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Games Guy | May 12, 2011

Baseball is Back for Another Season of Games, Rookie Prospects and Pennant Races

After a thrilling victory by the San Francisco Giants to win their first ever World Series in San Francisco, baseball fans are excited about the upcoming season. While the Giants have a tough road ahead of them, since no National League team has repeated since the Cincinnati Reds did in 1975-76, the combination of pitchers Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum may prove hard to beat. Other teams plan on making a run for it though and analysts have noted the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox, who both boosted their roster in the offseason, as the teams to watch out for this year.

In 2010 rookies Jason Heyward and Buster Posey were on the front page of everyone’s baseball news when they amazed fans and proved themselves as superstars throughout the season. A continual rise in athletic prowess is sought by players as the dread of performance peak is in the back of their minds. Newcomers Dustin Ackley and Brandon Belt seek to make their mark for the new year, and with last year’s season of surprises, baseball blogs are contemplating what may be in store for new talent.

As major changes are made to rosters in the offseason including a dream team of pitchers on the Phillies such as Roy Oswalt, Cliff Lee, and Roy Halladay, many analysts and fans are questioning if excessively budgeted teams could buy themselves a World Series. The Tampa Bay Rays and the San Francisco Giants are mentioned by opponents of that argument, since they have reached the World Series without having a big budget payrolls. Yet the debate over money still rages on, with owners every now and again threatening to impose a salary cap to the chagrin of players and big budget teams alike.

Whatever the outcome, the road to the World Series is always a thrilling one; full of rising talent and heartbreak throughout the baseball schedule. Last year the playoffs had an unlikely star in Roy Halladay as he got a no-hitter in the post season. This year stars should be born and may be reborn as the fans and players alike hope to make 2011 a memorable season.

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Games Guy | June 28, 2010

While ussually believed of as a muscle building supplement a protein supplement is much more than a “let’s get huge” magic pill. It offers considerable benefits to health as well as other, lower down the causal chain, positive effects. This article will discuss some of these.

First Of All I would wish you to see that the primary cause a protein supplement is so efficient at building muscle is that it  promotes good health. Think of it this way, muscle tissue is a highly metabolically active tissue which has a lot of expenditure attached  to its existence. Basically this entails that you have to be at least marginally healthy to put on any kind of muscle. Consider  the last time you were bedridden, were you able to work out? What if you had a low level of health, do you believe you would be able to  pack on as much muscle as the healthier guys.

A little sidenote, I am of the belief that body builders (especially pro’s) are far from healthy individuals. I believe that the stress that they bring down upon their body will lead to many problems down the road. Nevertheless, I do think that there are many things that can be learned from this profession (healthwise speaking) and one of these is that a protein supplement can serve athletic and health goals that go beyond constructing lean muscle mass.

I wish us to be on the same page so I would care to point out that in this article I am concentrating on the other benefits that come from utilising a protein supplement.

Let’s get into some specifics:

Protein is THE most important bulding block of your body, well actually amino acids are. Amino acids are used to make protein and protein is  used for a VERY widely array of purposes:

*plastic (cells are made up of many types of protein)
*making hormones (hormones are critical for your body for a smorgasbord of reasons, will be further elaborated upon)
*IGF-1 and Growth Hormone regularisation (these hormones are crucial for the sustainment of health)
*stimulating anabolism (protein is an anabolic macro nutrient, this means that it induces growth and suppresses tissue breakdown)
*metabolism (is fostered through many routes, from hormone modulation, to neurotransmiter buildup and even through the fact that protein is tougher to digest and therefore requires of your metabolism to increase its output of energy)
*modulates satiety (besides helping you loose weight by making you not eat as much, you also get the valuable benefit of reducing your cravings)
*ameliorating insulin sensitivity (this is simply because neither fat, nor protein causes the release of insulin – except in very small quantities)
*it can help you get lean by raising the calorie per centum of your diet that is derived from protein

A protein supplement, let me reword that, a quality protein supplement used every day with the aim of raising the total percentage of your calories that is derived from protein is one of the simplest and most efficient ways to benefit your health.

A important thing to understand is that improvement in metabolisim and hormone modulation promptly translates itself into many many many good things in your body.

Let me give you some instances of what I mean

As well as constructing and maintaing lean tissue mass (which has numerous benefits in and of itself), you will observe things like improved memory, better reflexes and reinforced athlectic ability.

You will also look younger. This is due to building healthy skin, having a leaner body and a smile on your face (guaranteed to improve attractiveness).

Protein also makes your nervous system work more efficiently. It causes this by helping you make neurotransmiters and hormones.  Hormones such as human growth hormone increase bone density, muscle masss, metabolism and even touches on psychological factors.

In this article you have learned some other ways in which a protein supplement can help you.

Remember to visit: Best Protein Supplement Guide

I highly advocate this article on selecting  a protein supplement: Protein Supplement Guide

I also highly recommend this article, my unique contribution to the protein supplement debate, Blood and your protein supplement: Best Protein

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