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I haven't done this in a while, but yes I would perform this as an actual exercise and people I trained with thought it was bad haha but I said no it's not at all. I'd decelerate after hitting MAXv. I did it mainly actually because it was fun

Actually I just ate a shitload of carbs and fell asleep. Maybe because I only slept for 5 hours so my body wanted me to stuff myself to get the next 3. I've tried dieting like this before snakcing throughout the day and it's basically like an extended IF

I understand what raptor is getting at. But if your relative strength is increasing, despite significant amounts of muscle mass, why would the CNS think you are heavy? You should perceive yourself as being lighter and more nimble.

I've been PRing like crazy this summer but I have not gained much muscle mass in my legs, or strength in my lifts. I think most of my gains are coming form bone/tendons/ligaments not muscle.

Nah, should be about fat loss. And weight loss from toxins parasites but can't really measure that.

I was recently wandering around a supplement store and was blown away by the huge amount of pre-workout options available. I started talking to the guy who runs the shop (a competitive bodybuilder) and he said nearly every second purchase these days are pre-workout supplements.

From a bodybuilding perspective he thought it was funny that all these skinny guys were coming in and buying pre-workout supps but then failing to eat anywhere near enough food to see any real gains. There is, in his mind anyway, a prevailing mindset that if you just train HARDER you will see more gains.

Yeah those supplements just give you more energy, like creatine does.

I'm interested in health and natural stuff, and a common way to burn out is from too much adrenaline. Excessive dieting, or low carbing, fasting, and taking stimulants can deplete the body. If you're healthy though, all that adrenaline can be healthy, so it actually is best to save it, but not for days you 'need' it. If you feel like you need stimulation, your body may be telling you to chill from the workout anyway, so aggravating it by taking such powerful adrenergic agonists can be harmful.

So I prefer taking stimulants when I'm already stimulated. It sounds crazy but it may be healthier because it means my body is in a ripe state to be high on adrenaline.

Again since i'm interested in natural things, coca leaves yes are good, but you'd need to eta a lot. The best I can offer is cacao beans though, which should be taken fasted. So you can eat breakfast, but for lunch/2hrs preworkouts, munch on 15-20 cacao beans (nibs aren't as effective they are processed further than beans), and wait for the spike. If you don't feel anything you are probably insensitive to adrenaline and this sually means you need to take a break from stimulation.

And I just thought of one last thing to say in terms of this debate, let's turn to logic:

If a statement is true, the contrapositive must be true, but the inverse and converse do not need to be.
More on that here: http://www.jimloy.com/logic/converse.htm

Statement: If you have a negative calorie balance, you lose weight
Converse: If you are losing weight, you have a negative calorie balance
Inverse: If you don't have a negative calorie balance, you are not losing weight
Contrapositive: If you didn't lose weight, you did not have a negative calorie balance.

The first statement is correct probably 95% of the time. THere are caveats though which we discussed. Once you go into starvatino mode, you are screwed, once exposed to food. Metabolically your body is trying to store fat. I think it is possible to get fat eating few calories if you're stressed out enough.

Converse: This can certainly be true, but it can be false. Look up the raw food diet weight loss. I also provided a link to one blog talking about a high carb low protein diet that resulted in weight loss.

Inverse: again both false and true, if the converse is true, the inverse is true, but they both have exceptions.

Contrapositive: Not necessarily true once again.


I used to be at like 20+% as a kid eating a lot of oily indian food. I ate a high protein diet, with a lot of carbs, so I definitely did not activate AMP kinase, and also had a very stressful childhood.

I think cutting can work for most people, but others have high stress hormones in their system already all the time so it doesn't work in the long term. Sugars can alleviate stress hormones, and its been shown that a high carb low protein diet can result in fat/weight loss. Note I'm not against cutting completely, I'm against telling somebody to just eat less and exercise more because it will fail in the long term. Americans are eating foods that activate the wrong metabolic signals. Metabolism certainly si not a combustion reaction, so looking at everything in terms of calories isn't specific

so you have 9% bodyfat?

I'm not sure what my exact measure is. I have some stubborn fat in the lower abs, and it's definitely my genetics, high cortisol/stress type. But just judging by pictures, I'd say 9%, maybe 10. Probably not 8. Looks are not the best measure but it's the best I can do for now. I don't know what that emoticon means.

Body fat percentage pics: http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=31392
I see people whom I have better abs than who are at 9%.


Yes I am quite certain that I masturbate with my triceps, biceps, the entire deltoid, forearms, probably every muscle fiber in my arm.

Edit: actually searching around for other pictures, I think I could be between 9-12%. I'm only 155.

Also about the philosophical stuff, simple minds think there isa duality as I mentioned earlier. True false, right wrong. Well I'm confident that this is never true.

Often times both sides are right in some ways, wrong in other ways. THerefore it's foolish to believe that something in a soft science such as nutritional science is ever true. In math and physics, things can actually be proven for certain, especially math. In nutritional science it's not possible to prove anything whatsoever because it is not possible to track all the variables in metabolism in one study. We can only study a few things at a time and hope there are no confounding variables.

Therefore, the best approach for a researcher is to realize he knows nothing, and nobody else does either. FOr practicality purposes, we can assume that certain things are more likely to be true knowledge so should be given as health advice. But that's it.