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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8944820/hedo-turkoglu-orlando-magic-suspended-20-games-positive-test

The NBA said Turkoglu tested positive for methenolone, an anabolic steroid. He began serving the suspension Wednesday night when the Magic hosted the Atlanta Hawks.

Turkoglu took full responsibility for the positive test and apologized to the Magic organization, fans and fellow teammates. He said he took medication from a trainer in Turkey this past summer to help him recover from a shoulder injury and mistakenly neglected to check it against the NBA's list of banned substances.

"As a player this is the worst situation that you want to be in," Turkoglu said. "I'm just sorry to put the organization in this situation. ... I should have double-checked and researched and shouldn't be in this situation."

He just made himself look real stupid or a liar.

Which one is better?  Factoring in cost.  Beef is obv more expensive.  I've heard "studies" or "findings" that chicken may be hard to digest and/or absorbed because of lechitin.  OBV salmon beats all.

Anyway please discuss. 

People often say, my goal is to prove somebody wrong.  "All that hard work paid off when I dunked on him and people went nuts," or "all that hard work paid off when i took home the trophy."  My reply would be, stop lying to yourself, but i don't say it because it's not good to be bold enough to the point to cause trouble. 

The payoff is not what you did or the outcome of your hard work.  Hard work in and of itself is the pay off.  When you are content with the present... you will always have joy when you train.  From a psychological standpoint, joy gives you a tremendous advantage over those that are training out of anger.  They are mad at the world.  they are living for somebody else.  they are trying to prove somebody else wrong.  sure in the short run, anger and aggression will give you a boost, but life and training is not a 100m dash but a marathon. 

This past year i took training way too seriously, and in turn, my training hurt pretty badly.  I had to give up training.  and I mean give it up totally... the aspiration of gliding through the air.  And that was when I found new life in my training.  I had to put on the mentality, that if i won't increase another inch of my vertical, that i will be okay with it.  And when I had that mentality, training became joy, and not just training.

Sprained my ankle precisely a week ago.  Was on painkillers before sprain, so the amount of pain i felt did not do me justice.  After there was some swelling on the entire side of the foot and bruising.  Now it has gotten somewhat better, but some of the bruising still has yet to go away and there is still slight swelling.  I can walk with a limp but cannot walk normally.

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my left arm press is way behind right arm in strength, especially shoulder press.  What is the best way for left arm to catch up with right arm without having to stall the progress of right arm gaining strength?

Being fairly certain I am hip/glute dominant, what can I do to improve?  The majority of my training is full squats, extensions, hamstring, and calf.  I play bball once a week, 1hr, so my reactiveness is poor right now.

Based on vj estimate, I should have ~29in standing vertical.  However, the best i have managed was 27 vj and i can't even replicate that unless the conditions are perfect where my motivation is high (cns good) and have warmup up extensively.  My rvj is almost the same as svj.  This was not the case 8-10 months ago where I was 155lb.

Should i continue full squats and do some half/qtr squats?  and should i worry about the body fat ~25% after i get stronger.  my current full squat is 310.  so cut at 405 full squat?