How To Whiten Your Teeth For Less Than $10
When I was a kid I had perfectly white teeth. I also had allergies. My mom took me to an “Allergy Specialist” who put me on about 10 different medications. I guess to “see what worked”. None of them did work, unless the intended goal was to turn my teeth yellow and spotty and put me in the hospital for a week.
Over the years I have used almost every commercially available teeth whitener with zero success. I have also paid over $300 for professional laser whitening which did not work either.
It wasn’t until I stopped using fluoride toothpaste, in fact I stopped using toothpaste altogether, that my teeth whitened. In an effort to stop ingesting fluoride I stopped using toothpaste and I used a new miracle drug to brush my teeth. What is this new miracle drug?
Good old fashioned Baking Soda
Not only did my teeth get an excellent cleaning I also noticed after a few months that my teeth were a full shade whiter.
For a particularly effective method of teeth whitening you can brush with Baking Soda and Hydrogen Peroxide
1-3 times per week. The combination of the baking soda and hydrogen peroxide form a chemical reaction that breaks down film growing on your teeth and uncovers hidden bacteria, making brushing far more effective.
To brush your teeth with baking soda all you need to do is get a cup or glass, pour in a bit of baking soda, add some water, stir with your toothbrush and brush your teeth with the mixture the same way was with toothpaste. On the days you use hydrogen peroxide just don’t add any water. Don’t swallow the solution.
Before you throw away tons of money on professional whitening and expensive over the counter products why not give baking soda and hydrogen peroxide a shot? It’s worth it even just to get off the poison that is fluoride.
The simplest methods are usually the best.
Baking Soda: $3.79
Hydrogen Peroxide: $4.99
Whiter & Healthier Teeth: Priceless
Learn To Defend Yourself
Even in an emasculated society there are countless testosterone filled men who will not hesitate to snap your neck. If the shit hit the fan could you defend yourself or your family against a man the same size as you? Against a man bigger than you?
If a man bigger and stronger than yourself slapped you in the face in front of your wife, girlfriend, or kids would you take him out?
Or would you hang your head in shame?
Walking away is always the best option, but what if it isn’t an option? 99 times out of 100 a bar-room altercation will not come to blows, but that 1 time it does won’t end up so well for you if you get beat up. If another man strikes you you strike back. Even if you do get beat up, when you go down you go down fighting.
The late, great Jack LaLanne tells a story about being a younger man, eating in a diner and 3 punks come in and start making fun of him, calling him “muscles” and ridiculing him. Jack took the 3 punks into the parking lot and dealt with each of them and went back into the diner to finish his meal. All the patrons in the diner thanked him and clapped for him.
There is a difference in walking away from a silly fight and being a coward who has no pride.
Steps to learning to defend yourself:
Get into shape: a frail body isn’t defending anything. A man in good shape is more intimidating to someone who want to pick an easy fight.
Learn some form of defense: could be boxing, mixed martial arts, Brazilian jiu-jitstu, a self defense class, or you could have a friend teach you some moves. Watch some self-defense videos if you have no other options. The confidence alone from knowing you can hold your own and defend yourself is worth more than money. Walking down the street I am comfortable in the fact that if a bigger man than myself gave me some trouble I can hold my own. I may take a few licks but I’ll give just as good as I got.
Talk yourself out of the fight: If a fight can be avoided, it should be avoided. You never know who’s carrying a knife or a gun, or if he has friends waiting in the distance.
Position yourself for easy defense: If a man is getting in your space you never keep your hands in your pocket, you keep them up to defend your face. Don’t make an overt boxing stance, you can pretend to be scratching your chin or something like that. Your hands always need to be ready to act. When the fight starts always protect your face with your forearms, hold your arms up at a 90% angle, thumbs facing your head.
If it comes to blows: Move quickly. Get your hits in as fast as you can, subdue him as fast as you can, and get away as fast as you can. A hard punch to the throat will take him out. A rear-naked choke will take him out. A hard kick to the knee will take him out. A hard knee to his face will take him out. If you’re trading blow for blow you aim for the jaw. Always keep your hands up in front of your face to protect yourself.
