Tag: wellness

• Deload Incoming! More Production Under Way!

  It’s late and it’s slow. Thankfully, in the midst of accomplishing some tasks, I’ve taken time to write this. These next few months will be very testing for me on a multiplanar level.

  I managed to knock out the Week 3 of the workout program I designed for myself back in December. The good news was that most of it was doable with the intensity and load I prepared. The bad news is that some of the rust from recovering from the cornea abrasion did affect my lifting strength and endurance. Thankfully, this week is the Deload of the program so I get to give more attention to the stability and endurance aspects.

  This past week I’ve started to put the Firebutt #1 paperback in motion for Amazon. Once it’s approved and good to go, you’ll know about it via social media.

  I managed to do some mixing for the Gunz Crew album and I have to say that so far, the energy and spirit of the music is different from my previous work but as I have done in the past, all music will be done in 432hz. The reason is simple — the vibration of the sounds isn’t as rigid or stiff and has more flow, which is the main thing I’ve learned through comparing it with normal 440hz tuning.

  This has also been a very difficult week for me on a mindset aspect. For those whom aren’t familiar, while my thing has been my weight loss over the years, I also deal with eczema and depression, a double whammy of sorts for me. When eczema shows up via colder weather, my face flakes up, I can barely look myself in the mirror and just wanna hide from everyone. When depression hits, whether due to frustrations coming from current happenings, things not translating as planned or thinking too much on disappointments that like to remind me of them through other experiences, I also tend to hide, not want to speak to anyone and that inexplicable sense of hopelessness just takes over with no mercy. It’s equivalent to a malevolent witch hexing your heart and lungs with knives grafted from your own blood and bones. Then it just disappears out of nowhere, as though bored with torturing me.

  Once the spell passed, I focused on my Performance Enhancement studies and from there, I started to really dial in and see where my weaknesses are in my programming and why I am having such an imbalance in composition development with my body. It turns out that some body parts have been positioned into hypertrophy while others are within parameters of power, strength development or stabilization, all the while my ambition is bringing equilibrium among all parts overall in order to avoid structural, movement or energetic imbalance.

  As far as nutrition goes, I’ve shifted my macros into 60/20/20, given that due to my job, as well as my training, carbs are a must. I have also noticed my body having weight fluctuations again from 251.5-260, partially due to my feeding schedule being very wild, hence the importance of intermittent fasting.The body sometimes needs a timeout.

  I have also resumed some writing for Firebutt #2. The chapter I’m currently writing still has humor but is definitely taking a darker direction, given the focus it has on its destinated character.

   

  Until next time,

   

  Ron Gunz

  01/27/2019

  album, blog, deload, depression, eczema, Firebutt, Fitness, gunzcrew, Health, intermittentfasting, Life, Music, Nutrition, paperback, personaltraining, program, rongunz, socialmedia, training, wellness, workout, Writing

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• 10 Years Later! Retrospect of how far I’ve Come!

  A few days ago, Facebook in all its conventional wisdom hit me with a Memories photo. It showed a picture of me on the left from about February 2009 and me on the right from April 2012. It was first big transformation pic I’ve really put out. It’s 2019 now and as I see this and look through my pictures now, it’s just wild how my body has changed over the years.

  As some may have read in my social media before or might have heard my story, in 2008 I was at my all time heaviest — 385 pounds! In this picture, in 2009 I was about 365 pounds. The 20 pounds that came off were due to not only hitting the gym 5 days a week but also not drinking soda or eating so much candy, let alone fast food in the chronic manner I did years prior. The training consisted of stability and muscle endurance, along with a lot of cardio via treadmill.

  By 2012, I had hacked all the way down to 275 and while I did work out 5 days a week, my workout days were significantly longer because well, band I was in was inactive, dating was pretty sporatic. As far as dieting went, I ate everything but avoided some artificial food as well as the aforementioned soft drinks and fast food at a minimum. My training at the time involved a combination of muscle endurance to powerlifting while my cardio would consist of hitting the heavy bag for a good hour and the elliptical.

