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[g_lee]

Originally Posted by xOcular Penetratahx

I would have chose Acura over Infiniti as well, but the Acura wouldn't be my first option, let alone in my top 5. But I guess it depends on price and what you are looking for.

well what would be your top 5?

[bitterplacebo]

Originally Posted by Trank406

Oh hey RH are you gonna try out at DeFranco's gym? I wanna try and go this summer if my girl gets her inheritance check.

So she's cool with your infidelity + scheduled porn shoot?

[bitterplacebo]

Trank's first porno:

[Right Hook]

I like Acura TL's a lot. They are cool. I actually think my next vehicle will be a truck. I dont like getting in and out of a car.

[Right Hook]

Sprint..

Get Jacked & Ripped Like Wolverine

May 4, 2009

Summer’s just around the corner. T-shirts will be coming off and bathing suits will be going on in just a few weeks. So I know that a lot of you are thinking of ways to get lean in a hurry. What you don’t want to do, however, is sacrifice any of your hard earned size or strength; right?

So how do you get ripped for summer, improve your athleticism for games of beach volleyball and football, while staying big and strong at the same time? Simple… you sprint. Flat ground sprints, hill sprints, sprints with a sled and sprints while pushing a Prowler.

Don’t waste your time jogging or doing any other traditional forms of slow, boring cardio. That will sap your strength and eat away muscle tissue. Just look at skinny, flabby, weak marathon runners for proof. Would you rather look like that or like a jacked and ripped Olympic sprinter?

Hugh Jackman was just on the radio recently talking about how he got in shape for Wolverine. He was discussing how he did sprints because he knew that jogging was bad news. Hugh told the interviewer, “Jogging wastes your muscles, you gotta run sprints.” While Hugh doesn’t have any degrees in exercise science he most certainly got shredded and is proof that sprinting is where it’s at.

For most of you I would recommend hill sprints, sprints with a sled or sprints with a Prowler. That’s because if you aren’t used to sprinting, doing so on flat ground can be quite tough on you and the risk of injury will be significantly higher. With the other methods the injury risk is essentially eliminated.

Start out with two sprint workouts per week. These should begin with a 10-15 minute dynamic warm up and you should ease into your first few sprints before you start letting it all hang out. Your total workout shouldn’t take more than 30-40 minutes, tops. These workouts can be done as a second session on lower body workout days, either 4-6 hours before lifting or 4-6 hours after lifting, or any other day of the week. It’s really up to you. Probably the only day I wouldn’t recommend sprinting would be the day right before an intense squat workout. But if that is your only option I wouldn’t get overly concerned. Eventually your body will adapt. The important thing is that you get it done.

Don’t wait till tomorrow. Get outside and start sprinting today. You will be at a pool party or on the beach before you know it. And you will regret what you didn’t do.

Do it now.

Jason Ferruggia
Strength & Conditioning Specialist
Chief Training Adviser, Men’s Fitness Magazine
Author, Media Spokesperson, Consultant

[Right Hook]

Too bad it's so damn expensive...

SAM-e causes rise in testosterone

We came across this article by accident: over twenty years old and a test tube study at that, but nevertheless interesting. The article reports French biologists’ discovery that testosterone-producing Leydig cells release more testosterone if you expose them to a compound which is also available on the market: S-adenosyl-methionine,
SAMe
the active ingredient in supplements such as SAM-e.

S-Adenosyl-methionine [structure shown below] is a methyl donor. In the human body the molecule gives methyl groups to other compounds. How this works exactly is not yet clearly understood, but users of S-adenosyl-methionine experience relief from depression and weak joints become stronger. The same S-adenosyl-methionine may also be a testosterone booster, the French experiments suggest.

SAMe

The researchers knew already that the testes’ production of testosterone increases, the more of the hormone LH attaches itself to its receptor in the Leydig cells. They also knew that the methylation of phospholipids is important in the transmission of the signal from the LH receptor. And it just so happens that that’s exactly what S-adenosyl-methionine is good at.
Hence the experiment.


The researchers introduced S-adenosyl-methionine into Leydig cells from the testes of rats and first looked at what happened to the attachment of LH to its receptor. They observed that S-adenosyl-methionine caused more hormone to attach to its receptor. The researchers also observed that the cells manufactured more cAMP. cAMP is a secondary messenger – a compound that functions as a messenger between an activated receptor on the cell membrane and the rest of the cell.

S-adenosyl-methionine also increased the manufacture of testosterone, as you can see below.



At very high concentrations – which by the way you could never achieve by taking supplements – the production of testosterone starts to decrease again.

When the researchers repeated their experiments, but with Leydig cells that they had added LH to, they made another discovery. The lower the concentration of LH, the greater the effect of S-adenosyl-methionine [in a concentration of 1.4 milliMol] on the production of testosterone. But even at high concentrations of LH, the effect of S-adenosyl-methionine was still noticeable.



It’s tempting to speculate about what ergonauts could do with this research. Is SAM-e perhaps an interesting supplement to use during a course of anabolic steroids, to prevent endogenous production of testosterone from decreasing too much? Is it perhaps a legal alternative to hormone replacement therapy?

Source:
J Steroid Biochem. 1987 Jan;26(1):93-8.

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[NateW]

Just got back from the supplement store I traded the ephedra in for 5lbs of GAT Muscletein and some Creatine/Beta Alanine supp. I feel much better. And I need to gain size before I cut down anyway...


BTW Muscletein is the best tasting protein Ive ever had. SERIOUSLY

[NateW]

oh and if you order from TF and request a shirt they usually give you one. (I have a beater, sleeveless, and 2 different T-shirts from them now) Its almost like im sponsored or something haha

[Trank406]

Originally Posted by bitterplacebo

So she's cool with your infidelity + scheduled porn shoot?

I mentioned it and she told me to shut the fuck up and we left it at that. She doesn't think I'm going through with it so we'll see how long I could keep it a secret.

[Trank406]

Originally Posted by xOcular Penetratahx

Well the numbers you post in your log, you are lifting more than those big guys according to your weight...

Oh on my Bio Forge log? Yeah but my strength went to shit after my car accident so I need to pick it up a little and start squatting again and deadlifting. It's been so long since I have and I don't know how much I can lift now.