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HCl Experiment.

pizzaboy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:24:04 +0800

I've been reading about HCl or hydrochloric acids since August 2009. I don't like the idea of not studying about a supplement enough before buying it because I've seen so many people buying a ton of supplements and then they said it helped this and that and that and this, yet the original intention of the supplement isn't supposed to do that.

HCl is, in very simply words.

A digestive acid that is available in your stomach.

So why the hell am I paying USD40 for a bottle of Poliquin's HCL? Simply because I want to test it before I make my clients use it.

The stresses in our lives nowadays, causes low acid levels in our stomachs. Thus, we can have digestive problems. What stomach acid does is break down foods, so the body can extract the nutrients for purposes such as muscle growth and general health. So when someone doesn't have enough acids in the stomach, the nutrients that the food provides goes to waste. In a less calculated way, if you eat 200GMS of protein a day, and your body can only absorb 50%, 100GMS goes to the drain. So quite pointless.

Source: http://www.charlespoliquin.com/ArticlesMul...icle.aspx?ID=27

Here are 13 tips to see if you've got HCl deficiency.

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In bold are the ones I suffer from

Day 1 (17 March)
Meal 1:

250MG ingested. Nothing felt actually...just that I don't feel disgusted after drinking my protein shakes.

Meal 2:
500MG ingested. Well the thing is, I keep going to poo and I feel like burping, but I'm not burping. Like, there is nothing to burp, but I wanna burp out of habit.

Meal 3:
750MG ingested. Still no "hot coffee" feel in my tummy. My acid levels must be pretty bad.

Meal 4:
1000MG ingested. Okay, now I'm starting to feel a little emptiness in my tummy. No coffee feel yet....

Meal 5:
1250MG ingested. OKAY! The coffee is here. At this point, I back down to 1000MG.

First day. 15 capsules.

I've got another 100 caps to go (Friend from Singapore gave it to me) and if I take around 4 caps a day, 3 meals. Breakfast, cuz it's light, so just 2 caps, I'll go to about 14 caps. I'd be lasting for a week before my own stocks of HCl come in. Just nice.

Now that I've determined my HCl intake, I'll be updating once a day on how I feel for the day. My friend " Google Coachjon Singapore " has said that it's a life changing supplement ( ) and that I'd see about 2-3KG of muscle in about a month of usage. Let's see how true that is.

Apparently someone can squat more than Zeist

pizzaboy — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:51:36 +0800

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvkZuG-CFjI

Creepy.

Naim Suley training (CNJ 190 at 60KG)

pizzaboy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:10:46 +0800

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Monday, Wednesday and Saturday would have moderate intensity loading ( 6,970 Kg) , Tuesday, Thursday and Friday would have lower intensity loading ( 3,010 Kg).
The first week of the monthly program would be heavy. The second week would be light. The third week would be moderate and the fourth week would have heavy loading.

During the weekly training program we included snatch from stands (above the knee) and jerk from stands. This was necessary to remedy the faults observed in certain parts of the classical lifts in order to develop an ideal technique.
The reason we included power snatch, power clean, power jerk and front and back squats on three days ( Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) was to improve and perfect the technique of the classical lifts as well as improve his motor skills.

As a result of his systematic and determined training in 1980, Naim Suleymanoglu lifted 195 Kg (85 + 110) in the 48 Kg class at stars and juniors. On becoming a Bulgarian champion for the first time in 1980, Naim reaffirmed the appropriateness of the training program we implemented. Naim faced a long and difficult year of training in 1981. This necessitated even more hard work. Naim had to reach the level of the Junior National Team after the loadings of this period.
We had to make significant changes in the training system of 1981 to reach this goal. The training loads were increased by 40% over those of 1980. The training program included intensive practice of the classical lifts every day. We placed special emphasis on the development of the snatch and the clean and Jerk and perfecting technique.

In 1981 the weekly loading in the classical lifts was 20,895 Kg. The tonnage of the assistance exercises 18,870 Kg. The number of lifts in the 90-100% range of the classic exercises was 192. There were 153 of these lifts for the assistance exercises (see tables 10-11). The intensity of training was increased significantly in 1981 along with the increase in the weekly loadings and total tonnage. Table tennis, swimming and soccer were included to alleviate the psychological stress brought about by the heavy training.

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To make it easier to read.
I don't know how you guys are going to use this information but I know I can. Have fun

Stories about shit

pizzaboy — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:14:58 +0800

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My shit used to look like the final shit. Stuff stuck in my crap. That's why I used HCl.

Discussions From Sciencey Article Thread

pizzaboy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:54:23 +0800

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1152233

Here's where we can discuss about the articles posted.

[addedon]September 4, 2009, 11:05 am[/addedon]This is so gonna fail.
LOL!

Perfect article for you lazy people out there.

pizzaboy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:51:07 +0800

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Still looking for the perfect routine?

