The PocketMod: Quick Productivity Aid

Want to quickly boost your productivity with just a single bit of paper? Here's how you can have a great, fully functional PDA that weighs under a gram and costs under a pound... By folding a piece of paper very cleverly! Here's the link: http://www.pocketmod.com/v2/ but of course the concept opens up a whole host of ideas. Let us know what you come up with!

A bit of stuff - ooh and traps!

The site is Bigger, Better and More BLUE and BLACK than ever before! It has all these boxes on it that look like a high tech computer that are like whizzing around… you have to see it. It’s brilliant. The only downside about the new site is that it looks very, very bad on Internet Explorer... I'm not around at the moment but I'll get on it as soon as I'm back. In the meantime - get Firefox you doosh!

As though that wasn’t enough though, there are also new articles on pretty much everything (well not *everything*) and whole new sections on bodybuilding, martial arts, transhumanism, parkour, lifestyle, health and fitness, psychological warfare and productivity. Everything you need to become even more awesome!

Oh yeah, and we’re looking for help from people too. Anything you can contribute articles wise, forum wise etc will be really appreciated! The site has about 500 visitors a day now so if you contribute you’ll be heard (that’s 7,000 dudes a week who’ll read your stuff).

Also please post links on other sites, facebook, twitter etc – it’ll really help out and help the site to grow (this is my job!).

Ooh and add me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/NotQuiteReality

Thank a lot guys, I really appreciate it. If you have any questions about your training etc get in touch, I do actually answer! E-mail me with your articles and questions on mousemack@googlemail.com We’re all in this together y’know? (remember that when deciding to post my links on Reddit…)

Keep punching guys!

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Quick Tip:

How to Get Massive Traps:

The traps are the muscles across the main bit of your back at the top, and the ones that poke out either side of your neck. They’re what makes Hugh Jackman look so ripped in Wolverine and what make the guy who isn’t Edward so buff in New Moon (both wolf related… interesting. Traps are the muscles of WOLVES!). They’ll also help improve your bench press and various other moves.

Unfortunately they are largely neglected by the gym-going mainstream. Fools!

The great (splendid!) news is that these muscles tend to respond very well to training, and they grow very quickly. So it only takes a little extra sweat to get them bursting with size and AWESOME POWER.

Chest press, pull overs and a host of other non specific exercises work the traps so you don’t need to do an extra day of training. Instead do an extra morning. That’s right, first thing in the morning on two days a week simply start your day with five sets of shrugs to failure with two dumbbells that are insanely heavy. Follow this up with three sets of upward rows OR shoulder presses. Do this every morning. Drink protein shake. Give it two months. Then pretend you have claws and run around going ‘graaaargh!’. Enjoy, it’s great fun.

A Distraction

Right so The Biomatrix has been a bit quiet lately. Apologies for that but there's a good reason. The reason being that THE BIOMATRIX 4.1 IS ON THE WAY! Yes soon a site even more awesome will replace the Biomatrix as you know it and be far too awesome for words, and with more awesome extras than you can shake a stick at. But to keep you appeased until then we present a little discourse on 'The Sissy Squat: Squat of Champions'.

The Sissy Squat: Squat of Champions

The sissy squat is a serious misnomer, possibly being a purposeful ironic name in the same sense as you might call a really small guy 'Big Geoff'. The reason for this is that there's really nothing sissy about the sissy squat at all, which is in fact one of the most difficult exercises you're likely to attempt any time soon. Fortunately it also happens to be one of the most effective and one of the most practical to perform without equipment or much space.

The sissy squat is much like the ordinary squat and trains the legs, but the position of it makes the movement so difficult that you won't need any additional weight (though some crazy people still opt to add dumbbells to it). For the sissy squat you see, rather than having your feet placed flat on the ground as you would in an ordinary squat, you are instead on your tip toes with your knees point forwards and your back leaning backwards. The best way to describe it is that you'll look a bit like Neo dodging bullets in the matrix, or as though you're trying to touch your toes. From here you then bend at the knees keeping your back straight as though you were doing the limbo and should feel an intense burning in your quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes and calves. One of the things that makes this so difficult (other than how much muscle power required), is that it can be very hard to balance while performing this move. If you struggle then, support yourself by placing one hand on a surface. Eventually with practice it should become easier - at which point you can introduce dumbbells by holding them in your hands and having them dangle directly down by your sides.

