Month: February 2010

  • my goal is 57 pushups.

    Push Up Test (Men)

    Age
    17-19
    20-29
    30-39
    40-49
    50-59
    60-65
    Excellent
    > 56
    > 47
    > 41
    > 34
    > 31
    > 30
    Good 47-56 39-47 34-41 28-34 25-31 24-30
    Above average 35-46 30-39 25-33 21-28 18-24 17-23
    Average 19-34 17-29 13-24 11-20 9-17 6-16
    Below average 11-18 10-16 8-12 6-10 5-8 3-5
    Poor 4-10 4-9 2-7 1-5 1-4 1-2
    Very Poor < 4 < 4 < 2 0 0 0

    http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/home-pushup.htm

  • new diet

    no pork, beef, cheese, chicken a maybe.
    nothing that takes digestion more than an hour.
    yes, to eggs, fish, vegetables and fruit.
    eat at 9am, 12, 3pm, 6pm. 1-1.5 cups of food. (4 times daily)
    after 6pm only fruits.
    after 9pm, only drink water.

    my body should be much leaner and lose maybe 3-4 pounds just by changing the diet and nothing else.

    currently 147 pound, down from 148.8 since i started above diet.

    it's not that i'm fat, my bmi is normal. i want leaner and more energy.

    ABSOLUTE NO LIST
    Pork - 41/2 to 5 hours digestion time
    whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time
    Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time
    Turkey - 2 to 2 1/4 hours digestion time (without skin)
    Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest.
    Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours.
    whole milk cottage cheese - 2 hours digestion

    i just notice that on days after i overeat... i am irritable, my brain is sluggish and my face doesn't look healthy.
    so, i'm thinking the best way to fix this is to change my diet. with special attention on deleting foods that make my stomach work hardest.

    oh yea, no more sodas, and products full of sugar that can damage my teeth.

  • back to the basics

  • iphone while lying sideways ( auto-rotation fix )

    http://www.freshapps.com/_img/iphone_apps/screenshot/862-200810310323595.jpg

    sometimes in the middle of the night you wake up for no reason and there's nothing to do in the dark except use the iphone sitting next to your bed.

    if you lie sideways and use your iphone on portrait (vertical) mode your auto-rotation kicks in. you rotate it to landscape (horizontal) and the auto-rotation kicks in again and your basically fucked both ways. no way to read the iphone while on your side, or so i thought....

    if you rotate it one extra time, then it stays on landscape (horizontal) mode. now, you are physically holding the iphone in landscape and the screen is also showing in landscape mode.

    kinda confusing to explain, just try it.

    basically, rotate, rotate.... one extra rotation is the key to your salvation.

  • Common Digestion Times

    DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS
    (approx. time spent in stomach before emptying). ........
    Water
    when stomach is empty, leaves immediately and goes into intestines,
    Juices
    Fruit vegetables, vegetable broth - 15 to 20 minutes.
    Semi-liquid
    (blended salad, vegetables or fruits) - 20 to 30 min.

    Fruits

    Watermelon - 20 min.digestion time.
    Other melons - Canteloupe, Cranshaw, Honeydew etc. - 30 min.
    Oranges, grapefruit, grapes - 30 min.
    Apples, pears, peaches, cherries etc. - digest in 40 min.

    Vegetables

    Raw tossed salad vegetables - tomato, lettuces, cuber, celery, red or green pepper, other succulent vegetables - 30 to 40 min. digestion. -
    Steamed or cooked vegetables
    Leafy vegetables - escarole, spinach, kale, collards etc. - 40 min. - Zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, string beans, yellow squash, corn on cob - all 45 min. digestion time
    Root vegetables - carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips etc. - 50 min.
    Semi-Concentrated Carbohydrates - Starches
    Jerusalem artichokes & leafy, acorn & butternut squashes, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts - all 60 min. digestion.

