MusclePharm News - Arnold Schwarzenegger Series

Latest news update from MusclePharm! They are working together with Arnold, the legend in bodybuilding to come out with a new series of products!

THE ARNOLD SERIES

These products will be mainly targeting the 4 fitness pillars, “performance, power, & strength, nutrient support and recovery”.

Here are the 8 items they created – For full article.

Iron Cre3 - a creatine product.
Iron Cuts - a fat burner said to " support healthy estrogen balance and cortisol levels."
Iron Dream - a sleep aid.
Iron Pack - a multivitamin product that includes liver.
Iron Pump - a creatine free formula based on the nitric oxide boosting action of arginine nitrate,
Iron Whey - a 100% whey protein product.
Iron Mass - a mixed protein, fats and carbohydrate formula.

My View

Arnold has always been someone I look up to, I read his book, watch his video. Learn from how he trains in the video. This is seriously is going be he next big thing!

Arnold who is the most respected figure in bodybuilding put his name on the line, together with MusclePharm the athlete company who promises science and banned free substance on their entire product. This seems like the best combination to shock the whole supplement industry!

Other Mr Olympia who came out with their own series

Ronnie Coleman Series

 

Jay Cutler Series 

So which is your favorite? 

Thanks for reading!

Read my previous post on MusclePharm Assault #gamechanger

True Fitness Ang Mo Kio Opening Trial.

Was invited by Alex Javier to join him at the opening of True Fitness ang mo kio at Djitsun Mall.

    

True Fitness is located at the 4th floor of the Djitsun Mall in Ang Mo Kio. Location is pretty accessible with good dining location nearby(e.g. astons). 

The ambience of the place is very soothing, music playing will be more of a soft pop. With blue lighting with makes the place a really comfortable place to train.

As you can see here the gym free weights area is not very big. Only 4 benches. As compare to their cardio area which takes up a lot of space.

1 incline , 1 flat bench , 1 decline leg press. That's all for the free weights area.

A better view of the free weights area. 

Heaviest dumbbell there is 32kg.

Best part about the gym will be these hammer strength machine. 2 chest 2 back. Right at the end there is this pec deck flyes machine for your rear delts and chest flyes (*rare machine). 

Cable areas 2 lats pull down and 2 seated row. 2 smith machine and 1 squat rack. 

The gym focuses more on cardios, machines and stretching. Excellent for those couple or young office ladies or men who is looking for a place to mingle and train. 

Check it out if you are free! They give free 1 week trial pass! Just walk in and check it out with their friendly staff :)

Read my Review on MusclePharm Assault New Formula!

MusclePharm Assault New Formula #Gamechanger

I just ordered this awesome pre-workout online.
Cant wait to get my hands on it!

Check out this post for my review on this #gamechanger

Finally MusclePharm Assault has arrived

Product Packaging

The main difference in this new version is their Athlete Performance Blend - ArgiNitrate, Bcaa Nitrate, CreNitrate which is said to be more effective. Nitrate dilates the blood vessels so it will enhance and blood flow and helps with the distribution of the nutrients.

Next is their Purenergy -

Some information about purenergy

• A sustained energy boost*
•  A reduction in the amount of caffeine needed in a formulation to produce tangible results*
• The creation of a more moderated and gradual finish, preventing the “crash” experienced with caffeine products*
•  The optimization of natural appetite-suppressant properties*
• Additional functional health benefits found in pTeroPure pterostilbene* 
• made up of 43% Caffeine and 57% pTeroPure

As you can see the chart i have gotten from ChromaDex shows a big difference between caffeine(bottom bar) and purenergy(top bar). As you can see caffeine started off with a higher amount of concentration but after the first hour the caffeine dips rapidly but purenergy is still on the rise. Purenergy peaks at the 2nd hour and starts to drop graudually.

inside assault

MusclePharm do it differently from other competitors, as you can see here they even added in the pillow pak to abouse humidity and odor. Awesome!

quality of the powder

Drinking the Assault - Taste.

Great mixability, i prefer the taste of this version of Assault compared to the previous version.

In my opinion i can feel that the effect of this preworkout kicks in faster than the usual one that i took.

It doesn't gives me the sudden spike in energy, i can feel focus thru out my workout.

Minimum crash afterworkout as well, but some how i feel that it suppresses my appetite as i feel full after a meal (which dont normally happen).

Took the product about 6 hours before bed time and i have no problem sleeping.

