the auger experiment part 20 shit happens

so this weekend marked a spectacular weekend. First of all its a long weekend, thanks to all the men and woman who serve this country proud. Memorial day is a day for remembering those who died, those who were injured, and those who served and serve our country. So please thank someone today! Now moving on with the Auger, he had a big weekend. He was working the gym warriors 2011 2nd anual may powerlifting contest for the epf. Auger was ready to rock! he was wearing his door man fanny pack, and also sporting his big red marker.the auger is no short of a cyborg terminator. He will get you! dont even try to get into this contest for free. The auger will hunt you down and make you take your wallet out. WHy would you not pay when we give half the money to local charitys any ways. It was no different, people tried to get in for free once again. and the auger hunted them down with his cyborg sight.

the competition was going very smoothly! people do not like it when they get flagged on a lift. No one likes it. And especially when its one of your friends. Being a judge means you have to really know what the hell your doing. Judging a powerlifting contest is no different. Especially with the squat. I have seen a lot of contests in my life and this one is no different. we had every call right! most of the calls are easy. The goal of the judge is to create a fair contest for all competitors. one of my friends that i flagged Angelo got pissed off. But the truth of the matter is that it was a flag and the other judge also saw the same thing. so i dont have to second guess any one this is why we have 3 judges at a competition. This is also why you can not have 1 judge! It doesnt matter because you either do it right and get it or you don't.



In the end people get pissed but they get over it. unless you have something against someone , if thats the case you should not be a judge. the worst experience of my life is something i had to deal with in bodybuilding from 2003-2006 where a head judge had something against me. Not only that but he also had 3 other judges placing me in last place or 2nd to last place purpously. I didnt find this out until i actually looked at the score cards. Then i found out he was training people in my class. THen i also saw that the other judges were placing me 1-8 places .. while these 3 were placing me 12-15 th or even worse. After all the hard work i had put in. i was very pissed off not to mention all the money i was handing this guy for my teams that were competing. i forced a full boycot on him and complained showing the scores as evidence and video that i had of contests. This is when i found peoples true colors and found some good and some bad. WE move on in life, if you dont then you cant grow. i went into powerlifting for one reason its much more clear cut sport. you either do it or you dont do it. not many aspects can affect the outcome. a lot of people think im cocky, arrogant, its not the case. you want to be strong, then be strong there is nothing wrong with showing off a bit. i enjoy it. hell you cant compete more than 5 times in a year so what else you gonna do. sit there and pretend its church, no way!

So the contest i trained a bunch of people who competed infact i had people that trained going against each other, i like that, make the best person win. I train them all the same, its not a big deal if one losses its insentive to train harder. if you want to be the best you really do need someone to push you to get there. otherwise your going to be happy with your progress.

my first trainee Mike Salsgiver i am pushing to total 1600 raw with just a belt. his total for this meet was 1425 with just a belt. i let him use my belt that was passed on to me from my brother. He is in the 220 class. I also have a trainee who i have compete derek b. derek came in being trained by tps in everett mass. the problem with the training that they used on him. is it was horrible, he had the worst form i had ever seen, he was trained totally wrong horrible training. i am pissed that they even call them selves trainers. they take videos of people i have trained and trained with my whole life like lew peppe. and say we have the strongest gym around . bull shit .. how about garett braumen i trained him too, or how about nick fagone ahh ..yes also a gym warrior. yah that pisses me off. So i have trained derek and its been hard because we had to break all the horrible bad habits they taught him ( not even going to parallel on squat, using a high box, not benching correctly, and worst of all never doing a free squat. ohh yah and how about teaching him to hitch to deadlift) the worst part is he spent over 8,000 dollars on this training. which pisses me off even more. I dont like talking shit about any one but the truth is the truth if i piss you off its because your lying to your self. face the facts! well derek is chasing mike and its helping his lifts go up faster than normal, lets look at his contest lifts. in 2 months time
bench increased 25 pounds contest
squat increased 25 pounds contest
deadlift increased 55 pounds contest

thats 105 pound increase!! he will have to do even better the next time around but i think he can especially on the squat and bench! every one knows i am the best deadlift trainer in the northeast look at my records, and all the people i trained on deadlift. all you have to do is look at the girls i train. i have trained kim clark for 2 months now she went from never doing a deadlift to pulling 285 pounds raw no belt no wraps yup in the 148 class. then corrine dipietro matching that 285, or how about corrine squating 250 pounds. these are in contest. and we have them on video. Its knowing the system and learning how to use it. As we discussed before this is why the Auger experiment is even happening.





