Incredible transformation.
What was your secret to building your willpower to get sober and THEN get yourself into this kind of conditioning?
Thanks guys, well my secret is actually to do very little to improve and that's a new principle that I think I came up with... I did this the first time I lost weight when I first joined the board... Back then, I stopped the drinking and smoking, then I bought a treadmill for the house, later some weights, just basic bench and dumbells, later an Olympic set with a bench and built it squat rack... After a few months everyone commented on how much weigh I lost... Then I joined the gym, later tightened up the diet, within one year I competed in my first show and won it! A year later in the continental USA with the help of Phil, you can locate the thread if you search for it, I did it in real time...
This time, I did a combination of phil's diet, a variation of Phil's and some of Alex's ideas (RIP) my younger brother hired Alex A...
I have a lot of my own variations, one being my less is more for now theory... I followed a diet similar to Phils, with my own variations and did no cardio whatsoever... I also alternated things a lot...
As far as the drinking and getting into shape, it ties into the same ideas, first I wanted to keep from dying, then I started eating cleaner, got in the gym and kept on going... The secret is to not look back, but mostly look ahead, just think of how time passes so quickly, if you do the right things now, you'll be in shape in no time, just start now and keep going...
I again let myself go, but not that badly, I just lost some size, smoothed out a little, I've just been too busy to get to the gym, stressed out at work, so I was drinking for a while, but I quit that to only a few on weekends and only beer, nothing hard anymore, no more scotch... But now even the weekends stopped, it's just been clean eating for the past week, I just need to get back in the gym, I am training at home for now, which is a lot better than nothing...
Good luck guys!