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Buff Daddy

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Contents

Dedication.................................................................................1Preface....................................................................................2-3The Desire To Build Muscle.................................................................4-5Why Men Feel The Need To Develop Their Muscles.............................................6-13My Main Influences.........................................................................14-20The Balancing Act..........................................................................21-23The Twelve Steps of Becoming A Buff Daddy..................................................24-55No Time For Anything: Babies, Diapers, Sleepless Nights, Stress............................57-63The Buff Daddy Exercise Programs...........................................................64-126Non-Bodybuilding Weight Training Program To Develop Strength and Power.....................126-130Primal / Unorthodox Training...............................................................132-140Quickies: For The Busy Daddy...............................................................141-148The Travel Daddy...........................................................................149-151Buff Daddy Nutrition.......................................................................152-162Conant's Triad For Achieving Your Fitness Goals............................................163Record Your Progres: How to Use The Weekly Record Sheet....................................164The Buff Daddy Exercises...................................................................167-263Unorthodox / Primal Exercises..............................................................264-340Chronological Photo Album..................................................................341-342Contact Information........................................................................343About The Author...........................................................................344Glossary of Exercises......................................................................345-350

Chapter One

Bodybuilding Changed My Life

When I was around ten years old I remember watching a bodybuilding contest on television. I saw these huge muscle-bound men flexing on stage. At first I was totally freaked out at what I was seeing. They didn't look normal, even grotesque to me. The whole concept was foreign to me. The idea of looking like that never entered my mind. Over the next few years my perception would change.

I began training with weights when I was twelve years old. A friend of mine, who was a semipro baseball player, told me that weight training would help me get stronger for baseball. I knew nothing about the muscles of the body and how to train. My curiosity grew the more I messed around with the weights. I definitely noticed a difference in my strength within the first couple of years of training. My athletic ability improved tremendously. Though I loved baseball, I began to get more into weight training. The more I trained and saw my muscles become more defined, I began to have a greater appreciation of bodybuilding. When I watched the bodybuilding contests on television and looked at the muscle magazines, I wasn't freaked out anymore. I actually began to have a greater respect for well developed physiques. Three men that made an impression on me were Steve Reeves, Vince Gironda and Don Howorth. These three guys possessed quality classic physiques. They developed muscle within their own genetic limits. They were not freaks like you often see in the muscle magazines. A true, natural, and well defined muscular body is what I admired and wanted.

When I would look at the guys from the muscle beach era they seemed to have a certain charisma about them. They seemed to posses youth, strength, good health vitality, and confidence. They were like Greek statues frozen in time leaving a never ending impression on society. They were artists who used their own body to sculpt a masterpiece. I wanted to look like those guys and to be a part of that mystique.

For me bodybuilding has become a way of life. There is something about it that becomes a part of you. When you bodybuild naturally you become more aware of how you eat, you have more confidence, feel more attractive, your self esteem gets a boost, you sleep better, you become physically and mentally stronger, and you reduce the effects of aging. I just love the way I feel and look from bodybuilding. I have everything I want and enjoy it all. I believe that bodybuilding has made me a better person and a better Dad. It helps instill positive qualities in me that my kids can learn from. Eating healthy, abstaining from drugs and alcohol, stress reduction, anger management, and achieving greater consciousness are only some of the benefits I receive from bodybuilding. I couldn't imagine my life without bodybuilding. Bodybuilding altered my life for the better.

Chapter Two

When I do something I want to know about every aspect of it. When I started weight training and seeing results I was obsessed with learning as much about the body as I could. There wasn't an anatomy book or kinesiology book I wouldn't pass by without picking it up and reading it. I had an insatiable hunger for knowledge. The more I delved into the books for answers, the more I began to understand that we are more than what we appear to be. We are a collection of intricate sophisticated cellular complexes that have been developed over thousands of years. We are apart of a gene pool that has survived from the beginning of human kind. This genetic coding is instilled in every human on Earth.

The human body is designed to be a physically laboring and an emotionally intelligent being. For this reason I feel that physical activity is essential for proper health and psychological balance of the human being. This is a primal code that is embedded in our DNA.

Subliminally men have an innate need to develop their body. This is based on the development of the ego. I like to call it Primal Dominance. I feel that most men feel better about themselves when they are in good physical condition. Here is an excerpt of a section I wrote in my book InVINCEable™ that sums up why men weight train and how primal dominance plays a role in our need for building muscle.

Primal Instincts

Why do we bodybuild or power lift? Why do men desire so much muscle and strength?

One day I was training and someone came up to me and asked me, "why do you bodybuild?" It was a very good question and after a moment of thinking about a response I answered with, " I am fulfilling the primitive instincts (the primitive DNA coding) that is innate in all of us to keep staying strong to survive." The person looked at me as if I was crazy and walked away. We live in a very different world than our ancestors did years ago, but we still posses many of the same characteristics as they did. We are not dependent on hunting for food as a means of survival like they had to years ago. Today we have all the conveniences and easy access to food and shelter making our primitive instincts less dominant. However, no matter how intelligent or sophisticated we become, primal instincts will...