Mach3Multisport.com

I figured the benefit of making some contacts with an industry magazine would outweigh the ridicule I'd receive from my sensitive, new-age buddies for "modeling" in a magazine.  As it turns out, the other Jeff drew the short straw and had to model the teeny-weeny bikini swim trunks (or "man panties" as the photographer so gently put it), so I'm feeling pretty good about the whole process about now.  Actually, after 13 years of being a fighter pilot, I have pretty thick skin, so I was never really too worried about guys making fun of me.  I have to admit though, wearing the "man panties" in the pages of a magazine might have been a little tough at work when someone inevitably finds the issue and makes 10,000 copies of the picture for distribution. 

But I digress. 

Really, the only reason I even mention the photo shoot is to pass on what I discovered in the week leading up to it. 

Sarah from TriSports e-mailed me about a week out to let me know that I was picked to do the shoot.  I decided that I should make an effort to lean out a little to look as good as I could.  That week happened to be the second base week at the beginning of the half iron training plan I'm currently on, so big volume fit well with what I had already planned to do anyway. However, I thought it would be cool to take it a step further, so I called Windy, who's also a pilot in my unit, to ask for her advice on how to burn as much fat as possible in a week.  You see, Windy is a former (and returning) fitness model competitor (Windy, forgive me if I'm butchering the title of what you used to do) who has lots of experience with this sort of operation. 

What Windy told me to do wasn't altogether unexpected.  In a nutshell, her advice was to take in the caloric equivalent of a sniff of coffee daily and perform some form of Aerobic activity for about half of my waking hours.  She also told me some stuff about taking creatine and getting a fake tan, but I was already too hungry at that point to pay attention. 

Her preface to her comments was "now, this isn't going to be healthy, but. . ."  and that did stick with me.  So what I did was, I cut her advice in half roughly.  I didn't want to look like a bodybuilder with .7% body fat.  I wanted to look like a triathlete.  Plus, I wanted to be healthy enough to actually see some training benefit from the workouts I was doing. 

Up next:  The plan and the results! 

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

Name

Email

Website

Title

Comment

Write the displayed characters

Add Comment