Overall i think that this is a new breakthrough for preworkout in the industry and it is worth a try.

Thanks for reading!

Check out my previous post review on MusclePharm T-Shirt

Dive with Fishermen Scuba at Pulau Dayang

Fishermen Scuba Logo

Fishermen Scuba is one of the oldest dive school around, they are very strict with their standard and always watch for safety. You can be sure that you are in good hands when you dive with fishermen team!
Located next to paya lebar mrt station. Take exit C once you arrive, less than 5 mins walk you will be able to reach them.

My second time diving with them, overall it was a pretty good experience.

Our Bus to Mercing

We left fishermen at about 8pm and arrived woodlands checkpoint at about 9pm, huge jam there and it took quite some time for us to go in. *take note they will ask each of the diver to pay $10 ringgit so we can keep our equipments and bag on the bus. They use this to clear the customs.

Dive Gear and my bag pack for me and my buddy

There will be one stop before reaching Mercing, so better go to the toilet at woodlands checkpoint or at the stop(petrol kiosk). We arrived at Mercing about 150am.

Took a 4 hours boat ride to arrive at Dayang, there is a aircon cabin below but i choose to sleep at the 2nd deck as i get motion sickness easily in air conditioned room.

Fishermen own the boat!

Check in to our room at Dayang, air conditioned room 2 king size bed for 4 person, the only bad thing was that there was no water heater for the shower. Electricity will be off for a certain time slot around 9-5pm.

Woke up at 730am to get prepared for our first dive! You wont have much time to sleep, try to sleep as much as possible on the boat and on the bus!

My Magic Pill

Pop a Zyrtec-D (you can get it at your guardian pharmacy.) This will help with my sinus as it dries up the mucus and helps me to equalize better during the dive. Take 1 tablet every morning 3 days before the dive then take 1 tablet every morning before the dive!


Here is the schedule for the Dives.

Day	Time	Activity
1	8:00pm	Depart Johor Bahru for Mersing
	11:00pm	Arrive Mersing and depart for Pulau Dayang
2	3:00am	Arrive Pulau Dayang and check in to Dayang Resort
	8:00am	Breakfast at Dayang Resort
	9:30am	First Dive
	11:30am	Second Dive
	1:00pm	Lunch
	3:00pm	Third Dive
	6:00pm	Dinner
	7:30pm	Fouth Dive (Night Dive)
3	8:00am	Breakfast
	9:30am	Fifth Dive
	11:30am	Sixth Dive
	1:00pm	Lunch
	3:00pm	Check out of Dayang Resort and depart for Mersing
	7:00pm	Arrive Mersing and depart for Johor Bahru
	10:00pm	Arrive Johor Bahru

 *You will only be allowed to do the night dive if you are certified.

• Advance open water certified
• Advance adventure.

Food - For this trip

Our dinning area by the beach!

Buffet style food -

• Drinks
• Water, tea, coffee, syrup drinks
• Breakfast 
• Egg, bread, beans, hotdogs, nuggets, fruits. 
• Lunch 
•  Noodles, chicken, fish, egg, fruit (spicy)
• Dinner
•  Rice, fried chicken, Lamp Chop, Satay and fruits.

As a Health and Fitness Blogger, the food is still quite clean to me, i ate like 10 eggs, quite a lot of chicken wings, satay and plenty of fruits in that 2 days! Even thou i told myself to junk as it is a holiday! Some how my mind doesn't allow it, i guess i am just too used to the junk-less diet.

Here are some of the dive photo!

Fish

NEMO (clown fish)

Nudibranch

Bat Fish (couple)

Lion Fish (poisonous)

Cutterfish

Dive Buddy :)

Thanks for the wonderful memories. Will be back in the sea real soon! 

Fear of Drowning while Diving?
Diving is a safe sports, if you follow the dive master instructions, know your equipment well and stay in a group. The risk of drowning is very low.

Do you need to know how to swim to dive?
Nope, you just need to be comfortable in water to dive.

Thanks for reading!
Check out my other review 

Rob Riches on Steroid?

Rob Riches Fail a drug test.

                       

http://www.robrichesfitness.com/did-rob-riches-fail-a-drug-test/

Rob riches on food.

