Our Journey From Yoli To Max!

I recently finished the Cowtown 1/2 Marathon in Fort Worth, Texas on Feb. 27th along with my family and friends.  Despite having only trained for this for one month, I wanted to drill down to how I was able to achieve this with such little training time and without injury.

I use the Polar RS800CX heart rate monitor along with the Polar Pro Trainer software to track my training.  In reviewing my training over the last year, I had really fallen off in June of 09.  Since that time, I had really stopped training all together and lost a great deal of aerobic ability as well as put on some weight!  By the time I started to train again for the 1/2 Marathon, it was January 10th and the race was looming around the corner!  I had shot back up to a weight of almost 220 lbs. and my first run on January 10th told me I was in a lot of trouble!

I knew the key to being able to achieve my goal in such a short time would be to just get the mileage in, however I was very concerned about injury and being able to recover quick enough to get all the training in that I would need.

I was only able to get 3 long runs in during the weeks leading up to the race as well as the shorter mileage during the week.  My three long runs were: 6.5 miles, 8.5 miles and then 10.5 miles (the last being the Sunday before the race…a dangerous time to add to your mileage!)

Come race day, I had made it through the month without injury and felt great!  So what do I contribute that to?  Well, I’d love to say it is superior genetics, but I think my brother got the majority of that, so it really came down to this: proper fueling and recovery!

There are two things that I credit my success to: MaxGXL Sport and Hammer Nutrition!

With the assitance of these products, I was able to recover quickly and effeciently to keep getting the mileage in without injury.  I have been taking the MaxGXL for about 5 months now and I sleep great, have the mental focus and have the ability to recover without the dreaded DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) that show up 2 days after an intense workout.

Hammer Nutrition was introduced about 3 weeks before the race.  The education regarding proper fueling before excersize as well as how to refuel the body after an athletics race I recieved from them is priceless!  My favorite products from Hammer are the Race Caps Supreme, HEED, Recoverite, Tissue Rejuvinator and the awesome Hammer Bars!  Of course a staple of endurance events are gels and the Hammer Gels are my new favorite!  I posted an article that Steve Born had written regarding glutathione and recovery that you can read by clicking here!

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This is the latest statement from the Max Blog as of 2/24/2010:

On February 17, 2010, Tripharma LLC (“Tripharma”) sued Max International, LLC and various current and former Max executives and employees (collectively “Max”), along with various Max associates. The suit claims that Max allegedly improperly and falsely marketed, advertised, and labeled the MaxWLX product as being the subject of certain scientific tests or studies and as being licensed under United States Patent No. 6,899,892 (the “’892 patent”). The suit also claims that Max allegedly violated a marketing and supply agreement between Max and Tripharma by not purchasing a minimum amount of a viscous polysaccharide product for Max’s MaxWLX.

Tripharma is seeking money damages from Max. TriPharma also seeks an injunction prohibiting Max from continuing to advertise, market, and sell the MaxWLX product and from using the tests or studies for marketing, advertising, or other purposes.

With respect to the various distributors, Tripharma is not seeking money damages from Max’s distributors. Instead, Tripharma is only seeking an injunction prohibiting the associates from continuing to advertise, market, and sell the MaxWLX product, and from using the tests or studies for marketing, advertising, or other purposes.

Max believes the suit is without any merit, was filed for an improper purpose, was filed to attempt to damage Max’s reputation and business, and Max will seek, among other things, its attorneys’ fees and costs in defending the lawsuit. Max will vigorously defend itself, its business, its conduct, and its reputation in all lawful and appropriate manners, including, if appropriate, by filing counterclaims against Tripharma.

Learn more about Max International here.

Originally posted by Lou Abbott of http://www.mlm-thewholetruth.com

Tripharma LLC files patent infringement lawsuit for $450 million

Though I can find no active website for Tripharma or any contact information, Tripharma appears to say this about themselves at Alibaba.com:

We are a US distributor and marketer of quality nutraceuticals and supplement products including without limitation, the new weight loss product Xellex and the female sexual dysfunction product Xzite.

Xellex was researched and developed at the University of Minnesota where it was awarded Two (2) patents and clinically tested at the University of Connecticut. There is no other product like it for safe, long term effective weight management. It is truly the HOLY GRAIL of over the counter weight loss products and will be available to the general public without a prescription for the first time via US DRTV commercials in May.

Evidently, Tripharma sells a product much like Max International’s MaxWLX product that helps to reset critical leptin sensitivity.  MaxWLX is one of three patented products from Max that include MaxGXL, a glutathione accelerator product, and N-Fuze, a multivitiamin, multimineral product that employs a patented nanotechnology delivery system.

