Iron Palm - Hurts

Iron Palm is the technique shaolin monks use to break boards etc. It involves conditioning a part of your body (not necessarily the palm) in order to make it nigh-on invulnerable. This can be applied to any part of the body from the hands, to the fists, to the shins, to the head and yes... even to the dick (in a book I recently read there was a monk referred to as 'Monk Dong' who could take kicks to the groin and hang breeze blocks from his Mr Happy...).

Basically by repeatedly bashing up the desired part of your body it begins to grow back tougher until it's pretty rock solid. Over years you end up with clubs on the end of yours arms. I'll hand you over to this delightful Chinese man who'll explain further:

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Wasn't he lovely? Lovely, but also DEADLY!
Anyway, me being me I decided what my life was lacking was IRON HANDS! Although I chose my knuckles over my palms as a) I have a bad wrist and hitting things with my palm hurts and b) because I need to keep my palms soft for sensual massage. So I began my iron fist training. I'm going to write a full article on it soon but here's how it's going so far:



So not that well... but fear not! For the next stage, after pummelling your hands each day (I'm using a tough leather punching bag with no gloves) is to apply 'Dit Da Jow'. A strange herbal remedy from the East that will sooth and heal them each day. The ingredients for this should you wish to follow in my stead are:

1 bottle of strong vodka, gin or Chinese rice wine
Artemesia (Liu ji nu) - 5g
Borneol (Bingpian) - 1g
Carthamus (Honghua) - 5g
Catechu (Ercha) - 8g
Cinnabar (Zhusha) - 5g
Cirsium (DaJi) - 1g
Dragon's Blood (Xuejie) - 30g
Mastic (Ruxiang) - 5g
Musk (Shexiang) - 1g
Myrrh (Moyao) - 5g
Pinellia (ShengBanXia) - 5g

Sadly I have less Dragon's Blood hanging around the place than I'd hoped... and so after further research I learned I can use Tiger Balm - which I can also make myself woo! Instructions:


'Take a small jar of Vaseline, a small jar of Vicks, cayenne red pepper (it's somewhere in the kitchen on your spice rack) and either dried red chilli peppers (most gourmet stores have them) or red chilli peppers that have already been bottled.
Put the Vaseline in a pot and melt it on the stove at low heat.
Add two or three tablespoons of Vicks--depending on how smelly and mentholly you want it--until that also is melted.
Grind up the red pepper until it's a powder, mix it with the cayenne pepper and add to the melted Vaseline.
While in its liquid state, repour it back into a jar and let cool.'

(Thanks to Kenponet.com for this)

I'm staying at my Mum's this week - she won't be happy when she gets home to find me melting vaseline (she already suspects I'm insane)... ah well.

So basically if you want to BECOME IRON just pick a body part and beat it against a punching bag, tree, bag of sand etc for a few hours each day and apply the Dit Da Jow or Tiger Balm after each session. Who knows how long this is supposed to take... I'll get back to you with the full article shortly. Good luck!

The Biomatrix Lives!

As an interconnected web of pulsating fitness information, it was only a matter of time before the Biomatrix developed consciousness. Now experts fear that time has come as the Biomatrix has been seen making a stir on Facebook. With both a profile to befriend and a group to join make sure you get on there and add them to take full advantage of the Biomatrix experience! He doesn't have many friends at the moment so please don't make him look like a larry...

Here's his profile: http://arunaurl.com/30m9

and here's the group: http://arunaurl.com/30mb

Oh and in other news, here's a new training video from Sly Stallone:

Project Superman Review

Project Superman Review
(Review taken from an upcoming issue of Physique magazine)
View the book at: http://stores.lulu.com/nqr

Project Superman is a new book from NQR productions and The Biomatrix.Net that aims to give a brief overview of various training methods to help the reader become a ‘Superman’ (as the title might suggest). Despite this lofty promise however there are no sections on how to fly or become invulnerable… what follows instead is a series of articles on bodybuilding, athletics, parkour, martial arts, brain training and health that together aim to help you become the best you can be. More Batman that Superman then, but definitely a physical specimen of some sort: stronger, faster, smarter, more agile, healthier and tougher than you’ve ever been before.



