XXX666’s BodyBlog

Today i came home to a big pile of dog puke all over the bed sheets that i washed yesterday, not really upset about that.  I threw them in the wash only to come home to find them in the sink.  The other roomie was too ignorant to put them in the dryer.  Myself was considerate enough to put his clothes in the dryer prior to myself putting my bed sheets in the was.  Ignorant POS, I cannot wait until i move.

I came home from the gym only to find that the neighbor was hosting their church group.  Old people cannot park.  One car should not consume 3 spaces.

After i walk the dog i find that the city of baltimore wants me to pay a parking fine dated 1/16/09 for tags that were put on my car in july 09.  if time travel were possible i sure as **** wouldn’t travel to baltimore in january.  i should i pay a fine for the previous holder of these tags.

*sigh*  i was able to resist smoking a cigar to relax me.  So know i sit here writing something nobody will read.  everyday i surf through the exercise forum on the site.  like i have said in the past the ideas/concepts/beliefs expressed there are really dumb.  let me elaborate, i’ve been lifting weights going on 17 years now, i’ve learned a lot, its a huge trial and error process.  certain movements took years to learn and master.  daily i watch people do motions of an exercise but they really aren’t doing it, they are doing a motion, they aren’t taking the time to feel the muscle stretch and contract they are just moving.  so how much of what i know do i share?  should i continue to help others?  they don’t seem as if they listen anyway so why bother?

hopefully i sleep this off.

Changed my diet, lost 5 pounds.  My umbilical hernia is a lot more noticable since i’m dropping stomach fat.  Same old grind and same old bad mood.

Fixed my server; finally.

That basically sums it all up.  Been a while since I posted anything basically because this site is a HOOOOGE waste of my time other than keeping in touch with several good people.  So lets streamline everything since my last post back in October 2008.

1. October dad died, cancer, **** happens.

2.  December truck broke down, took $4500 to fix it but it now makes over 600HP; gotta love diesel technology.  Your NOT diesel unless your driving one.

3.  February finalized my divorce, VERY HAPPY!

4. February truck broke again, took $7000 to fix, now has full billet transmission that will handle 1000HP; more room to play.

5.  Februrary mastercard has high balance…………………….. Credit rating still over 750

6.  May stopped going to the Iron Pit because somebody was stabbed out in the parking lot

7.  June sold boat, after two years on the market its gone; i miss it but glad its gone.

8.  July bought a SRT8 Charger, ****er is FAST!

9.  July found umbilical hernia, can be seen in my main profile pic if you look at my naval its there on the left side, look close

Well that sums up the past few months, nothing very exciting its been up and down.  Waiting for my pre-opp appointment with the sugeon on Aug 9th so he can stuff my guts back into my intestinal cavity.  Surpisingly there is no discomfort and i didn’t notice it for months.  My general doctor stated its small and wasn’t concerned when i told him i wasn’t easing up my workouts any.  I expect 4 to 7 days of rest prior to getting back into the gym post opp; thus i will be on a feeding frenzy those days.

I’ve also been job hunting back home in northwest pennsylvania.  I hate winter but i’m tired of living in baltimore.  The amount of homicides in baltimore per week is more than home experiences in an entire year, my taxes will be cut in a 1/3rd, i will be with my family *no family in baltimore* and i can get back into training how i like. 

I’m going to try the LGScience trifecta post surgery as well………….

**** Gold’s Gym

Chains, you may or not seen some goof with no neck drag/carry chains in or out of the gym.  The purpose of chains is it povides a continous "delta" of weight through the range of motion.  This is very simular to the cam style belt/cable epuipment.  As you extend force you contiously add weight *delta* to the movement.  For example, say at the bottom position of a motion you have 100lbs, add chains and at the end of the motion you may have 125lbs.  Thus, the resistence is contiously increasing. 

My personal rig is made from chain i bought at the home depot and from several strands from the local port ship yard.  Total i have 85 pounds.  Depending on which movement i’m doing i could have a delta of 85 pounds.  This is unlikely since is a bit difficult to manipulate the rig so it is at a zero resistance potential to a completely extended length; an excercise with that range of motion would be along the lines of a high pull, snatch or clean&press.

There are a lot of different benefits to usings chains with any movement.  For example a lot of people have a dead spot in thier upper range of thier bench.  Right before they reach the end of the motion the movement stops and they are exterting a great deal of energy to push that weight those last few inches.  Chains will eliminate those sticky points since you are building your strenght to increase through the range of motion.  The weight is active and continously increasing instead of just being a dead lump of weight that remains the same through the entire range.

This strenght training tatic will have a direct effect on mass/size. 

As soon as i get some time I’ll explain why i use chains, description of my rig, results i have experienced and possibly convience you its a good idea to drag that shit around. 

