I'm doing great. I posted my pictures in the Photo Gallery to show my progress. I've come a long way since I last visited here. I'm still on the journey to a six pack though. I will never give up. I'm a lot closer to my goal today. Your plants are awesome. I know what you mean by those nutrition-less ones at the market. I just read up on all the fake stuff they put on the market nowadays. They lack proper nutrition values. Looking forward to your pics and videos.
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I got up at about 5:00AM, sat on the Patio, sipping coffee, and watched the sun come up.
Saw a red cardinal sitting on the patio railing when I went out to the patio, and it didn't fly off when I sat in the chair. It had its back to me, but did turn around. Before it turned around we were friends. When it turned around, I saw a green tomato in its beak. I was disturbed, but it was natural nonetheless. It flew off in a tree near by happier than a lark with my small green chocolate tomato. I was surprised actually because normally, if birds eat berries (etc), they are usually ripe. Any hoot, I normally do not have a problem with them. For some reason, it gave me a sense of peace.
It was like the bird was saying:
"Uh, huh.....I got some of your shiaaat and I gonna to fly off with it and want you to see this first........watcha gonna do?" lol......
Examined my Chocolate Cherry tomato plants. They are simply ridiculous: BEASTS! I am getting impatient for them to ripen (), seeing all those clusters of tomatoes with 10 or more on them. These smoky-tomato tasting babies are good in salads, with SF/low-calorie tomato-bacon dressing. Very unique flavor. But, I regress, I have to grow up and wait, lol.
I didn't know this! I will check it out! I bet you have done well with yourself!
I couldn't be more happier for you, when I read that, Aim.
This is, in fact, an achievable goal for you. Put enough of you into its path, and its yours.
Thanks. I like watching plants grow from little infants (say a few inches tall) to bulking behemoths like the Chocolate Cherries, or from seed (like with the patios), into small brutes. Its sort of like us in fitness, feed the educational seed, germinate (execute the functions), and we grow and prosper.
I love taking care of them. I see to there need. Like I see to my own. Though we are obviously different biological entities, we have a lot in common.
I am in the process of taking them, and will be putting them up soon. to this very day, I am very surprised on how my aging body (nearing 48) is responding. I wish I had new this when I was in my prime. It "would have been" better. Do not let this happen to you, Aim. You have genetics left to discover.
Uncover it for the win.
Best wishes
Chillen
Saw a red cardinal sitting on the patio railing when I went out to the patio, and it didn't fly off when I sat in the chair. It had its back to me, but did turn around. Before it turned around we were friends. When it turned around, I saw a green tomato in its beak. I was disturbed, but it was natural nonetheless. It flew off in a tree near by happier than a lark with my small green chocolate tomato. I was surprised actually because normally, if birds eat berries (etc), they are usually ripe. Any hoot, I normally do not have a problem with them. For some reason, it gave me a sense of peace.
It was like the bird was saying:
"Uh, huh.....I got some of your shiaaat and I gonna to fly off with it and want you to see this first........watcha gonna do?" lol......
Examined my Chocolate Cherry tomato plants. They are simply ridiculous: BEASTS! I am getting impatient for them to ripen (), seeing all those clusters of tomatoes with 10 or more on them. These smoky-tomato tasting babies are good in salads, with SF/low-calorie tomato-bacon dressing. Very unique flavor. But, I regress, I have to grow up and wait, lol.
I didn't know this! I will check it out! I bet you have done well with yourself!
I couldn't be more happier for you, when I read that, Aim.
This is, in fact, an achievable goal for you. Put enough of you into its path, and its yours.
Thanks. I like watching plants grow from little infants (say a few inches tall) to bulking behemoths like the Chocolate Cherries, or from seed (like with the patios), into small brutes. Its sort of like us in fitness, feed the educational seed, germinate (execute the functions), and we grow and prosper.
I love taking care of them. I see to there need. Like I see to my own. Though we are obviously different biological entities, we have a lot in common.
I am in the process of taking them, and will be putting them up soon. to this very day, I am very surprised on how my aging body (nearing 48) is responding. I wish I had new this when I was in my prime. It "would have been" better. Do not let this happen to you, Aim. You have genetics left to discover.
Uncover it for the win.
Best wishes
Chillen
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Busy, is an understatement, young lady.
wow go you, thats great!!
Can you give me some details on this?
The main issue with most woman, is there fat placement on the body (hips and thighs as a "general rule", with some exceptions of course).
BF is taken all over the body; however, the first two upper abs are the first to show, and most generally.....most generally, the easiest to get to show (and I say this with bated breath), as compared to the lower portion. This is an attainable goal for you, Jackie, but you MUST put the work in--mainly outside of the gym (the hours away where diet is the major player, if you see what I am saying), to compliment what you are doing in the gym (or exercising at home in your case).
I hope it gets better, Jackie. Sorry to hear that. Is it real bad? no no no need to worryHave you seen a doc? no need, its getting a lot better, its still there slightly, but its healing
Has your equipment availability changes since we last talked? Or is it about he same as before?nope
Give me some details on what you are doing with your diet, currently, and answer the question on equipment availability, and we can go from there.
er....... dunno what to say really, i was calorie counting, and macro counting, but i cant seem to get the carbs down to match the protein n fats, it was like: 90g protein, 60g fat and 150g carbs daily, i need more work in this area i know
You too.....thank you Jackie.
Best wishes,
Chillen
Heya chillen, hope i have answered some of your qs at least, sorry i cant be more detailed but i cant seem to settle lol
Will get back to you real soon, help me get em 2 pack abs man haha
Jackie xx
I will be looking forward to your post, Jackie. And, I will give you a detailed response when you do.
XX to you.......
Hope your day was great. You must create this AB real estate and make them a soul mate..........he, he.
Best regards,
Chillen
I have a visit with my beloved to the point, no fluff, give it in the arse, I would rather smack ya, than hear ya cry-baby, doctor, (and trainer/nutritionist) at 2:45PM.
Did I tell you, I love her?, LOL.
I am still having some trouble with my ears. They continually get clogged every so often, and hurt slightly, and pop when I train. So I am having this looked at, and then training this afternoon despite it.
She may send me to ENT (again), and this is cool. I will keep you posted.
Not a big problem, just annoying little fella, I have to tackle like a linebacker.
Hope all of you are well today.
Peace
Chillen
Did I tell you, I love her?
, LOL.I am still having some trouble with my ears. They continually get clogged every so often, and hurt slightly, and pop when I train. So I am having this looked at, and then training this afternoon despite it.
She may send me to ENT (again), and this is cool. I will keep you posted.
Not a big problem, just annoying little fella, I have to tackle like a linebacker.
Hope all of you are well today.
Peace
Chillen
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Love this article by Lyle. He is a hard ass , bottom line sort of guy, and I like that......
Training Secrets
Now, this is the American way:
Look for a quick fix secret instead of realizing that the only way to succeed is with ass busting work over a long period of time.
Give me a pill, a piece of equipment, a piece of clothing (UnderArmor being the new clothing of choice for gym posers everywhere). Anything except for having to put in ass busting work over a period of time.
Uh......got love it........
Any hoot here is Lyle's Article:
Training Secrets
What stimulated this article was an experience I had last week. As described in the About Me page I’m currently living in SLC Utah training full time at the speed skating oval trying to make National or Olympic qualifying trials (making the team, of course, is the ultimate dream).
Anyhow, last week I made friends with one of the other skaters (most of the skaters at the oval are, shall we say, unfriendly. Coming from me that’s saying a lot. I personally think they carry the same elitist prick gene that road cyclists carry but I digress). He’s young and big, I shall call him The Big Kid (TBK).
So TBK and I are at dinner talking skating. He tells me that he moved down here to try and make the national team. Ok, I’m down. Except that when I see him at the rink, he’s usually spending more time hitting on the chicks instead of training.
TBK also opines that he is just convinced that the top guys must have some secret. Ah, there’s the rub, he’s still looking for secrets instead of realizing that the only secret is ass busting work over a long period of time. And that’s what stimulated this article.
I still get emails, see posts to my forum, etc. from people looking for that elusive training or diet secret. Something quick and easy, preferably in pill form that can be taken and make you great without putting in ass busting work over a long period of time.
Now, this is the American way, look for a quick fix secret instead of realizing that the only way to succeed is with ass busting work over a long period of time. Give me a pill, a piece of equipment, a piece of clothing (UnderArmor being the new clothing of choice for gym posers everywhere). Anything except for having to put in ass busting work over a period of time.
Anything. Supplement companies, magazines, equipment companies use this to their advantage. Read a muscle magazine, a fishing magazine, a women’s magazine, all use the same cover boilerplate that promises training, fishing or sex secrets. It’s the same wording.
* 10 Training Secrets for Muscle Building
* 10 Bassmaster Secrets for Catching a Big Lunker
* 10 Sex Secrets You Can Use Tonight
Now, this reminds me of me when I was back in college, an athlete who desperately wanted to be better and who got sucked into all of the crap in the magazines. This magic supplement, this magic training program, I read the muscle magazines religiously for years just so I wouldn’t miss that one issue that contained the secret.
Then I got my head (partially anyhow) out of my ass.
Over time, as I gained experience (and the horror of all horrors: maturity), I realized that there are no secrets. The equation is simply ass busting work + time = results. There are no shortcuts, no secrets, no easy solutions (except drugs).
Sure, you need to train smart, you need to apply good principles to your diet and training and some stuff is relatively more effective than other stuff. But once you’ve got the basics, all you can do is bust ass for a long period of time. Or take drugs. Both work and, of course, drugs are easier. See my bromocriptine booklet for example.
So with that said, I give you the training and diet secrets I have developed over the past decade (note: this is why I’ll never be a best selling author).
Training Secrets for Size and Strength Gains (for Naturals)
1. If you are natural, you must get stronger to get bigger. If, over time, you are not adding weight to the bar, you are not growing.
2. Training a body part less than 2X/week will not give you optimal gains. An upper/lower split done Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri is close to optimal for most. Full body twice a week can work very well. Once every 5th day is the least frequently I would ever recommend a natural train. You’ll get less sore training more frequently and you’ll grow better. Save once/week body part training for pro bodybuilders (read: steroid users) and the genetically elite.
3. When in doubt, do less volume, not more. You don’t need a zillion sets to stimulate hypertrophy, the bull**** written in the magazines to the contrary. If you can’t get it done in 4-8 hard sets (sometimes less, rarely more) you need to quit training like a ****y in the gym. I had a friend who sold supplements one time who kept asking me to design him a product that would really work. I told him to make a supplement that would make people work hard in the gym and watch their diets. He thought I was joking.
4. Generally, basic compound exercises are best but isolation stuff has its place. Same for the machines versus free weights ‘argument’: both have their place. Anybody who tell you that you MUST do a certain exercise is arguing from an emotional stance, not a physiological one.
5. If you think you can gain muscle without eating sufficient food or calories, you should quit bodybuilding and take up something easier, like golf. You can’t magically make muscle out of nothing, you need calories and protein to grow. If you can’t buckle down to eat enough on a consistent basis, you won’t grow an ounce of muscle. And spare me the excuses that you’re not hungry or your schedule won’t allow it. It’s about priorities, eat more or stay skinny.
6. Most hardgainers train like idiots and don’t eat enough.
7. Diets should be based around whole foods first, supplements second. Remember the hoopla over zinc and testosterone and ZMA from Balco (hi Victor, hope you’re enjoying the forced sodomy in jail)? Red meat is a great source of zinc, iron, B12 and protein. Not to mention who knows how many other trace nutrients that are involved in optimal human physiology. Eat it every day. Remember all of that crap about indole 3 carbinole. Guess what, it’s found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower. Every time you hear about a new magic compound, 99 times out of 100 it’s found in some whole food that you’re probably not eating. Eat whole foods with a ****pile of veggies every day.
8. There is no singular best protein, each one has pros and cons. Generally, I thinnk casein is better for dieting, whey for around workouts, whole proteins the rest of the time. You can’t beat milk (and the dairy calcium has benefits on bodyfat). I think mixing proteins at a given meal is a good idea to eliminte any shortcomings of one. I think food combining (or protein rotation) is a lot of hippy holistic bull****.
Dieting Secrets for Fat Loss
1. You can’t magically lose weight unless you eat less or burn more calories with activity. Not unless you take drugs and those either make you eat less or burn more anyhow.
2. Don’t bitch about how much you hate dieting or exercise. You can either change your diet and activity patterns, or you can stay fat. Those are your two options, except for drugs.
3. To lose weight and keep it off you must change some aspect of your training and diet and do it forever.
4. All diet books, no matter what line of bull**** they sell you, are working in terms of what’s in #3. Cutting all of the carbs out of your diet will generally make you eat less, so will cutting out all of the fat, so do diets taht change your eating habits in one fashion or another. Some books go the activity route. At the end of the day, even if they tell you that you don’t have to eat less to lose weight, they will trick you into doing it one way or another
Note: My job, as diet book author, is to turn Eat Less, Exercise, Repeat Forever into a 300 page book. Most diet books do it with 150 pages of recipes.
Everything else that you may come across, including my various gibberings in my books, are just details on the above. But at a fundamental level, until you are dealing with that 1% of 1% of trainees (elite athletes, bodybuilders trying to get to 5% bodyfat without muscle loss), those secrets are about all you need to know.
The equation is this:
Hard Work + Consistency + Time = Results.
Yep. The only way.
Chillen
, bottom line sort of guy, and I like that......Training Secrets
Now, this is the American way:
Look for a quick fix secret instead of realizing that the only way to succeed is with ass busting work over a long period of time.
Give me a pill, a piece of equipment, a piece of clothing (UnderArmor being the new clothing of choice for gym posers everywhere). Anything except for having to put in ass busting work over a period of time.
Uh......got love it........
