Twitter should have a sign saying spoiler alert

Twitter will spoil any event you don't watch live

I realized last night that Twitter is great at spreading news. However, the times you want to avoid certain results from matches or fights - you better stay away from Twitter!

It is not as easy as it sounds. By default you open the app on your phone just like you always do. And it is always too late before you realize your mistake.

And even though you don't follow people from that certain sport. There are always someone watching the match/fight that is  eager to tell the world about their experience. It could be someone that is usually posting great work out tips and all of a sudden he/she is watching an exciting football match and tweets about the standings.

Sweden is ahead against denmark

Sweden ahead

But statistics say that the advantage is less than one percent. When the score is 1-2 the chance for the away team to win is somewhere between 50% and 51%. 

And the way the last 25 minutes looked. I'd say Sweden will have a hard time winning it. 

It most likely comes down to two things. Sweden can't afford to make mistakes like we saw in the defence during the last game. And Sweden will probably have to score. 

If Denmark win with 1-0 they will win the spot in Euro2016. And I don't believe Sweden will manage a clean sheet.

If Sweden qualifies, it will be by 1-1 in the game on tuesday. Remember where you read it first!

The Fit Gamer Podcast Episode 13!

The Fit Gamer Podcast Episode 13!

We are back. A new episode with a lot of talk on new games. Big releases like Football Manager 2016, Fallout 4 and The Binding of Isaac - Afterbirth. 

Also some fun moments like when I was trying to stream the horror game The Forest.

You can listen to the episode in the player above. The episode will also be available on iTunes, aCast and Stitcher among other places.
You can listen to Stitcher using the link below.

Womens workouts shouldn't differ from mens?

Are women an alien specie

Why wouldn't their bodies respond to training in the same way?

Nowadays you can see women in the gym doing proper workouts. Going back a while the health tips women got from magazines (and still is?) were not at all what men is instructed to do. What kind of exercises to choose etc.

Women do not have the same genetics when it comes to growing muscle. That is a known fact that is hard to argue against. But women do live lives where they need strength. So then they need to grow muscles. 

For a looong time men has been chasing heavier and heavier weights in order to grow muscles and become stronger. Muscles grow when they are lifting weights. Basically you cause minor damage to muscle fibres that after the work out starts to heal. When they have healed the muscle grows stronger. Very simply put. 

Since men live after that fact and has been doing it for a long time. Why do society keep giving women advices to do something completely different? 

Not to risk injury?

Women should work out and build strength just to avoid getting injured in everyday life. The biological way our body builds muscle is the same for men and women. So why not do the same exercises but not as heavy as the men. But still challenging your body to grow muscle?

Don't think I am being sexist when it comes to what kind of career women/men chooses. There are a lot of women working with the things I mention below. And when it comes to the men having the same career, as I mentioned above. They are often doing proper exercises already.

Going to endure a pregnancy? That can be tough on your body. Especially your back from carrying all that weight. 

Working with kids? Nursing elder people? As a vet nursing animals? In any way working with helping people with physical problems which means they need help from you to move properly?
Working with humans or animals is always taking a risk. They have a mind of their own and can all of a sudden shift their weights without you being prepared for it. Construction workers do heavy lifting but it is dead things that they balance with total control.

Lets make an example.

A)
You are working in a warehouse lifting heavy boxes regurarely. That is definitely heavy work that will put your body under stress. But the boxes are dead things and the way you handle them, that is the way they will behave. 

B)
You are working with something that is alive. Perhaps you will help an elder person to stand up from a sofa. It is weight on your back and you are bending your body to help the person in the best possible way. 
In the middle of this lifting movement, the person decides that he/she wants to sit back down and all of a sudden sits down into the sofa again. 
You are not prepared for this and all of a sudden your body is trying to carry ALL of this persons weight. 
This is a real danger for your body, your back in particular. 

This is not something that is rare. People who have worked with anything alive like this knows it for a fact. You have to be prepared for things like this and even though you are prepared for it - your body might not be able to cope with it. Especially not over the course of many years.

Just by walking around in this world, as the years pass. Your back is aging, your entire body is aging. We grow more fragile with time. That is the way our body works. 

As a kid our bones are more or less like rubber. They can bend without breaking. As we grow older our bones will be a lot more fragile and will not tolerate bending or twisting.

Our back is an amazing thing. All those nerves that goes through it. And the discs in the back are fantastic to allow our back to give us the mobility in almost any direction. 