Fight dirty if it’s life or death: If you’re fighting for your life all rules of combat decency evaporate. This is where you kick the groin, bite the nose, poke the eyes, any severe damage you can do.
Never pick a fight: Only finish one if it is necessary. A man has no business not knowing how to stand up and fight for himself.
Live Like a Spartan : Own Your Own Car
“Buying” or leasing a brand new vehicle is just about the silliest thing you can do. I say “buying” in quotation marks because when you purchase a brand new vehicle more often than not you finance it. You don’t really buy anything, you put yourself into massive debt, or what I like to call debtors prison.
What happens if you think you have a secure job, you purchase a brand new car to keep up with the Jones’ and six months down the line you get laid off or fired? You still have the car payment barreling down on you like a semi going full speed on your direction. Let me tell you, as a person who has both financed a car and been fired many times it gets very worrisome trying to come up with that car payment every single month when I’ve got no income.
Same scenario: you get laid off or fired. This time, however, you were smart enough to save up a couple grand and you purchase your vehicle in cold, hard cash. All you have to worry about now is paying for gas and paying for insurance. Average liability only insurance premiums for an American are $900 per year, and if you were smart you pay six months in advance. That means all you worry about is gas.
The average price paid for a new car is $28,400. At a modest 6% interest rate over four years you pay a grand total of $32,014.79 (assuming no down payment or trade-in) and $666.97 per month. That much money per month can let you live comfortably in a decent apartment. Imagine getting rid of that six hundred bucks per month in expenses. You can save up for a few months and buy a car in cash and never worry about making another car payment again. Taking the bus for a few months is a great trade-off in never making another car payment.
Even if you pay for the car in cash there is no reason to purchase a brand-new vehicle. As soon as you drive that car off the lot it’s value plummets. Purchase the same car a year or two old and save yourself some money. In one year that brand new car you bought is now an old car and you wasted several thousand dollars.
Of course, if you live in a city with a good public transportation system you can get rid of the car permanently. Even better because then you save money on gas and insurance AND get you don’t have to drive in grid-iron, bumper to bumper traffic.
Look familiar?
If possible, riding a bicycle or a moped (I know it looks stupid) is an excellent money saving method of travel and if you ride a bike you will get tons of great exercise. I dare you to find a fat person who rides a bike everyday. Driving a car is one of the most dangerous things you can do. As an added bonus you save yourself a 1 in 84 chance of dying in a car accident. You could die thousands of times in a car accident before ever winning the lottery or being eaten by a shark.
Use your bicycle to impress girls.
There you have it, trade in that money hemorrhaging hunk of junk, get ride of those payments, save up and get yourself a cash car that gets good mileage and has a reputation for buying a quality vehicle.
I won’t go into much detail about the absurdity of leasing a car other than to say you are paying an arm and a leg to rent a car, you have to carry full coverage insurance, you are limited to a certain number of miles…you might as well drive a car with a gas leak. You could just give $20 to every single person you meet and make some new friends.
Simplify your lives, gentlemen. It makes things so much easier.
How to Pick Appropriate Workout Attire
There is a silly myth that when you start working out you need to go buy some “workout clothes”. Nonsense! Work out in whatever is comfortable and forget about what other people might think about you not wearing the “appropriate” workout clothes. Like there is such a thing. In the 80′s it was spandex, in the 70′s it was short-shorts, now it’s knee-length shorts, basketball or running shoes and a t-shirt.
I’m comfortable in jeans, a t-shirt or tank top, and boat shoes. I rarely see anyone in the gym wearing jeans which boggles the mind. Jeans are the de-facto uniform of millions of blue-collar physical laborers. If jeans are good enough to work 12 hours a day lifting heavy shit and doing other laborious activities they are certainly ok to lift weights in for an hour. Unless you’re doing leg exercises jeans are perfectly acceptable to lift in. Hell, I even wear jeans sometimes when deadlifting or squatting.
