LegendaryLife Blog

I have now completed my first motivational / inspirational book whose working title is “Transforming your life from blah to Legendary!”.

Feb 8 to 26: 2009

I started on this book on February 8th and now, 18 days later, I have finally completed it. It’s all layed-out, checked for mistakes and now, time to get an ISBN number and get it proof-read by a few other people other than just me before hitting the printing press. It has 138 pages, plus two pages for notes so 140 total. It has 68 comic panels plus one of me It features a mix of humor, deep thinking and assigned tasks based on my life’s experiences so far.

It feels great to accomplish something!

One of my goals in life is to help others create a life of achievement and reward, this book and soon, LegendaryLife.com itself, will be the tool to help me make this dream a reality on a daily basis. Writing a book isn’t as easy as I may make it sound but the fact that I can do this means you can as well! This year, my goal was to publish a few books, so far, I got one down and two more to go. I love photography so that is where my other is probably heading. For a person who, a few years ago, had trouble writing, couldn’t draw nor had much to say, I think I have come a very long way in my development as a human being.

Islands of the Great Barrier Reef update

The selection process is going-on now to pick 50 people out of the 34 thousand that applied, I would love the opportunity to write a diary of the entire experience as my next book but it’s out of my hands. Voting for the top 50, followed by the top 11 will start soon so if I make the cut, this would be beyond cool! Here’s the video once more

The Bottom Line

Achievement is always a work in progress

It’s really raining hard here… a week ago I had to stop working on my WoodMarvels.com site due to running-out of hard drive space (no big deal, I was due for a small break) but since then, it’s been go, Go, GO!

A week “off”

I started-off trying and almost finishing my very first motivational / inspirational self-help book which is looking fantastic and coming together amazingly well then I got a call for a few 3D animation projects and now, a huge opportunity for WoodMarvels.com that I am just so happy to jump head-first right into! It’s all a result of the massive amount of time I spent over the holidays upgrading that company and now, attention and opportunity is coming in leaps and bounds. I couldn’t be prouder!

Wait… that’s not all!

What’s even more fantastic is that my video to become the next “Islands of the Great Barrier Reef Caretaker” is just about to hit the 3K views too… I think my chances are really good to make it from 1 in 30 000 to 1 in 50 over the next two weeks but we will see what fate has in store for me. This would be a huge opportunity not only for me, my businesses and my books but also for Australia, giving me worldwide exposure to really make a difference in other people’s lives and become a worldwide spokesperson for this paradise on Earth! This would be an enormous boost to get me to where I want to be in life as it would easily shave a decade off my time lines for personal achievement!

All I see on the news is doom and gloom

Sure, people are losing their jobs, the economy is going into the dumps but there are businesses who are thriving during these times as well, the focus on the media towards depression is becoming rather dull. THINGS ARE NOT THAT BAD! If you are part of a dying industry, failed to diversify and learn new things and decided to play it safe all your life, losing your job sucks but it’s a wake-up call that your job isn’t your life and your life isn’t your job! There is still far more opportunity in this world that any one company or person can grasp, GOT FOR IT and take no prisoners! Life is about adventure, exploration and learning, not stagnation… I absolutely refuse to adopt the crisis mentality that is like a plague engulfing the world, I see, on a daily basis, opportunity coming out of this chaos, not dread!

LegendaryLife.com Update

Let’s see, a booming on-demand laser cutting company, publishing another book and maybe getting paid to explore the beautiful Great Barrier Reef Islands and on-top of that, launching LegendaryLife.com after YEARS in development… I really hope this tsunami of success and achievement keeps coming my way, I can only hope but wish for this to all become true in the next few months! Life is amazing when pieces of the puzzle really start coming together after so much hard work!

The Bottom Line

Don’t allow yourself to be brainwashed into thinking everything is bad, it isn’t!

My goal was the publish a self-help, motivational book and I started on it a little over a week ago.

Self-help book update

So far, I am just about done the first draft, about 90% of the 140 pages have content. This book is just flowing out of me as these are all ideas and concepts that have been in my mind for years… fermenting and just waiting to come-out!

I completed the imagery years ago and, as a result, this saved me a lot of time and actually provided me with the initial outline of my book which helps tremendously keep writers block away!

My goal now is to have the first draft completely done by the end of the month, going through the script with a spell and grammar checker won’t be much fun as I will lose a lot of formatting but a necessary evil never the less.

See how it all began at: Everything happens for a reason, time to publish another book!

First book now available

I am also happy to announce that my first book has now been published and is available on Amazon.com now You can see it in the right hand margins WoodMarvels.com: Top Sellers

Peter is now coming into his own, gaining confidence and starting to have a positive self-image… all great improvements but these didn’t happen because of his steroid use.

Episode 10 – Super Roid Brothers

• week 10 and Peter is now at 162.2 pounds
• Peter has replaced little pink pills with little yellow ones, Mr. Fantastic needs to knock some sense into him and get him to drop the orals for the injectables
• measurement woman is back, Peter now has 13 inch arms, 15 inch calves, 45 inch shoulders
• Peter is now consuming 3700 calories a day (no wonder he is gaining weight) as it’s double what he ate before!
• week 11: 166.2 pounds with 13.9% bodyfat
• Mr. Fantastic started-off seeming not to know anything about steroids but now, he seems to know more far more then he is letting on

Episode 11 – The Final Countdown

• week 12, Peter does look better than at the beginning
• day 84, Peter seems to have lost some weight or just looks “normal”, light can both giveth and taketh away
• at week 12, his bench press is now 125 pounds (from 65), neck is 15 inches (compared to 13 inches), shoulder 44.5 inches (before 42), 12.75 inch arms, 36 inch chest (from 33 week 1)
• Peter is impressed at how powerful of a life changer a small little tic-tac sized pill has had on his life (he still doesn’t realize he is responsible for the change, not the pill)
• day 84, three months later, he is now 169.2 pounds, up 31.2 pounds at 14% body fat (more than double what he had before)!
• Peter is still running around town without a t-shirt!
• Peter goes on PCT at the end of his cycle, after 3 weeks he now has gynecomastia (bitch tits) and is now at 165 pounds
• doctor says he is perfectly healthy now
• Mr. Fantastic says “steroids don’t kill people, stupid people on steroids kill themselves”.  I agree 100%!
• the first time I see him in a t-shirt at the gym lasts only a few seconds before he takes his shirt off again!
• Peter is now talking about another cycle already

Real information about steroids, fitness and diet

• Muscle memory is great… too bad it doesn’t last
• Why I decided not to take Anabolic Steroids
• Gaining Weight 101: Tips from a fellow Hard gainer
• LL Question: Even with bad genetics, can I become the world’s strongest man?
• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Taking Time Off and Muscle Memory

Buzvia: Steroids Saved My Life (Television Series)

I am crossing my fingers that Peter begins to acquire some common sense from people outside of his “Three Stooges” team. Once again, I am not a doctor and have no formal education other than my university biology degree and decades of studying health, fitness and nutrition.

Episode 7 – Peter Balboa

• day 47, dosage of steroids has been increased (from what to what I would like to know, even a % would be nice)
• Mr. Fantastic’s advice of not stacking on your first cycle is dead-on! He does know a thing or two about steroids… finally a real FACT in this entire series! The reason stacks (taking more than one steroid) during a cycle is a waste of time and money is because your receptors are clean so you are fine gaining on just testosterone, only people who have a few cycles under their belt stack
• more steroids = more food = more workouts = more stupidity = more chances of ending-up in the hospital with something being seriously torn = going back to the weight he started off with
• yet again, Peter is showing off his little bag of pills… let the liver and endocrine damage continue!
• Mr. Fantastic says people stacking on their first cycle are “fucking morons”, good advice! Now we know that Peter is NOT taking advice from Mr. Fantastic and in this instance, he really should have. Not only did Peter not know this vital piece of information but now he is switching around his cycle mid-stream… this train wrek is only getting worse!
• day 50, Peter says he is starting to have anger issues (???), this is nonesense
• his friend Davin slapped him in the face to which Peter said he was going to kill him, this isn’t ‘roid rage
• Peter is feeling bigger and stronger and is flowing with energy now, I am sure he could have achieved this without steroids at all, what happened is his body went from a state of stagnation into one of rejuvenation, this has more to do with exercise and eating well than steroids.
• Mr. Fantastic is really starting to sound like he knows his stuff! He states Sylvester Stalone was (is) on juice (HGH is what he has admitted so far) probably once he hit Rocky 2.
• Drinking raw eggs is a wonderful way to get sick, I did this a lot too but have since stopped, I cook my eggs now (maybe the stomach flew he had a few weeks ago was from the raw eggs)
• Peter needs to spend less money on supplements and more on buying a shirt
• Davin says steroids may cause pimples, which is true but from the people I have talked to, they seem to get it more on their back than on their face when on a cycle
• the more I hear Davin talk, the more I agree with Peter!
• Mr. Fantastic says there isn’t anything really wrong with taking orals other than it having to pass through your liver while injectables go directly into the bloodsteam… not entirely true, your liver processes the drug afterwards so orals get processed twice while injectables once
• video of Mr. Fantastic taking a shot of juice (DECA 300) in the shoulder, he used alcohol which is very smart on the injection site
• week 7, about two months, he is up 20 pounds now
• Peter and Mr. Fantastic are positive Micheal Phelps is on the juice, I can’t agree on this, IOC standards are incredibly strict with a huge anti-doping and random testing mechanism since the whole Ben Johnson affair
• a woman states that people take protein, vitamins and other supplements so steroids can’t be anymore dangerous. This is WRONG because steroids is a hormone, protein is not nor do other supplements, just look at female bodybuilders to see the effect of hormone injections
• Mr. Fantastic thinks that Peter will lose only 10% of his gains at the end of the cycle, I got to agree only if he keeps eating like he is and slacks off on the exercise routine along with proper post cycle clomid therapy only due to the fact that his gains were due to a former life of malnutrition and lack of physical activity, his age also helps big time too
• Mr. Fantastic is giving some very good advice now, if Peter continues to improve his training, diet and motivation he will keep most of what he got
• “Yah for steroids… they’re so great!”, I wonder if Peter will think the same when he gets off
• more pictures of him without a shirt… arg!

