Because the image of Malik Noor, a strong man, bashing up mosquitoes looked way more impressive than the image of Ziana Zain pricking her fingers when attempting to kill the mosquitoes.

Hey.....that's not fair. You're my height, my weight, but look so much better than me.

I must ask, why is it dangerous?
The mechanics of a single-arm deadlift is slightly different, true, but as long as the basics are kept tight, I see minimal problems with doing 1 arm deadlifts.
The imbalanced nature of a single arm deadlift, also makes it an amazingly good stability exercise and will tax the cross sectional build of your core which is great.

People that train for powerlifting, barely if ever use single-arm deadlifts. They may use single limb leg work to decrease the load on their spine while increasing work load on the legs.

Single arm work, is mostly used for athletes that require a lot of unilateral movement such as speed skaters, discus throwers, javelin throwers, sprinters. They require the single arm coordination to be able to throw their power from the base (legs) to the final extension (arm)

Deadlifts to any healthy individual should usually not be dangerous, unless a form breakdown on essential portions of the body happen (eg:lumbar)

On that note, I'm thinking about bringing a TRXsuspension system since there's a lot of people out there that want to workout but don't have a gym or can't find time to go. What do you guys think about it? Think it'll sell?

Yeah I train twice a day. It's good in the sense it allows me to peak my testosterone level twice in a day, instead of having one session where I have to rush. Also it allows me to stay fresher provided I have enough sleep. I've not heard of this method being used to build muscle though. I'd imagine it be counter-productive to muscle growth, as muscles require between 24-48 hours of rest to grow and have sufficient protein and calories. Training twice a day, would require you to probably move beyond 5000 calories a day for growth. Even that I'm not sure if you can recover in time because of the longer period of time required between for synthesis.
I do this because my only concern is getting stronger and faster. Moving fresh and fast, allows my muscles to be very explosive and ensures I have a good bulk of fast twitch muscle fibers. Also I give sports massages and I know how to work with my trigger points and tightness as well as increase blood flow, so in that sense, I'm able to incorporate this.

One day I think I wanna get my test levels checked. Wonder how many mmols/g I have

I'll try seeing if my friend can get it cheaper from the USA. Just met him. He goes between US and Singapore monthly. If he can get it for cheaper, I'll spread the savings to the fine fellows here. Actually, I was just thinking about TRX. Can get other stuff such as gymnastic rings and bands too.

Honestly speaking, I used to think the TRX was crap. I mean, rings are better in almost every way. There was however, one small difference. The TRX was useful for those that NEEDED the convenience and portability. One TRX+bands+chains=can workout anywhere.

Oh and I still kicked TRX'S ass. Duno lah....see maybe get something else lah from US like training DVD'S or training texts. I'm thinking about getting some books by Tudor Bompa and Paul Chek (Yeah I hate him, but I can still learn frm him)

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Aug 19 2009, 09:59 PM

Off topic:
Where's koyak orgasm man, Zeist?

Does anybody want to experiment with the swiss ball? It sounds like if you can overload those stabilizers, you may be able to get some way in strength.

Anybody?

I'm wondering, if the Swiss ball can overload your stabilizers, perhaps you can get stronger by switching a part of your bench workout, to dumbbell benches on a Swiss ball. I've seen Joe DeFranco do it and put his athletes to it. They also like to use chains to act as overloading agents, though I'm not sure anybody on this forum needs this yet.

Basically, they will choose one bench exercise (pin benches for example) Work to a max according to the Prilepin's table. Then they move to exercises that require the stabilizers to fry, and the Swiss ball bench is one of them. Sometimes they change to kettlebells and chains as well. Kettlebells shake like crazy when put on a barbell. If you don't watch it properly, you may be benching just 40KG but the bar can fall and turn your teeth out.



It's worth a try, if you can keep the ego out and progress gradually from lighter to heavier dumbbells on the swiss ball.



This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Sep 1 2009, 09:45 PM

Do keep me updated with the progress.
I tried doing push-ups on a swiss ball before. Silliest thing ever. I kept falling on the ball.

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Added on September 1, 2009, 9:56 pmI didn't even know you posted anything. I was looking for the video for the kettlebell bench when you posted your reply, so I didn't even see your reply. Rest assured, I was more concerned about other more important things.

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Sep 1 2009, 09:56 PM

I'm not that smart alright. Give it up already.

paul chek.

I read a study, but as usual lah...I never bother to bookmark it. There was a doctor that believed that HDL/LDL/saturated fat is all good stuff. He says that cholesterol is just running in your body and when there's a problem, cholesterol will fix it.

AH! FOUND IT!
http://westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/benefits_cholest.html

And then, there's another study (which I can't access because I don't have the acc password/username) about cholesterol, fat and protein. It has very solid proof (Test subject of 150 ppl. 86 ppl managed to finish the test) that may ruin the agriculture industry. It seems, we humans really do not need...... rice! We can basically live very well off simple meat and fruits. That bodes great for me, because I can't stand rice. It leaves me bloated.

86 samples. I think that's good enough for me. The dropout rate is quite high, but I think it's because the study was run in US, where it's rather hard for them to stick to a proper diet for a long time. I'd like to see the study done in Europe though. That ought to have solid consistent entries.

Very true. I'll see what I can do about the journal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFZoqmKf5M

Pretty close to what we're talking bout.

Real macho, kiddo.

Somehow.....my friend, I've a feeling it isn't the case.

I think it's the common case of "Nobody praisin, I'll apple polish and maybe I'll get a pat on the head"

We Malaysians, memang our style.

You have nice looking legs. Now go squat 6 plates.
Relax. You know already that your physique will probably make it into the Abercrombie and Fitch cover.
Wait I show you my body later. Looks like a cross between a hippo and a large stork.

Since everybody has a progress picture to post, I've a progress video.
Six sets of 3 at 80KG snatches. This is m final set. Looks pretty easy eh?

Come on...come on. Don't be selfish with your constructive criticisms now.

This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Sep 10 2009, 11:36 AM

I'll think about it. MSN giving me a pair of new shoes later this year. Or so I hope. That's what they say, but you know how Malaysians are, especially the government.

I do sir

30M sprints

Car/sled pulls

Still legged deadlifts

Broad jumps

Triple jump

Bulgarian split squats

GHR proper thing to hold you down - A partner, you fool.

Or some creativity



This post has been edited by pizzaboy: Sep 10 2009, 02:08 PM