Rob Riches state that he is natural and given us a goal, a dream for us to chase. What if the report is true? Our dream of that ripped physique, working to hard thinking that one day if we really work hard it will be achievable becomes impossible.
Will we start binging and give up on fitness?
But to me what really matter is not if they are on roids or on other stuff, hard work is needed still to achieve that physique. It’s a state of mind that we achieve from fitness that really matters. That moment when you finish the workout everyday, your mind becomes stronger. The positive attitude to believe that you can and you will. Every day waking up and look into the mirror telling yourself you earn that every piece of muscle.
Aesthetic mind builds, aesthetic body.

Standing Abs Roller Progression

Abs Roller Progression - Knee Roll Out

 

Abs Roller Progression Stage 2, Roll out to the wall

Body Check after different diet

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From left to right 68kg, 72kg, 70kg, 72kg, 71kg

First photo was taken around last year march. I just started working at NutriFirst and I wanted to get a better body.

2 months later I bulk up to 72kg and subsequently i continued bulking to 74kg by eating like 3000 calories everyday with the help of pass gainers and a lot of food. I don’t really watch my diet but i try to avoid deep fried food, high sugar (canned drinks) or processed food (hotdog, MacDonald)

3rd photo was after the standard chartered marathon in 2012. That time i drop my weight all the way to 68 kg for the run. It was pretty easy for me to lose muscle weight, i stop eating high amount of calories and totally stop lifting weights for one month and I drop about 6kg. After the marathon i started doing my usual bulking but this time, i did not use a mass gainer as i am able get my calories from food alone. 4th photo is around MAY.

The last photo is the most recent one for 2 July 2013. Where i started my intermittent fasting.

Intermittent fasting -Week2- Vascularity

Recently i am really addicted to getting more vascular.

How can you get more veins to show?

1. high protein low carb diet
• it will help your body to use more fats as energy instead of using carbs. This is especially helpful is you workout fasted in the morning, working fasted in the morning is said to be able to increase fat burn by 20% more than normal workout timing!
2. shred more fats
• the main reason why your veins is showing is because your fats is thinning out. you hardly see fat people with veins right.
3. take some Nitric Oxide supplement like arginine product
• Arginine is a vasodilator. it helps to relax the blood vessel and increase blood flow.
• http://www.nutrifirst.net/view_products.asp?catid=39&categoryname=NO2-NitricOxide
4. Lift heavy ass weight with proper form
• if you are lifting heavy with proper form you will be putting the muscle under a more stressful environment in turn tearing more muscle fiber. To recover yourself during workout the body will call more blood to flow to that particular muscle group (the pump). therefore it creates more vascularity.

3rd week intermittent fasting

Doing intermittent fasting for 16(fasted)/8(feast) hour or sometimes 18/6 hour. I dont have a fix plan it really depends on how hungry i feel each day.

i really do feel more vascular now and more definition is coming out. weight did increase by a bit.
but normally we dont only go by how much weight you increased, it is not that accurate become what we want now is only muscle gain.

muscle gain and fat lost so weight will be hover around the same. if my prediction is right, after dropping a few more percentage of body fat, we weight should start to rise. Shall see how it goes!

All the best people.

Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey

Gold standards whey - Double rich chocolate flavor 10lbs bag

This is one of the highest rated brand in the supplement industry. 

First of all taste and mix-ability. I taste more like dark chocolate to me. Not that artificial and not so sweet. Mixes well with just a few shake and it is a light blend very easy to drink. 

Protein content. 

This is a high isolate and low concentrate protein powder. Which is a higher grade compare to most other brands. Percentage of protein per scoop is also above 80%. 

If you are just looking for a post workout shake this may be the right one for you. If you want something better, can go for pure isolate protein like optimum nutrition hydrowhey

Get yours at NutriFirst

Should you replace your meals with protein shake/mass gainer

Should you replace your meal with mass gainer or protein shake? The answer is no, you still need to get your vitamins and minerals from the food that you take in. Protein powder and mass gainer is a supplement it is suppose to be an addition to help with your diet and not to replace it! Same as meal replacement powder it will be good to use it on a 2 day on 1 day off basis and only use it to replace your dinner.

universal - animal pak

a multi vitamin supplement amino acid,vitamins, digestive support and body detoxing

a total of 11 pills to swallow.
the pill are actually pretty huge, if you cannot swallow normal pills do not try this.

question : is it normal to get yellow piss from animal pak
yes, its because of the excessive amount of Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)

is it harmful?

no, unless you really overdose it too much if not it will just excrete through the unrine.