Body Building

January 23rd, 2007

Need to buy two books to revamp my workouts:
Strength Training Anatomy
and
Men’s Health: The Book of Muscle–The World’s Most Complete Guide to Building Your Body
as these two seem to be the most popular books on the subject.

Cure for Cancer?

January 22nd, 2007

“Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.”

New Scientist - Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers

Single digit bodyfat

January 7th, 2007

Fat is the fuel for muscle, in order to burn more fat you need more muscle to burn it. My combined program includes both cardio for fat burning and weight training for muscle building.

Ritual/Habit - Habits are hard to break. Form a habit of going to the gym no matter what. If I don’t feel like working out on a particular day then I decrease the amount of time I spend there. It is not always possible to achieve 100% but you must never break the habit of actually going to the gym.

Short/Intense training - 2-3 hour sessions in the gym is enough to dissuade anyone after a week or two. Better to work hard, keep rest breaks short (30 seconds between sets) and complete the entire session in 60-90 minutes.

Regular exercise - 20-30 minutes per day in the gym directly after the weights workaround helps push your metabolism up.

Zig-zag diet - On weekdays when it is easier to maintain the habit of eating I eat 5-6 meals a day. Breakfast, mid-morning snack, Lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, after dinner snack. On weekends I decrease my food intake dropping below my daily calorie needs. Before my metabolism can adjust and have a starvation effect kick in and slow down it is Monday again and there is a time of plenty, and the first workout of the week helps to tell my body to keep metabolism fast.

Frequent small meals - this helps speed up metabolism, regular food supply, fat stores not required by the body to get through starvation periods because there are no starvation periods - you are constantly eating and digesting. It take about 3 hours to digest a meal so time your meals accordingly.



Supplements - From most to least important

Multi-vitamin - Your goal is always to get all the nutrients you need from diet but in case you don’t quite achieve perfection it is good to supplement with a multi-vitamin to make sure all the necessary vitamins and minerals are there for muscle building. I take half the recommended daily dose and maintain good diet.

Protein powder (whey) - It isn’t always possible to get in 5-6 proper high protein meals a day so you can replace 1-2 meals with protein drinks. Can be cheaper than eating high-protein meals and provides some variety. Make sure you eat only the high protein powders and not the Mass Builder 10 million calorie sugar filled junk.

Creatine - The many benefits to mass building of Creatine are well known. Make sure you cycle on and off and give your body a rest from time to time. Use pure 100% creatine monohydrate.

Foamy - Drugs

January 3rd, 2007


I went to a doctor and it was like
you should take this and this and this
and that’ll stop that runny nose of yours
Well why don’t I wait for my natural immune system to take over the virus and kill it?
Oh. Oh well I guess you could do that, but here’s a prescription just in case.

Yeah bullshit. Do you realise how many side effects there are?
I swear to God one said “Side effects may include hallucinations”
I’d rather have the runny nose
Fine, I may have some snot on my upper lip
but at least I’m not seeing Elvis in my refridgerator!

Foamy by Jonathan Ian Mathers

Stock Trading - Backtesting

January 2nd, 2007

Whatever system you come up with and want to trade you will need to backtest.

Apparently some of the options are:
TradeSim, Trade Station, WealthLab, Amibroker

I checked out the WeathLab website and it doesn’t look too shabby. Decent community and nice little leaderboard of best systems!

If you want to get more hardcore and dirty then you can try coding your own system within the Perl framework provided by GeniusTrader.

I’ll try out AmiBroker since it has a free trial.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith trailer

December 31st, 2006


The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be sploitz.

Stop TK’ing, you fag!!!11!!

The OOOH Boyz - Wigga Please

December 31st, 2006


I might be white to the naked eye
But I’m gonna be black ’til the day I die

Sequential Pictures

Weird Al Yankovic - White & Nerdy

December 31st, 2006


A champion at D&D
MC Escher that’s my favourite MC

I’ll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon

The only question I ever thought was hard
was do I like Kirk or do I like Picard?

Romance Mathematics

December 31st, 2006

Smart man + smart woman = romance

Smart man + dumb woman = affair

Dumb man + smart woman = marriage

Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise

December 31st, 2006


As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realise she’s very plain

There’s no time for sin and vice
livin’ in an Amish paradise

On my knees day and night
scoring points for the afterlife


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