These discs are however fragile. You might even have damages on discs without knowing it. If they are not broken in a spot where they affect the nerves or other important pressure points on the discs - we just walk around thinking it is normal aging. And it might even be considered to be just that. 

Anyway, back to the discussion regarding the gym. To perform a work out for your mid section on a regular basis is a good investment. You are making the muscles stronger and allows them to support your spine better. 
Take your shoulders for example, just to make it clear that it is not just the back I am talking about. The deltoids (muscles on your shoulders) are covering the shoulder where the arm is attached to your body in a cup. They are providing stability and protects the shoulder from dislocating. 

Muscles are working wonders to support our different skeletal parts.

Women
Not that I want to generalize too much. Don't take this in the wrong way, have a sense of humor when it comes to the gender generalisations that we have.

Men are often considered gentlemen when they are doing the heavy lifting. But at the same time, it gives them the advantage of growing stronger. While the females are not getting the same training for their bodies. That way, if a situation would appear where the female is the subject of a heavy weight unexpectedly, her body is not as prepared for it.

Hitting the gym When going to the gym for the first time. Or actually the first months. Make sure you are careful. Allow your body to get used to all new movements with weights that you make it endure.
The same goes for men, of course. No point in telling them though. They will never listen. 
Women tend to understand the need for caution on another level.
Women more often than men, have the courage to say "This is enough, I need to listen to my body and lower the weights to avoid injury". Where as the men in many cases puts on a brave face to gain approval of his friends. 
I am not saying some men are dumb. I am saying, I was like that too. It is almost as if it is in our genes, and it almost is. The testosterone! 
It was more important to increase the weights than being careful and avoid injuries. 

Think of your body as a sculpture
Bodybuilders ain't aliens. They are humans like anyone of us. And not everyone has used steroids. Honestly, most people don't want the look of those belgian blues that are on stage in a small thong. 

Anyway, they talk about their body in a way that we can learn from. Sometimes they refer to their bodies as sculptures. They stand in front of a mirror and say, "I would like to change that exact spot on my arm". Then they can go into the gym, adjust their work out and then get the result they wanted.

The normal person won't have the same goal for perfection. It is not the way your biceps are shaped that you will be going for. But maybe you do have some particular body part that you are more intrested in shaping in a certain way.

Lets take jeans for an example. Many women can say stuff like they wish their ass looked better in a tight pair of jeans. Hey girls! Go to the gym and work that ass! 
Like the body builders goes for trimming on a detail level, like the young guys are obsessed with their peccs - you can perform a work out that focuses on the ass.

The best way I suppose would be to go to the staff at the local gym or if they have personal trainers employed. There are loads of female personal trainers now as well, if that would make it easier for you to speak more openly about what you want to achieve. 

The staff can show you which machines/exercises that target the specific area that you want to improve the most.
So you can do overall workout throughout the week but focusing a few extra exercises on that particular area. There is a reason that the exercises hitting the chest is always occupied by teenage boys! Most of them focus that and spend a lot of time doing those exercises.

If you don't want to go talk to someone or consider it to be expensive with a personal trainer. Check out the Internet. There are a lot of people doing blogs or websites that might have the appearence you are looking for and share his/hers work out tips. 

If you are looking for exercises that hits the different areas of the body you can click HERE to check out the part of my blog where I have gathered a lot of exercises all divided by what areas of the body they are targeting. 
There are videos of them, showing how they are performed as well.

You can tweet me @podcasterroman or leave a comment to this post. I could do a general post regarding a specific area of the body or you could leave me an emailaddress where I can reach you. 
(When you leave a comment it won't get published until I approve it, so if you want me to send you an email with a reply I will not post your comment revealing your email address.)

Come to think about it. I think I might start to write a few posts regarding the most popular areas that people are intrested. 

Great idea Roman. 

*Pats myself on the back*

So this post has been a lot or rambling about different things. I believe that I got my message through though. I am not linking to special sources etc. This is not supposed to be a book with laws to follow. Simply open your eyes. There are reasons for exercise. It is not impossible to achieve things.

Don't be afraid to go to the gym and get some real weight training done. Nowadays there are a lot of girls in the gyms. Even though most of them still goes to these classes where there is a trainer running the show. 
That might be the way to go for you. There are some of those that provides you with great training for your entire body. Just don't stare blindly at it and go do some regular weight lifting as well.

Your body is capable of that sculpturing, all it takes is some knowledge. 

