Get Up Motivation

One figure that drives me to get up out of bed every morning is FITNESS.

It is what revolves around my life and completes me as an individual. 

Every day is a new beginning in my fitness world.

Whether its eating something new that is healthy and efficient for my body,

Or trying out a new routine in my workout regime. 

Fitness opens all kinds of opportunities in the real world too.

As for a job I could see myself as a trainer, coach, physician, or even pro athlete.

Fitness has already put an improvement on my physique to make me a stronger alpha male.

The options are endless in terms of fitness.

What can I say, through my understanding... I Am Fitness. 

Blood, sweat, and tears you must give up.

After a hard workout, I got that protein in my back.

Amino acids to aid my muscles breaking down.

Biceps all full of blood, thick and round. 

The pump is what we want and aim for.

Feeling of being unstoppable and invincible like Thor.

Are you willing to give up the blood, sweat, and tears?

Tuesdays with Morrie

The book Tuesdays With Morrie is all about the essence of life and virtues. Since the book is based around the visits Morrie gets from Mitch every Tuesday, they talk about all the life stories that Morrie has had and many positive quotes for the reader to understand and learn from. Morrie has taught me a lot of life lessons to live by and use whenever I'm feeling down in the ditch. What Morrie is going through is one of the the top diseases anyone can get and it isn't exciting one bit. And for a man like him to still be positive about life and give out advice to people to not worry and just be happy is amazing and inspiring. Even when death is nearing Morrie's life, he still has no worries. 

Wild Card #3 (Tuesdays with Morrie Ch.7)

In this chapter Mitch and Morrie start to connect well and Mitch notices Morrie is really starting to dwindle away now. Morrie has been writing notes now that only he could probably read. And Morrie now is solely reliable on the oxygen tank. Other than Morrie getting worse, Morrie keeps receiving letters from people from when he got interviewed on Nightline. And one woman actually comes and talks to Morrie about how her mother had died of ALS and can relate to what Morrie is going through. Also, Mitch was asked to imitate Lou Gehrig's speech to Morrie about being the luckiest man in the world even though Morrie doesn't feel like that. 

I like how Morrie says he can't feel the same way that Lou Gehrig did. Even though he had the same disease at Lou, Morrie can't relate to it at all because he has no connection to being the luckiest man in the world because if he was he wouldn't have this disease. 

A Spell For Chameleon (Book Review)

      Piers Anthony's novel "A Spell For Chameleon" is a fantasy based book set in the country-side of Florida in a magical place called Xanth. The publisher of this novel is Ballantine and Del Rey books. Piers was born in 1934 in England and came to America in 1940. He created his Xanth world in 1977 where his first book "A Spell For Chameleon" won a fantasy award. He also has a wife and two daughters. In the 70's he went from writing all his books in pencils to typing his papers. 
      During the midst of the book, there are a couple magical fights and  interesting characters that someone could never dream of making up. Let's also just say that the main character finds a spell unlike any other of the characters has or ever will have. 
      The main character of the book is a kid named Bink. Bink is special unlike every other kids because Brink was born without magic or a spell. He lives in the North Village Xanth and a rule of the North Village is that if you don't have magic or can't find magic, you'll be exiled from the village forever. Other characters of the book are Bink's dream girl Sabrina who hopefully can marry some day. His parents names are Roland and Bianca. And one of the head advice characters for Bink is the Good Magician Humphrey. Humphrey is like the wise man of the village. The only problem is that people in the village can only seek advice from Humphrey once a year. And Bink decides to use up that offer and get advice and that's where the adventure starts. One thing that the author gives a hint about the theme is that even though your'e not like everyone else, you don't have to be. Just be yourself and be different.     
      My opinion of the book was that it had a lot of mystical suspense but also many confusing moments. The book just included so many weird and confusing words and unusual situations that I couldn't piece together.  
     The first quote was on page 11 and it said " So the truth came out  in this moment of crisis. She didn't really believe he had a talent. "Ive got muscle, though!" he yelled back." It explains the phenomena of how Bink has muscle but no magic, and he can use his muscles instead. And the 2nd quote is on page 15 " Night transformers Xanth. Regions like this one that were innocent by day became horrors as the sun sneaked down." This quote talks about the dangers that live in Xanth and night and how powerful some creatures may be that could hurt Bink. 
      A good text to world is in the book the setting is based in Xanth which is actually in Florida, where the authors lives. This book is similar to the book Inkheart where the books comes alive with all these mystical creatures and mysterious adventures in it. This book didn't really impact me on a personal level because it was a fantasy book based on a kid trying to find his magic and I have no idea how it can affect me. 

