<div class="quote_poster">Brian Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I used to drink Protein Powder before working out as well. It does help build muscle, but I stopped after a while because my mom told me it was not healthy for your heart or something</div> Maybe she was just worried you would turn out all muscular like the guy on the bottle? My mom tells me to stop drinking it. Umair, Whey protein powder (you get 30 servings for like $11 at walmart...whey is the best form of protein if you want to start working out) is used to help build muscle and gain mass. Drink it once after each workout. If you do start lifting weight a few times a week, down the line you might want to buy some creatine ($13 for 1 gallon) which fills your muscles with water and vitamins and refreshes them so you wont get sore. <div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Not only are those things bad for your body in the long run they are actually considered as "partial steroids" in European countries. I would never use that crap.</div> Protein powder? It doesn't mess with your hormones.
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I don’t think I’m getting that position after my interview. There were like 10 people getting interviewed—all more qualified than me. In the beginning we had to introduce ourselves briefly and most of them said things like “I just finished getting my degree in fashion” or “I was a stylist for MTV the past seven years” and all I could say was “Uhh… I just finished graduating from High School.” They asked this one question like name a time when you had to work with someone to achieve a goal and one guy was talking how he and someone else helped produce a beat for Cam’ron. Everyone, except me, was between the ages of 23-30. Yesterday I thought I had that job in the bag. My friend said in his interview there were a bunch of idiots. One said something to the effect “I went to jail because my baby moms snitched on me and that’s why I don’t trust nobody. But anyway……… I think I can be a great help to the store.” I thought there would be more of those types of people during my interview.</div> Haha, man, I can picture that. If I went in to apply for a job that I thought was a typical high schooler's type of part time job, and a bunch of professionals were sitting there applying for the same position, I'd probably just leave on the spot. At least you stuck in there and rolled the dice. It's better to regret something you did than something you didn't do. Anyway, my dog has fleas. Does anyone know the best way to keep them from spreading? Everyone's out of town, so I was thinking about throwing a party, but maybe not anymore if I can't keep her in my room like usual. I had the trippiest dream today. The longer you sleep, the more REM sleep you get, the more vivid your dreams are, and the better you remember your dreams. The thing is, I usually train during the day for basketball season, but I had today off and was dead tired, so I wound up sleeping from 8 AM to 4 PM, eight hours. Usually I get half of that. The dreams were surrealistic, almost like a bad peyote trip. There was this huge storm engulfing our town, seemingly over night, and all the yards were flowing into the river that was now my street, almost like they were melting into it. Pretty soon, I realized that all my friends and loved ones had abandoned me and escape from town. I guess that's hwo a lot of Katrina victims felt. Trippy, eh? Anyway, I woke up disoriented as ****, and typing out what happened in here is sort of therapeutic for me, so I can kind of come to terms with the fact that it was just a dream. Oh yeah, the most insane part of it all was that in my dreams I was hanging out with some friends doing nitrous hits, and I swear on my life that in my dreams I got high. A nitrous trip is a very distinctive drug reaction. It's not like just getting high. Instead, you have this 30 second to a minute long sensation of psychedelia and ecstasy. It's hard to describe unless you've done it chronically. Anyway, I kept enhaling the nitrous, and I remember feeling it going down my throat and thinking 'Wow, this is strong nitrous,' and getting really screwed up... in my dreams.
^ Oh ok, thanks. So like you want me to workout and then drink the protein powder with like juice and then drink the creatine so I wont get sore right? So like about how much weight would I gain in a month?
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">^ Oh ok, thanks. So like you want me to workout and then drink the protein powder with like juice and then drink the creatine so I wont get sore right? So like about how much weight would I gain in a month?</div> You're taking creatine monhydrate, right? You also want to consume high glycemic index carbs along with it then, which in layman's terms means drink gatorade. Your weight gain would still be the equivalent of your work output though. If you just take it and don't lift much, it's not like you'll grow muscles overnight. I took it for a while in high school and didn't notice any significant changes in my body, so I just stopped it. It's expensive and potentially habit forming. I'm just going off of the few pictures you posted in this thread, but for someone with your frame, you'll probably find it's harder to gain weight than most people too. You're just genetically a slim kid. I actually wish I had those genes. It's a lot more attractive to be underweight than overweight, and it's a lot more maintenance to be a big guy too.
So you're recommending that I do a lot of workout when drinking the protein powder, right? Also, how many pounds did you gain?
