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djjdnap

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  1. Probably more than just a cap. Usually the transistors go out. Spiking the voltage or current burning up the board. And your supposed to change those in however many are connected together pairs. http://www.bcae1.com/repairbasicsforbcae1/repairbasics.htm
  2. I saw instagram pics
  3. well i already have the tires for it 315/70/17 I dont need 8"s tho too big for the ladies to ride lol maybe 4-6. Just a spring and a cup with the bags still on the front seems like a cheap alternative.
  4. djjdnap replied to djjdnap's topic in Hall Of Fitness
    Once glycogen stores are depleted, muscle protein is catabolized into glucose as needed. Burning fat can't fuel the body for everything. Ketosis can play a big role here, but I don't want to expand on that unless specifically asked. As it was explained to me the body is a fat storing entity. It stores fat so that it can use it for energy later. The body is not a muscle storing or making entity otherwise we would all sit around and get ripped from doing nothing. Now to answer truconcepts question it really depends. In my case i have not seen any muscle loss. When i have been at 189lb's of muscle for the longest whether i went up in weight or down, the percentage of bf has stayed at 189lb for whatever reason. so last month I did the eat every 3hrs diet and still worked out as usual. I lost maybe 2lbs This month i have been doing intermittent fasting, which technically isn't eating less. Instead you dont eat for atleast 16hrs and have an 8hr eating window where you consume all of your calories. My personal window however is been more like 2-4hrs and eating considerably less calories, but lots of protein within that time. Now i still work out with heavy weights, I believe that this preserves muscle as well, because your body isn't going to respond to that stress by throwing out whats keeping those weights moving. Now I have dropped to more than 10lbs. within 3 weeks, 16% bf still leaving me at 189lbs of muscle. As they say u cannot gain and cut at the same time and i see why. HOWEVER.............. everyones body reacts to things differently. Insulin resistant Carb sensitive thyroid problems it really depends on what works for you. Now 5yrs from now maybe i will have found something better who knows, the body is an adaptive beast. stefan I am interested to hear what you have to say as well. I agree your body cannot use fat for everything, but the majority of what you burn while sitting, walking is fat. Thus the labels on treadmills and other machines that have a cardio, heart healthy and fat burn chart. usually fat burn is 130-140 for heart rate. the best analogy i have read is that the body is like a boat. It will throw out what it doesn't need before it throws out the essentials. If you are lifting heavy I believe that your body considers your muscles essential. Now if you strain yourself and your heart rate stays sky high then your body or boat is going to panic and do all it can to keep that boat going.
  5. Haven't gotten a chance to look at it honestly. Hopefully its just an air leak from the solenoids. Been to cold and wet out to make me want to get under there. Been drivin my moms mini van around saving gas in the meantime lmao
  6. Only BF% since i have never been on a cut before. I weighed myself yesterday and im down to 225 at 16-18% supposedly. So 189 would be no BF, but i cant see myself loosing that much weight Weight is just falling off really. Abs are slowly coming in(I'll post pics when its all over with before and after) I took my prework out which is called Zero-Loss https://www.mrsupps.com/Products/83/ZL+Pre-Workout+Fruit+Punch/ with 5 Yohimbe HCL pills before the gym. I couldn't even run on the treadmill without my heart racing, which wasn't good. I have taken the two together before but not at such a high does. the prework out by itself if intense, so i think i may just stop using it because of the creatine in it an water weight retention and just stick to the yohimbe. Guess i can post my workouts as well. Monday- elliptical 20mins Bench- These numbers are going to drop from lack of calories 135x15 225x15 315x8 225x8 135x8 I couldn't stop sweating or catch my breathe so i went to machines Separate arm Curls each arm 4 sets Military press 4 sets Flys 4 sets Cable crosses Down 3 sets straight 3 sets up 2 sets 30 mins on treadmill at 2.5-3 Tuesday 1 Hour of cardio on treadmill
  7. djjdnap replied to djjdnap's topic in Hall Of Fitness
    True but if you were something ridiculous like 8% body fat, why would you want to lose weight. I mean if you were in a show i could see it, but for most people that are no where near being that lean and want to lose weight I don't see it mattering. And if your trying to gain muscle cutting shouldn't even be a topic imo.