mike will be my next experiment for competition i see him as a crossover bodybuilder/powerlifter who can do both , and win at both . my goal for mike is to make him elite, its my goal for all my trainees. mike is much closer to this level now then the others so its possible much sooner but it will all depend on their drive. any one of the people i train or who want to train with me can become elite. But how bad do you want it !! do you want to be in the magazines, do you want people hearing about you when you walk into a contest? do you want to be sponsored, endoresed? do you have what it takes. ? all it takes is coming in for some training. i tell people i have 2 rules 1. don't ask me questions. 2 listen to every thing i say. every thing don't take that lightly.



so the auger got crazy he went nuts and we captured it on video .. your going to have to check it out on youtube soon. if you want to start training hit me back

now for more auger shit happens , auger hurt his groin a little doing his squats and deads, most likely reagrivating an old injury. but its ok stretching is a great way to fix groin injuries, stretch and direct preassure. i would not suggest to much icing of the area. that can damage the testicles. and we dont want to hurt those guys! so next week we will weigh him in again!! big week this week ... happy memorial day.

paul desimone gym warriors 978 766 6280 peabody ma 01960
God bless and keep the faith.

the auger experiment part 19 holes

This experiment has become such a journey in only 3 weeks. This week is no different. this week brings us to the powerlifting contest for the epf. may 28 th. so far 8 people from gym warriors have signed up for the contest. i believe we may have 4 more people representing the gym maybe more we will soon find out. the contest costs 10.00 at the door and the auger is the door man. Yes the auger, he will be live in person at the contest. All gym warriors clothing will be sold at half price at the meet, we will also have some macho man stuff, and who knows what else. i am looking forward to having the contest and getting the gym cleaned up, getting all these left over trophy's out of here. so i can clean my office completely. i hate not having a clean office. The auger who has been going out of his mind lately, has noticed so much change in his body its very hard to fathom. how is this guy getting so many results this quickly. i have to say its his determination, my training, and my diet. He has to put in the work but the battle plan is there. its like if bill bellicheck is your coach you know that your going to have a good game plan no matter how well or badly you play. how well you play is what results you get. its no different in training, bodybuilding, powerlifting, and sports. to become the best athlete, you need to be physically and mentally ready for the challenge. You also must eat and keep your body active. so when i train people for competition i have them take 3 days off prior to competing. i like to have them come in on Monday and Tuesday and do some brushing up on form , commands, and warm ups. this way they get a muscle memory for the lifts in the contest. it usually doesn't feel like much but what it does do. is builds confidence that i didn't see in the last contest. When you get a new recruit so to speak its very difficult to just throw them into a contest. but sometimes its what we do, to see if they can handle it. Its also good experience, no matter how prepared you are for your first contest, 900 times out of 901 your going to screw up. Usually its on a command. Unless you have a trainer who knows how to do command training, you are not going to be used to someone telling you when and when not to lift a weight. Any one can bounce a weight of their chest. but can you lift the weight off your chest when someone tells you to. That is the true question! This is why competing is a challenge and why it is also fun. I do train people who are in the same weight class, which does not bother me because the best person will win! but we are all on 1 team, our personal goals are to beat our last lift. No matter what place we finish as long as we are taking a step forward then we are winning.



I would also like to explain that i train people to the 60-80 format which means we almost never max out on any lifts. our goal is to max out on the day of the contest and peak out. This way we are never training our body to overload. and instead we do it on the most important day. the day of the meet. this is also the same type of training for bodybuilding. when you bodybuild no one cares if you were the best the day before or if you did a 900 pound deadlift at home. it doesn't count unless its on that day. You have to come dialed in, just like the horse from kentucky derby , the bodybuilding term dialed in means you came in at your best. This is why when i tell people don't max out on your lifts learn how to train! but your brain to the train!



I am looking for more people to train to prepare for contest both bodybuilding and powerlifting. If you are interested please contact me. I do have a lot of people but as the summer comes i can take on more people and work longer hours at night. I want you to break records i want you to compete! i want you to destroy the competition. join us in doing so! compete , train , grow and win . with gym warriors and pauly des!

as always god bless,

go Bruins!!!! pauly des

the auger experiment part 16 and 17 Big Toney

back and legs.

Back part 16!

