How should you use performance enhancers? by mark19

Assuming you are comfortable with using performance enhancers, you will have to decide on appropriate dosages. But prior to that you will have to decide which performance enhancers are acceptable for you. This article deals only with vitamins and puts them in the same class as anabolic substances.

When you go to the MD, you generally come away with a prescription. Written on it, are the directions. Take one every six hours for four days, etc. Then, there is a limitation on the number of refill;ls. You can only get three refills, for example.

As much as MDs have a bad habit of discouraging things such as exercise, supplementation and even a co-op food based diet, they do well when it comes to prescriptions. They tell you how much, how often and when to stop, prior to seeing them again for an evaluation. All of that is good. In fact, it’s wonderful considering the side effect potential of most of what they prescribe.

When it comes to performance enhancers, you are on your own. Your Md probably does not believe in these, does, not use them, and won’t suggest that you go and get some helpful over the counter varieties. Yes, there are exceptions. There are some MDs who are supportive of an an athletic lifestyle, but they tend to be in the minority. Perhaps most are under thirty, just out of medical school.

In short, you have to answer the hard questions if you are going to a responsible job with performance enhancers.Which ones should you choose, and why? What do you want them to do? Then, there is the issue f how much. You believe that you are either the same size as most folks, or bigger or smaller than average. That should impact how much of a dosage is right for you. You can start with what it says on the bottle, but you have to assume that the manufacturing company had a certain subject in mind before attaching its recommendations. Are you like this person? Are you the same same size? How about the same sex? Do you place the same amount of physical demand on yourself as they do? Is your body chemistry the same?

Then too there are the generic warnings, either implicit or explicit. For example, vitamin C is almost never found in two gram bullets, so it must be that there are studies suggesting that that is universally too much. But vitamin C can help you recover more quickly from a pulled muscle, so might you try one gram per two hours for 3 days, let us say? That is only vitamin. What about a multi? How about antioxidants? You really should have good answers to these questions before committing your self to a daily regimen.

This may sound like all too much, but that is what you have to do if you are going to a responsible job of using performance enhancers. Sure it’s work, but isn’t that a lot better than grabbing a bottle of the health food store shelf and just taking it because the commercial said it would work wonders?

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Should you use performance enhancers? by mark19

With all of the uproar over steroids, it has become questionable whether you should use anything to help with your fitness program. It is as if these are cheating, as it were, something that should not be allowed either for oneself or others.

Supposedly if you use anything even as innocuous as green tea capsules, you have no right to feel proud of having completed your workout or possibly lifted more weight or run a faster three-mile. It is as if the performance enhancer did it, not you. Does this really make sense?

When thinking about performance enhancers, one first needs to identify what he or she is really talking about. Does this mean an anabolic product which may have serious side effects down the road? Does it mean green tea capsules, which have an anti-oxidant effect in addition to an immediate elevation of one’s energy levels? Or, does this extend to vitamins, which can be used to compensate for nutritional demands made more severe by strenuous daily workouts?

Clearly, steroids have been banned from sports for a number of reasons. One of the most important is that they cause long term negative side effects. Thus no one should even want to take them. But green tea capsules are not bad for you, unless severely over done. And vitamins,except for a few instances of extreme mega dosing, are not either.

There are other products besides these. Guarana is one. Yohimbe is another. Some weight lifters have even been helped by a gram dosage of caffeine and aspirin, something your local pharmacists will cringe at and your MD will caution you against. These have all helped to make workouts more pleasant and more productive.

Ought they to be considered acceptable? That is a question which you have to answer for yourself. You may be a person who thinks that three meals per day with a possible cup coffee is all that you and everyone else should find sufficient.

Far too many of us are overweight and should therefore cut back on the number of daily calories while stepping up one’s workout. Then too most of us have jobs which drain our en

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The Calendar is not your Coach by mark19

The calendar is not your coach. Of course, it generally acts like one, but it shouldn’t. That is, you ought not let the calendar ought tell you when take a day off. That is just giving an inanimate object way too much power. Surely a more basic part of you would agree with that.

Most folks, called the Normal Majority in my book “Think and Grow Fit”. are made to do certain things by these means. All they need to do is look at the calendar to know that they should slow down in preparation for a celebration or that they should get hungry in anticipation of a meal. In other words, the calendar and the clock become their bosses or parents if they happen to be much younger.

Should this be? Most people think so and become very angry when they are expected to work out on Thanksgiving, for example. Same goes for Christmas and their birthday, to say nothing of the Fourth, New Years, etc. These are sacred time,so to speak, even if they are otherwise not religious. If they are, it may even include every Sunday, Maunday Thursday, Good Friday and even Shrove Tuesday prior to the Mardi Gras! Then too there is the minimum two weeks vacation, which may even have become a four week one.

Is this all OK? In our society, it is expected. That is its very OK. It is thought of as the just due for everyone who lives here. The assumption is that we are all so fortunate for it being this way as opposed to others in different parts of the globe.

Would Michael Phelps, Olympic gold medalist be like this? He might if he were not himself. An interview immediately after the 2008 Games found him not remembering when he had taken a day off and virtually happy that he had never missed. He did not want. He wanted to do his daily miles to be the superlative athlete that he is. Perhaps, he even thought of this as simply being himself.

How do you feel about brushing your teeth? Do you refuse to do this on legal holidays or ever find it a wrongful activity for a Sunday prior to sitting in church? More than likely you don’t. Can you ever remember a time when you did, for any reason?

The same type of thinking needs to be prevalent when it comes to working out. We should do it because it’s good for us, keeps us socially desirable and simply promotes the best of health. Then like Michael Phelps we will not be able to remember when we took the day off and that we simply do what we do because its is a part of us.

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Have you gotten back to normal yet? by mark19

If you took Thanksgiving off from working out, you may have some catching up to do. You probably ate too much, rested too much, and therefore found the week afterward to have been extremely difficult. But it has been a week since then, so you should now be back to doing what you usually do.

That slow down did not have to happen. You could have worked out Thanksgiving Day. If you would have, you would not have eaten the third helpings and the pieces of both the pumpkin and the pecan pies. You might even have gone out for a brisk half hour after dinner walk. That would have left you at the right place for the next day’s workout. It also would have made this last week far easier.

Talk like this is considered by many to be nothing other than the laying on of a guilt trip. That became very unfashionable in the seventies when it was commonplace to think that we all were suffering from having to do far too much for others, and therefore not enough for ourselves. When it comes to recovering from the holidays, however, it is difficult to see how taking off to over eat and sit around is at all something anyone would really want to do.

Michael Phelps multi-Olympic gold medalist could not remember when he had a day off,and it was clear that he didn’t care. His interviewer was shocked at this, appearing to feel sorry for someone so driven. But Phelps really did not care, because he is a champion, who loves what he does. That means his daily workouts, or athletic lifestyle as much as standing on the platform at the final ceremonies.

Most of us do not understand working out like he does. We think it is drudgery, if we even do it at all. Generally that’s because we do it for others like our MDs, who threaten us with diabetes and heart trouble if we don’t drop the excess poundage. In some cases it’s even for our spouses who want us to look more like we did when we first started dating. They provide are the real reasons that the holidays are so welcomed. No one, not even them, can expect us to do anything so onerous on these special days off.

All due respect to the Normal Majority of folks who are like this. But special appreciation should be shown for those like Phelps who want to do what they excel at. If more of us were like that, there would be far less gritting our teeth to get back up to speed after a big holiday blowout. Then we might all get more trim, resulting in far less diabetes, heart and cholesterol difficulties.

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