Hello,

Im looking for that little extra kick to keep me motivated during my cutting phase and was wondering if anyone would like to challenge me?

all my stats/pics can be viewed here: http://fitness.jk0.org (i brought back the site yesterday)

I see the stats on your website, but how tall are you? I think me and you might be a perfect match, as I am looking for a challenge to help me stay motivated. Im getting lazy and i never really made a good diet for myself which is what is holding me back the most.

im currently 195lbs, 6'3" 14% BF I think. Never have done a really strict test.

I want to lose like 5-10 more lbs while gaining mass. For the past 3 months ive stayed the same weight, but i think my lbm has gone up a lot while i lost fat. let me know

I see the stats on your website, but how tall are you? I think me and you might be a perfect match, as I am looking for a challenge to help me stay motivated. Im getting lazy and i never really made a good diet for myself which is what is holding me back the most.

im currently 195lbs, 6'3" 14% BF I think. Never have done a really strict test.

I want to lose like 5-10 more lbs while gaining mass. For the past 3 months ive stayed the same weight, but i think my lbm has gone up a lot while i lost fat. let me know

yeah dude, we are basicly identical, im 6'3 too btw, and im anywhere from 16-18% bf (my calipers suck a$$ so i cant really get a good test). im looking to get down to around 10% bf, while keeping/gaining mass. ill probably have to lose a good 10-15lbs of fat though in the mean time.

but yeah, lets dip! :tu:

Hey maybe I should get in on this challenge. I'm 6'2" and 208 right now. I've made pretty good improvement since January but I've got a little problem involving a missing digital camera so I haven't been able to post photos in awhile. It may turn up soon-what about a July 1-Sept 30th contest?

Hey maybe I should get in on this challenge. I'm 6'2" and 208 right now. I've made pretty good improvement since January but I've got a little problem involving a missing digital camera so I haven't been able to post photos in awhile. It may turn up soon-what about a July 1-Sept 30th contest?

do it up, brotha

do it up, brotha
gotta find that camera or borrow somebody's then. should we make standard poses or just copy the other contest that txitalian is in?

gotta find that camera or borrow somebody's then. should we make standard poses or just copy the other contest that txitalian is in?

doesnt matter to me, what do you think marc?

I talked to you online... (GUYthatsFROMhere is me) so i want to do this too...! :eek: :claplow:

this is me: http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=5853

im 6'4'' but no muscle really just flabb... 17% bf i think.. and weigh 214lbs

Hey man, the more the merrier :)

Im all for July 1 - September 30, but there is definitely going to be gaps in that for me, but i guess thats the way the cookie crumbles. I too have limited digi cam access, but i think copying one of the other contests is a good idea. Standard poses, post pics once a week or once every two weeks and let people give us their thoughts on what could help us and whatnot. The biggest thing for me is going to work out a diet that i can actually stick to with food i'll eat. I also need to revise my workout, so lets get started on this bad boy! I need to get some sleep but more posts from me tomorrow. Should have pics online by Sunday night.

This was a great idea! Lets get some motivation goin! :claplow:


I talked to you online... (GUYthatsFROMhere is me) so i want to do this too...! :eek: :claplow:

this is me: http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=5853

im 6'4'' but no muscle really just flabb... 17% bf i think.. and weigh 214lbs

:gl: :gl: july1-sept30 sound fair. I will have a long gap in there but hey it will be somthing i will have to deal with, make me work harder before and after :-) ... I'm in.

OK so that makes 4 contestants, all seemingly between 6'2" and 6'4" and in the 190-220 lb range. Should we welcome more contestants who fall in this category? Or should we lock it up? It'll get hard to manage with a really big group plus inevitably the more you add the better the odds that someone won't put out the effort or will flake on submitting the pics on time.