IT was back day for the Auger, and Big Toney just happened to step in. Big Toney ( aka al) is a heavy hitter when it comes to upper body lifts. He will tell you him self , he wishes he worked legs when he was younger. Big Toney is a x marine who has the unsashable appetite for weights, and heavy metal. When Big Al walked in the Auger went nuts. he started head banging and air guitaring. i was a little scared. Then i caught the two conversing about heavy metal , and training. The auger got very scared when he heard that Big Toney had just purchased the rest of the ostrims. Auger needs his protein too!!! he was yelling and screaming at the top of his lungs. what else is new ?

The auger did a lot of good form exercises, squeezing and pulling. but i did hear some complaining about his supplement regiment that he really wasn't feeling much from the vitamins ect. I had to reassure him before he tried to rip my arm off. He also said people had been asking him if he still worked out. funny thing is i thought he looked bigger. HIs forearms have more separation, and he's more vascular. I know what to look for, but i have to help him feel better about the diet and training so i took some pics to show him.



Auger saw the pics and could see for himself the change. in 3 weeks.

now lets take a peak at leg day.

Legs

Today marked the day i was going to personal train Mr. Auger at 12 noon time at Gym Warriors peabody. I had to train Joyce at 11, and derek at 1. The auger came in early to stretch a little and get amped up before his work out. We talked about how crapy his deadlift form was the week before , and how he needed some help on his squats. it was evident that if the auger continued to use the same form he would be injured on in a wheel chair. His deadlift looked like a stiff leg deadlift. Then his squat was not hitting parallel. So what was it going to take to help the auger. My personal training. I got the Auger to deadlift first we went up to 445. with propper form!!!! take a look




Squats were just as fun! We were going over each lift and showing how to drive the bar through the body. Auger caught on very well. He also loved the type o negative music that was playing. black no 1 is a good song. its pretty funny. my favorite line is" you cant go out cuz your roots are showing! die them black" its about a hair dye. Any ways we had to change a few things around in the augers supplement regimen. making it a tad bit stronger. Big Toney came in right as the Auger was finished. He was in rare form. REady for an isopure and a nitric force. yummy!! ostrims are almost r.i.p. When the Big toney and Auger collide the earth shakes!! We also had a couple people from Power fit come join gym warriors today. They actually took off their power fit shirts and wore them inside out. I have nothing against that gym, i think its a ok gym and i rather see the mom and pops then the stupid big fitness shit holes that keep popping up and people keep wasting their time in. But i want to get one thing strait, we built gym warriors for a purpous and that is to get results. People come here to train with out people staring at them , for results, to get in shape to be themselves. Its the hard core mentality that you can be your self and train really train. if you think training is about being quiet, then you never pushed your self to the limit, scream rip through the weights get loud, lift and train. Get results what ever the results you want! that is why i go to work every day thats why Gym Warriors is here! and thats why you should come to Gym Warriors


pauly des signing off!!

if your not giving your the taker

the auger experiment part 13 deads

Today was a deadlift day for the auger .. and deadlifts are what he did. 475 pounds for 2 reps. and let me tell you the Auger was screaming a lot of crazy things while doing these deads. Then came squating, that was something to watch!!! finally getting to parallel. and below. He his a 275 on the squat for 5 reps. He also said that this was one of his best leg work outs of all time! The augers intensity is at an all time high. i am going to suggest though that The auger gets some personal training sessions on leg day for form . because his deadlift is not correct form. he uses way too much back and needs some training to help with that 1 on 1. So in a 10 day span the Auger has already rocked the deadlift. thats pretty impressive i am giving my self a tap on the back. !!



now on to some highlights of the day. kim today deadlifted 255 pounds for 2 reps and also squated 160 for 4 reps. EpF powerlifting contest will be held at gym warriors on may 28th. its 10 dollars for tickets to watch. the contest should be very impressive. Every one has been training very hard for this meet.

now here is the pic you all voted for . the auger leg !!!


and big mike attempted a 655 rack pull the other day but couldnt get it off the rack .. he did get a 635 for 2. which is pretty good, he will be going for a 600 pound raw deadlift on the 28th of may . come see the big lifts at warriors 119 foster st. peabody ma. 01960

auger part 6 day 1 sasquatch

today is day one of the experiment. and a very nice day at that. the weather is about 68 degrees blue skies. So i decided i would go out side and spend some time with my nephew before i would get to the gym and start the auger. as i walked out side i noticed that there were a lot of dogs barking in and around my home, so i grabbed my camera and decided to take a look. my nephew grabbed me and told me that we needed to play. so i stopped in my tracks grabbed the bat and he began to pitch to me. i started hitting the balls gently back in and around him as he threw. and then i smashed a ball over the fence. my nephew ran after it, and thats when i heard a rustling in the bushes. i grabbed my camera and ran to see what was all the commotion. as we approached the sasquatch we noticed him steadily looking around i started snapping pictures off. i was nearly killed before the big day. we ran back to the home and started playing with baseballs again. here is one of those pictures.