Bodybuilding Thread V6

pizzaboy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:22:58 +0800

Continued from here

Massaging. Myofascia release, ART, trigger points

pizzaboy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:02:28 +0800

I'm a sports massage therapist.
I studied under a coach from China and also under the tutelage of Equal Fitness Malaysia.

My list prices are as follows for sports massage:

Whole body massage : RM 80

Whole back massage : RM 50

Leg massage : RM 50

Shoulder and neck massage : RM 40

Back cracking and stretching : RM30

For normal massage techniques, I charge RM50 for the whole body.

I'm based in Melaka, but once every month I do visit KL for clients there as well. I've massaged runners, weightlifters (I'm a weightlifter myself) bodybuilders in Malacca and Singapore. The reason I've put such a low price is because I do not have a shop and I'm doing this freelance. Also as I want to get my level 3 certification, I need another 80 hours of massage so I'm looking for clients to fill those hours.

I can either go to your place, or you can come to my gym to get it done.

I compiled facts about saturated FAT.

pizzaboy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:20:22 +0800

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Truth about Fat, Trans Fat, Saturated Fat & Nutrition

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Eat the Damn Yolks! Eggs Are Good For You!

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[addedon]July 30, 2009, 12:24 pm[/addedon]Saturated fat isn't evil.

There's a need for people to understand how fat works first. I'm still in the process of studying about it, but I'm doing another research paper, so can't get much. Crap...

And I hope to be able to understand why carbs is so evil to numerous bodytypes. And why the hell fat and protein seems to work pretty consistently.

(BULK) Ross Strength Training and Conditioning

pizzaboy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:57:31 +0800

Item(s): Training books from Rosstraining.com

Package includes: Full Throttle Conditioning, Never Gymless, Infinite Intensity

Price: USD 90.00 for a whole set.

Or USD21 for "Never Gymless"

USD25 for Infinite Intensity

USD20 for Full Throttle Conditioning

Warranty: None

Dealing method: Post or COD

Location: Melaka

Contact method/details: 012-7127 366
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Item(s) conditions: Excellent

Picture:

http://www.rosstraining.com/products.html

Reason for sale:

I'm not selling these books. I'm bought them and felt that they were excellent and I'm going to buy another pair to give to my friend as his graduation present. However, I thought I might as well share this with others as well. The price is stated as above but I'm unsure how many people would be interested in this.

So if you're into fitness and want to make a change, tell me what you'd like and I'll put it in the order. I don't know how much we can save, but I'll pass on the savings to you. Current rate is at 3.55 so you do the math.

If you take the whole set, it'll be RM315.

Anybody wanna join me?

Ask For Help To Transform Your UGLY Body Here.

pizzaboy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:59:54 +0800

This is for all you guys who never searched, but want to be spoon fed. Don't be shy. Use this thread to ask others to spoon feed you with information to help achieve your physique.

Whether fat to muscular.
Thin to muscular.
Flabby to not so flabby......you can ask all your things here!

Gym In Melaka. We're New.

pizzaboy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:26:30 +0800

Hi all! We're not so sure how many people are there in Melaka, but we'd like to offer a gym that does team based cross-training styled methods. What is team based cross-training?

Cross training is when you get a set of workouts that tax the whole body. For example, gymnastics front tuck, planche hold, burpee pull-ups. We separate two groups of individuals to compete against each other. The fastest team that finishes, wins.

Why Cross Training is excellent?

1. It's very short and intense workout, but provides excellent results. (Between 4 minutes - 40 minutes a workout)

2. It's much more fun than bicep curling away the entire day and finding your arms to be 0.02" bigger.

3. It's more fun that training alone as well. You're with your team and people motivate each other to do better.

4. The reason this method works, is because it taxes your cardiac system and increases your VO2 levels. This makes your heart stronger, and reduces chances of a heart attack and many other illnesses.

5. Compound movements that are ground based, tax your entire body. This enables you to increase your metabolism and help your muscle grow much faster than doing just isolation exercises alone.

Such training is suitable for?

1. Working adults because it's such a short time. 20 minutes a day and you feel, look and ARE healthier.

2. Babyboomers. Unlike what many think, there's no such thing as being too old. Your body adapts to the stresses you place upon it. If you don't use your body, it ages and rots away. You should use your body. Exercising reduces injuries, if done with proper form.

3. Athletes or students, that want to improve performance for their futsal, or sports. Because these exercises are tailored to particular individuals, explosive training can improve your sport performance by increasing the power output of your bodies. Such explosive and power based training, increases fast twitch fibers type-2, that will apply to your favorite sports.

Also we do personal training for individuals. We've had a few clients, and here's a few pictures.

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A client from KL coming for coaching.

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A client from Penang, learning how to do proper pull-ups. To the chest baby!

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A client from KL. Just came back from China and made a trip to learn from us

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A bunch of MMU (Multimedia University Melaka) kids coming over to learn and get some coaching.

Do drop us a PM or call me at 012-7127 366. Just call me Pizza and I'll know.

A long discussion about training with another coac

pizzaboy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:30:22 +0800

First off I'll tell you your friend's biggest problem may be the ROUTINE.

• Haha, it is, i've tried to get him to listen to me, but he wont. Maybe i'll outlift him someday...

Like I said and I'll say it again, it's illogical to leave your body to digits and numbers. Can your body be at 100% daily? No. Will it stay at merely 70% daily? No. Seize the days when you can hit 100% and back off but push for more on the days you're only 80%. Ur at 80%? Push for 85%. Push for 90%. You can leave this to percentages but I go with feel

Remember when scientists used to say;

1. Routine is bad. When your body's used to it, it stops working.
2. 80% of your maxes and above is one of the best ways to increase strength with 1-3 reps.
3. This came from Ivan Abejidev (can't he get an easier to spell name?). Animals work at 100% only. We're animals. We should work at 100%.

• I hear this one a lot. And for the most part, agree with you.... but... (you knew that was coming...) i have over the years, devised and revised my own program, a powerlifting one keep in mind, that has gone against this idea and succeeded rather well. My program is a very basic 5x10/5x5/3x3 peaking program that adds 5lbs a session till you peak. I wont describe it here, takes way too much time. But what i've found is that if you can REALLY bring your out-ov-gym life under control and really focus, you CAN be at 100% nearly all the time, and the times you are not will still be about 97%+ (100% all the time basically means you DONT have bad workouts... when it comes to my important sessions, i NEVER have bad workouts. Bad workouts plague most lifters, even serious or veteran champion ones, but not me). Now, it works well with most lifters, the more patient and attuned to detail, the better it works (i'm inhumanly patient). I always gain huge off it, the only downside being it can take forever to finish, even 4-5 months. If you do everything right, you'd be surprised how many consecutive sessions you can hit at 100% intensity (not talking 100% ov 1RM here, i'm talking being able to do what you set out to do). Anyways, also going against the 'routine is bad' theory, i've been doing it for three years now and my progress on the lifts i use it on has been pretty much linear.

BUT... that being said, i agree with what you've said, and think its time i broke from my routine (same routine for three years! it continues to work and well, but three years!) and tried something new. If the worst happens, i wont gain as much, but will learn something new when i go back to it. But i think it will work.

I believe in Abajiev's animal theory as well, its just the practice ov it that needs tweaking... We're animals yes, but we've not ACTED like animals for tens ov thousands ov years. Genetics can lose something in a couple ov generations, let alone an ice-age or two...

I'll show you why the Chinese did achieve all the above requirements.

1. They have HUGE variety that contribute directly to the classic movements.

2. All their strength works are even above 90% and pushed for even more than 1 rep. If you can get stronger at 1 rep with 200KG, what does 4 reps with 200KG make you? Even STRONGER.

3. Okay, so we're not doing 100% all the time. But we did ATTEMPT to hit 100% of our day. So we tried thrice and fucked up the extension, the lockout and we swinged once. We did exert maximal power to the bar though. Then we dropped to 90% and did four sets of triples. Now is that not working pretty darned close to the maximal the body can do? That's not 100% in weights, but 100% in EFFORT. Abejidev said EFFORT, not WEIGHTS. Hell that's 105% in effort.

• On point #1, do they do this for the same reasons that Westside Barbell /Louie Simmons does it? Instead ov maxing out on the comp lifts every session, they max out on a different (but lift-specific) exercise every session, thus stave off overtraining or CNS burnout. Is this the reasoning behind the Chinese doing this? or is it simply working weaknesses?

On point #3, the ability to fail in training and put aside the ego is a big plus, many here do not have it. They dont like to miss lifts or fail so they cut the intensity short. I check my ego at the door when i lift. I've got caught up in it at times (refusing to hit a programmed number, etc.), and those are the rare times i hurt myself. It rarely happens anymore. BUT... is failing at 100% over and over a good idea? Might that help ingrain things that dont work? That aside, failing at 100% still counts in the way a negative would, yes? speaking in a purely strength way.

Let's take Lu Yong;

180KG Snatch max. 162KG x 4 x 3 @ 90% effort. U tried snatching 90% max for 4 triples? You tell me that isn't 105% effort.

Even your powerlifter bencher reeled in the advantage of this method (sorta). Why shouldn't you? Why shouldn't he?

I did just that a few weeks ago, was doing 8 heavy triples every session and near the end was at 90+ for at least the last four sets (hit 90%+ for triples, heavier triples every week, for weeks on end). Those sessions kicked the living shit outta me, but i put up a pretty big PR shortly after. I just reapplied the same technique, but for doubles, and put up a big snatch PR a week ago. Lots ov work...

