While the Boss is Away.....Part Deux!

Interesting. Upon even further analysis, I've noticed that while the ordering of colors between both that lady's socks are equivalent, the ordering pattern within either sock is not consistent.

If the same pattern of colors was used throughout each sock, the toe coloring would be purple, not red.

I propose that these findings warrant further research by myself, firsthand, in the exact environment that this photo was taken.
 
LMFAO

I was MIA most of yesterday and I'm happy to see this thread more alive than it has been in some time.

Now I need to go find the Smeton posts. He's always good for a graphic description of some sort of bodily function. I thought his one post about jerking off or whatever it was, was sig worthy but I haven't ever found it again.

sideways smiley face.

Oh and my cousin from California is here. He had 1/2 his left foot chopped off on Christmas day due to the Diabetes. Watch your weight, alcohol intake, and sugar intake kids.
 
Dr Packenwood said:
Oh and my cousin from California is here. He had 1/2 his left foot chopped off on Christmas day due to the Diabetes. Watch your weight, alcohol intake, and sugar intake kids.
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are you threatening us to stay in shape?
because that is pretty intimidating.

it already succeeded in getting me to screw the cap back on this gallon of jack daniels.
 
Now my reasoning behind getting cute is ironclad. "But honey, if I don't get cute, they'll chop my foot off!"

On a side note, that sucks for him.
 
Also, I got bloodwork done yesterday, and am patiently awaiting the results to see where I am before the cuteness begins.
 
Dr Packenwood said:
Oh and my cousin from California is here. He had 1/2 his left foot chopped off on Christmas day due to the Diabetes. Watch your weight, alcohol intake, and sugar intake kids.
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Well most diabetics don't control their insulin properly. They eat what they want and take medication or insulin dependent on whether or not they are type II or type I. And the ADA is to blame for this, and these so called nutritionist.

Put down the carbs fatty, that is the message I want you to take home...
 
In Addendum,

the lil lady's niece is type i diabetic, and was diagnosed at 10 months. She is 3 or 4 now, and we were at the park the few weekends back.

I watched them give her coke and frosted flakes when her blood sugar was too low, and when it got to high, watch them give her shot of insulin. I think I saw 2 shots within a 6 hour period....
 
if i'm a fat diabetic who eats only sugar, and drinks only alochol.....can't i still control my bloodsugar by just shooting more insulin??
 
Nabisco said:
Now my reasoning behind getting cute is ironclad. "But honey, if I don't get cute, they'll chop my foot off!"

On a side note, that sucks for him.
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Or you can just forget about her altogether. Which might not be bad. It would be like getting strange, without getting strange...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Having a big belly in your 40s can boost your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease or other dementia decades later, a new study suggests.

It's not just about your weight. While previous research has found evidence that obesity in middle age raises the chances of developing dementia later, the new work found a separate risk from storing a lot of fat in the abdomen. Even people who weren't overweight were susceptible.

That abdominal fat, sometimes described as making people apple-shaped rather than pear-shaped, has already been linked to higher risk of developing diabetes, stroke and heart disease.

"Now we can add dementia to that," said study author Rachel Whitmer of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California.

She and others report the findings in Wednesday's online issue of the journal Neurology.

The study involved 6,583 men and women who were ages 40 to 45 when they had checkups between 1964 and 1973. As part of the exam, their belly size was measured by using a caliper to find the distance between their backs and the surface of their upper abdomens. For the study, a distance of about 10 inches or more was considered high.

The researchers checked medical records to see who had developed Alzheimer's or another form of dementia by an average of 36 years later. At that point the participants were ages 73 to 87. There were 1,049 cases.

Analysis found that compared with people in the study with normal body weight and a low belly measurement:

• Participants with normal body weight and high belly measurements were 89 percent more likely to have dementia.

• Overweight people were 82 percent more likely if they had a low belly measurement, but more than twice as likely if they had a high belly measurement.

• Obese people were 81 percent more likely if they had a low belly measurement, but more than three times as likely if they had a high measurement.

Whitmer said there's no precise way to translate belly measurements into waist circumference. But most people have a sense of whether they have a big belly, she said. And if they do, the new study suggests they should get rid of it, she said.

It's not clear why abdominal fat would promote dementia, but it may pump out substances that harm the brain, she said.

Dr. Jose Luchsinger of the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, who studies the connection between obesity and Alzheimer's disease but didn't participate in the new work, cautioned that such a study cannot prove abdominal fat promotes dementia.

But the study results are "highly plausible" and "I'm not surprised at all," he said. High insulin levels might help explain them, he said.

Dr. Samuel Gandy, who chairs the medical and scientific advisory council of the Alzheimer's Association, said the results fit in with previous work that indicates a person's characteristics in middle age can affect the risk of dementia in later life.

And it's another example of how traits associated with the risk of developing heart disease are also linked to later dementia, he said.​
 
My cousin's ex-wife's step-father got his foot hacked off due to diabetes...And every time I saw him he ate cake ice cream, and what not...

So, are they that stoopid or that pathetic?
 
So that makes me wonder, if a guy has diabetes and you tell him if he doesn't control it his pennis might fall off. Do you think he would stop eating like a fat ass?
 
Well fellas, I have some presentations to put together...The new guy here was sending the info to the wrong email addy, and finally stopped by my office today and asked if I got his emails....
 
Everytime he tries to come behind your desk to talk to you, swivel your chair and "accidentally" kick him hard as hell in the shin. After a few swift kicks over a period of days he'll learn. For the bright people at my work, it only took one or two kicks for them to figure it out.
 
You'd think that evolution would have found a way to better protect the shins, because I have to agree BP, they hurt like a mother when somebody lands a kick on them.
 
What Makes You Strong?

Strength and size are two different animals. It’s true they remain somewhat
intertwined, especially if one gained his muscle mass while training mostly
in the functional hypertrophy zone (80-85%/6-8RM) with some strength
work thrown in there. However it’s quite possible for an individual to have
large muscles and be somewhat weak. On the other hand there are also
individuals with less muscle mass but who have phenomenal strength. This
is mostly due to central nervous system efficiency, a lower muscle fiber
innervation threshold and lowered protective mechanisms. An example of
such an athlete is Canadian bobsledder Pascal Caron who bench pressed
425lbs and full squatted 500lbs at a bodyweight of 167lbs on 5’7”. There are
also the obvious examples of elite Olympic lifters. For example, 3-times
Olympic gold medalist Pyrros Dimas who snatched 396lbs, clean & jerked
469lbs and front squatted over 600lbs at a bodyweight of 185-187lbs! The
fact is that big muscles give you the potential to be strong. However it is the
nervous system that allows you to reach that potential. The following
graphic illustrates the relationship between muscle mass, CNS efficiency
and strength.

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As we mentioned the size of your muscles determine your strength potential.
It is agreed by most sport scientists that a muscle’s strength is proportional
to its cross-sectional area (so ultimately to its size). However if the nervous
system is not effective it will be impossible to make good use of an
important muscle mass. Your muscles are much like a factory: a bigger
factory has the potential to produce more because it has more employees,
space and equipment. However if the boss doesn’t know what he’s doing
and cannot for the life of him get his employees to be productive, then the
factory will not live up to its potential. In fact it may very well be beaten by
a smaller enterprise with highly motivated workers. However, if you get the
employees of the big factory motivated you will obviously have one highly
productive business! The same goes with strength. You should spend time
building up your muscles mass (mostly via functional hypertrophy) and
some time learning how to use that mass, by working on improving CNS
efficiency (lifting heavy weights or lifting explosively). The following
graphic shows the various factors involved in strength production.

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Factors involved in strength production

The following structures are heavily involved in one’s capacity to showcase
limit strength:
  1. Muscle size: As I mentioned, a muscle’s strength potential is
    proportional to its size. By increasing muscle mass you thus increase
    your capacity to produce force, if you learn how to use that added
    mass.

  2. Nervous system efficiency: The more efficient the CNS is the more
    of your muscle’s potential strength you can use. An effective CNS
    leads to the recruitment of a larger number of motor units/muscle
    fibers, to a faster activation of those fibers, to a better coordination
    between the recruited fibers within a muscle, to a better coordination
    between all the muscles involved in the movement, etc.

  3. Desensitisation of the protective mechanisms: Your body has the
    capacity to lift a car, it just doesn’t know it yet! Your muscles have a
    much larger strength potential than you can imagine. The average
    trainee can use around 30% of his strength potential. Why? Because
    of the protective mechanisms in place to make sure that you don’t tear
    a muscle because it pulled too hard. The Golgi Tendon Organs
    (GTOs) are activated when what is perceived as excessive
    intramuscular tension is felt. As a result it basically shutdown your
    muscles, greatly reducing your capacity to produce force. By training
    with heavy weights you can eventually desensitize this protective
    mechanism. Elite strength athletes can use upward to 70%+ of their
    strength potential. So by simply improving the CNS efficiency and
    reducing the sensitivity of the GTOs you could almost double your
    strength!
 
