Curtis Matthews

We ate and drank with friends and family, that is what Thanksgiving is all about.
Pictures from iPhone.

The last few days I have not posted anything new because I was doing the Thanksgiving holiday thing. We drove to Tampa Wednesday night after working. We left from Pembroke Pines, stopped and picked up dinner at Romeus Cuban restaurant and took the food to go. Our drive took us 4 hours so we got to our destination around midnight. After eating and drinking all day on Thanksgiving we drove back around 6pm because I had to work the next day which was black Friday the busiest shopping day of the year.
Since I am in the retail business and cell phones are a hot ticket item for the holidays I had to be prepared for the potential business that we might have gotten. I had an idea that we would not be as busy as the malls or the big box stores and we did not have any loss leader offers to get the crowds at our location.


The day was busier than I had expected mostly upgrades and customer service issues but at the end of the day we were profitable and did not have to drop our pants.
I did turn away a lot of customers asking for the Apple iPhone or free Blackberry 9700s. We still don’t sell the iPhone and the Blackberry 9700 in the store is definitely not free.
Well I need to work on my Blogs this weekend and put sales online for the various cell phone deals offered. So check out my Blog http://mobilewiseguy.com for the latest deals on cell phones and the best plans available.

Today I did my first mat pilates class. First I did about 10 sets of pull ups, and then I took the pilates class. All my years of weight training, I never stretched properly so I thought that pilates class would benefit me. I did exercises and stretching that I never did before. I see the benefits from stretching so I’m deciding to take that class as much as I can with time permitting. Since they class starts so late I only can take it on my days off and my days off are not consistent so the class may or may not be available that day. Tonight I planned to take a different class, I’m going with my stepdaughter Rebecca to do a body shape in class. This class uses light weights with aerobics. Hopefully these different exercises we’ll help stimulate different muscles in my body. I need to continue to grow if I want to compete in a natural body building competition.

This post was completely done by a speech recognition software that I have on my Sony laptop. So this is basically a test, hopefully I will get much better at this allowing me to do more post to my Blogs.

I did a post earlier today with the WordPress application that I downloaded to me Apple iPhone but it did not save. I am only using the web with wifi because I had a Blackberry Bold before and I did not change the data feature as yet. So everything that I wrote before did not save I thought it saved because I was able to go back and edit what I wrote before but now that I wanted to publish what I had written with the pictures, ii do not know where the text had gone.

We went to see the pay per view UFC fight at the Carolina Ale House on November 11th

This is my friend Anthony son Jay first time lifting weights and I really never wrote a workout routine for any one before. I workout out certain body parts at the same time when I started lifting weights, so I will outline my first routine I did for him here.

What I did is a three day split, meaning I worked out on the first day.
Chest shoulders and triceps. The reason is that when you do chest you encompass your shoulders and triceps. So they are already warm up so I worked these body parts together.
For chest I did flat bench press 3 sets of 10 reps. I would try to increase the weight with every set so the last set is very difficult to do the 10 reps. Next I would do incline bench press this works the top part of my chest. I did the same 3 sets of 10 reps. The last exercise I did for my chest would be flat bench dumbbell flys this is done by grabbing two dumbbells and getting a could stretch at the bottom and when you bring them up to the top squeeze at the top your chest to pump blood into them.
Now my shoulder workout I did behind the neck military presses. Do 4 sets of 10 reps increasing the weight as much every set.
After I would do cable push downs for my triceps.

I am more advanced now these days so I do a lot more exercises now for shoulders triceps and chest, but for you stick with this routine for a few weeks to get your body used to lifting weights. Don’t rush it take your time doing every rep slowly. Balance and form is the most important thing now so you won’t hurt yourself.

The second day or the next time you go to the gym do back and biceps. When you do a back work out you use your biceps so they are already warm up.

If you have a lat pull down machine do 3 sets of 10 pull downs in front bring the bar down close to the top of you chest. This works the width of your back or the lats giving you th V look. My next back exercise I would do bent over barbell rows. The bent over barbell rows can be substituted with a cable row machine if you have one or the other in your gym. This exercise is for the thickness in you back. The safer of the 2 exercises is the cable rows. Do the same 3 set of 10 reps. The last back exercise is upright rows, this works out your traps and upper back as well. You can use a straight barbell or a ez curl bar for this. When doing the exercise bring the bar high to nose level squeezing your traps at the top of the exercise. I guess you noticed most everything is 3 sets of each exercise doing 10 reps. These are the basics latter on you will add or decrease reps depending on the exercise and what you are trying to achieve. Every exercise is the same increase the weight as much as you can every set
The biceps work out should be started with a straight bar barbell curl or a ez curl bar. Do standing 3 sets of 10 reps. Then the last exercise for that day is dumbbell curls do these alternating on arm at a time and when at the top squeeze the blood into your biceps for the pump.

The next day is leg day if you have a smith machine do squats on that it is safer because it has the rails to help guide you and you can set up stoppers in case you fall. Even safer would be leg press machine to do the exercise. The next leg exercise will be leg extensions. These first 2 exercises work the front part of your legs the quads. The next leg exercise for you legs would be leg curls. This works out the back part of your legs or hamstrings. Do your calves the same day as your legs, standing calves raises and seated calves raises.

