Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Subject: i-guide to easy club sex
Forget idea that you need to be super hot/good to get sex in club. I used to think like that, and its completely misguided. This method is relatively easy! The steps:
-¤- Dance w/girl.
-¤- Get erection (pointing downwards, prevented by jeans).
-¤- Allow it to rub/grace her lightly when near, but never push it against her.
-¤- Get/dance behind her (dick gracing her ass slightly with each dance move).
-¤- Stroke down her arm and start kinoing your own hip with her hand (holding it).
-¤- Move her hand around casually, going also very near dick, but never touching it.
-¤- When she tries to casually kino closer to dick (they always do this), guide her hand so it moves up and down NEXT TO your dick, still not really touching it. (At this point, they automatically push ass against you and twist neck to get lips closer to yours.)
-¤- Move hand slowly up her arm (the hand that was guiding her hand). Grab her hair and bite her neck or similar, as her now 'free' hand starts rubbing directly on your dick. (They do it automatically.)
-¤- Take her hand (away from dick) "Lets go over here." then "I have to go pee." when near toilets, and just drag her along. (Do NOT ask her to join you.)
-¤- Start making out AT ONCE inside toilet and repeat the 'guided kino' steps from above, but faster tempo. At point where her hand starts homing in, stretch a little and guide her hand to gap between jeans and shirt. Your erection should still point downwards so there is an area where her hand can rub your skin without touching dick too much. NB! NEAR-dick-kino is super important for this entire method. Do not ignore or hurry past it! Make her do it until she tries kinda strongly to reach your dick.
-¤- Let her touch your dick a few seconds then remove her hand and start kissing her neck strongly, moving briefly down to her chest now and then. NB! Fixate her head with hair grip, and alternate between 'tender' and more 'rough' moments in this makeout. (Absolute must for enabling next step.)
-¤- while making out and holding her hair firmly with one hand, grab/guide her hip with the other and make her sit down on toilet seat, bending with her so you can kiss her mouth until she is seated. Then straighten up while guiding her mouth towards your dick. All this, kinda fluidly in 'one move'.
DO NOT worry about remembering every detail. I put them in to make it easier for you to visualize/see what is important:
A) your dick
B) creating a field of tension/attraction between dick and girl
C) releasing that tension briefly at right moments
D) being 'in control' at those moments (dominance)
Forget idea that you need to be super hot/good to get sex in club. I used to think like that, and its completely misguided. This method is relatively easy! The steps:
-¤- Dance w/girl.
-¤- Get erection (pointing downwards, prevented by jeans).
-¤- Allow it to rub/grace her lightly when near, but never push it against her.
-¤- Get/dance behind her (dick gracing her ass slightly with each dance move).
-¤- Stroke down her arm and start kinoing your own hip with her hand (holding it).
-¤- Move her hand around casually, going also very near dick, but never touching it.
-¤- When she tries to casually kino closer to dick (they always do this), guide her hand so it moves up and down NEXT TO your dick, still not really touching it. (At this point, they automatically push ass against you and twist neck to get lips closer to yours.)
-¤- Move hand slowly up her arm (the hand that was guiding her hand). Grab her hair and bite her neck or similar, as her now 'free' hand starts rubbing directly on your dick. (They do it automatically.)
-¤- Take her hand (away from dick) "Lets go over here." then "I have to go pee." when near toilets, and just drag her along. (Do NOT ask her to join you.)
-¤- Start making out AT ONCE inside toilet and repeat the 'guided kino' steps from above, but faster tempo. At point where her hand starts homing in, stretch a little and guide her hand to gap between jeans and shirt. Your erection should still point downwards so there is an area where her hand can rub your skin without touching dick too much. NB! NEAR-dick-kino is super important for this entire method. Do not ignore or hurry past it! Make her do it until she tries kinda strongly to reach your dick.
-¤- Let her touch your dick a few seconds then remove her hand and start kissing her neck strongly, moving briefly down to her chest now and then. NB! Fixate her head with hair grip, and alternate between 'tender' and more 'rough' moments in this makeout. (Absolute must for enabling next step.)
-¤- while making out and holding her hair firmly with one hand, grab/guide her hip with the other and make her sit down on toilet seat, bending with her so you can kiss her mouth until she is seated. Then straighten up while guiding her mouth towards your dick. All this, kinda fluidly in 'one move'.
DO NOT worry about remembering every detail. I put them in to make it easier for you to visualize/see what is important:
A) your dick
B) creating a field of tension/attraction between dick and girl
C) releasing that tension briefly at right moments
D) being 'in control' at those moments (dominance)
Saturday, March 08, 2008
I-guide to training GFs
'Fixing' bad GF-behavior is not optional.
(Having the integrity to never accept bullshit, is the fundament of masculinity itself.)
Part 1 - Understanding GF-misbehavior
Children are programmed by evolution to seek INFLUENCE over, and ATTENTION from adults.
(In nature, majority of children die.. adults are KEY to survival.)
Girls have the EXACT SAME relationship to men, as child to adult.
(They are programmed to NEVER be satisfied when it comes to INFLUENCE and ATTENTION. Sidenote: This is why they need to seek more from THE NEXT man when they have gotten EVERYTHING from current BF).
Think about the tantrums, moodiness, boredom etc that girls display.. very CHILD LIKE, no?
Part 2 - solution.
FEAR!
(Exact like with children, you cant solve with reasoning/talk, friendliness, rewards/being nice etc etc. Just like child, girl is PROGRAMMED to keep doing it as long as its SAFE.. remember: motivation is SURVIVAL.)
The tools/fears at your disposal are:
-Long freeze outs (fear of losing current level of attention/influence over you).
-Mini/semi freezeouts (same fear as above).
-Attention towards other girls (same as above).
-Sudden anger (fear of violence - direct survival threat.. on the flipside, it REWARDS her need for attention, so use SPARINGLY).
This is the COMPLETE breakdown which I have posted several times before. Fear is only solution that works. If this troubles your inner nice-guy, I cant help you. I WISH there was a more positive solution but there IS NOT.
(All the more nice solutions are equivalent of peeing into pants when outside in snow and freezing real bad.)
(There is a brighter side though, but only when she does something REALLY NICE. THIS is when you give her the ATTENTION she craves, and show how much she INFLUENCES you by doing all the 'in love' stuff to her.)
'Fixing' bad GF-behavior is not optional.
(Having the integrity to never accept bullshit, is the fundament of masculinity itself.)
Part 1 - Understanding GF-misbehavior
Children are programmed by evolution to seek INFLUENCE over, and ATTENTION from adults.
(In nature, majority of children die.. adults are KEY to survival.)
Girls have the EXACT SAME relationship to men, as child to adult.
(They are programmed to NEVER be satisfied when it comes to INFLUENCE and ATTENTION. Sidenote: This is why they need to seek more from THE NEXT man when they have gotten EVERYTHING from current BF).
Think about the tantrums, moodiness, boredom etc that girls display.. very CHILD LIKE, no?
Part 2 - solution.
FEAR!
(Exact like with children, you cant solve with reasoning/talk, friendliness, rewards/being nice etc etc. Just like child, girl is PROGRAMMED to keep doing it as long as its SAFE.. remember: motivation is SURVIVAL.)
The tools/fears at your disposal are:
-Long freeze outs (fear of losing current level of attention/influence over you).
-Mini/semi freezeouts (same fear as above).
-Attention towards other girls (same as above).
-Sudden anger (fear of violence - direct survival threat.. on the flipside, it REWARDS her need for attention, so use SPARINGLY).
This is the COMPLETE breakdown which I have posted several times before. Fear is only solution that works. If this troubles your inner nice-guy, I cant help you. I WISH there was a more positive solution but there IS NOT.
(All the more nice solutions are equivalent of peeing into pants when outside in snow and freezing real bad.)
(There is a brighter side though, but only when she does something REALLY NICE. THIS is when you give her the ATTENTION she craves, and show how much she INFLUENCES you by doing all the 'in love' stuff to her.)
Monday, September 17, 2007
The ijjjji sex guide (under construction)
(I-guide to Best Sex, Anal Orgasms, Multi O's etc)
Scary's squirt method is spot on! Very good description!! Hit that deep spot with a pointing move repeatedly and do detours down to the G-spot (unsmooth spot behind her clit) and SCRATCH it quick and return deep..
To me however, this is boring! Much like a male orgasm, she will feel like cuddling up and going to sleep after this. Same with clit stimulated orgasm. When I fuck a chick I like to WEAR HER OUT through multiple deep spot orgasms and both vaginal and anal fucking for a LONG time. (Also, I feel so goddamn un-manly when giving orgasms with other things than my dick. Like.. a fucking DYKE could do the same!!)
So I'll share my multi/anal orgasm technique since this is what I really enjoy and I think you will too, when you try it.
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1 Do only VERY LITTLE make out during PU. Same with kino. If she shivers whenever you touch her, you have done this right, and created an UNSATISFIED CRAVING for you, inside HER BODY.
(Read 'Seducing girls' on my blog for more practical ways to set this up during PU and foreplay and even during sex itself.)
2 To bring her to the deep spot orgasm, you follow the slow-advice in 'seducing girls'. When she wants you to speed up, you remain at the exact same tempo. The more strictly you can stick to this slow rhythm, the better. When she starts to get ALL CRAZY for you to escalate the tempo, do this:
-Fuck her in the position that lets you go the deepest. (Slightly twisted spoon for me)
-Do not alter rhythm/tempo.
-Do not alter the speed you slide in/out with.
-Only increase forcefulness.. like when you get fully inside and the resistance from 'bottom of vagina' builds, apply force so you go a bit deeper. Try to visualize your dick as a piston that will go to a certain depth, regardless of resistance. Escalate this 'deep end force' only.
3 Deep spot O's are multi-orgasmic. After the first, its actually easier to get the second. Just hold dick perfectly still inside her while caressing and kissing her head/neck for 30ish seconds. THEN start moving again in THE SAME slow rhythm. Start with no extra force and repeat like in step 2. Feel free to go for more Os if you have the energy. My personal best is 11. (Seriously.. once you get going, its easy to get many with this technique.)
4 To make her want to have anal sex, you must create a UNSATISFIED CRAVING for you inside HER ASS (much like step 1). This might take a few days to set up. Massage her ass A LOT, but be GENTLE and NEVER put finger inside, even if she starts moving towards you. Do a lot of spooning in bed where you put your dick against her ass-hole and massage it gently with it. Again, no hard pushing or trying to go inside. POUR kino and kisses on her hair, neck, back and ass while doing this. Do it for a looooooong time. Also massage her ass a lot during sex and especially near and during orgasms (can be tricky to combine with technique in step 2. For me, trick is to get her legs as high as possible.) When its time to actually do it, do this:
-Progress towards one of her orgasms as per step 2. Massage her asshole as usual, but make sure you get a lot of pussy juice on it.
