Repost from 1/17/2018
AD's YouTube videos illustrating and explaining his issue:
Man, are you serious?! You especially should NOT have do all of these exercises with your arms fully locked out! That stuff looks really messed, cringe-worthy, painful, and just plain dangerous under heavy load!
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Repost from 11/13/2017
For people knocking Castleberry's curling form. Whether or not he is using fake weights and is a fraud is irrelevant for this. He's probably using the form he does to keep the tension on the biceps the best for growth in the particular way that he wants. He is a bodybuilder. I've seen many bodybuilders use this ROM where they don't go all the way up and lock the weight and also don't let their arms go 100% straight when they descend on biceps curls. It must be optimal for biceps gains. I've been using this technique lately for targeting the biceps and I've noticed that this is so for me. Because people who are known to have some of the most massive forearms and work them for their sport are arm wrestlers. And they use partial curls where they only do the top half of the ROM as staple exercise and they aren't known for their impressive biceps but their impressive forearms. But yeah, this weight is not too much for a big man like Castleberry and I even think 4 plates is not out of reach because I know of a man who is for sure natural who has done such weight with this same form. His name is Eric Bugenhagen.
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Problem is everyone is deficient today because normal food is. Plus, having a common diet, even if it was enough, would not necessarily be most optimal. For example, in more ancient times, when man was not that advanced, he couldn't even get the foods from other lands we have access to now. Therefore he was missing out on a lot of benefits he could have had. So supplements can potentially actually help one to get a more optimal nutrition that would not be possible before. To say supplements are a scam or not a scam is completely over-simplified and just not the reality. You cannot get the amount of creatine you can get in supplement form from mere diet. It would take eating an unrealistic amount of beef. You can argue that maybe we shouldn't have that much or need it. But I've heard testimonies from credible people before that say that it did work for them. And creatine actually does have some Science backing it. One worry though is taking more that you can get in dietary form could cause health problems, like kidney problems. That is why people who are smart cycle it like they do gear. Take a long time off after your month long or whatever cycle is over. Some people get benefits and some don't. That's why I say to carefully research and experiment and do what is right for you the unique individual.
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"First, it must be pointed out that, historically, Ebola virus outbreaks occur in some of the most impoverished places on Earth (primarily the poorest regions of Africa), among populations chronically malnourished, traumatized by sociopolitical unrest and wars, and where modern day sanitation, hygiene practices, and adequate nutrition, are available suboptimally, to say the least. In other words, the mainstream media's prediction of a so-called 'catastrophic' outbreak in the US and other wealthier countries does not seem to take into account the differing contexts that makes infections like these possible to begin with, with the 'inner terrain,' i.e. immune status of the host, fundamental in determining the degree to which an individual becomes susceptible to infection."
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With that disclaimer, here's the lowdown on the current Ebola outbreak:
"The worst Ebola outbreak in a number of years has health officials on high alert, and the fact that a case is now being reported in a major city is extremely concerning. As we have seen during past outbreaks, Ebola can spread very rapidly, and the mortality rate during an outbreak is often above 50 percent. A few years ago, just rumors that Ebola might start spreading inside the United States caused quite a bit of panic out there. Let us hope that this current outbreak is brought under control quickly, because Ebola is a horrible, horrible disease."
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You can learn about Ebola and its symptoms here at WebMD.
These are the natural remedies I have so far been able to find:
- Genistein
- Tyrophostin
- Garcinia Kola
- Vitamin C
- Coffee
- Many other Antioxidants
- Fermented Soy
- Estradiol
- Homeopathic Preparation of Six-Eyed Spider Venom
- And I deduce based on the data anything else that boosts the immune system, of which there are many natural things that do so
These are my sources for the aforementioned remedies which have detailed info about them and also give the primary sources:
- What They're Not Telling You: 4 Natural Ways to Fight Ebola - by Natural Society
- Natural Treatments for Ebola Virus Exist, Research Suggests - by GreenMedinfo
- Amazing – It is Believed That This is The Natural Cure For Ebola Virus - by Best HERBAL HEALTH
- Ebola virus: natural treatment options the mainstream media ignores - by Natural News
"Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near ½ Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set. For the latter, the image pulsing may be imbedded in the program material, or it may be overlaid by modulating a video stream, either as an RF signal or as a video signal. The image displayed on a computer monitor may be pulsed effectively by a simple computer program. For certain monitors, pulsed electromagnetic fields capable of exciting sensory resonances in nearby subjects may be generated even as the displayed images are pulsed with subliminal intensity." - www.google.com/patents/US6506148
This is one of the main exercises that has gotten my triceps growing so much since I got back into training seriously. It is also very therapeutic for my golfer's elbow, especially at light weight and high reps, as long as I don't do it too often especially heavy. I went pretty heavy to start it off. It is my first time using doing the purple and red bands together at that height. Got 20 reps, a PR, before dropping it down to only purple to get a nice pumped out 100 reps, a 20 rep PR increase from last time. Triceps feeling great and pumped. I actually started this exercise for therapy on my elbow joints because I recalled Alpha Destiny or someone else or multiple people, I'm not sure, saying that this movement is good for triceps health. They were right. But no only that, it became a favorite triceps exercise after I saw the good gains it was giving me.
