Road to Vancouver Island Showdown 2021 - 8 Weeks Out Check In

So I'm 8 weeks out from the Vancouver Island Showdown Pro/Am but to be honest I have my doubts on if it will happen or not? That said I will go through my Contest Prep either way because in these crazy times we need a reason to get up in the morning and find some motivation to be better then we where the day before.

Currently I weigh 193 pounds which is rather on the low side but I feel I am leaner and holding more muscle than usual going into my contest prep. The cleanse I did using the Chlorine Dioxide really cleaned me out and I would say it has reduced my overall weight by about 3-5 pounds which was all in my digestive tract.

The goal will be to slowly put on muscle while reducing body fat starting with higher calories and then reducing them every two week as required. I hope to actually weigh about the same if not a bit more going into the show when all is said and done...

I will be posting weekly check ins for now so you can follow along with my progress and as I get closer there will be more updates as things get more exciting, well at least I hope so!

Chlorine Dioxide MMS for Water Purification and Some Other Cool Stuff

 WHAT DO YOU KNOW? YOUTUBE TOOK IT DOWN, BIG SURPRISE!

Chlorine Dioxide or the version I bought (MMS) Miracle Mineral Solution is an oxidant that is known for it's purification and anti virus, bacteria, fungi and parasitic uses in water and perhaps even humans. It has been used for decades in water treatment and can even be bought easily as a water purifying treatment.

What you can not say about Chlorine Dioxide or MMS is that it can be used as a treatment for illnesses or disease because if you do you will most likely get your video banned, your post fact checked or even deleted, you even risk being banished from YouTube and other social media platforms so be very careful what say about Chlorine Dioxide / MMS and what organizations you may upset.

To be honest the fact that Chlorine Dioxide / MMS is so taboo is maybe what made me even more interested in it since I have come to realize that the more information is suppressed, the more damaging it must be to someone or some organization that may have something to lose if this new found information was made public knowledge.

For instance, if there was something out there that cost only pennies per day and was able to cure or at least help significantly with a bunch of illnesses and diseases, and let's say you where a big pharmaceutical company that made billions from selling medications for these same ailments that could be cured or managed again for the cost of a daily vitamin? Well you would probably do what ever it took to make that very costly problem disappear... Just saying hypothetically of course.

But I digress...

In this video I talk about what I experienced when taking Chlorine Dioxide / MMS for a month, how it helped with severe itchy skin all over my body and also did what I can only describe as a deep cleanse of my entire digestive system reducing about 4-5 pounds of permanent body weight from my digestive tract and actually decreasing my waist size.

I suggest you do your own research and come to your own conclusions about Chlorine Dioxide / MMS. Here are some useful links to help get you started...

Great Overview Video of Chlorine Dioxide MMS

Clinical Study Proves ClO2 Works on COVID 19

Chlorine Dioxide Documentary

Lindsay Wagner Testimonial

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Why is my Metabolism Slowing Down as I Get Older

I made a similar video several years back but wanted to add a little bit to it and I also strongly feel this is a question many people ask themselves and may even use as an excuse to submit to their current state of health.

The bottom line is in most cases it's not your Metabolism that slowed down, it's you that has slowed down, combine that with more of a focus on comfort food and access to eating, maybe a little bit too much wine or beer in the evening and now with a lot more people sitting around at home because of Covid restrictions... Well it has become even easier to blame the gradual or even fast weight gain on some sort of change in your metabolism.

So no I am not going to discuss how you can magically speed up your metabolism since that is not the root of the problem, I do discuss how even small changes in your lifestyle can make it seem like your metabolism has slowed down and what you can do to fix that with not even that much effort.

Enjoy the show!

Synco G1 (A2) Wireless Microphone Set Practical Review

As with most of the new tech I purchase or acquire that I will be using in my YouTube Videos for either my GetFitOver40 or ReplicaAirguns YouTube channels, I generally like to do some sort of a practical review for the item. In this case I take a look at the Synco G1 (A2) Wireless Microphone Set which is a pair of wireless transmitters that pair with a single dedicated receiver allowing me to quickly and easily capture good quality audio for my YouTube Videos.

For the past couple of years my go to microphone setup for my YouTube Video was to use a generic lapel mic connected to my Samsung Galaxy Smartphone recording into an audio program. I would then send the audio file via dropbox to my computer where I would then line up the audio file with the video file in my video editing software to get a much higher quality and more clear voice recording versus what the camera mic would be able to capture.

