JOE’s resident videographer and Photoshop genius Peter Cooney wanted to get ripped in eight weeks. With a lot of help from Raw Condition Gym, here’s how he fared one week after the challenge was completed.
You can check out Week 1 here, Week 2 here, Week 3 here, Week 4, week 5, Week 6, Week 7 and Week 8 via their respective links.
So it’s a week since I finished my Get Ripped challenge…
After eight weeks I thoroughly deserved the blowout I had at the Graspop music festival, at least that’s what I’m telling myself. As one pal commented on a Facebook snap, you couldn’t have paid me to keep my top on. He was right n’ all. The world’s greatest super glue wouldn’t have done a thing. But then it’s off every year, so this time it just looked a bit better!
Before I boarded the plane, myself and the fantastic Tony Kinlan (check out his website here) decided to take some snaps to commemorate the whole thing. A very patient Tony had to endure the wind and rain to shoot pictures of me having a great time out at Dollymount. If you need some snaps done, he’s definitely your man.
Not having had anything alcoholic to drink over the duration of the challenge (bar that one sexy beer in Pitt Bros.) took its toll on the Thursday. But besides the drinking, the reintroduction of dairy and bread to my diet played havoc on my stomach, so much so that I ended up in the Red Cross talking nonsense. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been more bloated in my life. It definitely wasn’t the booze… or the ridiculous amounts of Mexicanos consumed.
Since I got back, my diet has been questionable at best. I keep telling myself that I’m just satisfying cravings, but that’s just nonsense. So, it’s back to prepping my meals again and making sure that I eat clean… maybe not quite as rigid, but just clean. No point in getting this far, adopting old habits, and piling back on the body fat.
Thankfully I am at a point at which I have to consume more food to increase muscle growth, which is lovely. But if it ain’t good foods, well then you’ll be seeing a ‘Peter Gets Ripped Again’ feature very soon. I’ve been back to the gym, not once, not twice, but thrice since I’ve been back and I’m only back since Tuesday (four days ago), so that’s good, right?
I’ve been trying to increase the volume of weight to increase muscle mass. It’s tough, but then again as I’ve said a bazillion times previous, it’s not supposed to be easy. The fact that my body is in bits from the weekend probably doesn’t help, but at least I’m slowly but surely getting back into the swing of things. I know the lads in Raw won’t let me fall off the wagon. Right guys?
Also I can’t be forgetting Courtney’s for feeding with me their fine meat. Their help went a long way to me achieving my goals. Without everything they’ve done for me, it would have been a lot harder to keep up the diet plan so I just can’t thank them enough.
Anyways, That’s been me. I’m off to eat Old Man Cooney’s clean eatin’ chilli and beast it in the gym. Feel free to drop me a tweet or a mail, we can help motivate each other.
Yours in muscles,
Peter
(You can, and probably should, follow Peter on Twitter here).
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