Effect Of Booze On Body Building

TGIF. After a week of trudging eight hour days in front of the computer, the weekend is here.

All throughout the week we strive so hard to eat right, take plenty of fluids, have regulars sleep patterns and of course work out. Isn't it weird that after putting in so much effort or five days a week, we end up getting drunk on the weekend?

There was a time when I wasted no time to hit the bar on Friday night. But that was before I realised exactly how much alcohol was hurting the efforts I was putting in the gym. I hope after you have gone through this article you we'll realise the detrimental effect alcohol has on bodybuilders and cut back on your drinking.

Useless calories

Alcohol is useless calories. Absolutely devoid of any nutrients, it has the high calorie value (almost 8 cal per gram). A single shot of vodka contains almost 110 cal. Guys who are trying to lose weight should either give up drinking completely, or learn to live with their paunch. That's because not only does the super high calorie content of booze add to your total calorie intake, but also lowers metabolism rate.

Due to the amount of effort your body has to make to metabolise and digest the alcohol, fats don't get burnt.

Dehydration

As most of you are aware that their hydrated muscles offer an optimal anabolic environment that is necessary for the body to build muscles. When the cells of your body are not able to hold enough water it becomes extremely hard to build muscles. Alcohol also blocks the absorption of a number of important nutrients like potassium, phosphorus and iron, without which muscles simply can't grow.

Lower Testosterone Levels

Alcohol reduces testosterone levels and increases estrogen. At your most intoxicated state your testosterone levels can plunge by almost 25 %. That is actually one of the reasons why guys tend to feel horny after getting drunk. You may feel ready to have a go at your girl, but you'll just end up embarrassing yourself in bed.

While I can't ask my reader to give up drinking, I would definitely request them to do it in moderation. After all, there's no reason to constantly lose the gains you've made in the gym for a few hours of inebriated fun. Cheers.

Roughing It Out – Rough Sex

Most girly magazines, carry articles which preach how a girl likes to be romanced with candlelight dinners and once she give gives her consent you can take them to bed and gently (very gently!).

While staring lovingly into her eyes with a devoted expression on your face and doing your best to ensure that she orgasms first. While that’s one way of having sex, the peaches-and-cream technique can and does get a bit boring after a while. In order to make your bedroom escapades more exciting and passionate why not introduce a bit of rough sex.

Introducing Rough Sex

In conservative Indian culture, approaching the subject of rough sex can be a little tricky. Whether it’s your wife or long time girlfriend, you have first to be sure she is comfortable with the idea of rough sex. While discussing it with her is by far the most sensible ways of going about it, it will kill or reduce the spontaneity of the act. To see if she actually feels aroused by a little violence, start off by lightly pulling her hair while passionately kissing her. If she moans and believe me she will, you will get to know whether it’s out of pleasure or pain.

If it’s the former you have the green signal. For the most part of it rough sex is really not painful. There are several relatively painless sex techniques that you can try out before moving on to the more physically demanding techniques.

Painless Techniques:

Spanking: Believe it or not, light spanking can turn most women into tigress. So get her to lean on all fours, and start by gently petting and rubbing her butt. The first slap that you land should be followed immediately by more petting. Then gradually build up the intensity of and speed of the slaps. Keep slapping her at a rhythmic pace – and watch her moan with ecstasy.

Biting: If you do it right, biting can provide a lot of erotic pleasure to your woman. You should start off by kissing her slowly and then start nibbling on different parts of her body. Try to nibble her all the way down. Start gently with her ear lobes, nuzzle her neck, focus your attention on her breasts and don’t shy away from giving her a light nip on her nipples, then move south. As you slowly make your way towards her vagina, she will be shivering with pleasure. Position yourself between her legs, but refuse to pleasure her with your tongue. Instead nibble on the inner regions on her thighs. If she doesn’t literally shove your head into her, by now she should be dripping with lust, or else you aren’t just doing it right.

Hair pulling: This deserves a practical example. Get your girl to tie her hair in a ponytail and get her into the doggie style position. When you penetrate her, take her ponytail and pull it while you shove hard with your dick. As a variation to the doggy style is to make her get on top and ask her to leave her hair lose. Then when you pull at her hair she will be forced to lean back, resulting in awesome penetration.

Pin her by her wrists: While having sex, when she tries explore your body with her hands – Don’t let her. It’s a simple but a very dominating move. Pin her by her wrists, keeping them above her head against a wall. Just use one hand while using the other to ravage her below, kissing her intensely all the while.