The Experimental 12 Hour Workout

I originally created this blog with the intention of making it a place where I would describe my various dabblings in supplements, new gym routines, workouts, transhuman techologies, underground training regimes and other bodily experiments. I very nearly called it 'The Bodylab' (cool huh?) but thankfully didn't as I've mostly ended up rambling about nonsense here.
But the time is nigh where I talk about something actual relevant - an experimental 12 hour workout that my current steel-minded gym companion and I attempted. If you're a regular visitor to the site you may have read about Peary Rader's 'One Day Arm Blast'. Here he recommended working on muscle group (the biceps in the case of the article) with a single set at the end of every hour for 12 hours. We decided (fool hardedly), that this was a workout for pussies, and so we amped it up a little - by giving that muscle group (in our case pecs) a full and intense (albeit brief) workout on every hour. For us that full workout was performed on the chest press and consisted of 1 set to failure, then assisted reps - then a 10 second pause - then another set to failure, then more assisted reps... before dropping the weight and repeating. We had the added rule that if you must do 3 assisted reps, but if you managed to do one of those unassisted you then had to continue with the first set before doing the assisted reps again later. In total we dropped the weight twice meaning we did this three times overall - going past failure a minimum of 6 times in a session which took about 15 minutes in total. A great fast way to get your pecs burning on its own.
Then, just as in Peary Weider's arm blast, we would have a source of protein - either usually chicken or protein shake and then massage our titties until the next round. The theory here is sound - by continuously triggering an anabolic state followed by rest and protein we've created a micocosm of a full day's workout for that muscle group. Hyperthetically then the hope was that this would have the same benefit of 12 sessions - 12 or 6 weeks worth of training for most people - and add around half an inch over night.
What we didn't account for was quite how much it would hurt, or how constipated we would become. Nor how we would dread the top of each hour. More than anything this was a psychological challenge and we worried that we were doing more harm than good to our bodies. As we'd work out for nearly half an hour in total between us, then have to mix the shake on top of that, there was rarely time to do anything other than wait terrified like a POW for the next session. Our optimistic hopes of getting a jamming session (we're also a progressive rock band - Samsung calls Wednesdays 'Gym Jams'). Yet, being idiots, we ploughed on towards the final hour (which thanks to some bad organising was at 1am).
When it finished we were exhausted and I personally felt like I'd run the marathon. Obviously it was the next day we were worried about though (and I in particular was worried about my dump the next day after Simon had told me there was sometimes blood in it following too much protein). Surprisingly though, there was not really any severe pain in our pecs the following day (good thing too seeing as I had plans to drive to Southampton and go clubbing all night) and if anything it was my legs that ached. A bit like the bit at the start of Rocky 5 where Rocky says he feels as though something important has broken inside of him then curls up shaking in the shower. Another night's sleep though and we felt fine - and despite not pooing for around 66 hours (a record for me) there was no blood in my stool.
Stupidly we didn't think to measure ourselves before or after the workout, but I definitely at least feel bigger than I was previously and photographs seem to attest to this fact. It may be psychological, but I'd wager there's been at least a quarter of an inch of growth - which is still very impressive.
So was it a success? Maybe. Sort of. But it's really not worth and you'd be an idiot if you thought otherwise. An idiot that I respect.

This is how hard you should be working:

Self MOT

New Year’s resolutions are rubbish. No one sticks to them, and they generally do very little good. The problem is we should be making resolutions every day and we should be changing concrete useful things about ourselves to make ourselves perform and function more efficiently. The concept of the Resolution is outmoded and outdated. We proudly introduce the Self MOT.