As of the time of this post, a copy of the lawsuit is not yet available.  According to RFCexpress.com (Recently Filed Cases), it will be available sometime in the next few days.  We will post a copy here as soon as it is available.

I know Max believes they purchased all of the patent rights to this formula and breakthrough.  They have even defended what they perceive to be their rights.  So who is this Tripharma company?  Do they have some kind of valid claim?  It will be interesting to see how this lawsuit develops.

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The Hottest MLM System Ever!

by Brian Bier  12/17/09

©2009

 I recently visited a website that had a picture of a man’s face scrunched up as if he was extremely stressed and confused.  Super-imposed on the picture were the words: Opportunities, Pitches, Products, Hype!  This seeming to present a negative image of hearing those words.

Underneath the picture was a short description of this “new wealth building formula” that was so unique that nobody else has done it before.  It promises “no prospecting, no rejection, no advertising, etc.”

I’ve been in the MLM industry a while now.  I have a pretty good idea about who the target market for this “new formula” is.  At one time in my career, I just might have been weak enough to take a look at it.  I mean come on, no prospecting…no advertising…no rejection…who wouldn’t want a system like that?

As I stated before, I’ve been in the MLM industry for a while now, and I would NOT want a system like that!

Let me paint a little picture for you…

You join an MLM company.  You have great products or services that others can benefit from. You have intentions of building a solid business that will produce a long-lasting residual income.

In order to start earning any income, your job now as an Independent Distributor of ACME, Inc. is to move product!  Plain and simple.  You are paid when product is moved through your organization.

No matter what company in this industry you are a part of, there will always be three ways, and only three ways, that product will be moved through your organization:

1. Retail your product or service
2. Gather wholesale customers
3. Enroll other distributors into your organization who purchase product to use or sell (hopefully you will also train, develop and support these new team members as well!)

Each company will have various commissions, bonus pools, fast pays, etc. in their compensation plans to break up how they pay for sales in your organization, but make no bones about it…what you just read are the only ways that you can earn an income from a “legal” network marketing company!  The sale of a product or service to an end user is what all the commissions and bonuses are paid from!

Now that we understand this point, how does that tie into the “Hottest MLM System Ever” that promises “no advertising?”

Well, as an Independent Distributor, you are the marketing arm of the company you have chosen to align yourself with.  You are the “advertising” for the company’s product or service. 

In the traditional marketing or retail world, when a company wants to sell a new product or increase sales of a current product, they need to get the word out to consumers who may be interested in purchasing their goods.

How do they do that?  Simple…they advertise!  The companies will spend untold amounts of money to get their product advertised in the marketplace in the hopes that their target market will see the ad and then subsequently purchase the product.

Advertising alone is a huge industry!  One could imagine the incredible amounts of money that is spent on advertising every day.

Network marketing companies do things a little different.  You know those untold amounts of advertising money spent by traditional companies?  Well, a network marketing company still spends that same money, in the form of commissions and bonuses, however, they don’t spend it until the consumer has already purchased the product!  They are the first to get paid!

I don’t know about you, but that just seems like a pretty logical thing to do!  After having worked in the corporate world for so many years, my parents started their own restaurants.  Isn’t that the dream of so many people?  Become your own boss, start a business and become rich!  Well, I learned from my parents that the business owner is the last person to get paid!  Now that just doesn’t make sense at all, does it?

If you invented a new product and you wanted to sell it, what do you think is the best route?

• Spend a whole bunch of money (if you have it) to tell people about your new product in the hopes that enough consumers will buy from you to recoup that money
• Or…have a representative (not an employee) sell your product for you, and after you have already been paid, then you pay the rep. a percentage of the profit from that sell

Option number two seems like the best choice, wouldn’t you agree?  That is how network marketing companies work.  You see, you are the advertising!  The same advertising dollars that the traditional company spends in hopes of getting a customer, the network marketing company spends after they have gotten a customer, to you, the “advertising arm”…in the form of commissions, bonus pools, etc.

All right, now that we understand all of this, we are clear that since we joined an MLM company, and we have intentions of building a solid business that will produce a long-lasting residual income, and we know that in order to earn this income that we must move product through our organization, and in order to move product through our organization we must…Advertise!

So, as an independent distributor of a network marketing company who must move product to get paid and must advertise in some fashion in order to move that product, why would I want a “new wealth building formula” that promises “no advertising?”  If I want to build an organization of others like me, then I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be using a system that promises “no prospecting!”

