Recent content by The Pencil Neck

I would be Watson. Feeling a little out of place in a bodybuilder forum, though... :)

I agree. My shoulders go out if I just sneeze wrong. Dips hurt them, benching hurts them, speed bench kills them, sometimes squatting hurts them, etc., etc.. I've blown them out at a couple of different meets. I've at least partially torn the supraspinatus on one side 3 to 5 times (once...

What kills me is that the guy is taking creatine and admits to taking steroids and it's the creatine that caused the problem. Now, I don't think it was the steroids that did this but... What else was this idiot taking? Insulin? DNP? The guy probably got ahold of some drug that's not even...

Jake, you actually even had a creatine/creatinine typo in your rant! :)

Just do the HST routine and eat less than your maintenance level of calories. If your weight isn't going down in one week, then eat less the next week while keeping all your activity the same.

Uh... The dose is supposed to be 20/200 3x per day with the last dose at least 10 hours before you plan on going to sleep. Personally? When I did it (a loooong time ago), I preferred Primatene Tablets and Stay Away pills. At the time, that was a helluva lot cheaper than buying the...

1. Sausage with homemade barbecue sauce. 2. Filet mignon a. in a blue cheese and red wine reduction b. in a veal demiglace with peppercorns c. in a worcestershire/soy marinade 3. Grilled rack of lamb 4. Cottage Cheese 5. Cheese 6. Peanut butter 7. Tortilla Soup 8. Beef stew...

For me, the biggest plus for the keto diet was that it killed all hunger. I simply was not hungry while I was in ketosis. There was one day where I had breakfast early in the morning (around 5ish) and then because of a bunch of clusterfscks, I couldn't eat until almost 2am that night. I...

But... if you're in ketosis, you shouldn't be burning carbs through exercise unless you use up all the ketones/free fatty acids in your bloodstream first, right? If you're in ketosis, glucose should be going just to fuel your brain until you make the shift over to using ketones for your brain...

What most people consider "parallel" is actually a half squat with the hip joint much higher than the knee joint. You can lift a helluva lot more weight that way and your knees aren't in their strongest position when you stop and turn around. So I'd say this has the greatest chance...

If you get less than 100 grams of carbs per day, you will eventually enter ketosis (see The Ketogenic Diet by Lyle McDonald.) You can also enter ketosis during strenuous exercise or during illness even though you're getting more carbs than that. You can use this fact by using a good workout to...

It seems to me like HST is a good routine for newbies. It's a very simple routine that works. BUT. I think most newbies have problems with focus. I believe that newbies do better when the reps are low, sets are high and the weights are low. So instead of doing 2-3 sets of 10 of everything...

I was raised in Houston and gradjitated from U of H. (I was born in Lake Charles, LA, though.)

I'm thinking the supraspinatus on the right side is almost holding steady. The infraspinatus on the left side, however, is all wonky right now. That popped when I was warming up for an incline bp. My ART doc made me cut back 20% on my upper body weights for a couple of weeks. But flat bench...

You know me? As long as you don't believe Lyle and Elzi's lies we'll be OK. I'm surprised when people recognize me from MFW. I was working with this drummer a few years ago and he asked a friend of his (Brett Garsed, http://www.brettgarsed.com ) to take a listen to some tunes we were working...