My Lyrics Below: skip to 1:50 for my verse Need some sleep as I'm sitting here writing rhymes I think about my lifes hard times I know I've said it a million times but the pains to deep so I can't sleep everything I do I do it for my family listen closely and hopefully u can understand my pain I've been through it all from abusive father to a homeless kid wit a dream to make it don't get in.my way cause ima take it I don't need to fake it got nothing to lose u can call me Charlie sheen so excuse me if I'm too obscene I do this everday this ain't a routine I can keep on goin like your answer machine I promise one day ill be on ur tv screen even though I'm still a teen wit big dreams it seems its not enough I gotta stay tough soon enough ima make u say damn he's done enough. Twitter Page twitter.com Facebook Fan Page www.facebook.com Reverbnation : www.reverbnation.com Officially one of my most realest song ive ever written to. optima row contestant entry.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
A Quick and Easy Guide to Indoor Rowing Machines
Did you know that rowing is one of the best exercises for developing aerobic fitness? Not only does working out with rowing machines or rowing ergometers allow people to develop their cardiovascular system, but they also place considerable demands on your muscular system as well!
Unlike cardio machines such as treadmills, exercise bikes and stair climbing equipment, a rowing machine exercises your upper body as well as your lower body. The rowing stroke when using an indoor rower is composed of 65-75% leg work and 25-35% upper body work.
Other benefits of indoor rowing are getting a full body aerobic workout with one machine, and the lack of impact that is experienced when compared to other aerobic activities. When you're jogging outdoors or using a treadmill machine, there is orthopedic trauma placed on your body every time you take a step. This is not the case with indoor rowers.
When you're looking for the best rowing machines for you, there are many options available. There are four distinct types of indoor rowers: piston or cylinder based rowing machines, flywheel rowers, magnetic resistance indoor rowers, and Water Rowers.
Hydraulic Rowing Machine
The hydraulic rowing machine may be the best way to go if space is a concern, or if you're on a tight budget and you want an economical indoor rower. Hydraulic rowing machines receive its tension from the amount of air or fluid that's compressed with a cylinder or piston, and can be adjusted by most models of indoor rowers.
Although hydraulic based indoor rowers are low-cost, they differ from air, magnetic and water rowers because the rowing machine technique doesn't allow you to pull in a straight line. The majority of hydraulic piston based rowers require you be placed in an exercise position that does not allow you to perform a natural rowing motion. Because of this, you are unable to naturally synchronize your arm and leg movements together.
Flywheel Rowing Machines
The air or flywheel rowing machine for exercise offers a similar feel to outdoor rowing. Flywheel exercise rowing machine receives its resistance from the pulling motion, which spins a flywheel with fan blades attached. The resistance is provided by the wind. To increase the resistance of a flywheel rowing machine, all you have to do is pull harder. This moves the flywheel faster, and a greater wind resistance is provided from the fan blades of this type of indoor rower.
Compared to piston/cylinder or hydraulic based rowing machines, air rowing machines provide a more natural, continuous, and smoother rowing stroke.
The Concept 2 (or Concept II) rower is among the most popular flywheel air rowing machines. This machine is used by fitness enthusiasts, health clubs, corporate fitness centers, and rehabilitation clinics as well. Along with health, fitness and rehabilitation purposes, the Concept2 is the rowing machine of choice for indoor rowing competitions around the globe, such s the Crash-B Sprints World Indoor Rowing Championships and the European Indoor Rowing Championships.
Magnetic Resistance Indoor Rowers
A magnetic resistance fitness rowing machine is known for being virtually silent and providing a smooth rowing stroke. Unlike flywheel based indoor rowers which receives its resistance from the wind, magnetic rowing machines utilizes a magnetic brake system.
One of the main aspects you'll notice with magnetic rowing machines is that is doesn't product much sound at all. Rowing machines based on magnetic resistance produces no friction (like the flywheel or Water Rowers), thus providing a silent workout.
Fitness rowing machines based on magnetic resistance are available utilizing only magnet resistance or a combination of magnetic and air resistance.
The WaterRower
The WaterRower is an ideal rowing machine for those who participate in outdoor rowing. The Water Rower's unique patented Water Flywheel has been designed to emulate the dynamics of a boat moving through water. Just like rowing outdoors, the WaterRowers' flywheel receives its resistance by overcome the effects of drag as water moves past the tank. This indoor rower is also virtually silent when in use. All you hear is the swishing of the water while using this rowing machine.
The WaterRower is constructed with a wooden frame. This makes this rowing machine one of the most attractive models available, and the mechanical vibrations (common to other indoor rowers) are dampened. There is also a commercial version of the Water Rower sporting a metal frame.
