BEST INFO EVER ON MAKING ARMS GROW - Rich Piana


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Once you pass your 30th or 31st birthday none of this works unless you use steroids.

It has to do with the body releasing growth hormone in response to vigorous exercise after not eating for a couple of hours before and an hour after exercise. You need to get your pulse way, way up. Be under 30. Don't eat for two hours--or drink liquor--before going to bed and the body will release GH shortly after you go to sleep. Age probably plays a factor here too.

I once tried to get around this by using a Pearson and Shaw formulation in the early 1990s, but Sandy said I needed to take twice as much but what I did take caused explosive diarrhea just when I got home from the gym. I took Lomotil to stop it. I don't know if their stuff is still available. (I did some work for them 25 years ago.)

--Brant

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Good Lord.

Just because the guy said his routine and mindset were "motherfucking psychological" or something like that, I guess this makes it a great psychology issue for a philosophy board.

Right...

Nah...

I moved this from the Psychology section to the Sports and Recreation section.

I mean, what the hell. Why not start a weight lifting thread in Metaphysics or, maybe, Stumping in the Backyard?

:)

Michael

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Once you pass your 30th or 31st birthday none of this works unless you use steroids.

Are you sure about this, Brant? To my understanding, an elderly person like you and a pre-elderly person like me can indeed achieve growth of lean muscle mass. It is probable that the loss of lean-muscle over time is not simply a function of ageing, but is related to a sedentary lifestyle.

In any case, the benefits of vigorous regular exercise in a pre-senior and a senior citizen are more general. We want to keep active and on our pins as long as possible. Giving up on exercise is not good advice for any of us here.

If you are sure about this notion that only steroids can help an aged person gain lean muscle mass, please let us know how you came to that belief. I'd be happy to share research that belies your claim.

Here's a brief story at NPR that might expand your understanding and correct some of your thinking:

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I was going by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw's explanations back then and what I went through at the age of 31 (before them) with karate training increasing my neck size by an inch. Later, 15 years older, after lengthy workouts in a gym, I may have increased my strength but not my body mass.

As for your referenced stories to the contrary I can't say anything, except if they used steroids they weren't controlled for them.

I do intend to start working out again to preserve muscle and bone mass and I'm pretty sure I can make myself somewhat stronger.

--Brant

and I may need to beat someone up (joke)

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When I read the title I thought it might refer to a new breakthrough in regeneration of a limb that had been cut off or amputated.

For those interested, there are flatworms called Planaria which have the capacity to regenerate any part of themselves which have been removed. One can cut the worm in half the long way and each half will regenerate the other half!

Google planarian regeneration.

Someday this might become possible for humans to regenerate lost limbs.

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When I read the title I thought it might refer to a new breakthrough in regeneration of a limb that had been cut off or amputated.

For those interested, there are flatworms called Planaria which have the capacity to regenerate any part of themselves which have been removed. One can cut the worm in half the long way and each half will regenerate the other half!

Google planarian regeneration.

Someday this might become possible for humans to regenerate lost limbs.

Too late for me.

--Brant

I need a new head

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When I read the title I thought it might refer to a new breakthrough in regeneration of a limb that had been cut off or amputated.

For those interested, there are flatworms called Planaria which have the capacity to regenerate any part of themselves which have been removed. One can cut the worm in half the long way and each half will regenerate the other half!

Google planarian regeneration.

Someday this might become possible for humans to regenerate lost limbs.

Too late for me.

--Brant

I need a new head

This guy needs a body but wants to keep his head.

http://rt.com/news/248473-transplant-head-body-canavero/

A real mind body dichotomy.

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Nice, you beat me to it!!

This thread had no interest for me when I first looked at it. Gulch brought up a good path for medical exploration.

And we all should have read "I Will Fear No Evil" which is one of Heinlien's great books.

The story takes place in the early 21st century against a background of an overpopulated Earth with a violent, dysfunctional society. Elderly billionaire Johann Sebastian Bach Smith is being kept alive through medical support and decides to have his brain transplanted into a new body. He advertises an offer of a million dollars for the donation of a body from a brain-dead patient. Smith omits to place any restriction on the sex of the donor, so when his beautiful young female secretary, Eunice Branca, is murdered, her body is used. He changes his name to Joan Eunice Smith.

Eunice's personality continues to co-inhabit the body and they can communicate. They agree never to reveal her continued being, fearing that they would be judged insane and locked up. Smith's identity is unsuccessfully challenged by his descendants, who hope to inherit his fortune. Smith and Eunice decide to have a baby together and so they (Joan) are artificially inseminated using Smith's sperm from the sperm bank. Joan (Smith) explores her new sexuality at length. They (Johann & Eunice/Joan) go to visit Eunice's widower, Joe Branca, to try and help reconcile him to what has happened

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Fear_No_Evil

Between Heinlein, Rand and Drury we had great logical paths of what our present is.

Imagine the story line when a man's brain and mind "wake up" in a woman's body with her "mind" still present.

Great read.

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