27 February 2011

Gotta Get Mean, Gotta Get Pumped

When you gotta get bulked you gotta get hydrated. I know people, friends, who think that muscle is bulk mass and solid because the fibers are tightly bonded. If that were the case you wouldn't need to 'make a muscle' because they'd always be pumped up. The mass of muscle tissue is based on fluid retention in the muscle cells, or how much fluid can be put into the tissue to increase the overall size of the muscle being charged up. There are supplements that help the cells to accept this extra fluid, or course I'm talking about blood all full of nutrients and especially oxygen, but one in particular called creatine which specifically targets fluid capabilities in the cells. You won't be another Arnold unless your genetically similar but you can get similar benefits from using the best creatine supplements you can get. Creatine loading, whether fast or slow will, for the most part achieve the same result. Loading is a specific regimen of dosages that are legal to use, even for sports events. Creatine will help with protein and carb metabolizing and will help with the after workout crash that some have gone through and help with faster workout recovery. Think of it as something that can make a sponge hold even more water than it could on it's own.

How Many Bites to the Chewy Center.

That's right, how many bites does it take to get to the chewy center? I don't know because everyone seems to bite the crunchy outside first. How many diet pills does it take to lose the weight you desire to lose in a set period of time? I have no idea whatsoever. Do you? I see magazine ads, TV ads, hear radio ads, see store ads, newspaper ads, and even entire TV infomercial shows on the best way to lose weight and how their pill will do it. I don't think they all work and I think they know that as well but their in business to sell, sell, sell. I want to see an independent report on what the top ten diet pills really are, their effectiveness, safety, and their safety again! I don't want to be slapped in the face by that chiseled ab chick or dude that never even tried one of those pills they're pushing on the flashy ads, they've been crunching for years in the gym to look that way. Unless you have all those muscles hidden under fat that are still ripped you won't see those results they show because they're not there to be seen, unless you exercise and are predisposed to show that kind of definition. I know people that are are very strong but look stringy and muscle guys that can't last 5 mins in a real job requiring strength, like a stone mason. Like I always say, do your homework before putting anything into your body and when you do be observant for changes that the doctor may need to know about.

Can You Raed Tihs?

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Don't Forget to Lock the Door

Locking the door on the way out of the house is sound advice for home security. What about losing weight, any reminders there? Of course there is, the collateral supplements. What's a collateral supplement? You shouldn't be asking that if your taking supplements already because there so very important. When the doctor gives you a fluid pill to reduce the volume of liquid in your body for say blood pressure they will often advise you to take some magnesium if a blood test shows a drop in your level of it. Why is that? Your flushing out more than simple water and salts, your flushing nutrients out as well, can't help it. Supplements are similar. One common product that's usually overlooked is chromium polynicotinate, and necessary supplements if you want to achieve weight loss as well. There are many schools of thought on the uses for chromium but the general rule is that it's needed and often forgotten. Chromium in other forms can be harmful such as Chromium Picolinate, which can affect the DNA, however Chromium Polynicotinate has not been found to affect it at all and will in fact help to control appetite, protect DNA, and help to regulate blood sugar levels. Do your homework when it comes to putting things in your body for a specific purpose and make sure that's what they will do when you do.

Going The Wrong Way at 50

Going the wrong way at 50 is right, especially if the horizontal way around the belt area. For the most part I've never been a victim of belly fat until I took my latest job a few years ago. I haven't had a sit down job since I was in my early thirties and back then I was pretty active and it didn't really matter whether I sat down all day or not. Now I sit all day and I'm not all that active and there it is, the belly fat. I don't need this, especially in my fifties. I need to find a way how to lose belly fat and fat from surrounding areas to the point where I can comfortably resume a more active lifestyle, without surgery or lipo. One of the things I may do is get a stand for my bike and put it in front of the TV and peddle for the length of a movie to get to a point where I can ride outside without wearing myself out too far from home, this way I can get my wind and endurance BEFORE going the distance outside.

