bjsorensen

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Personal Info

Name

Sex

Male

Age

28 years

Location

Salt Lake City, UT

Occupation

marketing / ski coach

A Little About Me

I grew up in Park City, Utah. I've led a great outdoor oriented life (mountain biking/boarding, wakeboarding, wake surfing, hiking, skiing, snowboarding). I've lived and traveled around the world and I look forward to more of it. For the past 3 years, I've been running marathons and this year I'm training for my first triathlon. I'm part owner of a small start up company, PodSki, that delivers professionally instructed portable video ski lessons (think iPods).

When I Started Working Out

1998

How I Started

weight class in high school

Why I Love It

personal challenge and accountability, continual change

How I Stay Motivated

My motivation is intrinsic...thankfully!

My Worst Injury

I Would Love To Meet

I love being surrounded by people who are funny, entertaining, insightful, educated, healthy, and those who make fitness a part of their life.

Goals

Main Goal

I'd like to pack on a few more pounds of muscle, but mostly get more toned. I'm close!

Short Term Goal

2 sprint, 1 olympic triathlon by the end of summer 07

Long Term Goal

Fitness for life.

Bodyfat Goal

5% (2 more to go!)

Weight Goal

whatever works best

Favorites

Bodyparts (Opposite Sex)

I'm a fan of the entire female body.

Bodyparts (Yours)

Exercises

I love incorporating balance into my lifts (balance pads, exercise balls, one leg). I've also started incorporating aspects of gymnastics, SEAL training, and pilates. Crazy fun!

Healthy Foods

My buddy, a personal trainer, describes me to others as 'the guy who eats the way we all should and he sticks to it 95% of the time.'

Not So Healthy Foods

mom's cookies when I go home (she's made them healthier recently, thanks mom)
cocktails and beer once or twice a month
chocolate covered edamame
I love peanut butter/almond butter, so sometimes I go a little overboard!

Supplements

pre-workout: l-carnitine, amino blend
post-workout: CytoSport Cyto Gainer protein powder
additional: MuscleTech Hardcore protein powder, flaxseed oil, fish oil, chondroitin, MSM

Hobbies

skiing, running, wake surfing, trying to teach myself foreign languages and web development

Magazines

I usually do my reading online (bbc.co.uk, portfolio.com, planningnewbie.blogspot.com, threeminds.organic.com, thecoolhunter.net). I do like to read the hardcopy every so often. (check out www.goodreads.com)

Books

Stand for Something
The Rule of Four
From Good to Great
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
The Birth of Venus
Angels and Demons

Workout Music

I can't listen to music while working out. I do jam to some annoying techno or hard rock while running though.

Buddy List

Buddies: Jamo Nezzar
Mona Liza Reyes
piperziv
tripletdad
Janett
michele
Alena
monica_starr
Romah
naomi belvin
sweetkicker
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Hard Muscle

Posted June 21st, 2008 by bjsorensen

Can anyone lend info/resources on how to develop 'hard' muscle? (techniques, methods, nutrition, etc) Is 'hard' muscle equivalent to lean muscle mass?

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MagnusBTS

Mon, 12/03/2007 - 14:40

It depends. Your split is very common e.g. push and pull, and I use it sometimes – but sparingly - I prefer more of a antagonist split for several reasons. But back to your question about volume, I would stay in the lower volume range if chest and tris are trained on the same day. The same would apply to Back and Bis but when it comes to calves I would not take the stress from thigh training in consideration and apply I higher volume. This is however if you use mainly basic movements during your workout and not too many isolation exercises, that would make the direct stress on the secondary muscles less and a higher volume would be considered. I would also, to complicate it a bit for you ;-) take muscle development and training experience in consideration. I hope this clears things up a bit for you? Or else just give me a holler!

Magnus

Jamo Nezzar

Wed, 10/31/2007 - 06:56

Hey bro
You can get maltodextrin from any health food shop , if you can't get it im sure you can google it around your area ..if there is not chance , you can always try any lemonade powder drink its the same ... now as far as dosage you need 2 g per Kg of bodyweight after working out for ful recovery and glycogen replenition .