To make the record official, Shaun will repeat his performance next month while being filmed from both front and side angles. To best his own recent performance, he’s now training with seventy-five pounds stuffed into his book bag, so that “a forty pound weight will feel like nothing in comparison.”

It’s an unusual goal for a kid born and raised in South Jamaica, Queens – a rough neighborhood famous for gang violence and producing rap artists like 50 Cent. “If you’re not a successful individual coming out of that neighborhood, it’s not a big deal to anybody,” says Shaun, now twenty four years old. “No one’s expecting much from you. I’ve seen a lot of friends get destroyed by the neighborhood that I live in, and I don’t want to be just another statistic. I’ve lived my entire life going against what everyone said I couldn’t do.”

Like many inner city youths, Shaun was raised poor and fatherless. He was a lanky, skinny kid, and was often beat up by the local gangs and picked on at school for liking punk rock music and skateboarding. As financial conditions deteriorated at home, he took a job at a young age to help his mother pay the bills. Over time he began to feel depressed by his situation and decided he needed to change something in his life. That’s when he began to do push-ups and sit-ups, taking legendary NFL player and bodyweight trainer Hershel Walker as his inspiration.

Then, a dare from one of his friends led him to try to do 1,000 push-ups. He did it in 5 hours. The next time, he did it in 1 hour. After seeing a few videos of world record holder and ‘Iron Man’ Paddy Doyle, he began to take his training seriously. “I want people to remember my name for doing something good in the world,” says Shaun. This August, Shaun will attempt to do over 1,000 push-ups on his fists in less than eighteen minutes. If he succeeds, he will have beaten the world record currently held by Canadian Doug Pruden, who, in 2003 did 1,000 push-ups in 18 minutes and 13 seconds.

It’s a tough goal to achieve alone. Shaun is without a trainer, and has little time to speak of outside of work. Still, this hasn’t deterred him from staying focused and disciplined. “If you had told me 3-4 months ago that I was going to be doing 2,080 push-ups an hour, I would have laughed at you,” he says. “I didn’t believe my body was capable of doing that. But I’m doing it, and I’m doing it out of my job. I’ve taken the past 3 months to sculpt myself, mentally and physically. That means any Joe blow who wants to be in shape, if they just put their mind to it, they can do whatever they want.”

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Immune-Boosting

Immunoglobulins are antibodies – proteins that your immune system uses to fight against intruding viruses and bacteria. Over 60 clinical studies have been published on the therapeutic effects of Immunoglobulins. The hormone-free immunoglobulin concentrate in Protein Extreme Energy is similar to the colostrum found in breast milk, serving both as a supply of high-quality, absorptive protein and as an immune booster. It delivers antibodies to your gut where they fight against disease-causing organisms and inflammation, allowing your body more energy for other tasks. Unlike antibiotics, which destroy both good and bad bacteria, immunoglobulins only work against the bad bacteria, for optimal immune health.

Our immunoglobulin concentrate provides two and one-half times the Immunglobulin G (IgG) found in colostrum, and fifteen times that found in whey isolate. IgG responds against pro-inflammatory cytokines, binding to pathogens and protecting the body from their effects. It has been shown to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines by up to 95%, resulting in significant improvement in colon health and a systemic reduction of whole body inflammation.

Immunoglobulins have also been shown to help improve liver function, leading to a reduction in LDL (bad) cholesterol. A recent study found that men and women with moderately high cholesterol, 210 to 270 total count, had a 6% drop in total cholesterol after just three weeks of taking an immunoglobulin supplement. More importantly, LDL cholesterol, or the “bad” cholesterol most closely associated with heart disease, decreased by 7% while HDL, the “good” cholesterol, remained constant.

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets

It’s also 14 minutes faster than I could run 25 years ago.  I still find that part totally amazing.

Even more amazing to me is my recovery thanks to using PXE and Adrenal Reboot. I started to take the adrenal reboot the week prior to my race (I’ve been taking Protein Extreme Energy for about three months now).

Immediately after the race I was feeling pretty bad, but after a few hours I went out to eat with my family and then got in my car and drove back to NYC. The next day I worked a full day and was a little rough, but by Tuesday I was feeling great and today [Wednesday – 3 days after the marathon]  I went for a bike ride and felt like I was completely recovered from the marathon, I had an amazing amount of energy. PXE and Adrenal Reboot are amazing!!! I’m 59 and was willing to give myself a full 2 weeks to recover form the marathon. Though I’m still going to take it easy, I feel like I’d be ready to go and tackle another race by this weekend.

Its only been a week, but I’ve experimented with taking more servings at different times during the day, limiting myself to 2 servings on “rest” days and using 3 servings on “heavy” workout days, with the 3rd serving being taken in the evening.

Yesterday, I did a training run of 18.5 miles/3hrs, lots of hills/very hot and humid. Had one serving prior to my run, one serving mid afternoon and then a 3rd before going to bed. This is the longest run I have done in 25 years. Today I feel great. I had one serving prior to my run, one serving mid afternoon and then a 3rd before going to bed. Yes, I’m a little sore today, but nothing compared to my fears.

Understanding the oxidative system will provide us with the first method for increasing cellular energy. For cellular respiration to occur, oxygen must be drawn into the cells, where it’s used to produce energy (if you want to get specific, the mitochondria in our cells use it as a hydrogen acceptor during ATP production to produce water). How is oxygen drawn into the cell? One means is through the sodium potassium pump, which is what creates a cell’s ‘electrical charge’. The electrons around the outer membrane and inner nucleus of the cell, going in opposite directions, draw in the oxygen by means of diffusion.  So, a cell’s electrical charge controls the amount of oxygen that can be drawn in, and is in part responsible for how much energy your cells can produce.

This provides us with the first method of increasing cellular energy: increase a cell’s electrical charge. Note that electrical charge is also responsible for the removal of metabolic waste from the cell. If a cell’s charge is low, then metabolic waste accumulates and hinders cellular respiration. If things slow down enough, edema or water retention occurs – the cell’s osmotic pressure become so weak that it loses the ability to expel waste and old body fluids. When a cell’s charge is strengthened, metabolic wastes can be properly disposed of and cellular respiration increased.

The second method for increasing cellular energy can be understood through the reductive system. While oxygen is vital to cellular respiration, it also ‘oxidizes’ the cells, producing harmful free radicals that can damage cell function, respiration and DNA.  Reductive enzymes – with glutathione being the main SOD reductive enzyme – are what protect the cell from these free radicals. When a cell doesn’t have enough glutathione, it attempts to decrease ATP production so as to minimize the free radical damage. Therefore, increasing glutathione provides us with the second method to increase cellular energy. By increasing glutathione, you balance oxidation with reduction, and allow ATP to increase creating ATP energy, thereby increasing your body’s cellular energy.

A thorough understanding of these two approaches to increasing cellular energy leads to understanding how two of Life Health Secrets’ supplements work. Protein Extreme Energy functions to increase cellular electron loads and therefore cellular charge – it adopts the first method for increasing cellular energy. GSH-Ignite adopts the second method – by encouraging healthy glutathione levels it allows ATP production to increase. As such, Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite take complementary routes to achieving the same goal – enhanced cellular respiration, leading to enhanced whole body energy for life.

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets