The Perfect Body: Facts, Myths, and a Can of Tuna

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

well, after seeing this... i think i should start marketing my "lose 31 lbs in a week with the baskin robbins ice cream diet"


Monday, January 23, 2006

Creatine Ethyl Ester (Personal experience)

Well, I’m almost done with my bulking phase and let me be the first to say that one of the greatest products that’ll help you put on mass is creatine ethyl ester (CEE). I used it twice in my bulking phase, the first six weeks, and right now. On both trials, I felt an immediate pump (2 days after use) and my muscles were almost always full (even in the morning, when they’re usually flat). I did not notice much water retention during usage (creatine monohydrate usually bloats me like crazy, due to mal absorption and all the sugar I had to take with it). Again, I did not change my diet on the first run of CEE and the results were very much noticeable. I did not notice much strength gains off of it, but it sure as hell gave me an awesome pump and kept my muscles full most of the time. As you might know, I got married recently and it took me a while to get used to eating all the crap I do in front of my wife. Eventually, I built my way up from 1 meal a day to 6-7 meals. Taking in about 350 grams of protein and 300 grams of carbs just to maintain what I currently have. I went back to train (after a ten day lay off) and felt like utter shit. I started using CEE again last Thursday. Saturday felt like crap, but Sunday was amazing. I got the pump I used to get when I first used CEE, and my strength went up back to where it was before the lay off.

Dosage and timing

I usually get my pre-workout meal in at 2:30 pm. So, by 3:30 pm (when I get back home) my stomach is almost empty. I take 2.5 grams (half a teaspoon) mixed in water and head to the gym. Immediately after my workout, I take in another 2.5 grams with water and drink my post-workout shake 10 minuutes later.
On non-training days I take 2.5 grams when I wake up, and another 2.5 grams 8 hours later on an empty stomach.

The down side

I like to get the best bang for my buck. So, I buy my CEE in raw powder form. No coloring, no flavoring, nothing. It costs me about $15 for a 3 month supply. But… CEE is the worst shit I’ve ever tasted in my life!!! I get a 5 minute headache every time I take that shit in. but it’s worth it.

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Winstrol-v (winny-v, stanazol, stanazolol)

I have received a number of emails this past month regarding the use of winstrol (don’t be paranoid, I got more than 10 emails about this. So, I’m not talking about you). The “word on the street” is that winstrol will get you cut and shredded and all that bullshit. Let me be the first to tell you that winstrol will not do shit for you if you aren’t following a strict diet and training (including cardio) regimen. Its main use is to increase oxygen uptake, hence increasing aerobic capacity. It won’t magically burn all that fat away and striate your muscles. Plus, winstrol has some pretty harsh side effects, and I’m not talking about all that media hyped “dangers of steroids” crap. The most notable side effect is drying up joints, which leads to serious injuries. I know a trainer at one of the gyms I go to that busted his shoulder and both knees pretty bad while on winstrol. This was more than 6 years ago. He still suffers tremendously from those injuries. He’s a pretty big guy, but he can’t squat more than 225 lbs, can’t press more than 65 lbs (dumbbells), worst of all he says that he sometimes wakes up at night from the pain in his joints. But what people don’t understand is that you can’t use winstrol alone! Or stack it with other orals! Winstrol is extremely liver toxic (when I say extremely, I mean if you use it for more than 8 weeks, you might start developing liver toxicity syndromes. Other than that, you’ll feel lethargic the whole time). Stacking it with other orals will only worsen the problem. Winstrol is also know for taking its toll on your HDL (good cholesterol). In some cases, it drops below 10 from winstrol only in as little as 4 weeks. If you’re gonna use winstrol, atleast stack with some test enanthate. And remember, if you don’t know how to cut without steroids, you’re never gonna get cut with steroids. This comes from personal experience. One of my friends has been cycling steroids on and off for the past 5 years, he still never went below 20% fat because he didn’t know how and thought the steroids would do it for him.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

I found this article a couple of days ago and i thought i'd share it with you. It's funny how they could make anything sound like it's "health threatening" and "it could kill you"...

