The Transformation Journals

Q: Back in the 1970s bodybuilders training at Gold’s seemed to encourage one another more, and camaraderie between the athletes was more evident then it is today. How would you explain this different mentality? 

A: The activity has become extraordinarily popular and busy, the sport sharply competitive and crowded, the diversion commercialized and usurped and the world swifter and tighter, more jaded and impersonal. Today, it’s not who you are; it’s who you are compared to him or her. It’s not who you are; it’s what you’re worth.
Excerpt from a Dave Draper news letter February 13, 2008.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur Charles Clarke

No fine work can be done without concentration and, self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm, 1872 – 1956

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom. 
The Pesach Seder

"It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny."
Anthony Robbins

"Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
Thomas Dekker

or so they say…well…I can’t.  I just don’t have the room to get in that many calories.  So what do you do?  I am working on that and as I figure things out this section will grow.  As mentioned in the bariatric section, it has become all about protien.  I know I need the carbs and fats too and that is what I am working on.  Fiber too.  Right now I am having three shakes a day on days that I work.  One with a multi source protien matrix mixed with milk in the mornings and evenings and one of the fruit flavored whey protiens mixed with water in the afternoons.  Things at work can get hectic so lunch is a pain the butt to try and regulate but I am trying to come up with something quick and manageable.  Often times, dinner is the nightly shake.  Work days are 12 hours long and currently mostly in the office so there is plenty of time to sip on shakes.  Even if I have to go out in the field I can still sip on the shakes.  Non work days are harder to regulate.  Nights that I have school dinner most times turns out to be a protien/meal replacement bar.  Just some ponderings here for now.  More later as the diet evolves.  Be well and safe.  ~!~

I have been doing some reading and research on post workout supplements, specificly the intake of carbs.  I am curious about anyone’s use of and comments on Dymatize’s Powertech, as well as other products like this in general.  I am posting this on the boards as well.  Thanks for any input.  Be well and safe.  ~!~