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While doing the #POWEROFNINECHALLENGE (listening to all nine of Beethoven's symphonies in one day!) I also did abs day.

If you're going after some hard gains in muscle strength and mass in 2018, lifting smart and hard is the first step, but the second, indispensable step is getting enough protein to start building muscle. This is actually where a lot of people fail. If your body doesn't have the raw materials to bulk up, it just won't be able to, even if it wants to because you've been lifting. From my own experimentation over the last year, I highly advocate cooking and blending high calorie meals with plenty of protein in them. Blending opens up all those calories and nutrients to instant absorption. It makes everything you're taking in readily available to your body without the work of digestion, and it is easier on your digestive tract, which will be important given how much you will have to eat to gain. Pay attention to how you're feeling, but don't worry too much about putting on some fat as well as muscle when you're trying to gain. If you're worried, l...

How to work out at home and do abs day with a pull up bar in a door frame of your house. (Be safe and responsible. I'm just showing you what I do and I'm not telling you to do this. I'm not responsible for you if you hurt yourself exercising.) My Channels: Facebook Twitter Keep Me Going: Patreon My Tip Jars: (BTC) 1K3E6DsDdJUZRUpcSGnEuNmJn7LzR8Sai1 (BCH) 1H4V8S2CFg9MZCypE86pgayDiS7iagFSUa (ETH) 0xAf56a55e359f2A6eaa5Be7EcF915e512f84beC51 (LTC) La71GdAex1U3q1pb6jD4hdzcK8Hzpj6T64

If you're going after some hard gains in muscle mass in 2018, lifting smart and hard is the first step, but the second, indispensable step is getting enough calories in for your body to start laying down mass. From my own experimentation over the last year, I highly advocate cooking and blending high calorie meals with plenty of protein in them. Blending opens up all those calories and nutrients to instant absorption. It makes everything you're taking in readily available to your body without the work of digestion, and it is easier on your digestive tract, which will be important given how much you will have to eat to gain. Pay attention to how you're feeling, but don't worry too much about putting on some fat as well as muscle when you're trying to gain. If you're worried, lift harder. We're going to cut and get lean in late Spring. Who's with me? My Facebook My Twitter Keep Me Going: My Patreon My Tip Jar: (BTC) 1K3E6DsDdJU...

The secret is workout to the sounds of thousands of North Koreans mourning the death of their dear leader, Kim Jong Il. But you may want to read this guide before working out your triceps at home.

Get in touch with your snake nature through my 8 minute ab workout! Filmed this in Dec 2016 as a test to see how interested I would be in starting an exercise YouTube channel, which has been a dream of mine. What do you think?

I am talking like I'm an expert here, but I'm really not. I'm a beginner, so if any seasoned lifters have any good suggestions about my form or anything that can help me improve my lifting, I want to hear it! Thanks!

Last year, a trio of New York researchers claimed humans had already lived as long as they possibly could. About 115 years, said Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers, that's the maximum human lifespan. Now a group of Canadian researchers challenges that assertion, saying its possible human existence may be boundless. "It does not mean that we know there is no limit. But because we can detect no limit it is possible that indeed there is no limit," said McGill University biologist Siegfried Hekimi. "Average human life span keeps increasing dramatically and maximum human lifespan seems to follow. I see no statistical or demonstrated biological reason how we would know that this must stop." - USA Today, How long can humans live? (June 28, 2017)

Stefan Molyneux breaks down the truth behind circumcision, including details on the procedure, it's history, rate of occurrence, claimed medical justifications, relation to masturbation, negative consequences and its morality.

Scientists have come up with a way to make whole brains transparent, so they can be labelled with molecular markers and imaged using a light microscope. The technique, called CLARITY, enabled its creators to produce the detailed 3D visualisations you see in this video. It works in mouse brains and human brains; here the team use it to look into the brain of a 7-year-old boy who had autism. This is just-- so cool.

Pictured Above: Official prescription tablet for medicinal alcohol, 1933. Credit: The Rose Melnick Medical Museum I put a lot of time into this article last night. It's rich in facts and source material and cites reliable sources, law enforcement, and medical authorities. This is an idea whose time has come. Please help me push it past the tipping point by sharing information and educating voters about marijuana. Read my entire article at The Independent Voter Network . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

When I first read a headline saying that the city of Rocklin, California was considering banning residents from smoking outside of their homes on their own property, I was outraged. Even though I acknowledge the dangers of smoking, the idea of a city government telling a resident that they couldn’t choose to smoke on their own porch, in their own driveway, or in their own backyard seemed patently absurd to me. It didn’t seem too absurd to believe, however, especially about a city in California, which is notorious for city governments that pass “nanny state” regulations to meddle in matters like whether or not a fast food chain can put toys in meals that consumers willingly elect to purchase for their children. But when I followed the link to the CBS Sacramento article bearing the headline, I discovered a discrepancy between the text of the article and the words of the reporter in the video at the top of it.... Read the rest of my article at The Independent Voter Network Wes M...