This makes for a mixed bag of articles ranging from ‘How to Become a Memory Master’ to ‘How to Improve Your Bench’ and ‘Unlikely Weapons’. Each of these articles then provides a brief overview of the respective training method/technique and a basic description on how you can go about using the information in your training or your daily life. If you were to take the time to learn all the techniques described within you could find yourself almost capable of donning a mask and fighting crime, and exponentially increasing your theoretical ‘Power Quotient’ (explained in the book). Here are some top picks from the abilities explained:

Be Quicker in the Gym
Become Ambidextrous
NLP
Train Anywhere
Which Supplements Do You Need?
Can I Get Taller?
Improve Your Jumping Height
Train for Symmetry
Improve Your Senses
How to Backflip
Explosive Punching Power
Super-foods for Bodybuilding

Among many others…

While there are all these different sections however, the bulk of the book remains without a doubt the bodybuilding section which covers everything you need to know to get massive and/or ripped - including the unique new ‘Time Division’ training devised especially for this book. Meanwhile pieces such as ‘Characters in the Gym’ will make any bodybuilder smile.
On top of all this is an interesting section at the end that offers a detailed look into ‘Transhumanism’ - a movement that advocates the use of technology to improve the human condition. Of particular interest to bodybuilders are the gene-doping experiments that have been completed on mice that result in permanent extra muscle. Could this be the future of bodybuilding?
The book is informative and interesting while remaining light-hearted and fun, never coming across as preachy, condescending and always being realistic and honest when discussing supplements or alternative subjects such as ‘Chi’ or meditation. No matter what your goals are you’ll pick up something new that you can use in your training and chances are it’ll make you re-think the entire way you go about your conditioning as you realise there’s no aspect of yourself that can’t be improved.
At 122 pages, Project Superman is a veritable tomb of training methods (including some unusual and extreme techniques) for those who want to take their physical conditioning to the next level. It’s the only place you’ll find such a diverse and well-researched selection of ways to train. Prepare to become you, only more so.

Up, up and away!


Project Superman costs £10 (or £5 to download the PDF). To view and purchase the book online visit: http://stores.lulu.com/nqr

The Search is ON: The Ultimate MAN Competition

In Rocky 3 Thunderlips (see left) made the fairly bold claim tha he was 'The Ultimate Male'. That was briefly before Sly put him in his place...

Still, whether he was or not, chances are that Hulk Hogan is no longer quite the Ultimate Male and that's why we at The Biomatrix have decided to begin the hunt for a new king... The Ultimate MAN.

Based on the Man Points laws set down by Adam Sinicki and Nathan Wallace (2007) one man must stand out above all others. Think it could be you? If you think you have what it takes then you could find yourself officially crowned 'Ultimate Man 2009' by April 10 on The-Biomatrix.Net, this blog and the Man Points group on Facebook. You will be the man that all other men defer to, a living legend... like the Fonz, or Chuck Norris, or Elvis (technically a dead legend...). And on top of that you'll win a free signed copy of the book Project Superman, currently going for £16.68 (check it out here: http://stores.lulu.com/nqr) and a laminated certificate proving your status as Ultimate Man. Oh and of course, 1,000,000,000 Man Points (you get 10 just for entering).

All you have to do is head on over to the Biomatrix forum (http://www.the-biomatrix.net/forum.htm) and reply to the thread named 'Ultaimte MAN Competition'. Here you must write 100-500 words on why you think you should be crowned the Ultimate Man 2009. Make sure to include your e-mail and if you've won we'll get in touch for more details. Look around the site (www.the-biomatrix.net) a bit first and the Facebook group to get some inspiration. Remember, these are some things that will earn you Man Points:

• Completing a Rocky Marathon: +50
• Punching someone: + 2 points
• Punching someone much bigger than you: + 5 points
• Head-butting someone: + 7 points
• Playing a riff on an electric guitar: + 3
• Downing a drink: + 3 points
• Running a mile: + 8 points
• Downing petrol: + 7 points
• Climbing something high: + 5
• Shouting really loud and beating your chest: + 2
• Wrestling a lion: + 20
• Setting fire to some money: + 5
• Smoking a cigar: + 2
• Swallowing a live snake: + 30
• Sex: + 8 points
• Swearing: + 1
• Swearing at your boss: + 4
• Swearing at the queen: + 10
• Being aloof: + 2
• 3-some(two girls): + 30 points
• Visiting the-biomatrix.net: + 5
• Lifting something really heavy: + 5
• Doing a massive shit: + 3
• Pushing yourself to the limit! + 9
• Exploding something: + 20
• Winning any kind of competition: +5
• Being on fire and not even caring: + 30
• Driving: + 2
• Riding a motor bike: + 3
• Being involved in a high-speed car chase: + 20
• Punching through a steel-enforced brick wall: + 50
• Being topless: + 1
• Eating raw eggs: + 1
• Eating raw meat: + 2
• Watching action films: + 2
• Not revising for an exam: +2
• Completing a centurion or a 24 can challenge: +15
• Starting a fight with Chuck Norris: +4,000
• Climbing a mountain: +100
• Drinking Stella: +10
• Playing rugby: + 5
• Drinking till you throw up then continuing: + 5 (only if you drink more than 15 pints before you laugh at the carpet.)
• Getting banned for life from a club: +5
• Trying to get back in 5 mins later: + 2
• Wearing Brut: + 2
• Driving with your eyes close: + 8
• Walking out of an explosion unharmed: + 25
• Melting stuff: + 3
• Starting a fight with Jack Bauer: +50
• Completing the Tough Guy Challenge: +100
• Hunting + 10
• Winning a fight with Chuck Norris: + 1,000,000,000 (Because its impossible)
• Being able to pop open a bra by looking at it + 50
• Sleeping with a gun under your pillow: +10
• Sleeping with a pillow under your gun: +100
• Biting a priest: +5
• Getting a Blow job whilst driving: +30
• Clearing a room with a fart... 20 points - 25 if you successfully blame it on someone else, but 30 for admitting it.

Entry is completely free so no excuses! You have until April 10th... may the best MAN win!

Stallone = Awesome

The Biomatrix is a site that praises those who take their training to new heights - those who don't just want to be healthy but instead want to be something more. Those who want to push their body to the limit and expand beyond their boundaries (to use our current slogan). Sylvester Stallone is examplary in that domain though his work in sculpting his body is often under-appreciated.

At his peak during filming for Rambo 3 he reached a ridiculously low 2.8% bodyfat. As far as I'm aware that's lower than Bruce Lee - as far as I'm aware that's lower than any bodybuilder. It's certainly worthy of more adulation that he receives in those circles.

Well now he's once again trailblazing into uncharted training teritory. This is truly pionearing new heights of physical excellence and I hope he finally gets the credit he deserves. Look at the photograph below. Drink it in; that's Sly preparing for his new film: The Expendables.


Yes that's right, a new film. In this photo he's 62 years old! It's widely speculated infact that Stallone will NEVER DIE. Seriously, I've never seen anything like it. Most people in their 20s can't get close to a physique like this. Stallone's sheer determination and will power has once again seen him achieve unheard of levels of fitness for his age. He's a great role model for anyone over 50 who thinks they're over the hill, as well as anyone else who has a goal or ambition. This photo is also a fairly good advert for HGH use in over-60's. Stallone is on record advocating its use as a way to turn back the clock and a recent feature in Esquire has reported similar things. Sure it has some dodgy side-effects but at that age who really cares about the long run? If they haven't invented anything better by the time I'm that age I know I'll be using it. It's certainly safer than steroids and it's refreshing that Sly actually admits that he's sought outside help from chemistry. It means you feel you can trust him when he says he's roid free.

Oh and that Expendables film... get this cast: Slyvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Ludgren, Randy Couture, David Zayas, Robert Knepper, Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts and Forest Whitaker. That's one hell of an action orgy... and apparently Jet Li will get to fight Dolph Ludgren. That's incidentally what my wet dreams essentially look like... I'm comfortable enough in my sexuality to admit that. And with names like 'Lee Christmas' and 'Hale Caesar' you just know it's going to be awesomely cheesey. I am so gay for Sly right now...

This blog will keep you updated on his movements. For more on Sly read my recent article on 'Sylvester Stallone's Training'.

Doh!

Dang nabbit! Always double check Youtube videos before you post them... over three hundred people now think The Biomatrix is run by a bunch of illiterate morons (not the image I'm trying to project). Power = Feedome...?? Imagine if William Wallace had made that mistake... And now it's earned a high ranking it would be destructive for me to upload a replacement. Oh well, a fixed version will be available to download from the site within the next couple of days...

Edit: Garrgh! And 'opponent' too!! Yeesh! Don't work past 3am guys...

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