65 Year Old Canadian Rick Newcombe

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=1485476&binId=1.1203434&playlistPageNum=1

Click the link above to watch the video of Edmonton bodybuilder Rick Newcombe.

Video Inspiration: 58-Year-Old Bodybuilder

YOUR NEW BODY: Dressing The Part

No baggy T-shirts here!

You've worked hard to lose fat and build muscle but maybe haven't given too much thought to a new way of dressing to best accentuate the NEW YOU and your accomplishments. If you're an older gentleman who formerly tended toward choosing styles that the out-of-shape older crowd gravitate to, maybe it's time to dress more for the new youthful physique than the old.

SHEEHAN & CO. is an outfit I just ran across online when searching for Henley shirts. This label has a great website whose mature owner models most of the clothes that accentuate his fit body. All designed and are made in the USA with great attention paid to detail.

Visit the WEBSITE and have a look around.

Sheehan & Co.'s take on the classic long underwear Unionsuit.

Pete Koch: Inspiration

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk80MOlnVeQ/?taken-by=petekoch

MY PROTEIN’s Shitty Customer Service

Companies that go well out of their way to alienate their customers are the same ones that bitch and moan when business starts falling off, as if it’s not their own fault.

MyProtein supplements is an ideal example. I placed my most recent order October 11. As can be seen in the screenshot, delivery was predicted between the 17th and 19th. I began inquiring on the 22nd about “Where Is My Order?”, with no response. A “chat” then went nowhere with the idiot agent asking me to jump through absurd hoops (even my bank doesn’t ask for this much information) and taking up to 5 minutes to respond to each response. After 20 wasted minutes I gave up. On a scale of a one-to-ten rating regarding this company’s communication skills, I vote zero.

Without any explanation I finally got a message from the US Post Office (NOT from MyProtein) on the 25th telling me my delivery date was slated for November 3rd.

Even more problematic is MyProtein took my payment, then WAITED 11 DAYS before shipping my order, with no explanation, no apology, etc.

Think twice about doing business with these disrespectful people. 

How Internet Fame Diminishes Both Followers and the Object Of Their Admiration

from: mirror.co.uk

A recent YouTube video from a European internet trainer that I like, and follow, made me cringe.

There was much suspicious about this travel vlog featuring his visit to an American tourist mecca. He was hosted there by one of his online training clients who had a very expensive apartment (or condo) in one of the nation’s most expensive cities in which to live, San Francisco. The client sported no physique development whatsoever, as evidenced both from the duo’s visit to a local gym and the contents of his refrigerator. In one segment the trainer mused about one day having enough money to open his own gym, yet here he is jetting all over the world on a continual basis, seemingly going to one exotic destination or another just about every month.

He ate at SF’s most expensive $ushi re$taurant and enjoyed a $21 hamburger at another. Finally he was stupid enough to show off the fact that as he was at the airport leaving SF for a flight to Los Angeles, he was not flying commercial, but rather on a private jet, raising a lot of questions.

There has been much said about Instagram stars' carefully constructed “perfect” lives and the demoralizing effect it has on some followers, especially after being found out as contrived, exaggerated, or even outright faked. This trainer does neither himself nor his followers any favors by exposing his increasingly inflated ego. His initial modesty was in fact what drew me and many other followers to him in the first place. That segment of his followers who thrive on fantasy will continue to fawn over him, but those who have their feet on the ground will find this change disappointing and demoralizing.

October Inspiration

https://www.instagram.com/shan_hefley/

Why I Get Up At 4 A.M.—Or Earlier

For whatever reason about two years ago, no matter what time I went to bed the night before, I began waking up anytime between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. More recently it’s often closer to 4 a.m. It’s a natural occurrence wherein if I force myself to stay in bed I just lie there thinking useless crap anyway, so instead I get out of bed and start my day productively.

Traditionally I’ve worked out between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., mostly because in most places I have lived, the gym is least crowded at that time. I didn’t even know what time my gym opened in the morning, but when I discovered it opens at 4 a.m., and I was not accomplishing as much at home for the first few hours I was awake, I decided to try working out first thing in the morning.

What shocked me is how crazy crowded my gym is that early in the morning—more crowded than I’ve ever seen it. In the back of my head I wondered at first how I’d ever get motivated to do heavy leg presses at 4:30 until I saw these “everyday” (meaning, non-bodybuilders) doing the same, along with squats, deadlifts and the other heavy-duty exercises. Quite quickly it became normal to attack my workout routine at this unseemly hour.

Going to the gym this early is not to “get it out of the way,” as I love going to the gym and the rewards it brings, so my workout is something to look forward to rather than get over with. But it does feel great coming home with a great pump at a time when most of my neighbors are still an hour away from getting out of their beds.

Change is uncomfortable at first but often it can be a kick-start to new adventures and improved outcomes. 

Make Your Bodybuilders' Diet A Lot More Tasty

Back in the olden days when I was a waiter at a celebrity restaurant in LA called the Melting Pot on La Cienega Blvd., everyone from Streisand, Donna Summer and Liza Minnelli to Jon Voigt, Tom Jones and Clive Davis frequented the place - every night. It was the height of the MSG disinformation era when people were convinced that the substance, among other ills, caused migraine headaches. It didn't. The Melting Pot's food was so delicious precisely because MSG was in everything, so when people asked, "Is there MSG in that? I'm allergic!" I said "Of course not!"

Later on, NITRATES were claimed to be the poison du jour in our food. And today, everyone is supposedly gluten intolerant or whatever. 

Recently a friend hosted friends from California, one of whom upon being invited to dinner proclaimed loudly and often that he was vegan and therefore would bring his own food rather than eat the host's (delicious) meat-food. He brought a fucking chicken sandwich—no lie. Too many Sad Sacks seek attention via their so-called food allergies and recently-adopted beliefs. They're full of shit. Their crappy diet overall is their real problem. 

Here's a link to an article in ESQUIRE magazine about MSG. Read it or not. But if you are bored silly with your chicken breast-broccoli-rice diet, adding a little MSG will make these same foods come alive again.

https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/a23566452/its-time-for-america-to-fall-back-in-love-with-msg/

51-Year-Old Chuando Tan

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/chuandotan/

INSPIRATION: Amazing 10-month Transformation.