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PT and Supplements

This post will be more of a practical post than have been my recent attempts at sophistry and out-loud public thinking.  I hope you find some value in this post.

A few years back, I started running.  I ran and ran, mainly in the hills where I lived at the time.  Running has always come naturally to me, in spite of the Army's best efforts to make it miserable.  Running in cadence, in formation, and on concrete is rough on a natural cross country runner.

Things were going fine until I got hurt and had to quit running altogether for quite some time.  Used to physical activity, I went outside and brushed the leaves off my old weight bench.  I didn't have many weights, so I used a log and some surplus five gallon water cans for resistance.  Eventually, I was able to scrounge around on Craigslist and at the transfer site (it's an Alaska thing) for more.  Time went on and my injury healed, but by this time I was hooked on the rush that comes with lifting, addicted to the feeling of being utterly crushed after a session, completely sore the next day, and hooked on the feeling of accomplishment putting another plate on the bar gave me.

All I had to go on was a cheesy old book I had been given in the Army, with "before" and "after" photos that were obviously not the same guy.  It was a start, though.  It gave me a basic program to build on.  Since then, my "program" has been largely a creation of my imagination.  I prefer to lift alone, drowning in a tempestuous sea of loud music.  I've had some help along the way (see my last post on benching, for example), but mostly my program is a unique oddity I've created.  It works for me.

Any lifter will tell you that the body makes amazing gains in the first few months, seemingly in spite of beginner mistakes and inexperience.  The body is desperate to be strong!  It takes more than lifting day in and day out to continue to progress.  The act of lifting is only planning to grow.  Eating (the right food in the right amounts) is giving your body fuel to grow, and sleep is when the body actually does its growing.

Eventually, I started looking for ways to help my body get stronger.  I began with eating a lot of natural fats, carbs, and protein, as well as drinking protein shakes immediately after working out (as soon as I can without throwing it up).  That did well for me.  Then a friend introduced me to supplements.  I had stepped into a whole new world.

I think many supplements are meant to just take your money.  To be completely honest, all of the "hardgainers" I have met can fix their problems through diet or intensity adjustment.  To gain weight, strength, and/or size, you have to use low rep, high weight (to failure) sets, and eat.  A LOT.   Most folks are unwilling to put away the food in sufficient quantity.  It's repetitive.  It gets bland.  Every three hours.  Protein, carbs.  Chicken, rice.  Tuna, rice.  Beef, potatoes.  Veggies.  Over and over, a lot.  This is, however annoying and laborious, an absolute.  Taking supplements without eating and sleeping right and busting your butt in the gym is a waste of time and money.  When the basic are covered, however, supplements give a person a decided edge, in my opinion.

My first supplements were from USP Labs.  I had very good results using the Asteroid Stack, consisting of Prime, Pump, and Powerfull.  Added to this was their BCAA drink for recovery (Amino Acids), and, for a while, some "Jack3D".  Jack3D is something you have to experience for yourself.  It is a niacin rush like you've likely never felt, and puts you in the right state of mind to punish the body.  Seriously.  The stuff is like a legal Speed drink.  Here is an "AP friendly" Amazon link for USP Labs products.

USP Labs has outstanding customer service.  I once bought a bottle with some fragile pills.  A few were cracked.  I called them, and they sent me a new, fresh bottle, a hat, and a t-shirt, as well as some samples, all free.  They stand behind their products.  I did notice gains while on their products, but my experience is subjective, hardly scientific.  Their stuff works.  Some people say there are other positive side effects for males their products can have.  I cannot confirm or deny this.

Cons to USP labs products- The full Asteroid stack gave me headaches once in a while, as well as...gastrointestinal distress.  The runs.  Some people get hit with them, some don't.  You take your chances, I guess. The company has outstanding customer service and an effective product, but the physical, uh, side effects...are what made me look elsewhere.

The other company I can recommend is AnimalPak, I believe a subsidiary of the long-lived Universal Nutrition, a pioneer in the lifting supplement field.  Here is an "AP friendly" Amazon link for Animal Products.