  8. trying to spend wisely bro... recones are quoted, still gotta fix my truck now..dam bags went out
  9. well i finally got my price quote on recones. Looks like i will have 2 different recones 2 for the 12 spoke basket and 2 for the 6 spoke. Shits expensive man . But will still get them. they will just have to wait until i upgrade my phone and fix the bags on my truck. Outa nowhere i get the saggy booty ride, thinking about just getting it lifted.
  10. I almost forgot this as well. http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/relays/relays.html
  11. djjdnap posted a topic in Hall Of Fitness
    Ok so this might get a bit long winded. So everyone believes that their metabolism is what keeps them skinny or fat, which to an extent is true, but in reality what you eat is. In simple terms Calories In > Calories burned = Fat Gain Calories burned > Calories in = fat loss Metabolism is the process by which your body converts what you eat and drink into energy. During this complex biochemical process, calories in food and beverages are combined with oxygen to release the energy your body needs to function. Even when you're at rest, your body needs energy for all its "hidden" functions, such as breathing, circulating blood, adjusting hormone levels, and growing and repairing cells. The number of calories your body uses to carry out these basic functions is known as your basal metabolic rate — what you might call metabolism. Several factors determine your individual basal metabolic rate: Your body size and composition. The bodies of people who are larger or have more muscle burn more calories, even at rest.Your sex. Men usually have less body fat and more muscle than do women of the same age and weight, burning more calories.Your age. As you get older, the amount of muscle tends to decrease and fat accounts for more of your weight, slowing down calorie burning. Energy needs for your body's basic functions stay fairly consistent and aren't easily changed. Your basal metabolic rate accounts for about 60 to 75 percent of the calories you burn every day. In addition to your basal metabolic rate, two other factors determine how many calories your body burns each day: Food processing (thermogenesis). Digesting, absorbing, transporting and storing the food you consume also takes calories. This accounts for about 10 percent of the calories used each day. For the most part, your body's energy requirement to process food stays relatively steady and isn't easily changed.Physical activity. Physical activity and exercise — such as playing tennis, walking to the store, chasing after the dog and any other movement — account for the rest of the calories your body burns up each day. Physical activity is by far the most variable of the factors that determine how many calories you burn each day.Unfortunately, weight gain is most commonly the result of eating more calories than you burn. To lose weight, then, you need to create an energy deficit by eating fewer calories, increasing the number of calories you burn through physical activity, or both. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metabolism/WT00006 So basically if you eat every 3 hours your body is going to continue to burn the food in your system and not the fat stores. The body stores fat for energy, so why would we want to not use it? Everyone says that you will burn muscle if you do not eat, which has never been proven. The Fuel for the human body takes three basic forms: carbohydrates (sugars/glucose/glycogen), protein, and fat. Humans are capable of burning all three of these fuels, but do so at different times, rates, and under different circumstances. Using an extreme example, under starvation conditions the body burns its fat stores. Once fat stores are depleted the body begins digesting non-essential proteins and then finally essential proteins, which ultimately leads to organ damage and death. Carbohydrates Let’s start by discussing carbohydrates. Carbohydrates, or “carbs”, are simply sugar molecules linked to one another in varying arrangements. For example, starch, the most important carbohydrate in the human diet, is nothing more than numerous glucose molecules linked together in a long strand. Potatoes are an excellent example. Another example of a carbohydrate is glycogen. Glycogen is how humans store excess glucose (a single sugar molecule) for later use. Unlike starch, which is a long chain of individual glucose molecules, glycogen is a highly branched structure that allows the body to rapidly cleave off individual sugar molecules to be burned for energy. Carbohydrates can be further broken down into 2 categories: simple and complex. We’ve all heard of the term “complex carbohydrates”, which is basically a fancy way of saying multiple sugar molecules linked together in a complicated way. Contrarily, a simple carbohydrate is merely a few (1 to 