This system has been working fairly well for me but required a somewhat cumbersome lapel cable and of course my bulky Smarphone in my pocket at all times but did allow me to be as far away from the camera as I wanted without any interference or loss of audio clarity.

After playing around with the Synco G1 (A2) Wireless Microphone System I have determined I will most likely simply be clipping the transmitter onto my shirt without the lavaliere mic plugged in and transmitting the audio into either my Samsung Smartphone or my iPad where I can then again dropbox the audio file to wherever I plan on editing the video.

This video was kind of a test to see how everything sounded in terms of the lapel mic versus the built in mic. What settings to use and how distance effected the audio signal and quality. Unfortunately the lapel mic was a bit close to my voice causing some distortion to occur but you can still hear what I am saying no problem. In the future I would place the lapel mic a bit further away from my voice lower down on my shirt or simply use the built in mic as it was not as sensitive to this distortion and seemed to handle louder volume much better than the lapel mic.

Here are some of the specifications for those that like that sort of info :)

Transmitter (TX )

• Wireless Transmission - Digital 2.4GHz
• RF Frequency Band - 2400-2483.5MHz
• Working Distance - 164ft/50m (LOS area) 98ft/30m (NLOS area)
• Latency - 12.5ms
• Mounting - Pocket Clip
• Audio Input - 1/8" / 3.5 mm TRS Mic Input
• Audio Input Level - 1V (0dBV)
• RF Output Power - ＜10mW
• Power Requirement - 3.3V-4.7V
• Battery Type - Built-in Lithium Battery
• Battery Charging Time - 1.5h
• Battery Life - 5h
• Dimensions - 52X42X16mm
• Material - Plastic
• Weight - 35g

Receiver (RX)

• Wireless Transmission - Digital 2.4GHz
• RF Frequency Band - 2400-2483.5MHz
• Approximate RF Sensitivity - -81dBm
• Working Distance - 164ft/50m (LOS area) 98ft/30m (NLOS area)
• Latency - 12.5ms
• Mounting - Pocket Clip
• Number of Audio Channels - 2
• Audio Output - 1/8” / 3.5 mm TRS Mic Output - 1/8“ / 3.5 mm TRS Headphone Output
• Gain - 0-4 Level (0 to 8dB)
• Audio Output Level - Line Out: 1V, Monitoring: 25-30mW
• Power Requirement - 3.3V-4.7V
• Battery Type - Built-in Lithium Battery, 400mAh
• Battery Charging Time - 1.5h
• Battery Life - 5h
• Dimensions - 52X42X16mm
• Material - Plastic
• Weight - 35g

Microphone

• Form Factor - Built-in/External Mic
• Sound Field - Mono
• Polar Pattern - Omnidirectional
• Frequency Response - 50Hz-20KHz
• Sensitivity - -40dB (±3 dB, re 1V/Pa at 1KHz)
• Max. Input SPL - 135dB SPL (at 1KHz)

Switching Back to Apple iPad Pro

A while back I switched from a MacBook to a Chromebook as my mobile computer and for the past 4 years I have been using an Asus C302 Touch Flip as my main mobile computer. For the most part I do all my video editing on my iMac in my office but will do some video editing on my Samsung Galaxy Android phone using a program called Action Director which gets the job done but is limited in functionality for sure.

My Asus C302 has been a good mobile computer but I was not using it much for video or photo editing. Way back in the day when the first iPad came out I purchased one but back then all they really did was simply make all the iPhone Apps looks bigger, there was very little added functionality that allowed them to do much more than an iPhone could do. Time has been really good to the iPad lineup allowing it to in many cases even replace a laptop for some people.

I am a bit of a Techy and like giving new technology a try and so after playing around with my mother in law's iPad 7th generation I decided the new iPad software would be able to do everything I needed it do do with only a few work arounds. There are several iPad options out there, the standard iPad, the iPad Air and the iPad Pro with several screen sizes to consider. After some humming and hawing I went with the iPad Pro 11 inch in a 128gb version since most of my video files would be stored on an external drive. I purchased a Logitech keyboard case with built in trackpad and it works awesome making my iPad Pro 11 inch feel just like a laptop. I don't really ever feel the need to add a mouse but I could if I wanted to.

For my video editing software I paid the $35 or so and installed LumaFusion, an amazing full featured pro video editing App that even allows me to edit 4K video on my iPad Pro almost as well if not even better in some ways than my iMac using ScreenFlow. In fact this YouTube video was edited entirely using my iPad Pro with LumaFusion!