Glycerin (or Glycerol) is a syrupy liquid that is used as a sweetener and a moisturizing agent. Glycerin adds texture and chewiness to the bars (so it's not like biting into a brick)According to the Food & Drug Administration, Glycerin IS a carbohydrate and what you've read on the labels of those bars is misleading and dishonest.According to the FDA office of food labeling, "FDA nutrition labeling regulations require that when glycerin is used as a food ingredient, it must be included in the grams of total carbohydrate per serving."Basically, the supplement companies want you to believe that their "high protein, low carb" bars are lower in carbohydrate than they really are.These companies often defend themselves by saying it's ok not to count glycerin in the carb content because glycerin is not metabolized the same as other carbohydrates: (Glycerin has very little effect on insulin compared to other carb sources). Nevertheless, glycerin is still a carbohydrate and still provides 4.32 calories per gram.Many supplement companies have changed their labels in the past year as a result of pressure from the FDA and various consumer groups, but others have not budged and the FDA doesn't seem to be enforcing it's rules very strictly.Karl Warren has recently put up a website at www.fatwatch.net, which has links to several articles about this problem, including articles from the National Consumers League and Consumer's Lab. Karl writes:"Our First Initiative is to help raise public awareness about False Labeling by many of the Low-Carb Bar Manufacturers. These manufacturers are deceiving consumers by NOT counting Glycerin as a carbohydrate within the Nutritional Facts on the back of the packaging. Glycerin is a carbohydrate and is contained in all of the mislabeled bars listed below (see website). These companies are making up their own rules, and the FDA is NOT enforcing these infractions, which places the onus on the Consumer to make correct buying decisions by NOT purchasing deceptively marketed Low-Carb Bars. We ask, "What is next? Not counting sugars?"Karl continues,"Understandably, the consumption of these bars is prohibitive to weight loss as people are taking in more carbohydrates then they think they are."Karl also has links to the actual warning letters from the FDA to the supplements companies about their labeling violations.The people who are defending these bars are usually the people who are selling them. High protein, low carb bars are the fastest growing segment of the sports nutrition industry. According to a report by ABC news, the sale of all varieties of nutrition bars now tops $600 million per year. Once only found in gyms and health food stores, these bars have gone mainstream and are now found on supermarket and convenience store shelves almost everywhere.Mislabeled carbohydrate content isn't the only reason to avoid most nutrition bars: Here are a few more:1)Many contain disease-promoting saturated and trans fatty acids such as partially hydrogenated oils, palm kernel oil, palm oil or fractionated vegetable oils.2) Some bars are very high in refined sugars including high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, rice syrup, or sucrose.3) The coating of many bars is nothing more than pure chocolate.4) In a recent test conducted by Consumer lab, 60% of the bars tested did not meet their label claims.5) Even the bars that are the lesser of evils are still processed foods. Processed foods should never be a regular part of yoru daily diet.If you were on a diet to lose body fat, would you eat chocolate, saturated fats and refined sugars? Of course not! But that is often exactly what you are getting with these so-called nutrition bars.Take it from someone who has no vested interest in selling any kind of supplements: At best, bars are a nutritional compromise; at worst they are candy in disguise.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

MTV True Life: I'm On Steroids..... What a f***ing joke

has anyone seen this crap? oh my god!!!! This is the dumbest, most insulting program i've ever seen in my life! Is MTV even allowed to do that shit? god... ok, here's the run down. they got 3 idiots on the show, a "fighter", an egotistical maniac, and a homosexual fudge packer. All three of them are on "the juice". the fighter looked like my 13 year old skinny ass brother, and homo looked nothing more than shit, and the ego freak had a decent body with nipples as big as his head (gyno). I laughed my ass off when i saw how they tried to portray these asses as the "typical steroid user". They didn't know how to inject... none of them aspirated when they injected, one of them actually wiped the needle before injecting, NONE OF THEM KNEW WHAT THEY WERE INJECTING!!! and to top it off... none of them even ate decently. If anyone out there trained naturally for two years, with a good diet and training regime (not even strictly) he'd have a better body than all three that were on the show, combined! and you know what really cracked me up? they wanted to show the "mental side of steroids". So, the homo fudge packer tried to take his life by OD'ing on tylenol.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAH... F***ING MORONS!!! this program did nothing but the following:

1- discouraged every natural bodybuilder. (because if steroid users looked like that, natural bodybuilders should look something like dave chapelle)

2- mislead everyone on the effects of steroids. Nowadays, if someone told you that they're gay, you'd probably say "well, look on the bright side, atleast you're not on steroids"

3- most importantly, it pissed me off

and you know what really pissed me off? they brought back the story of that kid that supposidly commited suicide because he was on steroids. what the f*** is that? and his parents are such ass holes! yeah it's sad he killed himself, but it's even worse showing his parents crying and blaming it on steroids!!! the f***ers are crying? oh, yeah, cry now, in front of the cameras. never mind neglecting your son for years and years, not knowing what he does when he's with his friends, knowing how he felt when he got pulled off the baseball team, THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HE WAS ON STEROIDS TIL HE DIED!!! oh, he was a teenager too. blame it on steroids... that's right. you know what? blame it on yourselves you sick excuses for parents. they even went to congress and demanded a ban on supplements in american high schools and what not. they make me sick.

you know what? watch the show. read the reports on this kid. let all that info sink in. then, watch HBOs Real sports "the roid rage". that was the best documentary on steroids ever. on the show, they had doctors, scientists, congressmen, FDA f***ers, athletes, bodybuilders...FREAKIN' EVERYBODY and did intreviews with them. the best of all, is 70 year old bob who's been using steroids for over 40 years and has NO HEALTH PROBLEMS WHAT SO EVER. and he doesn't only say that. he shows the blood test results. and they got medical journals and ALL THAT GOOD STUFF!!! really, search for it and watch it. i would upload it, but it's around 50 MB. so forget about it. but really, don't miss it.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Bring It!
Excerpts from the diary of a pissed off bodybuilder, cont.

Well, I’ve decided to post this part early in the week because I have a vacation tomorrow, and I’m getting married next Thursday (YEAH BUDDY!!!!!! It’s about freakin’ time). So, I won’t be spending much time on my computer. Still, there’s an important issue I need to bitch about and I’m sure you do to. Keep on bitchin’ :

