Do you maintain this conditioning year round? I saw your pics on facebook and you seem to be in very good shape. The next 10 hours were spent staring at my computer screen and the first My Macros+ prototype was made.Īt that point, I had no plans on releasing it to the public, I thought I just made a cool tool for myself but after talking to some people the demand was there so I went all in and released it to the app store and the response has been great. I was currently doing my masters at USC at the time and had just bought an $8 iPad diet tracking app that I deemed garbage after the first hour. I originally thought it would be a waste of my time to develop my own since there were so many out there already, there had to be one made for serious physique athletes like myself, but no. The only reason I decided to launch My Macros+ was because in my eyes, all available options were terrible. Why exactly did you decide to launch a diet app? Apps and various wearable technologies really help you see what is working for you and why. The great thing about contest prep and the state of health-related technology is that everything you do nowadays is trackable. No tricks or anything, just continuous slow diet manipulation. Start at around a 30:50:20 P:C:F ratio and slowly drop my carbs and fat as weight-loss stalls. What I did when I won my pro card and preps thereafter was a much more normal macro ratio split. I never “cheated’ on the diet once but it was a terrible experience. My first contest prep was a complete keto diet and from about 14 weeks out until the end I felt like I was going to die. What are other methods of dieting you tried before IIFYM? What worked & what didn’t? I still eat a lot of chicken breasts, egg whites, rice, oatmeal, but my mind has definitely been open to the ideas of lifestyle dieting & all that’s going on now. I remember when he sent me my suggested food list and I saw baked chips on there and it honestly blew my mind. When it comes to IIFYM my mind wasn’t opened up to the whole initial concept of IIFYM during contest prep until my second prep, where I worked with Layne Norton. Whether it was not showing the meal nutrition totals, having a preset number of meals or something else, no diet tracking tool was what I needed which is exactly why My Macros+ was created. Plain and simple they were all missing something. I’ve been tracking my macros basically since right before my first bodybuilding competition back in 2007 and jumped around from all the diet trackers that were available. I gradually cleaned up my diet but thankfully never really good into the strict “bro food” diet. When I first started working out when I was 14 my idea of “diet” was a lot different than it is now. When did you first get introduced to IIFYM and macro counting? I had always been obsessed with the gym ever since I knew I was going to play for varsity my sophomore year of high school, so once I got my arm out of the cast I set my sites on my first bodybuilding competition, which I competed in the day before my 18th birthday. I was slated to be a three-year varsity starter but suffered a season-ending injuries both my junior and senior year breaking my leg and wrist respectively. My dad and grandpa are into distance bike riding and I played all three of the major sports from 2nd grade until high school where I switched my focus to be just on football. Originally I just come from an athletic background. ( ) Do you come from a fitness model background? Nutrition? competitive bodybuilder? On top of that, I combined two of my loves while starting my own iOS app development company, My Macros LLC with our flagship diet tracking app, My Macros+. in computer science from the University of Southern California (Fight On!), have competed in 5 bodybuilding competitions since I was 17 and won my pro card when I was 20 years old through the OCB. I would debate that I am one of the happiest people in the world and always try to keep a positive outlook no matter what the situation. In short, I am an athletic tech nerd that has overcome a ton of adversity and physical setbacks to end up where I am today. For our readers that don’t know you, can you tell us a bit about yourself?
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