Last month was the one-year mark for JCDFitness. Time really seems to fly by doesn’t it?
Over the last year I have become somewhat acquainted with a few in the fitness field who have been a big influence on my philosophy. Thanks to this website I have been able to connect with them on a more personal level than if I’d have just remained another lurker on their forums and/or website.
On that note I want to say thanks to all my readers, to those who’ve supported me and encouraged me to keep writing. It means the world to me to know that you think enough of my rambling that you come back daily, participate in article comments and email me with your ideas about future topics and suggestions. Thanks to all of you who copy/paste my links on the most random forums. Thanks for the Stumble’s, Tweets, Facebook updates and all the other social network evangelism I’m still behind on.
In lieu of my appreciation, I sat down about a month ago to write an article called My Philosophy. I thought the title sucked (and it did) but I didn’t care, I just kept writing. As usual, I can get pretty wordy, so 500 words turned into 1500 words; 1500 turned into 3500 words. Then I began approaching 5000 words just before I stopped. I took a break and thought to myself “no one in their right mind is going to read a 5000 word article of mine.”
I put it away for 2 weeks and practically forgot about it. However, one Sunday when I was thinking of an article topic, I pulled it out again and reviewed the content I forged out that early Thursday morning. Then I got the idea that I would just write a small guide that gives an overview of my approach to training, diet and looking great naked. So, I spent another day or two writing until I had about 9000 words and called it a day.
Without boring you any further, I present you with A No-BS Approach to Looking Great Naked. It’s completely free; I hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think.
The cover art was done by Ibrahim Husain of TwentiesLife and the picture of me on the cover was taken by Emily C. McArthur.
All you need to do is fill out the form below the post and click “Send My Free Guide!” Immediately after that, you’ll have it… all for free.
FREE copy of my No-BS Approach
to Looking Great Naked.
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Fantastic e-book. One of the best.
Based on true principle with what it takes to looking good.. genuinely cuts out the BS!
This guys got no hidden agenda, no supplement he secretly wants you to buy.. he’s just telling it how it is. Massive kudos from Sydney Australia!
JC – Great book really puts things into perspective. I really enjoyed your outlook on nutrtion and training as well as your writing style.
I did have a question though. I currently just got home (Seattle) from vacation in Spain and a two week long booze and food binge.
I weigh about 180 and am at roughly 12% body fat and 6 feet tall. I would like to get much more lean and assume I may need to get down to about 165 and roughly 8% body fat if I want to have the physique I’m after.
I plan on eating about 10,000 calories a week and only averaging 150 grams of protein per day. I lift hard and heavy with pretty short rest periods (30 seconds to a minute) for 45 mins to an hour 4 to 5 days per week and throw in two 45 min cardio sessions per week (HIIT and Steady State). I believe my training is good enough. What I am wondering is if I need to up my protein intake (which would up my caloric intake since I’m already restricting carbs and fat to about as low as they can go and still live a semi-normal life). Would you reccomend this? I do not want to lose muscle but don’t know if 150 g protein is enough per day for my weight and current fat loss regimen. Will my training allow for me to sustain my muscle mass?
Any insight would be appreciated. I have a wedding in August and a honeymoon as well as a photo shoot in May and June (That’s way I want to get as ripped as I realistically can while still maintaining normallcy in my life). Please let me know your thoughts and thanks for the e-book, your time and effort. I apoligize for the essay….
First of all, since you’re dieting, I would drop weight training down to about 3x per week. You will not need any more than this to maintain what you’ve built. Make sure you keep your strength up and that you rest.
You also needn’t do so much HIIT. There isn’t going to be a drastic difference in kcals burned, so 3 days of weights and 2-3 days of steady state cardio would do the trick. Plus, with steady state cardio, you won’t cut into your recovery as much as you will with HIIT.
as far as protein goes, yes, you definitely need more protein. let’s just assume that the 12% figure is correct. at 180lbs that means you have ~159lbs lean body mass. I’d really like to see you consuming 1.5x that for protein intake. therefore, I’d say you need to eat around 240g protein daily to be on the safe side. I’m afraid you’d see muscle loss on 150g day.
plus, protein powder is fairly cheap. I buy all my stuff from http://www.TrueProtein.com.
JC,
Great read man. Simple, straight forward, and realistic advice. The best part is it is free. You will help a lot of people out with this ebook. There is so much information out there about fitness and nutrition. I can see how people just get so confused and frustrated that they give up. Those people should give your ebook a read because it will clear a lot of things up for them.
Dan
Hey JC – just read the guide and it’s a great piece of work. Not a lot of new info for me as I probably fall into the intermediate/advanced gap, but nonetheless it’s a great guide for both beginners and veterans who need a few refreshers on the fundamentals. The ratio of signal to noise on the internet re: exercise/nutrition sucks…you’re definitely part of the signal. Keep it up.
Thanks. Everything I needed to hear. I imagine I will need to frequent this place to bring me back to earth from time to time.
no problem. glad you enjoyed it. stick around!
sweet.
Will definitely recommend this to the chronic, over-stressed dieters I know.
Great principle-based content.
Love it, linking to this in my blogg!
Good work, JC. This ebook is a great reference too keep around for whenever you need to re-assess your diet/training.
Dude….you are the man.
See what happens when people look at me naked? They make naked books like this one.
Good work bro. I’m half way right now along with this other pile of stuff I gota read. Should hear from me by weekend end.
I am amused at the subtle irony of your “cover”. I have clicked but no email as yet, was only a few seconds ago. I appreciate it’s always hard to get our opinions down in succinct wording, however a good writing exercise is to practise cutting down. I would seriously suggest you have a go at reducing the word count to 500.
Our marketing MBA lecturer was telling us of this Senior Product manager who refused any proposal that were more than one page of A4 long. This was on the grounds that if you can’t sell in one page you can’t sell at all.
Happy Birthday.
..also proof read anything you write like I didn’t
so call me stupid, but I really do not understand what the hell you are trying to say here. Are you saying that my blog post introducing the book should have been less than 500 words to sell it better? I am not selling anything. It’s a free download.
Was just saying if you have a spare moment see if you can condense it down to 500 words as a mental/literacy exercise. The reply bit was me realising I had made a grammatical error.
funny how in the book JC mentions not to be overly obsessed…with things. errrr? Sorry but the whole 500 word thing is irrelevant to this whole website…people need to stop mixing marketing with health.
Looking forward to reading it. I’m sure it will be excellent, knowing the author.
I don’t know, I heard he’s a real jackass…
Well, yeah, but he knows what he’s talking about.
anyone who can get me to eat cocoa pebbles on a daily basis while getting results is a cool ass dude in my book lmao. =P
heh, just make sure you are eating real food too.
haha of course dude. as Lyle says, do the 80/20 rule.
Awesome dude! Congrats on the book. That’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, so I’m wicked jealous!
This better rival Matt P.’s 100+ page maximum muscle e-book. Haha, just playing man, keep up the good work.
yea right, wasn’t that book absolutely incredible?
Way to go JC! Looking forward to reading it.
Excellent job JC
thanks, Law
Good stuff JC. I’m new to the site and appreciate you getting back to me via email. It’s funny, I was just going to ask you if you could lay out what you do and bam – I come to the site today and you announce this new book.
Congrats on the book; looking forward to reading.
thanks Dave, glad I could help out the last few days.