Any hoot here is Lyle's Article:
Training Secrets
What stimulated this article was an experience I had last week. As described in the About Me page I’m currently living in SLC Utah training full time at the speed skating oval trying to make National or Olympic qualifying trials (making the team, of course, is the ultimate dream).
Anyhow, last week I made friends with one of the other skaters (most of the skaters at the oval are, shall we say, unfriendly. Coming from me that’s saying a lot. I personally think they carry the same elitist prick gene that road cyclists carry but I digress). He’s young and big, I shall call him The Big Kid (TBK).
So TBK and I are at dinner talking skating. He tells me that he moved down here to try and make the national team. Ok, I’m down. Except that when I see him at the rink, he’s usually spending more time hitting on the chicks instead of training.
TBK also opines that he is just convinced that the top guys must have some secret. Ah, there’s the rub, he’s still looking for secrets instead of realizing that the only secret is ass busting work over a long period of time. And that’s what stimulated this article.
I still get emails, see posts to my forum, etc. from people looking for that elusive training or diet secret. Something quick and easy, preferably in pill form that can be taken and make you great without putting in ass busting work over a long period of time.
Now, this is the American way, look for a quick fix secret instead of realizing that the only way to succeed is with ass busting work over a long period of time. Give me a pill, a piece of equipment, a piece of clothing (UnderArmor being the new clothing of choice for gym posers everywhere). Anything except for having to put in ass busting work over a period of time.
Anything. Supplement companies, magazines, equipment companies use this to their advantage. Read a muscle magazine, a fishing magazine, a women’s magazine, all use the same cover boilerplate that promises training, fishing or sex secrets. It’s the same wording.
* 10 Training Secrets for Muscle Building
* 10 Bassmaster Secrets for Catching a Big Lunker
* 10 Sex Secrets You Can Use Tonight
Now, this reminds me of me when I was back in college, an athlete who desperately wanted to be better and who got sucked into all of the crap in the magazines. This magic supplement, this magic training program, I read the muscle magazines religiously for years just so I wouldn’t miss that one issue that contained the secret.
Then I got my head (partially anyhow) out of my ass.
Over time, as I gained experience (and the horror of all horrors: maturity), I realized that there are no secrets. The equation is simply ass busting work + time = results. There are no shortcuts, no secrets, no easy solutions (except drugs).
Sure, you need to train smart, you need to apply good principles to your diet and training and some stuff is relatively more effective than other stuff. But once you’ve got the basics, all you can do is bust ass for a long period of time. Or take drugs. Both work and, of course, drugs are easier. See my bromocriptine booklet for example.
So with that said, I give you the training and diet secrets I have developed over the past decade (note: this is why I’ll never be a best selling author).
Training Secrets for Size and Strength Gains (for Naturals)
1. If you are natural, you must get stronger to get bigger. If, over time, you are not adding weight to the bar, you are not growing.
2. Training a body part less than 2X/week will not give you optimal gains. An upper/lower split done Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri is close to optimal for most. Full body twice a week can work very well. Once every 5th day is the least frequently I would ever recommend a natural train. You’ll get less sore training more frequently and you’ll grow better. Save once/week body part training for pro bodybuilders (read: steroid users) and the genetically elite.
3. When in doubt, do less volume, not more. You don’t need a zillion sets to stimulate hypertrophy, the bull**** written in the magazines to the contrary. If you can’t get it done in 4-8 hard sets (sometimes less, rarely more) you need to quit training like a ****y in the gym. I had a friend who sold supplements one time who kept asking me to design him a product that would really work. I told him to make a supplement that would make people work hard in the gym and watch their diets. He thought I was joking.
4. Generally, basic compound exercises are best but isolation stuff has its place. Same for the machines versus free weights ‘argument’: both have their place. Anybody who tell you that you MUST do a certain exercise is arguing from an emotional stance, not a physiological one.
5. If you think you can gain muscle without eating sufficient food or calories, you should quit bodybuilding and take up something easier, like golf. You can’t magically make muscle out of nothing, you need calories and protein to grow. If you can’t buckle down to eat enough on a consistent basis, you won’t grow an ounce of muscle. And spare me the excuses that you’re not hungry or your schedule won’t allow it. It’s about priorities, eat more or stay skinny.
6. Most hardgainers train like idiots and don’t eat enough.
7. Diets should be based around whole foods first, supplements second. Remember the hoopla over zinc and testosterone and ZMA from Balco (hi Victor, hope you’re enjoying the forced sodomy in jail)? Red meat is a great source of zinc, iron, B12 and protein. Not to mention who knows how many other trace nutrients that are involved in optimal human physiology. Eat it every day. Remember all of that crap about indole 3 carbinole. Guess what, it’s found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower. Every time you hear about a new magic compound, 99 times out of 100 it’s found in some whole food that you’re probably not eating. Eat whole foods with a ****pile of veggies every day.
