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re: Apps for working out

Posted by DrDenim on 1/17/26 at 1:07 am to Megasaurus

This is my 5/3/1 workout app, Pros: infinite battery mode, Con: can't push out notifications at all, not pocket sized, no camera

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re: How bad is your energy drink/caffeine habit?

Posted by DrDenim on 1/16/26 at 10:10 pm to pwejr88

So have I, was trying to be open minded about the possibility that it actually serves some people well and I didn't want to paint with too broad of a brush. I've never taken either, I have no need to even entertain even the thought, but I've seen lots of people experience nothing but trouble from taking Adderall mainly, and Vyvanse to a lesser degree. It seems so rare to hear from someone who has nothing but good things to say about their experience on either. and not surprisingly....most of those folks seem kinda like tweakers...functional, job holding, car payment having, home owning tweakers, but tweakers all the same. I just don't trust it.

I'm not surprised that a discussion about caffeine attracted someone asking about amphetamines as this always happens. It amuses me. I'll stand by for this discussion's inevitable turn into the finer details about Zyn and different flavors of Zyn and "Where can I get some Zyn?" ugggh, fricking Zyn

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re: How bad is your energy drink/caffeine habit?

Posted by DrDenim on 1/16/26 at 6:29 pm to lsutigers23

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What’s better/healthier lots of caffeine or small dose of vyvanx/aderal

Yikes, not trying to be rude, but I can't tell if this is a serious question or not, I would hope it's very obvious what the answer is, but if this is a serious question, stay the hell away from "vyvanx/aderal", please.

Caffeine is OTC in so many different formulations it makes one's head spin, humans have been tickling their CNS for thousands of years with it in some form or another. It hasn't brought about our destruction yet.

Vyvanse and Adderall are prescription only, controlled medications for a good reason. I'm not saying that they are bad necessarily, but those kinds of stimulants are in a completely different league in my opinion. Caffeine is far superior in health terms, BUT...I'm not certain what you mean by "lots of caffeine," nor am I certain what you mean by "small dose of vyvanx/aderal"?

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re: Reporter Lynn Jones congratulates Jaguars head coach after loss

Posted by DrDenim on 1/11/26 at 11:18 pm to sgallo3

That man is gonna run home all the way and tell his momma that Miss Mavis gave him the Gold Star today in class.

Seriously, watching the evolution of his facial expression as it slowly sunk in that she wasn't fricking around with the compliment was great.

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re: Advice on lost definition and strength

Posted by DrDenim on 12/22/25 at 8:01 pm to BrewDrees95

A month? Sounds kinda quick to worry too much I think. How old are you?

If bench is giving you issues, just swap it out with something else and move on for a while.

That's quite a bit of weight to lose in one month. If you're truly losing weight, you are not eating enough. How do you sleep? I wonder if bad sleep led to bad nutrition, or bad nutrition led to bad sleep?

No matter, I'd probably just do a complete shake up and take a week off and come back doing something completely different. You don't sound like you're well, so it may serve you well to take a break and start back slow, nail the basic foundational stuff down real solid and take your time building back up.

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re: Brian Johnson says dry sauna reduces microplastics

Posted by DrDenim on 12/22/25 at 5:56 pm to SirWinston

This guy's obsession with "de-aging" his penis, specifically, is both fascinating and horrifying. What's his end goal? To reverse age his penis to the point that anyone who fricks him will be charged with child molestation? I don't claim to get it, never will.

Anyone who makes it to Billionaire level goes a little crazy I think. He's heading straight into Howard Hughes territory though and I'm all in for the ride.

He looks like a vampire(he kinda is a vampire if you know about some of the other shite he's done with his kid's blood), and he does some weird shite but he also does a lot of basic, sensible things too. He lifts heavy with a barbell and is a total psycho about getting the best sleep possible so I've always been interested in following his progress updates. If I had his disposable income I'd probably want to do much of the same regimen in regards to the labwork, diagnostic imaging studies, and supplements. He's very interesting.

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re: Peptide site you trust?

Posted by DrDenim on 11/22/25 at 9:20 pm to Uncle JackD

Man...somebody's bot got in here and vomited all over the place. :nana:

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re: Is Ten too young to start doing very light lifting?