Football Manager 2016 First Impression

First Impressions of Football Manager 2016

To understand my mindset coming into this game. You might want to know that I have been playing this game series since 2000 and getting a copy of the game each year. The previous one, I played 716 hours. So no matter what, I will always recommend this game to people that are into the world of soccer and are more intrested in the tactical approach rather than playing with a controller and your skill determines whether or not you win. 

Sure, I played a lot of Fifa growing up but I got tired of being able to beat the best teams in the world with some lower league crappy side just because I was good with a controller. The lack or realism bothered me way too much.

So this is a post where I will mention some of the new features in the game. I am not talking about the stuff that was in there from previous versions. I will say this though, the content from previous versions are world class!

There are no other game in the world with the same replay value like this has. You can choose from thousands of teams from all over the world. One "save" will not be like the other.

I love Football Manager!

I have been waiting for this for a long time. And I even got to wait two weeks extra due to a misunderstanding when I placed my order for the game. I actually thought I would get to play the beta like I have been able to do in the previous games.
Now I ordered it in the exact same way but this time the beta was to the digital versions only. 

Enough about that. Now I do have the game! 

I opened up the package and inside above the CD were the code. The Steam activation code. In capital letters and numbers.
When typing it into my Steam client I just typed in small letters to make it as fast as possible. But after finishing the code I felt a bit sad. 
It felt wrong. This was a big moment, installing the new Football Manager. The 16th version of the game that I am installing. So I used backspace to delete the code that I had entered and started over. 
This time using Caps Lock! To get that fantastic feeling from growing up installing video games the code has to use capital letters! 

Starting the game
One of the things I was most curious about was the feature that allow the players to create their own clubs. I figured that you would start at the lowest possible league with nothing and then start building a club. 
I was wrong, very wrong. You get to choose a club, any club, and then rename it to whatever name you would like. 

You get to keep the squad as well. This works a lot like the editors back in the days of Championship Manager 01/02. You can add any player to your team. And you can remove players from your squad that  you don't want. 

You can also add two players that you create. And as far as I know, you can create a 14 year old with max stats in everything that can play on any position. I am okay with that. The game has a broader audience nowadays. The people who wants it realistic can just avoid doing that and the ones that want to have a laugh creating themselves as the worlds best footballer gets the chance to do that.

There is one big advantage with this mode implemented into the game. When we approach September of 2016 and the developers are busy with the next game and won't release any patches with new line-ups. We can easily create that updated squad to our favorite team using this mode. This feature allows the game to last longer! It's like viagra for Football Manager!

Steam Cloud is amazing. Now I can play the same save from my laptop and on my gaming computer without any fuzz about having to use dropbox or USB-stick to transfer my saved games. You will have to choose that option when saving your game though. To save it on Steam Cloud. 

Like I said I am using my laptop as well as my gaming computer. On my laptop I am not watching the games with the match engine, just using the commentary option. That is not because it is not working however. I am afraid that there will be delays and lags when I want to pause the game to make a tactical change. 
The game is working really fine on my 4-5 year old laptop actually. I did not think it would. And on my "real" computer it is amazing!

Tactical Screen
This has changed a lot. And it will probably take some time to get used to it and fully take advantage of all the new options that are in there. One comment overall is that it is a lot more graphical which makes it easier to understand what the hell I am adjusting. 

For example when I choose if my defensive line will play low or push up I can see on the pitch where my current setting will have them stand. 
The same with the play width option. Basically everything in the "instructions tab" is graphical and self explainatory now. 

Staff Management
I had never bothered to learn properly how to adjust everything about the staff in the previous FM. Now it is really easy to see the whole picture. You can see how many vacant spots you have for coaches, scouts and doctors. And in the same screen you see which kind of coaches you have as well. If you need a new one, just click a button and an ad will appear in the paper and people will apply for the job. It can't get any easier.

Transfers and Contracts
I haven't played around a lot on the transfer market yet. The contracts however is something I like. You get a lot of extra help during contract signings like if you choose a date for when the contract is due to expire it automatically tells you if it is 11 months, 2 years or 5 years from now. 

When in contract talks with a staff member for example. The game tells me how many spots I have, how many are vacant in that staff role that I am currently trying to sign him for. So that helps me getting the correct number of staff members on every position. And this is not the most fun part of the game so I appreciate any help to make it easier to understand.

Game experience 
At first I tried to create a few clubs to check that feature out a bit. Then I quickly realized however, I am old school. I want to play the normal mode until I get tire from it and then I will play around with the "create a club" mode. 
To pretend to be a manager is often, to try to do better than the current manager does. And since I follow Premier League I just had to start with Chelsea. 

