Doctor808 Plastic Surgeon Honolulu Hawaii

In the training mode again

As I mentioned earlier in this blog I would keep my readers abreast of my progress after a rest I had taken after my last fight. I would like to update you now. I started back about 10 days ago. The first thing I did was start with cardio training. The easiest and fastest way is to simply get on my eliptical machine that I have back in my lanai (soon to be garden). I did 30 minutes with a setting at 8 which ramped up my heart rate to a steady 133.  Seemed pretty easy so I continued for a few days. I went back to Muay Thai and my trainer who I have introduced before,  gave me the usual deserved harassment , but very mild. Unfortunately ,at the same time I had the Korean Cosmetic Surgeon visit and he took up my training time which between that and Japanese class i was unfaithful. Yet allow me a moment to point something out about you and about me.

If you want something bad enough and your are really hungry for it —you will find your way.

This is true in physical training, as it is in life. So even though I tell you my Korean Doctor was here and I had Japanese class I was unfaithful to my love, Muay Thai training. I obviously did not want that bad enough. That is the case, now I regret that as I lost a full two weeks of training time. Since I regret I will go starting monday and quit playing excuse game with myself. This is the same advice I will give you my dear readers. If you want it bad enough you will find away.

On the other hand I was not completely lazy. I went surfing quite a few days, continued on my elliptical machine , my pull up bars and even did push ups and sit ups in my house.  kicked my dummy every day with 30 – 50 kicks per day.  I went to the Honolulu Club (our local overly priced gym) and did a few weights.  So I look at the last two weeks as a warm up and now its time to get started.

LETS GO !! YOU HAVE TO WANT IT !!

Today I did  the following in this order:

1. Stairmaster at a setting of 7 for 15 minutes ( by the way this is the first time I did this torture device)

2. Barbell bench press of 135lbs 5 sets and 10 reps each

3. Push ups 3 sets of 15

4. Chest Flys 5 sets of 30 lbs each hand and 10 reps each

5. Weight assisted dips 10 x 3 sets

6  Smith machine squats 70 lbs X 10 reps X 7 sets

8. 35 sit ups x 2 sets

35 kicks on bag each , push kick and lateral leg kick

I must say I did work up a slight sweat but compared to a year ago this was not even 50% of my normal work out. That means I will be ramping it up greatly in the next few weeks. This will be at a minimum 4 days a week and 3 days – 4 days of Muay Thai and sporadic surfing , bicycle and other activities. Its time to get back to my old self. If you stay tuned I may show you before and after photos. I do not want to show you before as I am frankly embarrassed at this point. So remember you like I said —if you want something bad enough you will find a way to accomplish that. That is todays key sentence.

doctor808

Well its been several months since my last Muay Thai fight. I was pretty banged up because of the unorthodox fight it turned out to be and probably my age is catching up to me. It takes much longer to heal and recover when your older. That I have noticed.  I have only been doing some basic cardio since the fight. So I have been very very LAZY. I went to Prague CZ and Amsterdam as well as Geneve as I previously wrote. I became very ill for 5 days there with a dental abscess, this virtually wiped me out. In fact,  I was so ill that I turned pale white, dropped my blood pressure and pulse rate of 144 at one point. Finally in I found a dentist after a root canal that failed earlier  in Praque and dentist who extracted the tooth. My training’s schedule was thrown off and well, the old laziness set in. So for the last few weeks I have been trying to gather up the energy to get going again and now I am ready.

Here I go again

I will share with my kind readers my training this time. I will show you details on how I transform myself. Although I am a plastic surgeon and have been accused of creating artificial beauty through unnatural means -plastic surgery. I do know one thing. The best transformation is through physical training and proper diet. If I document this maybe a few of my dear readers will see an interesting transformation and be inspired.

Well I feel rather anxious about exposing myself on the Internet so I better pull this off. If not you will see what a failure I can be or not. Then I suppose my dear readers you will not be inspired.

One can accomplish so much with exercise and diet in improving ones appearance that it amazes me. Yet of course exercise does not always work. for example a woman has had a baby and her skin stretches and will not retract,  a tummy tuck may be in order. Yet combined with exercise its always better. The results of a person exercise plus plastic surgery is very good.

Yet with pure exercise you can accomplish a lot. Take for example the two photos below which are of  the same person:

The above picture illustrates well what can be changed with exercise in about 12 weeks without plastic surgery. There is no magic only discipline. This was accomplished with 3 – 4 nights a week of kickboxing training. No weight training was done with this transformation. Yet diet played a huge role as well. The one on the left has hair and the one on the right does not but the difference can be still seen.

Not only does the body benefit but the facial features do as well. Lets look at the many faces of the same person as seen  below. Hairstyles, weight changes and of course lightening can enter in the picture all can change appearance a lot as well.

Different People or Different levels of exercise ???

These pictures of yours truly were not taken like ten years apart although some were a two years or so ago. Yet the surprising thing is that the younger looking pictures were taken after some of the older pictures. To really illustrate this look at the facial picture below:

Latest Picture less than 3 months ago

I was training for a muay thai fight in the above picture so my physical condition and shape were at the top in the scale. As you can  see the face is more youthful. The point of this is that good exercise and diet can make for great changes that plastic surgery cannot.

Well to give my readers an idea of my training to undertake I will begin tomorrow with 1 hour of surf & swimming and then to work. After work I will go to my Muay Thai training as noted in this blog elsewhere. The training will be about two – three hours of jump rope, bag drills and other normal activities like 100 sit ups. That will be enough for first day back. I will add weight training and other activities as I go along for the next few months.

Most important is diet. This has to be individualized for each person. What works for me may not work for you. So for example I am very carbohydrate sensitive so to lose weight I have to approach an extremely low carbohydrate intake. So I switched to complex carbs like oat meal in the morning. Resistance training is very important to lose weight as you have to shift to having a higher percentage of muscle. To build muscle you must use resistance training like weight lifting. The reason why this is so important to weight loss is something called Basal Metabolic Rate. That is the rate you burn calories when not doing anything. So since fat burns no calories in this basal state and muscle does burn calories when doing nothing. You want to keep your muscle up and your fat down.

Well we will let you know dear reader how this goes. I will make updates over the next 12 weeks or so. My weight now is 192 lbs and body fat is about 15%. I need to get down to around 9-11% and 180Lbs.

Plastic Surgery can do a tremendous amount as well. Liposuction makes the job of looking better easier. If men for example have that spare tire around the waist. They can loose that with proper exercise and diet. The problem is in some people when they do lose that their face is so thin or other parts of their body become so thin it does not look right. They look like a skeleton except around the waist. These people are the perfect candidates for liposuction in that specific area.

Well as stated I will keep you informed and hope I can inspire some of my readers to get up and exercise.

doctor808

Well one secret to staying fit and youthful is not plastic surgery in itself. Though I should be saying plastic surgery is your answer to all of life’s problems, I can’t.

plenty of water during exercise

So many of my patients expect me to change with one operation years of neglect, but it’s not going to happen. As I have learned good exercise and diet can do more than I can. Plastic surgery can help, but a sound foundation of a good lifestyle cannot be beat.

My personal reccomendation is to mix up your program with cardio, resistance training and a stretching such as Yoga. It takes time and discipline but will take years off of you. I kick box muay Thai style 3-5 times a week and weight lift 3-4 times a week.

Diet I keep on the high protein low carb. This keeps my weight down. I actually had some liposuction around my mid line which allowed me get a six pack finally. I could lose the fat around my belly but when I did my face looked hollow. So liposuction did the trick.