miked512’s BodyBlog

This has to be postponed.

I’m done with the workout and I can barely move my arms comfortably enough to type a review.  I did something retarded.  This should speak volumes for M5 and NO working very well synergistically together.  However, this is Day 2 and I only had two days worth of the stuff to combo it so use that knowledge in your comparison.  That is also workout selection induced.

I must say wow though.  Cellucor has a GREAT NO product that stacks well with the M5 and the D4.  I kinda want some more as this pump is ridiculous but aaahhh, I can’t type anymore.  I’ll give a real review later.

Today was golden.  I drank the M5 with the D4, wrote my post, and then went to the gym.  Well, of course there was a 30 minute stop at the gas station as well, thanks to the cold and I am Mr. Meticulous when it comes to insuring my tires are properly inflated so the cold doesn’t have that much of an impact on them.  So I get to the gym and still burning to get through everything.  Before I left, I said today is going to be a "Pit Bull" day.  Lets just say "Pit Bull" is a code name for what I want to feel like I got beat up by in the morning.
At any rate, I’m there and I plan on doing Pit Bull.  I breeze through everything.  I’m thinking to myself "I really must not have given that stuff much time to go through my system?"  At any rate, I breeze through the pit bull and I’m thinking, "OK, this doesn’t feel right.  You know what to do when a workout is too easy."  This is what I call the "sasquatch" addition to my workouts.  It requires me to get whatever the magic number of the weeks number of total reps on squats or deadlifts in a workout.  For example, lets say I did a workout that included Deadlifts, Chins, and Dips for 4 sets of 8-15.  If that was too easy and I wanted to invite sasquatch, then that would involve me adding 4 more sets of some type of deadlift or squat to the workout.  Theoretically, that means I could do deads twice.  It all depends on what’s in the workout book.

So I added the front squats and laughed at them.  It could be because I used a different grip then normal that made them easy.  I don’t know.

I am loving M5 though at the moment. 

By the way, to those of you reading this, I don’t buy NO shotgun as I think the only time I’d ever take it is on a weekend due to the crackhead feeling.  M5, well, I could go to sleep right now if I wanted to.  This seems like I could buy it sometime soon.

Saturday, I received a gift from mdrane.  A number of supps to sample from Cellucorp.  Man, thanks again.

At any rate, so like he said I mixed up some M5 with a teaspoon of leucine and and took it with a D4 prior to  my workout.  And although, I’m not aware of the stuff having any focus implements within it, it seems to have had that.  Within 5 minutes of the first swallow.  Of course I said, this is going to be good.  Muscles were pumped and ready for movement.  "Wow, I have to wait 30 minutes.  Geez … this is going to be torture."  This stuff also tastes ridiculously good.  Its one of the better tasting preworkout supplements I’ve ever had.  I didn’t have to mix it with anything else the way I do with NO shotgun.
During that wait time, I prepared the rest of my workout gear.  My intraworkout shake of leucine, my secret supplement that you’ll have to ask me about (Its the best supplement in existence and I don’t usually say that about anything), and gatorade and went on about my day.  In the gym, I honestly didn’t drink nearly as much of my intraworkout shake as I normally would have.  Did I make any PRs while on it?  No, I wasn’t trying to make any.  My weights were good for the day with the exercises I did and considering I did drop lunges, the weight I did was more than substantial.  The increased focus and attention to detail probably kept me from falling on my ass.

Things to note:

1)  Unlike other preworkout supplements, the one serving of this didn’t have me freaking out, bouncing all over the wall, tripping or anything of that nature from the caffeine overdose.  No shaking.  Just pure clean energy with a nice pump.  In relation to that, for NO-Xplode in order for me to get the pump I have to load up on the dosage and feel like a "dysfunctional treasure troll".  NO Shotgun usually has me feeling like I’m on adderall, caffeine, and is probably how crystal meth addicts feel but STRONG and pumped at the same time.  Since NO Shotgun is my favorite preworkout supp and a muscletech supplement is my least favorite ( I know I’m supposed to stack it with something else but WHY!!!!), M5 so far has to go right up there with NO Shotgun or slightly below it.  Sorry, I didn’t feel like picking up trucks, and seeing my enemies driven before me and hearing the lamentation of their women.  I felt like I had already conquered the world and was just going off the high.
2)  I’m surprised that stacked with D4 I didn’t feel all caffeined out.  I’m surprised I can actually even think straight and not think "gym, gym,gym" or other activities not related to bodybuilding.

