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BLACK MALE MODEL IMAGES – EXCLUSIVE IMAGES FROM MY BRAND NEW SHOOT

August 8, 2012 By 3 Comments

It was a battle to wake up this morning. My bed would not let me get up. No matter how hard  I worked to get out, it kept pulling me back in! I finally won and that’s how I’m able to write this blog.

It’s been a challenge getting back to the level of leanness that I had before I started boxing. The body for boxing is designed differently from a body for modeling. The boxing boxing body is designed for performance, so it holds a little more body fat for power and protection. The modeling body on the other hand, just has to be muscular and super lean. No need for for power here. My fight has been to get leaner without losing my speed and power. I still do my boxing workouts everyday and I don’t want to lose my boxing edge for sparring.

I was finally able to acheive this and as luck would have it, a shoot came up with a top photographer yesterday and I think these two pictures show that I’m getting closer to my goal of being lean without losing power.

What do you think?

 

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WHAT’S A NIGERIAN LIFE WORTH?

April 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I was looking through the news and media outlets in order to get caught up on all the news of the day and could not help noticing how these media outlets use images of maimed or dead Nigerians to drive traffic to their sites. So what’s a Nigerian life worth? 1 million? 2 million? 3 million? This is and a bit more is what these websites get for monthly placement of ads on their websites. Some of these sites may not realize what they are doing, but they are helping to further the perpetration of the stereotype of Africans as inhuman barbarians.

It just shows that these editors do not care about their own people. If the image were that of the dead body of the father, mother, brother or sister of one of these editors, would they put those images up? The answer is a resounding NO!!!! If they wouldn’t do it to their family, then why would they do it someone else’s family?

This practice is crude and barbaric. No other race or people in the world would do this to their own people. No other race or people show images of their own people laying dead or severely maimed in images. We need to love each other much more than we do. We also have to think about our children. We have to think about our younger generation. The showing of these images desensitizes young people to death and grave injury of their fellow Nigerians. The children should be protected from such graphic images.

Nigerian lives are worth more than what you receive to show these graphic images. Please stop.

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MARY J. BLIGE SINGS ABOUT FRIED CHICKEN, AD IS PULLED FROM TV

April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

A Burger King commercial featuring Mary J. Blige singing about chicken has been pulled. But the fast-food chain is blaming music licensing issues for the decision – not criticism of the ad.

The spot premiered this week. In it, Blige sings soulfully about chicken snack wraps.

But as the video went viral, some in the black community criticized the ad as stereotypical. The black women-oriented website Madame Noire likened it to “buffoonery.”

Burger King said Tuesday the commercial was pulled because of a licensing concern. The company said it hopes to have the Blige “ads back on the air soon,” though a spokeswoman would not comment on whether they ads would be the same.

The spokeswoman also noted that other celebrities, including Salma Hayek and Jay Leno, also are advertising the snack wraps.

A rep for Blige did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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MY NEW INTERVIEW ON DISILGOLD.COM

March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

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ARE YOU A FITNESS KNOW-IT-ALL?

January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

It’s monday morning and plenty of snow is still on the ground. I wanted to run a few miles outdoors, but the snow on the ground is no bueno! I guess I’m going to have to do it on a treadmill. I prefer running outdoors because it’s more interesting. You can look at the scenery and you can actually people watch (which is one of my favorite pastimes), while running. The treadmill can be so boring. I like to get my run out of the way before I do my boxing training because I’m usually so exhausted after boxing. We’ll see how today goes.

I was researching a blog post idea and stumbled on this cool article on WebMd that discusses 9 of the biggest fitness myths out there. Check it out below:

Top 9 Fitness Myths — Busted!

It’s easy to fall into the trap: A workout buddy passes along an exercise tip, and then you pass it on to several folks you know. Your kid’s coach gives you advice, and sure enough you hear the same thing from several other parents. So you figure it must be true. But experts say that in the world of fitness, myths and half-truths abound – and some of them may be keeping you and your family from getting the best and safest workout.

“Some myths are just harmless half-truths, but many others can actually be harmful,” says professional triathlete and personal coach Eric Harr, author of The Portable Personal Trainer. “They can cause frustration in working out and sometimes even lead to injury,” he notes.

One reason myths get started, says Harr, is that we all react to exercise a little differently. So what’s true for one person may not be true for another.