Another model of water based rowing machine is the First Degree Fitness Fluid Rowing Machine.
Summary
In sum, whatever type of rowing machine you choose, rowers are an excellent choice for developing aerobic fitness and building a healthy heart.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Determining Whether the LifeCore Fitness R100 Rower Is Worth the Extra Cost
Rowers have been a popular choice for home gyms for many years, and they still remain in high demand today. The reason for the popularity is quite easy to understand. After all, a rower provides the user with a full body workout with very little impact, which means it is both safe and effective to use.
When it comes to rowers, you will find that there are many to select from. One of the most popular models for those that can afford it is the LifeCore Fitness R100 Rower. This model offers a number of attractive features, but you will need to determine whether or not these extra features are worth the extra cost of purchasing this machine.
One of the nicest features of the LifeCore Fitness R100 Rower is its oversized seating and free motion heel supports, which helps to make it very comfortable to use. It also utilizes a magnetic design and has 16 levels of Magnetic Resistance, which ensures it will provide a consistent amount of resistance. It also means the amount of resistance can be increased or decreased in order to meet the needs of just about any user.
The LifeCore Fitness R100 Rower has the ability to store the data for up to four different users. In addition, it offers 15 different Preset Programs and 4 Polar Compatible Heart Rate Control Programs. It also offers a number of features to help make the user more comfortable, such as a solid steel fan/flywheel and an adjustable cooling air vent. The ergonomically designed handle and the angled foot rests featuring pivoting heel supports also increases the level of comfort while helping to prevent injury from occurring.
The LifeCore Fitness R100 Rower is capable of folding for storage, though it weighs 96 pounds. While this isn't particularly heavy for a rower, it is still quite hefty. As such, most users prefer to select an area for the rower where it can remain without having to be moved from place to place.
The LifeCore Fitness R100 Rower does have a higher price tag on it than other rowers offered by LifeCore. Therefore, it is important to look closely at the features provided by each machine in order to determine which one is right for you.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Romancing the Shadow (Sketches From the Book, "Romances of a Midwinter Soldier")
(December of 1967, to March of 1968)
I don't know how I met her, a lot of my girlfriends back in those far-off days, some of them anyhow, just came like that, out of nowhere, and it ended up just the same way, easy come easy go, yes indeed, nowhere is where we ended up. And many of them looked pretty darn nice, and the Shadow, she was so-so. They, the boys in the neighborhood called her the 'Shadow,' because she followed me along like a shadow, wherever I went-yeah-she was there! It was similar to that anyhow; on the other hand, my life was not looking out a window, it was raining palm trees, and a few of the girls even came knocking at my door, and she was one.
She was a white, young girl, perhaps seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, about five-foot two inches tall, a nice hard and shapely body, a nice pear shape behind, dishwater blond, or darker, and was quiet, too quiet, mater of fact she was seemingly always thinking, and never saying much. I was living in the attic of Larry Lund's house at the time, in the neighborhood, Larry a good friend of mine, and the tough guy of the neighborhood, about six or seven years older than I.
I had been working for Whirlpool, for a while, making ice machines, and now was a driver cars (rented cars, new cars, cars being fixed by the company's garage, etc.,)for Ron Saxton Ford; it was the spring of 1968. I had come back from Omaha, Nebraska, and was thinking of going to San Francisco, somewhere down the road. And so she was kind of in-between things I suppose, now that I look back. looking back down the road that is; I was awfully surprised she kept tracking me, showing up here and there, and showing up when I least expected her. She was a plain looking girl, for the most part, cute-plain, with a nice rump and small breasts, and to be frank, one afternoon with her, had after a few weeks of dating her, one afternoon turned into many, that is to say, all my afternoons were given over to her, it was like she had dismissed all her students, had she been a teachers, and kept only one pupil, me.
I was nineteen-years old, in March of 1967, and I found myself walking with her everyplace, at that time I didn't have a car, although I'd buy a 1957, red and white Ford down the road, as I made more money at Ron Saxton Ford, matter of fact, I bought it from them, they got it from a customer who traded it in on a new car. I had to sandblast the spark plugs once a month because it was using up a quart of oil, once a month, but who cares; I only paid 0-dollars for the car.
Anyhow, I'm getting a little off track here, the Shadow, whose name I have forgotten, didn't like making love all that much, and was perhaps not all that learned in the skill or trade or art, but she did as I wished, and that kept our relationship somewhat going. She was I suppose more on the enigma side of the fence. when we made love it was brief words, brief movements-as if she was weaving a rope, or so than making love-I doubt she was in love with neither me, nor I with her, an that perchance didn't help her inhabited behavior.