3) sugar molecules linked together. Why do we make the distinction between simple and complex carbs? For starters, simple carbohydrates are rapidly absorbed by the gut and enter the bloodstream very quickly. Candy bars are a great example! If you need a quick boost of energy you can eat a candy bar. The problem is that since simple carbs enter the bloodstream so rapidly they get metabolized quickly. This causes you to lose that energy boost fast, which is why you often feel “de-energized” an hour or so after eating "junk food". In contrast, complex carbs get degraded by the gut much less rapidly, and therefore trickle into the bloodstream slower. This gives you a more sustained, but less pronounced energy boost. Whole grains are a great example of complex carbs. Why all the hub-bub about carbohydrates? Because they are the first energy source that is utilized during exercise. This forms the basis behind “carbo loading”, or eating a meal rich in carbohydrates the night before, or morning of, a planned work out. During exercise, the body will then utilize the individual sugar molecules in the carbohydrates to provide energy for your muscles and brain. Once you run out of sugar (or the form that humans store it in, glycogen) your body turns to the other alternative fuel sources: protein and fat. Fats The next fuel that gets burned is fat. All human beings have a certain percentage of body weight that is fat. From an evolutionary stand point this is advantageous. During times of drought or famine there were not enough crops to provide adequate carbohydrates, and thus humans survived by “burning” their fat stores. In biochemical terms, fat is nothing more than long chains of carbon atoms linked together. Suffice to say that it is the carbon in the fat that ultimately gets utilized to form energy that your muscles and other body tissues use. Why not burn fat first? Because fat is not as efficient an energy provider as sugar. This is the reason that endurance athletes, a few hours into a work out, hit the proverbial “wall”. The wall represents the point where they have burned up all the carbohydrate in their body, and are now running on fat reserves. The decreased amount of energy gained per unit of fat, when compared to what you were getting with carbs, results in the feeling of fatigue. These principles can also be used as aweight loss system. Using the basics of carbohydrate and fat metabolism it makes sense that people have difficulty losing weight when they exercise vigorously for only half an hour. This is because the quick vigorous exercise burns only carbohydrate stores in the liver (ie: glycogen); the body never touches its fat reserves! In contrast, running a marathon (or a nice long walk or jog in the park) causes the body to tap into its fat reserves. This is also the idea behind exercising early in the morning before having breakfast. In the morning your body has been burning carbohydrates to keep all your organs functioning; therefore, in the morning your body has less carbohydrate available to burn because it was slowly getting eaten away during sleep. If you exercise at this point you’ll have to tap into your fat stores earlier than you normally would so that your muscles can get adequate energy to keep going. Proteins The 3rd and final fuel is protein. The body rarely burns protein as its sole fuel source, and when it does it is usually under conditions of starvation. Interestingly, when no carbohydrate is present in the diet, the body will use the amino acid backbones of protein to form glucose (a carbohydrate) in order to supply the brain with adequate energy. It was once thought that protein provided the energy that athletes used during exercise. This was the basis behind the “steak-and-eggs” breakfast prior to an athletic event. This has fallen out of favor as biochemists (and athletes) now realize that the body prefers to burn carbohydrates, then fat, and finally protein if all else fails. http://www.virtualmedstudent.com/links/healthy_living/understanding_how_the_body_burns_carbs_proteins_fats_simple.html So The three main fuel sources in humans are carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. They are used preferentially under different conditions. In general, the body burns carbohydrates, then fats, and then proteins, in that order. Now lets think here so if I eat my body is going to be using that energy to burn glycogen and carbs instead of fat. So the longer i go with out eating the more fat is being used as energy.