So then, what's a good way to develop the latter of the two? Just mind-muscle connection and focus? Or would something like heavy negatives work the GTOs?
 
The brachialis is an upper arm muscle that runs from humerus to the ulna . . . the majority of the brachialis is therefore under the biceps. This is significant because intelligent training and the subsequent growth of the brachialis will not only add mass to the arms, but also will actually push the biceps peak higher.

This isn’t to say that just training the brachialis will result in the big guns you’re looking for, as some would have you believe. As usual, the truth is a bit more complex than that.

You see, the brachialis is a relatively small muscle. The biceps is certainly bigger; therefore, in some respects it’s the overall shape and size of the biceps themselves that gives you that awesome front upper arm look that most everyone in the gym is after.

Some of this has to do with intelligent training and not overtraining (which is easy to do with arms), some with genetics—certain bodybuilders are just born with the potential to develop the high peak shape of the biceps that most of us are after.

But if you’re neglecting the brachialis in your training, you’re likely not getting nearly the type of arm development you should be.

I like to do some targeted brachialis training either with or immediately following my direct biceps work. I generally alternate between my three favorite brachialis exercises—standing hammer curls; seated, incline hammer curls; and low-pulley hammer curls with the rope—from one upper arm workout to the next.

As you can probably tell, I’m a big fan of hammer curls—I absolutely love the movement, and when performed properly it can add mass and shape to the upper arms like nothing else. Reverse grip curls also hit the brachialis . . . though I tend to feel the bulk of the stress with reverse grip curls in the forearms and usually save them for my forearm training. [Note: Reverse grip curls can put a lot of stress on your wrists, so I don’t suggest them for anyone who’s had a wrist injury or any significant wrist pain].

Here’s some brief detail on the three hammer curl movements that make up the bulk of my brachialis training:

Standing Dumbbell Hammer Curls

I do these a little differently than most to really maximize the stress on the brachialis. In a standing position, grasp moderate weight dumbbells in each hand. Begin with your arms extended down in front of your body, palms facing in towards your thighs. Perform the movement by alternating arms. Curl your right arm up across your body. Keep your palm facing your body at all times. At the top of the motion your right arm should be directly in front of your left shoulder (for added emphasis, you can supinate your wrist by turning your palm up towards the ceiling in the top position). Now lower your right arm slowly to the starting position and perform the movement with your left arm.

I generally work in the 6-10 rep range for each arm, and I prefer to use moderate weights on this exercise and really do the movement slowly, concentrating on form throughout.

Seated, Incline Hammer Curls

Sit on an incline bench with about a 45° angle with dumbbells in each arm and arms fully extended at the side. Keep your palms facing in towards the bench. Make sure you keep your upper arms as still as possible while you curl the dumbbells straight up. Your wrists should remain locked in position with the palms facing in towards each other. Remember, this is not your standard dumbbell curl where you actually want to supinate the wrists extensively—keep your palms locked in the hammer position here.

This movement can be done by alternating arms—as with standing hammer curls—but with the seated, incline version I prefer to work both arms simultaneously in a nice, steady rhythm.
 
Hank Vangut said:
The brachialis is an upper arm muscle that runs from humerus to the ulna . . . the majority of the brachialis is therefore under the biceps. This is significant because intelligent training and the subsequent growth of the brachialis will not only add mass to the arms, but also will actually push the biceps peak higher.

This isn’t to say that just training the brachialis will result in the big guns you’re looking for, as some would have you believe. As usual, the truth is a bit more complex than that.

You see, the brachialis is a relatively small muscle. The biceps is certainly bigger; therefore, in some respects it’s the overall shape and size of the biceps themselves that gives you that awesome front upper arm look that most everyone in the gym is after.

Some of this has to do with intelligent training and not overtraining (which is easy to do with arms), some with genetics—certain bodybuilders are just born with the potential to develop the high peak shape of the biceps that most of us are after.

But if you’re neglecting the brachialis in your training, you’re likely not getting nearly the type of arm development you should be.