With it coming up to New Year, people will likely be thinking harder about ways they can improve themselves. Normally this means they’ll be planning on quitting smoking, starting a training routine, being more confident, drinking less, going out more, getting a partner, or something else abstract or non-ambitious like that. Here at the Biomatrix.Net however, we’re of the opinion that self-improvement shouldn’t be an annual occasion but something we’re continuously working on. At the same time, we’ve always focussed less on these kinds of superficial changes and more on improving yourself in ways that will take you above your peers. We’re not so interested in improving our hygiene, or our people skills in order to get a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Here at the Biomatrix we’re more interested in improving the size of our biceps so that we can perform fantastic feats of gymnastic ability; learning to leap across chasms, bench giant amounts, think at twice the speed. Finding a girlfriend or a boyfriend, or getting over a social nervousness is a base-level ambition; that’s how you should start off not an ambitious way to improve yourself. If you think about it, it’s that kind of attitude that could have left you feeling unconfident in the first place. Of course work on those things too, but do it all year round, and at the same time work on yourself in more meaningful ways. The success in relationships and business will come as a result of how you now carry yourself and are massively more successful in general. Have some ambition, some self belief, and take yourself up and above the rest. As in don’t just work on your confidence, make yourself faster, smarter and stronger so that you’re naturally more confident. Learn skills, improve your body, improve your mind and set ambitious goals. Shoot for the stars and do it all the time. Furthermore, do this all year round rather than having a half-arsed attempt during the first months of January.

So a good New Year’s resolution for a lot of people is to stop making pansy-ish, lame New Year’s resolutions. Instead you should be setting yourself goals throughout the months and planning ways you can improve yourself and your situation throughout the course of the next few years. What can you change about yourself that will make you perform better, be more productive, be more physically imposing and impressive? How can you achieve these goals over a certain amount of time? I will call the Self MOT. Here you will make a detailed assessment of yourself, and of your achievements and write down notes about anything that’s lacking in either your life, or in your own capabilities. Decide what’s pressing and what isn’t, and look for things you can change about yourself that will change your circumstances and potential. As Jackie Chan says – don’t let your circumstances control you; control your circumstances. It may not be New Year, in fact it probably isn’t as this is going live around the first half of December, but you can start this right away – what’s the point of waiting half a month before you start making positive change?

Take a sheet of paper. Now rate yourself on the following factors and answer the following points:

Strength:

Measurements (biceps, chest etc):

Speed:

Intelligence:

Productivity:

Looks:

Agility:

Knowledge:

Areas of expertise:

Areas lacking:

Emotional Stability/Control:

Happiness:

Health:

Weaknesses:

Skills (list):

Finances:

Assets:

Relationships:

Spare Time:

Areas of concern:

Goals:

Ambitions:

Now fill these out and use the answers on each element to inform your answers in others. For example if you’re not happy then fill in goals and ambitions that will help improve your happiness, and fill out areas of concern that are causing you to be unhappy. Make and answer more items if appropriate.

With this done you should find you can now identify more accurately areas of weakness and problems and faults. So follow this up with a ‘four year plan’ that can help you fix each of these issues. This might involve elements such as increasing the size of your biceps or the strength of your bench press, along with increasing productivity and salary through getting a new job or improving your business. Ensure your larger plans are made up of smaller ones and set targets throughout the year. Spend large amounts of time focussing on problem areas and goals and know that there’s no problem you can’t solve given enough thought, no matter how abstract or how large – even if it takes a few days. You may find you also need to adapt the plan over time, and may choose to ‘internalise it’, so that you can adapt it to changing events without having to write it out. So long as you have a plan, active goals, and are aware of the problems in your life and in your performance; you will be able to keep moving forwards and keep improving to ensure you get the most out of life.

New Stuff at The Biomatrix and Friends

The Biomatrix as you know, is more than a mere website, it is a living breathing organism. It is in the shape of an octapus too, and like any good organism, it has tendrils which it is now extending throughout the internet. Oh and also... it evolves...

As a result there is now an awesome search bar on the front page bellow the new videos that will enable to you search the biomatrix for related subjects. Want to improve your pecs? Type 'pecs' and press enter. It's brilliant!

But it won't only show you results from the Biomatrix, but the whole of the NQR Network. NQR Network, you repeat irritatingly, what is that? Well it's the new conglomerate of new related sites from the producers of the Biomatrix, and that includes first of all: www.psychological-warfare.com - our brand new website! For everything you need to know about outsmarting your opponents using psychology.

Finally, as though all that wasn't enough you can now follow NQR on Twitter at http://twitter.com/NotQuiteReality

So go and do those things!

Action Hero Song

If you like the Action Hero advert from Channel Five on the front page of the Biomatrix then good news - you can download the mp3 for free from HERE!