As for the shoes, I pick the shoes with the flattest sole. All the basketball shoes that cost $150 bucks a pair are a waste of time and money for lifting weights. The soles of those shoes are arched for “heel support” and throw you off balance. The foot is a perfect invention by itself, you don’t need heel or arch support from your shoes just like you don’t need mittens or gloves for hand support.
Work out in whatever is comfortable to you and stop worrying about what other people think.
Benefits of Early Morning Weight Training
Early morning weight training is an excellent way to start the day. Whenever I put off training until afternoon or evening it is always on my mind as something I need to get done. It’s a nagging feeling. When I train early morning I can forget about it for the rest of the day - it’s one less thing I have to think about. When you train early morning you start the day accomplishing something. While the rest of the city is sleeping in like a bunch of lazy bums you’re in the gym making yourself stronger. By the time you get home, shower, eat something, most people are still in bed or just waking up and you’re ready to kick the days ass.
How to Start Training Early Morning
1) Get a workout partner. Unless you’re already an early riser it is critical to get a workout partner who will be waiting for you at the gym. It’s easy enough to sleep in if no one is waiting for you, but if you’ve got someone waiting for you then you have to get up and go to the gym.
2) Get enough sleep the night before. It’s no fun waking up at 5am if you didn’t get enough sleep the night before. Everybody is different in their sleep needs, but if you aim for 6-8 hours you should be fine. If you were unable to get enough sleep, still wake up and go train, come back and take a quick nap if you can.
3) Don’t hit the snooze button. Remember, you’ve got someone waiting for you. There is no time to sleep in. Set your alarm for 15 minutes before you need to walk out the door. You should be able to walk out the door within 15 minutes of waking up.
4) Don’t eat anything. You will likely still have food in your belly from the night before. There is no reason to eat a meal and be sluggish in the gym. You will be much more alert training in a somewhat fasted state. If you must have some calories take a protein shake.
5) Never miss a training day. No matter how much you don’t feel like training do it anyway. You will feel much better about going than you will feel about missing. Especially if you have a training partner who is waiting for you. Even though it may be hard to wake up that early it will become a habit within a week or two. When you make it a habit it’s no big deal to wake up that early.
6) Train as hard as you normally would. No point in going to the gym if you’re going to half-ass your training. Lift heavy and lift hard.
7) Enjoy the rest of your day.
My training days start like this.
- Alarm goes off at 5:05am
- Get up, let the dogs outside
- Turn on coffee pot and brew coffee (I get the coffee ready the night before)
- Brush teeth and other bathroom needs
- Get dressed and walk out the door by 5:15am with thermos full of coffee
- At gym by 5:30am, start hitting the weights. I start every Monday morning with heavy deadlifts
- Get home by 6:45-7ish and start my day
Boyer Coe is a lifelong early morning trainer and always trains fasted.
How to Naturally Increase Testosterone
It is an easily observable fact that today’s Men have less testosterone than their fathers and even less testosterone than their Grandfathers. We live in a highly emasculated society. For proof just walk out your door and go to the local grocery store and take a look at the Men. I was at a grocery store the other day and I heard a “man” literally beg his wife to get 2% milk instead of skim milk. He literally begged inside of the store, like a little girl.
Testosterone is what keeps you from being a giant sissy.
Signs of low Testosterone:
- Excess bodyfat
- Low libido
- Gynecomastia
- Lack of motivation
- Depression
- Low self esteem
- Irritability
- Moodiness
- Memory loss
- Loss of morning erections
- Erectile dysfunction
- Fatigue
- Decreased energy
- Decreased muscle mass
- Testicle shrinkage
- Low sperm count
There are several reasons why Men have such low testosterone, and we will go over those, but the most important one is diet. You need to eat fat to produce testosterone. Aim for 30% of your total calories form fat. The standard American Low-fat diet is producing heaps of effeminate males. Every guy I know that is super low in T (you can tell because they are frail, timid, sexless, weak) has a poor diet. They eat low fat, low protein, high carbohydrate diets. They eat things like Macaroni and cheese as a meal. That’s what little boys eat (they shouldn’t). Eat like a man for high Testosterone. Some excellent testosterone building meals include..
