Author: Juji
Published: Winter 07
This little article needs no introduction! Let's get straight to it!
This is an invaluable tip for all those tricksters who waste time and energy transporting, adjusting, and manipulating tripods while training. Consider what a tripod actually does, it sets the camera in an optimal position to film. A large, extendable, piece of metal isn't always needed. You do not always need an actual tripod! Sometimes you just want cheap feedback.
Enter the 99¢ tripod. Go to the super market, or your own pantry if you are lucky, and grab a bag of beans, rice, or lentils. Personally I prefer lentils because they are small enough to allow a greater degree of adjustability than the beans, while usually coming in a thinner plastic than most miniature bags of rice.
Simply slam your camera into the bag and manipulate the innards until the camera is focusing on your target scope. You should set it on the ground (Tip: Lower ground shots usually result in better looking tricks), or on a bench, the top of your car, a seat, whatever.
99¢ tripod. Cheap, easily replaceable, light and compact! Fuck, it's even edible! HOORAY!
True story: I lost favor
of under armour training gear for a long time because of the problem pictured
here. Every time I raised my arms or did almost anything that wasn't a dumbbell
row my under armour would climb up to my navel. I wanted to wear the tight
training gear because A) It feels good and, B)
I like the way I look in it. So I devised a solution to fix this problem and
begin wearing it again.
It wasn't until I began
wearing underwear in favor of boxers that I had this epiphany. Safety
clip the under-armour to my underwear! BRILLIANT! How
Brilliant? Well I have been doing this for a couple months now and I have
not been stabbed or pinned once, none of the pins have ever come undone on
any occasion, and I have been tricking like this. Tricking is the ultimate
test because it's a lot of movement! Thus, no problems except occasionally
the underwear rides up my crack only slightly; But most of the time this isn't
an issue at all unless I'm wearing one of those pairs that shrunk too much
in the washer. In those cases it usually rides anyway.
Hell yeah! I'm gonna show you how to do it. Drop your pants and pull the shirt down as far as it can go in the front and back. 
Start with two in the front as pictured around your groin. 
Then two around the side or back of your butt.
Tuck it in and voila! No more misbehaving under armour!
This is stupid obvious and I'm sure everybody who takes pre, during, or post training shakes does it the same way. I can't think of any reason anybody would blend or mix it together with liquid ahead of time unless they were drinking some fruit smoothie thing with milk or something. Cut that shit out: Just put powders in a ziploc and mix that in water at the field or gym.
Anyway I got all my powders set out (quick sugars, whey, aminos, etc) I just measure it all out into a large, empty shaker and dump that it in a plastic bag and label it. Then I store those in their respective containers.
Currently I have 3 different formulas for every training session and multiple variants therein. I label them I, II, and III. I usually spend a good five hours doing this once every two or three months and load up these big plastic storage containers; But that's convenience at its best! I haven't done this since the beginning of November, I just grab the ziplocs and run out the door. EFFICIENCY.
I have funnels everywhere now.
In my bedroom, in my car, in my gym locker and in my actual gym bag. Why?
Well I'm a powder freak. I'm always mixing concoctions and pre/during/post
training and recovery shakes all through out the day. If you do not have a
wide mouth container for your goods you're going to resort to what I've done
hundreds of times: Grabbing a piece of paper, folding it, and trying to get
the powder into your little bottle by shaking the contents down a crease.
ARGGHHH!! Save yourself the trouble and get a funnel! Or get a dozen giant funnels like me!
This isn't good advice for any prescription medication, but let's say you did some supplement shopping online and bought something premium. I'm going to use animal pak and animal flex as an example; I'm taking animal flex because my tendons and joints do not appreciate the 193 pounds (87.5 kg) of my body weight being tossed around outside in swing through combos. Whether this is going to have a true profound protective effect is not of concern to me, I'm more concerned with being better safe than sorry, and it doesn't assault my budget much at all. I've always liked animal pak but a basic multi is always cheaper. So I can budget both of them by keeping a miss tally.
During back-off training weeks my body could suffice just fine switching to a normal multivitamin over an animal pak. My training volume and intensity is hacked down substantially, so my body won't be in as much a need for everything the pak has to offer. I personally like to take animal flex a bit more consistently, but do you really think I'd be ruining its benefits by skipping it for one or two days a week? If you skip your premium supplements strategically, you can save some money! I have planned out my misses ahead of time for several of my supplements, so I already know 32 weeks from now how many misses I need for X supplement I'm taking. By the end of those 32 weeks I will have missed an entire can of animal pak and flex among many other things I'm taking. This saves me money.
As you can see I plan how many servings per week ahead of time. Each week I simply make sure I'm keeping up with the misses. So let's say, 18 weeks down the road after my initial mass purchase I will have missed 27 servings of animal paks. Thus as long as I'm keeping a tally of misses, I can stay on schedule.That's it. Reconsider the need for a real tripod in every training situation and keep your under armour tucked in. Prepare your powder peri-training formulas in advance to save TONS of time later on. Get a funnel. And save some $$$ on your premium supplements by strategically planning some misses later in your training cycles. Five quick non-tricking tricks.