Different Levels

Go Anal: While this may not qualify as rough sex per se in the western world but it’s certainly does in the Indian scenario. Though it would take a whole new article to tell you how to properly go about it, but you should always use a lot of lubricant, such as Vaseline, to get her all soft and relaxed. When you penetrate make your first few strokes slow and don’t go too deep but then increase the speed and probe deeper as her ass gets used to your meat.

Rape fantasy: Its fantasy and rough sex rolled into one. Just pretend to rape her. Don’t hit or anything till she actually wants it. But to make it absolutely realistic you can try wearing a mask and carry a butter knife in hand. If your girl enjoys it, then you can spank her, bite her, dominate her, etc, to your heart’s content. Then complete the ride with by doing her doggie.

Handcuffs: While its exciting enough to pin her hands, but you can take the concept of bondage to a whole new level by handcuffing her to the bedpost. You actually don’t even need handcuffs. Just tie her wrists and legs with something soft like a chunni, and you can have your way with her and violate her to your hearts content.

Choking: You need to be very careful while choking for obvious reasons. Choking, because it reduces the amount of oxygen entering the brain can result in a mild hallucinogenic state. Although it can be dangerous, you can just hold her neck without applying any pressure. This would give you the feeling of domination and infuse the desired excitement without making it dangerous.

Though there are several other creative ways of roughing it in bed with her, but you can start off with these and invent some of your own, as the of you get used to the idea of adding a little rough stuff to the act.

Lying On Your Resume

In today's job competitive job market, it can be tempting to embellish your resume with a few white lies.

However, employers are becoming increasingly wary of resume liars and are finding newer, more effective ways of sniffing them out. These are the various places where you could be caught cheating:

What You Should not Do

Job Experience Gaps

It’s pretty clear that you should never lie about your work experience. It is likely that companies listed in the Work Experience section in your resume will be contacted for verification.

Education Kinks

Do you really think nobody notices educational degrees that you don't have? You might have the skills, but it's better to be honest about your qualifications. There is only so far you can get; many organizations will ask for photocopies of your certificates.

What you Should Instead Do

Now that you know the all the don’ts, how can you build a resume that will perfectly highlight your skills and capabilities without lying?

Give yourself Credit

Your expertise and skills are important indicators of your ability to cope up with the responsibilities of your work profile. For some positions, you may only have the vaguest of ideas what exactly is the employer is looking for. There are many companies that look for people who can either be trained or can learn on the job.State the skills you have gained as an employee or volunteer.

Skill-set Fibs

Be very careful to focus only on skills

Expand your descriptions.

Instead of "I worked in an office."

say "I was in charge of answering the calls in a professional manner and then directing them to the proper departments. During busy work environments, I was easily able to multi-task by providing useful organizational support to the head receptionist, which included including maintaining a proper filing system, processing all inter office memos, delivering all official documents in a timely fashion and directing clients to their meeting appointments. I was also able to quickly learn the database management system of the office and helped in creating good working environment for the with office staff.."

This example makes it clear that it’s acceptable, and even advisable to elaborate on skills acquired from your previous organization. But make sure that you do so in a manner that’s honest and ethical.

For more help, turn to professional resume writers. There are also dozens of free resume writing software available online, which will provide you useful suggestions on phrasing your resume for a specific position.

The Relativity Mind Trap: How Comparisons Can Lead Us Astray

Our minds make sense of the world by making comparisons. For instance, how do you tell if something is cheap or expensive when shopping? It’s mostly by comparing it with other products, isn’t it? And so it happens for everything in our lives: we’re constantly comparing — everything, all the time.

It’s true that making comparisons is human nature, but judging everything only through comparisons can get us to think irrationally and make bad decisions. It eventually makes us feel miserable when we realize that our choices weren’t really that good, after all.

Learn how this mind trap works and how to escape it.

Relativity in Our Daily Lives: Pens and Suits

Picture yourself in the following situation: You have two errands to run today — buying a new pen and a new suit for work.

At an office supply store, you find a nice pen for $16. You are set to buy it, but you remember the exact same pen is on sale for only $1 on a closeout 15 minutes away. Do you buy the pen for $16 or go for the $1 one?

OK, on to your second errand: Let’s go get your suit. You just found a nice suit for $500 and while waiting for the cashier, another customer tells you that you can find the same suit for $485 on a store just 15 minutes away. Do you buy your suit for $500 or drive 15 minutes for the $485 one?

Take a moment to think about your choices. What would you have done?

A similar situation was presented to a group of people in a study (by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, the same brilliant guys from another great famous framing experiment). The results? They found that most people chose to drive to buy the cheaper pen, but happily parted with $500 for the more expensive suit.

What’s going on? Can you spot the contradiction here?

A Dollar is a Dollar is a Dollar — Or Is It?

