Recent content by BigTex

Blood thinners are not the only medication that can cause pill-Induced esophagitis. Most commonis antibiotics, any NSAIDs including asprin. Bisphosphonates, potassium supplemments, and iron supplements, many cardiac medications, and even vitamin C. I always drink plenty of liquid and even try...

2-3 month ago I paid about $110 for 10lbs of whey concentrate. Yesterday I ended up paying $140/10lbs. Much of it was $180.

Same issues here. I have degenerate disk in the L4 and L5 with bone spurs and osteoarthritis with some lumbar stenosis. I can stand up for about 5 minutes and have lots of pain. I take Gabapentin on Friday night so I can at least have one night of restful sleep. The next day, I feel like a...

Been using Gabapentin when the pain gets bad. Maybe once a week. It always works pretty well, except I am not functional the next day. I may ask my doctor to switch me to pregabalin

Dangerous human growth hormones stopped by Chicago CBP WOW, the streets of America have to be much safer now, right?

Hope they lighten up on thesteroid raws, but from what I hear it is more of the Chinese government trying to extort more money out of those involved making and distributing the raws. Likemost governmentsthey need more money.

There is a new pill hitting the streets here called cychlorphine. It is 43 times stronger than fentanyl and comes directly from China.

Sorry, I have to critique, but this information for a bodybuilder is kind of useless. These fitness influencers know very little about what is good or not good for bodybuilders. Most of the recovery methods described—dynamic stretching, progressive muscle relaxation, contrast therapy, foam...

Louie Simmons criticized high-rep, slow training (similar to HIT), stating that "the better you are with reps, the worse you are with a single" and that slow training dissipates energy, leading to a loss of explosiveness. Exactly! My deadlift went up from the low 700's to an all-time of 800 by...

My lifts started really taking off after I spent some time talking to Fred Hatfield about Compensatory Acceleration Training (CAT). This is a method where you intentionally try to accelerate the bar as hard as possible through the entire range of motion, even when the load is heavy. It was...

I spent years in martial arts training and have been in more real fights than I can remember. If all is equal, a big guy will always beat a smaller guy. If all things are equal, a much more muscular guy will beat one who is not. But just because you are a bodybuilder does not mean you have a...

I actually ran into Lee Haney when I worked in LA back in 1999. He was standing in line right next to us to get into a Chinese restaurant. Amazing guy!

Since I was actually a world-ranked powerlifter in the 275's and 308's I can tell you right off that static exercises like planks have no place in powerlifting. There is very little direct evidence that static exercises like planks transfer meaningfully to heavy full-ROM lifts like squats and...

Looks good in animal research, but I got nothing from it when I used it. Never heard anything good about it. At one time, there was a modified version of frag, AOD-9604 = a stabilized analog of this fragment. The clinical testing done was unimpressive, and it was eventually abandoned because...

HGH & Blood Sugar Understanding how exogenous Human Growth Hormone (HGH) interacts with blood glucose is critical if you want to optimize a hormone protocol. The relationship is more nuanced than most people realize, and misunderstanding it can cost you results. When people talk about HGH and...