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This is a VERY IMPORTANT story you must read

angrydog — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:50:12 +0800

oh my god

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.p...3&CJPID=3727850

Coumadin and weight lifting/bodybuilding

angrydog — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:11:55 +0800

People on here seem fairly good at finding medical studies--discussions of reliability/bias notwithstanding--so here's a (very specific) challenge: Can anyone find material that addresses how blood thinners like Coumadin/warfarin may affect strength training?

My haematologist was ambivalent when I last saw him, and my own quick search came up with a bunch of idiots talking about how NO-Xplode is banned in Australia because "it contains rat poison (warfarin)," but nothing useful beyond that. I'm particularly interested in what might be happening at the micro level (muscle tears, etc.).

Thanks in advance, fellas.

Note:
I'm already very, very, very familiar with what warfarin is and what its general effects are. I'm interested in learning specifically about its use in relation to my workouts.

My grandma lifts more than you.

angrydog — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:49:28 +0800

I couldn't care less about the professional bodybuilders and other athletes that are usually posted up on LY, but I think this old lady's a total badass. (Also, she really does lift more than the majority of the guys I see at my gym.)

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090202/...2029896/0/RSS02

The Everett great-grandma they call "Heavy Metal"

SEATTLE -- It's 5:30 in the morning, 29 degrees, still dark out, and Winifred Pristell is waiting inside her blue 1988 Toyota station wagon with the engine off.

She's put nearly 300,000 miles on the car, which she drives three days a week from her Everett apartment to her gym in Seattle's Rainier Valley.

"Goin' strong for an old gal like that," Pristell, 70, says in a voice that hints of a Southern past.

One could say the same about her.

This great-grandma they call "Heavy Metal" is a competitive weightlifter with two world records and aspirations for more.

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Pristell rises at 3:30 a.m., gets ready and by a quarter to five, she's miles ahead of thousands of Snohomish County daily commuters traveling south on I-5.

Her personal trainer is Andrew "Bull" Stewart, a former powerlifting world champion who owns Columbia City Fitness Center.

Pristell is a woman of faith, but she'd sooner miss church than a training session with Bull.

"I love to worship God, but I can do that in my house on Sunday," Pristell says.

So on a dozen days every month, she rises before the roosters crow, beats the rat race to Seattle, swings east toward Lake Washington, then south along Rainier Avenue S.

She passes miles of strip malls, auto shops and ethnic groceries until she reaches a few tree-lined blocks with brick crosswalks, fancy coffee shops and her gym.

The fitness center doesn't open until 6, but Pristell typically arrives a half-hour early. Early enough to see drunks still hanging around from the night before and people in suits on their way to steel-and-glass office towers downtown.

"Winifred is special," said Stewart, a big man with a big heart who charges his personal training in cups of coffee from the old lady. "She has no limitations. Mentally, physically, she just has a spirit about her, an attitude that she can do anything."

Born in Baton Rouge, La., and raised in Seattle, Pristell never completely shook the Southern accent that kids made fun of in grade school.

Stewart, who came up working on farms in Mississippi, said he feels connected to Pristell because of their Southern roots. He sees Pristell as a mother figure and pays her entrance fees, hotel rooms and airfare for competitions. Pristell says she loves Stewart like a son.

A retired barber who owned a few shops in Seattle's Central District long ago, Pristell is blessed with the gift of gab.

She freely hands out thank-you-kindlys and kudos like they're going out of style. Yet she also can be blunt, like on a recent day at the gym when she told a teenage boy who works there that he is too fat. She's not trying to be mean, she says. Sometimes she just says things without thinking first.

Even so, with her infectious smile and joshing nature, Pristell is more honey than vinegar. She has nicknames for the gym regulars. There's PeterPeter, Loverboy, Blue Eyes, Goodman, Moneyman, The Detectives and so on.

Pristell wasn't always in such great shape and spirits.

At 47, the 5-foot-5-inch-tall woman was dangerously obese, weighing 235 pounds -- a body mass index of about 40. A body mass index of 25 is considered overweight; obesity starts at 30.

Since then, she's dropped five dress sizes and is a comparatively svelte 180 pounds.

The weight just crept up on her, she says. She was working long hours, eating poorly and drinking and smoking too much.

One day while taking a bath, Pristell remembers feeling as though she was dying.

She asked daughter, Cynthia, if she would walk with her.

"I couldn't walk but a block that first time," she said.

Every morning the two walked together, a little farther each day. Within a year, Pristell was up to three miles, five days a week, she said.

That's about the point she walked into a gym for the first time in her life. She tried aerobic exercises, stationary bikes, and other machines and contraptions.

Years would pass before she tried free weights and more than a decade before she began lifting weights competitively at the age of 60.

At 68, Pristell set world records for her age in bench press, 176.2 pounds, and in dead lift, 270 pounds, for her age group and weight class, according to World Association of Bench Pressers & Deadlifters.

She's set scores of other state and national records.

"She's pretty proud of it, and I would be too, at that age," says Giovanni Rogano, 20, who serves Pristell coffee with cream and sugar at Tutta Bella, a cafe up the street from her gym.

Rogano has three autographed photos of Pristell from various competitions. She calls the trim Italian man "my boyfriend who makes the world's best coffee."

Carol Downing, a 19-year veteran in the Everett city clerk's office, also has autographed photos of the senior weightlifter.

She describes Pristell as a "happy soul."

