The RoCks Journal....

[RoCk79]

Dell Dimension 8200, with all the upgrades, FULLY LOADED, and without my school discount, would have cost me about 3000, but since I got a school discount, it only cost me 2200, so I'm pretty excited about that...

BTW, Butterfly, saw the new pics, you and Fade look GREAT!! Especially you.

Fade....
When you started the creatine, did you first feel sick to the stomach? Is this normal? Thanks.

 

[Fade]

I don't look as good as Butterfly??

Maybe some green apple splatters but that might have been caused by the Myolplex.
If I get off the Myoplex for two or more days I get the splatters when I start back up. Only for the first day though.

The only thing that actually makes my stomach hurt is my multi-vitamins.

Do you take it with anything?

 

[RoCk79]

ya, I take multi, C, E, Calcium vitamins, and also glutamine. Usually stomach does not hurt, but this last weekend it has.

 

[butterfly]

DUDE... YOU'RE GETTIN A DELL!!!!

 

[RoCk79]

Ya, I wanted to build my own, (obviously since I work on them) but I dont have that kind of money to go buying all the pieces, so I financed the computer. And Dell is not all that bad, plus i get all the options I want!!! So it works out nice!!

 

[lina]

Hi Rock!

Thought I'd visit your journal! If you're bulking, I think it's better to stay away from junk food otherwise what you'll gain is mostly fat and when come cutting time, it will be harder to come off. Why don't you ask DP or W8 for advice? See what they say?

P.S. I can't see your picture.

 

[Fade]

Originally posted by RoCk79
ya, I take multi, C, E, Calcium vitamins, and also glutamine. Usually stomach does not hurt, but this last weekend it has.

What do you put the creatine in?

 

[RoCk79]

Originally posted by Fade99

What do you put the creatine in?

Fade, the creatine is in pill form, it's a mix with creatine and glutamine, called volumizer.

All I just had my weight taken yesterday, I now weight 187lbs, so I have gained 11 pounds in 7 weeks, personal trainer is going to take assesment test again this weekend, to see if my b/f% went up, I think it was probably only 3 or 4 lbs of fat gained, the rest muscle. I'm excited, I'm GAINING WEIGHT!!!

 

[Fade]

Ahh...maybe that's the problem. Pill form.

When the capsules dissolves you get a lump of creatine sitting in your stomach. Using a powder allows for some of the creatine to dissolve in a liquid before drinking.

Try a powder form.

 

[butterfly]

If your pills are capsules you could just open them and dump the contents into your drink...

 

[dvlmn666]

Hiya rock, congrats on the weight gain. Wish I had your prob lol.

You should really look into the powder form, if I remember right people normally take from 10-20 grams/day so unless your taking alot of pills your probably short changing yourself on the usefulness of the creatine. And going with powder is cheaper in the long run as well.

oh yeah the dell sounds sweet to by the way. and the coolest part is if you want you can reformat the whole thing you can load it up without there crappy sofware and it'll run perfect. well that and linux works great with them. because they use generic enough components. excellent choice if you have to buy one

 

[Cenox]

Never a good idea to buy a computer made by a large brand unless you need a lot of help through hotlines and stuff...

 

[dvlmn666]

Originally posted by Cenox
Never a good idea to buy a computer made by a large brand unless you need a lot of help through hotlines and stuff...

No offense dude, but for the prices Dell is selling computers for right now there is no way you could buy the components and come out at the same cost as what your paying them for it. And I know for a fact that Dell uses no proprietary (bad spelling) components in there systems making them the easiest to customize and upgrade in the future.

I have an account with one of the major distributors here in the US and I've quoted systems to compete with Dell's. and unless you go with lower quality MB and video cards it's just not possible. They get OEM and Volume discounts. Plus like rock said if you can't cough up that much cash they have financing.

 

[RoCk79]

Originally posted by Cenox
Never a good idea to buy a computer made by a large brand unless you need a lot of help through hotlines and stuff...

I myself am I computer nerd as well, and I work everyday repairing computers, if I had the money I would build my own, cause I know how to do that with my eyes closed...lol, but dell offers AN AWESOME system for cheap, with my discount, still cost me over 2grand, and I can customize it myself, so it's all good. I am not worried at all.