Remember those three ways that product can be moved through an organization? 

• Retail, Wholesale & Other distributors in your organization

Guess what?  To do any of those three things, so you can move product, so you can earn an income…you are going to have to advertise!  You are going to have to prospect!  You are going to encounter rejection!

What I teach my team members is a little different than what “The Hottest MLM System Ever!” promises.

When someone comes into my organization, I want them to be very aware that there will be Opportunity, Products and Pitches!  Remember those words that were supposed to invoke a negative response?

I assure them that they absolutely will encounter rejection.  They absolutely will be prospecting.  In order to get the word out about their product, the absolutely must advertise!

Of course, there will be plenty of training and support along the way and maybe we can teach them some different methods than they may be thinking of, you know something that they may be comfortable with.  We will advertise in ways that cost money and in ways that are free.  We will experience rejection and we will experience joy.  You see, our “wealth building formula” isn’t new…it has be tested and proven for over 50 years!  We move product, and we get paid!

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Brian Bier is a husband, father and networker. He is an advocate of Network Marketing and contributes positively to its reputation by helping others uphold the highest standards of ethics, values and honesty within the industry.

To receive additional information about what company Brian is aligned with, visit http://www.newedgemarketing.com or send an email to newedgemarketing@att.net.  Brian can be reached directly at (817) 419-8273 CST.

© 2009, Brian J Bier.  This information is copyright protected. Please feel free to distribute this information as long as this copyright notice, phone number and/or URL are included. Content must remain unchanged and original authorship acknowledged.

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• Your body will be able to store more and more of a premium, ready-to-use fuel known as muscle glycogen.
• You will strengthen, not weaken, your immune system.
• You will kick start the rebuilding of muscle tissue.

You can really give yourself a major advantage come race day if you’ll take the time to put some quality fuel into your body as soon as possible after all of your workouts.

If you’re at all serious about performing better in your racing and staying healthier, then take heed to this saying: When you’ve finished training, you’re still not finished with training! Here’s what I mean: You must attend as much to recovery as you do to active exercise if you expect to reap the benefits of hard training. In other words, how well you recover today will be a huge factor in how well you perform tomorrow. Exercise, done properly, creates enough stress on your muscles and cardiovascular system to instigate a rebuilding and strengthening program, but without causing big-time damage. Your body responds by adapting to the stress you placed upon it. Too much exercise at once leads to over-training syndrome. If you train within limits, but fail to supply your body with adequate fuel and nutrients, you get pretty much the same thing: over-use symptoms such as weakening, increased susceptibility to infections, and fatigue.

Recovery includes many factors, including rest, stretching, muscle stimulation, and sleep, but we will limit our present discussion to the nutritional aspects. This article will cover the four essential nutritional areas of recovery: rehydration, the two macronutrients (carbohydrates and protein), and micronutrients (primarily antioxidants).

Rehydration

Technically, of course, water has no nutrient value, but it’s essential for performance and recovery, and well worth a couple of paragraphs here. The normal course of recovery nutrition intake will meet most hydration needs, but it is possible for an athlete to suffer from chronic dehydration. In the article on hydration (Hydration – What You Need To Know) we caution against excess fluid intake, a more common problem than dehydration, especially among the mass of recreational and fitness athletes. Top-level competitors, however, tend to under-hydrate during races.

As a rule of thumb, you want to finish a workout with no more than about 2% body weight loss, and certainly no weight gain. Weight loss in excess of 2% signals performance decline. For example, if you go out at 160 lbs (approx 72.5 kg) and return several hours later at 156 lbs (just under 71 kg), you’re probably a bit dehydrated, but that would not be an unusual deficit after a hard workout or race. (Obviously, a steady, reliable scale is important here). At a pint per pound (roughly 475 ml per kilogram), four pounds (nearly two kilograms) lost means you need to drink at least a good half-gallon (64 ounces, or just under two liters) of fluids in the next few hours. That’s fairly easy, and much of the fluid intake will come in the normal course of nutritional replenishment anyway.

Carbohydrate replenishment – The sooner the better!

Now let’s consider carbohydrate replenishment, the most obvious nutritional issue caused by endurance exercise. When you know the mechanism of carbohydrate replenishment, you can very effectively dial in your energy recovery program, so let’s briefly review your energy use and restoration cycle.

