The Shinchi Ultimatum

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Updates to my new supplement stacks, which has changed significantly since August.

Workout Day

Wake up
Whey protein (1 scoop ) + 5g BCAA

Preworkout
Superpump 250 (1 scoop, 45 mins before)
Whey protein (1 scoop, 5 mins before) , 20g protein, 120 calories

Post workout
Muscle Juice (4 scoop, immediately) . 50g protein, 1000 calories

Before Sleep
ZMA (1 serving)
MHP Up your Mass (2 scoop) 20g protein, 300 calories + 5g BCAA

Non-workout Day

This is the ultimate save money stack. Why?

Wake up
Whey protein (2 scoop )
Universal Storm (1 scoop)

Before Sleep
ZMA (1 serving)
Controlled Labs White Blood (3 caps)
MHP Up your Mass (2 scoop) 20g protein, 300 calories

Superpump 250 gives me all the NO and Creatine I need, and due to its potency, I avoid additional creatine because of it. Muscle Juice is super cheap for $84 for 26 servings. With 1000 calories, I never need to worry about not enough calories. And mind you its not some empty calories from some cheese burgers. I gain 1.5 kg so far, with no increase in body fat % with this stack.

Oh yea, people blame bad genes for everything. I want to fight that.

My grandma died of pancreas cancer and my grandpa died of colon cancer. My mum and my sister is a carrier of Thalassemia. My dad has diabetes. All my grandparents had diabetes. Almost all the cousins on my dad side are obese.

Bad genes ? I do the calculation and I think I have a slight chance of beating it. If all my grandparents had diabetes, and my dad has it, then chances that I will have it in my lifetime is 80%. The only way I can avoid it is to delay the onset of it my controlling my blood sugar and prevent insulin spike. I do that my avoid all refined sugar, go with only whole food. So I do that.

What about cancer? Oh, eat a lot of anti-oxidants. Eat berries, drink Green Tea! Avoid deep-fried food. Exercise everyday. So I eat berries everyday. Cut all my deep-fried food. And exercise! Green tea rocks!

Great! I am winning the war against bad genes

Then I just got suspected for kidney stones. Great, my uncle got kidney stones too so it is probably hereditary. I do a check and realize that spinach and berries and tea has a high level of oxalate which could be causing them. High Protein diet also increase the risk of it. My daily diet consist of nuts, spinach, berries and green tea. Spinach has the highest level of oxalate. Who will know that eating green vegetables will go so wrong. I mean, Popeye ate it everyday right? And all the strawberries, green tea! Well, it turns out that these food only increase the risk factors for humans under the risk of kidney stones. They do not pose a risk in healthy humans. So? I guess its bad genes again.

Okay, now I have a choice!

Choice 1: Eat a low-protein, high carbs diet. And get Diabetes
Choice 2 : Eat a high-protein, low carbs diet. And get Kidney Stones
Choice 3: Eat a mid-protein, mid carbs diet. And have a slight chance of getting both Kidney Stones and Diabetes
Choice 4: Every whatever I want , and follow the route of my predecessor. Who cares right ?

No way I am succumbing to genes!

I will cut my protein, double my fluid intake (I am already drinking 1 gallon a day), cut all the Oxalate sources. So no berries, peanuts, coffee, tea, spinach , chocolate for me. Then I cut all my protein to lower my risk for kidney stones. Next I cut all my carbs to prevent any insulin spike. Next I cut all fat to prevent heart disease.

So my next meal will be…hmmm… just water ?

Expensive Oatmeal is higher in fibre and takes generally longer to cook to soften

Cheaper Oatmeal has a low of “hard” case that make you feel like biting on a nail. But then it can be 4x cheaper than organic oatmeal.

Which one to choose from is up to your budget. I start with expensive ones but now succumb to cheaper alternatives. I might be going for MRP soon to lower my meal cost

Recently I picked up Universal Storm to replace SAN-V12 as my pre-workout supp. The reason is because Storm is cheaper, contains 80 servings to v12’s 50. Also Storm contains more creatine than v12’s. Since I am ditching my old Creatine Ethyl Ester because they do not work for me, Storm looks like a quality product for its price.

Results? I get the same endurance + strength from both supps. Although I can see my veins swell more with V12, probably due to a higher AKG in it as compared to Storm. However, in terms of weights wise, not much different. I am still making good progress, so I reckon both works for me, also psychologically I must admit i miss all the veins popping V12 gave me.

I also start using the bottle of Beta Alanine I got a while back. Results ? Awesome. The amount of volume I can lift with or without Beta Alanine is a big difference, which can be as much as 5 pounds for incline dumbbell press.

My take ? Most preworkout supplements works more or less the same. Just make sure they got enough creatine and AKG. What’s important part is that you actually take one. To break plateau, try Beta Alanine if you haven.

About Beta Alanine:
This amino acid forms carnosine by binding with the amino acid, histadine. Research shows that athletes who supplement with beta-alanine have more strength and muscle endurance. That means you can lift more total weight and lift a given weight for more reps with regular supplementation.

“I well remember the feeling of going to bed each night, envisioning my workout the following day, and then, upon waking, feeling restless until the moment I stepped into the gym. I also remember how I imagined every morsel of food I ate turning into raw muscle, and how that muscle was just waiting for me to get back into the gym so that I could sculpt it to perfection in my next workout.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, giving advice to young bodybuilders, Flex Magazine August 2008

I am feeling the same way, at least the restless part