Google cancelled my AdSense account and told me that my writing was all an elaborate hoax, so I don't really feel like taking the time anymore.
Thanks for your support! Bye!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
UNFORTUNATELY
Someone seemed to have had a grudge against me and spam-clicked my ads frenetically, or something alike.
Google cancelled my AdSense account and told me that my writing was all an elaborate hoax, so I don't really feel like taking the time anymore.
Thanks for your support! Bye!
Google cancelled my AdSense account and told me that my writing was all an elaborate hoax, so I don't really feel like taking the time anymore.
Thanks for your support! Bye!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
To bulk or not to bulk?
What many men seems to be struggling with this upcoming winter, as all winters, is whether or not to bulk. Bulking, for those of you who aren't familiar with the terms of the common gym-rat, means to put on weight basically. There are then the "clean bulk" and the "dirty bulk", clean bulk being where you eat healthy foods with a kcalorie intake that would make you gain as much muscle and as little fat as possible during this period.
The dirty bulk is where you eat everything in excess just to make sure that you're gaining, no matter what. Not to say that a dirty bulk means to eat nothing but pizza and drink beer, but a dirty bulk-er might not care as much because what the hell, it's not a clean bulk anyways.
Should one bulk? Or... should one.. cut?
Cut is what it sounds like, you cut weight off, specifically fat, which makes you look ripped and defined. This is what all the manly man models do before they're showing their abs off and this is what all the bodybuilders do for when they're competing to make their muscles as defined as possible. Example?
The dirty bulk is where you eat everything in excess just to make sure that you're gaining, no matter what. Not to say that a dirty bulk means to eat nothing but pizza and drink beer, but a dirty bulk-er might not care as much because what the hell, it's not a clean bulk anyways.
Should one bulk? Or... should one.. cut?
Cut is what it sounds like, you cut weight off, specifically fat, which makes you look ripped and defined. This is what all the manly man models do before they're showing their abs off and this is what all the bodybuilders do for when they're competing to make their muscles as defined as possible. Example?
That is one ripped man, for example.
The normal cycle for a person going to a gym and being somewhat invested in this hobby is to put on weight (muscle + fat) during the autumn + winter and getting rid of the fat acquired later on to look good during the summer season. Works especially well in scandinavia where we're practically riding polar bears to work during the winter season, the extra fat keeps us warm and fuzzy all the way to where we're going. Jokes aside, it is much less straining on our ego to be fat during the winter and fit during summer, it's as easy as that. So -
Should you bulk?
There is a third way of adding and subtracting weight, which is based upon determining a goal for yourself as to where you want to be when you're done. This is within a 6 month-12 month period, don't be setting goals such as "I want to weigh 250 lbs with 8% bodyfat in 6 months" if your current weight is a stone cold 130 lb with practically zero bodyfat.
So what you do is you determine this goal of yours, as an example let's use simple numbers. Your current we'll say is 180 lbs, what you want to achieve is 200 lbs. Now you calculate what kind of calorie intake you would need to maintain a 200 lb body and use that as a template for what you eat until you reach your goal.
You can find these calculations on several parts of the internet (google hurr durr), but knowing well that you're all a bunch of lazy bastards (when) sitting behind your screens you can just click HERE for one of the most thorough and easiest ones.
TL;DR - It's wintertime, put on some weight.
(link for john berardi's calculations and wisdom: http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/masseating_1.htm)
The normal cycle for a person going to a gym and being somewhat invested in this hobby is to put on weight (muscle + fat) during the autumn + winter and getting rid of the fat acquired later on to look good during the summer season. Works especially well in scandinavia where we're practically riding polar bears to work during the winter season, the extra fat keeps us warm and fuzzy all the way to where we're going. Jokes aside, it is much less straining on our ego to be fat during the winter and fit during summer, it's as easy as that. So -
Should you bulk?
There is a third way of adding and subtracting weight, which is based upon determining a goal for yourself as to where you want to be when you're done. This is within a 6 month-12 month period, don't be setting goals such as "I want to weigh 250 lbs with 8% bodyfat in 6 months" if your current weight is a stone cold 130 lb with practically zero bodyfat.
So what you do is you determine this goal of yours, as an example let's use simple numbers. Your current we'll say is 180 lbs, what you want to achieve is 200 lbs. Now you calculate what kind of calorie intake you would need to maintain a 200 lb body and use that as a template for what you eat until you reach your goal.
