Week 6 Update!
Ok this is my update for my workout on Monday night. As I mentioned...this was one of the most brutal workouts I have ever put myself through and it felt great. As a matter of fact...I am still feeling some after effects...lol. Anyway, onward with my update.
Quotes of the Day:
“The term ideal, herein is not used in the sense of an abstract, unattainable perfection; but rather it means a worthy goal that has promise of attainment through appropriate efforts. The gap between where you are and where you desire to be creates a mental and emotional conflict, 'a holy discontent' — often called stress in today's world. Normally the first response to stress is to mentally and emotionally run over the outward indications of the conflict — anger, fear, disappointment, resentment, embarrassment, or other such negative feelings. In doing this one's mind is trying to fill the gap between his expectation of what he desires and what actually exists.”
-Lloyd J. Ericson-
“Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same – to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.”
-Walt Whitman-
Pics of the day:
A true wonder of the world here...the Mayan Pyramid structures...the big Pyramid is the known as the Pyramid of the Sun. As you might guess...the Mayans and their civilization is a great interest of mine.
Supplement Usage:
The ONE: 6 caps (3 caps prior to pre-workout meal, 3 caps an hour after my workout prior to my post-workout meal)
DRIVE: 4 caps upon waking, 4 caps pre-workout, 2 caps pre-bed
IGF-2: 4 caps upon waking, 4 caps pre-workout, 2 caps pre-bed
Osteobolin-C: 4 caps upon waking, 2 caps pre-workout with TT's, and 2 caps post-workout
NeoVar Recomped: 4 caps pre-breakfast with the ONE, 4 caps before pre-workout meal with the ONE, and 4 caps prior to my post-workout meal with the ONE.
Video to get things rolling:
One of my favorites scenes of The Matrix: Reloaded
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The Workout:
10 minutes of stretching
15 minutes of cardio (wall to wall running...similar to the basketball workout suicides)
Warmups of all exercises
6 sets of 6 of power cleans
6 sets of 6 Squats
6 sets of 6 Bench Press
6 sets of 6 Deadlifts
6 sets of 6 Barbell Bicep Curls
6 sets of 6 Barbell Heel Raises
Thoughts on Workouts: This quite honestly was a workout that is not meant for the faint of heart, or casual fitness enthusiasts. I went fairly heavy on each exercise, but not too heavy because did not want to wear myself out before progressing onto the next exercise. Needless to say...I was feeling great going into bench presses, but then after that...man were the pumps ever sick...to the point where it was hard to move. I fought through it and continued on and got through dead lifts. Going through Bicep curls and heel raises at the end was a hell of a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I really pushed myself to the limit this time out. I rested no longer than 1 minute 30 seconds in between sets, but averaged about a minute. I rested 2 minutes when transitioning to a new exercise. Needless to say...this workout was downright brutal. I literally almost collapsed at the end and had one hell of a time walking up the stairs. LOL. However, once I took a shower, take my post workout dose of the ONE and eat a nice big meal...I felt ready to go again...if that isn't a sign of the ONE being something special I don't know what is.
Workout Rating: 9.9 The sheer brutality that I put my body through during this workout makes it one of the best workouts I have ever put myself through. I went hard and heavy, and I was incredibly intense during the workout...I was beyond aggressive.
Workout Motivation Music Video:
A perfect fitting song for this workout...Inspiration on Demand by Shadows Fall
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Thoughts of the day: Well as I had mentioned Monday was a very busy day for me all around. I setup two job interviews, one on Wednesday of this week to be a Drug Test technician and administrator (pay is so so, but it gets me in the door in my field as I would be working at a correctional services rehab facility) and one next week to be a sanitation specialist (a very good paying job). Both jobs are part-time, but that is fine because of how the schedules will work out I can work both. So I just have to nail down both jobs and then I can get right back on top of everything.
