It is all about knowing you can do it.  It is about confidence and practice.  When you have confidence that you can do something you will be successful at it as long as you practice it.  It is the same with your nutrition and exercise programs.  They will be successful if you actually work the plan.  If you try to change things up midstream for no good reason you won't be successful in the long run.  The thing is that it takes patience.  Most people do not have the patience it really takes to make it happen.

Think about your own reaction when you track your stats and they are not going in the direction you'd like or they are not changing fast enough for your liking.  Your natural inclination is to just change things up, but why would you change things up if you have no evidence one way or the other that the plan is working or not?

Total time of 20 minutes start to finish.

Week 1 – Deadlifts
Week 2 – Squats
Week 3 – Bench Press
Week 4 – Lat pulldowns

The idea is to one exercise for five training sessions in a row.  You use very heavy weight and extremely high volume.  I will do 3 rep sets.  When I will take 30 seconds rest between each set and when I can only complete 2 reps I will lower the weight.  I will continue doing this for a set period of time.  Once I've reached my allotted time I will rest 2 minutes and finish off with a set with as many reps as I can manage.  I will begin with 20 minutes and each subsequent day I will increase the time by 5 minutes.  I will report back my results when I have completed this 4 week cycle.

I am honestly not interested in doing the entire Muscle Explosion program for alot of different reasons.  However, I believe the 5-day Structural Attack portion (as described above) is going to be awesome for my strength and my muscle building efforts.  It is all about keeping the body guessing.

Today involved teaching their support staff how to handle common problems with the software.  I spent an hour presenting the issues that can arise and then another 2 hours answering questions.  The staff was very attentive and I feel the training went very well.  When I left they were experiencing a network problem that is not the fault of the software.

My flight from Boston to Long Beach was already delayed by 15 minutes upon my arrival at the airport.  We boarded the plane on time and then were told that we'd be an additional 45 minutes late taking off due to FAA regulations.  This made my flight an hour late.  We managed to make up 30 minutes of that time during the flight.

I flew on Jet Blue airlines and they are known for having DirectTV at every single seat.  I have gotten addicted to a show called The First 48 which is about a real life homicide investigation in the first 48 hours after the discovery of the body.  It is quite interesting to see how detectives operate and I could not stop watching episode after episode.  I also spent about 2 hours reading up on the Pose Running Technique.  The flight was uneventful, but the service was horrible.  On a 6 hour flight they offered us beverage service one time only.  I'd say the flight crew on this flight was quite lazy.

I spent the entire day fixing some configuration problems they caused through their lack of knowledge of our software.  I also listened to their change requests and assessed the feasibility of those changes.  Most of the day was spent just getting the system running correctly and ironing out some strange issues.  In the end it was a very successful day.

They took me out to dinner and I had steak with vegetables.  I was proud of myself for being able to be social but still stick to my plan.  It felt great.