In a way I thought often she was out of sound with the times; nevertheless, no catastrophe ever took place, and one round seemed to suite her.
It should be said, perhaps at this juncture of the story, I drank a lot in those days, and my throbbing heart for a woman, had no premeditation or hard-line expectations for the females i encountered, or short lived affairs, beer was my real lover, sad to say. Alcohol was my choice for warm and throbbing closeness, a secret for release, women came second, passively so, perhaps that was why I ended up with so many, I didn't chase them, I chased booze, but as soon as they figured this out, farewell, they left. You cannot have both at 100-percent, you can only have 50-50 at best, and my best was 75% to 25% and you can guess who got the 25%, and if a female dare to oppose me for the beer, because I put it before our relationship, I plainly pronounced it dead, resuming my task of getting drunk.
In any case, after a few months, she asked for us to go get an apartment, and I said 'Sure, why not...' we were kind of like rowing along the shore-sort of speaking, in this relationship, and it had to advance, or vanish.
We searched, or at least I did, high and low for an economical apartment, and I found a studio apartment for 0-dollars down-a deposit (which was also the same amount for the months rent) and showed the place to her.
"That's about right," she called looking from the window onto the city street, myself talking with the landlord, a short distance from her.
So I thought all was well, between me and her and the new apartment, but just before we were to move in, she visited me in my attic room, at Larry Lund's, and said, point blank, no emotion, no reasons linked, nothing attached to her statement, "Let it go!" (In a blank doorway stood my mind in a perpetual vigil, anger burned in my eyes, I spent money, made plans, and she stood looking at me as if in an incoherent and vertiginous manner of which dreams are composed.)
Well, what that really meant to me was she didn't want the apartment anymore, or our relationship for that matter. I wanted to grab her and say, 'What in damnation are you doing!' but I didn't, I am not really a good bull fighter, I don't like arguments or talking in circles, meaning, I just normally let go-assuming people know what they want, and if not they should, thus, I'd rather watch them from a distance, and get drunk and whistle, than pull her pigtails to keep her, or anyone with me who really didn't want to be with me.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"I don't know, I just don't want to live with you," she said, turning about to leave.
I sat on my bed, her back to me now, leaving, waiting for her to come back, to turn about and say she was just kidding. It was not quite noon, and I was taking care of a hangover.
"I don't feel like talking," were her last words as she descended the steps.
(Three months later)
I was working at the car place-Ron Saxton Ford to be exact, in the garage area and my boss came up to me, said,
"There's a young lady by the side entrance, wanting to speak to you, don't make it long!"
I looked at the entrance door; I don't know for sure, but perhaps I was a hundred feet from it, started walking towards it. The closer I got, the more it looked like: the Shadow, her body details, features, configuration.
I looked eagerly across the garage, and confirmed it was her undeniably, standing in the middle of the arch of the doorway.
"Go on and say it, I came back," was her first response.
I looked dumbfounded,
"I've been thinking of you." she continued.
She stood there with her eyes towards me; I looked at her back, not really wanting anything to do with her, nothing to do with her at all.
"Isn't love fun?" she smiled and chucked.
I looked at her with a stronger and sterner look, said puzzled,
"What are you doing here?"
"I want to live with you in that apartment, is that alright?" she asked with a sigh. (I was astounded.)
"Yes, that is a problem, I don't have an apartment anymore, I let go as you suggested, and you don't need to," I said.
"I'm pregnant," she commented (it had been three months since I had seen her, and my mind and thoughts shifted to: her deceiving me, an impostor, so was my thoughts that ran through my cerebellum).
I hesitated to answer, thinking: could it possibly be mine. She was not what I'd consider a floozy, but she was strange.
"How do you feel?" she asked.
She was a young woman with short questions, very little to say under any circumstance.
"Oh," I replied in a bazaar annoyance, "...go away, I don't care to see you."
And she did, she simply turned about, and walked away, as if nothing took place. I pulled a set of keys out of my trousers, and walked over to my boss, asked if I should deliver the Thunderbird to a customer at Whirlpool, and he said yes, and I did. And that was the last I saw of the Shadow.
I guess I felt, someone knocked at my door, and I closed it, but I had at that time wondered why she knocked at all, On the other hand, I remembered how she shadowed me for those months, and sex was just not worth trying to build new bridges out of old rotting wood.
Monday, October 24, 2011
WaterRower Natural Rowing Machine in Ash Wood with S4 Monitor
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The WaterRower Natural is handcrafted from solid Ash wood, finished with a honey oak stain and danish oil. The WaterRower's patented WaterFlywheel has been specifically designed to emulate the dynamics of a boat moving though water and is unsurpassed in its simulation of the physical and physiological benefits of rowing.
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