Posted by DrDenim on 9/20/25 at 8:58 pm to TigerGman

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And he wants to learn how to Scuba Dive with me, so I told him he has to work getting stronger to wear all the equipment ( and he does).

GREAT!
That's your angle, that's the model. If a person looks around and needs to find something, anything, to fuel or kickstart an entrance into strength training, it won't take long before something reveals itself. This is of course true of anything, you just have to be willing to look for the dots and find out how to connect them.

Scuba Diving....

I suggest you find a copy of the movie "The Deep" (currently streaming on Tubi for free) starring Nick Nolte and Robert Shaw. Jaqueline Bisset in a wet, white t-shirt is a great way to get a 10 year old whose interested in scuba diving, to become REALLY interested in scuba diving. Jaqueline Bisset in a wet t-shirt should be used as a recruitment tool for...well...pretty much everything. I can't see how it wouldn't work.

I don't know what's going on, but I'M IN!!!

Also, there's some beefy macho men in The Deep that may inspire him to get into strength training. Nolte himself is no slouch physically, but I'm more referring to these 2 character actors, Earl Maynard and the glorious and legendary Robert Tessier. Earl plays one of Louis Gossett Jr's henchman and Robert is one of Robert Shaw's goons named Kevin in the movie.

Here's Earl sizing up Tessier, those are just the kinds of shirts everyone wore in the 70's, it was a better time. Your grandson doesn't necessarily have to wear a shirt like that, it's optional but it would be pretty cool if he did.

Earl Maynard is less well known, but he was a legitimate bodybuilder (3rd place in the first Mr. Olympia contest) and professional wrestler.

Robert Tessier was a highly recognizable stunt man, character actor. Basically if the main character needed to get in a dust-up with a big ugly brute, they called Robert in to get his arse kicked. He's been in everything and he's always the heavy, big, bald, speaks only in punches guy. Most people recognize him from the OG Longest Yard movie with Burton Leon Reynolds, he was the bald nut bag who broke that one dude's nose who played Jaws in the Bond movie. His entire adult life was punching and getting punched in movies and doing motorcycle stunts.

Anyway, both of those guys are jacked, they don't do a lot of scuba diving, in fact they don't to any scuba diving. They just do tough guy stuff, all the scuba is left up to Nolte, Bisset, and Shaw. But plant those seeds. I've never scuba dived, but that shite looks heavy, and you never know, you too may find yourself in a situation where some rough characters try to beat you up and take the treasure from you that you and your grandson found while diving in the Bahamas and you'll have to get in a punch out with em. Strength will serve you well here. Also BJJ, and perhaps some cardio. I can't speak to that, but I've heard things.

Mahalo

Bisset, dude! You can't get enough bra-less Bisset.

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re: Is Ten too young to start doing very light lifting?

Posted by DrDenim on 9/15/25 at 7:31 pm to TigerGman

The first thing I started to type was kind of ugly, so I've taken a pause, and I'm trying again.

Don't you realize that 10 years old is about the age when many kids get a little heavier? The body gets a little ahead of itself with the girth, and the height has to catch up. By 11-12, a lot of chunky 9-10 year olds have evened out. I've seen this in photos of I don't know how many people. It happened to me, it's happened to lots of kids, most I would say. Don't come at him about his weight. He's 10, he'll smell that shite from a mile away and probably won't appreciate grandpa Jack Lalanne getting on his arse about it. He will recoil further back into the world of Minecraft and dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets. DON'T DO THIS!

In my opinion, doesn't matter if a person is 10 or 110, you aren't gonna lead them to resistance training if they aren't at least somewhat interested in it on their own. Does he have anyone in his life who is strong? I mean, really strong, not just strong to him. STRONG! As a childless fricker, I'm an expert on child rearin', he needs a model, a model of strength. All people need a model. He needs to see feats of strength performed for him. Get creative, when you shake his dad's hand, squeeze it so hard he goes to his knees and begs you to turn loose, or throw his Nintendo Switch across that retention pond in your subdivision, he's not gonna want to play video games anymore once you show him what real muscles can do. If you can't do this, just shoot me the address and I'll drop in and help the lad out.