-Push flat with 3 fingers to make ass open a little without inserting anything, and rub her like that to get some of the juice inside her ass.
-Pull dick out and start fingering her deep spot while massaging ass with dick head (no penetrating yet!)
-Start pulling her rear deep spot towards her asshole. Do it more and more while moving finger in and out pushing entire rear wall of vagina backwards so you can feel it is squeezed between your finger and your dick on her asshole.
-Start massaging her rear deep spot only and NOW.. start helping the squeeze effect by also forcing your dick rhythmically against her ass. This is ALL you do. Your mission is not to stick it in. Your mission is to massage her rear deep spot from 2 sides, ONLY. If her ass does not open by itself through this process, be content by bringing her to orgasm like this. Sooner (rather than later), the desire for a more intense pressure on the deep spot will have her ass open up to you.
-When you start ass-fucking, you never push it deep in a single motion. Think about it! There is no lube deep inside her. What you do is tiny fucking movements like half inch or less. I like to do them quickly, so she cant react/adjust to each movement. I also like to do it for maybe 10-20 sec, getting a bit deeper, then pull back slightly for a 10 sec timeout biting her neck and such, then repeat going slightly deeper..You can gradually go deeper with them, or just do them at one depth, then at a slighter deeper depth for a while and so on. Key thing is to progress depth SLOWLY. And dont forget getting lots of pussy juice on her ass repeatedly since your dick will dry out a bit as it progresses deeper.
Important notes:
-Never talk about anal, and never ever plan it. Talk kills that whole INNER CRAVING I mentioned, and also makes it a logical issue, which is bad.
-I LOVE experiencing a girls orgasm when my dick is in her ass. But it seems that girls enjoy this even more. Do not ruin the possibility for experiencing this with her by putting dick or fingers up her ass too early!! To be safe, follow my guide, even if she seems keen. Even when a girl think she is ready, she might not be, and if its painful, you got to do LOTS and LOTS more priming before she is ready again.
-If you blow load too early for making her O like this, try jerking off an hour before sex. As you get better stamina, increase this time gap. Also, dont be afraid of pulling out and do a bit of kino/kissing only if you feel you are gonna ejaculate too soon.
-Show no regard for her orgasms. If they become your focus, the pressure will prevent them from happening. Just do your thing (my thing) and enjoy it
Again, never ever talk about it! And enjoy!!
Cool! Heed the new frame though.. you are no longer aiming for her O. You are animal who wants to fuck.. in.. that.. exact.. tempo.. for.. a.. very.. very.. long.. time..
Also try the spoon but slide down to almost a sideways doggie style (especially when the FORCE is required). I think you will notice that no other position allows you to be so extremely hard for an hour or two.. (you need this extreme hardness to be fully forceful).
And yeah, no escalation until she is going crazy for it - very key throughout. Her UNsatisfied craving is the key.
cream with L-arginine
(I-guide to Best Sex, Anal Orgasms, Multi O's etc)
Scary's squirt method is spot on! Very good description!! Hit that deep spot with a pointing move repeatedly and do detours down to the G-spot (unsmooth spot behind her clit) and SCRATCH it quick and return deep..
To me however, this is boring! Much like a male orgasm, she will feel like cuddling up and going to sleep after this. Same with clit stimulated orgasm. When I fuck a chick I like to WEAR HER OUT through multiple deep spot orgasms and both vaginal and anal fucking for a LONG time. (Also, I feel so goddamn un-manly when giving orgasms with other things than my dick. Like.. a fucking DYKE could do the same!!)
So I'll share my multi/anal orgasm technique since this is what I really enjoy and I think you will too, when you try it.
¤¤¤¤¤
1 Do only VERY LITTLE make out during PU. Same with kino. If she shivers whenever you touch her, you have done this right, and created an UNSATISFIED CRAVING for you, inside HER BODY.
(Read 'Seducing girls' on my blog for more practical ways to set this up during PU and foreplay and even during sex itself.)
2 To bring her to the deep spot orgasm, you follow the slow-advice in 'seducing girls'. When she wants you to speed up, you remain at the exact same tempo. The more strictly you can stick to this slow rhythm, the better. When she starts to get ALL CRAZY for you to escalate the tempo, do this:
-Fuck her in the position that lets you go the deepest. (Slightly twisted spoon for me)
-Do not alter rhythm/tempo.
-Do not alter the speed you slide in/out with.
-Only increase forcefulness.. like when you get fully inside and the resistance from 'bottom of vagina' builds, apply force so you go a bit deeper. Try to visualize your dick as a piston that will go to a certain depth, regardless of resistance. Escalate this 'deep end force' only.
3 Deep spot O's are multi-orgasmic. After the first, its actually easier to get the second. Just hold dick perfectly still inside her while caressing and kissing her head/neck for 30ish seconds. THEN start moving again in THE SAME slow rhythm. Start with no extra force and repeat like in step 2. Feel free to go for more Os if you have the energy. My personal best is 11. (Seriously.. once you get going, its easy to get many with this technique.)
4 To make her want to have anal sex, you must create a UNSATISFIED CRAVING for you inside HER ASS (much like step 1). This might take a few days to set up. Massage her ass A LOT, but be GENTLE and NEVER put finger inside, even if she starts moving towards you. Do a lot of spooning in bed where you put your dick against her ass-hole and massage it gently with it. Again, no hard pushing or trying to go inside. POUR kino and kisses on her hair, neck, back and ass while doing this. Do it for a looooooong time. Also massage her ass a lot during sex and especially near and during orgasms (can be tricky to combine with technique in step 2. For me, trick is to get her legs as high as possible.) When its time to actually do it, do this:
-Progress towards one of her orgasms as per step 2. Massage her asshole as usual, but make sure you get a lot of pussy juice on it.
-Push flat with 3 fingers to make ass open a little without inserting anything, and rub her like that to get some of the juice inside her ass.
-Pull dick out and start fingering her deep spot while massaging ass with dick head (no penetrating yet!)
-Start pulling her rear deep spot towards her asshole. Do it more and more while moving finger in and out pushing entire rear wall of vagina backwards so you can feel it is squeezed between your finger and your dick on her asshole.
-Start massaging her rear deep spot only and NOW.. start helping the squeeze effect by also forcing your dick rhythmically against her ass. This is ALL you do. Your mission is not to stick it in. Your mission is to massage her rear deep spot from 2 sides, ONLY. If her ass does not open by itself through this process, be content by bringing her to orgasm like this. Sooner (rather than later), the desire for a more intense pressure on the deep spot will have her ass open up to you.
-When you start ass-fucking, you never push it deep in a single motion. Think about it! There is no lube deep inside her. What you do is tiny fucking movements like half inch or less. I like to do them quickly, so she cant react/adjust to each movement. I also like to do it for maybe 10-20 sec, getting a bit deeper, then pull back slightly for a 10 sec timeout biting her neck and such, then repeat going slightly deeper..You can gradually go deeper with them, or just do them at one depth, then at a slighter deeper depth for a while and so on. Key thing is to progress depth SLOWLY. And dont forget getting lots of pussy juice on her ass repeatedly since your dick will dry out a bit as it progresses deeper.
Important notes:
-Never talk about anal, and never ever plan it. Talk kills that whole INNER CRAVING I mentioned, and also makes it a logical issue, which is bad.
-I LOVE experiencing a girls orgasm when my dick is in her ass. But it seems that girls enjoy this even more. Do not ruin the possibility for experiencing this with her by putting dick or fingers up her ass too early!! To be safe, follow my guide, even if she seems keen. Even when a girl think she is ready, she might not be, and if its painful, you got to do LOTS and LOTS more priming before she is ready again.
-If you blow load too early for making her O like this, try jerking off an hour before sex. As you get better stamina, increase this time gap. Also, dont be afraid of pulling out and do a bit of kino/kissing only if you feel you are gonna ejaculate too soon.
-Show no regard for her orgasms. If they become your focus, the pressure will prevent them from happening. Just do your thing (my thing) and enjoy it
Again, never ever talk about it! And enjoy!!
Cool! Heed the new frame though.. you are no longer aiming for her O. You are animal who wants to fuck.. in.. that.. exact.. tempo.. for.. a.. very.. very.. long.. time..
Also try the spoon but slide down to almost a sideways doggie style (especially when the FORCE is required). I think you will notice that no other position allows you to be so extremely hard for an hour or two.. (you need this extreme hardness to be fully forceful).
And yeah, no escalation until she is going crazy for it - very key throughout. Her UNsatisfied craving is the key.
cream with L-arginine
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Full Face
Joker Grin: Try to pull entire face strongly away from nose/center by grinning frantically.
Nose Wrinkle: Try to pull entire face strongly into a wrinkled knot around nose.
(Alternate between the two and try to incorporate as many muscles as possible like neck, throat, scalp, tongue, ears etc when doing them. This is the 'dead lift' for your face and should always be exercise #1. For extra effect, combine with body work out like squats!)
Joker Grin: Try to pull entire face strongly away from nose/center by grinning frantically.
Nose Wrinkle: Try to pull entire face strongly into a wrinkled knot around nose.
(Alternate between the two and try to incorporate as many muscles as possible like neck, throat, scalp, tongue, ears etc when doing them. This is the 'dead lift' for your face and should always be exercise #1. For extra effect, combine with body work out like squats!)
Neck Crunch:
Lie on back. Slowly raise head until chin touching chest. Lower slowly.
Under Chin/Tongue:
-Apply pressure against curve from chin to neck. Close bite firmly. Press tip of tongue against lower front teeth to work muscle.
-While tilting your head back, press your tongue into the roof of your mouth, then bring chin down toward neck while still holding the tongue against roof of mouth.
Chin:
-Pull chin down w/fingers and curl the lower lip over the bottom teeth.
-Push lower lip up and down using chin muscle.
Cheeks :
-head back. three fingers on apples of cheeks and push down. raise cheeks by smiling.
-Push cheek out with thumb and bring the cheek back towards teeth against the pressure.
-Form an exaggerated "O" with your mouth by pushing your lips out as far as possible. Then smile is brightly as you can.
-pull bottom lip over top lip smile. Tilt chin slightly upwards until feel pulling on neck.
Eyes :
-partially winking one eye at a time, and holding the wink for a second, and then repeating the movement.
-Place three centre fingers underneath the eye, pull down, and try to close your eyes.
-Place the ring and middle fingers at outer corners of eyes and pull toward the hairline, while squeeze eyes shut.
-place index fingers under eyebrows. Push up while closing eye.
Mouth :
-Pull lower lip down with fingers and try to mope.
-Open mouth wide like yawn. Pull in the sides to form an oval. Now curve lips over teeth. Then close lips until 1.5cm apart.
-Hook sides of mouth w/fingers and pull out while making an 'o' mouth.
Forehead :
-Pull the eyebrows w/fingers, and try to move them in opposite direction. Do this for inward, outward, up and down.
Links:
http://www.shapeyourface.com/
http://haha.nu/interesting/facercises/
http://haha.nu/interesting/facercises-part-2/
Authors:
Senta Maria Runge
Marjorie Craig
Carole Maggio
Meir Schneider
Cynthia Rowland
Ade Adeyemi Coles
Friday, August 10, 2007
Bodybuilding 101 by ‘Mike123’
1. Training/working out.
There is generally two types of workouts, cardio and lifting. Sure there's a grayscale to it but for the simplicity lets consider them as seperate. But I am getting ahead of myself, first some background.
Your body has muscles and adipose tissue(fat for you geniuses), now why on earth would you ever need anything like that? Simple, on planet earth and most known universe there is a force called gravity. Mass attracts mass etc, no need to get into the physics of it. In order to move and operate in our 3dimensional space we will have to deal with the gravity of earth(and moon to a miniscule extent). That is why we have muscles. Muscles generate the force we need to move about on planet earth. Muscles is in other words our body's adaption to mother gravity. That means when we experience 0 gravity for extended periods of time our muscles atrophy(astronauts anyone?), in reverse if we live on jupiter which has X times earth gravity we'd be much beefier. Luckily for us we've figured out a way to simulate resistance on our muscles without having to go live on another planet. This brings us to our first rule.
Rule#1 Your body will try to adapt to whatever you put it through. You will become best at what physical activity you do. In example a powerlifter can outrun a 100yard dash sprinter for the first 3 seconds, since through his squats his thighs have developed an ability to generate a huge amount of force surpassing that of a sprinter for 3 seconds. Same goes for the sprinter, even if he is bigger pound for pound than the powerlifter he probably wont have the ability to outsquat the powerlifter. Poundage, size and apperance of the physique matters little when it comes to physical performance. This is important for athletes involved in teamsports or other popular sports, the gym workouts need to be specified and simulate exact types of movements the athlete will do in his sport, otherwise its a "waste of workout".
Muscles consist of protein, which is basically a number of aminoacids bunched together in some fashion. Protein however is also used by your body in most connective tissue, cellconstruction, immunesystem, fingernails/hair etc. Protein is in fact vitally important for your body, thing is if you dont exercise you probably get sufficient protein through your diet. More on that in the dietsection. Musclefiber has a range between two types of musclefiber, fasttwitching and slowtwitching. The difference is heard in their name, fasttwitching generate force quickly by not relying on oxygen. It burns stored energy thats readily available but also quickly expendable. Thus you will need to rest before you can reuse the musclefibers to their full capacity. This type of fiber is associated with powerlifters and weightlifters. It's also the type of fiber that will yield you the greatest size. Slowtwitching fiber relies heavily on oxygen and is most prominent among endurance athletes. Ofcourse its not as simple as this more likely than not most people have both types of fibers in their muscle.
So what about fat? Well fat is your faminereserve of energy. Humans in our world werent always this wellfed and their foodsupply could be seasonal. Meaning in the summer there'd be an abundance of food, but in the winter there'd be a lack of food. Basically any calorie you dont burn off will be transformed into fat and stored as adiposetissue. Fat can grow indefinitively, there is no restriction as to how fat you can become(if you dont count dying as a result of your fat as the limit). Fat also packs twice the amount of energy as carbohydrates and proteins, more on that in the nutrition section. Fat is important and vital to your health aswell, your brain consists of a large deal of fat, an array of hormones are made out of fat etcetera. Fat is also the biggest enemy against having a sixpack ab, most people have that sixpack, its just hidden underneath the fat.
Allright, so what am I supposed to do in the gym? What am I supposed to workout? Anything you find pleasurable. If theres a trackpool and you like swimming do that, if theres a heavybag and jumprope then do that. If you like the stairmaster or free weights then do that. The important thing is that YOU ARE WORKING OUT and YOU ARE ENJOYING YOURSELF.
## Those of you who wish to become big beefy bulked read this section otherwise skip. To become big and beefy you need to focus on heavy freeweight lifting. No machines, no 12 repetitions, no prancing around with 5lbs dumbells. Repetitions should range from 3-6 and with the occasional maximum-1-repetition thrown in for good fun. That means you should go as heavy that you will fail at 3 to 6 repetitions. You should also focus on freeweights as you will have to balance the weight against gravity, remember I mentioned gravity above? Choose exercises that involves more than one musclegroup at once(in other words shun away from isolation/musclespecific-exercises).
The reason for multiple-muscle-exercises and freeweights is because the more muscles that are involved in the exercise the more intense the message will be to your body to adapt. Thus your body will attempt much more to adapt by releasing/producing a higher number of anabolic(musclebuilding) hormones. GrowthHormone secretion has been found to be highest after squats than any other resistance exercise. Squats with no doubt involves most musclegroups.
"But isnt squats a leg exercise? I dont want big legs I want big guns and pecs!". True, squats are for the legs, but dont forget it stresses the back and legs and most of your body. Also remember that your legs and back constitute for 2/3rds of your body's total musclemass. More muscle damaged more muscle to repair more hormones to secret more anabolic state. You get the picture dont you? Nothing wrong in doing isolationexercises IN COJUNCTION with for example squats. If you want huge guns then do triceps kickbacks and curls and immediately followup with some heavy squats.
A common mistake is to go too heavy too soon, if you've never stepped into the gym before there is a minimum 2month adjustion period where you can by all means do squats and other freeweight multiplemuscle exercises but focus on your form and LIGHT weight. This is not because youre not strong enough, its for your tendons. Your knees and elbows will thank you later if you take it easy in the beginning. Afterall whats the point of working out if its detrimenal to your health? You should work the entire body, dont skip some muscles because theyre too big already. Your body WILL sculpt itself proportionately if you work the entire body in time. Have the patience.
Get beefy workoutchecklist;
1. Only freeweights!
2. Exercises that involves more than one musclegroup!
3. Always have a squatter!
4. Safety first!
5. Work ALL musclegroups no matter how unsymmetrical you are.
## Those of you who wish to become slim shredded vascular read this section otherwise skip. To become slim, shredded, vascular you need to lose fattissue located right beneath your skin. Most of us have large welldeveloped beautiful abs, unfortunately theyre covered in fat and not visible. Whats the right way to workout to lose fat? Well some might say cardio, some might say morningwalks. Frankly anything is fine. However if you want to lose fat and minimize muscleloss you have to be abit more picky about your workouts. When your body is not getting enough energy through food it will lose muscle, however when the energyloss becomes too great in comparison to foodintake the body will start to shed muscle. Why? Well if the energydeficiency is minimal the body can support it with its fatreserves, if the energydeficiency is too much the body will get rid of the components of your body that are demanding energy, in other words your muscles. On top of that any endurance heavy type of exercise will make your body adapt by switching to slowtwitching smallsized musclefibers and your sizeloss will be even greater. Luckily for you they've found that heavy resistance training(AKA lifting) has been shown to increase your metabolism(and fatburning) to a higher total extent over the course of 24-36 hours following the workout. Thus its not ALL bad to lift heavy, in fact its recommended over cardio. If you still want cardio there's a middleground to be had. HIIT, High Intensity Interval Training. Sprint 30 seconds jog 30 seconds and so on for 5-15 minutes is a basic outlay for HIIT. You do cardio but vary intensity in intervals. 15 minutes is usually enough but dont beat yourself if you cant last the first time you try.
2. Diet.
Diet is SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER important! I can't stress diet enough, its MORE important than working out. Without your diet incheck and personalized to your goals you will get NOWHERE! Alot of people say "80% of bodybuilding is diet", nothing could be closer to the truth. In fact I will say that 80% of CHANGING YOUR BODY's COMPOSITION(either way) is through diet. Afterall every 7 years or so your body has completely changed all its cells, you are literally a "new person"
Basics;
-Protein and fat is basically found in any dead animal or derivative of animal(eggs, milk etc).
-Carbohydrates are found in plants and anything that taste sweet(not nutrasweet though).
-Most animals contain fat thats bad for you in large numbers, most fat from plants contain fats that are good for you even in
-large numbers. Cholesterol is bad in large numbers but is NECESSARY for your wellbeing and testosteroneproduction.
-Testosterone is important for your muscles to grow.
-Fruits contain carbs and some vitamins/fiber.
-Vegetables contain fiber and vitamins/minerals and some carbs.
## Those of you who wish to bulk up read this. Diet is important in bulking up too. You need to eat more energy than you expend. You need to eat more protein than the average person. Those are the hard truths of bulking up. As a result you can expect a few unwanted pounds of fat that are inevitable for anyone bulking up. However they dont have to be alot of pounds. A good rule of thumb is to eat 500 more calories a day than you burn off. As for protein you should consume 1gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. You should ALSO continually check your bodyweight every week and adjust your calorieintake and proteinintake as you go. NUMBER ONE REASON GUYS HIT PLATEUS IN THEIR WORKOUT IS UNDEREATING. Think about it, as you get stronger in the gym you increase the weightload in your exercises right? well do you increase the amount of food you eat too? You should! More bodymass equals higher maintenance costs. Usually in the bulking up phase you dont need any supplements such as proteinsupplements. You can eat enough meat, fish, chicken, eggs, milk all you want and get enough protein and calories. I also recommend you do so. Trick here is to eat ALOT , large, go out of your comfortzone and eat meals that make your stomach hurt, do so continually throughout the day. Dont worry your stomach will adapt so you will manage to down larger and larger meals. Ever wonder why farmers feed their cattle/poultry with antibiotics? It replaces their immunesystem, so the protein that goes to maintaining an immunesystem goes into other things, such as anabolism(musclebuilding). Thus they grow more beefy, faster. Needless to say anyone who tries this to gain some in the gym is a dumbass and should be infected with Multiple Drug Resistant Bacteria.
## Those of you who wish to get slim, shredded read this. Diet is KEY to fatloss, in fact you could lose fat through diet alone. Rule here is eat less calories, but in moderation. Too much and your muscles will go before the fat. I recommend -500 calories a day. Pay close attention to your workouts and the amount of calories youre expending through those aswell. Protein should be kept high at 1-2g/lbs to ensure minimal muscleloss. You should divide your meals into more frequent smaller meals, 7-8 meals a day is good. This is to keep the metabolism up and trick the body into believing there is an abundance of food available so it doesnt slip into starve-mode and tries to hang on to every ounce of bodyfat it has. Avoid carbrich meals late since your metabolism slows down before you go to bed and during your sleep.
Reply from 'ijjjji':
Great post. Thanks! Spot on about nutrition!
Your knowledge on fat is slightly inaccurate:
-Saturated fat (animal, coconut etc) is healthy.
-Hardened vegetable fat (margarine, hydrogenated) must be avoided.
-Omega 6 (soy, sunflower etc) should be used in moderation.
-Omega 3 (fish, flax etc) is super healthy if good quality.
Omega 3 and 6 oxidizes easily if heated (going from healthy to unhealthy) so:
-Only buy cold pressed oils and never heat them.
-Fry only with lard/butter or saturated plant oils like coconut/peanut.
You only need a few grams of omega 3 a day. Make sure its top quality!
I would add a bit on hormones and avoiding catabolic state. Catabolic state is when your body draws energy from digesting its own muscle mass and tries to store fat. The body start doing this if:
-Lack of sleep
-Stress (reduced sleep quality)
-Hunger (eating few meals or eating too little)
-Over training*
-Dehydration
*Over training is most often caused by under eating. Newbies rarely realize how much food the body needs to repair all the micro-damage from lifting heavy. That or they eat so much protein that that digestion slows way down and fail to draw enough nutrients from what they eat.
Great post man! Keep up the great work!!!
1. Training/working out.
There is generally two types of workouts, cardio and lifting. Sure there's a grayscale to it but for the simplicity lets consider them as seperate. But I am getting ahead of myself, first some background.
Your body has muscles and adipose tissue(fat for you geniuses), now why on earth would you ever need anything like that? Simple, on planet earth and most known universe there is a force called gravity. Mass attracts mass etc, no need to get into the physics of it. In order to move and operate in our 3dimensional space we will have to deal with the gravity of earth(and moon to a miniscule extent). That is why we have muscles. Muscles generate the force we need to move about on planet earth. Muscles is in other words our body's adaption to mother gravity. That means when we experience 0 gravity for extended periods of time our muscles atrophy(astronauts anyone?), in reverse if we live on jupiter which has X times earth gravity we'd be much beefier. Luckily for us we've figured out a way to simulate resistance on our muscles without having to go live on another planet. This brings us to our first rule.
Rule#1 Your body will try to adapt to whatever you put it through. You will become best at what physical activity you do. In example a powerlifter can outrun a 100yard dash sprinter for the first 3 seconds, since through his squats his thighs have developed an ability to generate a huge amount of force surpassing that of a sprinter for 3 seconds. Same goes for the sprinter, even if he is bigger pound for pound than the powerlifter he probably wont have the ability to outsquat the powerlifter. Poundage, size and apperance of the physique matters little when it comes to physical performance. This is important for athletes involved in teamsports or other popular sports, the gym workouts need to be specified and simulate exact types of movements the athlete will do in his sport, otherwise its a "waste of workout".
Muscles consist of protein, which is basically a number of aminoacids bunched together in some fashion. Protein however is also used by your body in most connective tissue, cellconstruction, immunesystem, fingernails/hair etc. Protein is in fact vitally important for your body, thing is if you dont exercise you probably get sufficient protein through your diet. More on that in the dietsection. Musclefiber has a range between two types of musclefiber, fasttwitching and slowtwitching. The difference is heard in their name, fasttwitching generate force quickly by not relying on oxygen. It burns stored energy thats readily available but also quickly expendable. Thus you will need to rest before you can reuse the musclefibers to their full capacity. This type of fiber is associated with powerlifters and weightlifters. It's also the type of fiber that will yield you the greatest size. Slowtwitching fiber relies heavily on oxygen and is most prominent among endurance athletes. Ofcourse its not as simple as this more likely than not most people have both types of fibers in their muscle.
So what about fat? Well fat is your faminereserve of energy. Humans in our world werent always this wellfed and their foodsupply could be seasonal. Meaning in the summer there'd be an abundance of food, but in the winter there'd be a lack of food. Basically any calorie you dont burn off will be transformed into fat and stored as adiposetissue. Fat can grow indefinitively, there is no restriction as to how fat you can become(if you dont count dying as a result of your fat as the limit). Fat also packs twice the amount of energy as carbohydrates and proteins, more on that in the nutrition section. Fat is important and vital to your health aswell, your brain consists of a large deal of fat, an array of hormones are made out of fat etcetera. Fat is also the biggest enemy against having a sixpack ab, most people have that sixpack, its just hidden underneath the fat.
Allright, so what am I supposed to do in the gym? What am I supposed to workout? Anything you find pleasurable. If theres a trackpool and you like swimming do that, if theres a heavybag and jumprope then do that. If you like the stairmaster or free weights then do that. The important thing is that YOU ARE WORKING OUT and YOU ARE ENJOYING YOURSELF.
## Those of you who wish to become big beefy bulked read this section otherwise skip. To become big and beefy you need to focus on heavy freeweight lifting. No machines, no 12 repetitions, no prancing around with 5lbs dumbells. Repetitions should range from 3-6 and with the occasional maximum-1-repetition thrown in for good fun. That means you should go as heavy that you will fail at 3 to 6 repetitions. You should also focus on freeweights as you will have to balance the weight against gravity, remember I mentioned gravity above? Choose exercises that involves more than one musclegroup at once(in other words shun away from isolation/musclespecific-exercises).
The reason for multiple-muscle-exercises and freeweights is because the more muscles that are involved in the exercise the more intense the message will be to your body to adapt. Thus your body will attempt much more to adapt by releasing/producing a higher number of anabolic(musclebuilding) hormones. GrowthHormone secretion has been found to be highest after squats than any other resistance exercise. Squats with no doubt involves most musclegroups.
"But isnt squats a leg exercise? I dont want big legs I want big guns and pecs!". True, squats are for the legs, but dont forget it stresses the back and legs and most of your body. Also remember that your legs and back constitute for 2/3rds of your body's total musclemass. More muscle damaged more muscle to repair more hormones to secret more anabolic state. You get the picture dont you? Nothing wrong in doing isolationexercises IN COJUNCTION with for example squats. If you want huge guns then do triceps kickbacks and curls and immediately followup with some heavy squats.
A common mistake is to go too heavy too soon, if you've never stepped into the gym before there is a minimum 2month adjustion period where you can by all means do squats and other freeweight multiplemuscle exercises but focus on your form and LIGHT weight. This is not because youre not strong enough, its for your tendons. Your knees and elbows will thank you later if you take it easy in the beginning. Afterall whats the point of working out if its detrimenal to your health? You should work the entire body, dont skip some muscles because theyre too big already. Your body WILL sculpt itself proportionately if you work the entire body in time. Have the patience.
Get beefy workoutchecklist;
1. Only freeweights!
2. Exercises that involves more than one musclegroup!
3. Always have a squatter!
4. Safety first!
5. Work ALL musclegroups no matter how unsymmetrical you are.
## Those of you who wish to become slim shredded vascular read this section otherwise skip. To become slim, shredded, vascular you need to lose fattissue located right beneath your skin. Most of us have large welldeveloped beautiful abs, unfortunately theyre covered in fat and not visible. Whats the right way to workout to lose fat? Well some might say cardio, some might say morningwalks. Frankly anything is fine. However if you want to lose fat and minimize muscleloss you have to be abit more picky about your workouts. When your body is not getting enough energy through food it will lose muscle, however when the energyloss becomes too great in comparison to foodintake the body will start to shed muscle. Why? Well if the energydeficiency is minimal the body can support it with its fatreserves, if the energydeficiency is too much the body will get rid of the components of your body that are demanding energy, in other words your muscles. On top of that any endurance heavy type of exercise will make your body adapt by switching to slowtwitching smallsized musclefibers and your sizeloss will be even greater. Luckily for you they've found that heavy resistance training(AKA lifting) has been shown to increase your metabolism(and fatburning) to a higher total extent over the course of 24-36 hours following the workout. Thus its not ALL bad to lift heavy, in fact its recommended over cardio. If you still want cardio there's a middleground to be had. HIIT, High Intensity Interval Training. Sprint 30 seconds jog 30 seconds and so on for 5-15 minutes is a basic outlay for HIIT. You do cardio but vary intensity in intervals. 15 minutes is usually enough but dont beat yourself if you cant last the first time you try.
2. Diet.
Diet is SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER important! I can't stress diet enough, its MORE important than working out. Without your diet incheck and personalized to your goals you will get NOWHERE! Alot of people say "80% of bodybuilding is diet", nothing could be closer to the truth. In fact I will say that 80% of CHANGING YOUR BODY's COMPOSITION(either way) is through diet. Afterall every 7 years or so your body has completely changed all its cells, you are literally a "new person"
Basics;
-Protein and fat is basically found in any dead animal or derivative of animal(eggs, milk etc).
-Carbohydrates are found in plants and anything that taste sweet(not nutrasweet though).
-Most animals contain fat thats bad for you in large numbers, most fat from plants contain fats that are good for you even in
-large numbers. Cholesterol is bad in large numbers but is NECESSARY for your wellbeing and testosteroneproduction.
-Testosterone is important for your muscles to grow.
-Fruits contain carbs and some vitamins/fiber.
-Vegetables contain fiber and vitamins/minerals and some carbs.
## Those of you who wish to bulk up read this. Diet is important in bulking up too. You need to eat more energy than you expend. You need to eat more protein than the average person. Those are the hard truths of bulking up. As a result you can expect a few unwanted pounds of fat that are inevitable for anyone bulking up. However they dont have to be alot of pounds. A good rule of thumb is to eat 500 more calories a day than you burn off. As for protein you should consume 1gram of protein per pound of bodyweight. You should ALSO continually check your bodyweight every week and adjust your calorieintake and proteinintake as you go. NUMBER ONE REASON GUYS HIT PLATEUS IN THEIR WORKOUT IS UNDEREATING. Think about it, as you get stronger in the gym you increase the weightload in your exercises right? well do you increase the amount of food you eat too? You should! More bodymass equals higher maintenance costs. Usually in the bulking up phase you dont need any supplements such as proteinsupplements. You can eat enough meat, fish, chicken, eggs, milk all you want and get enough protein and calories. I also recommend you do so. Trick here is to eat ALOT , large, go out of your comfortzone and eat meals that make your stomach hurt, do so continually throughout the day. Dont worry your stomach will adapt so you will manage to down larger and larger meals. Ever wonder why farmers feed their cattle/poultry with antibiotics? It replaces their immunesystem, so the protein that goes to maintaining an immunesystem goes into other things, such as anabolism(musclebuilding). Thus they grow more beefy, faster. Needless to say anyone who tries this to gain some in the gym is a dumbass and should be infected with Multiple Drug Resistant Bacteria.