(Ketosis) A lot of people are confused by the term "ketosis." You may read that it is a "dangerous state" for the body, and it does sound abnormal to be "in ketosis." But ketosis merely means that our bodies are using fat for energy. Ketones (also called ketone bodies) are molecules generated during fat metabolism, whether from the fat in the guacamole you just ate or fat you were carrying around your middle. When our bodies are breaking down fat for energy, most of the it gets converted more or less directly to ATP. You can also get into a Keto state by eating low carbs. As you read above the body burns fat stores when its not burning carbs. glycogenolysis-break down carbohydrates, or glycogen, into simple glucose molecules lipolysis-breaks down fats into glycerol and fatty acids What about insulin you say? Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas to help maintain optimal blood sugar level. Insulin's job is to remove sugar from the blood and store it, either as glycogen in the muscles and liver or, more frequently, as fat. Insulin is good. It helps maintain balance in the body. However, when triggered at the wrong times and in great amounts, insulin will make you fat. Preventing frequent and intense insulin responses is the single most critical step in reducing bodyfat for many people. Insulin also has a negative affect on resting metabolic rate. When you are not eating, your body is not absorbing food. If your body is not absorbing food, there is little insulin in the blood. However, your body is always using energy; and if you're not absorbing food, this energy must come from internal stores of complex carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Under these conditions, various organs in your body secrete hormones: When you eat carbohydrates by themselves, they digest too quickly and the sugar enters the bloodstream all at once, sending your blood sugar level soaring. This sets off an alarm and the pancreas secretes insulin into the bloodstream to take some of the sugar out. This is a good response, preventing a dangerous situation, but it comes at a cost. Severe insulin responses cause excess fat storage and low blood sugar. Low blood sugar causes a number of problems. The first is lethargy. Even mild activities seem exhausting. Another symptom of low blood sugar is mood swings. The greatest problem caused by low blood sugar when trying to reduce bodyfat is hunger. There are a number of different triggers for hunger and satiety. When blood sugar is the trigger, guess what specific cravings are usually manifested? You guessed it, carbohydrate. This sets up a vicious cycle: Eat Carbohydrate Increased Blood Sugar Insulin Secreted Carbohydrate Stored as Fat Low Blood Sugar Hunger (Carbohydrate Cravings?) Eat Carbohydrate... Eating can make you hungry and reduce energy levels. Repeatedly triggering the insulin response causes fat storage, hunger, and lethargy. Nobody intentionally makes themselves fat, hungry, and tired, but many people unknowingly do so several times every day. Carbohydrate is a very simple molecule that digests very rapidly and easily. Protein, on the other hand, is a very large, complex molecule, which digests much more slowly. Remember that when you eat different types of food together, they move through the digestive tract together, being digested and absorbed at the same rate. If you eat protein and carbohydrate together, the protein dramatically slows the carbohydrate digestion. Instead of a large amount of carbohydrate entering the bloodstream all at once and driving the blood sugar level up dramatically, the carbohydrate trickles slowly into the bloodstream. Protein "time-releases" carbohydrate. As digestion occurs, blood sugar is gradually burned off almost as quickly as it enters, preventing quick increases in blood sugar level that cause the insulin response. Blood sugar remains just slightly elevated for a long period of time. This creates the perfect situation: good mood, feelings of energy, minimized hunger, and a slow, steady supply of sugar to be burned with fat to provide the body with energy for daily activities. Fat digests very slowly, just as protein, so logically it could be combined with carbohydrate to prevent dramatic blood sugar fluctuations. While this will prevent the insulin response, think carefully about the logic behind consuming fat to be sure that the carbohydrate you eat will not be stored as fat. You store fat calories as fat calories instead of storing carbohydrate calories as fat calories. You get fat for a different reason. Fat is the most calorie-dense of all biological fuels, having about 2¼ times more calorie per gram than either protein or carbohydrate. Better to stick with low glycemic index carbohydrates and combine them with protein in a relatively low fat diet. http://inthezonefitness.com/Bodyfat.htm Consuming protein with carbohydrate helps ensure that the carbohydrate is not stored as fat. So when you here of people talking about spiking thier insulin this is why. Say you work out and burn off all your carbs until you are in a keto/fasted state of burning fat. Your insulin is low. You go home eat some fruit or low fat candy like sweet tarts and your insuling goes sky high. You then proceed to chug a protein shake after that and supposedly the protein goes straight to your muscles. Most post workout shakes have carbs in them already to do this FYI, just read the labels. In closing. - Workout 3 times a week with weights. - Eat 1g protein / lb lean body mass. - Reduce calories to lose 1-2 lbs / week. -Drink plenty of water Shameless plug for Yohimbe HCL