Animal products I have tried include:

Animal Pak (Multivitamin, good all-around)
Animal Stak and M-Stak
Animal Test (A HEAVY DUTY testosterone booster)
Animal Pump
Animal Nitro
Animal Rage (an...energy drink...comparable to Jack3D, but better)
Universal Nutrition Sterol Tablets

The most effective mass/strength combination I have tried is Pak/Stak/M-Stak/Test/Sterol/Rage.  This combination is a lot, both physically and financially.  They come in horse-pill sized pills, and there are a lot of them to put down.  I buy all of them at the same time once in a while from the least expensive option, Amazon (budget and wife dependent...), and combine it with a very high-intensity program.  This combination will get you going, and it will motivate you, believe me.  Buyer beware, this isn't a cheap combo, and it will increase your general aggression level.  You will want to hit the gym on this combo.  Hard.  The good thing is, you will be able to.  If you time the ingestion of the supplements as directed, you will hit the weights in a aggressive, focused, and ready-for-pain manner.  Trust me on this.  Or, if you can, try it for yourself.

My favorite Protein drink is the GNC Pro Performance® AMP 100% Whey Protein  line, but I can't always afford it.  It's available at Amazon, at GNC stores and online.  I usually get whatever is available and affordable these days.  I look for the highest protein-per-serving, and go with it.  A good weight gainer is either Optimum Nutrition Serious Mass or Universal Nutrition Real Gains.  You will gain weight with these, and if you're not putting the work in during your PT, you will get fat on these.  You'll gain some fat with these, anyway.  That can be addressed with cardio, or a fat burning, light weight, high rep lifting cycle.

Supplements are not cheap.  They are not even necessary, to be perfectly honest.  Intensity, dedication, rest, and nutrition will carry the day.  Supplements will, however, give you an extra edge and allow you to maximize the gains from your hard work and pain.

These are my subjective opinions and thoughts on optimizing a weightlifting regime with supplements.  Take them or leave them.  If you decide to try any that I've mentioned, consider using the Amazon links I provided.  For that matter, if you need to buy knitting supplies or anything from Amazon, consider using them.  I'll receive a small portion of the price in the form of an Amazon credit (at no cost to you) of any products you buy after clicking on them.  (Disclosure: This Amazon store credit will immediately be put towards books or supplements to fuel my two primary addictions: lifting and reading.)

Doo-Occupy

Ariel Zevon is Warren's daughter. And she's done a great job in putting the foreclosure crisis to song. The more I watch it, the more I love this video!

Spring is almost here and that means the Occupy Movement will be back in full force. Tomorrow they'll be confronting the Willard Wall Street campaign at the Waldorf Astoria. Keep in touch with what's going on there at the Mr. 1% Facebook page. But Ariel's song was done for the Doo-Occupy! Bail Out America project, which is all about community organizing for eviction protection, student debt relief and the other economic democracy causes motivating the 99% since the banksters and their politician cronies were caught with their hands in the till. Their statement is clear and as enticing as the song:

Our hope is to provide focus and capacity to the emerging populist uprising. We wish to help amplify its power through inspiring movement building campaigns that can are rooted in communities and deliver victories that make a material difference in people's lives.

Through this we will grow our movement from the power we have to the power we need to transform society and establish a new social contract based not on citizenship or property, but on universal human rights.

Doo-Occupy! Bail Out America is an intensive "Learning by Doing" action training that will deliver tools to take home, including stories and lesson from a couple of the hottest actions you'll ever experience. Thanks to all our allies for joining the fun.

If you sign up for the training these are some of the things you can expect to learn:

* Grand strategy & creative tactics for building movement power
* Flash mob design and performance
* Giant banner building
* Projection as protest
* Nonviolent direct action training
* Imagery design and construction
* Eviction protection organizing strategies
* Campus organizing for student debt relief
* Web streaming and internal media
* Swing Dancing!

If you're in NYC tomorrow... don't forget to show up at the Waldorf-Astoria on Park Avenue (11am). Romney is celebrating coming in third in both Alabama and Mississippi tonight at his suite in the Waldorf.

The most important election since 1980...

Stay safe.

Bench Program

An absolutely brutal, but amazing bench press program.

Add some dumbbell flies, some triceps work, adequate sleep, large amounts of protein and nutrition, and a lot of steel in the heart.  (Not to mention hard training on the other muscle groups...your body grows best as a complete unit.)

It's a recipe for success.  This program led me to smash through the 300# mark, and is what I plan to follow to hit 400# by 2013.  Follow the heavy program, then alternate to the lighter program as shown below.

If there's interest, I could do a quick write up on (legal) lifting supplements as well.  Some folks blow them off, but they work.  Diet is another biggie. 

Show your body who's in charge today.

Resist.

Says it all...

...Created online. Not cheap, but could be made a statement when placed on a car with an OBAMA 2012 sticker on it...


...Free North Carolina covers other ways to poke the Bots...

