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January 4, 2017 Shoulders I never trained shoulders exclusively since I’ve always believed that they got hit pretty well on back and chest training movements but have since rethought this. So now I have dedicated a specific training session to shoulders each week. I make it the end of my training week since it’s a fairly small muscle group and I’m already pretty spent by the end of the week. Giant sets for shoulders look like this… Seated shoulder press machine + upright dumbbell rows + front raise using 35 lb. plate + reverse pec deck. Yes you counted right. This Giant Set is comprised of 4 movement instead 3. What do you call a 4 movement Giant Set? Hhmmm.. Maybe a Super Giant Set? NOTES: The shoulder press machine I use places the weight “per hand” so the weight stack is per hand not spread across both hands. When doing upright...

January 3, 2017 Back & Bi’s Giant sets are the corner stone of all of my sessions currently and so my back session looked like this. T-Bar Rows + Rear Delt Dumbbell Raise + Pulley Hammer Curls (using rope handle) 5 circuits of these three movements. All movements were done with no rest but some amount of rest in between each giant set. T-Bar Rows: 1 plate x 25 reps; Rear Delt Dumbbell Raise: 45 lbs. x 15 reps; Pulley Hammer Curls: 50 lbs. x 25 reps 2min T-Bar Rows: 2 plates x 20 reps; Rear Delt Dumbbell Raise: 45 lbs. x 15 reps; Pulley Hammer Curls: 60 lbs. x 20 reps 2min T-Bar Rows: 3 plates x 15 reps; Rear Delt Dumbbell Raise: 45 lbs. x 16 reps; Pulley Hammer Curls: 70 lbs. x 12 reps 3min T-Bar Rows: 4 plates x 12 reps; Rear Delt Dumbbell Raise: 45 lbs....

January 1, 2017 I’m doing this more for me than you the reader. But if it helps you focus and stay on task with your health and fitness that’s good too. I’ve made no resolutions for 2017. It’s a continuation of 2016’s missions that I haven’t achieved yet. With that being said, next click on my age-dial is 59 in June of 2017. I’m still able to build muscle and I’m still able to be strong and I’m going to milk that for as long as I can. I figured I need a before picture so here it is. This was taken 3 days after Thanksgiving. First leg day of 2017 went like this: 5 giant-set circuits; leg press + leg extension + seated leg curls in succession with no rest in between movements. ~3 minutes rest in between giant-sets. Leg press: 6 plates per side x 25 reps + Leg...

Prilosec is one of most popular drugs sold in America. It’s a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) used to treat periodic and chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease or what we commonly call heartburn. Its stablemate is Nexium. These two PPI’s are owned by AstraZeneca which garners over $1.5 billion in sales of these two popular drugs each year. PPI’s reduce the amount of hydrochloric acid produced in the stomach – which emerging science is now showing in and of itself is a bad idea. And if you want to understand what really causes GERD you can read this article. It’s estimated that 60% of the American population suffer periodic bouts of GERD over the course of a year and some 30% have regular weekly bouts. This lead to close to 300 million PPI prescription being written between 2006 and 2010. It’s a $14 billion a year class of drugs. Wow that’s a lot...

A listener of Super Human Radio called the studio to ask about a supplement we talked about on an older show. I learned during the conversation that he lost his sight as a young boy. I thought to ask him a question that has occupied my mind lately. Every time I see the commercial for the pharmaceutical drug called Hetlioz made by Vanda Pharmaceutical. I asked him “have you ever used the drug for non-24?”. He said no but a gal he knows has and she didn’t like it. It made her feel ill and didn’t improve her sleep one bit. I have no idea what it’s like to be blind so I asked him “why not just use melatonin?” He began to laugh and said that’s what he does. Non-24 is a bull$#!t diagnosis. Not because it doesn't exists. Because it doesn't require a pharmaceutical drug to treat it! A...