I think the pic's should go like this:
1. Front, full body, unflexed
2. Front double biceps
3. Side, full body, unflexed(either side or both sides?)
4. Side chest
5. Back, full body, unflexed
6. Back double biceps

The judging should be based on three categories:

1. Most drastic transformation (easier to win for the person starting in the worst condition)
2. Best transformation relative to starting point (most fair, because it takes into account that it's harder to make the same level of change as you get in better shape)
3. Best physique in the end(easier to win for the person starting in the best condition)

It'll get hard to manage with a really big group plus inevitably the more you add the better the odds that someone won't put out the effort or will flake on submitting the pics on time.

very true
i think this should be enough.. and those pictures are fine... who judges?

very true
i think this should be enough.. and those pictures are fine... who judges?

The masses...

hey now, this is getting serious. Do you have examples of the pics we are supposed to take? For example, what is the difference between side arm flexed and side chest? and i think we will need to do some flexed pictures for the best physique categories and whatnot.

also, should we just use jk0's website for this one (if that's ok with him) or setup an entirely new one? should we have all 4 of us in the same contest or pair off? I think having a 4 person split would be fun since we have 3 different categories. maybe we could come up with some prozes? :lol: of course, everyone is a winner when you are getting healthy. I like this. its long enough where you can make some dramatic changes.

this will work for me! :D :eat:

For all the poses, check this page

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/posing.htm

I picked the three most basic poses: front double-bi, side chest, and rear double-bi

Oh and I think all 4 should be in one contest. No reason to have to do matchups-after all the Mr. O starts with about 30 contestants.

I also think it might be a good idea if we all wear the same thing. Like black boxer-briefs. I have a few pair of those-they show the wheels without showing too much if you know what i'm sayin

I also think it might be a good idea if we all wear the same thing. Like black boxer-briefs. I have a few pair of those-they show the wheels without showing too much if you know what i'm sayin

agreed.

hmm, no boxer briefs for me, but i can pick some up. those poses are fine, you guys can tell me if i mess any of them up horribly. i dont know how i would but anyways

jk0 - is it ok to just use your existing website or should we create a completely separate one?

and we should have a chat session on aim to help make meal/workout plans or something, eh? or is it every man for himself? cause i definitely need help with a meal plan

Can we all chat at once? i'm a noob at AIM

jk0 - is it ok to just use your existing website or should we create a completely separate one?

yeah that would be fine, i can setup a separate section on it for us. :tu:

Can we all chat at once? i'm a noob at AIM

yep, ill explain how :D

Josh, I was looking at your new fitness website and I came across your routine. Just had a few questions:

1. It doesn't look like you're working your abs at all. I would mix in a little ab work every day to help tone up that midsection. You may not notice results now but when the fat starts to go away you'll notice.

2. I see that most of your cardio is in the form of running. Do you particularly enjoy running or do you think it's the best method? Just curious for the reasoning-I used to be a distance runner but I'm not a huge fan of it as a daily activity unless you really enjoy it.

3. Do you only work legs once a week?

4. Do you belong to a gym or do you work out at home?

5. Do you have a summer job? Full time or part time? I wish I was fresh out of high school again-you're at the ideal age. I first started gettin into weights at that age and hit it hard for a few years before slacking when i graduated from college. Are you going to college in the fall?

hmm, no boxer briefs for me, but i can pick some up. those poses are fine, you guys can tell me if i mess any of them up horribly. i dont know how i would but anyways

jk0 - is it ok to just use your existing website or should we create a completely separate one?

and we should have a chat session on aim to help make meal/workout plans or something, eh? or is it every man for himself? cause i definitely need help with a meal plan

Do you have any pictures posted on the site? I've seen my other two competitors and mine can be seen under my thread in the media gallery but we dunno what you look like.

wont have access to a digicam until next sunday. ill do a full round of pics then. sorry for slacking so much on the pics. i wish i had pics from months ago to see my transformation so far. oh well, hopefully round two of my transformation will be just as impressive as round one :D


Do you have any pictures posted on the site? I've seen my other two competitors and mine can be seen under my thread in the media gallery but we dunno what you look like.

Josh, I was looking at your new fitness website and I came across your routine. Just had a few questions:

1. It doesn't look like you're working your abs at all. I would mix in a little ab work every day to help tone up that midsection. You may not notice results now but when the fat starts to go away you'll notice.