I like to do some targeted brachialis training either with or immediately following my direct biceps work. I generally alternate between my three favorite brachialis exercises—standing hammer curls; seated, incline hammer curls; and low-pulley hammer curls with the rope—from one upper arm workout to the next.

As you can probably tell, I’m a big fan of hammer curls—I absolutely love the movement, and when performed properly it can add mass and shape to the upper arms like nothing else. Reverse grip curls also hit the brachialis . . . though I tend to feel the bulk of the stress with reverse grip curls in the forearms and usually save them for my forearm training. [Note: Reverse grip curls can put a lot of stress on your wrists, so I don’t suggest them for anyone who’s had a wrist injury or any significant wrist pain].

Here’s some brief detail on the three hammer curl movements that make up the bulk of my brachialis training:

Standing Dumbbell Hammer Curls

I do these a little differently than most to really maximize the stress on the brachialis. In a standing position, grasp moderate weight dumbbells in each hand. Begin with your arms extended down in front of your body, palms facing in towards your thighs. Perform the movement by alternating arms. Curl your right arm up across your body. Keep your palm facing your body at all times. At the top of the motion your right arm should be directly in front of your left shoulder (for added emphasis, you can supinate your wrist by turning your palm up towards the ceiling in the top position). Now lower your right arm slowly to the starting position and perform the movement with your left arm.

I generally work in the 6-10 rep range for each arm, and I prefer to use moderate weights on this exercise and really do the movement slowly, concentrating on form throughout.

Seated, Incline Hammer Curls

Sit on an incline bench with about a 45° angle with dumbbells in each arm and arms fully extended at the side. Keep your palms facing in towards the bench. Make sure you keep your upper arms as still as possible while you curl the dumbbells straight up. Your wrists should remain locked in position with the palms facing in towards each other. Remember, this is not your standard dumbbell curl where you actually want to supinate the wrists extensively—keep your palms locked in the hammer position here.

This movement can be done by alternating arms—as with standing hammer curls—but with the seated, incline version I prefer to work both arms simultaneously in a nice, steady rhythm.
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funny... after reading this I was thinking... I actually have a genetic peak, always have had it regardless of my bis overall size. BUT my fav bi exercises also happen to be hammer type curls or reverse curl, just feels like it hits more of my bi directly, guess its cause I have a well developed peak already that it feels natural to hit it that way.
 
Hank Vangut said:
i guess what i'm really asking is how does a diabetic get to the point where they have to have their foot lopped off?
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From what I gather at some point he got either a hang nail or some sort of owie on his foot that didn't heal due to the Diabetes. He stayed in a stupor (he's a mechanical engineer for Boeing) for long enough that he didn't notice the gangrene. A little while later he's at the doc getting an emergency Left-Foot-Otomy to save his life.

He's 3 months sober, no cigarettes, watching what he's eating. He's lost (not counting the portion of his foot) about 80lbs+ since I saw him last.
 
Nabisco said:
So then, what's a good way to develop the latter of the two? Just mind-muscle connection and focus? Or would something like heavy negatives work the GTOs?
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Heavy reps between 1-6, and negatives would be beneficial as well.

Overall, I tend to focus in TUT (Time Under Tension), and focus other ways of training your CNS, like antagonist pairing super sets.
 
poopypants said:
funny... after reading this I was thinking... I actually have a genetic peak, always have had it regardless of my bis overall size. BUT my fav bi exercises also happen to be hammer type curls or reverse curl, just feels like it hits more of my bi directly, guess its cause I have a well developed peak already that it feels natural to hit it that way.
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Yeap, some people are genetically gifted in some areas, but unlike the calfs, you can train your biceps to get the peak Easy and every other gym rat is after...
 
Dr Packenwood said:
From what I gather at some point he got either a hang nail or some sort of owie on his foot that didn't heal due to the Diabetes. He stayed in a stupor (he's a mechanical engineer for Boeing) for long enough that he didn't notice the gangrene. A little while later he's at the doc getting an emergency Left-Foot-Otomy to save his life.

He's 3 months sober, no cigarettes, watching what he's eating. He's lost (not counting the portion of his foot) about 80lbs+ since I saw him last.
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Let, me guess, he works on the wiring?

(CNN) -- Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announced Thursday the cancellations of hundreds of flights so the companies can conduct inspections on bundles of wires in some of their jets.
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