  While I could have shown the big change of 2016 when I dropped to 236 pounds, there were no picture of me doing a simple pose like in the 2009 and 2012 ones and thus presenting the start of 2019 at 250 pounds.

  It is the beginning of 2019. 11 months having been on a plant based diet, with only one non-vegan cheat meal a month. My training is now about 1 hour/day, 3 days/week. I went from a swinging 285-275 of January 2018 to 250 as of now. In addition, fast food is virtually non-existent. If it wasn’t made in my kitchen, chances are more often than not, it’s not getting in my mouth, period.

  My routine consists of a 20 minute walk from my girlfriend’s job to my gym those 3 days followed by dynamic mobility exercises in between sets of my weightlifting exercises. The lifting programs I set up are mostly Push, Pull and Legs, although I like to change the rhythm to Pull, Legs, Push or Pull, Push and Legs. The rep and set ranges I’ll adjust to anything from stability, muscular endurance or strength. Due to a cornea abrasion I had in my right eye, I had to bring myself down to stability and muscular endurance just to ease my nervous system into rhythm as I healed, given that the injury had triggered other issues — such as neck strain, light sensitivity, dizziness, my chest wanting to cave in and so on.

  Thankfully as of now, my rhythm and strength is coming back to me and thus able to get back into a hybrid program I was in that combined endurance and maximum strength.

  Something I also wanted to point out in these 3 pictures — in 2009, I was wearing 2XL and sometimes 3XL with 46-48 in pants. In 2012, I was down to an XL with 38-40 in pants. Today, on a bad day I’m wearing an L but on a good day an M but now comfortably wearing 36 on pants.

  I am very optimistic regarding what the rest of this year will bring in regards to my health, as well as my career. I’m looking forward to many people today turn their health around as I did.

   

  Until next time,

   

   

  Ron Gunz

  01/11/2019

  blog, coachgunz, Fitness, flashbackfriday, Health, nasm, Nutrition, personaltraining, plantbased, reflection, retrospect, Review, rongunz, vegan, wellness

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• Stable Assessment! Eye Update!

  3am in a not-so-unusual state of insomnia. If I had to say how well my right eye is doing, I can gladly say it’s an 8.5/10. Overall light sensitivity is annoying on some near-vampiric levels but nevertheless I must carry on. The best thing has been my ability to actually do my job without need to slow down, sit down in the dark or even dizziness. I can sit and read, my proprioception is pretty decent as far as walking around, seeing things, moving things.

  Exercise, however, a slightly different story. Despite being on the verge of hitting a week 3 of 4 sets of As Many Reps As Possible (AMRAP for short) and tackling pretty hefty weight, the Cornea Abrasion set me back to where, in the name of safety, I had to go back to using a more Stabilization and Muscular Endurance format — doing 4 sets of 10-20 reps. I made it a Pull day — Hang Rows, Lat Pulldowns, Seated Rows, Bicep/Hammer Curls.

  To be sincere, I was sad. Yes, I felt the pump but the fact that I felt a slight struggle in weight that I otherwise would easily conquer was a mess for me personally. Not exactly square one but not exactly, “Oh ho, watch me go!” either. I managed to get the job done but I personally just felt bummed about it. My pre-workout meal was glorious and I’ve had plenty of sleep, study time, well-warmed up. I’m sure the mood will pass but it is a bothersome although fleeting feeling.

  I also had to play it safe as I also had to not over-exert myself because I didn’t want to find myself straining this eye to where recovery suffers a setback of any kind.

  On that note, I’m going to enjoy this lovely bowl of oatmeal — packed with old fashioned oats, red apple, chia seeds, saigon cinnamon, pink salt, blue agave and banana.

  12/27/2018

  abrasion, blog, cornea, Fitness, Health, Life, recovery, rongunz, vegan, weightlifting, wellness

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