2. I see that most of your cardio is in the form of running. Do you particularly enjoy running or do you think it's the best method? Just curious for the reasoning-I used to be a distance runner but I'm not a huge fan of it as a daily activity unless you really enjoy it.

I normally do some type of ab workout after lifting, I just forgot to put it on the routine list.

I do like running because around here there isnt much else i can really do for cardio unless I spend a lot of money on an eliptical or something.


3. Do you only work legs once a week?

4. Do you belong to a gym or do you work out at home?

5. Do you have a summer job? Full time or part time? I wish I was fresh out of high school again-you're at the ideal age. I first started gettin into weights at that age and hit it hard for a few years before slacking when i graduated from college. Are you going to college in the fall?

Yep I only work legs once a week. Im fairly happy with the size of my legs already, so I just try to keep them toned.

I just lift weights at the local high school. I figure Ill keep lifting there until the end of summer and then find a local gym somewhere, probably the YMCA

I do have a part time job right now as a Web Developer / UNIX Sysadmin. Im trying to enjoy my last _free_ summer as much as I can before I goto Southwest Technical College this fall.

The new avatar looks good. What kind of filter were you using for the old one? I assume you used photoshop on that one.

I'm off to do some chest/tri's + cardio. Luckily I have a job where I can take off for 2 hours midday to workout.

we should all meet on AIM soon... umm my aim name is GUYthatsFROMhere or you can just click the aim icon above my posts to Instant Message me...

The new avatar looks good. What kind of filter were you using for the old one? I assume you used photoshop on that one.

Thanks! Yep I did use Photoshop but didnt use any filters. Basicly all I did was take a picture of clouds, pasted a pic of my face on there, played with the transparency levels and adjusted the hue/saturation to get the blue tint. Basicly like I did on my site (jk0.org).

we should all meet on AIM soon... umm my aim name is GUYthatsFROMhere or you can just click the aim icon above my posts to Instant Message me...


agreed. maybe at night time or early in the morning to work around everyone's work schedule? Maybe over the weekend one day? Im online after the gym at night around 10pm most nights, so just IM me and we'll see who else is on

agreed. maybe at night time or early in the morning to work around everyone's work schedule? Maybe over the weekend one day? Im online after the gym at night around 10pm most nights, so just IM me and we'll see who else is on

doesnt matter to me :nod:

OK, so Im definitely switching next week to a 3 days workout/3 days cardio routine. Right now im doing 5 days weights+cardio and i dont really like it too much. I'll post my specific workout here another time, but I think im going to go back to the MAX-OT type workout that I was doing at the very beginning when i was mostly losing fat. Back then, I was increasing the weight on EVERY exercise 5-10lbs each week. These days Im lucky if i can do the same weight week to week. Im sure it has more to do with my shitty diet/muscle loss than anything, which i'm also going to try to revise. When i get my pics up on sunday, one of us should create a new thread with that cool *challenge format* that someone posted the template for in another thread so we can all post pictures and have a formal set of the rules. I think we should take pics twice a month so that we can see a trend of change by the end (hopefully). lemme know what you guys think and if you want to try to do the same workouts or what. :db:

OK, so Im definitely switching next week to a 3 days workout/3 days cardio routine. Right now im doing 5 days weights+cardio and i dont really like it too much. I'll post my specific workout here another time, but I think im going to go back to the MAX-OT type workout that I was doing at the very beginning when i was mostly losing fat. Back then, I was increasing the weight on EVERY exercise 5-10lbs each week. These days Im lucky if i can do the same weight week to week. Im sure it has more to do with my shitty diet/muscle loss than anything, which i'm also going to try to revise. When i get my pics up on sunday, one of us should create a new thread with that cool *challenge format* that someone posted the template for in another thread so we can all post pictures and have a formal set of the rules. I think we should take pics twice a month so that we can see a trend of change by the end (hopefully). lemme know what you guys think and if you want to try to do the same workouts or what. :db:

im basicly already following a max-ot type work out :bb:

In the sense that I do few sets/short workouts i'm still doing max-ot, but my rep range varies from 6-10, which is higher than the typical max-ot format. Plus I'll throw in some dropsets on certain exercises which is contrary to max-ot.

