About this Site

A Man Reborn was started on July 25th, 2007 as a place to chronicle every step of the experience on my own personal self-improvement journey. My goals are simple – to make permanent and positive changes in my life that will lead to health, happiness and success.

Now that I’ve come this far, I want to expand the site and make it more useful for others who have the same goals in mind. I am not an expert in any of the fields I’m writing about here and don’t claim to be. I have done a lot of reading along the way and learned through my own experiences. All I want to do is share that with others in the hopes that it might help them in some small way.

I hope you enjoy the site! Cheers – Salar

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Motivation – Peekaboo Saint

These pictures show the 2 and a half year transformation made by the user Peekaboo Saint on a forum I read.  The first time I saw this, I couldn’t even put together in my head that it was the same person.  Her starting weight was 416 in February of 2007 and she is currently at [...]

30Jun2009 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Getting out of your comfort zone is the key to growth

I just read a really great interview done with Tom Venuto about the old saying “No Pain, No Gain” and the idea of needing to get out of the comfort zone.  I fully agreed with everything I read and I know personally that progress comes from stepping into the unknown.
One example in my own life [...]

25Jun2009 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Motivation – Ca$on

I came across this story while reading the forums at johnstonefitness.com – which are an excellent resource for fitness information by the way.  The picture is of the transformation of the user Ca$on on the forums and covers a time period of almost a a year exactly.  Over the year, he went from 275 lbs [...]

23Jun2009 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued


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Day 18/63 – Workout Log – Weight Lifting

Weight day today.  I really like this program and I’d like to do it 3 times a week, but right now I’m balancing my weights with Muay Thai, conditioning and other random stuff like long walks and biking.  For now I’m going to stick with twice a week and I’ll see how it goes.
Here’s what [...]

2Jul2009 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Day 15/63 – Workout Log – Muay Thai

Today’s Muay Thai class felt really great!  I’m starting to feel like I’m getting some of my stamina back.  I was able to keep a high energy level going through the entire class for the first time this month and still kept my mind on my technique.
Here’s the drills we went through:

L jab, R cross, [...]

29Jun2009 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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Day 11/63 – Workout Log – Weight Lifting

Today I went over to the gym at Kombat Arts for a weight lifting workout.  Made some progress in all of my lifts – here are my results:
Squats: 5 x 45, 5 x 135, 5 x 175, 5 x 175, 5x 175 (+20lbs on the work sets)
Barbell Bench Presses: 5 x 45, 5 x 115, [...]

25Jun2009 | Salar | 0 comments | Continued
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