    Concentrated Carbohydrates - Grains

    Brown rice, millet, buckwheat, cornmeal, oats (first 3 vegetables best) - 90 min.
    Legumes & Beans - (Concentrated Carbohydrate & Protein)
    Lentils, limas, chick peas, peas, pigeon peas, kidney beans, etc. - 90 min. digestion time
    soy beans -120 min. digestion time
    Seeds & Nuts
    Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours.
    Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest.

    Dairy

    Skim milk, cottage or low fat pot cheese or ricotta - approx. 90 min. digestion time
    whole milk cottage cheese - 120 min. digestion
    whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time

    Animal proteins

    Egg yolk - 30 min. digestion time
    Whole egg - 45 min.
    Fish - cod, scrod, flounder, sole seafood - 30 min. digestion time
    Fish - salmon, salmon trout, herring, (more fatty fish) - 45 min. to 60 digestion time
    Chicken - 11/2 to 2 hours digestion time (without skin)
    Turkey - 2 to 2 1/4 hours digestion time (without skin)
    Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time
    Pork - 41/2 to 5 hours digestion time

    http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/diet-bodybuilding/common-digestion-times-449044.html

  • hardcore diet technique

    i was just watching the kardashians on e! and this one dude just sprayed windex over kim kardashians cupcakes. lol
    he said that all of them would binge on it if they didn't. this way even if they threw it away, they can't go back and pick the food out of the trash.
    and, the food is ruined forever. hahaha
    i'm gonna try this next time.

  • the right tone of voice when feeling irritable

    the solution for myself was soft tone of voice. when i'm sick or irritable, i try to mask my weakness by being louder and stronger. this energy is contagious and will be soon recycled back to me. this leads to needless conflict. so the whole day today.. i went super soft tone whether it be greeting or answering questions. 90% of the transactions were agreeable. i let the loud ones win. my attitude was that winning the "who is louder" and "who gets the last word in" contest was actually worthless. i'll chose my battle and only put effort into the ones that matter and that will actually lead to benefit to me if i win. the soft tone actually worked so well.. a girl i thought was really pretty opened up her candy she bought and offered it to me. and asked me which flavor i'd like. maybe gentle tone of voice is actually better than loud and vibrant. oh yea.. i decided on this new formula. go gentle voice on girls and children and weak men. go loud and vibrant on regular dudes and high testosterone women. adjusting tone to the situation. i think i am becoming more flexible in my options.
    http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20091118/0013729e41140c6d166121.jpg

  • 2 aryan type dudes tried to sell me a sound system today.. they said it was worth $2950 and asking me to give them an offer... this was occurring inside their van.  i checked my iphone and it was selling for $150 on amazon.com. i told them that and they said they would sell it to me for $125. lol

  • i'm toughening up.

    the small shit occurrences don't bother me any more. it takes a lot to get me really furious now. this a sign of my growth.
    the tens of thousands of cashier transactions have showed me that anything is possible, good things and bad. . and, it happens all the time.
    i hadn't seen enough of life to decipher what is important and what is not. and i realize now that most of it is not important. not imporant enough to let it effect me in a negative way. before any transgression of what i consider "normal" or part of the my moral system and i would get set off. but now that i've seen a lot of weird shit, i am not surprised by it. manners don't matter. as long as basic communication is occurring and there is no physical altercations, it's a peaceful situation. lol they can be loud. they can order me around. they can be rude. it doesn't matter, i've seen it all probably worse than whatever you are dishing out at me. it's all just another normal day of cashiering. i thank all the crude, rude, and impolite people for showing me that the small things don't really matter. and, anyone who makes a big deal about small things just haven't seen enough to notice that it's really not a big deal - whatever they are bitching about. and even if something somehow puts me out of balance, bring it, and bring it some more... it will only make me stronger.

  • dude, these crazy martial artists are shouting at the top of their lungs on espn. they are holding swords as they do flips and spins. wtf is this. i like it. only thing i am scared of is that what if they lose grip of their weapon, that thing can fly into the audience. i hope they are fake. lol