And yes, like i've said, the working up to a very heavy single or even new 1RM as a warm-up, then backing off to do the work sets at whatever set/rep scheme has been on my mind for a while now. I think the daily max single keeps the CNS tuned and the body used to heavier weights than a program that might have you lifting light for a time. The only downside is possible overtraining.

Its kinda ironic that this is how i've been training any new lifters that come in for the last few months. Well before we even had this conversation. I've been wanting to do it on myself.

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Well think about it, on the question of technique and fatigue.

If you DON'T have anymore strength, you have to MAXIMIZE the power of your hips, quads, calves and traps for the extension. You have to acclerate like Sonic the Hedgehog to catch the bar underneath. This requires? Technique. Take this example. Get a n00b to snatch 40KG for a triple, but make sure he's ultra strong (stronger than you) . Then you go snatch 40KG for a triple. Who looks like he's knocking on hell's door? I'll say that other guy stronger than you will. Why?

He's using the wrong muscles. He'll pull with his arms, he'll jump and struggle to catch the bar. This way, chances are he'll even use his arms and pull the bar back in. You have better technique. You'll easily do better. Trust me my friend, if arms had anything to do with the snatch, people wouldn't snatch more with straps. You don't know this, but in 2000, my coach had a friend at 56KG that snatched 147KG with straps. Why is this so? It's cuz his arms are relaxed, they're not interfering the movement and cutting short the acceleration.

• Hmmm... so you're suggesting i should pre-exhaust myself to see where my technique really is? I've had some interesting sessions where i was beat to death from the previous day, and lifted with surprising form. Also interesting was when i did my recent snatch PR ov 116 i was already well past my usual number ov heavy sets, and was already thinking (on the previous 113 PR set) about calling it a day. That 116 was the very first time i'd full snatched more than my power snatch. I was pretty surprised. I was beat, but the form kinda took over and i got under it. Got even lower on the next two 118 attempts, but i think by then i was completely wrecked.

I said i was gonna back off my snatches for a couple weeks to get my bloody health back, but already i'm feeling a bit guilty about slacking off. I may have to change my plan again...

Okay, some say it's a conditioning of the body. Powerlifter wasn't conditioned, you were.

Fine. Let's use your own body. Take 100KG and squat. Your usual good technique squat. Now, a bad technique one. Squeeze your traps upwards, squeeze your arms and overarch your lower back, pull your shoulder blades together, point your head sky high. Not so easy anymore right? You're using all the wrong muscles.

1. Technique was perfected to make something easier.
2. Fatigue causes you to be unable to exert unnecessary muscles. You have to rely on the right ones to explode properly. So how does this happen at fatigue? How the crap do you lift 214KG's overhead after 5 lifts? Perfect technique+practice. Only that will help you when your muscles are out of ATP already. Btw, Rybakov's chance of winning @ 85KG was actually quite slim. The Chinese already knew about his phenomenal snatches and great CNJ's. But Lu Yong IS the BEST 85KG'er IN China. His lifts are usually 5/6 or 6/6. He NEVER gets less than that. Lu Yong has done 220KG's CNJ's in training quite a few times.

• Again, i see your point, but the issue is one ov being able to do this for an extended period ov time and not overtrain. I've got a huge session tomorrow; PR bench, plus a heavy front squat session, more PR bench and then some more back and arms. The upper body stuff is just me finishing off a long-awaited goal ov mine, but the day after i'll C&J heavy again, then the day after i'll hit some heavy snatches and back squat again (thats my 'light' heavy squat day), and all that will be no problem. Then a day off and start again. The problem that will arise (if one does) is that the next week i'll still be pretty beat from this week. Then the week after... Staving off overtraining and subsequent injury is the key to all this high-intensity stuff. Now... how to do THAT...???

The key to making this new doctrine work will be recovery. I simply need better recovery than i have now.

Perfect technique = Right muscle usage=Power
Chinese always say, technique is the most important. With right technique, you develop speed because you're confident. Speed X mass=Power. Take for example Tanger Sagir. Turkish team only does FS+CNJ+Snatch. I won't use him as perfect example of good technique but his method suits him. He's weak off the floor. He almost looks like he's deadlifting his snatches and cleans. Extends his pull and presses his teleport button which I think is under his shoe, and teleports under the bar to catch it. That's technique. And then seizes the stretch reflex, and bounces up.

Also Chinese believe that if you cannot maintain good technique if you're tired, that'd show that you lack practice and skill. And Chinese, STRONG? C'mon. We're Asians for god's sakes. We're genetically smaller and weaker than 90% of Europeans. If we didn't perfect technique, we don't have an edge anymore.
Why do you think almost all Chinese lifters technique looks almost perfectly similar ?

