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Thursday, October 19, 2006

 

STRATEGIC PROTEIN

How does anyone ever learn which proteins work best? What about Strategic Protein, made by the Doctor Bradburg. How is one ever supposed to know which one is best to build muscle or to use to get leaner?

You mean Rob Brandenburg not Bradburg and he is studying now in medical school, to be a physician. You learn what works best my friend, by trying products with an open mind and what works for you is the important bottom line!

Quality proteins are still by far, the most important element, in conjunction with correct training to build strength and lean muscle size. I lean to the casein and caseinate camp, more so than to the whey camp but that is only because the reality of most trainees situation, is that they use a protein supplement 1-2 times a day, one of which times is before bed, and not every 3 hours on an empty stomach as is best with whey.

Dr. Rob Brandenburg’s Strategic Protein was pioneered with medical data, actually, the data of many researchers and MD’s working together, on engineering, research and measuring its effects. It has the highest amounts the FDA will allow of high-efficiency pristine and unadulterated nitrogen. It is like Beverly Ultimate and BSN Syntha 6 at the very top and it has both fast-acting and intermediately assimilated proteins, for 100% small intestines absorption and it features high burst activity of glutamine-peptides.

By fusing fast absorbed forms of whey with more slowly-absorbed micellar casein peptides and egg white albumin, the MD has done everybody a one up. You get the best of all protein worlds. The casomorphins and phosphopeptides in Brandenburg are a generation ahead. Strategic protein is certainly a must have, a valuable top-of-the-liner for muscle synthesis, positive nitrogen balance, power, strength and recovery. You probably know more than I do about finding it -- try averagejoesupplements.com or try the MD himself at his last ad listing we had, at 1-888-780-4115 and or www.brandenburg-nutrition.com.

Failing all that, try Russ the magician at bodybuilding.com!
 

WHERE CAN I FIND PLANET!?

Jeff, I have looked high and low, and none of the dinky little mart-stores, in my small Kansas town, carries Planet Muscle. (It’s only 1,717 people) with just some 3-4 small stores and gas stations. There is a Wal-Mart about 40 miles away, but I looked and Planet was not there.

Maybe we were reclassified along with Pluto? Wal-Mart will not accept the current format, yet, unless, (or until) we stop showing bare Tush. For the record, MD and Flex had the same problem a few years ago and had to minimize the Maximus. The problem is that my testosterone is about 900, so this is a personal strain for me to do, especially with BUTTS like Jamie Eason’s, Ava Cowan and Dr. Gabby’s, abounding and bulging about! But, I assume we will “de-butt” as we grow (and perhaps, as I may grow up).

In the meantime, PlanetM has the same variability that most new magazines do at age 4-5 to the national stands, as national distribution has been consolidated greatly to a few (3-4 majors) and it is much harder to launch magazines these days, than it was 20 years ago, to get distribution. Remember, now days, you need to buy distribution (and that is why you find M&F many more places than you do Iron Man, Joe Weider being much richer than John Balik). Even so, I bet we have 30 times the distribution M&F did (then Muscle Builder), when it was age 5, and at their same time period, and the same degree more than MD had, at age 5, back in 1969!

Not to mention three times more pages than each had or 7-fold in those black and white days! Plus, we are growing, so PM will eventually show up at there small marts in your area. In the meantime subscription is the easiest as there is post service there and you can save up to 78% from the stand prices, which in 2007, are $5.97 each. By the way, in today’s rougher distribution, we end up retaining about 30% of that which does not even get close to hacking 25% recoup of costs so this is why you see so many advertising pages in all the mags—the old guys would probably go out of business, if MuscleTech pulled their numerous ad pages.

M&F, Flex and M&F-Hers are all for sale. It’s just too hard for them to hack it these days. At any rate you get, by far, the BEST deal of any magazine with PM --subs are now: $6.97 for 4 issues, $12.97 for 8 issues or $19.97 for 16 issues.

For those of you also compromised, go to our website at www.planetmuscle.com to find out where the best avails.

A short list includes:

A&P stores, CVS Pharmacy, Albertsons, Bartell Drugs, Bi-Lo Stores, Books-a-Million,
Borders, Barnes and Noble, Crowley Books, Dillions/Gerbes/Bakers Food for Less, Family Foods, Eckerd/Brooks, Giant Eagle, Hastings, King Soopers, IGA, K-Mart, Krogers, Military stores ands outlets, Piggly Wiggly, Safeway, Rite-Aid, Quikmart, Sac-On, Ralphs, Shopper Drug Mart, Varying airports, local newsstands, Target, United drugs, Walgreens, Some BNC’s, Winco, Winn-Drive. Once more, we have close to 50,000 distributed alone, just through the national 7-11 chain of stores.
 