The video quality is bad. Especially how it is sped up like that. I don't know why it recorded like that. But I'm posting it anyway for motivation and knowledge. You should get the gist.
For those complaining about shallow range of motion. This is to emphasize the quads while not being limited by ankle mobility, knee joints, hip joints, and the posterior chain muscles (but I work that stuff too, so don't worry). This is what I have felt is working good for my quads lately so that is my I am doing it this way.
I can do the full range of motion all of the way to the floor, and I did two reps at the end with the red band just to show you, though it didn't turn out that well. So I'm able to do it but I find it isn't the best for me. Nowadays the lowest I mostly go is to a yellow sponge that is 4 inches from the ground, which is enough ROM and hits the posterior chain fine without being limited by my ankles and hips, as well as knees, that don't feel very good most of the time when going all of the way to floor no matter how much practice I have had and have progressed. I may still do it from time to time just to work the strength of my legs at a highly disadvantage leverage (I'm pretty tall--6' 2'') and hit the ankles, but we'll see. I feel I get pretty good ankle training from only going as low as I usually do now to target the posterior chain, glutes and hams, in a way that doesn't limit them and doesn't bother my joints. But I have done like 60 or 70 total reps with my bodyweight before for high reps and have worked my way up to like 50 or 60 total reps with a red band added after I did that, and I was actually doing low rep sets of 2 sec. pause reps just slightly touching the floor with the non-working knee with my bodyweight. So I think I can safely say I've paid my dues to the "full range of motion" emphasis crowd (as if that is the goal in training). But at the end of the day, it is about getting results and in a way that is right for your individuality in a safe way.
Now this is another one of those movements that shows one can get a great training stimulus without needing a bunch of expensive and clunky equipment. Doing a full range of motion skater squat touching the floor with the non-working knee will humble some of the biggest and strongest heavy weight squatters out there and you will feel your legs got worked, believe me. Being on one leg makes it extremely difficult and adding resistance is a challenge, so you can't use much, and to get your lower body to get a good stimulus to gain muscle doesn't require as much resistance to get the same stimulus as a two-legged squat, meaning you don't need as much equipment, as much resistance stuff, which is good if you are on a budget, can't make it to the gym or don't want to, or have lack of space at home. And plenty of bands can be taken anywhere and use without hassle verses metal weights. It is way easier to transport a huge amount of resistance in the form of bands than in the form of weight plates and dumbells. Now, this is an advanced movement in calisthenics, so most people will not be able to do it full range of motion their first time, probably not even 4 inches from the ground, which I was stuck at a long time and was very challenging even mobility wise, let alone strength wise. It still is pretty challenging. So you'll have to work your way up to it most likely, if you aren't used to it. I used progressive range of motion, I started repping out at a very shallow range of motion until I was able to do that for the desired rep goal and then I progressed a little deeper until I got all of the way to the floor. I started just tapping my knee to my couch. So don't let anyone telling you partials don't work and don't have their place in training for strength. They are misleading you. It can work for you. It worked for me.
I decided to do the same thing for biceps the next day. This time my groove was on point. I was totally in tune with the feel. After these two days I got a sweet soreness in the belly of my biceps I haven't experienced in a while. I will definitely keep doing these as long as it continues not to aggravate my elbow with the golfer's elbow.
I did a set of 20 before this. I decided to try this despite my golfer's elbow. I got the idea to see the feel of Eric Kanevsky's style of biceps curl coupled with Natural Gallant's constant tension method to see how it would feel on my left elbow's golfer's elbow. It felt pretty good. I first did 1 purple band for a relatively easy 100 straight reps before I decided I could use much more weight, seeing how the feel was good. I decided to use as many bands as the title mentions. I did it for a not super challenging 20 reps, and then I was going to cut it short, not going too hard the first day, but then I really enjoyed the pump I got and thought to do 40 more one camera.
This grip plus form is feeling pretty easy on my golfer's elbow so far and I got a wicked pump and a nice soreness in my biceps I haven't felt in a while doing other things. If everything continues to go well, I will continue to use this curl in my training regimen.
The bands were under both my feet and my handle was dough roller (NO LAME EXCUSES - FIND A WAY).
I felt my groove was on point in the 20 rep set off camera but with the 40 reps on camera I felt the camera being on me took my focus off of the feel and looking at myself and just lifting the weight instead of feeling my biceps, getting locked in the perfect pattern, and keeping tension off of my elbow joint as much as possible.
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