While at CPAC this weekend, I went to a bar and sat next to a DEA employee swilling down alcohol and chain smoking his way through a pack of cigarettes. Anyone else think that's kind of hypocritical? Read all about it at IVN.us . Wes Messamore , Editor in Chief, T H L Articles | Author's Page

You don't need me to tell you that breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure has set off a firestorm over its decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. Unless you've been living at Walden Pond, you've heard all about the controversy by now. Throughout the news cycle this week, the drama just intensified, with Susan G. Komen for the Cure seemingly backing off its decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, then revelations emerging that "Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush and prominent right-wing pundit, was secretly involved in the Komen Foundation’s strategy regarding Planned Parenthood," and now reports and speculation are surfacing that Susan G. Komen is switching back to defunding Planned Parenthood, or leaving the door open to do so . They better be careful-- if they flip flop one more time, Mitt Romney might hit them with a trademark infringement suit! But before I get off-topic riffing on the entire Republican presi...

Is anyone even surprised about this ? (CBS) Should the government regulate sugar, just like it regulates alcohol and tobacco? A new commentary published online in the Feb. 1 issue of Nature says sugar is just as "toxic" for people as the other two, so the government should step in to curb its consumption. The United Nations announced in September that chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes contribute to 35 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the commentary. The U.N. pegged tobacco, alcohol, and diet as big risk factors that contributed to this death rate. Two of those are regulated by governments, "leaving one of the primary culprits behind this worldwide health crisis unchecked," the authors, Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt and Claire D. Brindis, argued. They said that over the past 50 years, sugar consumption has tripled worldwide. That's also helped contribute to the obesity epidemic - so much so that there are 30...

In a major milestone for advocates of marijuana legalization, The Journal of the American Medical Association has published the results of a study which found that casual marijuana use does not harm lung function. It was just a few months ago in October that the California Medical Association adopted a position urging the legalization of marijuana at its annual meeting. At the time, I reported that the California Medical Association acknowledged in its position that marijuana carries health risks, not unlike the use of nicotine and alcohol, but qualified that it should also be legal and regulated like nicotine and alcohol, arguing that the effects of prohibition have caused more harm to public health and families than the potential risks of marijuana use. Even if you don’t completely agree with it, that position seems reasonable enough, and it’s a position that more and more health experts and even law enforcement officials are beginning to adopt. But, the findings in t...

Just wow : Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was overheard loudly complaining on the phone in the Delta Lounge at Reagan National Airport outside Washington about Obama's healthy food initiative. According to Fishbowl DC, which first reported the lawmaker's remarks, Sensenbrenner was recounting a recent conversation he'd had at church event in Wisconsin. Obama, Sensenbrenner said loudly, "lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself." According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Daniel Bice, Sensenbrenner made a similar remark at the Wisconsin church he was referencing in his phone call, telling attendees there that Obama has a "big butt." The Wisconsin lawmaker—who, it must noted, is a bit rotund--sent a personal note to Obama apologizing for his remarks, his spokeswoman Amanda Infield tells Yahoo News. She declined to go into detail about what the note said. In a statement to reporters, the lawmaker reiterated his apology....

Here's what conservative columnist Jack Hunter recently had to say about The Primal Blueprint , a book advocating the "paleo diet" or "caveman diet" (a diet of mostly meats and vegetables): In its philosophy, the Primal Blueprint is essentially a conservative diet. Author and Primal Blueprint creator Mark Sisson says, "Forget everything you thought you knew about diet, exercise, and health. It's time to go back to the beginning." He believes that the "experts" at the Food and Drug Administration, with their food pyramid and nutritional advice about what constitutes a well-balanced meal, are full of it. According to Sisson, "The Primal Blueprint is validated by the magnificent 2-million-year scientific study that is human evolution. Our genes prefer natural hunter-gatherer foods, such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, meat, fish, fowl, and eggs." What we should avoid are grains and sugars, writes Sisson. "Processed ca...

Invented by a Chinese pharmacist in 2003, e-cigarettes are a remarkably effective solution to nicotine addiction in cigarettes smokers. One Italian researcher found that in 6 months of e-cigarette use, nearly a quarter of his sample group of 40 "hard-core smokers" had quit smoking altogether while over half cut their consumption of cigarettes by at least 50%. But the nanny statists aren't going to let a promising solution of effective harm reduction stand between them and their hatred of capitalism and independent individuals finding happiness by using something that an enterprising inventor created for profit. John Tierney reports in the New York Times : 'But there’s a powerful group working against this innovation — and it’s not Big Tobacco. It’s a coalition of government officials and antismoking groups who have been warning about the dangers of e-cigarettes and trying to ban their sale. The controversy is part of a long-running philosophical debate abou...

" Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle " --that's the headline. PARIS — Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade. ... Figuring out the structure of proteins is vital for understanding the causes of many diseases and developing drugs to block them. But a microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3-D picture that "unfolds" the molecule and rotates it in order to reveal potential targets for drugs. This is where Foldit comes in. Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- using a set of online tools. To the astonish...