Hey guys, so admittedly it has been awhile since my last post but frankly I have been: to a wedding, working a steady job and managing to be consistent with my gym sessions and as such had little choice in the matter. That being said, my current weight is 206lbs and I am expecting to break through the 205 milestone this week, embarking on the last stretch to 200lbs. This is a massive milestone for myself because I very distinctly remember that  in the summer before I began the sixth grade, I weighed in at 200lbs. Getting beneath this weight will add yet another monolith of inspiration that will prevent myself from quitting the gym.

But enough about myself, at the request of David Hass, today this blog will be hosting content that I have not created and is completely of David's doing. The following writeup should serve as a reinforcing of the many positive benefits of training one's person.

Healing Exercises for People with Cancer
Patients who are undergoing treatment for mesothelioma and other forms of cancer can greatly benefit by staying physically active. The American Association for Cancer Research conducted a study, which found that regular exercise increases a cancer patient’s chances of survival.
Studies have found that regular physical activity reduces pain, thrombosis, fatigue, neuropathy, and emotional stress. Another benefit is that it improves the overall quality of life for cancer patients.
Consult a Physician
If you are currently receiving treatment for cancer, talk with your physician before starting any fitness routine. Your physician can tell you which exercises will be the most beneficial and which exercises should be avoided. This is very important because certain exercises can be dangerous.
Certain cancer treatments, such chemotherapy and radiation, can cause undesirable side effects. If experiencing nausea or pain, get those discomforts treated first. Your physician may also prescribe medication to help you feel better.  
Fitness Safety Tips
Exercise can help cancer patients, but only if done properly. According to the American Cancer Society, patients who have low blood counts should avoid rigorous exercises. All cancer patients should avoid uneven surfaces and should not do too many weight bearing exercises due to the risk of falling. Falling can be especially dangerous for patients who are taking blood thinners as complications could arise.
Stretching
Stretching is definitely recommended for cancer patients. These exercises are simple and ideal for people who are not yet ready for more strenuous routines. Increasing flexibility can help cancer patients maintain their motility.
Aerobic Workouts
Aerobic exercises can help patients feel better while they are undergoing treatment. Activities may include biking, brisk walking, and dancing. Intense or moderate activities can all help in a patient’s fight against cancer. These activities also shed excess weight and increase lean muscle mass.
Weight Lifting
Lifting weights can help cancer patients increase their muscle mass. This is very important, since many cancer patients lose some muscle, and gain fat during treatment. It also helps increase bone density. This is another major benefit for people who have cancer, because many patients lose a significant amount of bone density from undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
Balancing Exercises
Certain medications can impair a patient’s balance and result in falling becoming a major concern for many. The bone loss they experience from chemotherapy can increase the risk for bone breaks and fractures. One balancing exercise involves walking with one foot directly in front of another. Pretend like you are walking on a tightrope. Another way to improve balance is to stand on one leg for 60 seconds and then switch to the other leg.

Such is the end of David's lovely article, anyone desiring to read more articles of such quality should definitly make their way over to his blog.

Milestone reached

Well a few updates are in order today. First off, when I weighed myself the morning after writing my last post and realized that I was actually 213lbs. That was pretty surprising because I allowed my diet to go to shit and essentially my weight training was enough to not only stabilize my weight, but slightly decrease it. So, I hauled out my incredibly bro-scientific thought process and started the week off with a day of very controlled eating that was essentially this:

Food/quantity                                          Time                        Calories
170 g Black berries                                  6:30                                  73
6 egg whites                                             9:00                                103
orange                                                     11:30                                  62
sandwich and a parfait of sorts                 2:00                       341&332
Banana                                                    4:00                                  200
a few spoonfuls of hamburger                 6:30                                 259


Well there is the horrendous eating style that I have when I want to lose weight. It may be terrible and I am sure any nutritionist would point out how I am probably lacking a great deal of essential nutrients but quite frankly it works for me. Through a combination of this diet, training and supplementation I was able to drop down to a weight of 210lbs over the course of 5 days. During this time, we still hit the gym hard and I actually set new records for benching ( 2 plates for 2 reps), Squats (2 plates and 25 for 6 reps) while managing to hit level 8 on fitocracy. Maybe not the most impressive numbers but I was content. Speaking of training, my cousin continued to push himself this week and has at minimum doubled the weights he was lifting since he started. His shrugs especially have increased from a shifty set of 12 with the 25lb dumbbells to a set of 12 with the 70lbs. As such it is looking really good for team Doucet right now, I can only hope that Team Legacy-Barnes is losing sleep as a result to this. However I realize that in all reality the competition probably doesn't even care that much about this contest.