• Yeah, you can watch the Chinese training videos and see they are big on technique. But (and believe me i'm NOT making excuses here) the Chinese, like you said, ARE Asians... they have an inhuman work ethic, one that even shames the Europeans (the Europeans that work that is). They can create these environments where everyone toils in pain for most hours ov the day and realistically expect people to actually show up and do it. I am very unlike North Americans in that i dont share their work ethic. Here we have a good work ethic, but its different. It involves finding the easiest way to do a job. Give the job to a lazy man and see what he comes up with (please reference multi-ply powerlifting for the perfect example...). Everywhere else on the planet however will see what needs to be done, the RIGHT way to do it (not necessarily the easiest quickest way), and they'll just do it. They'll work till it is done. I am like that, and honestly, it makes me at odds with everyone around me. Asians have an edge in this way, but they are NOT lacking in strength. They may be smaller, but then they dominate the smaller weight classes. Do they do well at Worlds Strongest Man? No... you have to be 300lbs + to do that shit, but weightlifting...??? Powerlifting...???

And the Chinese would be right about the failing technique under exhaustion... i am both (relatively) unpracticed and unskilled. My form doesn't fall apart under fatigue terribly, but i only attribute that to my mental focus. I think ov weightlifting as another form ov martial art. I only discovered this stuff less than two years ago... i'm probably as practiced as the average 10yr old boy at a Chinese training school.

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My vote on your routine.
Do what you think suits you.

Find your reps.
I'm a four repper. That's what my coach calls me. I can go 90% of my max, 3 reps and still smile. 4th rep, my face looks like I just pooped Hossain Rezazedah out. So if I can break 4 reps, that's it. I've improved something. If I can hit 130KG X 5 x 4, I've hit a new FS 1RM PR for sure or my leg just lost 1% of thighfat to show another vein down my buttocks.

• Thats an interesting way to put it. I'd have to experiment to find that. Till now, my rep schemes have always been in flux. But the last few years most ov my strength specific rep work has been either three or five. Hmmm...

Then weights.
If you can hit 90% of your max last week, don't you DARE give yourself an excuse not to hit it this week. If you somehow found an excuse to drop it to 85 or 80%, you increase the reps to torture your body a bit.

You might regret as you get older, but I don't care. I have one life. I either do something I love with it, and pay good money for a massage theraphist and knee reconstruction or live my entire life, average. Ah our national head coach, Coach Lin did the same till the age of 32 and he's still squatting at 44. I'll probably be safe.

• Heh... well, you HAVE the money for a massage therapist... i cant even afford my protein powder half the time... Seriously, we get NO help from anyone doing strength sports. Nothing. In fact, like i said before, we are typically discouraged at near every turn for doing anything uncomfortable or (heh heh, get this...) doing something that MAKES SOMEONE ELSE UNCOMFORTABLE... EVEN WATCHING... Its a western sickness, a particularly disgusting one.

So, the only excuses might be that the body may break if i do what i want to do. I'm kinda choked because the trainer that started me out five years ago in powerlifting was pretty conservative, and thought like a typical powerlifter (squat once a week, thats enough, work out 3-4 times a week max), so i got really big and strong doing lazy schemes. Two years ago i had no work capacity, and have spent the last year and some doing the (personally modified) Russian squat program back to back to build it up. I'm still nowhere as hardy as that sadist coach's lifters, or Asian lifters, and i'm pissed because if i'd started lifting somewhere else, i would be. I dont know why its so hard to build that up and retrain myself.

Hold on, reps don't hurt as long as you maintain contraction.
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Okay, on rest time, I finish it quick because it's very humid here. I live around the equator and I think the sun is so hot, it dries my brains which explains why I can't understand my bloody Advanced Maths Sect.3 paper. I think math is just created by aliens to destroy earth and all math scientists are childs of those aliens.

Another thing is your brain is only able to be active and sharp for 1 hour. So you have to squeeze as much as work as possibl before it starts to fizz out. Then after that, you've to concentrate on keeping your lifts solid. That's tiring. So do it quick if you can. I really can't figure how I can train 3 hours in the evening sometimes, but I think it's thanks to my mental conditioning. Bulgarians wait till their heartbeat hits 110 BPM or something. Mine may still be at 120BPM and I've already finished the next set. In Chinese, it's called "Ie Gu Zhik" Translated directly...you'll die laughing so I'll modify it. "Grab the "chi" and complete it"

• Haha, translate it directly then... I'll take my chances with death...

I hear that a lot here too. "You should be in and out in 45-60 minutes." Well... i've gone back to that one more than once... doesn't work for me. I've proven i can do marathon death sessions and survive (THAT kind ov work capacity i have in spades), i can crank squat, bench and deadlift PR,s and still have energy for upper back and arms... an hour alone ov arms mind you... 5hr sessions were not uncommon for me not too long ago... I've just got to transform that stamina into shorter sessions but every consecutive day kind ov stamina. I bet if i cut out the bench and heavy squats i could lift every day heavy, then over time phase in heavier and heavier squats till i was training like a freak.