“In this sense you sometimes have to find your own ‘exercise truths’ – the things that are true for you,” says Harr.

That said, experts say there are also some fitness myths that just need busting, and the sooner the better!

To help put you and your family on the path to a healthier, safer, and more enjoyable workout, WebMD got the lowdown from several top experts on what’s true and what’s not when it comes to exercise tips.

Fitness Myth No. 1: Running on a treadmill puts less stress on your knees than running on asphalt or pavement.

“Running is a great workout, but it can impact the knees — and since it’s the force of your body weight on your joints that causes the stress, it’s the same whether you’re on a treadmill or on asphalt,” says Todd Schlifstein, DO, a clinical instructor at New York University Medical Center’s Rusk Institute.

The best way to reduce knee impact, says Schlifstein, is to vary your workout.

“If you mix running with other cardio activities, like an elliptical machine, or you ride a stationary bike, you will reduce impact on your knees so you’ll be able to run for many more years,” says Schlifstein.

Fitness Myth No. 2: Doing crunches or working on an “ab machine” will get rid of belly fat.

Don’t believe everything you hear on those late-night infomercials! Harr says that while an ab-crunching device might “help strengthen the muscles around your midsection and improve your posture,” being able to “see” your abdominal muscles has to do with your overall percentage of body fat.  If you don’t lose the belly fat, he says, you won’t see the ab muscles.

But can doing ab crunches help you to lose that belly fat? Experts say no.

“You can’t pick and choose areas where you’d like to burn fat,” says Phil Tyne, director of the fitness center at the Baylor Tom Landry Health & Wellness Center in Dallas.  So crunches aren’t going to target weight loss in that area.

“In order to burn fat, you should create a workout that includes both cardiovascular and strength-training elements. This will decrease your overall body fat content,” including the area around your midsection, he says.

Fitness Myth No. 3: An aerobic workout will boost your metabolism for hours after you stop working out.

This statement is actually true — but the calorie burn is probably not nearly as much as you think!

Harr says that while your metabolism will continue to burn at a slightly higher rate after you finish an aerobic workout, the amount is not statistically significant. In fact, it allows you to burn only about 20 extra calories for the day. While there’s a little bit more of a metabolic boost after strength training, he says, it’s still marginal.

“It doesn’t really count towards your caloric burn,” he says.

Fitness Myth No. 4: Swimming is a great weight loss activity.

While swimming is great for increasing lung capacity, toning muscles, and even helping to burn off excess tension, Harr says the surprising truth is that unless you are swimming for hours a day, it may not help you lose much weight.

“Because the buoyancy of the water is supporting your body, you’re not working as hard as it would if, say, you were moving on your own steam — like you do when you run,” says Harr.

Further, he says, it’s not uncommon to feel ravenous when you come out of the water.

“It may actually cause you to eat more than you normally would, so it can make it harder to stay with an eating plan,” he says.

Fitness Myth No. 5: Yoga can help with all sorts of back pain.

The truth is that yoga can help with back pain, but it’s not equally good for all types.

“If your back pain is muscle-related, then yes, the yoga stretches and some of the positions can help. It can also help build a stronger core, which for many people is the answer to lower back pain,” says Schlifstein.

But if your back problems are related other problems (such as a ruptured disc) yoga is not likely to help, he says. What’s more, it could actually irritate the injury and cause you more pain.

If you do have back pain, get your doctor’s OK before starting any type of exercise program.

Fitness Myth No. 6:  If you’re not working up a sweat, you’re not working hard enough.

“Sweating is not necessarily an indicator of exertion,” says Tyne. “Sweating is your body’s way of cooling itself.”

It’s possible to burn a significant number of calories without breaking a sweat: Try taking a walk or doing some light weight training.

Fitness Myth No. 7:  As long as you feel OK when you’re working out, you’re probably not overdoing it.

One of the biggest mistakes people tend to make when starting or returning to an exercise program is doing too much too soon. The reason we do that, says Schlifstein, is because we feel OK while we are working out.

“You don’t really feel the overdoing it part until a day or two later,” he says.

No matter how good you feel when you return to an activity after an absence, Schlifstein says you should never try to duplicate how much or how hard you worked in the past.  Even if you don’t feel it at the moment, you’ll feel it in time, he says — and it could take you back out of the game again.

Fitness Myth No. 8:  Machines are a safer way to exercise because you’re doing it right every time.