It is a perfect choice since I don't want to use my favorite clubs to learn the game. When I first manage Manchester United for example, I don't want to fail due to mistakes done since I don't understand the game.

I enjoy every minute of the game so far. Finding new stuff constantly. I am not a player who wins the champions league with every team I manage even when starting in lower leagues. 
I am not surfing the Internet for these fantastic wonderkids that will be the best in the world in 3 years. I try to play with realism. However, I am too colored by my in real life intrest in the world of football. I favor certain players even though I really should get rid of them, or not purchase them to my club. 
But having those players in my team is what makes this game experience so great. 

That is my approach to it. Every player has his or her own way of playing and reasons for loving it. Either way, it is hard not to like it if you are into football.

Dead Space

Started to play Dead Space

As usual I found something on the Steam sales. This time it was the Dead Space series. 
I happened to purchase the first Dead Space title for my Play Station 3 a while back. It was on sale and even a used copy, that someone sold back to the store. 

Recently I have listened to a lot of podcasts and when Dead Space 3 comes up in discussion I get the impression that the first two Dead Space are games I really want to play. But that I can skip the third one. 

Anyway, the games were on sale on Steam. Since I have the first one for my Play Station 3 I just bought the second one on Steam. So now I have started to play the first one to complete that story before I go on to play the second one on my computer. 

I believe it will be funny to stream that game! Some scary enviroments for sure! Bound to be some funny scary moments for the viewers!

What do I make of it so far? Is it any good?
Well it has a great atmosphere to it. That is for sure. Being in space on a space station or something where hell has broken loose. 

When walking it sounds like you are wearing one of those metal suits that you would imagine divers used in their first attempts ever to go deep into the ocean in the 17th century. And those damn steps alone is enough to freak you out. Sounds like you are a Transformer trying to sneak silently. Try play the Thief series with a Transformer. That is a good explanation. 
Then when you are stomping around all of a sudden monsters jump down from the roof or out of a wall. Shiet! Ruuun! 

At least I have a gun and some powers. That gives me a chance to survive for a bit longer. Hopefully I can survive long enough to finish the story and then I can go on to the second game in the series.

Racing games affects real life

Our driving is influenced by video games

No I don't mean that people are prone to drive like mad men after playing video games.

I am saying tvat the mechanics in the video games today are so realistic that it helps. Using the correct set of options in some games they become more like racing simulators than just flashy games. 

If you drive in real life and need to take a turn at high speed, having done it in video games gives you an idea on what to do. 

Everyone that have played racing games have been crashing when miscalculating the speed when approaching a turn. 

Doing these mistakes in the video games allows you to test the limits without having to suffer injuries in real life.

Like anything else in life though. You never know how you react in certain situations before you experience them. No matter how much you practice it in a classroom or so, you can never know... But chances are that in the back of your head, your mind makes a connection saying I recognize this situation and is helped by that when making quick decisions.
It could be such a quick process that you are not even aware of it being done.

Sometimes the rules in the traffic says different than your average racing game though. When preparing for a left turn in a game you probably go towards the right side of the road to be able to turn at a higher speed.
In real life that is not quite working since you might fool other people and cause an accident. But I suppose that this example is not viable in terms of comparing driving to video games since it is not the driving but the rules of traffic that it is concerning. 
I did however run into this problem myself when I started to drive. I automatically went a bit to the right when I was going for a left turn. 
There was no need for it, but I had it subconsciously - to make the best turn possible, this is how I do it.

Things like shifting down to get better response in the control over your car is something I have been using a lot over the years when I played video games. I am playing with automatic shifting but when breaking the car automatically gears down and then I can just press the "pedal to the metal" and turn to get a stronger turning motion.

 When going really fast and you are more or less driving on instinct. Your eyes are scanning the enviroment, focusing on any movement or objects that are not suppose to be there. 
I can relate to that. This is the reason why racing games is hard on the eyes. Since you are driving with such speed, you have to focus really hard on the screen to be able to pick up on the details and having the chance to react to them. And watching a screen that intensely is tough.

Driving in the dark when you constantly meet cars from the opposite direction can be tough when you are not used to it. Before your eyes learn how to look not to get too affected by the blinding light. 
It was during one of these drives that the idea to this post struck me. Well that and the fact that I was having a conversation about taking a drivers license. 

So, I figure. Does your kids want to play racing games? Cool. Might be useful. I mean, honestly. Wouldn't you rather have your child play a racing game instead of a game where they are shooting human beings?