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25Feb/110

MUSCLES!

No... not the kind you eat... the kind you have on your body... or in your body?

This is somewhat of a follow up to yesterday's post about running... So... continuing on with the fitness theme.

It makes me slightly sad when I can't find a funny clip on youtube to go with what i'm attempting to articulate.  If pictures speak a thousand words then videos speak like at least 1500.  Or maybe 2 or 3 thousand.   Or a million?  Maybe.  I'm not an official expert on the word to clip/image ratio theory, so I'll have to get back to you on that one.  Topic for another post?  Perhaps.  At any rate...

I couldn't seem to find the scene on youtube... but it's from this movie:

There's a scene when the next door neighbor's kid (Thomas Wilson Brown) is working out. And the dad (Matt Frewer), I think says, "When I was your age, I put on twenty pounds of pure unadulterated blitz-the-quarterback-and-rip-his-head-off muscle, Russell!" or something to that effect.

It stuck with me.  So now every time I see someone with any sorta "beefy machine gun tanks for biceps" thing going on I think of that scene and line from that movie.

So... i'm a dude who really doesn't have much muscle mass.  Ok, honestly, I never have really ever had any of these so-called "guns".  I mean I think maybe once or twice in my life i've tried to bulk up.  Even one of the times was on accident, because I was playing drums a lot and if you play a lot of drums you tend to get a little bit more muscular.  Think of every drummer you know... for the most part, all of them have some kinda gun action happening, right???

 

 

I mean look at the GUNS on that guy!  I DO NOT want to pick a fight with this dude.  NO WAY JOSE.  You go ahead and pick a fight.  But i'm not.  I'll watch.

 

JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE!!!  He's ready for a rumble.  and then maybe a nap after.

 

Sorry, ok back to the blog... right so, I'm like just this little nerdy wimp.  That's kinda always been my style and that's what I am.  Buuuuuuuuuuuut... what if I wasn't anymore?  OK here's the story:

A few weeks ago this juice was on sale (only the first one was... but I bought the second one as well, which wasn't on sale)...

Normally I'll buy one of these Naked Juices every few weeks or so.  Especially the power C one when i'm feeling sick, but never the protein ones.  Because normally i'm like what do I need protein for?  This stuff is for body builders and it just never interested me.  Well... on a whim I was like what the heck?  I'll buy it and try it out.

Umm... that was a mistake.  I can't stop drinking it!  ITS SOOOO GOOD!  Crap.  This is not good (well I mean it's good... but it's not... The JUICE is good... but me drinking it EVERY DAY can't be).  Here's the two problems with this:

1.  It's kinda expensive.  It's like 4 bucks a bottle usually!

2.  I think it's loaded with extra calories.  Not to mention all that protein! Not that i'm a nutritionist or anything, but I don't know what this is going to do to my body drinking it on a regular basis.... but I can't stop!

 

So now I've been buying one every couple days.  Well after the first few, I got curious and  I did a little googling and researching on muscles.  Then pictures came up of guns...

big guns...

SO I decided.  I ALSO want tickets...

 

TO THE GUN SHOW!

 

 

I mean, come on... how bad could it possibly be if I looked a little more like this....

 

and less like...

 

 

So... to deal with the increased caloric intake from these yummy Naked juice shakes... I've been doing 2 things:

1. Riding my exercise  bike more.  I've been riding for years... but I usually only did it every few days.  Now i'm doing EVERY day pretty much no matter what.  I have a stationary bike and I like to read and ride.  Or watch episodes from TV shows streaming on my laptop while riding.  So when my boss asks me about the latest episode of family guy that I missed because I wasn't paying attention to the time it was supposed to be on TV.  I can watch it online and still be prepared to laugh WITH him instead of be laughed AT.  Oh, small piece of advice: I know the phrase is Laugh WITH instead of laugh AT... never laugh AT your boss... you probably won't have a job for very much longer.  Unless he's a comedian and he tells jokes that you are supposed to laugh at.  In which case you'd be laughing at the joke... not the boss.  Laugh WITH.  Got it?  Ok cool.

Kinda like how I say funny things in this blog and you the reader are laughing WITH me AT those funny things... not AT me...

Ok, moving on to numero dos as in dos equis.  AKA two.

2. Pumping a little iron.

 

 

I bought some free weights last year and I used them a little here and there but decided to start using them a lot more in the recent weeks.  So this is an experiment, in a way.  Let's see how buff I can get!  Who knows... maybe the next time you see me I'll be able to bench press your cat.  Or dog.  Or goldfish.  Or at least pick up the bag of goldfish from your counter without straining myself.  If nothing else... at least i'll be able to help people move furniture around easier.  Or carry groceries for old ladies.  etc.

Now, of course, this is me we're talking about.  I'll probably look exactly the same even 6 months from now.  But i'm gonna challenge this.  Maybe i'll take a picture of my "guns in progress" every day for 6 months and then compile them all into a movie of 10 photos a second and post it to you tube to see the progress.

 

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