8. There is no singular best protein, each one has pros and cons. Generally, I thinnk casein is better for dieting, whey for around workouts, whole proteins the rest of the time. You can’t beat milk (and the dairy calcium has benefits on bodyfat). I think mixing proteins at a given meal is a good idea to eliminte any shortcomings of one. I think food combining (or protein rotation) is a lot of hippy holistic bull****.
Dieting Secrets for Fat Loss
1. You can’t magically lose weight unless you eat less or burn more calories with activity. Not unless you take drugs and those either make you eat less or burn more anyhow.
2. Don’t bitch about how much you hate dieting or exercise. You can either change your diet and activity patterns, or you can stay fat. Those are your two options, except for drugs.
3. To lose weight and keep it off you must change some aspect of your training and diet and do it forever.
4. All diet books, no matter what line of bull**** they sell you, are working in terms of what’s in #3. Cutting all of the carbs out of your diet will generally make you eat less, so will cutting out all of the fat, so do diets taht change your eating habits in one fashion or another. Some books go the activity route. At the end of the day, even if they tell you that you don’t have to eat less to lose weight, they will trick you into doing it one way or another
Note: My job, as diet book author, is to turn Eat Less, Exercise, Repeat Forever into a 300 page book. Most diet books do it with 150 pages of recipes.
Everything else that you may come across, including my various gibberings in my books, are just details on the above. But at a fundamental level, until you are dealing with that 1% of 1% of trainees (elite athletes, bodybuilders trying to get to 5% bodyfat without muscle loss), those secrets are about all you need to know.
The equation is this:
Hard Work + Consistency + Time = Results.
Yep. The only way.
Chillen
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Love this article by Lyle. He is a hard ass
Training Secrets
Now, this is the American way:
Look for a quick fix secret instead of realizing that the only way to succeed is with ass busting work over a long period of time.
Give me a pill, a piece of equipment, a piece of clothing (UnderArmor being the new clothing of choice for gym posers everywhere). Anything except for having to put in ass busting work over a period of time.
Uh......got love it........
Any hoot here is Lyle's Article:
Training Secrets
What stimulated this article was an experience I had last week. As described in the About Me page I’m currently living in SLC Utah training full time at the speed skating oval trying to make National or Olympic qualifying trials (making the team, of course, is the ultimate dream).
Anyhow, last week I made friends with one of the other skaters (most of the skaters at the oval are, shall we say, unfriendly. Coming from me that’s saying a lot. I personally think they carry the same elitist prick gene that road cyclists carry but I digress). He’s young and big, I shall call him The Big Kid (TBK).
So TBK and I are at dinner talking skating. He tells me that he moved down here to try and make the national team. Ok, I’m down. Except that when I see him at the rink, he’s usually spending more time hitting on the chicks instead of training.
TBK also opines that he is just convinced that the top guys must have some secret. Ah, there’s the rub, he’s still looking for secrets instead of realizing that the only secret is ass busting work over a long period of time. And that’s what stimulated this article.
I still get emails, see posts to my forum, etc. from people looking for that elusive training or diet secret. Something quick and easy, preferably in pill form that can be taken and make you great without putting in ass busting work over a long period of time.
Now, this is the American way, look for a quick fix secret instead of realizing that the only way to succeed is with ass busting work over a long period of time. Give me a pill, a piece of equipment, a piece of clothing (UnderArmor being the new clothing of choice for gym posers everywhere). Anything except for having to put in ass busting work over a period of time.
Anything. Supplement companies, magazines, equipment companies use this to their advantage. Read a muscle magazine, a fishing magazine, a women’s magazine, all use the same cover boilerplate that promises training, fishing or sex secrets. It’s the same wording.
* 10 Training Secrets for Muscle Building
* 10 Bassmaster Secrets for Catching a Big Lunker
* 10 Sex Secrets You Can Use Tonight
Now, this reminds me of me when I was back in college, an athlete who desperately wanted to be better and who got sucked into all of the crap in the magazines. This magic supplement, this magic training program, I read the muscle magazines religiously for years just so I wouldn’t miss that one issue that contained the secret.
Then I got my head (partially anyhow) out of my ass.
Over time, as I gained experience (and the horror of all horrors: maturity), I realized that there are no secrets. The equation is simply ass busting work + time = results. There are no shortcuts, no secrets, no easy solutions (except drugs).
Sure, you need to train smart, you need to apply good principles to your diet and training and some stuff is relatively more effective than other stuff. But once you’ve got the basics, all you can do is bust ass for a long period of time. Or take drugs. Both work and, of course, drugs are easier. See my bromocriptine booklet for example.