It seems like everyone is Mr.”know it all”, “done it all”, “when I was like you”, and “you’ll learn when you get there” these days. I’m not talking about wisdom, lessons learned, or science here. I’m talking about idiots in the same age group as I am in that pretend that they’re 200 years old and have done it and seen it all. Hypocritical, stereotypical, ass people! That’s who I’m talking about. Let me tell you some of my experiences, and others so you can relate. Now, I’ve been dying to get married to my fiancé for 2 years now. And whenever anyone of those ass people sees how happy I am to get married they start saying this “allah y3eenik. You’re happy now, but give it a year. Oh you’re gonna be in over your head. You’ll spend all your money on her, she won’t like anything, she’ll just complain all the time, you’re never gonna go out with the guys anymore… it’s like a prison cell”. Some of these people say they’re kidding, but the majority of ass people aren’t. why do they say this? Well, because most men here in saudi come from the same assembly line. A conveyor belt that rolls out either extremely thin, or extremely fat men that wear the same “dress”, “head dress”, shave all facial hair except for the thick mustache that makes them look like pornstars from the 70’s, and have the same stereotypes about women. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying all women are open minded or whatever. I used to know saudi women thinking the idea of being liberal and open minded is being able to go to Lebanon without her parents, wearing low waist jeans with her thong sticking out (notice, I said “used to know” cuz if I still knew them, my wife would shove 29 kilos of C4 explosives up my ass and press the button on the detonator without thinking twice). Seriously people, we’re not all the same. Men don’t just care about sex… well… yeah we do… but we care about a lot of other stuff too. Men aren’t just beings that need food, sex, and turn women into baby factories…. And then marry another and do the same. And women… they’re not all gold digging sluts. Some of them really don’t give a rat’s ass about money. A friend of mine once brought a magazine that has… well.. “wedding stuff” in it. and I saw something that looked like a piece of crap dipped in vomit. So I asked my friend “what the hell is this crap dipped in vomit?” and he said “you don’t know what this is? It’s a …” I really forgot what it’s called but it’s a bunch of flowers that the bride carries with her. And it looks like crap. I asked “why the hell would you carry something like that?” and my friend said “because the cheapest one would cost around $500. man, you’re really gonna piss your wife off.” First off, the answer to my question was because it was expensive, and not because it was pretty or tradition or whatever (hence, a gold digging slut stereotype is born). Second, I know my wife quite well. She’s a very intelligent person (which makes me seem extremely stupid some times). If I told her “how about you carry a dumb flower with you in our wedding” and she asks “why?” and I say “because it costs $500, and people think it’s a must”… I swear she would slap me.
To all those people who want to get married but think it’s expensive and they need to save up for ten billion years…. Mark my words… IT’S ONLY EXPENSIVE IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IT EXPENSIVE AND BRAG ABOUT IT IN FRONT OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE A SHIT!!!! And another word of advice for the men out there… if your woman only talks about how “I want the wedding like this” “I want the wedding like that” “I want people to talk about it” “I want this band to hit huge empty oil barrels that produce loud sounds and scream profanities that no one understands and charge $10,000 per night”… she’s marrying a wedding and a bank account.. and not a man. Cuz if a woman really loves you and wants to spend the rest of her life with you… she would say something totally different. Most people might argue “but the wedding night is supposed to be the night of your life”. Night of your life? It’s gone way past that… it became the night of eternal debt a long time ago. Don’t let the night of your life turn your life into a crapper. Of course, I’m not talking about people who have it easy… you know… 25 year old “men” who go “daddy daddy, can I have 2 million riyals to buy this car… it’s really cool and I want it I want it I want it!!!” and their idiotic father goes “sure son.. here you go” … please, don’t go into debt because you’re getting married. If your future wife doesn’t approve… she’s not for you. As for men….. don’t ask about the parents when you get engaged to a girl. Ask about the girl… from different sources. COME ON!! How many of you are just like your fathers? I assure you, daughters don’t turn out like their mothers all the time….
Just remember… I piss on other people’s opinions if I don’t like them… so please feel free to piss on my opinion in the comments section.

Have a happy eid

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Excerpts from the diary of a pissed off bodybuilder

Since all we do here is bitch and complain about everything, I’ve decided to write up a weekly post dedicated to bitching. So, I’m here to bitch about stuff to give you material to bitch about when you’re with your buddies. Have fun and… bitch on… or something.

The saudi stock market… I think the word by itself is starting to become a cuss word. If someone starts talking out of his ass… just say “SHUT UP YOU F***ING SAUDI STOCK MARKET!!!”… I’m really not into stocks, economy, science, physics, chemistry, math, reading, writing, thinking…ummm… anyway… Although I’m a retard in economics, I really know that something is definitely wrong! I’ve been hearing about numbers all over the world going up something like 6% a year… 8%...3% … and people are happy… but here? NOO!! It has to go up by 298475603894675% every second or people get angry and think it’s a bad stock. What the hell is this nonsense? And this “iktetab” shit? OH MY GOD!! Putting all your money and some people (most people) borrow money to “iktitib” AND THE F***ING COMPANY STILL DIDN’T OPEN YET?!?!?! It don’t make sense to me. Especially when 99.99999% (number pulled out of my ass) of people don’t even know what that company does. You know what? Most people ask me “why the hell don’t you put your money in yansab?” yansab is a new company that recently opened up for “iktetab”. Now, even dead people are rising up from the grave to put their money in yansab because everybody “knows” (by information pulled out of someone else’s ass) that the returns are unbelievable. I just ask them one questions: “what does yansab do?”
I swear, and I’m serious here, no bullshit, I swear that no one has been able to answer my question.
In the end, you make a quick buck. Stupidity kicks in, and you spend it even quicker. I think you’ve all seen the videos of “people”, if that’s what you want to call them, running in the bank and reeking havoc all over the place just to buy stocks first. That tells you something about the MAJORITY of our society. One of my friends once said something that is SO TRUE! He was driving past a bank on the day of iktetab, and when he saw all the people lined up there he just sent me an sms about how it looks like: “lined up with all their ghutras, they look like sperm trying to fertilize an egg”