. Now besides that, I had my final team project and my final paper due for my PSY 390 course...needless to say it was a lot of work, but as usual I'll finish the course with a strong A (I don't accept anything less from myself). Also, I have been busy working on a writeup for Applied Nutriceuticals, and while I am not completely done with it I have put together a decent setup to follow for running the ONE. When it is a complete finished product...it will be made available to the public and I will post it here in my log.
Scientific Talk: 5 Alpha Reductase Inhibitors...Yes I have been talking about them a lot lately, but this time around it is something quite different. While I have been elaborating on staying away from 5 Alpha Reductase Enzyme inhibitors if running the ONE because of their ability to render the ONE useless, there appears to be a new purpose for using 5 AR's.
Recent evidence indicates that neuroactive steroids may participate in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, yet the mechanisms of this involvement are elusive. As 5-α-reductase (5AR) is the rate-limiting enzyme of one of the two major metabolic pathways in brain steroidogenesis, we investigated the effects of its blockade in several rat models of psychotic-like behavior. The 5AR inhibitor finasteride (FIN, 60 or 100 mg/kg, intraperitoneal, i.p.) dose- and time-dependently antagonized prepulse inhibition (PPI) deficits induced by apomorphine (APO, 0.25 mg/kg, subcutaneous, s.c.) and d-amphetamine (AMPH, 5 mg/kg, s.c.), in a manner analogous to haloperidol (HAL, 0.1 mg/kg, i.p.) and clozapine (CLO, 5 mg/kg, i.p.). Similar results were observed with the other 5AR inhibitors dutasteride (DUT, 40 or 80 mg/kg, i.p.) and SKF 10511 (30 mg/kg, i.p.). FIN (60 or 100 mg/kg, i.p.) also reduced hyperlocomotion induced by AMPH (I or 3 mg/kg, s.c.) and attenuated stereotyped behaviors induced by APO (0.25 mg/kg, s.c.). Nevertheless, FIN (100 mg/kg, i.p.) did not reverse the PPI disruption induced by the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist dizocilpine (0.1 mg/kg, s.c.). FIN (60-300 mg/kg, i.p.) induced no catalepsy in either the bar test or the paw test. Our results suggest that 5AR inhibitors elicit antipsychotic-like effects in animals and may be proposed as a putative novel target in the management of psychotic disorders.
(1) Department of Neuroscience 'Bernard B. Brodie', University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Cagliari, ITALIE
(2) Department of Cardiovascular and Neurological Science, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Caglian, ITALIE
(3) Tourette Syndrome Center, University of Caglian, Monserrato, Cagliari, ITALIE
(4) Deportment of Experimental Biology, University of Caglian, Monserrato, Caglian, ITALIE.
Now the reason why this is so significant from my point of view is that if 5 AR's can work as anti-psychotics, there may be a way to treat people who have extreme issues with anger management, Bipolarism, ADHD, and Schizophrenia. For those of you who may not know...these are serious disorders that can actually cause a cascading effect in the brain. There is a theory among psychologists that those who are diagnosed as ADHD, not ADD, are likely to progress to bipolarism to schizophrenia...sounds crazy, but the theory is...with the current drugs used as treatment for these disorders...a large chunk of them do more harm then good because they cause a significant chemical imbalance. Which is why I enjoy getting involved with debates surrounding psychology...we try to treat patients who have these chemical imbalance disorders so what do we do? We feed them drugs that cause a chemical imbalance by their lonesome in hopes of restoring chemical and hormonal balance. In other words...two wrongs never make a right.
The use of 5 AR's propose the idea of hormonal balance and chemical balance without resorting to directly affecting brain neurotransmitter activity. In other words, the drugs out on the market today used to treat psychological disorders have a direct impact on the chemistry of the brain such as causing a disruption with the neurotransmitter serotonin. Messing with serotonin, which by doing so leads to problems with sleep, extreme mood imbalance, and can impact a person's ability to learn due creating attention deficit (ADD happens, but with treatment of drugs it makes matters worse) and decreased neurological function.
Thats it for this edtion!
Cheers my fellow followers! :cheers:
