About a week ago a couple of the guys in the office caught the flu, I got a bit weary and went out and bought some Vit D. I started taking 10,000ui a day, along with some zinc and Vit C. It's strange, it almost feels like I have all the symptoms of the flu but in a super, super mild form.

I obviously can't confirm or deny the effects of Vit D without further testing in winter. But I reckon eshlow's onto something here.

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

March 10 2010 14:21 GMT

#503

eshlow, what are your views on astaxanthin? My mom gave me a bottle and told me that it's supposed to help with endurance and recovery, a brief web search says that it's supposed to help with these, in addition to preventing heart disease and a whole slew of other nasty afflictions,

Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/002156.html

Do you have any experience with it?

Foucault

Sweden2826 Posts

March 10 2010 21:53 GMT

#504

On March 10 2010 22:18 Energies wrote:
About a week ago a couple of the guys in the office caught the flu, I got a bit weary and went out and bought some Vit D. I started taking 10,000ui a day, along with some zinc and Vit C. It's strange, it almost feels like I have all the symptoms of the flu but in a super, super mild form.

Definately. Vitamin supplements help me alot from becoming sick (knock on wood). And when I get sick I feel the same mild symptoms you describe.

Foucault

Sweden2826 Posts

March 10 2010 21:54 GMT

#505

On March 10 2010 23:21 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
eshlow, what are your views on astaxanthin? My mom gave me a bottle and told me that it's supposed to help with endurance and recovery, a brief web search says that it's supposed to help with these, in addition to preventing heart disease and a whole slew of other nasty afflictions,

Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/002156.html

Do you have any experience with it?

It's an anti-oxidant right? You might also wanna try Carnosine and Taurine as far as anti-oxidants go

eshlow

United States5210 Posts

March 11 2010 05:20 GMT

#506

Yeah, that's why wrote this up:

http://www.eatmoveimprove.com/2009/10/a-closer-look-at-vitamin-d/

Vitamin D upregulates T-lymphocytes and various anti-microbial peptides such as cathelicidin and defensins.

Nope.

In general, anti-oxidants will help recovery from endurance exercises. However, instead of allowing your body to adapt, they will blunt the recovery inflammation etc. So if you want to actually improve performance you should just let your body heal normally.

Just search pubmed for anti-oxidants and endurance/workouts etc. and you'll see there's some blunting effect of adaptations. I think there was some recent news pieces on this too.

Stormich

Croatia336 Posts

March 13 2010 19:28 GMT

#507

So I'm trying to get in shape once again and I started doing Starting strength but i replaced power cleans with cable pull downs (cause i can't do pull ups yet). Is there any other exercise better to replace the power clean?

Drowsy

United States4876 Posts

March 13 2010 19:36 GMT

#508

On March 14 2010 04:28 Stormer wrote:
So I'm trying to get in shape once again and I started doing Starting strength but i replaced power cleans with cable pull downs (cause i can't do pull ups yet). Is there any other exercise better to replace the power clean?

Something that's not on a machine. Try pendlay rows or do assisted or negative pullups if you must. Teaching yourself the powerclean isn't that hard. Inverted rows would also be fine. Do any "light" pulling movement.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

March 14 2010 00:09 GMT

#509

Last year, when I really couldnt do power cleans, I was advised to just do the power clean motion without the last "flip" of the wrists. Even without that part, you heavily use your shoulders and overall core/legs just getting the bar to shoulder-height.

I grabbed the gym instructor who knew the most and asked him if he could teach me

AoN.DimSum

United States2983 Posts

March 14 2010 00:12 GMT

#510

On March 14 2010 09:09 thedeadhaji wrote:
Last year, when I really couldnt do power cleans, I was advised to just do the power clean motion without the last "flip" of the wrists. Even without that part, you heavily use your shoulders and overall core/legs just getting the bar to shoulder-height.

I grabbed the gym instructor who knew the most and asked him if he could teach me

are you talking about clean high pulls?

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

March 14 2010 06:55 GMT

#511

*youtubes clean high pull*...

YUP!

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

March 14 2010 10:03 GMT

#512

AHhh I need to do cardios...
and a better sleeping schedule would help...

decafchicken

United States20022 Posts

March 14 2010 15:57 GMT

#513

Just got back from a week of drinking rum for 12 hours a day and eating 2 meals a day in the bahamas. probably lost 10 pounds and a shit ton of muscle. Hopefully my AC sprain has healed enough for me to do some upper body which i've been staying away from for ~4-5 weeks. Time to rebuild everything ive lost in the last month.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

March 14 2010 18:47 GMT

#514

im still going strong veeery slowly making progress

sometimes I get curious what my lifts would be now
eshlow have u tested ur lifts? like squat or bench or deadhang?

AoN.DimSum

United States2983 Posts

March 14 2010 21:45 GMT

#515

On March 14 2010 15:55 thedeadhaji wrote:
*youtubes clean high pull*...

YUP!

I have never done them, so I'm not sure how high you need to get the bar. It's mostly about exploding with your hips and that explosive shrug. I'm not sure what the purpose of high pulls since I never done it before.

If you video tape your form, I can see whats wrong. I don't have that great of an eye, but maybe eshlow can see.

unknown.sam

Philippines2701 Posts

March 15 2010 07:43 GMT

#516

i had a chat with a trainer recently and told him my goals (strength/fat loss) and my current workout routine etc etc. and he recommended i switch to EDT (Escalating Density Training) instead. has anyone tried or heard about this particular program?? feedback would be appreciated

RowdierBob

Australia13030 Posts

March 15 2010 07:52 GMT

#517

Can't you just walk around in the sun for Vit D rather than buying supplements?

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

March 15 2010 12:45 GMT

#518

On March 15 2010 16:52 RowdierBob wrote:
Can't you just walk around in the sun for Vit D rather than buying supplements?

Perosnally, I actually have a life where I barely get any sunlight exposure

Go to work before sunrise, get out after sunset, maybe about 10 minutes of morning sunlight/day.

Energies

Australia3225 Posts

March 15 2010 13:52 GMT

#519

On March 15 2010 16:52 RowdierBob wrote:
Can't you just walk around in the sun for Vit D rather than buying supplements?

You don't get adequate amount of Vitamin D in winter due to complete lack of exposure, you need almost full body. Which in Australia we get plenty of during the summer, although even that is reduced due to sunscreen. In winter you're almost always covered up, not to mention a real lack of sun.

Check this out mate if you don't have time to read eshlow's article.

Energies

Australia3225 Posts

March 15 2010 13:57 GMT

#520

Back at the gym today after several weeks of eating junk food and drinking.
I'm at around 250lb squat but I can't even run 10 minutes on the treadmill.

I'm unhealthy as crap at the moment and I'm no liking myself. I haven't gained or lost any actual weight in terms of numbers but I believe I have lost some muscle and gained some fat. I can only see the top row of my abs.

This is shit, it's going to take at least 6-8 weeks to get it back, and the worst part is I have little to no motivation to actually go for it. I have a trip to Nepal in 7 weeks, but I just figured I'll do some cycling and running a couple of weeks before hand.

Where has my motivation gone ;(.