Soon after Pristell moved into the Broadway Plaza Apartments a few blocks from Everett City Hall, she came in to apply for a job, which she didn't get.

But on that day, Pristell complimented Downing's smile and has since stopped by every few weeks to chat and to share handwritten short stories that she hopes someday to have published.

She has arthritis in her hands, feet and back. Her fingers are stiff and gnarled and she can't make a fist with her left hand. One of her doctors recommended against continuing strength training. She's not willing to give it up just yet.

"We are all dealing with something. If you let whatever you're dealing with control your life, you have no quality of life," she said. "When you really cut down to it, a lot of people are worse off than I am. I see it all the time."

In March at a state powerlifting championship in Olympia, she will attempt to shatter her own record and deadlift 300 pounds.

"Sometimes they call me a freak," Pristell said. "That's OK. I like being called a freak sometimes. It's kind of unheard of, a person being my age doing what I can do. For me, the older I'm getting, the stronger I'm becoming."

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Garbage / kitchen enzymes

angrydog — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:49:13 +0800

So has anyone else heard about this thing where you basically ferment kitchen scraps for a couple of months and then use the resulting swill to clean your dishes and your household in general? It seems to be a huge thing in my side of town, and I find it worrying for several reasons:

The website people are following for this is full of unvalidated pseudoscience, not to mention that it recommends stuff like this:

QUOTE

For shampoos, dish-washing liquids, detergents: add 1 teaspoon of enzymes for 500cc, 1 tablespoon of enzymes for 1 litre to enhance the nutrients and reduce the side effects of the chemicals in the detergents.

...Isn't it fairly obvious that you'd get the same dilutive effect from adding plain water?

In particular, I'm wondering why this hasn't been shut down by any health authorities given the obvious bacterial risks of letting this stuff touch anything coming in contact with food or drink (e.g., washing dishes with it, etc.).

Bigger, Faster, Stronger

angrydog — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:53:26 +0800

I'll probably end up downloading it since it's unlikely to ever get released here in KL, but what I've seen of the movie looks pretty good (and relatively even-handed, for what it's worth).

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From what I remember, Christian Boeving was fired from MuscleTech as a model after the publicity for the movie came out.

The most muscular vampire in the world

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 07:30:00 +0800

You might be a brotard if...

angrydog — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:23:34 +0800

You might be a brotard if...

You scrupulously avoid fruit or anything else that might have sugar in it, but cheerfully slurp down MegaMass 6000 with its 120 grams of dextrose.

You know what the One Best Workout and One Best Diet are, and preach them to everyone, regardless of their goals.

Your notion of the One Best Workout changes when a new article appears on T-Nation.

You don't notice that all the ideas in the "New Ultimate Workout" article are stolen from Bill Starr, Arnold, or someone else who had the same idea 20 years ago.

You squat almost as much as you bench.

You make lots of homophobic comments -- when you're not busy gazing adoringly at pics of big, muscular, hairless men in jockstraps.

You look down on anyone whose goal is anything other than being "freaky huge and ripped".

You can read an entire issue of Flex or Muscle and Fitness without laughing out loud even once.

You use more than 3 supplements AND they're all from the same company.

You list your supplements (excuse me, your "stack") in your signature.

You believe that it's the Cell-Tech that made Greg Kovacs huge.

You take Animal Pak ads seriously.

You get all excited when Biotest announces a new supplement.

You almost hit a PR in the bench press, but your spotter suffers a tendon injury.

All your diet and training info comes from one source.

You judge a poster's knowledge by his (yes, "his" -- it's not like you'd listen to a chick) post count.

You're impressed when an article references scientific studies, but you never actually read the studies yourself.

You eat 100% clean until your cheat day, when you try to see how much crappy food you can choke down in 24 hours.

You use "cheat meal", "cheat day", "refeed", and "carb up" pretty much interchangeably.

Whether you use lifting straps or not, you think anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot.

You engage in heated arguments as to whether meals should be 3 hours or 2.5 hours apart.

Source: Some other corner of the internet

Rugby for n00bs

angrydog — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:49:06 +0800

...I'm thinking of picking up rugby for fun. Where in KL can someone without any prior experience in the game get a taster without getting mashed to a pulp?

This is amazing

angrydog — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:12:29 +0800

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Leg workouts that don't stress the ankles

angrydog — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:30:54 +0800

I badly screwed up my ankle a few months ago. On my doctor's advice, I've been avoiding lower body workouts in the interim--so I haven't been doing any squats or deadlifts.

Last week I decided to get back into gear and did a bunch of deadlifts. I did a few light sets which felt pretty good, so I (stupidly) decided to load about 120 kg onto the bar to do some working sets.

They didn't go too well, and my ankle ended up being unable to support any weight for the next three days (and my sports doctor shouted at me). Apparently it won't fully heal for at least a few more months.

So: Can anyone suggest exercises that keep my legs strong which DON'T involve a lot of stress on the ankles? I've never used the weird scissoring weight machines that ladies seem to love so much, and I'm hoping the solution doesn't involve using these, but I'd appreciate any suggestions that won't cause my foot to fall off. Thanks!

Dip belts.

angrydog — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:27:05 +0800

I've been to practically all the major fitness equipment stores in KL and PJ and no one seems to sell dip belts. I'd be grateful if someone could tell me the following:
a) Which stores sell them, and
b) Prices.

Thanks.