Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Personal Trainers

i browsed a few pages of a book named "Scrawny to Brawny" in MPH. The author is a true hardgainer (ectomorph) who failed to bulk up in his young age despite all his hard work. Nevertheless, he was dedicated in helping others to achieve what the author could not achieve..

I was subconciously prejudiced against those skinny personal trainers in my fitness centre (celebrity fitness). However the reading changed my perspective. Those personal trainers are sure to understand that their physiques are less persuasive and they will be in disadvantages to get clients. Yet they are willing to take the challenges. I think it is plainly due to their enthusiasm in fitness/bodybuilding.

Although I still disagree with their method in training ; P , now i do respect those personal trainers.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Web 2.0 - new era of internet...

A few years ago, when i heard "Web 2.0", i thought it is just a meaningless buzzword.

However the popularity of P2P (bt, eMule etc), blog, Wikipedia have marked a new era of internet.

In conventional web, the webpages are static and user can just view the pages. There is no two ways interaction.

In Web 2.0, it emphasizes in participation. more participation = more contents = attract more traffic = earn more $$

To participate in this trend, i am going to learn Ajax, which help improve user experience...

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

No Way Back!

i found an interesting way to block user from "back" in IE & Firefox.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=574062

the idea is to auto forward (which counter the back effect) for every pages.

dunno why, the provided solution don't work in firefox. after some tries and errors, finally i found a combination to disable "back" in Firefox.

<html><head> <title> Foobar: Home </title>
<script> history.forward(); </script>
</head>
<body onunload="history.go(1);"> <h2> Home, Sweet Home </h2> <p>
<a href="foo.html"> foo! </a> </p> <p> <a href="bar.html"> bar! </a> </p>
</body></html>

the bold parts are the key parts to make it happen.

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Friday, October 13, 2006

The secrets to faster gains

in "Defy your genetics; nature designed you to hold as little muscle and as much fat as possible" http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_3_21/ai_n13504303/pg_1 it mention 3 interesting tricks to building muscle mass fast.
1. Spread your wings: stretch your muscles after workout
2. Go partway: cheating by partial range of motion
3. Break the taboo: active recovery on consecutive day

I practise 1 for long time already. It is effective.
Not quite interested in 2.

What more eye-opening is 3.

The related info can be found in http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_4_21/ai_n13667732/pg_2
Instead of resting for recovery, Chad Waterbury in the article recommended trainees to do workout with very light weight and high repetition (30-50 reps) on any day except the heavy weight day. The logic is reasonable - pumping the muscles will greatly increase the blood (bringing nutrients) to the muscles for repairing the damaged muscles.

IMO, high reps training will mostly train for muscle fiber type-I whereas muscle fiber type-II are recruited in heavy weight training. Therefore, it won't cause further damage to the damaged muscles.

benefit?

  1. Faster Recovery
  2. Increased Muscle Size
  3. Reduced Muscle Soreness
  4. Better Muscular Endurance

for the workout, KISS principle is applied. So, i can do the active recovery workouts at home.

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Sunday, October 08, 2006

a simple step to better life...

[Simple Steps by Dr Arthur Caliandro]
Settle with the Past and Move On

We are products of everything that has ever happened to us -- a sum total of all our successes, failures, disappointments, and triumphs. Our childhoods are still with us every day. So are our mothers, our fathers, all the people who had a part in raising us, and -- to a greater or lesser extent -- every person we have ever known.
Who we are today is a combination of all the experiences we have had and all the reactions we have had to them.
Yet does our past determine our futures? To some extent, but not entirely. There's something even more important than the past we've had. It's our reaction and response to those experiences.
In other words, what counts is how effectively we are dealing with the past.
Many of us run a real danger of becoming crippled by the past, unable to move beyond it. And if that happens, we become its prisoner. I am continually amazed at the number of people I have talked with -- people in their seventies, eighties, and even nineties -- who remain stuck in their childhood traumas.
That needn't happed to us. As we grow and mature, we have a choice to make. We can choose to remain victims of the past or learn to deal with our earlier lives in a way that serves us, not cripples us. We can find ways to learn and grow from everything that has ever happened to us.
Whether your past has been happy or sad, troubled or calm, today is a new day. It is a chance to move on.

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This is so true in an important aspect of my life... I am totally crippled by my past, unconsciously...
... today is a new day. It is a chance to move on.

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