Prepping For A Photo Shoot

Turns out I am going to be doing a photo shoot on either March 28th or April 4th. I am going to be doing some fitness photos as recommended by client, rising star musical artist and model manager Abraham McDonald. Needless to say I am tightening up on my diet real quick! I am currently at 11% body fat and I am looking to drop quick in the next couple weeks. To help me on my photo shoot ready adventure, super trainer Jordan Yuam has offered to help me fine tune some body parts prior to the shoot. Today we did some arms and let me tell you...they were blasted! I don't typically do too much arm work, maybe once a week if I am lucky. Typically I am training on a tight schedule and looking to slam the most work in using as little time as possible. To tune up for the upcoming photo shoot I definitely have to change my current routine. I especially have to change my nutrition because I will be cutting calories to lean out some more, so my workouts cannot be as metabolically demanding or else I will lose precious lean muscle tissue and have a hard time pushing through my workouts.

When it comes to isolated movements, shaping and sculpting, I am pretty sure there is no one in the business as good as Jordan. He has a unique ability to completely move the way an exercise hits a certain muscle group. A tweak here and an adjustment there and a completely new part of my bicep was on fire. Today Jordan pretty much rocked my arms and it was a lot of fun learning from him. From here on out we're going to work on my upper chest, medial deltoid and arms to get me photo ready. My diet is pretty strict. I am going to a pretty low carb cycle of 100-150g of carbohydrates a day for 5 days, a carb loading day and then repeating that cycle. My protein intake is going to be very high at 285 grams a day (1.5 my body weight). The rest of the calories will be made up in peanut butter, veggies and nuts! Remember that "Chasing the Illusion" process I talked about? Well, now I get to be a part of it first hand, and I am going to let you know what it is like every step of the way!