I saw a documentary film when I was a wee lad, it was called Conan. It was about this kid who lived in a village and his dad was like the chief of the village, but these marauders came by and killed everyone, they killed his mom and dad right in front of him and took off Conan as a slave. They chained him to this big grinder wheel that he had to push around in a circle over and over with the other child slaves. Over the years, the other kids died because they were pussies I guess, but Conan just kept pushing the wheel until he became an adult and he was jacked! He looked just like a long haired Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's all it took for baby Denim, I was in, STRENGTH ABOVE STRENGTH! Put me on the wheel!

That was my model, but also in the real world I had a model, I wrestled at the Y as a youth, and our wrestling room was in the basement. Next to the wrestling room was the "real" weight room. The YMCA had a "gym" upstairs and it was for normal people. It had machines, cardio stuff, and it even had one of those machines where you just stand there and put a big strap around your abdomen and turn this giant mixer like machine on and it was supposed to tone your midsection???? I guess they thought you could jiggle the lard off? fricking ridiculous.

Anyway, in the basement was where the local Barbarians and Warlocks gathered to do real shite. Big leather belts, chalk, the smell of liniment and sweat, free weights, the sounds of metal(both from actual metal surfaces striking other metal surfaces and the Metallica kinds), etc. Do you know what that is like for an 8 year old to see? Do You? To see a grown man, (who is bigger than your dad, bigger than anyone's dad, and he has a tattoo!!!!), yelling at another grown man, "Come on! Come on! I'm not grabbing it! You got 2 more! I'm not saving your sorry arse, PUSHHHHHH!" That was influential to me. I wanted to be a Barbarian when I grew up. I wanted to wear string tank tops and yell at another man wearing a string tank top while he strained under a bar, and then we'd high five and then go to our duffel bags and pull out magic potions and have a toast with some kind of secret brew that child-sized Dr. Denim wasn't allowed to even know about yet. I wanted to have rough hands with chalk smeared into the lines of my palm so people knew I was a weightlifter. This was what victory looked like to me.

Also, If he wrinkles his nose up at meat, psshh! Forget about it, grandpa. You've got lots of seeds to plant if you want him to get into weightlifting, but it's not impossible. The questions you ask in your OP show me that you are getting a little out over the ends of your skis here. Start him at the beginning. Unless he lives with you and you are responsible for feeding him, you have almost no chance to influence his diet. That's up to his parents. 10 is not too young to properly strength train, he can get strong and put on muscle(within reason), but you have to bring him up right, which leads me to say.....

1. Technical proficiency in movement is numero uno, it never stops being numero uno...push ups, bench press, dips, jumping jacks, can't cheat on anything, it's sacrilege.
2. Knowing what shite is called and what it's used for is essential, there is a basic glossary that a person needs to have to understand equipment and exercises. People need to know gym and meathead lingo. Walking the walk is obviously important, but so is talking the talk, and that starts with understanding the language of strength training, nutrition, anatomy, endurance, etc.
3. Basic understanding of anatomy and physiology, again at a child's level to start, it grows with you. A person has to be able to grasp the importance of sleep, rest, stress, hydration, nutrition as you try to craft the best environment for training.
4. Training methods and programming - this stuff if the least important to me, but it gets talked about the most. Whatever you do, be intense, be consistent. That takes care of most of it. He'll have years and years to learn all about 10000000 different ways to do any number of things in the gym, but if he has shitty form, shitty diet, shitty sleep, no consistency, no passion, no intensity, it won't matter anyway because he'll get jack shite out of it and he'll quit.

Here's to your destruction.

If it all works out, your grandson will end up looking like one of these ladykillers.

*this was the entirety of what I was originally going to say, I'm glad I recanted and wrote you this extremely helpful and motivational guide.
"Leave him the frick alone."