You bring up an interesting point though... Chi. I've been very interested in martial arts for half my life now, the philosophy and strategic aspects as much or more than the actual physical aspects. So i'm aware ov chi and what it is, means, etc. Do you bring chi into lifting? If so, is it utilized like it is in martial arts? Its practically unexplainable to most westerners, so used against them (in lifting as well as in fighting) it could be a great advantage. What place does it have in lifting?

Once again, we're keeping to Abejidev theory of 100% effort. And another thing you'll learn with this. I call it the perfect mental focus. It's cuz you've fought so hard against your mind saying "No, I'm not ready" that you've trained it well. So when you're lifting a heavy weight, the mind says "I'm not ready" but the body just blocks that out.

• Thats right along the lines ov something i've told people, whether in training or not, over the years... Animals do not think... they just DO. There is no 'can i? cant i?' no 'am i ready?' or will i get hurt?' there is only jump, attack, flee, chase. DO DO DO DO. Our ability to think has replaced our physical prowess with the ability to invent things that do it for us, and we've become weak. The question remains: how do i get back to the animal power? Is it even possible? I can look at a 20ft roof and tell myself with absolute unerring mental focus 'just jump up there'... doesn't mean i'll make it...

I've theorized that the occasional 'freak' we stumble across in lifting... you know that newb your size that C&J'd your 4-year max the first time he touched a barbell? Case in point: Benchfreak on this forum, who i train. No matter what you do, who trains you or how hard you'll work, as long as he does SOME kind ov intelligent work he'll always outlift you. This is the kind ov guy who has potential to make world champion or olympic champ should he try. Anyways... that 'freak' is probably just closer to the neanderthal than the rest ov us. He's a few generations less removed from the ancestors who hadn't yet invented an easier life. Its a nice theory anyways...

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On your issue with the lack of space, I never actually said a SPECIFIC sort of jump in a SPECIFIC place.
Go sprint up a slight incline. Go do frog jumps with maximal explosion whenever and wherever you can. Stop when you're slowing down and cannot do anything to acclerate fast anymore. That doesn't require a box. Heck if you really want a box, go to your nearest car junkyard and jump on those cars. Should be a great workout too. Creativity my friend. Go jump on your stairs and down and repeat that. Careful not to fall though. A stadium, awesome place. Run up and down the stairs. Find those blocks where you can jump stable on and jump up. When coming down, leap and try to land on your toes without your heels touching the floor.

• Heh... i own five big cars... i wouldn't have to leave my yard... But yeah, i see what you mean. I just like quantifying things i do, it easier to note improvement. Thus the use ov apparatus. I found a bunch ov stackable cardio blocks upstairs in my gym, they get sketchy over three feet, but thats fun in a way too. I used to do platform jumps with those, easy to see progress as they go up in 2" increments.
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MY coach quit training in 2006, because he knew he wouldn't be able to compete. In China, if your coach's relations with the top coaches suck (they've many coaches there) your chances are cut significantly. My coach's coach, can't even talk properly. He can compete wonderfully, but he can't talk. He can teach, but in competitions, he's more nervous than his own lifters. It's a lil more "political" there. I'll show you a 180KG CNJ in a few weeks time by my coach. He says he'll get it soon to show them it isn't all about steroids. This is 180KG @ 69KG by a guy that's barely trained past 160KG'S in his pulls and squats twice a month.

• Hah! If he moved here he'd be a national hero in the sport.

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Small talk. We had a Bulgarian (8 national team lifters protested his appointment as head coach. Coach Lin was thankfully reinstated) who forced one of our lifters to snatch his max 21x because he missed it 20x. Is that going to help you progress? Hell he can't even exert force anymore to the bar. If he had dropped just 5-10% and did 4 doubles or triples and got every rep, wouldn't that be better?

• Well, if thats something he does often, then it seems a bit off. But the occasional shake-up ov ones routine (you gotta admit, even for you who shun basic routines, THAT session was probably a good shock to the system, and made everything else you do look more 'routine'), can be beneficial. The local coach here i mentioned before, the 'sadist' with the beast lifters, once made his star pupil, a 69kg girl who's medaled at nationals retry her jerk PR 20 times. She never did get it that time, but i guarantee she came away from that session stronger (after she'd healed...). But its not something he does often.

I dont know... sometimes severe shit like that works. Evan, who coaches me occasionally once tried his snatch PR at the club and missed. He tried five more times after that and missed. He got his seventh attempt. Now, we'd NEVER pull that shit in powerlifting... but then again, powerlifting is decidedly weaker than it was twenty years ago. There used to be the same crazy work ethic there before all the gear came along. Back then, strong lifters LOOKED like strong people. Today you can watch powerlifting worlds and see many lifters who dont even look like they lift much. And this aint weightlifting... size DOES matter in powerlifting. I bet twenty years ago they used to train more like weightlifters...