About an hour ago I took my very first dose of shut eye, which I suspect is the cause for my current lack of focus and the difficulty I am having to just focus on what I want to write. Not to mention my bed is the most attractive thing in the world to me at this moment. But back to the supplements, I thought that I would inform my Canadian buddies about a great site to buy stacks of supplements from. Befit.ca has prices on it that will make any body building enthusiast get very emotional about, especially if that individual has ever forked out the money to buy any product at a GNC. The best stacks on this site are, in my opinion, the fusion products. Having tried both Fubar and Purple-K, I can vouch for both of them already and in a few days I will give feed back on my latest purchase. Speaking of which, my vision is starting to go widescreen with the squinting so I am going to finish this post by directing you all to this beautiful site, where you will learn of the glorious calorie to protein ratio that is contained within Lobster.

The work continues

Hey everybody. Today I started to actively cut my weight again. I achieve this by following a strict diet that I shall develop over the course of each individual day,(I don't actually follow any particular diet). My rules are simple, eat every 2.5 hours, a fruit is a decent meal for in between main meals (breakfast,lunch and supper) and I down BCAA's like a crack addict in Columbia. I will be weighing myself at 7 every morning and any day where there is no decrease in weight will be considered a failure and add to my "guilt pool" which I used in a positive-ish manner to push myself to endure the calorie deficit and not give in to the temptation to eat. Yesterday, to ceremoniously begin this cutting, I ate 3/4s of a Delicio Pizza for supper. I will not forget that bloated feeling for at least two weeks.

Aside from that, training is still going well on this new diet of sorts. I figure that next week will be the last chest day that I don't start attempting the 100lb dumbbells. My training partners are also showing great progress, especially my cousin. He started training because of a bet between myself and a friend where we would both pick "Champions" and train them this summer to see which "Champion" will show the most progress. If you have ever seen How I met your Mother, you will be familiar with the concept of a slap bet. This is one. Knowing that I will knock out my cousin if we lose this compition, he has been pushing himself hard and has more then doubled his strength. We are only on the third week and knowing exactly how strong our competition is, I feel confident in my Cousin. Well I am going to head to bed now, lest I stay awake long enough to become hungry again, as such I shall leave this video to anyone who reads this.

Annual post

Well it is just about that time to make my annual post. As is tradition, during the time in which i am writing this post, I feel almost certain that my future posts will be consistent. We will see about that. Well anyways, I feel as if a little update is in order. I am still attending university, my third year begins in September, though this year I will not be living in on campus. Myself and few friends decided that we wanted to rent a house and as such that is what we have done. Come September I will be living in a three story house where I will pay far less for rent then I payed these past two years and more importantly I will not be dependent on meal hall food.No longer will I check each slice of bread for mold and no longer will the food options become scarce as exams loom nearer. I am very stoked about the idea of doing groceries, partially because the Sobeys is less then a two minute walk from my house and conveniently in between my house and the University.

 Now some of you may remember that when I began this blog I talked about my desire to become serious about weight lifting and undergo a physical transformation of sorts. Well now I am 215, not a single pair of my pants come even near to fitting me and I not only find myself still enjoying my workouts but also still look forward to future sessions the moment I walk out of the gym. I even decided just today to join Fitocracy, which is a website that is apparently supposed to provide motivation for one's efforts in the gym by allocating points and achievements depending on the weight and amount of sets logged in daily workouts. I received enough points hit level 3 within minutes by logging today's leg workout which apparently showed up on the feed of other users who gave me "props" which I believe to be the equivalent of "likes" on Facebook. As such I am greatly amused by this site and if anyone reading this also has an account, my user name is carpe_nukem and will give you these "props" if you will occasionally return them to myself.  I don't know why but for some reason I want to attain a very high level on the fitocracy website.