Episode 8 – Mission Roid

• Peter Brown is Canadian, filming out of Vancouver
• day 54, more “Peter talk” about why he is so cool and smart to do what he is doing
• Peter says one of the major side-effects of steroids is that you get a tan (???), and I thought it was due to him running around in the sun without sunscreen or t-shirt
• Peter going to a tanning salon, yet another extremely stupid move, he must figure that screwing-up your endocrine system isn’t enough, time for some skin cancer too by using a tanning bed and running around town without a t-shirt!
• Tanning girl says people should be tanning 3-4x a week, this is the stupidest and most dangerous thing I have heard in this show so far!
• interview with Peter’s dealer, if I remember correctly, a few episodes ago, he was talking about how smart he was by getting steroids from a doctor because then you know where the stuff is coming from, yet he doesn’t follow his own advice and goes with a steroid dealer (???). My only guess is that his doctor refused to give him steroids because that would only have made his problems worse, not better.
• day 58, he is at 158 pounds and is hoping to gain another 10 pounds by the time the cycle is over… far below his original goal of gaining a total of 42 pounds.
• Peter says he took steroids to “overcome lifelong challenges” that have affected him, I thought he took them to gain 42 pounds and become a ladies man?
• Peter can’t figure-out why people are yelling at him while he does bicep curls… maybe it’s his lack of proper form along with far too little weight?
• a shot of him lifting weight at the gym around the end with a barbell shows his form has not improved even with the use of a personal trainer, those weekend online personal training certificates are really paying-off!

Episode 9 – Roid Karate

• arg… more topless shirt video of him, now in a Karate outfit (with a white belt no less… impressive!) I have a black belt in Karate and took it for 10 years when I was younger
• day 61, his friends notice he went from extremely introverted to extremely extroverted, not sure if this is an improvement
• Davin admits he can’t stand Peter anymore and I can’t stand neither of them
• day 59, Peter says now that he has taken steroids and is a big man, he wants to be respected… he should have read this blog, respect is something you EARN, which, so far, I don’t see much of, hence none was given
• Big Bear is looking worse as Peter is getting better… what’s up with that?
• day 61, he hit the 160 pound plateau so he has lost some motivation at the gym, diet etc… now he has a girlfriend too!
• Peter has replaced his red shorts for a topless Karate uniform! Arg!!!
• week 1: 95 pound squats, week 9: 195 pounds, his thighs are now 24 inches
• Big Bear says all the changes that Peter has gone through have more to do with his new lifestyle than steroids, I completely agree!
• Peter now observes that he no longer has any problems, it’s everybody else who has problems now
• his goal now is getting a girl, gaining 20 pounds and becoming an internet icon

Some thoughts so far

Just about everything Peter has done to change his life could have been done without the use of any steroids what-so-ever. During his transformation, he has acquired some very bad habits including not being able to wear a shirt and putting all his self-esteem into his little pink pills. I really hopes he comes to realize that he only used steroids as an excuse to do what he should have done long ago. He didn’t need them at 138 pounds and he surely doesn’t need them at 160 pounds either.

Real information about steroids, fitness and diet

• Muscle memory is great… too bad it doesn’t last
• Why I decided not to take Anabolic Steroids
• Gaining Weight 101: Tips from a fellow Hard gainer
• LL Question: Even with bad genetics, can I become the world’s strongest man?
• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Taking Time Off and Muscle Memory

Buzvia: Steroids Saved My Life (Television Series)