BUFFED WITH KAREN JO

Several issues ago, Planet Muscle had a very interesting article, one of your best ever, in fact, and it was so good that the bodybuilding.com site picked it up (I’m assuming with your permission), and ran it for a long time, written by Certified Trainer, Karen Jo Koumas.

It was called Buffed with Karen Jo. It was about functional, realistic ways that both men and women could lose weight, but specifically target localized excess fat that had accumulated round the upper thighs, waist, hips and glutes. It was detailed in the exercises to do, sets and reps, without having to do a lot of fancy gym stuff, diet and nutrition, meals and eating-cooking tips. Can you please include more articles of this type in the future?


Yes, we certainly intend to. Planet M has many good authors, but sometimes it’s like picking teeth to get them to write, as they usually are busy (and successful) people. Karen Jo for example, is a weekend international flight attendant and teaches several (4-5) classes during the week. We do intend to run several ongoing articles by our top fitness women (Karen Jo, Jamie Eason, Dr. Gabrielle Resnick and Ava Cowan, as examples) through 2007 and 2008. We have about 30% women readers now, but all we do is always geared for both sexes. Stay tuned, we won’t let you down.
 

TRAINING FOR LOW REPS AND HEAVY WEIGHTS, AT AGE 48?

I have been a fan of yours, and your integrity and intelligence for many years.

One of the most impressive articles of yours was a 2-part article in the December 1991 and April 1992 issues of Powerlifting USA regarding studies that Dr. Scott Connelly did on protein, hypertrophy, and drug-free training when MET-Rx was just coming out. Another great article was in the old Iron Man from around 1980 that talked about how you had success by switching to higher reps in your training after doing low reps for so long.

I'm 48 and lifetime drugfree. I've been training for about 30 years. Most of the first half of those years I was bodybuilding. Around June of 1990, I switched to power stuff (lifting), and it is what I should have been doing all along. I have trained with a number of different programs through the years with varying degrees of success. I was a super heavyweight and have done raw, 455-lbs. bench, 400-lbs. triple raw (reverse grip bench), a 610-lbs. squat, with a 590-lbs double and a
550-lbs deadlift.

The reason I give you all this info is because with today’s insanity in lifting, with the crazy gear, I wanted you to have an honest idea of my strength levels. I have come to a disturbing standstill with my training. My strength levels have consistently dropped over the last few years, despite my efforts to try to train harder. I have tried Louie Simmons training, power cycles and the Bulgarian Burst training. That was 5-reps one day, 10 reps the next time I did that exercise, and then 20 reps with an isolation exercise the third cycle. So it was bench for 5 reps, bench for 10 reps and then flyes for 20 reps -- all done over a 10-day period.

It seemed to work then, but not now. Basically right now, I take 1 step forward and 2 steps back. For quite some time, I have been doing triples on the bench, doubles on the squat, and singles on the deadlift, and have been struggling just to keep my head above water. I have also had many small injuries throughout the last 5 years, especially since I turned 40. I am wondering what you would recommend based upon your experience.

Have I been doing low reps for to long? Have my intensity levels been consistently too high and close to the edge? I would really appreciate any advice you could impart. By the way, Planet Muscle is great. It’s become the only magazine I read lately, especially for supplement info. Keep up the good work.


Thanks Dominic, but seriously, I did not know I had any integrity left?

PL USA and Iron Man may have to put me on their payroll with plugs like this. But, I did like those articles you are talking about. I think you are doing well. At 48, I was about half dead. I tried to train for the Over 50 NPC Master, after winning the Over 40 Mr. America and was so "beat" up what I did was more like beat o...

I got 4th out of 15. Now, listen, intensity is important, but lower reps and bigger weights cause a greater summation of force on joints and vulnerable connective tissues and as you get around 45-50, it is not so important to be big and In fact,
no matter what you do, short of using/taking steroids, you will very likely not be able to gain more muscle size or power-speed. I could not even using some stuff. It is now time to get more muscle endurance and get in better cardio shape and get lean! With a lifter mentality, I know this is hard. I think you should so like Beverly's Roger Riedinger does (page 123 Nov/Dec 2006 Issue) and at 57, he sets goals for rep records at certain weights in the range of 10-20 reps. He says it keeps him strong, lean and maintains, and even seems to build size.

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