eating too many proteins can also cause goutys (raw translation from french, I could be wrong). But hey, I kinda lost track of this thread, now that it's back, I have some questions about it:
First: Zod, when you mention "isolation" exercices, what do you mean? I'm not familiar with the English training vocabulary, so I need to have things cleared up a bit. Is benching considered an "isolation" exercice?
Second: well, not really a question, but a comment about what you said earlier about letting your muscles rest. I agree with pretty much everything you said, especially the part where you said to train one group of muscle per week. My own program is a bit like this:
1st day: pectoral/biceps/triceps (super-7)
2nd day: back/shoulders
3rd day: legs
4th day: biceps/triceps
At each session, I do abs and I TRY to do cardio (emphasis on try cause doing cardio is so fucking boring imo, even with an ipod). With this training I never overtrain and stuff. I have some friends who are in my university's football team and they train 6-7 times a week 2-3 hours every time. Impressive.
3rd comment: about the protein shakes: I'm somewhat against it. IMO, you should try to get your proteins through your diet. I eat a lot of fish, tuna, peanut butter and such. Call this superstition, but I think protein shakes are nowhere near as good as a good diet, even though, chemically, the proteins are supposed to be the exact same molecule as the proteins we find in food. Heck, when you've done a lot of chemistry, you'll notice there is no distinction between natural molecules and synthesis molecules, they're all the same thing.
Sidenote: People who tries natural remedies coming from homeopathy are being frauded.
About creatin: I don't know if the subject was aborted, but creatin helps developping your muscles, true, but there are no researches about the long term effects of using such products, so I would suggest not to try it.
Steroids: you produce steroids naturally from cholesterol. Cool huh?