Do your abs every other workout. So this workout that I am giving you is called a 3 day split meaning you can do this every 3 days rest a day and start the 3 days routine again. You can also train one day skip a day do the next day of the routine and so on. The basic thing you want to do is try and do at least the whole routine every 5 days or 7 days which ever you can fit it in.

I am sorry if this confusing you, I am trying to figure out how to explain this to you in easy terms and expecting you to know how to do the exercises that I am talking about.

First day: chest, shoulders and triceps
Chest
3×10 flat bench
3×10 incline bench
3×10 flat bench dumbbell fly
Shoulders
4×10 military presses
Triceps
3×10 triceps push downs

Second day: back and biceps
Back
3×10 Lat pull downs in front
3×10 barbell or cable rows
3×10 upright rows
Biceps
3×10 standing barbell or ez curl bar curls
3×10 alternating standing dumbbell curls

Third day: legs
3×10 smith machine squats or leg press
3×10 leg extensions
3×10 leg curls
3×10 standing calves raises
3×10 seated calves raises.

Do an ab workout every other workout day.

We made it to the Finals last night of the Fame Natural Body Building competition in Fort Lauderdale, Florida held at the War Memorial center. I was very happy that I could attend and see my first live body building show. What sucked was my camera batteries died after 2 pictures and the one posted is the best of the 2. I did have my Blackberry Bold with me but from where I was sitting the pictures came out fuzzy. I was proud to see the contestants on stage knowing these were the real deals not some Roid Boybut hard working real people from all walks of life and people whom had obstacles such as one guy used to be parlayed and the lady named Amy who loss over 300lbs. I wish this event and other natural body building events would get a better following but I guess most people rather look at a freakish monster than a person whom does not use steroids and trains hard.
The only thing that I saw bad was the turn out it was terrible. Most of the seats were empty and they had to drop the general admission tickets to $2 stating it was to promote drug free body building. What they called VIP seating was the fold up chairs in front of the stage and those tickets were $40, so you can guess most people sat in the general admission seats. The sponsorship was week, they had a new company that Donald Trump is backing that creates personalized supplements based on your body make up. The other sponsor were a vitamin water company, personal trainer certification and a guy promoting his energy pill. I did not stay to the end but the guy who did the Terminator routine and I think is name was Malik, he did a routine with a sword. Those 2 should have place very well in the competition. The 69 year old guy looked great and much respect to him.

I don’t have a diet, I just don’t eat junk food like Burger King and McDonald’s. One of my vices is food not the quality of the food but the quantity I eat. Last night I went to a Japanese buffet resturant and ate about 3000+ calories o f Sushi, Beef, Chicken, Shrimp, Squid and many other food items. I did also devour some deserts, cakes and icecream. I know that this is going to be my demon in my mission to enter a natural body building competition within the next year but if I have to change my life too drastically I won’t have fun while trying to meet my goal. I know I will have to diet sometime but while I am still trying to build muscle mass I will enjoy myself. I go out to eat dinner at least 2-3 times a week and most of the time I don’t over eat but I did over eat 3 times this week and tonight I will probably go out again for dinner. I wonder if I tweet on twitter every meal I eat if that would be to much? I think I shall tweet my meals for a least a few days to see if I pick up more followers.

Today is my chest and biceps training day. I don’t have to work today so I did not have to go to the gym at 7am, instead I will be going around 1pm today. Today Gina will go to the gym with me, so I should be able to push myself to go heavier now that I will have a spotter.
I did my workout at 2pm with Gina but I screwed up today was suppose to do chest and triceps training not biceps but I did get a good biceps workout. I am going to change my routine to do biceps with chest and triceps on the shoulder days. I did incline barbell bench press today and flat bench dumbbells along with barbell decline bench. The biceps training was all dumbbell work and I think for the next few weeks I will stick to doing chest and biceps with dumbbells instead of barbells. I am getting a better pump and the muscle is taxed more with less stress on the joints using the dumbbells.
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Reading this today brought up memories: Sixteen years after tearfully testifying in his Operation Court Broom bribery case, former Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Phillip Davis on Monday took the stand again, this time to deny charges that he pilfered grant money intended to help the poor. In the early 90s I was a Bailiff for Judge Melvia Green. I worked as a Bailiff for 5 1/2 years. I started in County Court Traffic Division and became Judge Green’s personal Bailiff through County, Criminal Circuit, Civil Circuit and Juvenile Court. When she got appointed to Appellate Court that’s Federal and I needed to by a US Marshal to continue working with her. She is a great Judge and great person, I was very luck to have known her and worked for her
But that’s how I came to be around during Courtroom Broom. I knew most of the Judges personally that got indicted on corruption charges. I even sold cell phones back then and installed it in one of the Judge’s car. This Judge beat the rap because he always had his Chambers and house swept for wire taps, so they did have any recordings of this Judge and that was the states strongest evidence against the Judges.