Taking care of business

Well kids, she has been awhile. I have been very preoccupied as of late and as such have utterly neglected this blog and believed that it's time had long come and gone. It was not until I received a message from one of my readers that I had best make another post soon, less I wish to be the victim of their utter disappointment. I shall refrain from revealing said person's identity. Well enough about that, I shall go on with the post. Since working for my father I have had the pleasure of driving a dump truck, the utter displeasure controlling a loader(with both of it's open windows offering my blood to the horde of insects that swarm us in the forest and finally I experienced the naive contentedness of a child while in control of the excavator, a childhood favorite of mine. Other then this I have been keeping of with my workouts , weighing in around 230 pounds currently.I have run out of jack3d and due to the postal worker strike going on around the country, will not have it back any time soon. As such I am back on N.O explode, my first supplement ever bought. I have added a BCAA to my stack and now feel as if it will be complete once my yok3d arrives. When I hit my lowest possible body fat percentage, I will add something like mutant mass to it but that is pretty far down the road.

Since I last blogged I have been to a rather big party in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. For those who don't know where that is, my home town is 4 hours away from this place. We went there for one night, it was grand. I have also begun reading a book, Pride Prejudice and Zombies, which is an exquisite read and I suggest that you all look into reading it yourselves. Besides that I have been living life each day , wife beater and unholy daily supplementation at a time. Waiting ever so patiently for a certain person to tell me when I should expect a visit.

As always, thanks for visiting my blog everyone. If you would feel so inclined as to comment on this post, that would be just grand. If you find it impossible to write anything nice about it, I suggest you watch the following video for inspiration.

The results

So there I was, walking next my father into the doctor's office. Grease and soil caked upon me and my work clothes. My hair last washed by diesel fuel during yesterday's work day and my boots had a massive build up of sand and clay on them which, much to my pleasure, formed small mounds of soil wherever I stepped. I was ready for this, it was victory or tantrum. I had pre-planned to roll about the office if I got...undesirable results. So the secretary pretended to not notice my condition and ushered me in to a room where we waited. I sat with my dad, looked at him and told him I was not letting this go, ever regardless of what happens.

The doctor came in, with a long list in hand. I have to admit, I thought it was the end... I thought I was fuck3d. She sat down and the very first thing she said was, "The tests went well" and I cut her off at this via putting my fist in the air and shouting, "Victory is mine!".  She then informed me that the heart related tests were yet to come in still. I was disappointment. She then continued by telling us that I had a very slight iron deficiency, that didn't actually matter because it was still at a healthy level at the same time? I looked at my dad and told him that I hoped he liked not eating as much meat as he used to because he just set the precipice for all future arguments about who gets the big piece of chicken. He laughed, crying on the inside. I shook her hand, told her it was nice doing business with her and walked out. DMX playing in my head, knowing that although the war is not over, my cause certainly has hit the ground winning. This is certainly a great day for myself and as such the rest of Canada. It may be a few weeks untill the rest of the results come in but till then I am supplementing like there is not tommorow. I actually downed 3 scoops of jacked and 4 of creatine in the creation of this post. Going to workout, I will post the results of the other tests when they come. Oh, by the way, I had double the chicken my dad did last night and moaned that my iron deficiency was flaring up to get it.



 A picture of myself, on the glorious road to    unquestioned supplementation.


 

 

Tommorow is the true day of judgement

Well kids, I am unsure as to whether or not I have ever mentioned in my previous posts of an illness I had when I was three but I am going to assume I haven't out of sheer laziness and inform you all that I had Kawasaki disease. I nearly died of an illness that sounds of pure awesome. Due to the extreme rareness of the condition( the only other person I know of having it died), it was hard for my mother to convince any doctor that I had this condition (she was a nurse at the IWK for some time prior). As such there were complications, blah blah blah heart enlarged, blah blah blah heart was essentially being squeezed into submission, blah blah blah, I still now have a very unique organ. So, where is the relevance between this rant and my terrible and shameful jest at the beginning of the end which should of happened not too long ago?

Well my parents were very concerned about my heart and the use of supplements, so they brought me to the doctor who then ordered that a variety of tests be done. I meet with her tomorrow. This is it. The brightest of days or darkest of nights. The fate of my love of Jack3d hangs in the balance, which is pretty shitty shitty suck suck if you ask me. Will I never use jack3d again? Will I become Jack3d? Will my heart explode suddenly? Will lady gaga go back to making good music? Will I ever again reference Zombie's amazing blog?stay tuned for tomorrow's boring post.