So with that said, I give you the training and diet secrets I have developed over the past decade (note: this is why I’ll never be a best selling author).
Training Secrets for Size and Strength Gains (for Naturals)
1. If you are natural, you must get stronger to get bigger. If, over time, you are not adding weight to the bar, you are not growing.
2. Training a body part less than 2X/week will not give you optimal gains. An upper/lower split done Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri is close to optimal for most. Full body twice a week can work very well. Once every 5th day is the least frequently I would ever recommend a natural train. You’ll get less sore training more frequently and you’ll grow better. Save once/week body part training for pro bodybuilders (read: steroid users) and the genetically elite.
3. When in doubt, do less volume, not more. You don’t need a zillion sets to stimulate hypertrophy, the bull**** written in the magazines to the contrary. If you can’t get it done in 4-8 hard sets (sometimes less, rarely more) you need to quit training like a ****y in the gym. I had a friend who sold supplements one time who kept asking me to design him a product that would really work. I told him to make a supplement that would make people work hard in the gym and watch their diets. He thought I was joking.
4. Generally, basic compound exercises are best but isolation stuff has its place. Same for the machines versus free weights ‘argument’: both have their place. Anybody who tell you that you MUST do a certain exercise is arguing from an emotional stance, not a physiological one.
5. If you think you can gain muscle without eating sufficient food or calories, you should quit bodybuilding and take up something easier, like golf. You can’t magically make muscle out of nothing, you need calories and protein to grow. If you can’t buckle down to eat enough on a consistent basis, you won’t grow an ounce of muscle. And spare me the excuses that you’re not hungry or your schedule won’t allow it. It’s about priorities, eat more or stay skinny.
6. Most hardgainers train like idiots and don’t eat enough.
7. Diets should be based around whole foods first, supplements second. Remember the hoopla over zinc and testosterone and ZMA from Balco (hi Victor, hope you’re enjoying the forced sodomy in jail)? Red meat is a great source of zinc, iron, B12 and protein. Not to mention who knows how many other trace nutrients that are involved in optimal human physiology. Eat it every day. Remember all of that crap about indole 3 carbinole. Guess what, it’s found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower. Every time you hear about a new magic compound, 99 times out of 100 it’s found in some whole food that you’re probably not eating. Eat whole foods with a ****pile of veggies every day.
8. There is no singular best protein, each one has pros and cons. Generally, I thinnk casein is better for dieting, whey for around workouts, whole proteins the rest of the time. You can’t beat milk (and the dairy calcium has benefits on bodyfat). I think mixing proteins at a given meal is a good idea to eliminte any shortcomings of one. I think food combining (or protein rotation) is a lot of hippy holistic bull****.
Dieting Secrets for Fat Loss
1. You can’t magically lose weight unless you eat less or burn more calories with activity. Not unless you take drugs and those either make you eat less or burn more anyhow.
2. Don’t bitch about how much you hate dieting or exercise. You can either change your diet and activity patterns, or you can stay fat. Those are your two options, except for drugs.
3. To lose weight and keep it off you must change some aspect of your training and diet and do it forever.
4. All diet books, no matter what line of bull**** they sell you, are working in terms of what’s in #3. Cutting all of the carbs out of your diet will generally make you eat less, so will cutting out all of the fat, so do diets taht change your eating habits in one fashion or another. Some books go the activity route. At the end of the day, even if they tell you that you don’t have to eat less to lose weight, they will trick you into doing it one way or another
Note: My job, as diet book author, is to turn Eat Less, Exercise, Repeat Forever into a 300 page book. Most diet books do it with 150 pages of recipes.
Everything else that you may come across, including my various gibberings in my books, are just details on the above. But at a fundamental level, until you are dealing with that 1% of 1% of trainees (elite athletes, bodybuilders trying to get to 5% bodyfat without muscle loss), those secrets are about all you need to know.
The equation is this:
Hard Work + Consistency + Time = Results.
Yep. The only way.
Chillen
So so true, thanks for posting
So so true, thanks for posting
You are welcome, Nicolaw!
How is is going? How ya been? Have an update?
Hope your Wednesday is fantastic!
Best regards,
Chillen
I have been following your journal, for sometime, but do not remember how long you have been in the current routine, Biggie-T. How long has it been? From the starting point up to this point, what have you "gained" out of it? Strength more, both hypertrophy and strength, what in your opinion? What are you expectations from diet and training, say in 4 to 6 weeks? 6 weeks IS enough time to see obvious improvements (one in your situation), Mr. Biggie-T.
Let me know and we can discuss a few things.
Best wishes,
Chillen
You are welcome, Nicolaw!