Pill form I was told is better, I needed something with glutamin in it too. I will try the powder form when this is gone. Thanks for the info Fade & Butterfly

 

[butterfly]

We use Dell computers here at NASA/Johnson Space Center Good choice Rock!

Looks like it was another newbie just trying to get enough posts to see our pics

 

[dvlmn666]

yeah sorry rock if i messed up your journal. It's just frustrating sometimes. I used to be able to buy the parts cheaper but now days I really can't.

However I can get storage cheap if ya need any extra hard drives let me know.

 

[RoCk79]

Originally posted by dvlmn666
yeah sorry rock if i messed up your journal. It's just frustrating sometimes. I used to be able to buy the parts cheaper but now days I really can't.

However I can get storage cheap if ya need any extra hard drives let me know.

Hey, no problem at all... It's all good. So dvl, where has SG been? She hasn't been around here in a long time. Wonder whats going on??

 

[dvlmn666]

yea no kidding. I'm starting to think we need a search party. <--- me volunteering. hahha j/k

but yeah hope she's doin good. I know she replied to some commends on her pix over at mm.com last weekend. So I know she's still around.

 

[RoCk79]

New update:
On Wed. I felt strong pain in my shoulder, and Personal Trainer thinks I may have stretched something or possibly even tore my rotator cuff, so thats not good, so Sunday I hope it feels better..

 

[dvlmn666]

Dude that's not cool. Sorry to hear it.

 

[butterfly]

Take care of yourself... don't push it...

 

[Scorpio Gurl]

Originally posted by dvlmn666
yea no kidding. I'm starting to think we need a search party. <--- me volunteering. hahha j/k

but yeah hope she's doin good. I know she replied to some commends on her pix over at mm.com last weekend. So I know she's still around.

Hey Devlmn.....
LOL, I'm still around, just not in all the places I used to go. have a lot of hours at work (what else is new.. lol) and trying to suck up all the sun I can get too Dealing with some new issues that have just risen here... and doing as much cardio and weights as I can fit in!

Also met someone here, and he only lives 3 doors down from me too!!! Man, and he seems a little too good to be true.... kinda like I should be waking up soon, lol.... but he is interested and has made it very clear to me..

Everything is still good though, i have a pulse and my gym pass, so I should be okay lol

Rock ~~~~ send me an email I dont' hear from you anymore.... what'sa matta' wit ya' ? Hope to hear from you soon... take care and hope your shoulder is feeling better...

 

[RoCk79]

SG, glad to see your still alive, sure, torcher me with this whole you met someone thing!! lol, trying to make me jeleous..

Anyway, this whole shoulder thing sucks, it starts to feel better, and I go to the gym, stretch it really good, and workout, and it starts to hurt again!!

I dont get it, oh well, on good note, I am moving soon, so that should be fun...Anyway, thats it for now!!!

 

[Scorpio Gurl]

Hey Rock! You alive in there... lol, now you're the one who's vanished!

Where ya movin' to? I hear there's a empty place right beside my place.... hehe

 

[RoCk79]

Originally posted by Scorpio Gurl
Hey Rock! You alive in there... lol, now you're the one who's vanished!

Where ya movin' to? I hear there's a empty place right beside my place.... hehe

I'm here!!! Busy with moving and all that wonderful stuff..

SG, let me pack all my stuff back up and will be there soon!!

 

[Fade]

Where ya moving to?

 

[RoCk79]

Alright, Yesterday, first time back in the gym for almost 2 weeks, shoulder feels better. What I did

Squats
Leg curls
lunges (I hate these)
jump rope

Thats all I did, my legs are really sore, and unfortunately, I am not even going to put my food up, cause it's really bad now, actually, it's not that it's bad, it's just that I'm not really eating anything, just moved in to a new place, have not gone grocery shopping yet, so lots of poptarts and cereal!! lol

 

[RoCk79]

Originally posted by Fade99
Where ya moving to?

Moving into an apartment, just down the road from previous. Not a big move, but still moving sucks!!!

 

[Scorpio Gurl]

Hey Rock!

Glad to hear you shoulder is doing better.. don't ya love the day after doing legs heheh.. I do.

Take it easy and talk to ya later Sexy!

SG

 

[butterfly]

Howdy

How's the career soul searching going??