October 11, 2012
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Velocity diet to mass made simple
A few months ago I bought a book called Mass Made Simple by Dan John. In one part of the book he wrote this:
One person in a hundred will have the courage to listen to my best piece of advice to prep for a mass-building program: Lean out first. My buddy in college who decided to enter an amateur bodybuilding contest lived for a month on nothing but lettuce and dope. Yes, you read that right, and no, don’t try it. For his last workouts, his friends had to literally pull him off the floor to do anything. The loads on the bar were far, far below his normal training numbers. But under the lights he looked marvelous. A funny thing happened the weeks and months after the contest—the guy exploded. It was like he was being inflated. He gained size, in all the right places, seemingly every day. I know there’s a scientific explanation for this, but I don’t care. I found the same thing happened to me after the Velocity Diet. A week later, I lifted in an open Olympic lifting meet and everyone swore I had put on 10 pounds of muscle when I was actually two pounds lighter. If you have the courage to lean out, try it!
At first I was like…. nah, that’s not me. Then I thought about what he said and the challenge in it. The courage to lean out and then go on a mass building program. So here I am… documenting my first day and a half on the velocity diet for the next six weeks followed by another 6 weeks on mass made simple. 12 weeks… just a short time in a life but hopefully the start of learning something about myself and pushing limits I didn’t think could be pushed.
I’m documenting this for a couple of reasons. One is I plan on posting this to my facebook and making it public. It’s one of the things that Dan John writes about in his book… putting public pressure on to help reach a goal. I guess that’s where you the reader comes in… if I stop writing then you’ll know I failed. I made up some excuse or another and gave up. But that brings me up to reason number two which is that I don’t want to fail. I want to inspire people to push themselves. I’ve been on countless diets, run a couple of marathons, gotten stronger but I’m really a chubby guy with low self control and a bag full of excuses. I’ve read a lot of things and “know” a lot but I haven’t acted on them. I don’t think I’m that different than a lot of people who want to make themselves feel and look better but find the task daunting. So here goes….
