself and fell on my face . So I retired , stopped going to the bodybuilding gym , I lost 80 pounds , stopped training with weights for 13 months . I still trained though , I did some MMA fights dominated that , and functional training . Sleds legs bags strongman and SAQ blended training ; I thought maybe I had been missing something in other areas of athletics and training . This was a deeply evolutionary process for my inner self . But was it my path for training ? No . These now made me look deeper , being more receptive as I was starting to learn . It took me those 13 months to recognize that I had to get back in the bodybuilding gym , my passion for training , and to be a better coach , the best coach I had to grow . Not physically only , ya get my build back . Most importantly I had to grow scientifically , psychologically , spiritually , emotionally and physically . I had to be living example of health longevity and educated discipline to truly be the best for myself and my clients , yes , but first myself .
This is who I was and it was mine to master , not only career but it was my therapy it was my passion , it was my happy place . I was aging faster now it seemed , those two years went by in the blink of an eye . Evolution with my aging was essential .
Did it happen overnight ? Of course not , I got back to training in the bodybuilding gym , I started to put weight back on , I got up to 260 lbs pretty fast . Too fast , this also clouded my judgement because here I was , still working with myself and I had blown up and gotten so strong so fast . Of course , I started training the same way that I had always trained when I was younger . So here ’ s the fun stuff , I suffered 4 serious injuries all within 2 years of each other , 32 years old to 33 years old . First , I tore the Sartorius in my left leg squatting stupid , heavy like I was used to without warming up properly as if I was still young and rubber . So then I healed , that didn ’ t stop me , I just had to try harder , push harder or so I thought , so then I tore my gracililus in my right leg eight weeks after my Sartorius injury .
Did I learn ? No , I healed and pushed on . EGO , EGO , EGO , I thought . Then tore my semimembranosus , after healing that a year later I tore my vastus lateralis IT band insertion . The whole time coming back , I didn ’ t check into the reality . Until the last injury , then I endeavoured on the spiritual journey and started reading , reading and reading . Losing the ego , observing the mind while not being connected to the pain of my past , trauma , the “ pain body ” no it is as time to stop letting the ego drive my decisions . I knew I was not evolving , not changing , just a progression of the same thing as before thinking that I was making improvements . Now 33 Years old I started to really change things . Starting with how I trained , approaching things from a much more tactical sense , volume and quality over weight , enhanced recovery with healing time , time off , periodization , D load week ’ s , still challenging the body with heavy weight training but relative to where I was in life and taking into consideration the injuries , that were no doubt because of my younger years and doing such heinous ridiculous things to myself .
All of it added up , all of it made me who I was at that time and proved that I needed to modify and evolve to overcome where I was . Nutrition and training for myself in a much more definitively controlled way using the weights as tools ultimately , generating the deepest connection between the minds of the muscle . Eating for recovery and performance no garbage cheat food , no junk food ever , anti-inflammatory healing and regenerative supplements , everything that I could use at the time and learn about and gain accreditation for its application to human biology and physiology . Yes , I went back to school for everything that I thought I already knew . I realized as I said before , I knew barely a drop in the bucket of what was to come . Also , due to my injury I started posing my legs constantly , posing my legs 3X / day and between every set on leg day , to get deeply connected with the muscles that I needed to be developed in priority , this greatly enhanced contraction and performance in the gym under weight-bearing load . My new mission was to apply every tactic that I could study and learn everything ; I could