Although it may seem as if an exercise machine automatically puts your body in the right position and helps you do all the movements correctly, that’s only true if the machine is properly adjusted for your weight and height, experts say.

“Unless you have a coach or a trainer or someone figure out what is the right setting for you, you can make just as many mistakes in form and function, and have just as high a risk of injury, on a machine as if you work out with free weights or do any other type of nonmachine workout,” says Schlifstein.

Fitness Myth No. 9:  When it comes to working out, you’ve got to feel some pain if you’re going to gain any benefits.

Of all the fitness rumors ever to have surfaced, experts agree that the “no pain-no gain” holds the most potential for harm.

While you should expect to have some degree of soreness a day or two after working out, Schlifstein says, that’s very different from feeling pain while you are working out.

“A fitness activity should not hurt while you are doing it, and if it does, then either you are doing it wrong, or you already have an injury,” he says.

As for “working through the pain,” experts don’t advise it.  They say that if it hurts, stop, rest, and see if the pain goes away. If it doesn’t go away, or if it begins again or increases after you start to work out, Schlifstein says, see a doctor

Information from WebMd

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Ngo Okafor

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DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?

January 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I had so much fun on the set of the show today. I woke up extremely early and because I wanted to do a cardio session before I headed over to the shoot for the TV One show. I got it done took a shower and got picked up by the driver. The show was so much fun. Shout out to the entire Triage Entertainment crew. The entire crew was very professional and cool. Check out the pictures from the set.

I got back to my hotel room, looking forward to write and rest before getting on a plane back to New York later on tonite. I turned the TV on and turned the channel to ESPN. I usually watch Sports Sportscenter while I write. By accident, I fell on ESPN Classic, a channel which shows classic, vintage sports games or shows. I’m glad I did. I’m glad because there a special on Wayman Tisdale. I knew Wayman Tisdale was a basketball player, but I didn’t really know who he was as a person. Wayman Tisdale not only was a great basketball player, he worked and became a great jazz musician towards the end of his NBA career. He passed away in 2009, at the age of 44 years old from bone cancer.

His story made me cry. I wasn’t sad because he died, because we will all die someday. I cried because he was such a happy and positive person. What struck me the most was the fact that no matter what he was going through, he had a smile on his face. Even when he found out that he had cancer, he had a smile on his face. Even when his right leg was amputated, he had a big smile on his face. He was determined to beat it. He was determined to make everybody happy while he fought for his life. His most recent release, Rebound, was written and released after he was diagnosed with cancer. Tisdale’s experience led him to establish the Wayman Tisdale Foundation to raise funds to help amputees with the prosthetic process, which is not always covered by health insurance. It was extremely important to leave a legacy because we will all be gone one day, but our legacy will live forever.

I’m so happy I watched because it strengthen’s my resolve to work hard to leave a great legacy. What will you leave behind?

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THEY DID THE BEST THEY COULD

January 20, 2012 By 1 Comment

I woke up this morning because my throat was as dry as the Sahara. I grabbed some water and went back to bed, but the damage was done, no more sleep for me! I looked at the clock on the cable box and saw that it was 6:20am. DAMN!! What I wouldn’t do for 40 more minutes of sleep. I watched a little bit of the Austatralian Open Tennis tournament ( I like watching tennis), hoping that I would doze off, but it didn’t happen. So I got out of bed. I might as well take advantage of being up early. I have to get ready to go to Atlanta today to shoot the TV One show. I have to get up and write, go for a run and I haven’t even packed yet.

As I lay in bed, thinking about my trip, I thought about my parents. I thought about the fact they are getting older and will not be here forever. They were probably still sleping at that time. I wondered whether they were proud of me. I want them to be proud of me. I think that no matter how rebelious children are, deep down, they still want their parents to be proud of them. Do my parents close their eyes at night and smile, just before sleep carries them away, thinking that my choices in life make them proud? Do they yearn to wake up in the morning just to hear of my accomplishments? I wonder.