## Those of you who wish to get slim, shredded read this. Diet is KEY to fatloss, in fact you could lose fat through diet alone. Rule here is eat less calories, but in moderation. Too much and your muscles will go before the fat. I recommend -500 calories a day. Pay close attention to your workouts and the amount of calories youre expending through those aswell. Protein should be kept high at 1-2g/lbs to ensure minimal muscleloss. You should divide your meals into more frequent smaller meals, 7-8 meals a day is good. This is to keep the metabolism up and trick the body into believing there is an abundance of food available so it doesnt slip into starve-mode and tries to hang on to every ounce of bodyfat it has. Avoid carbrich meals late since your metabolism slows down before you go to bed and during your sleep.
Reply from 'ijjjji':
Great post. Thanks! Spot on about nutrition!
Your knowledge on fat is slightly inaccurate:
-Saturated fat (animal, coconut etc) is healthy.
-Hardened vegetable fat (margarine, hydrogenated) must be avoided.
-Omega 6 (soy, sunflower etc) should be used in moderation.
-Omega 3 (fish, flax etc) is super healthy if good quality.
Omega 3 and 6 oxidizes easily if heated (going from healthy to unhealthy) so:
-Only buy cold pressed oils and never heat them.
-Fry only with lard/butter or saturated plant oils like coconut/peanut.
You only need a few grams of omega 3 a day. Make sure its top quality!
I would add a bit on hormones and avoiding catabolic state. Catabolic state is when your body draws energy from digesting its own muscle mass and tries to store fat. The body start doing this if:
-Lack of sleep
-Stress (reduced sleep quality)
-Hunger (eating few meals or eating too little)
-Over training*
-Dehydration
*Over training is most often caused by under eating. Newbies rarely realize how much food the body needs to repair all the micro-damage from lifting heavy. That or they eat so much protein that that digestion slows way down and fail to draw enough nutrients from what they eat.
Great post man! Keep up the great work!!!
Testosterone guide
Short version:
Sleep more. (Avoid stress!!)
Veggie+berry smoothie.
Small meals often.
Fatty meal in evening.
Zink supplement (*).
Avoid high starch foods.
Avoid additives and cosmetics.
Avoid medicine if possible.
Limit alcohol.
Alternate periods of over- and under-eating
Sun/tanning bed.
Big exercise like squat/DL/bench/row.
5 rep max. Short and intense WO.
Results:
-belly fat off (with time)
-bigger muscles (with time)
-increased testosterone (pretty soon and more with time)
(*) Expert advice vary from 10 to 100mg pr day. Many suggest taking a larger dosis early on. There are also some special rules to follow to make sure the zinc is absorbed so you better google a bit about fixing zinc deficiency and use your best judgement.
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Preface
Testosterone is produced during sleep and put in storage. During the day its pumped into the blood stream when needed. (Physical activity, sex/horniness, anger etc..) In the blood there are agents that slowly convert the testosterone to oestrogen. Oestrogen has a somewhat opposite effect of testosterone, making you feel more insecure and less eager to act. It also promotes conserving energy (storing fat) instead of building muscle, while testosterone promotes burning fat and building muscle. How strongly 'testosteronized' you are, is not so much decided by testosterone level in blood, but more by how high the testosterone level is COMPARED to the oestrogen level.
The 4 key parts of the testosterone cycle are:
-Production. (goal: maximize)
-Release into blood stream. (goal: high and stable)
-Conversion to oestrogen. (goal: slow down)
-Oestrogen excretion. (goal: maximize)
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CONVERSION to oestrogen is performed by the aromatase enzyme. This enzyme is produced by the fat cells, especially the ones in the abdominal area. Losing the abdominal fat is therefore the best way of slowing down the oestrogen conversion and consequently the most important thing for ensuring a high and stable testosterone level. But due to the self-preserving loop, with oestogen telling the body to store fat, its kinda tricky. This is why this fat is called 'stubborn' fat. You have to be really smart, dedicated and patient to get rid of it. Simply starving yourself is utterly useless.
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EXCRETION of oestrogen from the blood stream is handled by the liver. The liver needs 2 things to do this and keep oestrogen at an ideal(low) level:
a) Steady antioxidant/mineral supply. In the western world, COFFEE is actually the main source for this. Coffe also raises metabolism (caffeine) and promotes fat-burning (from reducing oestrogen). Coffe should be taken only early in the day and only in moderate quantities, to avoid reducing sleep quality (testosterone production). Researchers suggest no more than 4 cups a day. Cocoa has caffeine too, so good for metabolism. It is also relaxing (anti-stress).
Since not entirely healthy to drink lots of coffee, try to get most of your antioxidants from veggies and berries. As a general rule, the stronger the color, the better. Blueberries, black currant, cowberry, cranberry, spinach, parsley, broccoli and celery are EXCELLENT sources. Its key to use these, and not less nutritious sources like fruit and leafy salads. Reason is that you have to eat bigger quantity so takes up valuable space in your digestive system. This can lead to UNDER eating if you go to the gym, and that RUINS testosterone. It is a great idea to run the veggies in a mixer (smoothie), since research indicates that the body gets about 5x as much nutrients from veggies that are run through the mixer.
b) Secondly, the liver needs 'filter capacity'.. At any given time, the liver tends to work ont the most toxic component in the blood-stream, while letting other things pass through. Oestrogen is just one of the toxic byproducts made in the body. Stuff like disease/infection might cause spike in other toxins so the liver will have to forget about the oestrogen for a while (raising it to very high levels). Alcohol does exactly the same, occupying the liver function causing other toxin levels to raise. The bad feelings you might have after a night at the pub stems mainly from the rise in OTHER toxins due to the liver focusing on the alcohole. There are other external toxins that have similar effect. PARABENS used as preservatives in most cosmetics are PARTICULARLY nasty in this respect since even the tiniest amounts demand a lot of time and effort from the liver. Artificial sweetners and conservatives in food have a bad rep too.
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Testosterone is RELEASED (into blood stream) throughout the day. If you are horny or angry or do something very heavy/intense, you get a spike or increase in the release. Sitting still, eating a lot or becoming really hungry or thirsty are things that can reduce the testosterone release.
Compound weight-lifting exercises that train several large muscle groups like squats, bench presses or back rows promote greater T-release than lesser exercises. Start off by using a heavy weight that you can only lift five times. That weight is around 85% of your one-rep maximum. A Swedish study found that this exact workload produced the greatest testosterone release.
Exercise affects testosterone directly by stimulating the pituitary gland and the testes, and it probably also raises levels by slowing down the normal breakdown of testosterone. Train harder for shorter periods of time, since the body starts releasing mostly stress hormones after around 45 minutes.
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Testosterone is PRODUCED during sleep, and especially during the light dreamy sleep before awakening. When we get up early, this is the sleep that we deny ourself. Actually, most people suffer from a mild yet chronical sleep deprivation. The average night's sleep has been reduced by 2-3 hours during last 100 years... nothing kills sleep like stress and worry. Chronic stress and consequent lack of sleep does not only interfere with testosterone function, muscle building and strength, it also causes premature aging and contributes to the onset of cardiovascular disease. Protect your mental peace and sleep at all cost!
Stress proof your life. First, set your goals and determine your priorities. Then create and follow a step-by-step plan to achieve them. Focus on what’s really important in your life and don’t let the “small stuff” get in the way. Increase your stress resistance. There is a strong interrelationship between mental outlook and physical well-being, and it is largely mediated by hormones. While the right kind of stress can be very beneficial hormonally, the wrong kind can be devastating. Emotional stress if a frequent cause of decreased testosterone levels.
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Testosterone is produced from cholesterole, which is produced from saturated fat. Even if the body can produce saturated fat for this, it prefers to get it throug food. If there is little saturated fat in the food, the body will try to conserve cholesterol by cutting T-production. Monounsaturated fat sources have also been proven to boost T-production (peanuts, nuts, olive oil).
T is made in the testicles. The consentration of the metal zink is 20 times higher in testicles than rest of body. If zink deficient, the testicles dont work properly, and T-production is reduced. Declining T with age, is believed to be an effect of the intestine becoming gradually less able to absorb zink with age. Many industrially refined foods are believed to inhibit zink absorption. Research indicates that most peole in the western world are zink deficient to some degree. In athletes, the problem is much bigger. It is believed that regeneration of micro-damage caused by training expends a lot of zink in the body.
Eat many smaller (instead of few larger) well-balanced meals each day. Smaller, more frequent meals will help maintain steady blood sugars and eliminate unnecessary stress hormone release. Don’t wait until you are hungry to eat.
Get enough water. If physically active, eat some salty stuff too.
Many medicines are bad for liver function (oestrogen excretion) or testosterone production.
Alcohol inhibits testosterone production and disables the liver from removing excess oestrogens from bloodstream.
Stress, physical inactivity, excessive training(lack of rest/food), illness, smoking, alcohol and the use of both prescription and "recreational" drugs, can contribute to less than ideal levels of testosterone.
Misc testosterone-enhancing diet advice from the net:
1. Eat a diet rich in vegetables with an adequate supply of both protein and fats. Especially eat green leafy vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Swiss chard, Brussel sprouts and cabbage. These vegetables contain phytochemicals which are essential for healthy hormone production and oestrogen metabolism.
2. Limit excessive carbohydrate intake, especially simple sugars and starches, (breads, cereals, pasta and potatoes). High carbohydrate intake can create a rapid rise in blood sugar, creating excess levels of insulin and cortisol, two hormones that work against testosterone and diminish its production.
3. Forget low fat! It’s a little known fact that testosterone, (and all other hormones) are actually made from cholesterol(saturated fat). When saturated fats become deficient in the diet, testosterone levels decline.
4. Eat one or two hardboiled eggs daily. Not only are small amounts of dietary cholesterol important for the formulation testosterone, eggs provide fatty acids necessary for optimal hormonal production.
5. Eat five smaller, (instead of three larger) well balanced meals each day. Smaller, more frequent meals will help maintain steady blood sugars and eliminate unnecessary stress hormone release. Don’t wait until you are famished to eat!
A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed the effects of 21 days of eating more calories than normal. Insulin, testosterone and IGF-1 levels rose progressively and peaked at day 14. After 14 days, anabolic hormone levels began to decline.
