No pain, no gain?

I recently started using this post workout to combat soreness, achiness, and inflammation.

It works pretty well.  It's almost like I didn't workout.  Probably around ninety percent of my joint stiffness and muscle aches have subsided.

It's not one hundred percent effective but still it's better than nothing.

I took two tablets approximately six hours after  my workout.  I then went to sleep and woke up the next day relatively pain free.

As with any drug, there probably is a point of diminishing returns and my body will develop a tolerance to bromelain but I don't know when that will be, so I'll remain in blissful relatively pain free ignorance.

Only bad thing about it is since I use my level of post workout soreness as a gauge to tell me when to workout again, the bromelaine reduces that achiness and inflammation and consequently I won't be able to tell  when I can go stress my muscles again.  Oh well.  Always a catch.

Fok the gym

Pre-Workout Meal:

I eat the steak and over-easy eggs along with the rice and beans pre-workout, and I wash it down with Diet Coke.


Intra-workout:

I only eat the steak and eggs while I'm working out.  Meats and eggs have a very low insulinogenic effect which is good because you don't want to sugar crash while you workout because it will weaken your lifts and hence you won't get strong.

As you can see, I only have a limited amount of steak so I try and pace my eating, so I can have some for all three phases of workout supplementation:  pre-, intra-, and post-workout.

Workout Equipment:

This is my deadlift station.  The big rebar loop hanging out of the concrete block is good for single- and double-handed isometric rack pulls. Unfortunately there's no way to gauge if I'm getting stronger with isometric movements, but I can swear I feel that rebar giving way like I'm bending it upwards.

The smaller rebar loop on the bottom makes for a nice Ass-to-Grass single- or double-handed isometric deadlift.  I try to get my center of gravity over that loop, sink either one or both shoulders way back like I'm stuffing my hand or hands in my backpockets, and activate my glutes and calves and try to bend that rebar upwards.

Dip station:

Put either hand on one side and the other goes on the other side.  Dip in between the concrete blocks.


Lat Station:

Wrap one or both hands around that angled pole and then plant both feet on the edge of that sheet metal base, use your torso and legs as dead weight to provide some resistance, and shred your lats and biceps until they burn like battery acid.


Pullup station:

Wrap both hands on top of that horizontal piece of steel and you got your pull up bar.












Some notable mentions:

I use that curb in the first picture for uneven pushups.  They serve as a progression to eventual one hand pushups.  

The other pictures just show some gripping points that I could contract large muscle groups with isometric deadlift pulls.  

Pistol Squat station:

Steady yourself by latching the hand closest to your leg you're trying to pistol squat with.  Then slide the hand down the pole as you lower your body to the ground.

Hand protection:

I don't want to mangle my hands so I wear these gloves.

F*ck the protein shake

All protein powders are crap.  They make me crap.  Who knows what all they put in that crap.

There’s no FDA regulation of any supplement company here in America, so the protein powder making companies can put any goddamn thing they damn well please.  They lace their supplements with oral steroids.  They cut the protein with cheaper protein powders to make you think you’re getting a better protein bang for your buck.  All in all, I hate those bastards with a passion.

What’s the solution you ask?

Just handle it like you would any other good for nothing bitch you have the unfortunate chance of meeting in your life:  kick that piece of garbage to the curb and replace it with something better.

What’s better than the supposed almighty protein shake that all those shills on youtube constantly bombard you with on a daily basis you ask?

How about the real thing smartguy is my answer to you.

What’s real protein you ask?

Real protein is beef, chicken, fish.  

You see, I haven’t been going to the gym like I like to so I do ghetto workouts in the middle of a parking lot that has a chainlink fence, cars, a couple poles with street signs attached to them.  I mostly concentrate on bodyweight exercises except when I’m trying to deadlift a car.  I got these heavy duty gloves from Walmart and I wrap them around the fence poles and concrete rebar in this parking lot, and I yank on them and do pushups and dips on them to get my workout.

Another thing I do while I’m working out is eat my pre-workout meal of steak and eggs, rice and beans.  Then while I’m working out I continue eating my steak and eggs but forgo the rice and beans.  You only need the steak and eggs to provide the body glucose without a severe insulinogenic response.  

Notice one thing.  I’m not drinking protein shake crap.  I’m eating dead cow flesh while I’m working out.  And honestly I can’t tell the difference between protein shake and steak as an intra-workout supplement.  I shove the steak in my mouth after busting out pushups and my body has no problem using that steak to repair muscles and tendons and ligaments and provide a source of glucose for energy reserve replenishment.  

So yeah, “f” the protein shakes.  “F” the protein powder making companies.  “F” those lying bastards on youtube prostituting themselves out like whores to the protein powder making companies.

Is steak more expensive than that sewer water protein shake you ask?

You bet your sweet bippy it is.  But I’ll take savory good tasting cow carcass over that crap that they shove in those tubs and market that nasty sh*t as something healthy that’s going to give you those most sought after gains.

You could always try tuna from a can or a bag of chicken for your intra-workout protein source.  They might possibly be cheaper.