Glad It's Not My Problem

My friend Tod has a big problem, he met the girl of his dreams, his heart, his soul! He has a problem though, this girl's name is Nancy. Why is that a problem you say? The tattoo over his heart says Jill! Ha! He's got as few options and some of them are painful. Laser removal will work and leave a slight scarring but it is painful, don't let anyone fool you on that, it hurts, you're burning away skin with high intensity light! Of course it's going to hurt. He also could use a tattoo removal cream, something I have little knowledge about but sounds a lot less painful if it achieves the same result. The last options are sandpaper and sand-blasting, both of which I don't recommend unless your into severe pain and infections. I suppose he could always tattoo over the name but that can be really obvious, especially if you've been around tattoo's and know how to spot a 'fix'.

Blind Auction Bids Wins Stuff

I went to a storage bin auction the other day and bid on some unknown property that was never claimed or the owners never paid the rent for the storage. There were a number of sealed units and some sealed case that were up for sale. I put a few bids on a couple of sealed units to no avail and a few cases of miscellaneous merchandise as well. I did win on of the cases to my delight, at the time. The case I put the winning bid on had a baseball glove, a set of old binoculars, about 3 dozen books of little value, 3 broken pool cues(why even store them?), some baseball cards of limited value, and some power tools that were once good but had gotten painfully rusted and were now useless. All in all I just about broke even after selling the cards to someone on ebay and I donated the books to a shelter and will take the tax write off for it. It was fun until you thought about the possible reasons why someone had to stop paying the fees and couldn't collect their property either.

I See said the Blind Man

Well frankly I don't. Well, not as good as I'd like to see at least. I keep going to my optometrist and keep getting prescriptions that he says are correct for me but I keep having difficulties. What have I been doing since I stopped spending a lot of cash on glasses that did nothing for me but make me want to take them off? I've been buying readers from my local nationwide drug store chain. Know what? I use them for work all day and have no problems, put on the prescription ones and ....where are my readers? A set of cheap eyewear in my prescription would be nice until I find an Rx that did what I needed to be done. I know most places will redo a doctors change of Rx but the doctor stands by his diagnosis so no free change. At least with a cheap set of glasses I can waste the cash and not feel cheated by the big chains.

Tis the Season to Not Be Fat

It's that time of year again where the ads are flying for everyone to lose weight so they can show off that svelt bathing suit bod! Alright, the b-suit bod! NOT! I guess there are many folks out there who actually listen to the special food selling campaigns that will lose you those nasty 50 lbs or so and let you look like a 'hot chica or chico', and they have actual pictures to show it. WOW! Then there are the more scientific places that want you to read their HGH supplement reviews and the results you could attain by using them, and not last but surely least the fat burners and mega vitamin sites. The bottom line is common sense. A good HGH supplement and a good rounded diet combined with proper weight resistant exercise will do the trick nicely if followed up when the weight is finally gone.

02 February 2011

Finishing the Big Screen Effect

Now that we have our 52" plasma set, finally mounted on the wall(thank you, thank you), the next big 'convincing' project will be to get the proper sound system added to it. I originally wanted to run wires through the ceiling and attach the satellite speakers to the ceiling itself in the four corners of the room. I got the famous 'look' for that idea. The only other viable alternative is to use speaker stands and run the wires as unobtrusively as possible along the floor. This is a reasonable idea because we'll be replacing the carpeting soon and if I have to tear up a section to hide a wire there's no harm done. When the installers come to replace the carpets they can run the wires better and leave a few open channels along the nail board up to the stands. The big decision now is what kind of speakers and surround controller to buy.

Two Sheets in the Wind is Better Than One

No, not a drinking effects comment but rather a comment on finally giving the primary set of sheets on the bed a break from constant laundering. I've always liked the feel of flannel sheets because, in my opinion, they are the fabric equivalent of comfort foods like meatloaf and mashed potatoes with gravy. Flannel envelopes you in bed like a friendly glove. The downside of flannel is that it can get a bit warm when it warms up outside. Okay, flannel lost this round to Egyptian cotton sheets, the 400 thread count kind. More threads the better the sheets, just like tailored men's shirts. I do have to admit that the sheets are very comfortable and feel quite nice so it was a good choice for the second set for the new bed. I did learn one important thing however. Make sure you measure a pillow top mattress from the bottom to the top to make sure the bottom sheet will grab all four corners at the bottom. We took a guess at 18 inches and we got the right one, we were lucky that time because I didn't want to drive all the way back to the store to exchange them.