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The sun has a strong positive impact on T-level. Researchers dont know exactly how. It could be that the sun improves sleep quality. It could be some signal in our biology telling us its mating season when we see the sun. It could be that the sun enables our bodies to produce vitamines needed in T-production. Regardless, the sun is your friend - IN MODERATION. Start carefully and experiment on how much is good for you without being bad for your skin.
Short version:
Sleep more. (Avoid stress!!)
Veggie+berry smoothie.
Small meals often.
Fatty meal in evening.
Zink supplement (*).
Avoid high starch foods.
Avoid additives and cosmetics.
Avoid medicine if possible.
Limit alcohol.
Alternate periods of over- and under-eating
Sun/tanning bed.
Big exercise like squat/DL/bench/row.
5 rep max. Short and intense WO.
Results:
-belly fat off (with time)
-bigger muscles (with time)
-increased testosterone (pretty soon and more with time)
(*) Expert advice vary from 10 to 100mg pr day. Many suggest taking a larger dosis early on. There are also some special rules to follow to make sure the zinc is absorbed so you better google a bit about fixing zinc deficiency and use your best judgement.
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Preface
Testosterone is produced during sleep and put in storage. During the day its pumped into the blood stream when needed. (Physical activity, sex/horniness, anger etc..) In the blood there are agents that slowly convert the testosterone to oestrogen. Oestrogen has a somewhat opposite effect of testosterone, making you feel more insecure and less eager to act. It also promotes conserving energy (storing fat) instead of building muscle, while testosterone promotes burning fat and building muscle. How strongly 'testosteronized' you are, is not so much decided by testosterone level in blood, but more by how high the testosterone level is COMPARED to the oestrogen level.
The 4 key parts of the testosterone cycle are:
-Production. (goal: maximize)
-Release into blood stream. (goal: high and stable)
-Conversion to oestrogen. (goal: slow down)
-Oestrogen excretion. (goal: maximize)
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CONVERSION to oestrogen is performed by the aromatase enzyme. This enzyme is produced by the fat cells, especially the ones in the abdominal area. Losing the abdominal fat is therefore the best way of slowing down the oestrogen conversion and consequently the most important thing for ensuring a high and stable testosterone level. But due to the self-preserving loop, with oestogen telling the body to store fat, its kinda tricky. This is why this fat is called 'stubborn' fat. You have to be really smart, dedicated and patient to get rid of it. Simply starving yourself is utterly useless.
¤¤¤
EXCRETION of oestrogen from the blood stream is handled by the liver. The liver needs 2 things to do this and keep oestrogen at an ideal(low) level:
a) Steady antioxidant/mineral supply. In the western world, COFFEE is actually the main source for this. Coffe also raises metabolism (caffeine) and promotes fat-burning (from reducing oestrogen). Coffe should be taken only early in the day and only in moderate quantities, to avoid reducing sleep quality (testosterone production). Researchers suggest no more than 4 cups a day. Cocoa has caffeine too, so good for metabolism. It is also relaxing (anti-stress).
Since not entirely healthy to drink lots of coffee, try to get most of your antioxidants from veggies and berries. As a general rule, the stronger the color, the better. Blueberries, black currant, cowberry, cranberry, spinach, parsley, broccoli and celery are EXCELLENT sources. Its key to use these, and not less nutritious sources like fruit and leafy salads. Reason is that you have to eat bigger quantity so takes up valuable space in your digestive system. This can lead to UNDER eating if you go to the gym, and that RUINS testosterone. It is a great idea to run the veggies in a mixer (smoothie), since research indicates that the body gets about 5x as much nutrients from veggies that are run through the mixer.
b) Secondly, the liver needs 'filter capacity'.. At any given time, the liver tends to work ont the most toxic component in the blood-stream, while letting other things pass through. Oestrogen is just one of the toxic byproducts made in the body. Stuff like disease/infection might cause spike in other toxins so the liver will have to forget about the oestrogen for a while (raising it to very high levels). Alcohol does exactly the same, occupying the liver function causing other toxin levels to raise. The bad feelings you might have after a night at the pub stems mainly from the rise in OTHER toxins due to the liver focusing on the alcohole. There are other external toxins that have similar effect. PARABENS used as preservatives in most cosmetics are PARTICULARLY nasty in this respect since even the tiniest amounts demand a lot of time and effort from the liver. Artificial sweetners and conservatives in food have a bad rep too.
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Testosterone is RELEASED (into blood stream) throughout the day. If you are horny or angry or do something very heavy/intense, you get a spike or increase in the release. Sitting still, eating a lot or becoming really hungry or thirsty are things that can reduce the testosterone release.
Compound weight-lifting exercises that train several large muscle groups like squats, bench presses or back rows promote greater T-release than lesser exercises. Start off by using a heavy weight that you can only lift five times. That weight is around 85% of your one-rep maximum. A Swedish study found that this exact workload produced the greatest testosterone release.
Exercise affects testosterone directly by stimulating the pituitary gland and the testes, and it probably also raises levels by slowing down the normal breakdown of testosterone. Train harder for shorter periods of time, since the body starts releasing mostly stress hormones after around 45 minutes.
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Testosterone is PRODUCED during sleep, and especially during the light dreamy sleep before awakening. When we get up early, this is the sleep that we deny ourself. Actually, most people suffer from a mild yet chronical sleep deprivation. The average night's sleep has been reduced by 2-3 hours during last 100 years... nothing kills sleep like stress and worry. Chronic stress and consequent lack of sleep does not only interfere with testosterone function, muscle building and strength, it also causes premature aging and contributes to the onset of cardiovascular disease. Protect your mental peace and sleep at all cost!
Stress proof your life. First, set your goals and determine your priorities. Then create and follow a step-by-step plan to achieve them. Focus on what’s really important in your life and don’t let the “small stuff” get in the way. Increase your stress resistance. There is a strong interrelationship between mental outlook and physical well-being, and it is largely mediated by hormones. While the right kind of stress can be very beneficial hormonally, the wrong kind can be devastating. Emotional stress if a frequent cause of decreased testosterone levels.
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Testosterone is produced from cholesterole, which is produced from saturated fat. Even if the body can produce saturated fat for this, it prefers to get it throug food. If there is little saturated fat in the food, the body will try to conserve cholesterol by cutting T-production. Monounsaturated fat sources have also been proven to boost T-production (peanuts, nuts, olive oil).
T is made in the testicles. The consentration of the metal zink is 20 times higher in testicles than rest of body. If zink deficient, the testicles dont work properly, and T-production is reduced. Declining T with age, is believed to be an effect of the intestine becoming gradually less able to absorb zink with age. Many industrially refined foods are believed to inhibit zink absorption. Research indicates that most peole in the western world are zink deficient to some degree. In athletes, the problem is much bigger. It is believed that regeneration of micro-damage caused by training expends a lot of zink in the body.
Eat many smaller (instead of few larger) well-balanced meals each day. Smaller, more frequent meals will help maintain steady blood sugars and eliminate unnecessary stress hormone release. Don’t wait until you are hungry to eat.
Get enough water. If physically active, eat some salty stuff too.
Many medicines are bad for liver function (oestrogen excretion) or testosterone production.
Alcohol inhibits testosterone production and disables the liver from removing excess oestrogens from bloodstream.
Stress, physical inactivity, excessive training(lack of rest/food), illness, smoking, alcohol and the use of both prescription and "recreational" drugs, can contribute to less than ideal levels of testosterone.
Misc testosterone-enhancing diet advice from the net:
1. Eat a diet rich in vegetables with an adequate supply of both protein and fats. Especially eat green leafy vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Swiss chard, Brussel sprouts and cabbage. These vegetables contain phytochemicals which are essential for healthy hormone production and oestrogen metabolism.
2. Limit excessive carbohydrate intake, especially simple sugars and starches, (breads, cereals, pasta and potatoes). High carbohydrate intake can create a rapid rise in blood sugar, creating excess levels of insulin and cortisol, two hormones that work against testosterone and diminish its production.
3. Forget low fat! It’s a little known fact that testosterone, (and all other hormones) are actually made from cholesterol(saturated fat). When saturated fats become deficient in the diet, testosterone levels decline.
4. Eat one or two hardboiled eggs daily. Not only are small amounts of dietary cholesterol important for the formulation testosterone, eggs provide fatty acids necessary for optimal hormonal production.
5. Eat five smaller, (instead of three larger) well balanced meals each day. Smaller, more frequent meals will help maintain steady blood sugars and eliminate unnecessary stress hormone release. Don’t wait until you are famished to eat!
A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed the effects of 21 days of eating more calories than normal. Insulin, testosterone and IGF-1 levels rose progressively and peaked at day 14. After 14 days, anabolic hormone levels began to decline.
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The sun has a strong positive impact on T-level. Researchers dont know exactly how. It could be that the sun improves sleep quality. It could be some signal in our biology telling us its mating season when we see the sun. It could be that the sun enables our bodies to produce vitamines needed in T-production. Regardless, the sun is your friend - IN MODERATION. Start carefully and experiment on how much is good for you without being bad for your skin.
Deep/full voice easily
Breathe out with a 'breathing sound'. Notice sound comes from where chest and throat meet. Notice/feel where this spot is located.
Make a relaxed humming sound with your voice. Feel where in your throat it is made. Still relaxed and without pushing, try to move the spot down towards the 'breathing sound spot'. Notice the growing resistance as you move your voice deeper in your throat.
Stop humming. Stand up, straighten up, lean a bit back in your torso, tilt neck and head a bit forward. Your neck is now a bit arched.
Neck-chest-connection is now the part of your body that is furthest back. Relax a little more and notice head/neck are kinda held up by the spine in this connecting area.
Take a semi-deep relaxed breath in, breathing downwards with your stomach. Again, make a relaxed humming sound with your voice. Notice that without trying at all, your voice is coming from a very deep place in your throat, very close to the 'breathing sound spot'. Notice how it resonates in your chest with depth and fullness. Try saying something, still fully relaxed in this position without trying to control the tone.
Now, pull up shoulders, hunch forward, head up. Take a breath in, breathing outwards with your chest. Make a humming sound with your voice. Notice how it is restricted to upper part of throat. Notice how it is cut off from resonating in your chest.. The 'breathing sound spot', also called the THROAT CHAKRA (chakra of sky/air) IS NOW CLOSED.
"The Throat Chakra is the most delicate center in the human energy system and can be thrown out of balance when we do not honor our deepest feelings and express our truth to ourselves and others." -www.soundshifting.com/chakra-tones.htm
A paraphrase: having tension in your body will cause your throat to lock up, and make you talk in a thin insecure tone.