Steak and eggs – the strong mans favorite meal. High saturated fat in the eggs and zinc in the red meat help produce testosterone.
Liver and onions – Onions contains allicin which helps produce testosterone. Liver contains all kinds of good shit. Warriors of old would often eat the raw liver right out of a fresh kill because it gave them strength. If you don’t like eating liver take some Liver Tabs
, one of the only supplements that I spend money on. I love liver tabs, they make me feel strong as an ox in the gym. Jack Lalanne would take up to a hundred a day when he was preparing for his incredible feats of strength and stamina such as towing 70 boats with 70 people on his 70th birthday while handcuffed.
Garlic – Garlic also contains allicin.
Peanuts, Salmon, Coconut oil, olive oil are all rich in good fats.
Cook everything in butter, not margarine.
Eat as naturally as possible. Organic for your fruits and veggies and grass-fed for your red meat if you can afford it.
If you are a vegetarian try to stop being a sissy and eat meat, the diet that Man was designed to eat. How many manly vegetarians have you met? If you’re like me the answer is zero. That’s because they eat low fat, high soy content meals. For God’s sake never eat soy! Soy is estrogen enhancing poison. Don’t believe the government hype that soy is great, soy is cheap and easy to produce and is a government subsidized crop (the other 2, corn and wheat, also should be avoided).
Some other tips to help increase Testosterone naturally
Get a good night’s sleep in a cool, dark room. Sleep at night or else you will mess up your circadian rhythm which leads to decreased T.
Lift weights. Heavy compound exercises produces testosterone naturally. Between 4-8 reps per set is a good goal.
Don’t smoke. Inhibits sexual appetite, probably because you’re constantly sucking on a thin, white phallus.
Don’t drink (or limit alcohol consumption) - Alcohol has been proven to lower testosterone.
Have sex. Frequent sex, especially first thing in the morning, increase T levels. I experimented with celibacy for 8 long months and I could just about feel the testosterone leaving my body.
Live stress free. Easier said than done but stress and worry is a huge testosterone killer. A good rule of thumb is if you can’t change it there is no point in worrying about it.
If you’re fat, lose weight. Increased weight leads to higher estrogen levels.
Don’t keep your cell phone in your pocket next to your boys. According to Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
cell phone radiation leads to decreased sperm count and T levels.
Listen to music that pumps you up - Songs that pump you up, pump you up full of testosterone.
Eat your vegetables - Vegetables have been repeatedly demonstrated to raise testosterone and decrease estrogen.
Other Reasons Men Have Low Testosterone
We live in a highly feminized culture where so called femininity is rewarded and masculinity is punished. A generation of Men raised by women doesn’t know how to be masculine. The irony is that women are becoming much more masculine and men are becoming more feminine. Don’t believe your masculinity is wrong and don’t believe the feminist misandrous propaganda. You are a Man and it’s ok to act like one. Never let Women boss you around, and they will if you let them, it has a feminizing effect on you. Studies show that married men lose Testosterone as well, probably from all the nagging and order-giving. If you must get married, find a feminine (not feminist) woman, she will be the yin to your yang.
Turn off the Television. TV is nothing more than a brainwashing machine and it’s telling you that women are always right and Men are always wrong and always to blame. Ignore the media.
How To Look Like You Don’t Know What You’re Doing in the Gym
It’s January, that time of year is upon us when the gyms are flooded with New Years Resolutioners (NYR). NYR’s are notorious for not knowing what they’re doing and then quitting after a couple weeks for lack of results. Aside from obvious cases where NYR’s have no idea what they’re doing, here are the most common weight-room follies and a few pieces of advice you can use to distinguish yourself as a man of supreme understanding in the weight training arts.
1) Not touch your chest when you barbell bench press. If you don’t touch your chest you are not bench pressing, you are partial pressing. Keep it up for partial gains. On a side note, bench partials are an excellent way to supplement your bench routine and build up some strength to handle the big weights. It can be used in addition to your normal benching (touching the chest) routine.