You can find these calculations on several parts of the internet (google hurr durr), but knowing well that you're all a bunch of lazy bastards (when) sitting behind your screens you can just click HERE for one of the most thorough and easiest ones.
TL;DR - It's wintertime, put on some weight.
(link for john berardi's calculations and wisdom: http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/masseating_1.htm)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
For the Ladies
One thing you notice very quickly when at a gym is how every girl or woman never use weights above 5 kg's (about 11 lbs) - and how they also do what seems to be an infinite amount of reps while a lot of the time talking to a friend during the set.
I've seen this so many times I feel like going about this explanation starting with yelling that "this is fucking wrong", but I'll hold it in and explain why it is instead.
First off, no matter how much weight you're able to push, pull and shove, unless you take steroids you're extremely unlikely to end up looking like this:
See those two? They're without a doubt strong as hell. If you think the one to the left is too big or has too much muscle then don't worry about it. Like I said it won't happen over night, she spent several 100 hours to look like that, and remember you can stop anytime you feel you're getting too "fit" ;)
And if you DO wanna look like these chicks you're gonna have to do more than run on a treadmill.
Get out there, push some limits, eat shitloads of food and feel great about yourself. Don't forget to drink water. And sleep. Don't do drugs. All that.
I've seen this so many times I feel like going about this explanation starting with yelling that "this is fucking wrong", but I'll hold it in and explain why it is instead.
First off, no matter how much weight you're able to push, pull and shove, unless you take steroids you're extremely unlikely to end up looking like this:
Do you have any idea how much time this woman has spent working out, and the amount of food she's forced herself to eat - not mentioning what else she probably put in her body - to reach this size?
I mean it's not like you have anything to worry about taking 8 kg dumbbells instead of the 5 kg ones, you're still not gonna wake up tomorrow with the biggest frigging biceps ever going "oh NO i'm HUUUEG". It doesn't work that way.
Nor are you gonna get "fit" like all those models (talking non-anorectic ones) by not even breaking a sweat. It doesn't work that way either.
When you're doing an exercise you want to make progress, you want to to make one rep more than you did last time or lift some kilos heavier than last time, and with time you're going to look nothing like that woman up there, more like a fitness model of sorts:
I mean it's not like you have anything to worry about taking 8 kg dumbbells instead of the 5 kg ones, you're still not gonna wake up tomorrow with the biggest frigging biceps ever going "oh NO i'm HUUUEG". It doesn't work that way.
Nor are you gonna get "fit" like all those models (talking non-anorectic ones) by not even breaking a sweat. It doesn't work that way either.
When you're doing an exercise you want to make progress, you want to to make one rep more than you did last time or lift some kilos heavier than last time, and with time you're going to look nothing like that woman up there, more like a fitness model of sorts:
See those two? They're without a doubt strong as hell. If you think the one to the left is too big or has too much muscle then don't worry about it. Like I said it won't happen over night, she spent several 100 hours to look like that, and remember you can stop anytime you feel you're getting too "fit" ;)
And if you DO wanna look like these chicks you're gonna have to do more than run on a treadmill.
Get out there, push some limits, eat shitloads of food and feel great about yourself. Don't forget to drink water. And sleep. Don't do drugs. All that.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Coke Zero/Light/Diet and ASPARTAME
There's a lot of controversy about (I'll call it) Coke Zero on the intrawebs because of the
WONDERFUL (according to many and me) flavour paired with the astonishing fact that it's got pretty much zero kcalories (kilocalories). So how do they do it?
If you've ever googled it you've heard/read about Aspartame, which is an, and i wiki-quote, "artificial, non-saccharide sweetener used as a sugar substitute in
some foods and beverages.". So - what are the downsides?
Well first of, drinking Diet makes you look like a female if you're a guy - just saying - though Coke Zero is marketed
for men and therefore it's great stuff - so that downside's basically nullified when drinking Zero. However.
The real thief when it comes to light/diet/zero is how Aspartame affects the Ph balance in your body.
WONDERFUL (according to many and me) flavour paired with the astonishing fact that it's got pretty much zero kcalories (kilocalories). So how do they do it?
If you've ever googled it you've heard/read about Aspartame, which is an, and i wiki-quote, "artificial, non-saccharide sweetener used as a sugar substitute in
some foods and beverages.". So - what are the downsides?
Well first of, drinking Diet makes you look like a female if you're a guy - just saying - though Coke Zero is marketed
for men and therefore it's great stuff - so that downside's basically nullified when drinking Zero. However.
The real thief when it comes to light/diet/zero is how Aspartame affects the Ph balance in your body.
Normally what we see in Ph-charts is 0-14, this goes beyond to show the extremes, but below 0 isn't what an average person deals with. What your body wants is to retain the balance of 7, the same as pure water.
Diet Cokes however have a Ph value of 3, as do many other drinks that we as fallible human beings like to put in our bodies. This is also a reason of why you pee a lot when drinking this stuff, along with the dehydration caused by caffeine and alcohol. Caffeine really doesn't dehydrate a lot more than water does, but since water also keeps you hydrated it's not a problem, coffee does that to a certain degree but not as much as water. But that is entirely another discussion.
What your body does to stay on a balanced 7 on that scale is use up a lot of water and clean out the bad stuff, making you pee a lot, and to climb up from the acidic part of the scale towards the alkaline part it uses the alkaline minerals in your body such as Calcium and Magnesium and whatever else that's able to balance out the Ph in your body. When it does so, you need more Ca and Mg and here's the part that's not so well thought out - you're not gonna go grab Ca and Mg pills or eat lots of cucumber just to be able to drink lots of Diet Coke, hence either your body can't retain a Ph balance or you go on a loss of Mg/Ca/other *stuff* that your body needs.
ALTHOUGH: In small portions, say once a day, it's no more than what our bodies are used to with beer, milk, coffee and all that, just don't go chugging 20 at a time because "IS GOT NO KALOREES".
If you practically never drink Coke you might as well grab a real one once you do.
Stay fucking awesome!
Diet Cokes however have a Ph value of 3, as do many other drinks that we as fallible human beings like to put in our bodies. This is also a reason of why you pee a lot when drinking this stuff, along with the dehydration caused by caffeine and alcohol. Caffeine really doesn't dehydrate a lot more than water does, but since water also keeps you hydrated it's not a problem, coffee does that to a certain degree but not as much as water. But that is entirely another discussion.
What your body does to stay on a balanced 7 on that scale is use up a lot of water and clean out the bad stuff, making you pee a lot, and to climb up from the acidic part of the scale towards the alkaline part it uses the alkaline minerals in your body such as Calcium and Magnesium and whatever else that's able to balance out the Ph in your body. When it does so, you need more Ca and Mg and here's the part that's not so well thought out - you're not gonna go grab Ca and Mg pills or eat lots of cucumber just to be able to drink lots of Diet Coke, hence either your body can't retain a Ph balance or you go on a loss of Mg/Ca/other *stuff* that your body needs.
ALTHOUGH: In small portions, say once a day, it's no more than what our bodies are used to with beer, milk, coffee and all that, just don't go chugging 20 at a time because "IS GOT NO KALOREES".
If you practically never drink Coke you might as well grab a real one once you do.
Stay fucking awesome!
Saturday, August 28, 2010
for you SMOKERS out there!
I saw this picture on a friend's blog (http://zekonsday.blogspot.com/) and thought I'd share it with you!
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
SUPER MARIO
I played so much super mario this summer, and when you're doing speedruns you're pretty much skipping a big part of the game, like.. map 2 land 1 you can jump down a tube and go to land 4 or 5 I think it is, and then from there you can hop through some tube to go even further, you're pretty much skipping the entire game.
ANYWAYS - DB INCLINE PRESSED 32 KG, aiming for 35 at the end of september. 32kg is around 70lbs for you non-metric-system-morons. ALSO -
Leg press went better than expected.
PS. if you're starting out, get protein powder, whey-80. Or gainer powder if you wanna add some weight on that thang. If you're allergic to dairy-related stuff whey-100 is related since it's got less lactose if you're intolerant. However if it's milkproteins (caseins) you're allergic to then I dare not speak up about it.
have a great day!
ANYWAYS - DB INCLINE PRESSED 32 KG, aiming for 35 at the end of september. 32kg is around 70lbs for you non-metric-system-morons. ALSO -
Leg press went better than expected.
PS. if you're starting out, get protein powder, whey-80. Or gainer powder if you wanna add some weight on that thang. If you're allergic to dairy-related stuff whey-100 is related since it's got less lactose if you're intolerant. However if it's milkproteins (caseins) you're allergic to then I dare not speak up about it.
have a great day!
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