So I like it and think people should give it a try.  I just took my dose for the day and am about to go lift some weights for the day.  I’m feeling GREAT and well, like I just conquered a day so lets go conquer one or two more things and give it a go.  I’ll write a review about Day 2 in a bit.  I’m pumped though …

OOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

I’m writing this in response to dnsigma’s post here:  http://blog.bodybuilding.com/dnsigma/2008/12/01/authoring-your-life-part-2/

Check it out and write your own.  Not my turn.
This story has to be filled with humor because I try to be a funny guy, so you can either laugh or wonder just how twisted I am.

As a kid, I was skinny as all hell.  LMAO, and I always wanted to not be so skinny.  However, to add insult to injury my dad wanted to make an athlete out of me and I wanted to read and do nerd stuff, so his forcing athletics down my throat and me not wanting to do it kinda presented a bit of a conflict.  Suffice to say, I won that battle and the only athletic thing I did was some judo here and there.  So at 12 or 13, I decided to use this brain of mine to get myself into shape and unskinny by reading.  I even took a weightlifting class at 14 but thanks in part to my cruddy school system, that didn’t work out and after that I realized I had a nerdy image to uphold.  I stopped the whole wanting to not be skinny thing and decided to do it in college.  College got me some gains as all of my previous reading seemed to help a lot.  Then well, I got myasthenia gravis and that really threw me for a loop.  I kept training though despite the fact seeing took considerable effort.  I gained some good weight and all until well, my doctor finally figured out it was myasthenia gravis.  Then came prednisone and this is my history:

skinny as sticks -> graduate high school at whopping 125 lbs -> lift and eat like a college student for a few years and grow to a whopping 165 lbs -> get myasthenia gravis,  take prednisone, eat like a college student, balloon to 240 lbs

WOW, so at any rate, through the MG treatment (I even got a pretty scar!!), the elimination of the prednisone, and my road to not being a fat ass to the current condition I’m in now, I’ve learned a great deal.  So of course, since I’ve learned a great deal, I’ve begun to live, breathe, eat, and crap out this stuff.  Of course I try to spread the knowledge around to others and it hits them even though its slightly different from what they’ve heard.  They may listen and they may not, but I know the best way to get them to listen is for me to look the part and unfortunately, I don’t think I look the part (even though I’m a lot closer than I have been).

Well, isn’t that sad?

So how do I get there?  By looking at all of you bastards in better condition than I am and getting angry about my slackfulness.  By looking at bastards behind me that are gaining on me and improving their condition at a rate better than me.  I’ve got to outpace you all.  By reading all of this information and wanting to try all of it. By remembering my past condition and realizing I’m past it and knowing that I have to keep at it to keep all of that long behind me.  To make sure I can be young forever and of course, I’m vain.  I have to look completely awesome all the time.
Sure, I have my battle with wanting to put aside going to the gym to do development work and make some extra income.  I have issues with sticking to diets and planning out meals.  I get overwhelmed with projects for work and my personal life and I know one day, a doctoral program is going to snag me in its clutches (as one has dnsigma) and try to insure that I never have time to keep this workout thing going strong.  However, in the end, I know health is the most important asset I’ve got and one I need to keep going strong.  I’m not getting any younger … or am I??

Besides, what the hell else am I going to do?  Go to work, come home, watch TV and eat twinkies all day, and play lottery every week in hopes that I can win, retire, and just change that to stay home, watch TV, and eat twinkies all day??  There’s a life out there to create and continually update it.  Take it by the horns and wrestle it to the ground.