Site Enhancing Oils, or ‘synthol’ as commonly known, are possibly the most controversial subject in bodybuilding. That is because there is a huge amount of miseducation and ignorance on the subject. I first published the article below on the internet in early 2000, and since then it has been reproduced on countless websites and I have become as the world most authorotive person on the subject, even consulting in the latest book on the subject written by the ‘inventor’ of the original SEO, Chris Clark.

First off everyone should learn how there body reacts to protein and how their metabolism is. Just like training. To me nutrition is 70% of the battle and responsible for most of my gains no matter what AAs or how I trained my gains were/ are concurrent with my nutrition program. I eat a high protein diet that’s no secret. My body hates carbs. I eat very few simple sugars and mostly complex carbs and those are cut by 7 PM. I wrote this post a while ago in reference to eating the protein first in a meal. I beleive in eating for function. That is protein first, carbs second, veggies last. I don’t mix fats and carbs the only time I mix simple sugars and proteins are in my pre and post work out shakes. A lot depends on the absorbability of the protein itself which is influenced by it’s type. A lot of old timer will remember this thing called the P.E.R. or the Protein Effeciency Ratio from the early 1990′s. This was before Whey Protein and it was used to sell egg and milk proteins commercially. I think Nature’s Best abused that line the most as I was seeing “P.E.R. P.E.R. P.E.R.” dancing through my head at night while I slept.
Things like Eggs and fish are more complete protein and absorbed better than ground beef and pork, chicken and turkey are better absorbed than soy and milk proteins etc.

Written by Mayhem Member – Frumps

My thoughts on those thinking of doing a show
As I am sitting here at my shop, 1 week out, I felt like typing up something to kind of give some insight to those that are thinking of doing a show. You see many people thinking of doing a show, but 9 times out of 10 they never get on stage. Hopefully I can shed some light on what goes into the process of pre-contest dieting and all the odds and ends that follow. Many may know this stuff allready. Those that don’t, or that wondered what to do, this may be a starting point.

People have been posting studies lately about things such as the American Strength college changing their views on Strength Training. These associations recommended 1 set training to failure being superior to multi set training programs. In IRON MANs article below, he has a similar approach and recommends something of a 3-5-7 rep scheme for power lifters and says this is how many top power athletes train.

This is a rather long article. I was turned on to Bromelain by a Pharm MD freind of mine, who uses this as an anti-inflammatory. My interest is to enhance recouperation from the reduced inflammation properties of Bromelain supplementation.

This article makes it look like a wonder drug and I will be doing a controlled study with myself to accurately assess it’s effectiveness in accomplishing this in the next few months and will define the dosing and protocol use when done-including some accurate notes from the log book.