Apps ahoy! (One of these days, almost for sure)

No, I didn't take this picture. Even if I knew how to take pictures with the thing, I could hardly have taken a picture of it, could I?


"[M]aybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous. For all these reasons I quit Facebook about two months after I'd joined it. As with all seriously addictive things, giving up proved to be immeasurably harder than starting. I kept changing my mind: Facebook remains the greatest distraction from work I've ever had, and I loved it for that. I think a lot of people love it for that. Some work-avoidance techniques are onerous in themselves and don't make time move especially quickly: smoking, eating, calling people up on the phone. With Facebook hours, afternoons, entire days went by without my noticing."

-- Zadie Smith, in a November 2010 New York Review
of Books essay, "Generation Why?"

"[O]n Twitter you find yourself doing all sorts of things you wouldn't otherwise do. And once you've entered the Enchanted E-Forest, lured in there by cute bunnies and playful kittens, you can find yourself wandering around in it for quite some time."

-- Margaret Atwood, in a new NYRB blogpost,
"Deeper into the Twungle"

by Ken

I just dug up the New York Review of Books piece that contains the above quote from the almost-always-stimulating Zadie Smith. It's an essay that took as its jumping-off points the Aaron Sorkin-David Fincher film The Social Network and Jaron Lanier's book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. The quote, once found, turned out to be very much as I remembered it. What surprised me is what a small portion of the piece this quote represents.

Somehow I had forgotten how generally, and even alarmedly, negative Smith (left) was in the piece with regard to Facebook and the kind of social, or antisocial, mindset it embodies. I can see now that this didn't surprise me back in November 2010. Probably what surprised me then was learning that she had actually been through a period of Facebook addiction. From my own experience, I just couldn't understand how this was even possible, not for someone with such seemingly strong connections to nonvirtual reality as Smith.

I had recently come through a brief period of trying, at the recommendation of (once-trusted) friends who assured me that Facebook would open a new world to me, to find some reason -- any reason -- for hanging out on Facebook. I was never able to figure out how or why anybody would spend more time there than the couple of minutes it takes to whiz through the latest maunderings posted by the person's "friends."

I still can't figure it out. Even now, I keep receiving regular e-mails from Facebook claiming that I have new "notifications," which always turns out to be a lie. The first couple of times I went scrounging all around the damned site in search of these new notifications, until I found a screen that told me in no uncertain terms that I had no new notifications. That at least relieved my anxiety that I was missing some desperately important communication. Now when I get one of those fib-mails, I do sometimes check into my account, just to peek at the graffiti scrawled over my "wall." I've accepted a bunch of "friend" invitations, if only out of politeness, and some of these are people I actually wouldn't mind hearing from, or at least about. Every now and then I pick up a scrap of information, like the death of a parent or the birth of a new grandchild. I've never timed it, but I think I usually get in and out of the site in two or three minutes.

I SHOULD EXPLAIN THAT TWO OR THREE (MAYBE FOUR)
WEEKS AGO TODAY MY SMARTPHONE WAS DELIVERED

Partly I can't remember how many weeks it was (I just remember it was a Monday, because I wasn't expecting it to arrive till maybe Wednesday) because after the couple of days it took to get the thing activated and straighten out a number of details with my provider in order to get my online account set up, I haven't so much as turned it on.

I admit, I'm a-scared of it. I don't know how to do a darned thing with it, and it scares me to be that clueless. Now, I'm not constitutionally technophobic. There was a time, notably when I was first making my way in the computer world, when few things gave me more pleasure than ripping open the package of a new item of hardware or softward and attacking the manual to get the thing up and running and teach myself how to manage at least its basic functions.

No more. Somewhere along the line I lost confidence in my ability to make head or tail of the manual. This goes back at least to the time I boldly ordered a SCSI card to expand my fairly primitive Mac, so that I could have such unimagined newfangled devices as a CD-ROM drive, and was so intimidated by all the intricacies I had heard and read about that I don't think I ever even opened the package. (I outwaited myself. Eventually I bought a new computer that had all that stuff taken care of internally.)

At the moment somewhere in my apartment I've got the package containing the Elements of Photoshop software I ordered sitting safely (I assume). Even if I found a window of courage for installing it, I would first have to find the package.

With regard to the smartphone, I've written before about my resistance to this whole world of "apps." But I faced a decision. I literally wasn't using my old dumbphone at all, partly because it wasn't working so well anymore, and would have had to be replaced if I hoped to get any use out of it, but also because I just didn't seem to have any use for it, with the exception of when I was traveling, when it was a fabulous thing to have -- but I hardly ever travel. I really only broke down and got the damned thing because there came a moment during my mother's long decline, 1500 miles away, when I simply had to have a way to be in regular contact with her onsite caregivers. (I was being hassled at work for using my office phone.)