The initial gains in strength from starting max-ot never last long, IMO, because obviously you can't continue to add 5 lbs a week to your dumbell curls for example. After three months you'd be curling 100 lb dumbells. Many of the 'strength' gains seem to be the body learning to lift heavier through, kind of like newbie gains. When I did max-ot for the first time my bench was going up each time but I felt like I was just getting more used to benching more. Each time it hurt my joints a bit more and felt like I was using slightly more momentum.

Now I try to change exercises each workout to always throw my body off. As a result my lifts aren't going up as fast but I feel like my body will respond better to this over a longer period.

interesting. maybe ill switch up my routine every other week to keep things interesting. i definitely do not like my workout right now.

and ive been eating like shit so on sunday when i finally take my pics, youll probably get a version of fat marc :(

OK, got some pics up at http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?p=54424

we should get a challenge thread open for more pics and specifically for our challenge with the rules and whatnot. It's getting to be that time :D

OK, got some pics up at http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?p=54424

we should get a challenge thread open for more pics and specifically for our challenge with the rules and whatnot. It's getting to be that time :D

You're starting from a pretty good point-I think we'll have a hard time matching your physique at the end of the contest but what the hell. Who took your back photo?

I think for the contest we should stick to these poses:
1. Front, relaxed
2. Front double bicep
3. Side-relaxed and/or flexed
4. Back, relaxed
5. Back double bicep

The reason is that if I have to ask my wife to take a photo of me doing any of the standard poses from the side, she will no doubt make fun of me for the rest of our marriage. The double bicep pose somehow is OK but the side poses are just over the top bodybuilder wannabe.

I think that I'm in the same boat as you. I had my dad take the back pics and a double bicep with some chuckles and whatnot from him, so I dont really like depending on him for pictures.

Anyways, is the pic i have of my side alright or do you want the extreme body building one that you were talking about? I dont really want to take that one, so I hope the one i posted works. I have a completely sideshot that shows my gut pretty well if you want to use that...

Ill take a new set of pictures for 7/1 once we get a new thread going with the pics that you have outlined below.

I dont think you guys will haev a hard time matching me - I havent been doing this for very long, I just put some hard work into it :) Still not where i want to be, so hopefully this contest will give me the much needed motivation as far as my diet goes. Besides, you have 3 categories for our contest so its anyone's game.



You're starting from a pretty good point-I think we'll have a hard time matching your physique at the end of the contest but what the hell. Who took your back photo?

I think for the contest we should stick to these poses:
1. Front, relaxed
2. Front double bicep
3. Side-relaxed and/or flexed
4. Back, relaxed
5. Back double bicep

The reason is that if I have to ask my wife to take a photo of me doing any of the standard poses from the side, she will no doubt make fun of me for the rest of our marriage. The double bicep pose somehow is OK but the side poses are just over the top bodybuilder wannabe.

I think that I'm in the same boat as you. I had my dad take the back pics and a double bicep with some chuckles and whatnot from him, so I dont really like depending on him for pictures.

Anyways, is the pic i have of my side alright or do you want the extreme body building one that you were talking about? I dont really want to take that one, so I hope the one i posted works. I have a completely sideshot that shows my gut pretty well if you want to use that...

Ill take a new set of pictures for 7/1 once we get a new thread going with the pics that you have outlined below.

I dont think you guys will haev a hard time matching me - I havent been doing this for very long, I just put some hard work into it :) Still not where i want to be, so hopefully this contest will give me the much needed motivation as far as my diet goes. Besides, you have 3 categories for our contest so its anyone's game.

For the side photo I had in mind more of a full body shot like this
http://www.sportsmachines.net/Stone/N3.3.11.04stone.jpg
I'll go start a thread for our contest.

here's the new thread i set up. tell me if the rules look good.

Third Quarter Challenge of Greatness (http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?p=54537)