Welcome!  This is the inaugural post of to this website — thank you so much for visiting and sharing your thoughts on the ideas presented here.  This is a site dedicated to fitness.  We’ll post tips, workouts, and nutrition ideas as well as reviews of the best gear and supplements.  But that won’t be the main point of our blogs; we’ll talk about the mental aspect of fitness and how an extreme fitness plan will not only give you amazing physical results, the character you build and the habits you form will bleed over into other aspects of your life.

The inspiration from this site came from my more than ten years trying to get real results from a fitness plan.  I tried countless plans, made countless commitments.  I’ve read over a hundred books on fitness and even got certified as a personal fitness trainer by the American Council on Exercise back in 2004.  I bought into the easy fitness mantra – enjoy your cheat days, only do twenty minutes of high-intensity cardio, etc.  Nothing I tried worked.  At the same time I was trying to get fit, I was extremely busy at work and addicted to fast food.  Nothing could take the edge off a tough day like a juicy double cheeseburger with bacon, or a deep-dish extra pepperoni pizza.  I’d stay with my plan for a couple weeks, but then a stressful day or week would undo it all with a few skipped workouts and a giant meal.

By 2008, I pretty much gave up fitness after so many years of frustration.  Then, last summer, I had an idea.  Maybe the problem was I was seeing too few results.  My routine was too soft, too easy.  Maybe I needed to raise my game, pull out all the stops and really kick ass.  I needed an extreme experiment to go all out, so I designed a 100-day routine to test out my theory and its been so spectacularly successful that I have to share it.  In 37 days I’ve gone from 174.4 to 158 pounds, my body fat has plummeted from 18% to under 11%.   My bench press has gone from 195 to 255 pounds and my squat has gone from 275 to 350.  Not only that, 37 days ago I was running 12-minute miles; and today I’m closing in on 8-minute miles for 5 miles.  It’s a huge, huge accomplishment and I still have 2/3 of the program left!

Subsequent posts will have more specifics about my plan, but here are the basics:

Cardio: six days a week.  Three days of running, three days of elliptical trainer.  I don’t have the luxury where I live of easily jogging outside, so it’s all in a little gym we have in the building I live in.  I do all my cardio workouts at five in the morning and have a light breakfast.

Weight Training: Five days a week.  Two days of chest and triceps, and two days of shoulders, back, and biceps.  Then one day (Wednesday) for legs.  I do my weight training workouts around my lunch break each day.

Nutrition:  I eat as clean as possible, having six reasonably sized meals a day.  I have light meals in the morning and bunch my protein intake around my weight workout.  I try to get a minimum of 170g of protein every day and to get about half of that total within an hour before and an hour after my weight training workout.

Supplements:  I’m a big believer in supplements to accelerate gains.  Of course they don’t substitute for hard work, but they can give you a little gasoline to get through tough workouts and enhance your gains.  I’m taking protein, a pre-workout, and post-workout supplement right now and they’ve helped me change so fast.

As I said before, I’ve been doing this workout for 37 days and have chalked up the impressive gains I listed above.  It hasn’t been easy – the discipline to get up at 4 in the morning, to plan each day around my workouts and still meet all of my commitments with work and my family, and to resist temptation (which is nearly always present).  My willpower has grown, the intensity of my workouts is better, and I naturally think through my weeks to plan how I’ll get things done.  These characteristics have started to emerge in other areas of my life as well. I’m more intense and productive at work, I have more energy and drive to improve my home life, and even the energy to start this website on my offtime to share these discoveries in the hope that more people will be inspired to take the steps I have.  This is the true value of extreme fitness – the way it changes not only your body, but your life.

Thanks again for joining me, and come back often

– Maxim Pascalle