Yes - do NOT use hand sanitizer with moisturizer. Instead use hand sanitizer (sparingly) if you absolutely need it. Washing your hands with soap and warm water is MUCH better both in terms of total cleanliness and also long-term effects (using hand sanitizer can eventually lead to germs which resist the alcohol and other chemicals). Also hand sanitizer has a drying effect which will only antagonize the effects of the moisturizer.

I would advise checking out burt's bees moisturizers - they have a few very effective ones for all types of skin.

Okay I will definitely try out those other protein as discussed.

On a different note, my blood test came back and my doctor said that I had too much enzymes in the liver. Apparently I had 3000 units of these enzymes and the normal person only has 200 roughly speaking. Do you have any idea what he's talking about because he was rushing me and everything and didnt have time to ask him specifically.

And by normal, does he mean a person who does not work out? I on the other hand work out 3-4x a week, should I be concern with the facts?

This post was edited by TempoONE on Nov 26 2011 10:30pm

how many fish oils r u pose to take a day?

doesnt it say on the bottle?

Also, Raynor what is your take on cardio before a workout. My friend claims he can actually pump out more reps at higher weights than if he didn't do cardio.

This post was edited by TempoONE on Nov 26 2011 11:16pm

says take one cap daily with food..

Mass routine modification for myself (based on your mass routine), is this a good idea?:

I bike 4-5x a week, 30 minutes at a time, fairly high intensity. It wares me out for my leg days quite a bit, and leg days ware me out for biking as well (basically overtraining). So instead of doing mass routine with legs twice a week, just make legs once a week on the mass routine?

I can't knock the biking out until weather starts snowing. It's important to my dad that I bike with him. Basically his only exercise.

Also: When you say "superset" on an exercise in your mass routine, do you advise I do zero rest inbetween each exercise, and then once I've performed both back-to-back I take the regular rest as you've laid out? Or what's the rest scheme for superset exercises.

This post was edited by Canadian_Man on Nov 27 2011 02:07am

I'm sure that they are referring to your ALT and/or AST and/or GGT and/or ALP levels. However a healthy person should be around 8-48 AST, 45-115 ALP, 7-55 ALT, and 9-48 GGT. If you are showing up as having 3,000 U/L (units per liter of blood) of ANY of those enzymes, it could mean several things:


1. Excessive Alcohol Consumption
2. Using Medications such as anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-seizure drugs, cholesterol drugs, or antibiotics.
3. Consumption of supplement such as Kava and Skullcap (there's quite a few but i can't remember the other ones off hand)
4. Fatty Liver Disease
5. Liver Cancer
6. Diabetes
7. Obesity
8. Gallstones
9. Wilson's Disease
10. Mono (epstein barr)
11. Hemochromatosis
12. Liver Tumors
13. Hepatitis
14. HIV/AIDS


Do any of these apply to you? If NONE of them apply, get back to me and we'll go from there.

2 with every food meal (not shakes)

cardio is best done AFTER a workout. The reason for this is because you need full muscle glycogen to perform at maximum capacity when lifting. When you do cardio first you are depleting that glycogen. Train weights first, which will deplete glycogen, then do cardio which will assist with fat burning.

It would be fine to train legs once a week and bike the other days. No problem there.

For supersets, it's best to take approximately 10 seconds of rest just to catch your breath. You can take a bit of a longer break after the full superset is complete. Perform everything as mentioned in the plan but keep that 10 seconds rest in mind. You can jump right to the second part of your superset with 0 rest if you feel up to it. 10 seconds is optional.