All posts tagged: pumping

To Get Swole, Teens Are Pumping Themselves Full of Drugs Meant for Fattening Cows for the Slaughterhouse

To Get Swole, Teens Are Pumping Themselves Full of Drugs Meant for Fattening Cows for the Slaughterhouse

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In previous years, looks-conscious teens might have splurged on glamour shots at the mall, or fine-tuned their selfies with digital filters. In today’s hyper-competitive landscape of bodily optimization known as “looksmaxing,” some young men are going straight for the hard stuff. One particularly alarming intervention: trenbolone, or “tren,” a veterinary-grade anabolic steroid used to fatten up cows destined for the slaughterhouse. One of those teens is Zaid Laila, a 16-year-old whose tren habit resulted in massive gains in muscle mass and fat loss, CBS reported. In an interview over his use of steroids, the Dallas teen characterized the drug as a shortcut to get the kind of chiseled physique that plays well on social media. “Why wait 10 years,” he asked CBS, “when I could do it in less than a year.” Sure enough, Laila’s look has dramatically transformed over just 10 months of tren use, which the teen documented extensively on his Instagram page, CBS footage shows. …

Only got five minutes to spare? Try this kettlebell workout to build strength and get your heart pumping

Only got five minutes to spare? Try this kettlebell workout to build strength and get your heart pumping

Published by Jenni Sidey

When I’m trying to squeeze a short workout into a busy day, it can feel like I spend longer choosing a workout than actually doing it. In these situations, it can be a good idea to have a set of exercises ready to go. Denise Chakoian, a certified fitness trainer and the owner of Core Cycle and Fitness LaGree, has just the thing. Article continues below You may like When she has just five minutes to exercise—and wants to get the most out of that time—she does a single set of timed kettlebell exercises, to get the most bang for her buck. She begins with the kettlebell swing. “It’s one of the most efficient exercises that exists, and gets your heart rate up fast,” she says. She explains that she chose the rest of the exercises in this workout to complement the swing. She features pressing, squatting and grip work exercises to keep the quick workout balanced and not too heavily focused on the hip-hinge movement. “The final exercise is a deliberate cooldown in disguise,” …

‘He can say he went to the gym’: people are pumping themselves with fat from corpses to perk up their pecs, boobs and butts | Cosmetic surgery

‘He can say he went to the gym’: people are pumping themselves with fat from corpses to perk up their pecs, boobs and butts | Cosmetic surgery

Published by Sam Flores

The residential block at 655 Park Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is so storied it has its own Wikipedia entry. It has housed luminaries from bestselling romance author Danielle Steel to esteemed yachtsmen and the 20th-century heir William Kissam Vanderbilt II. A more recent resident, on the ground floor, is Alpha Male Plastic Surgery, a clinic offering a broad menu of elective procedures catering to the needs of the modern man. On a coffee table in the waiting room, fanned-out brochures tout facelifts, non-surgical penile implants, and Tesamorelin – an FDA-approved peptide injection targeting stubborn visceral belly fat. Flatscreen monitors mounted behind the front desk shuffle through ads for a “Full Male Model Makeover”, proprietary procedures like BodyBanking® and the 360 TorsoTuck®, and for the gym rat who habitually skips leg day, even “Amazing New Calves”. And there’s something new on the menu: a state-of-the-art procedure that employs “cadaveric adipose tissue” – that is, fat harvested from a corpse. That fat is sterilized, put into tubes and rebranded as a substance called Alloclae. Until …

Contributor: How to bring down gas prices in California (Hint: Pumping oil won’t help)

Contributor: How to bring down gas prices in California (Hint: Pumping oil won’t help)

Published by Sam Flores

Growing up in California in the 1990s, I remember noticing gas prices along the drive to school. Any time the signs showed more than a dollar a gallon, we would hear the late great Bob Edwards on my parents’ car radio, interviewing energy experts on NPR’s “Morning Edition” about why costs were so high and when they’d come back down. Now, as a professor of energy politics at UC Santa Barbara, I’m asked the same questions. Students, my family, government leaders and journalists covering the race for governor all want to know: Why are gas prices so high here in California? And how can we lower them? Anyone who has taken an economics class would tell you about the law of demand: If you reduce how many people want something, its prices go down. If people use less gas, it will get cheaper. My research shows that the best way to do this is by investing in public transportation and walkable neighborhoods. Think of transit solutions like L.A.’s “28 projects by 2028” initiative. We can …

Arizona to limit groundwater pumping in hard-hit area

Arizona to limit groundwater pumping in hard-hit area

Published by Sam Flores

For years, the water table has been dropping beneath thousands of acres of desert farmland in western Arizona, where a Saudi-owned dairy company has been allowed to pump unlimited amounts of groundwater to grow hay for its cows. But the company and other landowners in the area will now face limits under a decision by state officials to impose regulation. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday that her administration is acting to “crack down on the out-of-state special interests that are pumping our state dry while Arizona families and farmers suffer.” Fondomonte, part of the Saudi dairy giant Almarai, is by far the largest water user in the area, using dozens of wells to to irrigate alfalfa that it ships overseas to the Middle East. After conducting a review, the state Department of Water Resources designated the Ranegras Plain area, located 100 miles west of Phoenix, as a new “active management area” to preserve the groundwater. This isn’t the first time the Democratic governor and her administration have used this approach to curb excessive pumping …