How is is going? How ya been? Have an update?
Hope your Wednesday is fantastic!
Best regards,
Chillen
I'm good.
Tried my first pilates class on tuesday, it was OK I wasn't very sore though the next day, maybe I need to try harder. It felt hard in the class though lol!
So bored with my weights program right now. Need to mix it up.........
I apologize, but I do not remember your goals, can you tell me what they are?
So bored with my weights program right now. Need to mix it up.........
How long have you been doing the current program, and can you break this down for me?
Its good to hear you are doing well. Hang in, be tough, very good results go to people who hang in when the going gets tough; no one every said meeting a goal would be easy. If were, all would be walking around in skin they wanted. Tougher than tough, you are.
Chillen
wow i just caught myself up on the CHILLOG and thats a lot of gardening you have going on there!!!
2. zane is amazing. that is an amazing physique..especially for 60's. i wonder how long he will maintain it! makes me have tons of hope for a long lifting carreer!
the "busy" i was reffering to was just the social life that comes with being a graduating teen--college prep, friends, girlfriend, sports. teen stuff!
as for wrestling--i didnt compete in any REAL matches with a reffereee because it is offseason and this is my first year. however, there were many "live" matches that the kids on the team did and i managed to wrestle all of them, excluding one. i lost to 3 of the higher ranking guys and coach, but i managed to dominate the lower and middle ranks with ease.
in all, i am glad i did it!
thankyou for the advice for the calves, i will have to slow down my eccentric...dang ;D
i am seeing great increase in my deep squat though :]
thanks for all the help. btw, i am very glad you made it through that stressful time with ur work.
now im just wondering how you have such a strong bench press!!!
have a great day/night!!!(whenever you read it lol)
Godbless!
2. zane is amazing. that is an amazing physique..especially for 60's. i wonder how long he will maintain it! makes me have tons of hope for a long lifting carreer!
the "busy" i was reffering to was just the social life that comes with being a graduating teen--college prep, friends, girlfriend, sports. teen stuff!
as for wrestling--i didnt compete in any REAL matches with a reffereee because it is offseason and this is my first year. however, there were many "live" matches that the kids on the team did and i managed to wrestle all of them, excluding one. i lost to 3 of the higher ranking guys and coach, but i managed to dominate the lower and middle ranks with ease.
in all, i am glad i did it!
thankyou for the advice for the calves, i will have to slow down my eccentric...dang ;D
i am seeing great increase in my deep squat though :]
thanks for all the help. btw, i am very glad you made it through that stressful time with ur work.
now im just wondering how you have such a strong bench press!!!
have a great day/night!!!(whenever you read it lol)
Godbless!
Update on the:
Patio F-1 Hybrid (determinate, maturity 65 days)
This plant simply amazes me. I really didn't expect much production considering what type of plant it was, when my wife bought these.
I was wrong. LOL. I planted these very early, even before frost was completely gone (kept inside in mornings) and then brought out, until frost fear was over.
Its only 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall (and stretching it), and seems to be on a steroid cycle. It simply going nutty on producing tomatoes! Not that I am complaining! I am just surprised by it cause of how small it is.
Its flat stupid!
I already harvested about 50 tomatoes of this plant, really. Some were way above average (larger than baseballs), but on average they are larger than a golf ball in about an inch in diameter., while some near tennis balls.
Its simply a beast, and not as wimpy as compared to he vine variety. Plant after my own heart. :
Bare in mind this is ONE plant (I have two of these):
LOL, small but tough!
Simply ridiculous.
I make sauces for some chicken dishes, etc, looks like I wll have plenty to do that, lol.
Best wishes,
Chillen
Patio F-1 Hybrid (determinate, maturity 65 days)
This plant simply amazes me. I really didn't expect much production considering what type of plant it was, when my wife bought these.
I was wrong. LOL. I planted these very early, even before frost was completely gone (kept inside in mornings) and then brought out, until frost fear was over.
Its only 2 1/2 to 3 feet tall (and stretching it), and seems to be on a steroid cycle. It simply going nutty on producing tomatoes! Not that I am complaining! I am just surprised by it cause of how small it is.
Its flat stupid!
I already harvested about 50 tomatoes of this plant, really. Some were way above average (larger than baseballs), but on average they are larger than a golf ball in about an inch in diameter., while some near tennis balls.
Its simply a beast, and not as wimpy as compared to he vine variety. Plant after my own heart. :
Bare in mind this is ONE plant (I have two of these):
LOL, small but tough!
Simply ridiculous.
I make sauces for some chicken dishes, etc, looks like I wll have plenty to do that, lol.