(Being locked up like this (fear/stress/need etc) has A LOT of other bad effects on your body/health, but that is another topic.)
THE FIX:
Get out your goal sheet. Write "Get used to always talking from an arched posture with fully relaxed and open throat chakra. Deadline (insert date 2 weeks from now)."
Write a plan:
-Whenever I catch myself with closed-throat-posture, I will fix it at once, even if it means switching to deep tone while talking to someone.
-Whenever I'm out walking by myself, I will practice relaxed humming from relaxed and open throat chakra.
-I will google/research until I get some clue about avoiding stress and improving posture.
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-(get creative)
Listen to your open-relaxed-throat-tonality and REJOICE knowing you will start sounding like this and at the same time reap bonus blessings like a more attractive posture, better health/energy and even better sleep quality! (this last bit is key - you must connect with your goal in a positive way like this.)
You could also take a moment to really feel some deep appreciation towards mASF, who has quite a few REALLY BRILLIANT posters right now, even if you have to dig a bit to find the useful stuff. (Yeah I take full credit for this, even if I already read elsewhere that there is a connection between tone and posture.)
REPORT:
Been doing this for 5 days and amazing results so far. Most of the time I talk with my new tone now, and if not, I instantly notice and correct it. Funny to see HBs snap their attention to me really fast when they hear my new tone. Very obvious that it puts me in a new (more attractive) light. I had no idea tonality was such a key part of the whole manliness-thing (until I heard several girls mention falling for a guy because of his manly voice, in a TV show last week. Wow - useful input from TV, cant remember last time that happened! *Sending tiny bits of appreciation towards reality TV* Generally though: FUCK THE MEDIA!)
REPORT UPDATE (day6):
Lol, in a shop this morning when talking to a girl, I almost got PERPLEXED by my own voice. It is WAY deeper and somehow louder than previously. What is happening?? The girl was perplexed for real, and then ALL GIGGELY (she was professionally cool before I spoke).
-Soo.. whats up with this flustered and slightly taken-by-surprise look that girls give me? Is it just because really masculine and relaxed voice is uncommon, or could it be that my looks make them expect something less masculine??
-Soo.. what is happening to my voice. The tone I have now is obviously deeper than previous days. Will it get even deeper or maybe go back up? I had a hint of soreness after 20min of deep humming yesterday so I'm not doing that today - afterall, this is a total new way to use my vocal cords so might require some time to adjust to it..
Breathe out with a 'breathing sound'. Notice sound comes from where chest and throat meet. Notice/feel where this spot is located.
Make a relaxed humming sound with your voice. Feel where in your throat it is made. Still relaxed and without pushing, try to move the spot down towards the 'breathing sound spot'. Notice the growing resistance as you move your voice deeper in your throat.
Stop humming. Stand up, straighten up, lean a bit back in your torso, tilt neck and head a bit forward. Your neck is now a bit arched.
Neck-chest-connection is now the part of your body that is furthest back. Relax a little more and notice head/neck are kinda held up by the spine in this connecting area.
Take a semi-deep relaxed breath in, breathing downwards with your stomach. Again, make a relaxed humming sound with your voice. Notice that without trying at all, your voice is coming from a very deep place in your throat, very close to the 'breathing sound spot'. Notice how it resonates in your chest with depth and fullness. Try saying something, still fully relaxed in this position without trying to control the tone.
Now, pull up shoulders, hunch forward, head up. Take a breath in, breathing outwards with your chest. Make a humming sound with your voice. Notice how it is restricted to upper part of throat. Notice how it is cut off from resonating in your chest.. The 'breathing sound spot', also called the THROAT CHAKRA (chakra of sky/air) IS NOW CLOSED.
"The Throat Chakra is the most delicate center in the human energy system and can be thrown out of balance when we do not honor our deepest feelings and express our truth to ourselves and others." -www.soundshifting.com/chakra-tones.htm
A paraphrase: having tension in your body will cause your throat to lock up, and make you talk in a thin insecure tone.
(Being locked up like this (fear/stress/need etc) has A LOT of other bad effects on your body/health, but that is another topic.)
THE FIX:
Get out your goal sheet. Write "Get used to always talking from an arched posture with fully relaxed and open throat chakra. Deadline (insert date 2 weeks from now)."
Write a plan:
-Whenever I catch myself with closed-throat-posture, I will fix it at once, even if it means switching to deep tone while talking to someone.
-Whenever I'm out walking by myself, I will practice relaxed humming from relaxed and open throat chakra.
-I will google/research until I get some clue about avoiding stress and improving posture.
-
-(get creative)
Listen to your open-relaxed-throat-tonality and REJOICE knowing you will start sounding like this and at the same time reap bonus blessings like a more attractive posture, better health/energy and even better sleep quality! (this last bit is key - you must connect with your goal in a positive way like this.)
You could also take a moment to really feel some deep appreciation towards mASF, who has quite a few REALLY BRILLIANT posters right now, even if you have to dig a bit to find the useful stuff. (Yeah I take full credit for this, even if I already read elsewhere that there is a connection between tone and posture.)
REPORT:
Been doing this for 5 days and amazing results so far. Most of the time I talk with my new tone now, and if not, I instantly notice and correct it. Funny to see HBs snap their attention to me really fast when they hear my new tone. Very obvious that it puts me in a new (more attractive) light. I had no idea tonality was such a key part of the whole manliness-thing (until I heard several girls mention falling for a guy because of his manly voice, in a TV show last week. Wow - useful input from TV, cant remember last time that happened! *Sending tiny bits of appreciation towards reality TV* Generally though: FUCK THE MEDIA!)
REPORT UPDATE (day6):
Lol, in a shop this morning when talking to a girl, I almost got PERPLEXED by my own voice. It is WAY deeper and somehow louder than previously. What is happening?? The girl was perplexed for real, and then ALL GIGGELY (she was professionally cool before I spoke).
-Soo.. whats up with this flustered and slightly taken-by-surprise look that girls give me? Is it just because really masculine and relaxed voice is uncommon, or could it be that my looks make them expect something less masculine??
-Soo.. what is happening to my voice. The tone I have now is obviously deeper than previous days. Will it get even deeper or maybe go back up? I had a hint of soreness after 20min of deep humming yesterday so I'm not doing that today - afterall, this is a total new way to use my vocal cords so might require some time to adjust to it..
Vinegar
All my life, I always had *heavy* dandruff and red itchy spots around/on my nose. When I was a teen I started the search for a product that could help. All specialized products i tried made it worse. But every summer it disappeared. Could it be the sun? Could it be bathing in sea water (which I did a lot)?
After I found mASF I decided I had to solve it. Googled and found that the condition is an allergic reaction to a micro fungus (p. ovale) that lives on all human skin. But only some have allergy to it. I also read that this type of allergy has become increasingly common during 20th century but didnt dwell on this at the time.
What i did (previously posted) was to massage coconut fat into my skin prior to washing it with strong soap. My idea was to massage the micro-fungi into the fat and then *remove* all the fat from my skin. This worked brilliantly and I was really happy :D As long as I remembered to do this 2-3 times a week my skin was beautifully pale and baby soft. But if I forgot doing it for 4 days, it sometimes came back strongly....
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When I was a student 10 years ago, I got athlete's foot. I tried all the drugstore products but it always returned. My feet smelled like old french cheese at all times, even shortly after showering. Whenever I removed my shoes, the smell would fill the room.
This summer I decided I had had it with this illness. The cracks it caused hurt bad at times and it was spreading from the skin to the toe nails making them look all wrinkly.
Again I googled and found lots of advice:
-vinegar foot bath
-salty water foot bath
-teatree oil
and one that *really* made me think:
This one guy claimed he had gotten rid of it 100%, only by.. QUIT USING SOAP. Someone had told him that soap unbalances the skin so its more open to fungal attack....
Soo, I started taking foot baths with vinegar AND salt.. and sprayed my feet with teatree oil afterwards.. and quit using soap on them.. (my goal was clear and *nothing* was gonna prevent me from reaching it)
After one week my feet was 100% smell free and new baby soft skin started to appear where the damaged skin peeled off. I could rub my finger between my toes 24 hours after washing them, and hold it under my nose and still smell *nothing*.
Gradually I washed my feet less, and now I spray them with a little vinegar once a week. The toe nails look *perfect* now, and the skin is pale pink and baby soft.. and I can go for 3-4 days without washing and they still smell *nothing*.
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But enough about feet. This success got me thinking that maybe soap unbalanced my scalp and face in similar way, allowing the micro fungi to grow out of control.. so I quit all soap/product use on my face and scalp, and I quit using the oil, and at once I got the allergic reaction but 3 days later it started improving. Now I rub my scalp and face with mild vinegar water once a week and almost all the redness is gone and its still improving.
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I always had really smelly arm pits and I always heard that its bacteria and fungus that create the smell while they eat sweat.. so I quit using soap on them too and it worked brilliantly!! now they no longer smell like decay, but more like new sweat, even after two days without showering.
The clothes get almost as smelly as before tough..
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But, I found that all this only works if I rub my feet, scalp, face and armpits really good in the shower. This is key. You got to rub good, so you remove dead skin and accumulated dirt that the soap used to help remove before.
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I read that the skin is salty, oily and acidic by nature. Soap is caustic and removes all oil from the skin. I can only guess that the oil+acidic properties of human skin have developed with evolution to PROTECT the body from bacterial and fungal INFECTION... and that soap is the best way of removing this protective layer.
Reply from 'Silvertree':
Interesting stuff. More field tested info. I am using white vinegar on my whole body now. I had a raw and itchy scalp caused by a shampoo I did not agree with. Looking on the internet I came across a number of recommendations for using white vinegar to treat it. It worked great. It is very good at removing soap residue, and rinses clean so you do not smell like a pickle. I currently treat my scalp with vinegar, let it sit for 2 minutes, rinse, shampoo, rinse, spray with vinegar, and rinse again. My hair is shiny and soft, and looks much better the next day when I wake up. Far less oily.
This led me to try it on my next problem. I have had an ongoing infection inside my nose for years. The doctors have prescribed antibiotics which stop it for a week or three, and then it comes back, and I do not want to live on antibiotics. They had recommended a nose spray of salt water, which I buy in little squeeze bottles. I took an empty bottle and filled it with white vinegar. I sprayed it in my nose in the shower. Then I rinse with the salt spray. It burned a lot at first, but my nose improved within the first day. After a week, the problem was gone.