Clearly, our minds are fooling us. In both situations your choice boils down to saving $15 or 15 minutes of your time: The absolute price of the item you’re buying has no importance whatsoever (and is the red herring used in the experiment to elicit the contradictory behavior the researchers were looking for).

Whether you save $15 from buying a pen, a suit, a car or a luxury yacht, the end result is the same: $15 in your pocket. The only question that matters here should be: “Is 15 minutes of my time to save $15 worth the $15 I’m saving?”

What’s happening here is that your mind can’t decide, without external aid, if a $15 discount is a good deal: it needs something else to compare the discount to (in this case, the total price of the item).

And this is the problem: we look at things in life relatively, comparing differences, instead of looking at each thing’s value on its own.

Making comparisons and evaluating things relative to each other is a many times a useful shortcut, but as demonstrated above, in many occasions it severely hinders our ability to make wise decisions.

Relativity Traps are Everywhere

Not surprisingly, relativity kicks in not only when buying pens and suits but in almost everything in life.

Relativity, along with the bad comparisons it entails, can make you feel bad about yourself, get you in debt, and lead you to make life-changing decisions that are just plain stupid. In short, it can make your life miserable.

The examples are countless; here are just a few.

• Comparing yourself with others. This is a biggie. If you assess your worth by comparing yourself with others (in any dimension you choose to use), you’re set for disappointment: there will always be people better than you in any measure you pick. I’ll further explore this theme in a subsequent article, but for now it suffices to repeat something you already know: avoid comparing yourself with others; it’s always a no-win situation.

• Keeping up the Joneses. The richest person in a poor neighborhood is usually happier about his net worth than the poorest person in a rich neighborhood — regardless of how much they actually have! In light of relativity, people compare themselves with their neighbors, and don’t like the feeling they’re behind “everyone else”. This is an endless cycle: the more people have, the higher they set the bar for the people they compare themselves with.

• Winning (and feeling like you lost). Isn’t it true that the silver medal usually tastes bitterer than the bronze medal? Despite the absolute value of the medals, earning the silver medal usually comes in the context of failing to win the gold one. The bronze medal, on the other hand, is earned in the context of getting anymedal instead of no medal at all.

• Taking advantage of “great deals”. It’s a well-known sales technique to offer customers the most expensive products first. Those overpriced items establish the context for people to see the other products as being cheaper. Oftentimes those “cheap” products are not cheap at all, but thanks to relativity, you walk away thinking you made a great deal. (Note, though, that you paid the ‘absolute’ amount of money for your product! It may be relatively cheaper but you may have parted with a great deal of your hard-earned money, anyway.)

  On the flip side, people may go for the more expensive item because the difference in price to the less expensive one doesn’t look as big. People find it easy to spend $3,000 on leather seats for their new $25,000 cars (the $25,000 serves as the comparison number), but have a hard time spending the same amount on their living room sofas (that usually don’t have a clear figure to be used for comparison).

How to Overcome the Relativity Trap

Is it possible to escape the mind trap of relativity”? Dan Ariely, in his brilliant bookPredictably Irrational (from which I got most of the inspiration to write this article) hints at the solution.

The way to escape thinking in terms of comparisons and relative terms, is — not surprisingly — thinking more in absolute terms: you got to escape the trap of doing local comparisons and think more broadly.

Going back to our example of buying the pen and the suit: Resist the temptation of looking at the $15 savings relatively to the item’s total price (the immediate, most salient comparison). Escape that local comparison and put the savings into a broader context instead. Ask yourself ‘What can I do with the $15 saved?‘ and see how that can better inform your choices.

Maybe you will buy a book? Save the money? Donate it to charity? Moreover, ask yourself: “Is $15 worth a drive downtown and 15 minutes of my time?” In short, see beyond the immediate situation.

In 15 minutes, maybe you can go back to work and earn more than $15? Or maybe a 15-minute break is what you need right now? Regardless of which way you decide, remember: this has nothing to do with the price of the pen or the suit, but with what you are actually saving (time? money? hassle?) means to you in a broader context.

This was an easy example, but if you think about it, you can apply it to just about everything in your life. How about stop comparing yourself with others and assess how you feel about your life broadly — on your own terms? How about focusing on the value of your silver medal instead of the other guy’s gold medal?

Think outside your immediate context, escape easy comparisons and start seeing things in a broader perspective. When you think about life this way, everything can be seen under a new — much more positive — light.

Try it: make notes of some of your important decisions (and some of the not-so important ones) then write down your impressions from a relative as well as an absolute perspective. Are your decisions better one way or another? Why? How?

While simple in theory, thinking in absolutes is not the way we’re wired to think, so doing it always takes a great deal of conscious effort and practice. But it’s absolutelyworth it.