Best wishes,
Chillen
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I have been following your journal, for sometime, but do not remember how long you have been in the current routine, Biggie-T. How long has it been? From the starting point up to this point, what have you "gained" out of it? Strength more, both hypertrophy and strength, what in your opinion? What are you expectations from diet and training, say in 4 to 6 weeks? 6 weeks IS enough time to see obvious improvements (one in your situation), Mr. Biggie-T.
Let me know and we can discuss a few things.
Best wishes,
Chillen
Well TBH, I've been slacking over the last couple of months. Here's a summary
Negatives
-Diet hasn't been as good as it should be (especially at weekends) due to the fact of having no money from paying for my car!
-I haven't been setting any targets at all.
-I've been drinking heavily 2 x week (instead of the previous 1x a couple of months ago)
-Havent been tracking weight
-Hardly any sleep on the weekends (due to the drinking/partying)
This results in me maintaining and seeing little/no progression lately LOL.
Positives
-Get paid Monday (stock up on food etc
)-This weekend i start going back to 1 x week drinking
-New routine will be starting in a couple of weeks (im considering U/L split)
So thats about it for now chillen
And a small update on the Jet Star Hybrid (indeterminate, 65 days), it is very short as well. Like I said before the pot is holding it back some, and I already purchased pots 3 times there size for next year. I have them in the shed. Yes, like my training and diet, I plan ahead--where appropriate.
This plant produces one of the best and most sweetest tomatoes I have ever tasted, its close (but not quite) to the heirloom Brandy wine tomato plant taste off of the vine. Nothing like it.
One plant: (have two of these, and the characteristics are the same)
Bottom portion:
Top portion:
It rained yesterday morning and then it got hot, which burned the edges of the leaves
Peace
Chillen
This plant produces one of the best and most sweetest tomatoes I have ever tasted, its close (but not quite) to the heirloom Brandy wine tomato plant taste off of the vine. Nothing like it.
One plant: (have two of these, and the characteristics are the same)
Bottom portion:
Top portion:
It rained yesterday morning and then it got hot, which burned the edges of the leaves
Peace
Chillen
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Off to train and to do some cardio-activity......
But first a bit of bad news: The Chocolate Cherri Hybrid (which is the one I have been waiting for the most), are wilting at the tips near long flower clusters (but no where else). Wilting (like this) is always a bad sign. I haven't waited weeks and baby and nurtured these plants to have it wilt and die on me. I am not one of those that go off thinking its F-Wilt, or W-Wilt disease (the symptoms don't Match any way). It could be over watering (which is the most favorable possibility of all of them), underwatering (least likely), start of root rot (from over watering at the point where it feeds the tips if branches effected), bacteria wilt (again, I dont think so, symptoms do not match)., or......
Its just plain pissed off that it has to ripen all these small tomatoes and yelling at me.
I brought them inside the house and put them in our very large kitchen to the dismay of my on-looking, bewildered and confused, ready to bring out her wolverine claws of death, wife, if I muck-up her kitchen.......>
Hmmmmmm, next time she asks for a tomato for cooking......I hope one of the branches swats her in the ass.......
Chillen
But first a bit of bad news: The Chocolate Cherri Hybrid (which is the one I have been waiting for the most), are wilting at the tips near long flower clusters (but no where else). Wilting (like this) is always a bad sign. I haven't waited weeks and baby and nurtured these plants to have it wilt and die on me. I am not one of those that go off thinking its F-Wilt, or W-Wilt disease (the symptoms don't Match any way). It could be over watering (which is the most favorable possibility of all of them), underwatering (least likely), start of root rot (from over watering at the point where it feeds the tips if branches effected), bacteria wilt (again, I dont think so, symptoms do not match)., or......
Its just plain pissed off that it has to ripen all these small tomatoes and yelling at me.
I brought them inside the house and put them in our very large kitchen to the dismay of my on-looking, bewildered and confused, ready to bring out her wolverine claws of death, wife, if I muck-up her kitchen.......>
Hmmmmmm, next time she asks for a tomato for cooking......I hope one of the branches swats her in the ass.......
Chillen
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If you read the above,,,,,,,,,,,huh, uh!
My wife got back from the pool, and she was wearing a bb-cap, and walked into the kitchen, and she wasn't watching where she was going, and one of the branches knocked off her BB-cap........to her embarrassment.......
Thanks bro (to the Chocolate Cherry plant), for haven' my back....
that will teach my babes to give me the eye look.......
he, he
Chillen
My wife got back from the pool, and she was wearing a bb-cap, and walked into the kitchen, and she wasn't watching where she was going, and one of the branches knocked off her BB-cap........to her embarrassment.......
Thanks bro (to the Chocolate Cherry plant), for haven' my back....
that will teach my babes to give me the eye look.......
he, he
Chillen
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