When you begin a workout or race, the primary fuel your body uses for the first 60-90 minutes or so is known as muscle glycogen, a glucose polymer that contains tens of thousands of glucose units arranged in branched chains. As your stores of muscle glycogen become depleted, your body switches over to burning fat reserves along with carbohydrates and protein consumed during exercise. You’ve only got so much of this premium fuel, muscle glycogen, but its importance can’t be overstated. In fact, several studies have shown that the pre-exercise muscle glycogen level is the most important energy determinant for exercise performance. Needless to say, to have a good race or workout, you need to start with a full load of muscle-stored glycogen; athletes who have more of this readily available fuel in their bodies have a definite advantage. The good news is that you can substantially increase your glycogen storage capacity through the process of training and replenishing.

Here’s how your body does it: Along with insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels of ingested carbohydrates, an enzyme known as glycogen synthase converts carbohydrates from food into glycogen and stores it in muscle cells. This also drives the muscle repair and rebuilding process. However, to maximize the recovery process, you need to take advantage of glycogen synthase when it’s most active. Carbohydrate replenishment as soon as possible after exercise, when the body is most receptive to carbohydrate uptake, maximizes both glycogen synthesis and storage. To paraphrase the late Ed Burke, a well-known nutritional scientist, “The sooner you do it, the better.” Glycogen synthesis from carbohydrate intake takes place most rapidly the first hour after exercise, remains fairly active perhaps another hour, and then occurs at diminished levels for up to 4-6 hours longer. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin demonstrated that glycogen synthesis was highest when subjects were given carbohydrates immediately after exercise. Depletion followed immediately by carbohydrate intake yields the maximum glycogen re-supply.

Complex carbohydrates versus simple sugars

The one time where your body isn’t going to put up much of a fuss regarding complex carbohydrates versus simple sugars is right after a hard, glycogen-depleting workout. At this time your body is in such dire need of replenishment that it’ll accept just about anything. That said, complex carbohydrates still offer a distinct advantage over simple sugars, which is why we strongly recommend using them. Here’s why: Complex carbohydrates (such as the maltodextrin we use in Recoverite) and simple sugars (except fructose) have a high glycemic index (GI). This allows them to raise blood sugar levels and spike insulin rapidly, both desirable functions post-exercise. However, complex carbohydrates allow for a greater volume of calories to be absorbed compared to simple sugars. In other words, when you consume complex carbohydrates instead of simple sugars after exercise, your body is able to absorb more calories for conversion to glycogen without the increased potential for stomach distress that commonly occurs with simple sugar fuels.

Additionally, most of us already over-consume simple sugars from our daily diets. Numerous studies clearly show that sugar consumption in America is outrageously high. A report from the Berkeley Wellness Letter stated that each American consumes about 133 pounds (60+ kg) of sugar annually & that’s over 1/3 pound sugar every day, 365 days a year! Excess sugar consumption is implicated in a number of health problems. If simple sugars don’t offer any specific post-workout benefits, then why use them?

Bottom line: Use only high glycemic complex carbohydrates (maltodextrins) to optimally replenish glycogen stores.

A less-fit athlete, or one who has not been refueling properly after exercise, has very limited muscle glycogen available, perhaps as little as 10-15 minutes worth.

Which would you rather have when the gun goes off, 15 minutes of on-board fuel or 90 minutes?

It should now be clear that by taking in ample amounts of carbohydrates immediately after training and continuing for the next few hours, you can get a head start on refueling your muscles after workouts. Additionally, consumption of carbohydrates will also tip the scales in the direction of protein synthesis instead of protein catabolism (breakdown). In other words, ample carbohydrates are essential in rebuilding muscle cells as well as restoring muscle glycogen. Studies suggest that the carbohydrate inflow gives the muscle cells the necessary fuel to begin the rebuilding process. Using the energy derived from carbohydrates, the muscles absorb amino acids from the bloodstream, helping initiate protein synthesis.

Carbohydrates also boost the production and release of insulin from the pancreas. Insulin is an anabolic (tissue-building) hormone that has a profound positive impact on protein synthesis in muscles, and it also tends to suppress protein breakdown. A University of Texas study found plasma insulin values three to eight times higher post-workout for subjects ingesting carbohydrates versus placebo.

Bottom line: For replenishing glycogen stores and aiding in the rebuilding of muscle tissue, quick replenishment of carbohydrates is a must. As soon as possible after you finish your workout, ideally within the first 30 minutes, consume 30-60 grams of high quality complex carbohydrates.