Then my thoughts go back to when I was a child, growing up in Enugu, Nigeria. My mom and dad were very tough. My parents are extremely old school. They believed in ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’.  I have to put it put it out there that this does not mean that I was spanked with a rod. It’s just an expression. My parents were all about hard work and discpline. And discipline us they did. Spankings were a norm when I was growing up. Physical punishment was not viewed as child abuse when I was growing up. I think that most children could use a spanking or two, but you didn’t hear that from me. It can in some cases, be a bit excessive though. Kids back then never felt that their spanking was isolated because we would all come to school and compare spanking stories. Teachers at school were actually allowed to spank kids on the school compound. I always wondered whether mine was excessive. The battle rages on as to whether I will spank my kids. The jury is still out. Discipline, definitely….spankings, probably, maybe, not sure. See, I still can’t decide.

Even though I believe that most of the disciplinary actions directed towards me was to make me grow up to become a better person, I often wondered as to whether it was done to break my spirit or to make me behave better. Parents often discipline their children out of fear; fear that they would become strippers, become criminals or worse. Most of the time, they worry about what their friends would say about their children’s behaviour or chioces. Many times they worry about what other family members would think or say about their children. In many parents’ minds, their children are their property and must do as they are told. How dare you embarass me?!?! Back then if you weren’t studying to become a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or architect, you were embarassment and a lost soul. You can only imagine how my decision to become a model went over.

They forget to trust in the fact that leading by example is the best way to raise children. They should trust in the fact that they are not raising a bunch of fools. Parents forget that no matter how much you spank a child, they will still turn out the way they were destined to turn out. I’ve seen many boys and girls raised by extremely strict parents grow up to become their parents’ worst nightmare. Children should be disciplined, but not out of fear. Many of the girls that gracefully slide up and down that golden pole were raised by pastors and so were some of the guys holding up liquor stores.

In closing, I will say that who I am today is a combination of my upbringing and fate. My work ethic and my drive are a product of the environment that I was raised in. I’m not saying that the old school way of thinking is completely wrong, I just think that some adjustment and individuality would not have hurt. I’m not mad at my parents or parents in general. I want them to be proud of me. I also know that at the end of the, THEY DID THE BEST THEY COULD.

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Ngo Okafor

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I JUST GOT BOOKED AS A CELEBRITY JUDGE ON A BRAND NEW SHOW ON TV-ONE

January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Today started just like any other. Actually, not like any other day…I’m not sick anymore! That’s new for me at this moment. Have to be thankful for that. I got up, walked the dog, fed the dog and fed myself. I then checked my email. In my email, I received a message informing me that I just got booked on a huge new show on the TV One network. I can’t mention the name of the show right now because it is currently being shot. Stay tuned for more updates regarding this news. For those of you outside the US, TV One is a network owned by Comcast,  one of the biggest cable companies in the world. I’m really excited. The message also said that all the exec’s at the Network are excited about the possibility of me guesting on this huge series for them. I fly out to Atlanta tomorrow.

Thanks  to my manager, Vanzil Burke of Burke Mgmt Group and my publicist, Dominic Friesen of Bridge and Tunnel Communications for continuing to push for me. I truly appreciate you guys.

Once again, hard work, dedication and consistency pay off in a major way. I write my blog and post daily because I hope that my stories and my success will prove that no matter who you are and no matter your circumstances, if you continue to work hard and persevere through all odds, success will come your way.

Keep grinding.

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LEFT HOOK TO THE CHIN…AND THE COLD IS OUT COLD!!!

January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I woke up this morning and realised that I was missing something. I was missing my cold. It had left me. I woke up and my head felt light again. My eyes did not itch and I could breathe!!  It had really left me!! Yesterday , I’m happy to say, that I took my own advice and chilled out. I didn’t go to the gym. I didn’t run myself ragged as I would usually have done. The fact that I felt a little bit better yesterday, didn’t mean that I was well. So relax and stay home is what I did.

I got plenty of rest yesterday. All I did was write and work on my website. I did not leave my apartment. It was difficult for me to fight the urge to leave my apartment to either go to the gym or run errands. I hung out with Gary, my dog,  all day. The daily recommended dosage of DayQuil was two tablets every 4 hours and I stuck to it. I took DayQuil all day yesterday and I took NyQuil at night. I also drank plenty of Grape juice which my brother, Chudi, told me was a wonder remedy for colds.

It all worked. Plenty of rest, a whole lot of Vitamin C and a combo of DayQuil and NyQuil, did the trick. I also think that the fact that I only take meds when they are absolutely necessary, made them very potent. I can breathe out of both nostrils!! Breathing is such a luxury that we take for granted. We only realise how important it is when we are on verge of losing it.

 

 

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Ngo Okafor

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