Recent Posts by str8flexed

Kristin,

I wish nothing but the best for you.  You are a great competitor and I have no doubt you will win a pro card at a show in the future and I look forward to seeing you again at shows.

Man, everyone around here is so hostile towards me LOL ... I think I'm a pretty nice guy LOL! 

Sean... I thought I might be able to sneak that one past you :D

to be honest I have not heard good things from several people who's opinion I value.

If you want to still do the shows I'd do them, I would just not expect as much as like an NANBF show

I am going to purposefully update my status every time I think of it now just so Joe has to read about exactly what I'm doing. 

BTW... I believe I was Joe's first friend.  Joe... secret man-crush?

here you go sean :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Fm277eIzE

ahhh yes.  I don't know what I enjoyed more.  Watching our defense win a game... or watching the patriots get absolutely destroyed :)  by a team we beat no less :)

though Cassel was on my fantasy team so that was a downer :(

yeaaaaaaah buddy. 

btw... how money is Vinitieri? Best move ever to get rid of Vanderjagt and get Vinitieri.

are they as filling and fibrous as something like chicken rice & broccoli?  no.  But are they better than a cheeseburger in a pinch or nothing at all if you are crunched for time?  better believe it.

I would not go out of your way to eat one, but if your have limited time & options then they are fine.  

not much data available... but I doubt it.

much of the ideas of 'cycling' came up because people cycle anabolic hormones.  Steroids cause shut down of endogenous production of hormones and so cycling is nessecary.  Though feedback pathways exist for many metabolites, they are usually not nearly as sensitive, nor activated as quickly as when dealing with hormones.  

I could be wrong, but as of now I see no evidence to suggest cycling is beneficial.

Raph,

if you just stopped taking it today, how can you evaluate it's effectiveness based on one day?  Also, when did you start taking it?  You've been prepping for a while, so if you didn't see strength gains & endurance improvement it's likely that is more of a function of reduced bodyfat levels over time, rather than beta alanine not doing it's job.  How did you maintain strength while prepping?  worse than before?  better than before?  These are things to keep in mind when evaluating the effectiveness of a supplements.  Certainly there is enough genetic variability amongst people that it may not work for some, but the research overall indicates as far as supplements go, it is very effective.

-Layne

absolutely 100% completely and utterly false.  Please see my article here:  http://www.musculardevelopment.com/content/view/89/54/

"Myth: "Don't take your Creatine with protein because protein contains glutamine and glutamine competes with Creatine for the same transporter!"

The Real Deal: There's not an ounce of truth to this. Creatine and glutamine have completely different receptors. Creatine transport into skeletal muscle is regulated by the Creatine Transporter⁷ while glutamine transport into skeletal muscle is regulated by a system known as "System Nm." ⁸ The only thing these transporters have in common is that they are  both sodium-dependent transporters, meaning that they use differences in sodium concentrations across the cell membrane to drive Creatine into cells. Apparently somewhere along the line, somebody believed that since glutamine and Creatine transporters both shared that characteristic, they must be the same transporter and the myth spread from there. Let the confusion end here: they do not share the same transporter, and taking protein/glutamine with Creatine won't decrease Creatine uptake into muscle."

I've been to my share

Dope (3x)

Mushroomhead (2x)

Shinedown (4x)

Static-X

Papa Roach

Filter

Sevendust

Chimaira 

quite a few mis-truths in there. 

flex is not missing his myostatin gene.  To be a homozygous knockout, it would be about a one in a trillion chance unless you were inbred.

Flex has a mutation of the gene

Joe,

Brad looks great, I think he's always looked great.  I think he has phenoninal symmetry and I was extremely happy to see him win his pro card and then win a pro show.  When I met him in 2006 at the show where I turned pro he was a great guy to me and I enjoyed hanging out with him.  Especially with what he went through injury wise, I was happier than anyone to see him succeed.  Hopefully he'll have more of it next year.  

-Layne

actually i'm pretty much good to go on anything but chest/shoulder presses.

I'm up to 55 lb dumbbells for curls and rowing pretty much normally, though pulldowns/pullups I still have to be cautious