The Aspects of Fitness

      The goal in my life is to become the most fit person I can be both mentally and physically. Fitness to me isn't just a random trip to the gym every other day to just get a sweat on and feel a little pump. Fitness is more of type of lifestyle. There are some people in the world who love cooking, they think that cooking is the best thing a person can do. The way you can mash together some interesting ingredients, bake it, then come out with this delicious masterpiece is just enlightenment for them. But for me its the feeling of being strong both physically and mentally and that is what fitness can do for. It brings to my table what cooking can bring to an avid chef's table.

      A person wakes up in the morning and gets their coffee, then eats their soggy waffles or cereal, then  probably gets on their way to wherever they are going for the day wether it is work or school. When I wake up, its non-stop thinking about what i'm going to eat today, what time am I going to workout, what am I going to workout today, making sure to get all of my meals in, and drinking plenty of water. As you can see my day consists of many things related to fitness. This aspect of my life is so huge that I can not go a day with out it. My mentality for fitness drives me to the gym each and every day to be better than I was the day before. When I step foot into the gym or even into a baseball game (because that still ties in with fitness), its time for beast mode to kick in. {Beast Mode- to be in the state of mind that you feel like an animal. You feel strong and agile and ready to dominate anything in your way.} And nothing can stop me once I hit that stage. No One.

      Everyone thinks that when talking about fitness, that they have to tie in with the word FIT. Not everyone that does fitness is necessarily fit. For example look at all those overweight people on The Biggest Loser. Not one of those people on that show besides the trainers are fit. But you know what they are doing, is starting a new life around fitness. They have decided to get their fat selves up and do something about it by burning some calories and lifting some weights. So just some motivation for all people out there wanting but having too many excuses to go out there and workout and have fitness become a part of your life, suck it up. Stop being a little baby and go get a good sweat on, lift some heavy weights, eat healthy, and get active. Stop watching your television and eating your potato chips, and laughing at those who are training and sweating and looking funny doing it. Hey, they'll be a 1000 steps farther tomorrow then you will ever be in your entire life with they way your going right now.   'When life sucks, you got to go work'

Wild Card #2

When I think of advertisements,  I think of annoying attention grabbers. Yet, the people who make them are some of the trickiest and smartest people around. They use broad and big messages in their advertisements that catch the readers/viewers eye and intrigues them to possibly check the product out and purchase it. They also use sex to drive in the consumer (mostly men) because its such a huge factor in human mind that makes them want more and more. 
   If I was an advertiser, I would make up the most creative and confusing product that once the consumer sees my product, Boom. They want it. 

Ad Analysis (Supplements)

-First product we have (above), is a protein supplement called 100% Gold Standard. Its a top end whey protein on the market right now. What makes this ad so unique is they use a ripped guy's chest for a whole page so you could put it up to your own chest to have an example of motivation of what you'd want your chest to be like. They have the slogan that "Big Looks get on You". So when you buy the protein powder,                              you'll get big by taking it.

                         -The next product we have is from a different company and it's a different supplement. This product is called C4. Its a pre-workout supplement that gets you pumped before a workout so your ready for your workout and want to train hard. They use a hook in which they add dynamite around the supplement to make it look dangerous and explosive. Saying when you take this supplement, your going to feel powerful and explosive during your workout.


The hook in both these products are extremely similar. They both use some sort power statement to show their product is worth having and using. Basically "If you take this product, you'll have this feeling/or look like this".