Do tell me if you disagree on anything. I'm sharing this so I can learn as well. I've only learned 40% of what my coach taught me. He taught me a lot, the rest I researched, analyzed and figured myself. This is 40% and I think it's possibly enough to train one country's lifter to be Olympic level. I wonder what's the other 60% my coach hasn't taught me yet.

• This is all very interesting. Excuse the essay answers, i hate how the internet makes everyone terse and misunderstandings are a way ov life. I like to be clear.

Check These Out.

pizzaboy — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:55:07 +0800

http://www.cafepress.com/getbig/616908

http://www.cafepress.com/getbig/764660

http://www.zazzle.com/powerlifting+gifts

There are a few cool shirts for us trainees. Any you guys particularly like?
I'm thinking of even printing a design so we can all wear it during a H&F gathering. We should really grow this community
Maybe make a site for ourselves too, Malaysian trainees.

Any other designs that you guys like, do link it over here.

Would you be interested in a seminar ?

pizzaboy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:08:36 +0800

My coach is a former Chinese national athlete.....and he's right now a coach in Malacca.
We discussed today, about the state of training in Malaysia. And thanks to a friend's suggestion to have a workshop, we thought since we're educated in this field, why not? We can dispel a lot of silly "Bro-science" with proven training science.

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I just wanna see the response. Also how much would you pay for a 3 hour seminar + 1 hour Q/A. Refreshments provided.
I'm thinking since people are payin RM120/hour for personal trainers, we're just gauging how much can we charge.
It'll be 1-3. I'll attend to 3 lifters, my coach the other 3. I know nobody would be interested in me, so we plan to circle it around.

This will be our guinea pigs, so to speak. But of course we'll be planning everything and discussing with other trainers and coaches about how to run a good one first. This is all in planning stages, and will probably be at least till June before we can start it.

The only not so nice part, is can only be done in Melaka. I wish we could use the Bkt Jalil facility but the costs are RIDICULOUSLY high if we wanted to rent it for a day from the sports council. And the amount of strings I'd have to pull, will probably string to England.

If it's in Melaka....it'll be RM60-70 for gas and toll+fees

Also we'll only be taking 6 people at a time, because we cannot have too many. It'd be hard to focus on each person. This is a very rough draft...but we hope to make it happen.

Do tell us.

The importance of a routine.

pizzaboy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:15:15 +0800

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Do you really rely on a template and the pre-set repetition and set ranges?

I've been a user of cookie cutter programs like Madcow 5x5 (which reaped phenomenal results) and Boris Sheiko's powerlifting program (helped me bench 115KG'S man!)

Anyway, my days of powerlifting is pretty much over and I'm fully into Olympic weightlifting now. What I've learned is the importance of fixing your weakest points. I thought long and hard about why Chinese training method.

First we'll go with our snatches and clean and jerks. Then on that day, if we're particularly crappy in a portion one lift, we'll do more of that portion with other supplementary work. Then we move to strength movements like clean pull (basically a deadlift with a triple extension) and squats and overhead push presses.

I find with this method, we almost eliminate bottlenecks and still manage to strengthen the entire body. This is also the method that Russians programmed which Westside Powerlifters have copied and implemented into powerlifting.

What's your take and opinion on programs and all that?

I began to think that sets and repetitions were bullshit about 6 months ago, and have since seen my numbers soar. Nowadays, if say I'm squatting, and I'm struggling at the 4th rep, I make a promise to myself to hit a 5th rep for the next set no matter how tough it becomes. If I struggle at the 2nd rep, I make a promise to hit a 3rd rep for the next set. If my mind says "Okay, enough" I say "One more final set, with ONE extra rep!"

In fact, my routine can look like this when logged;

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160KG x 4

The improvements have been tremendous strength wise. Technique wise, I'm still fixing it, so .....that's another story.

How are you guys basing your training ?

READ THIS before you post.

pizzaboy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:24:36 +0800

READ THE RULES. IT'S VERY FEW
Read these comments

Malaysianpotato and I are the only two moderators here. We have a life and this forum is a part-time "dedication" so to speak+the fact that Streamyx is about as slow as a potato on a skateboard, I'm handicapped.

We've setup rules and regulations but almost nobody follows them. I've removed ALL stickies for the moment. There are changes that are being implemented at the moment to have a separate bodybuilding and strength training section for those interested. I can understand that this is a public tech inclined forum, thus the questions can sometimes be less than physical'ish. But really, do you need threads like this?

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First off for you guys who are new and don't understand what we've to go through, you probably go like "Stupid dumbass mods, trying to show off".

Number 1, we are probably better than you in what we know about strength, fitness and general health, that's why we don't go around opening idiotic threads like "Will cold water make me fat?"
Number 2, being a moderator in LYN still makes you a nobody in life unless you know who you really are, what you want, what you're doing and why. All those criterias fulfilled, I am somebody. Are you?