Protein – Essential component for recovery

Carbohydrate intake promotes many aspects of post-exercise recovery, but it can’t do the job alone; you need protein as well. Protein in your post-workout fuel provides these benefits:

• Raw materials to rebuild stressed muscles – Whey protein is the premier protein source of the three branched chain amino acids (BCAAs – leucine, isoleucine, valine) used for muscle tissue repair.
• Enhanced glycogen storage – Numerous studies have shown that the consumption of carbohydrates plus protein, versus carbohydrates alone, is a superior way to maximize post-exercise muscle glycogen synthesis.
• Immune system maintenance – We strongly recommend whey protein, with its high levels of amino acids that spur glutathione production (see below).

Whey is the superior protein source for recovery

Of all the protein sources available, whey protein is considered the ideal protein for recovery, primarily due to its high Biological Value (BV) rating. The BV is an accurate indicator of biological activity of protein, a scale used to determine the percentage of a given nutrient that the body utilizes. In other words, BV refers to how well and how quickly your body can actually use the protein that you consume.

Of all protein sources, whey has the highest BV, with whey protein isolate (the purest form of whey protein) having an outstanding rating of 154, and whey protein concentrate having a 104 rating. Egg protein also has an outstanding BV, with whole eggs rating 100 and egg whites (albumin) rated at 88. With a 49 rating, soy protein ranks far below whey protein, making it a less desirable choice for recovery. (When the BV system was introduced, eggs had the highest known BV and thus were given a value of 100. Whey proteins came to researchers’ attention later, and they rang up even higher scores. The 154 BV of whey protein isolate and the 104 BV of whey concentrate are in comparison with the original BV benchmark, whole eggs.)

Other standards that evaluate protein quality/effect also show whey to be a superb protein source. One of these methods, the Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER), while it admittedly has limited applications for humans (PER measures the weight gain of experimental growing rats when being fed the test protein), still shows that whey protein ranks the highest, with a rating of 3.6 (soy protein has a rating of 2.1).

Another protein measurement is the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS). Nutritionists who disqualify the PER method for classifying protein quality (because it only references the amino acid requirements for lab rats) often will use the PDCAAS method for evaluating human protein requirements. According to this method, which utilizes an amino acid requirement profile derived from human subjects, an ideal protein is one that meets all of the essential amino acid requirements of humans. An ideal protein receives a rating of 1.0. Three protein sources – whey, soy, and egg – all have a 1.0 PDCAAS ranking.

One very important point about whey protein: for a supplement, make sure you use whey protein isolate, not whey protein concentrate. Whey protein isolate is virtually lactose and fat free; many lactose-intolerant people can still use whey protein isolate because it contains only a minuscule amount of lactose. Also, whey isolate checks in at a sturdy 90-97+% protein, whereas whey concentrate contains only 70-80% protein. Simply put, whey protein isolate is a purer protein, and the best protein you can put into your body after a hard workout.

Hammer Whey and the whey protein used in Recoverite is a pure un-denatured whey protein isolate of the highest quality. It is 97.7% pure, and virtually fat-free (0.5 g fat/100g), and carbohydrate-free (0.5 g lactose/100g). The whey protein isolate in Hammer Whey and Recoverite delivers rich immune-enhancing beta-lactoalbumins and alpha-lactalbumins. Hammer Whey has a unique profile of highly bioavailable protein with immune factors, potent branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), lactoferrin, and immunoglobulins. Independent laboratory tests show the PDCAAS (Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score) for the whey protein isolate in Hammer Whey and Recoverite is a whopping 1.14, a score that exceeds all of those reported for egg, milk, caseinates, and soy protein.

Glutathione: The key to optimal immune system support & recovery

Glutathione is a tripeptide consisting of the amino acids glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine. It is one of the three endogenous (naturally occurring in the body) antioxidants, the other two being catalase and superoxide dismutase. Many researchers rate glutathione as the number one antioxidant. Ward Dean, MD, a leading nutritional scientist, in his brilliant article “Glutathione: Life-Extending Master Antioxidant, addresses the importance of glutathione, stating that Glutathione is present in nearly all living cells, and without it they can’t survive& glutathione has major effects on health at the molecular, cellular and organ levels.

One of the most important steps we can take to improve our recovery is to enhance/optimize body levels of this important antioxidant, and one of the best ways to do that is by consuming whey protein. Whey protein contains excellent levels of all three of the amino acids that comprise glutathione, as well as high levels of the sulfur-containing amino acid methionine. The two sulfur-containing amino acids (cysteine being the other) are particularly important for proper immune system function and the body’s production of glutathione. In addition, the amino acid glutamine has also been shown to help raise glutathione levels (both Hammer Nutrition whey protein products, Hammer Whey and Recoverite, contain high amounts of glutamine).

Bottom line: Adequate glutathione in the body will enhance your recovery and support optimal health.

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