This is how you bench press.
2) Roll your shoulders when you perform shrugs. Shrugs are performed to build up your traps, when you roll your shoulders you take all the pressure off of the traps. Roll your shoulders for a guaranteed way to waste the maximum amount of time and effort!
3) Do any weight training on a bosu ball. I see all the silly personal trainers at the globo-gyms doing this nonsense all the time. It’s no wonder the people they train never change their physique. Lift some real weights with a stable core, squeeze your abs, and you will “activate your core” much better than this stability ball nonsense. I can’t even bring myself to pollute my website with a picture of a stability ball exercise.
4) Doing deadlifts for reps with 95 lbs. Deadlifts are a strength training exercise, unless you have been confined to bed for the past year you should be lifting heavier. I see people doing this all the time at the gym, people who train regularly but they are clearly scared they are going to hurt their back if they use anything above 95 lbs. Well, they probably will hurt their back at some point because it’s so weak from lack of training. Load up the bar with as much weight as you can handle and lift that mother-trucker off the ground.
This is a deadlift.
5) Using the lightest weight possible. Next time you are in the gym take a look around. Look at the people doing lightweight work on a bosu ball, doing light weight in general, and then take a look at the people using heavy weight (heavy is relative to each person, when I say heavy I mean heavy to that person). You will see a noticeable difference in physique between the people who are lifting close to their max and the people who are farting around with light weight stability exercises. If you’re goal is to look like the people doing the light weight work then go ahead and do it, but if your goal is to look like a man and not a little boy then lift like a man.
Take an Unplanned Road Trip
Well….you can sit at home wondering what’s out there or you can go pack some clothes, pack a cooler, get in your car and start driving. It doesn’t matter where you go, it’s the experience, not the destination that counts. Pick some place you’ve never been that you want to to go to and head that way. Be sure and stop anywhere along the way that grabs your attention. You could plan the trip but that would take all the energy and spontaneity out of the trip. Have only some brief guidelines to follow and you will have an adventure of a lifetime.
Several months ago I was leaving the gym, I had that euphoric feeling I always have after a brutal workout. I called up a buddy and said “Let’s take a road trip”. He said “When”. I said “Tomorrow early afternoon”. He said “Let’s do it”. He invited his brother along and we all left Dallas around 2 the next afternoon. We decided to go to Florida by way of Savannah, GA (to see the trees). The first night we ended up at a motel outside of New Orleans, LA. The next day we spent a bit of time in N’awleans and headed for Georgia. We hit Savannah late that night and rented a room. We spent the next morning checking out Savannah.
Later that day we headed down the Atlantic coast of Florida and ended up on Miami Beach. After endlessly searching for a hotel room on the beach we finally got one (and the bathroom door had a giant, and I mean GIANT, peephole into it!). We headed out to get some dinner and drinks (costing us around $250) and we went to some club right on the beach with a whole bunch of other travellers, many from abroad. After a couple drinks we went back to the hotel and jumped in the pool, realized the ocean was a mere few hundred feet away, and went in jumped in the ocean in the middle of the night.
We left the next day for Key West, our goal destination. We drove down through all the keys and I have to say it really is a breathtaking view. We get to Key West, the southernmost point of the continental US, found a nice place to rent, rented a golf cart for the rest of the stay and we had a fucking blast down there. We ended up doing all kinds of fun shit that never would have happened if we had stayed home.
We came home by way of the gulf coast of Florida, stopping to see some Alligators along the way. We spent a couple more nights on the Florida beach, spent a night in New Orleans, and finally hit home.
All in all it was a 9 day trip and it was a blast. It cost a bit of money but we all had a bit to spare. If money is an object I would suggest camping out. That sounds even better to me than staying in some posh resort.
For you, I have two questions…
1) Where have you always wanted to go?
2) When are you leaving?
When you make up your mind to do it, do it soon! You don’t want the excitement to die down. If it dies you may not go.
Decide to go and then go! Have an unplanned adventure of a lifetime!
Nick
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