  12. Now before I began let me say that everyone is different and this may not work for you, but is my personal experience. So I have my first bodybuilding comp in 4 weeks. I've known about it since Jan. February-weight 240lbs-20%bf -Was trying to eat every 3 hours -had all my food in Tupperware hauling it around with me. -I worked out heavy weights 3 days a week ending with 30-45min cardio -I did lose maybe 2lbs for the whole month, but nothing noticeable March-weight 238lbs -Ran across the Hodge twins on you tube (hilarious vids btw) -I began skipping breakfast and lunch(eating 1 big meal , protein shake, and maybe some leftovers)-sleep repeat -1 hydroxy cut pill at work to stop cravings -Still working out 3 days a week heavy weights, cardio at the end LISS(low intensity steady state) so just a brisk pace on treadmill at maybe 3.0max -As of today im down to 229lbs, in 3 weeks I have been taking yohimbe-hcl( a selective alpha 2 antagonist.) which is said to help with trouble areas. I cannot for the life of me get any vasculararity in my legs, however i am seeing a reduction in my rib cage of all places lol. I also am trying to drink at least a gallon of water a day, no sodas except maybe a diet 1 here or there Reason being fructose sugar or real sugar will most likely to fat if glycogen levels are full, sugar is a carbohydrate, if you ever look at sugar and carbs on a lablel they are usually really close in value. Dextrose and maltodextrin are better substitutes for sugar as they are absorbed much quicker and used more efficiently for energy. Im eating maybe 1000 calories a day. except sundays yes it sucks, but im not satisfied with my bf%, Im just still trying to diet down right now. Sodium loading and carb cutting doesn't start till 2 weeks out. All that means is that I will be drying to dry myself out and retain as little water as possible . this week-3/18-3/23 Mon-Friday meals will be baked chicken, veggies and protein shake, with lots of H20 SAT-Sun....IDK yet lol any questions just ask my other thread should prove to be more useful information that just rambling lol
  13. buy HID kit and ur lights wont dim at all
  14. djjdnap replied to Steve123's topic in General Fi
    If your speaking of david i disagree on that. He was the only one that didn't want to sell RE to Us amps i believe. Then they split up, i dont blame him
  15. To chime in on this thread. DB-R I think mouse did my repairs. I sent in my Stesom and got it back within a couple of months. Under warranty so it was for the free at that. I also sent him my Atomic amp, which had been collecting dust, as it would cut on and suck major current, dam near like pressing all 4 window buttons at 1 time. Anyway, apparently the driver card was bad, So he had to get it from atomic, which they coincidentally ran out of, so i guess they eventually sent him one. Still didn't work, so he had to send it to another repair shop lol ,which charged him like 250$, i was like man this is gonna be an arm and a leg now. But it actually wasn't over 300$ for me. Now it did take about a yr for all of this to happen, but i told him i was in no rush as I wasn't going to use it any time soon. Its still sitting in the box right now as a matter of fact. Long winded, but I agree id rather pay for good service and repairs than a band-aid fix
  16. i guess i wont mention what i put on my floors....
  17. Thats called strapping and not on those. There would be a master and slave button if it was strappable.
  18. In industry Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) uses ASME standards which is in metric units. edit: Well SI units which in length is metric.
  19. I know my license plate holder makes the most rattles on my truck. The ceiling moves but doesn't seem to make as much noise. Easiest thing to do is turn on the system and go back their push on things until you find it/them..
  20. I agree. The reason people run it from the front is because they say that spot welds are usually bad. Will you notice probably not, unless you have too small of wire.
  21. so u got shop access while us other hoosiers work in the snow? smh, its a sad day just kiddin lookin good bro
  22. no vids have stopped working overall for some reason, even on pc
  23. djjdnap replied to coobies5's topic in Photography
    spidey gears
  24. I dont see why ur hurt. Im the guy that ran his at .5ohm for a day and it caught on fire and had to send it in for repairs. id rather be you at this point.

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