The dinner discussion was fun as we all caught up.  We had not seen each other for many years.  We spoke about our children and what we've been doing with our lives.  My brother-in-law told us alot about what he does for a living.

Later we accompanied them all back to my brother-in-law's hotel room to meet his wife and son and both in-laws who had spent the day at Disneyland.  We had a very wonderful discussion with them about so many different things.  Both couples (my brother and sister-in-law and my wife's cousin and his wife) have only been married for 5 years and each have a 3 year old son.  With my wife and I having 4 children, there was alot of advice being sought by the two couples.  It was just a really fun time and I enjoyed watching my wife reconnect with her brother.

I have always developed software for other people. My new plan involves creating software that I can sell to a niche market.  I have gained a load of understanding about this niche market over the past 7 years and feel that I have alot to offer in this area.  Having a niche is the one principle I've read over and over again.  It will make it easier to sell any product that is created.  I also have a strong partner who I trust and can rely on.  All of these things add up to an exciting new plan.

I spent my morning drive on the phone with Carlos DeJesus. We were discussing evidence of success and what qualifies.  The discussion, as always, was awesome.  Carlos told me about his cardio circuit.  We discussed how many people Carlos has trained to a successful result.  He can point to many different success stories as a result of his training.  People like Carlos don't need to brag because they have the evidence to back them up.  To me, this is a key indicator of who to listen to.

Anyone can come out and espouse a certain idea, but can they back up what they say?  If not, why should anyone listen to them?  Ideas are easy to come by, but the facts to back them up is another story.  To me, if there are no facts then I can't listen.

Carlos has done what most of the internet gurus have not.  Carlos has trained champions.  Carlos himself is a champion.  Something tells me that Carlos is not done training champions. 

You see, this program is quite unique.  Normally you are told "do 6 to 10 repetitions for your upper body and 8 to 12 repetitions for your lower body."  This means that for an upper body exercise you are looking for a weight that you can handle at least 6 times, but not more than 10 times.  If you hit or exceed 10 repetitions you are to increase your weight on that exercise.  With this program that isn't what happens.  You test yourself for every exercise in the program.  This determines your optimal rep range for each exercise in the program.  Thus, according to my own results, when I do my bench press, I should aim for 6 to 8 repetitions. On bicep curls I should aim for 5 to 7 repetitions.  Both are upper body exercises, but both have different repetition ranges.

Tomorrow I will go back into the gym and test myself for the final half of the exercises in the program.  I am excited about this program because it not only has some different exercises, the approach is a bit different as well.  Watch my workout logs as M5 progresses for more on this concept.