Dispite catching some sort of virus and having the shits all day long i managed to gain 2 pounds.  I’m puzzled. 

I really hesitated to write anything on this blog.  It appears if you aren’t in the "top ten" that your profile won’t get much attention.  So I question myself why I would even bother posting any info, more than likely it won’t be read.  I would imagine a crappy author ponders the same thoughts while they write a new novel.

Gym advice.  I see a lot of beginers ask other members questions.  Personally i would never ask another person for advice or information unless they had big forearms and thick traps.  I’m not going to elborate why unless you ask.

Chains:  Its still amusing how i get laughed at by the lardasses playing hamster on the treadmill when i walk into the gym dragging my chains.  In the end i’m the one laughing because i did something.  You kicked your legs over a motor powered belt and i moved a lot of steal.  Laugh all you want. 

Half of the title above is to get your attention but the majority of this blog is based upon a view point that you may not like.

We are all here for some reason.  Vanity, health, occupation, sports, etc….  So we all get the idea.  We are all going to reach a certain cross roads when we have to ask ourselves how far as individuals we are willing to go to get to the next level.  Granted some people just want to maintain BUT in order to maintain there is a need to change your stratagy.  Reps, poundage/weight, variations of movements *cables, machines, free weights*  You have an arsenal of tools that are available for body modification.  Imagine your body as a slab of metal and your a blacksmith.  You need to use a wide varity of tools to manipulate that slab of metal into a finished product.  As soon as your done swinging that hammer your work is done and you won’t progress but if you add more heat and start hammering that metal you’ll experience progress.  You have to manipulate yourself physically on a consitent schedule.  Some of us are here to make as many gains in strenght and size as possible.  This opens the gates to another dimension far beyond "body maintenance." Oh no!  I’m going to talk about that forbidden substance, lets call it "vitamin S."  If or when a person ever decides to walk down this path may I advise that you get informed.  Your local moron at your local gym probably doesn’t know jack about vitamin S.  There is a lot more to it than just stabbing yourself and popping pills!  Manipulation of your body’s chemistry requires changes in your living habits, eating habits and what you do at the gym.  Post usage is another animal.  Don’t fool yourself, I LOVE LAUGHING at the morons I see that blow up for 2/3 months the shrink down to nothing because thier gym perscription ran out.  Most of the time they are smaller in the end then what they were when they started.  I invite anybody to research recent pics of Dorian Yates; you may not reconize him.  Changing your body’s chemistry is a game of risk, don’t be lazy, read as much material as you can, study everything and don’t short yourself.

Personal trainers, most of you are walking jokes/contradictions of health/fitness.  Go to your local gym and take a look, most of them aren’t even in shape yet they are giving exercise advice to people.  Tip, the closer your elbows are to your ears the weaker the synergy of your torso muscles and arm muscles will be.  Keep that in mind when your benching!  If you want to see a bench go youtube Jeff McVicar or Gene Rychlak.  Your arms don’t work well next to your ears, sorry.

You want big arms.  Your triceps are 2/3rds of your upper arm, try giving them some attention too.  Arms are a lot more than curls.

Rear delts, you look funny without them.

Shrugs!  Its not how much weight is on that bar is how high you pull the bar and the correct position of your shoulders at the bottom position.  They are shrugs not mini squats, keep those knees bent a little but don’t be bouncing the weight.  Upright rows and High pulls are great for traps but you need to know how to do that right too.  Your 800 pound shrug doesn’t impress others who know what they are doing, maybe to the mindless fool who has no clue your a god; the rest of us think your a joke.

Deadlifts, love those vids of everybody rolling thier lower back.  Its not the quantity of the weight you move its how you move it.  The guy lifting less weight but using the correct form will pass you up when your laying in bed at home after having the discs in your lower back fused together.  Buy a good belt too, not for your lower back; belts help keep your intiestines from blowing out of your abdominal wall.

Everything about bodybuilding is self education and experimentation.  It takes time, with time you will gain experience and with experience comes progress.  Its a good idea for everybody to find out how your joints and muscles REALLY WORK, don’t listen to your average slim shady nymrob just because they have a few veins on thier forearm.  Most trainers don’t know crap either, if your trainer has a gut you may want to reconsider your self investment.  Does it even look like your trainer has picked up a weight in the past year?  Buy/Pick up multiple books and read, not just any exercise book either; start with a book on kinesiology.   

Good Luck! 

So i thought about writing a really long blog but since its creaping up on 11pm here screw that.  I’m still using chains with all of my compound movements, my strenght continues to increase even though my body weight reamains around the same.  I’ll continue to swing that hammer and slam my body into submission.

I smell bad!  I need to shave!  I am angry!