Before Picture 4/25

Hi this is how I look on 4/25, weight in at 175. Wish I took a shirtless picture earlier but is better late than never. I am in decent shape right now been working out pretty hard the past few months, I will take an after picture around early July.

Education

Ok many things happened in the past few weeks, been pretty busy with my school. This blog I want to talk a little bit about my education. Currently I am in my last semester of my MBA (Still got one more course in the summer), but I am a bit excited about the whole education achievement. School was never easy for me; I always lack the focus with school work when I was younger. Anyway I am sure getting my MBA would be my last degree, maybe I will take some other courses here and there, but I really don’t see myself getting a PHD.

Last week I achieved something I have never done before, which is to get the highest grade on a midterm in class. It is extra special because it was a midterm in an accounting class (I have no idea how I did it), and it is the last midterm that I will ever take. I got decent GPA during undergrad around 3.4, but never got the highest grade. Today the girl next to me found out I had the highest midterm grade, and she told me she would never guess that I am the type of guy that studies and I look like someone that would study 2 weeks before the exam. No respect at all, and I told her I studied the midterm for 4nights.

Anyway school is wrapping up, I still been spending a lot of time in the gym. I failed to max out 275 few days ago; I will give it a try again a 2weeks maybe after the OC half. Also I know it takes pictures to make a blog alive, I will take a before picture next post like one of those before and after picture people usually take in their fitness blog.

My Fitness Path

One of the main topic of this blog is about fitness, and I been brain storming on how I should approach this. First I am going to list my fitness goals, then I will update my progress.(I will go into details on why I picked goals later) Also I will share on how I approach each goal, and methods I use to achieve it. If you follow my post you might find something useful or you can leave comments and let me know what works or what not.

I want to achieve all these goals by July 3rd, because that is my birthday and is on the week of Tough Mudder that I plan on doing.

My fitness goals, I also list them with difficulty at my current fitness level.

-Drop weight to 165 - Currently 175
First goal I want to achieve is to get my weight down to 165 – Currently at 175, I will try to achieve this by cutting down my body fat, and also it will help me achieve other goals that I am going to list.

-30 pull-ups level 1 – Currently 26
I like to use pull ups use measurements because it is difficult to cheat on this exercise. This test your body strength and I think able to knock out 30 will really put me on the top 5% of fitness level.

-1 arm pull-ups 2x level 2- Currently 0
Ok I just added this goal in this week when I was watching people doing them on YouTube, I feel like this will really separate a fit person to a poser. I can never do them, and I just started doing pull ups with weight and hopefully I can 2 one arm pull ups by July, why 2? Because I think the first pull ups never really count even if you start at a dead hang position.

Bench Press 300 level 1 – Currently 250
Ok this test my chest muscle and the reason I don’t use pushups as measurement because I think it is really easy to cheat on pushups and when you max it out the last few is never right, also there the faster you do them the easier it is, so I just want to use beach press as measurement.

Touch the Basketball rim level 3 – Currently not even the backboard
Ok this is jumping without a running start, same reason I choose this is because you can’t really cheat on touching the backboard. I feel like this is my weakest point, I am around 5’10 but I am not able to touch the board yet, I don’t think I will achieve this goal by July3rd, but I will try to achieve it sometime later on this year

3 Miles – Sub 18mins
Ok I haven’t ran a timed 3 miles since 2005 maybe, and 18mins is the perfect score you can achieve in the Marine PFT, it is also the hardest fitness test for Marines to achieve perfect score on. I will time myself sometime next week and post my time on here.

These are my current goals, I am sure I will add more in as time go on. I will go into more details and progress in later posts.

After the long wait, here is my blog.

Hi my name is Peter, I always wanted to create a blog but I finally made the time for it. I am a Marine, veteran, student, achiever, gamer, learner those are just few that pops up fight now and I will go into more detail about my background in later blogs. Mainly I want to use this blog to share few things and keep track the progresses, from wealth, fitness, relationships, career, emotions and educations, but I will focus more on my fitness path with this blog.

There are few reasons why I want to create a blog also for you to follow it. First I think I have a pretty interesting life in some people's eyes and I also want to use this blog as a journal to keep track of events and tasks that I achieve and complete. Second I will mainly use this blog to post and keep track of my fitness and financial goals. I think these are the two biggest things that men wants to achieve success in. As you can see in the title "Road to the top 10%", I don't think is reasonable for me to want to be the richest person or the fittest person in the world(Also it is hard to measure what the fittest person is), but I do have my goal set on being the top 10% tiles. (To be honest my goal is more of being the top 5% but I want to be a bit humble with my goals, also being the top 5% is my goal on everything I do.)

Also I think my friends will learn something about me from this blog. I will share things that I would not normally share in person on here. Not that I don't trust my friends, sometimes I just don't know how to express myself in person. Lastly I will share on the things I do and find that works, I will focus more on the fitness part, but I will try to share some financial tips that I think is useful also.

Hopefully this blog will help me achieve my goal and you will find this blog informative and learn a thing or two.