This got me reading about vinegar, and I saw a recommendation to use it on your face. I tried putting a little on a cotton ball and washing my whole face with it. My skin looks better than it ever has. I am 56, and it got rid of the bags under my eyes, and the big wrinkles at the corners of my eyes are all but gone. I would say I look 10 years younger in a month. My forehead and nose were always very oily, and prone to blackheads, and pimples. Even in my 50s, I would still get one or two a month. My skin is no longer oily, and so far no pimples.
The next thing I tried was replacing deodorant by washing my underarms with vinegar. By this point, I had a spray bottle of the stuff in my shower. I spray it under my arms, wash with my hands, rinse, and spray more on to let it sit while I wash the rest of me. Then I rinse carefully to avoid the pickle smell. I no longer get arm pit odor when sweaty, and I notice that I sweat less to boot. I was getting a rash from the deodorants anyway, and would have to stop using them from time to time.
I still can't stop using soap. Social conditioning I guess. I am using Cetaphil soap free soap bars anyway, because most soaps are make me itchy. I now spray my whole body with vinegar after I wash, and wash my feet with vinegar only and a soft brush. I use the brush and vinegar on my hands as well. Then I rinse thoroughly.
The result is I have never felt cleaner in my life. My clothes do not smell after I wear them. My socks do not smell, and my feet feel better. My bath towels smell clean after a week when I wash them. I feel better. It is like I spent half a century covered in soap scum and bacteria that live on soap scum, and now that it is gone, it feels wonderful.
Another thought has occurred to me. We make the pheromones that attract women, but they get masked by deodorants, perfumes, and the smell of the bacteria that live on the skin. I am wondering if my new clean self is putting out more pheromones, or they are masked less. They are made by skin, and I can feel that my skin is healthier. No answer, but food for thought.
I pay $1.29 US for a gallon (3.75 L) of generic Roundy's brand 5% acidity distilled white vinegar, and it is replacing a whole pile of expensive stuff I used to buy. Better and cheaper. Can't beat that.
Next home remedy. Something else I found while researching the cosmetic use of vinegar. 3% hydrogen peroxide. I use it as a mouthwash once a day. It kills the bacteria that cause bad breath, and plaque. My breath is better all day, better when I wake up, and my teeth are noticeably whiter after a month. My mouth always feels clean. $0.89 US per liter. A liter is lasting me a month. That, and brushing with baking soda gives you natural sweet breath. Well, it doesn't help if you are a garlic addict, but it does cure bacteria caused bad breath. Do not spill it on your clothes or carpets. It will bleach colors out.
I am still amazed at how well this stuff works. I am starting to suspect it never gets recommended on TV or in print because the soap, shampoo, and deodorant ads are a huge fraction of advertising revenue, and they are running a business.
Silver
Reply from 'Belliger':
What I think's happening is that you're giving your face a weak 'acid peel,' as Plastic Surgeons would say. 'Acid Peel' is a very good and long established plastic surgical technique, it's just that they use a much stronger acid and charge you the earth for doing it.
So long as you don't peel too deep I don't see any risk, except accidentally getting it in your eyes. And you'd know if you'd peeled too deep because the skin would be raw and sore, 'burnt' in fact. So far as I can ascertain, vinegar has no long-term cancer causing or other unpleasant action. Hope this helps. Belliger
All my life, I always had *heavy* dandruff and red itchy spots around/on my nose. When I was a teen I started the search for a product that could help. All specialized products i tried made it worse. But every summer it disappeared. Could it be the sun? Could it be bathing in sea water (which I did a lot)?
After I found mASF I decided I had to solve it. Googled and found that the condition is an allergic reaction to a micro fungus (p. ovale) that lives on all human skin. But only some have allergy to it. I also read that this type of allergy has become increasingly common during 20th century but didnt dwell on this at the time.
What i did (previously posted) was to massage coconut fat into my skin prior to washing it with strong soap. My idea was to massage the micro-fungi into the fat and then *remove* all the fat from my skin. This worked brilliantly and I was really happy :D As long as I remembered to do this 2-3 times a week my skin was beautifully pale and baby soft. But if I forgot doing it for 4 days, it sometimes came back strongly....
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When I was a student 10 years ago, I got athlete's foot. I tried all the drugstore products but it always returned. My feet smelled like old french cheese at all times, even shortly after showering. Whenever I removed my shoes, the smell would fill the room.
This summer I decided I had had it with this illness. The cracks it caused hurt bad at times and it was spreading from the skin to the toe nails making them look all wrinkly.
Again I googled and found lots of advice:
-vinegar foot bath
-salty water foot bath
-teatree oil
and one that *really* made me think:
This one guy claimed he had gotten rid of it 100%, only by.. QUIT USING SOAP. Someone had told him that soap unbalances the skin so its more open to fungal attack....
Soo, I started taking foot baths with vinegar AND salt.. and sprayed my feet with teatree oil afterwards.. and quit using soap on them.. (my goal was clear and *nothing* was gonna prevent me from reaching it)
After one week my feet was 100% smell free and new baby soft skin started to appear where the damaged skin peeled off. I could rub my finger between my toes 24 hours after washing them, and hold it under my nose and still smell *nothing*.
Gradually I washed my feet less, and now I spray them with a little vinegar once a week. The toe nails look *perfect* now, and the skin is pale pink and baby soft.. and I can go for 3-4 days without washing and they still smell *nothing*.
¤¤¤
But enough about feet. This success got me thinking that maybe soap unbalanced my scalp and face in similar way, allowing the micro fungi to grow out of control.. so I quit all soap/product use on my face and scalp, and I quit using the oil, and at once I got the allergic reaction but 3 days later it started improving. Now I rub my scalp and face with mild vinegar water once a week and almost all the redness is gone and its still improving.
¤¤¤
I always had really smelly arm pits and I always heard that its bacteria and fungus that create the smell while they eat sweat.. so I quit using soap on them too and it worked brilliantly!! now they no longer smell like decay, but more like new sweat, even after two days without showering.
The clothes get almost as smelly as before tough..
¤¤¤
But, I found that all this only works if I rub my feet, scalp, face and armpits really good in the shower. This is key. You got to rub good, so you remove dead skin and accumulated dirt that the soap used to help remove before.
¤¤¤
I read that the skin is salty, oily and acidic by nature. Soap is caustic and removes all oil from the skin. I can only guess that the oil+acidic properties of human skin have developed with evolution to PROTECT the body from bacterial and fungal INFECTION... and that soap is the best way of removing this protective layer.
Reply from 'Silvertree':
Interesting stuff. More field tested info. I am using white vinegar on my whole body now. I had a raw and itchy scalp caused by a shampoo I did not agree with. Looking on the internet I came across a number of recommendations for using white vinegar to treat it. It worked great. It is very good at removing soap residue, and rinses clean so you do not smell like a pickle. I currently treat my scalp with vinegar, let it sit for 2 minutes, rinse, shampoo, rinse, spray with vinegar, and rinse again. My hair is shiny and soft, and looks much better the next day when I wake up. Far less oily.
This led me to try it on my next problem. I have had an ongoing infection inside my nose for years. The doctors have prescribed antibiotics which stop it for a week or three, and then it comes back, and I do not want to live on antibiotics. They had recommended a nose spray of salt water, which I buy in little squeeze bottles. I took an empty bottle and filled it with white vinegar. I sprayed it in my nose in the shower. Then I rinse with the salt spray. It burned a lot at first, but my nose improved within the first day. After a week, the problem was gone.
This got me reading about vinegar, and I saw a recommendation to use it on your face. I tried putting a little on a cotton ball and washing my whole face with it. My skin looks better than it ever has. I am 56, and it got rid of the bags under my eyes, and the big wrinkles at the corners of my eyes are all but gone. I would say I look 10 years younger in a month. My forehead and nose were always very oily, and prone to blackheads, and pimples. Even in my 50s, I would still get one or two a month. My skin is no longer oily, and so far no pimples.
The next thing I tried was replacing deodorant by washing my underarms with vinegar. By this point, I had a spray bottle of the stuff in my shower. I spray it under my arms, wash with my hands, rinse, and spray more on to let it sit while I wash the rest of me. Then I rinse carefully to avoid the pickle smell. I no longer get arm pit odor when sweaty, and I notice that I sweat less to boot. I was getting a rash from the deodorants anyway, and would have to stop using them from time to time.
I still can't stop using soap. Social conditioning I guess. I am using Cetaphil soap free soap bars anyway, because most soaps are make me itchy. I now spray my whole body with vinegar after I wash, and wash my feet with vinegar only and a soft brush. I use the brush and vinegar on my hands as well. Then I rinse thoroughly.
The result is I have never felt cleaner in my life. My clothes do not smell after I wear them. My socks do not smell, and my feet feel better. My bath towels smell clean after a week when I wash them. I feel better. It is like I spent half a century covered in soap scum and bacteria that live on soap scum, and now that it is gone, it feels wonderful.
Another thought has occurred to me. We make the pheromones that attract women, but they get masked by deodorants, perfumes, and the smell of the bacteria that live on the skin. I am wondering if my new clean self is putting out more pheromones, or they are masked less. They are made by skin, and I can feel that my skin is healthier. No answer, but food for thought.
I pay $1.29 US for a gallon (3.75 L) of generic Roundy's brand 5% acidity distilled white vinegar, and it is replacing a whole pile of expensive stuff I used to buy. Better and cheaper. Can't beat that.
Next home remedy. Something else I found while researching the cosmetic use of vinegar. 3% hydrogen peroxide. I use it as a mouthwash once a day. It kills the bacteria that cause bad breath, and plaque. My breath is better all day, better when I wake up, and my teeth are noticeably whiter after a month. My mouth always feels clean. $0.89 US per liter. A liter is lasting me a month. That, and brushing with baking soda gives you natural sweet breath. Well, it doesn't help if you are a garlic addict, but it does cure bacteria caused bad breath. Do not spill it on your clothes or carpets. It will bleach colors out.
I am still amazed at how well this stuff works. I am starting to suspect it never gets recommended on TV or in print because the soap, shampoo, and deodorant ads are a huge fraction of advertising revenue, and they are running a business.
Silver
Reply from 'Belliger':
What I think's happening is that you're giving your face a weak 'acid peel,' as Plastic Surgeons would say. 'Acid Peel' is a very good and long established plastic surgical technique, it's just that they use a much stronger acid and charge you the earth for doing it.
So long as you don't peel too deep I don't see any risk, except accidentally getting it in your eyes. And you'd know if you'd peeled too deep because the skin would be raw and sore, 'burnt' in fact. So far as I can ascertain, vinegar has no long-term cancer causing or other unpleasant action. Hope this helps. Belliger
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