this is day one of the auger experience prepare for the auger. The auger was still experiencing a lot of problems from yesterdays shopping. I think that the bruins win and me deciding not to write his shoulder and arms workouts yet were stressing him out. so i decided that i may play a few tricks on the auger today and see what his reactions would be. first off the auger needed to get ready as if he was going to war. so he had to wear his work boots. put your boots on and prepare for battle. auger has been showing every one his new boots that he got. they are some kind of special forces boot. they only weight about 12 ounces. the problem is he is so busy showing them to every one he's been walking around the locker room with only one shoe on. so trick number 1 i will pull on him today is to tell him that i am not going to write the shoulders and arms and i will photograph his reaction. 2ndly the auger is supposed to be here at 6, and its 5 48. so i am not sure if i will have to end this here and keep you waiting. till tomorrow.



just as i was about to publish the blog the auger arrived! he explained to me that he had already taken 4 shits this morning, the 4 shits were not diarreah, but more solid good shits meaning that his system is being cleaned up. he felt so good that after he finished the work out , later on in the day he actually wanted to come back to the gym and work out. the work out aspect today was chest, and the work out felt great. the auger stopped with 225 pound on the incline for 6 clean paused reps. every rep was slow and controlled. good contraction and squeeze on every repetition. actually felt the best pump he has ever felt on the dips. he had not felt any thing like this in a long time. hes a little sore. but other than that he felt like his body is growing. the best part is the work out is right infront of him it made him feel a little better. Because when you have a battle plan your ready to attack. The auger felt so pumped up he ran back to stop and shop and we took this pic!!!!




so far day 1 was a success

auger part 4 the diet plan

i just wanted to give some background info on me and the augers relationship. So first of all i have known the auger since about 1994 back at the raquettime in danvers mass. this is where golds gym is now and i believe its no longer a golds. raquet time was a family owned gym. it was the first gym i ever joined. what it had was a lot of good weightlifting equipment, both free weight and nautilas stuff. it mostly had a great group of guys. best of all i could ride my bike to the gym, that was the most important thing. it was about a 10 min ride. so there was my cardio i would ride in and work out. i used to get a ride on leg nights. every other day i would ride my bike. some of the great characters from the gym have actually died early deaths, but people that i will never forget. some like the infamous jimmy parker. and one of my good friends wayne grenier, big lew peppe , big mike licoli, the crazy dr guy, eric hussey, chris paulino, and many more. but big richie auger kind of kept to him self he was always upbeat, and very excited , you would see him doing air guitar. then we both ended up at a gym called nautilas plus. this was the gym of all gyms. i have been to thousands of gyms all over the world and very few can even compare to come close. just to get an idea it would take you 1 full minute to walk from the mens locker room all the way to the cable crossover machine. it wasn't that the gym was huge, but the gym was amazing. full of characters, full of pro bodybuilders, top powerlifters, athletes, pro wrestlers, and it had the equipment that would allow you to train till you bleed, puke, or pass out. i took full advantage of that. so did the auger i remember one day i was probably hipped up on some energy drink when i walked into the gym i saw the auger standing doing leg press. i started screaming "you got mail" and walked over to him and asked him what time it was? he said there is a clock over there man. he pointed to the wall and i said no man its auger time. auger looked at me puzzled. i screamed its auger time over and over again during each of my sets. i actually screamed it so much that the auger actually got pissed off, he asked me if i wanted to go out side and fist fight . i actually started to laugh for a second because i thought he was joking , then i saw he wasn't joking . in no way did i want to hurt the augers feelings so i just said hey man i am only kidding around. the auger just walked away, pissed off. it was an awkward but good experience looking back we just laugh at the whole situation.

the point is you never know what's going to happen in life . look at this .. now i am helping the auger to complete something never imagined.

so tomorrow we will be going to the grocery store to buy the foods .. we will see how much he spent, and what foods he bought , look forward to tomorrow and stay tuned for day 1 which is sunday please follow this blog and share with your friends ..thanks for reading!