Sober Moment 3.24.09

Still in recovery from the Black Party, I started my 10-week beach-body workout plan (girrrrrrrl!) yesterday.  BTW, this is the 10^th week before Memorial Day, *holds banner pic in one hand and Black Party pics in the other*  and as you can see, I've lost a bit of mass and definition since last summer.  I'm not going to make that kind of progress in 10 weeks, but I'd be just fine if I could wake up looking like I do right after a workout.  

The plan is heavy lifting and low reps 4 times a week with a few core exercises to work large muscle groups (because I’m really not spending all night in the gym) combined with a high-protein dietary assault.  Can we talk about how sore I am today!  What sucks is that I’m going out of town Friday night, so I have do back-to-back gym days through Thursday. 

Yesterday, I went to Vitamin Shoppe to try out a new protein supplement a friend had suggested, Serious Mass.  I asked the guy working where it was, and after he walked me over, I gave him a ‘thank you’ as I began to read the label in order to prevent the requisite hovering afterwards.  Of course, it didn't work (I hate that… they do it at GNC, too).  So I started thinking out loud to make it less awkward. 

“Oh, it has creatine.”

“Yeah, but not that much.”

I’ve never been a fan of the whole creatine thing.  It seems like every time I’ve seen pictures of results, the muscle mass and definition was impressive, but the basic muscle formation left something to be desired (probably because those guys got so much more pumped up than their genetic code ever intended).  Plus their faces always look fatter in the after picture.

Disappointed, I went over to the next shelf to take a look at Mass Tech (what I used last year).  Obviously, I hadn’t read that label as carefully as I thought last year because it also has creatine in it.  “Fuck it; I’m feeling adventurous,” I said to myself, grabbing the 12-lb, dog-food-looking bag of Serious Mass.  Turns out it’s only a gram of creatine monohydrate (bodybuilding.com suggests 20-30 grams for loading and 5-20 grams for regular use). 

If I remember, I’ll post a before picture (after my rooommate’s recording session tonight). 

Speaking of, my roommate got the mix for the first song we did back last night, and it sounds good.  The engineer auto-tuned the fuck out of everything, but it makes for a really cool effect (and who doesn’t love perfectly-pitched background vocals!).  We're working on the last song now (it's reggaeton/reggaetón/reguetón!), which is exciting because a) we'll have a complete project soon, b) I'll get paid, and c) I'll get my weeknight life back!  Can't wait because Joey Israel's coming out with some amazing concepts for parties that I'm missing out on.  But it's good to be (temporarily) producing music again.

Click here to check out the SoHo-loft Obama fundraiser followed by the Uptown adventure.