Welcome to Total Physique Online.
This is a fitness site that contains various topics of interest to me and hopefully to you as well.
Total Physique offers a little bit of everything:
- strength training articles
- strength training equipment reviews
- supplement and product reviews
- strength articles from people like Dave Draper, Dave Tate
- a glimpse into my own personal workout routines
- articles for people with COPD and other lung ailments
- access to superior nutritional products
All of the primary areas of this web site may be accessed via the page links and entry categories above and below, respectively. You will find other navigation methods on the splash page for your viewing pleasure, such as the Tag Cloud on the entrance page and Recent Posts in the sidebar to the right as well.
Important Disclaimers and Legalese
This web site is more than just a web site. This web site is the personal journey of one person who is battling a chronic illness with exercise. It is about my determination to fight as hard as I can to be as healthy and as strong as possible for as long as possible. This web site was intended to encourage others like me, others who battle illness every day, not to give up. This site is my own personal journal. It is a personal diary of my own life experiences, my own strength programs and to a small extent, my own diet. These personal strength and diet strategies seem to work well for me, though I am always striving to find strategies that work better. I offer these strategies as examples of strategies people can try.
While the other articles and columns on this site are of interest to me, in no way shape or form do I claim that the information contained therein will be helpful to anyone in particular. Again, these are strategies that work well for the authors of those columns, and they are offered here at this site for informational purposes as possible strategies for you, the reader.
In other words, I believe that the training concepts, nutritional products and strength equipment I recommend can and should be helpful to most people, but I am sure some folks will try some of the suggestions and ideas found on this site and gain little benefit from them for a myriad of reasons. Everyone is different
Where possible, the information found here on this blog is vetted, programs are tried and evaluated and so forth and so on, in an effort that I might, with confidence, print my recommendations or the recommendations of others here for your convenience. Where possible, proper credit is given.
Never just take my word for anything. For that matter, don’t take anyones word for something until you have done your own research, and always, always, ALWAYS, seek the advice of a medical professional before trying supplements or workout programs. Any time you try an exercise strategy you need to know you do so at your own risk. Exercise comes with risk. So, be careful, train smart, eat wisely and make sure your doctor gives you the green light before undertaking any and all exercise programs.
As always, when you train it is a good idea take safety precautions. Realize that you are training at your own risk. Injuries can and do happen from time to time. So, proper stretching, warming up etc. is always prudent before any workout in order to reduce the risk of a new injury, or exacerbating old ones. If possible make sure you have a training partner. If you are training at home make certain the equipment you use is equipment you can trust. Do not trust your health and welfare to junk. Invest in the best, or train at a gym that does. No exceptions. Period.
Also, you will notice that I link to several strength and nutrition companies. These companies do not link to this site. In fact, just because I recommend them does not mean that these companies endorse this site at all. I hope that could change in time, but for now I am content to recommend these companies to you with no expectation of anything in return from them.
No matter what you decide to do, whether training at a gym or training at home, no strength enthusiast should be without a good strength publication. Presently, Milo is at the top of my list. This is a publication that harkens back to the days of Muscle. This is a no-hype journal that really gets down to the basics of strength. Give it a try.
A Word About Comments and Contacts
Please keep your comments and email clean. I reserve the right to publish any and all emails and comments that come through this web site. This is my blog. I run it as I see fit. Any comments or emails from this web site, which are about this web site, can and more than likely will end up on this web site, unless I decide otherwise. So, commenting here or contacting me with business related to this web site has a chance to make you look foolish or look like a prince depending on how you choose to express yourself. I alone make the decision about what to publish. So, just remember that when you contact me from this web site via a comment or email, keep it clean and keep it professional.
A Word About Web Sites and Display Settings
Web sites are increasingly complex and usually require some minimal display settings in order that the visitor will get to see the web site in the way the web designers have intended.
If, for example, your display settings have your color settings set to 16 Bit, then you can expect the web site to display rather poorly, with colors being rendered to basic hues, or in some cases not rendered at all. At 16 bit, images will look grainy and the web site will just look poor in general.
To ensure that this web site (and all other web sites) displays as intended, I would strongly suggest that:
- You have your color settings set to the highest setting your graphic display card will allow.
- Your resolution settings should be set at 1024×768 or higher.
PC users can view and change their display settings by visiting this link.
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Interesting Browser Display Statistics
What is the trend in browser usage, display colors and
screen resolution?
Web Statistics and Trends
Statistics are important information. What you can read from the statistics
below is that most users are
using a display with 1024×768
pixels or more, with a color depth of at least 65K colors.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies.
This fact indicates that the figures below might not be 100% realistic.
The average user might have display screens with a lower resolution.
Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools’ log-files over five years, clearly shows the long
and medium-term trends.
Display Resolution
The current trend is that more and more computers are using a screen size of
1024×768 pixels or more:
| Date | Higher | 1024×768 | 800×600 | 640×480 | Unknown |
| January 2008 | 38% | 48% | 8% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2007 | 26% | 54% | 14% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2006 | 17% | 57% | 20% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2005 | 12% | 53% | 30% | 0% | 5% |
| January 2004 | 10% | 47% | 37% | 1% | 5% |
| January 2003 | 6% | 40% | 47% | 2% | 5% |
| January 2002 | 6% | 34% | 52% | 3% | 5% |
| January 2001 | 5% | 29% | 55% | 6% | 5% |
| January 2000 | 4% | 25% | 56% | 11% | 4% |
Color Depth
The current trend is that most computers use 24 or 32 bits hardware to
display 16,777,216 different colors.
Older computers and laptops often use 16 bits display hardware. This gives a maximum of 65,536 different colors.
Handheld computers (and very old computers) often use 8 bits color
hardware. This gives a maximum of 256 colors.
| Date | 16,777,216 | 65,536 | 256 |
| January 2008 | 90% | 8% | 2% |
| January 2007 | 86% | 11% | 2% |
| January 2006 | 81% | 16% | 3% |
| January 2005 | 72% | 25% | 3% |
| January 2004 | 65% | 31% | 4% |
| January 2003 | 51% | 44% | 5% |
| January 2002 | 43% | 50% | 7% |
| January 2001 | 37% | 55% | 8% |
| January 2000 | 34% | 54% | 12% |
Thanks for reading.
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