This is what I need from the regulars;

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Use the report button.
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I'm done ranting. If you guys want to flame, flame on. Then see LYN's quality drop. It's already dropping. I understand some of you guys are true keyboard warriors. Talk a whole load of hardcore toughass stuff, come in life, as cowardly as a castrated kitten. Why do that? Why not be nice, just as who you are. It's very simple for me. If you guys and girls, think I'm an ass.....I can easily quit this forum. Then you find your own dose of advice about strength training. I don't even charge people, I just want to help. Unless you come to my gym and train, that I'll have to charge, duh.

Think about it for a second. Do you really wanna see this forum go down the drain? I could just open my own forum, and have a very specialized forum about training only. Also, what you guys discuss, I really don't care, because 95% of the things you guys talk about which concerns my interest, I've already known. Braggy? Maybe. True? Definitely. I don't have a physique that says anything, because I want it that way. Am I weak? Relative to the elite weightlifters, I'm a stinking dead moth. Relative to you, chances are, hell no.

Please help us maintain the quality of this section.

[addedon]March 22, 2009, 12:30 pm[/addedon]And I WANT you guys to give your feedback about how YOU want this forum to be.

All I'm asking is, google first.
If no answer, open a thread with the googled links.
Get your answer, say a nice thank you to those that's helped, and close it.

I just want you guys to post with an intention of helping, not an intention of malice, disrespect or "sadistic humor". It's really not funny when someone asks about cancer and you say "Go visit "tangchi"

You aren't only recommended to post a reply, in fact, asked to post a reply. I want to see what you all think, after all I'm merely a human being and subject to mistakes.

Final Cross Checking Of My Rig.

pizzaboy — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:28:54 +0800

Hi guys, it's been a long time since I went out of this whole hardware chase loop. I came from the mega overclocking Celeron and stayed till xp 2600+ and K8 days.
These days there are so many more, I'm lost, but picking up the pieces lar. Anyway, my house got broken into and laptop stolen. So a lil pissed with it, thus I wanna go back to desktops.

This is what I've come up with while remembering I've a budget of about RM1800. Hopefully some prices will drop next year.

- Intel Core 2 DUO E7300 (RM400) Or Q6600 (RM650)
- Asus P5QSE (RM390)
- Kingston VR 2GB x 2 PC6400 DDR2 800 (RM70x2=RM140)
- Sapphire HD4670 512MB DDR3 (RM280)
- Western Digital 640GB WD6400KS (RM230)
- Pioneer 20x DVDRW (RM90)
- CoolerMaster Extreme Power 500 (RM155)

- Reuse keyboard, mouse, printer, monitor, sound card and speakers

Total RM1685 or RM1935

Anyway, here are a couple questions I have;

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[1] Besides the Asus P5Q-SE, I'm thinking of the DFI Blood Iron. I'm not too much of an overclocker but I'd like to push the processor to about 3.0GHz and keep it stable enough for 24/7 usage.

Another advantage of the DFI is I'll be saving RM100. which brings my cost to about RM1585. I might just cut out the DVDRW for the moment and bring the cost to about RM1500 which is a much nicer number to look at. Reviews have shown that the DFI is a nice little mobo. The P5Q is also a darling, but I don't know what the heck the P5Q-(SE) stands for. There has been no reviews about the SE version at all, so I don't know how it puts up against it's bigger brothers.

At the moment I'm quite clueless about the chipset thingamajigs, so if someone would, do enlighten me about it.

[2] The advantage of a Quad Core Q6600 (RM650) vs the Dual Core E7300 (RM400)

I've been doing some reading and it seems the dual-cores are all going the same direction of the dinosaurs at the moment. I'd much rather future proof my PC a bit more than just spend a few hundred less and see it falling into the drain within a week. And also, if I do move the direction of the quad core, do I have to upgrade my RAMS to 1066MHz RAMS?

Also I've read that the Quad Core easily clocks up to 3.0Ghz at stock voltage. Sounds good to me, I'm not really one that's into increasing voltages at all, but I'll need some comments on this. But really, is quad core, really worth it? I can see that it trumps the dual core in quite a few applications. I use my computer mostly for surfing the net and assignments and editing photos for my strength training website as well as movie ripping and video editing for youtube. My brother will probably want to use my rig for some music recording as well. And of course, we do game, but very light gamers, that's why I'm going with a relatively low end GC.

Now if I have no changes to the current setup, but move to quad core, I'll be shoving my budget to RM1935, which isn't really bad at all. Chances are I'll drop the DVDRW at the moment and possibly even go with a second hand PSU to drop costs a lil more.

Clearly I've no clue what I'm talking about here, but that's why I'm asking.
Any help, much appreciated. Do reply with as much info as possible, I'll read everything. Share please.

Spammer

pizzaboy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:10:57 +0800

Once again.....Herbalife spammers.

I bet this man is fitter than 95% of us here.

pizzaboy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:22:22 +0800

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I like the last one with the dumbbells. Something that I will certainly try....maybe later when the gym opens. Nice nice.