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re: Ben Roethlisberger arranged marriage

Posted by DrDenim on 9/4/25 at 9:56 am to GeauxTigers123

This looks like the picture that comes with the frame

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re: Gulf Breeze High School this time

Posted by DrDenim on 7/30/25 at 3:40 pm to sheepshead

That dude looks like a great softball player!

just mashin' dingers all day

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re: Smart Home Gym

Posted by DrDenim on 7/28/25 at 12:58 pm to TigerFanatic99

I feel ya my ninja

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re: Elbow Pain (golfers elbow)

Posted by DrDenim on 7/16/25 at 2:26 am to boxcarbarney

I decided to start on the green one, it's identified as the Medium and the description says it takes 15lbs of force to bend it into a "U" shape. I never used it that way, I did these exercises where I twisted it. My problem was lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow), and I figured if I started with a medium strength therabar and it wasn't the right resistance I'd know if I needed more or less resistance, but the medium strength bar would still be somewhat useful for warming up or for maintenance work. If I had started out with one that was either way too light or way too heavy to be useful then I'd feel like I wasted my money due to not being able to use it right away. This green one worked for me to get rid of the pain, and still seems useful even though I no longer have any issues. It's just used for maintenance now.

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re: How often do you do 24+ hour fasts?

Posted by DrDenim on 7/15/25 at 11:09 am to Havoc

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I think it’s just that everyone is different and respond to things in different ways. Could be due to many things.

Maybe it's our jeans?

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re: Viagra/Cialis/Levitra users

Posted by DrDenim on 7/15/25 at 7:49 am to NatalbanyTigerFan

Well, well, well....the legend himself. We've been waiting for you. :bow:

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re: Supplements for Energy & Fatigue

Posted by DrDenim on 7/10/25 at 8:13 am to Uncle JackD

This may or may not have an impact on that, but it's always been my practice with moda and I believe it works, however: A) I've never NOT done this, so I have nothing to compare it to, and B) I've only taken moda for 3 months(so maybe things change, but not so far...)

It was recommended to me that I take it same time every day, with very little wiggle room, no matter what!

So I take it between 1700-1730 every day without fail. Usually I get up at that time, but if I feel like sleeping in, it's no problem, wake up, take the pill, then I fall right back to sleep if I want to.

I keep these modafinil in my nightstand so it's easy to take it right on time, and I think that is why when my bedtime (0830-0930) comes around, I fall asleep easier than I used to and I have less waking up in the middle of the night. Not everyone reports that kind of experience with it however, we're all different.

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re: Supplements for Energy & Fatigue

Posted by DrDenim on 7/10/25 at 7:26 am to lsuguru

I second the rec for provigil. It works great for me. Most of my career as an icu nurse has been at night, and I got tired with fighting the intense fatigue and sleepiness that I had on my days (what y'all call "night") when I didn't work. I have no problem staying awake on my work days(nights) because it's busy as frick, but on my days off I'd struggle to feel fully awake and I often had no drive to do much and it felt like life was just ticking away. I'd often only make it halfway through my "day" and just feel so damn tired I'd go back to bed, ("why not? it's 0123, what is there to do? just go to bed, frick it") and then that would throw off my sleep schedule.

I take modafinil, the generic, and I have enjoyed it's subtle impact. It's not stimulating, it doesn't impact my HR or BP, no jitters or "up" feeling like I hear about from stuff like adderall, vyvanse, ritalin etc, it just makes me feel fully awake and alert and in the mood to do shite. It's most wonderful benefit that I've discovered is that it is the most effective sleep aid I've taken so far in my life. By keeping me awake and active for a full day, it has helped my sleep hygiene quite a lot. I go to bed and get out of bed at more consistent times and get a longer sleep in while I'm down because there are no more naps. I'm not a guy that can handle naps, it throws everything off.

TLDR: I sleep better when I'm supposed to sleep because I'm more wakeful when I'm supposed to be awake. One supports the other. Sorry, I know your question was about a supplement and this is a prescription medication, but I never found any supplement that really dealt with fatigue/sleepiness. 20 years ago I would have said caffeine because it worked like a charm for years, until it didn't. I began to adapt to caffeine and had to chase higher and higher doses until it's too much and it's jacking up your HR/BP and messing with your sleep. It was a dead end. Modafinil fixed me right up.

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re: Just self-injected both knees with BPC-157

Posted by DrDenim on 7/9/25 at 9:07 pm to Brobocop

Hope this works for you, my gut tells me it's a long shot if you have a torn meniscus, but you'll find out. Are you just doing BPC-157, or are you including TB-500 as well? Was 500mcg just your test dose on the first one? That's typical, but you may want to experiment with an increased dose, more frequent daily doses, and the inclusion of TB-500 if you aren't already.

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