If you are an amateur body builder, and have very little time to workout. You need to squeeze every second you have in order to maximize results.

One thing that have worked for me in the past have been work with Full Body Routine.

What is full body routine?

In this routine, you train all your body, all groups of muscle each time you visit the gym.

Here is what I’ve doing:

Monday – Wednesday – Friday.

Everyday the same thing:

• Barbell Bench Press: 4 sets, 10 reps
• Lat pull ups: 4 sets, 10 reps
• Dumbbell Shoulder press: 4 sets, 10 reps
• Barbell Squats: 4 sets, 10 reps
• Barbell Curl: 3 sets, 10 reps
• Triceps push down: 3 sets, 10 reps
• Standing calf raising: 4 sets, 10 reps

That should take you one hour more or less, no more than one and half hour.

Sometimes I do supersets, and put it below to one hour.

The main advantages:

• Less time per week on the gym
• If you miss one day, is not that critical as all you body trains.

If you work hard you will see results, you may never be ready to be Mr. America, but you are not making this as a way of living right?

If you are like me, and English is not your native tongue. You may have some issues with English grammar.

I like to blog, and I like to blog using English, but Spanish is my native tongue. I’ve been criticized lots of times because of my grammar.

I’ve improved a lot over the years of reading and writing English, or at least I think so. I think the prove is that less and fewer people complain about my English. Maybe they have just gave up on me.

Anyway, today I’ve discovered After the Deadline which is a Firefox add-on to help people check grammar.

According to the add-on’s page, nothing is completely reliable, but it surely helps.

After the Deadline works very well. No technology can catch-all mistakes. The focus of After the Deadline is to catch common mistakes without flagging correct text. Our spelling, style, and grammar demonstrations will give you an idea of what After the Deadline will help you with. Read The Design of a Proofreading Software Service to learn how AtD compares with Microsoft Word.

It is a good sign that the people behind this project is the same behind WordPress.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, develops After the Deadline and hosts the service it relies on. We want you to have access to good proofreading tools, no matter where you write.

I’m trying to test Mageia, no luck no far.

I’ve some kind of problem with X11 configuration, I can see the splash screen but then, I’m taken to the terminal.

I’ve changed to vesa in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, but no luck.

I’ve also tested with 1024×768 @60 and @70 Hz, also with 800×600 @60 Hz, all with no luck.

I’m running VirtualBox 4.1.12 on a Macbook Pro computer.

If any of you have any clue, please sent me hints to @ggarron

Thanks.

Yesterday I’ve written a new version of my favorite Linux distribution. Arch Linux

And today it has been featured at Distrowatch.

All three versions of my reviews have been featured there, if you want to read them:

• Arch Linux 2009 review
• Arch Linux 2010 review
• Arch Linux 2011 review

Arch Linux is my favorite distribution for some years already.

I like to go to the Gym almost as much as I like computers.

I’m or try to be a regular visitor to reddit and to Hacker News.

Today while looking for the personal site of Aaron Griffin (Arch Linux’s Leader), I’ve found this FAQ in his site.

This is the /r/Fitness FAQ and it really worth reading it.

Has some good information, after that create yourself a reddit account, and subscribe to this sub-reddit and visit it regularly.

Happy training.

I’ve used FourSquare for sometime, and in that time I have acquired some Mayorships. At my best time this was my record.

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After that I stopped using it, I think is not safe to keep telling people you do not know where you are, or worse, where you are not. If you are not a home, burglars may go to your place, specially if you are out of the city.

I think people does not pay attention to their security these days, announcing on-line where you are is an invitation to problems. But that is another topic, for another post.

I like to test everything, specially technology, but that is some how expensive. So, I test software, I like to test apps, for the iPhone, Blackberry or Android, applications in my Mac or in my Linux.

Another area where I love to test new things is blogging platforms, I’ve started blogging with Jaws Project, then Joomla, then Drupal, then Movable Type, then WordPress, that was all self-hosted platforms.

On the hosted solutions, I’ve started at the same time both, a Tumbl-blog at Tumblr and a blog at Posterous.

Later my hosted solution was finally migrated to Jekyll (You can find it at here, and my posterous blog (now called space) was migrated to this site powered by WordPress.

So right now I’m blogging at the same time at http://www.garron.me using Jekyll, and at http://blogs.garron.me using WordPress. Why? well because I’ve this kind of addiction, a Testing Addiction. I just love testing, and learning new things, I hope I could learn a lot about WordPress and will post here my discoveries.

I may later park this site as a simple static site, and continue my blogging at my main site. Or I may move all this blog to a section of the main site. Meanwhile you can expect to see my content spreaded between the two sites. By this time I’m posting more often in this blog than in the Jekyll-powered main site.

There were times when all you have was MovableType, WordPress and Blogger, now you have I think hundreds of options, and the list continues to grow.

The biggest players continue to be WordPress and Drupal, but with hosted solutions like Posterous, Blogger, Tumblr and WordPress itself, you start to think which one should you choose?

Now those are the known ones, there are also some others, some of them are very powerful, but most of them focus more on scalability, or performance, or another aspect.

In this other set, we have Hyde, Jekyll, Octopress, nanoc just to name a few. All of them are static blog (or site) generators. They were born because WordPress and the like tend to be hard to maintain, and they are also not so efficient when it comes to handle traffic.

Today I’ve read about a new one: MOdtvse. It is not a static site generator, so it is closer to the WordPress and Drupal side, but it is not based on PHP, it is based on Ruby, and instead of MySQL it uses MongoDB.

So, we started with Perl/MySQL with MovableType then we had PHP/MySQL with WordPress, and it seems that things are starting to evolve again. WordPress and PHP are far from a decline in its usage, but things may be starting to change.

And talking about MOdtvse, if you want to give it a try, it is really easy to install. Here some few guides to install it in Arch Linux.

  pacman -S ruby mongodb nodejs

  gem install bundler

After that, just follow the steps here

Markdown is great, I use it to write this blog, but it lacks of some functions. If you need some more features than what the standard Markdown has to offer, you may want to look at MultiMarkdown.

And talking about it, MultiMarkdown 3.6 is now available for download

Here the improvements:

• fix some bugs in LaTeX output
• minor tweaks in HTML output
• improvements to the has_metadata and extract_metadata routines
• fix bug in Definition List parsing to allow a blank line before the first term
• fix bug in OPML output

Here my first impressions on MultiMarkdown

I’m not a Solaris expert, actually I’ve never used a Solaris powered computer.

But if you sometime need to share documents between Solaris and Linux, keep this how-to in mind

How to install Samba on Solaris