Fausey Friday Recap Volume 1

Currently I'm reading "Brother Iron Sister Steel" by Famous Bodybuilder Dave Draper. This book has tons of advice on how to go about bodybuilding and includes tons of routines to train from or mix up your training. Something i really like also about this book is the fact Dave includes tons of stories from his past in the golden ages of bodybuilding and they are just epic. Read this for some instant gym motivation! Im only a quarter of the way through but i recommend picking it up if you have $6 to spare for a digital version.

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Last weekend i binged which i usually never do, the new Defenders series on Netflix and i'm giving it a 8/10. I really enjoyed it. The first 2 episodes start a little slow but after that it picks up and does not stop till you get to the end. The finally was not what i expected either so that was also a good thing. It's only 8 episodes long and it makes everyone of them count. I really enjoyed seeing all these characters come together on screen.

Also i just watched the New Baywatch movie which i was not even going to even check out but I'm glad i decided too. When i started it i said i would give it 15 min and if nothing then turn it off. So after 15 minutes i was actually laughing my ass off and proceeded to watch the whole thing. The Rock plays a great role and the comedy really is great. gonna give it a 7/10 which is quite higher than IMDB's rating of a 5.7/10. If you have nothing else you want to watch and want some good laughs then i recommend checking it out.

This week i actually didn't play any games so instead I'm going to say a game I'm looking forward too checking out. The new Assassins Creed comes out in October and i think thats going to be the next game i go through. I have been play the Witcher 3 for almost a whole year now and beat that one full time and i'm still currently playing through on New Game+ mode. Assassins Creed will be a good change up i think. I'm going to wait to pick it up till IGN reviews it though.

hmm well i don't have anything specific this week so gonna skip this one for this week. I'm sure there is something i just can't think of it ha ha.

Don't look at the sun..... JUST KIDDING LOL. This week we had a solar eclipse and it took over the internet by storm. My news feed was filled with just a bunch of eclipse hype and it's honestly shocking how hyped up this was. The thing that i just don't understand is that on any regular day your not going to look at the sun so why on earth would you stare at it when there is an eclipse without eye protection LOL. Seriously it blew my mind. This was the first Solar Eclipse i have ever seen and it was a pretty spectacular thing to witness. The thing i learned tho this week is that you can believe it or not but the Solar Eclipse can no doubt effect energy levels. The days leading up to the eclipse i felt just slow and not focused at all in life for anything i was doing. Also my training sucked in the days leading up as well as my sleep which is never that good to begin with. I decided to do some research on this and what i found was pretty interesting. I found that apparently a solar eclipse can affect animals in a very strange way so i thought about it and we as humans are animals so i think it can affect us as well. More reading on this needs to be done but what i did read was pretty interesting and talked about how the eclipse actually changes the natural energy levels around us all over the world. Here is the article if you want to read it.

This week my Monday Upper routine was the best training session of the week. Last week was a brutal training week and by the weekend i was destroyed so i decided to up my calories to about 3,000 for both Saturday and Sunday (rest day) and by Monday i felt completely refreshed. Totally killed this routine. It just goes to show when you have a crappy week of training just eat some more calories on the weekend and refresh yourself ;) Also this was my second week with the 5/3/1 progression for bench and while i do like the programing its weird how light the weights are right now, gonna stick with it tho and see if it helps me finally improve my bench. 

I listen to a lot of podcasts every week and this week i want to highlight Mark Bell's Powercast. I listen to his podcast every week but this last week Episode #214 with Kevin Ogar will really hit you hard.. Keven Ogar was a cross fit athlete and a few years back in a competition messed up one of his lifts and ended up paralyzed from the waste down. This podcast will make you very grateful for everything you have. Listen to this when you need a wake up call on how good your life really is.

Control the things you can and don't worry about the things you can't.

This week i have been playing a lot of Pokemon Go and having a lot of fun with it so this week is gonna be about how you can expand you pokedex without having to constantly travel to new areas. The answer lies in Hatching eggs! Always have your incubators going and anytime you go for a distant walk during the day pull the app up, trust me it adds up. Also another tip is keep as many pokemon in gyms as you can because if you always have at least some Pokemon in a gym that will keep the coins coming in so you can buy more incubators. Alright guys thats it for this week, Have a good weekend!

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