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">So you're recommending that I do a lot of workout when drinking the protein powder, right? Also, how many pounds did you gain?</div> Yeah, a lot of anaerobic workouts, ie: strength training. I'm not sure how many pounds I gained, but I wasn't trying to just gain muscle mass. I was actually doing a lot of running during that stretch to lose fat as well, because I was getting both out-muscled and out-quicked (don't think that's a word, but you get what I mean...) in AAU events that summer by all the kids from the inner city who were genetic freaks. My overall performance on the court, as well as my body fat, were more important measurements for me than weight. It wasn't anything significant though. The best supplement I've ever taken was Hydroxycut, although that's something you wouldn't need with your frame. I'd advise it to anyone 6'0"+ though. They say it's nothing more than an appetite supressant. I don't know if that's true or not, but when I was on it, I noticed considerable differences.
Man, I love just messing around with the bass guitar to see what kind of crap I can come up with. An old tune of mine that slipped my mind for a year now finally came back to me while I was just jammin' a few minutes ago. Nice little quick tune. I need to continue working on cleaner bass lines before I go out and record the album. I like often using two or three strings together to create new sounds with often inclusion of the DOD Processor for effects. Squiggy!
I used to take Protein Powder after my workouts, but I stopped, as I wasnt really noticing any real difference, and it costs a fair bit (like $50-$60 a kg). I've actually noticed more of a gain after I've stopped taking it. Just eat alot of stuff like Oatmeal, Turkey breast, Chicken, Bread etc. etc.
<div class="quote_poster">Umair Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">So you're recommending that I do a lot of workout when drinking the protein powder, right? Also, how many pounds did you gain?</div> Aren't you 14? Isn't it a little young to take protein powder?
It's not like protein powders are some unnatural compound. Most protein powders are made of whey, somthing that is extracted from milk when cheese is made. From what I hear though, some manufacturers in the US add hormonal substances to their product (without saying so) to make them more potent. In the states, there are a lot more legal hormonal compunds than there is in other parts of the world, particularly in the European Union, which is why many american products are banned here. Recently, there was an article in a big swedish newspaper about an american ZMA product (which should only contain Zink, Magnesium and vitamin B6, all perfectly legal substances) that had DHEA (a steroid prohormone, illegal in the EU) secretly added to it by the manufacturers. As some of you know, I'm working on an article series covering nutrition, supplements and weight training, and most of these questions and topics will be answered there. As for you Umair, your first focus, if you want to gain weight, should be to eat and eat some more (healthy, protein rich foods) and join a gym and start doing compound exercises such as squats, deadlifts and bench press.
Does anyone else get a kick out of the pic they keep showing of the reff who allegedly fixed those games? He looks like such a sad ****. I loved Steve Nash's reaction upon hearing the news. They told him about it at a press conference and his reaction was "Did he reff game five of the Spurs-Suns series?" EDIT: I did a google search, and I couldn't find an exact quote, but I thought this pic was a little funny - ^^^ Every pic I could find of this guy has players arguing with him. I don't know what that's more of a testiment to, his fixing of the games, his ****** reffing, or the whininess of the modern NBA player. Sadly, it's probably a mix of all three. <div class="quote_poster">Bahir Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">It's not like protein powders are some unnatural compound. Most protein powders are made of whey, somthing that is extracted from milk when cheese is made. From what I hear though, some manufacturers in the US add hormonal substances to their product (without saying so) to make them more potent. In the states, there are a lot more legal hormonal compunds than there is in other parts of the world, particularly in the European Union, which is why many american products are banned here. Recently, there was an article in a big swedish newspaper about an american ZMA product (which should only contain Zink, Magnesium and vitamin B6, all perfectly legal substances) that had DHEA (a steroid prohormone, illegal in the EU) secretly added to it by the manufacturers. As some of you know, I'm working on an article series covering nutrition, supplements and weight training, and most of these questions and topics will be answered there. As for you Umair, your first focus, if you want to gain weight, should be to eat and eat some more (healthy, protein rich foods) and join a gym and start doing compound exercises such as squats, deadlifts and bench press.</div> ^^^ You should really listen to the man, Umair. We all know nutrition and exercise from our personal experience, but it's practically Bahir's life.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Want to piss off your neighbours? Then crank up your speakers: Invalid Video Link</div> Omg, it does nothing but say love you. It's awesome <div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Invalid Video Link</div> I still can't understand why he doesn't use his own voice. It is so not him. But the song is great.
