Errr... no reasons given.
I like the gym lady, and have lots of respect for her. And she treats me very well with discounts and freebies, so I don't feel nice arguing with her.

Like I said, it didn't make sense to me. Maybe I go do an experiment with her next time.
I'll thrash my triceps with kickbacks and what nots, and do Chin ups. Then I'll thrash the biceps with curls. And try the chin ups again. LOL! Maybe then she'll believe me. If not, perhaps I can add an inch to my arms?
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Anyway, that's not the main point.

How about #1 and #2?
Does it make sense to you guys?

I believe she MIGHT have a point about "no protein immediate after bed". Eating high protein can cause some mucus build-up along the esophagus (and perhaps all the way to the small intestine). [well this is purely anecdotal, because it happens when I drink milk or whey, I can feel it in my throat]

Could this be a cause for concern?

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Aug 11 2009, 12:31 AM

This means the arm thrashing experiment is on!

Never felt anything. I don't even feel my biceps working much during pull ups. The chin ups, yes I feel the biceps working.
However, I did notice that after doing dips (which fried the triceps), I just can't seem to do as many pull ups as usual.

But I'm weigh like a rabbit, what do I know? =P

He's having his revenge on you for not cooking eggs for him! And also the sour grape syndrome. LOL!
How about staring at him with the Heath-Ledger-Joker look or Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson look, flex your biceps, and say: "Are you sure? Wanna try out my non-functional strength? Nyek nyek nyek". Then give a big wide Joker grin, like this -->
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Eh, wow! Your full body split requires quite a lot of sets leh!
Normally when it's done high frequency (everyday), there's no need to go so many sets (unless you eat and recover like crazy). How long is one session?

Florian,
A bit too long for a high frequency stuff (considering that it's a full body workout)... don't you think?

Shouldn't it be like 30-45 minutes? You're training full body for 6 days a week leh...
Try it out for a few week and see how.

Source: http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article...learned_in_2008

Eric Cressey's stuff in T-Nation.

Alcohol kills soft tissue quality.

Back in the spring, I had lunch with a buddy of mine who is a manual therapist for a major league team. He told me that just by working on one of his athletes' tissues, he could tell that they had been out drinking the night before, describing the tissue as "boggy." So, right when I got home, I hopped on Pubmed to investigate further and came across this:

"The development of alcoholic muscle disease, which affects both cardiac and skeletal muscle, leads to increased morbidity and mortality in patients who abuse alcohol. The disease pathology includes myocyte degeneration, loss of striations, and myofilament dissolution, which is consistent with alterations in structural and myofibrillar proteins" (1).

Now, it's been a while since my muscle physiology courses back in graduate school, but I can still say with almost certainty that these effects can be acute and not just chronic. All in all, alcohol isn't great for tissues, but I'd call it especially problematic for those who are trying to bounce back from injuries.

This becomes especially problematic when you're also suppressing the Testosterone levels on which you're counting to help maintain muscle mass while on the shelf. Add in that alcohol consumption interferes with sleep quality, and you'll quickly realize that growth hormone output won't be optimal (sleep is an extremely important time for growth hormone, which is very important in strengthening connective tissues).

I LOL'd so hard, now I have hiccups. Ahahahahahaah!

I'm a bit high right now. Wooooooooo!
I realised one could get a runners' high by doing a circuit training.

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Aug 20 2009, 10:27 PM

Pizzaboy,
I didn't know there's actually supplementation for hydrochloric acid. I though HCL was a typo by you. (just being a scientific anal, it's HCl with a small "L", BTW )

How is it working for you, the HCl?

And where to get those multivits so cheap?

Kotmj,
Nice satire on Budak84.
Ahahahahahahah!

TEAM PANDAI (now where's that logo of ours?)
Ridding the world off stupidity!

Pizzaboy,
Is HCl available OTC in pharmacies?
And what to look out for, when buying HCL?

Fructose nduces a lesser insulin response.
HFCS is not exactly high fructose. It's actually a form of bastardised liquid sugar. (I may have over-dramatised it a bit, LOL!)

This post has been edited by iamyuanwu: Aug 23 2009, 05:35 PM

Time magazine August 17th issue:
Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin

Holy schmoly! The whole thing talked about losing weight and nothing about body fat percentage.
I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy to let people become fat and diabetic by the pharmaceutical companies. LOL!

Darklight,
You missed all the fun! Mods deleted some of our posts. If you'd seen all the original stuff! You'd laugh your a$$ out! LOL!

Kedai runcit kan banyak?

I just sprained my left ankle, you guys think it's OK to squat and deadlift and bulgarian split squat tomorrow kah?

Thanks man!
I just noticed my ankle on the outside is swollen. And I can't bend my shin towards my feet, and squats is impossible with this pain. My shin would have to be almost verticle, can only do deadlift.

Any treatments/rehab/massage/Chinese thingamagick to help speed up recovery? Is there any long term effect from sprains if I just let it be?
(you know lah, those old-wives-tale about arthritis in old age and what not.)


Not as serious as yours lah. But I'm limping just a wee bit.

I've got the perfect cure for this:
DB or BB COMPLEXES!

e.g.
Javorek Big Fun dumbbell and/or barbell complex

T-nation recently put up a list of 4 complexes:
http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article...redded_physique

At least he didn't go koyak this and koyak that all over the place. That post is pretty mild. Maybe can consider a new page for him... while it lasts. LOL!