It's now more than two years since my mother died, though, and for month on end my "usage" month after month was zero. Not zero above my allotted minutes, but zero. Not a great return on my montly $50-plus investment. I faced the choice, it seemed to me, especially with my phone itself in need of replacing, of either down- or upgrading -- either giving the thing up altogether or seeing how much it would cost to upgrade to smarphone service and see if I might actually use it.

Before my phone even arrived, I had found and downloaded the manual, and then printed the whole 200 pages out. And then carried them around in an envelope back and forth between home and work every day, hardly daring to peek inside.

I thought, as last weekend approached, during which I would be doing three walking tours and might well want to write something about them, that this would be a great time to figure out how to use the camera function. (My poor old dumbphone took pictures, but I never found a way of extracting them from the device.) In the days preceding I kept thinking this would be a good time to crack open that printout of the manual. No go.

Even when I set out on Saturday morning, I had with me both the envelope containing the printout and, safely tucked I away (I hoped), the contraption itself. I had about a 45-minute ride on the M100 bus to the meeting point for my Municipal Art Society walk from Harlem into the Mott Haven area of the Bronx. I found other occupations to fill that time. As I wrote here, I had about a 50-minute subway ride from the Bronx to the Park Slope area of Brooklyn for my MAS walking tour there. Again, I found other ways to fill the time.

It's true that much of the time from my return home Saturday to my departure for my Sunday MAS walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn was filled with work on my Sunday Classics post, but I could still have cracked open the smartphone manual on the subway ride to Brooklyn. But I didn't. I did wind up writing a post, but had no pictures of my own to add to it.

The reason I'm going into all this just now is that not long before I started writing this post I stumbled across the new NYRB blogpost by Margaret Atwood from which the second quote at the top is taken. Here's a little more of what the distinguished writer -- not a grand passion of mine, but someone I certainly take seriously -- has to say:

[On] Twitter you find yourself doing all sorts of things you wouldn't otherwise do. And once you've entered the Enchanted E-Forest, lured in there by cute bunnies and playful kittens, you can find yourself wandering around in it for quite some time. You might even find yourself climbing the odd tree -- the very odd tree -- or taking refuge in the odd hollow log -- the very odd hollow log -- because cute bunnies and playful kittens are not the only things alive in the mirkwoods of the Web. Or the webs of the mirkwoods. Paths can get tangled there. Plots can get thickened. Games are afoot.

When I first started Twittering, back in 2009 -- you can read about my early adventures in a NYRblog post I wrote two years ago -- I was, you might say, merely capering on the flower-bestrewn fringes of the Twitterwoods. . . .

[Editor's note: The above photo of Ms. A appeared with the 2009 NYRB blogpost she cites, which was titled "Atwood in the Twittersphere." The 2009 caption read: "Margaret Atwood, tweeting aboard the Queen Mary 2, August 2009."]

Really? "You can find yourself wandering around in it for quite some time"? Huh? Like where? Hey, I yield to pretty much no one in my ability to woolgather and timewaste, but I do have my limits.

As it happens, I was recently exhorted by yet another once-trusted friend on the subject of the usefulness of Twitter. (I won't name him, but he knows who he is, and you know him too.) To the point where, with no little trepidation, I signed myself up, and in the process was forced to choose 15 or 20 people or things to "follow." My once-trusted friend had assured me that if indeed I found, as I put it to him, that I was being swamped with urgent news like somebody having just made a sandwich, I could just ditch such tweeters, as he does frequently when people he follows devote too much attention to subjects like sports.

Since I signed up, I've only ventured back onto the site a few times. Talk about useless! What I found there hasn't encouraged frequent return visits. I suppose I could be devoting time to rooting out the rot and hunting down more informative or entertaining sources. Maybe I'll put that on my "to do" list.

First, though, I'm going to have to turn my phone again. I'm too cheap to be shelling out what I'm going to be shelling out each month (I've paid my first bill but because of the extra stuff it included I'll need to wait for the next one to see what the actual monthly total will be with all taxes and fees added) for something I don't use at all, and I'm way too cheap to even consider shelling out those big contract-buy-out bucks.

I guess one of these days I should start trying to figure out which apps might actually do something for me. I don't suppose anyone has any useful suggestions.

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