In search for caffeine

So I forgot my caffeine pill before gym...

With life going on around me I can't really schedule my gym sessions in advance. Today I went there without having breakfast. That meant I needed to find some source of energy. 

My go-to supplement is caffeine pills and in the rush to get to the gym and have time to perform a solid workout I left home without taking any.
Damn! I entered the gym and went straight to the desk where the staff were. 
"- Do you have anything with caffeine in it? Lots of it?!"

I felt like an alcoholic walking into the bar where he is a regular and just straightforward say: 
"- Hit me!" and the bartender would pour a shot straight away.

So the girl at the desk seemed a bit confused by the situation. But she recommended some pre-workout shot that they had on the counter right beside me. 
It had caffeine, the same amount that my pills have. It also contained beta-alanin and L-arginin plus some vitamins. It was like orange juice basically.

There was a long time ago since I had any pre-workout with beta-alanin and those products are not on the market anymore. Everything that was good back in the day has been banned out and replaced by new formulas. 
I remembered the old ones and remembered the itches that beta-alanin gave me. I did have a totally empty stomach which made me a bit hesitant. "This might hit me hard"

So I drank the shot and went to the dressing room. 

I started working out. Waiting for the effect to start.

I kept on working out for quite some time since I was expecting the shot to hit me after a while. Most pre-workout products are recommended to be had about 30 minutes before the workout session. 

I never felt any itching. Like at all. 

Considering the empty stomach I was expecting a lot more from the supplement. Now basically I just paid 100 times the price of my caffeine pill for the same effect. 

The workout session itself

I went in with a great feeling, even though lacking energy to begin with. I was at the gym, the weights were in front of me just waiting to be picked up. 

I went for some shoulders, chest, triceps and biceps exercises today. I have been doing a lot of active stuff the last couple of days, like building a damn roof. So I felt that my back had been active lifting wodden boards and shit. 

For the shoulders I did the dumbbell raises (the exercises can be found in the "Gym Exercises" page under the banner at the top of the blog.) I did some military presses with a barbell as well. I used a rope in the cable-cross for some "face pulls" to round off the shoulder exercises.

When it comes to the chest I did some incline presses in a machine that I loaded weight plates. In the cable-cross I did some "cable standing flys" as well. 

Triceps were pushdowns with a bar and pulldowns with a rope. The biceps were barbells and dumbbells that I did in between the other exercises. 

During the entire session I had a high tempo between exercises which kept my puls up and gave me some free cardiovascular exercise I suppose. 

When going to the gym alone it is hard not to switch too fast between the exercises since you don't get that natural rest from watching your friend performing his sets. 

Street Fighter V problems continues

CapCom still haven't gotten their shit together

The list of problems with the release of Street Fighter V continues to grow. They released a game that everyone agreed was not a finished game.
Okay, we have moved past that fact now. Because they had the online mode activated. That was it though, basically what you could do. Single player mode is there by name but really lacking content.

Now that game mode is having issues. Sometimes you can sit and que for hours waiting to get a fight. Then it can be over in 2 minutes and you have to cue up all over again..

Thankfully the 1v1 works when sitting next to a friend in the sofa. 

How deep is the pool of available fighters? From the beginning there was really not that many released. They fixed that, by selling new characters to the players. They announced that you can grind "fight money" to purchase the new characters, but there are still no news on how much it will cost and how long time that might take.

Does it sound like it is a finished game CapCom?

The genre of beat em up used to be easy. You bought a game and all the content where there. All the characters were available. Some would unlock after you beat a boss in single player etc. 
But you never had to pay extra to get the full fucking game!

The Fit Gamer Podcast Episode 29

Ep 29 is out now! A short episode of the Fit Gamer Podcast

On this episode Bas and Roman are short on time. But they did have time to discuss some intresting stuff for you boys and girls.
This past week there has been a lot of "leaked photos" of the new Nintendo console. It turns out they were fake! Other consoles that has been topic of discussion is the PlayStation 4 and the question whether or not a PlayStation 4.5 is going to be released.

Microsoft released an AI chat bot called Tay. It was deleted however, after becoming a pro-Hitler voice on the Internet.

Classical game series go early access. This trend is spreading like wildfire, like herpes on a college campus or religion in ancient Rome.
And there would not be an episode without complaining about CapCom!

You can listen to the episode in the player below of via the Stitcher banner. It can also be found on iTunes, aCast and similar apps.

Enjoy!

Ep 28 of The Fit Gamer Podcast

Latest ep of The Fit Gamer Podcast

During this episode Bas and Roman goes ham on a lot of gaming related topics. We discuss the latest big indie game The Culling, The Division and a lot of other news about gaming. 

There is some big news regarding Sony and their PlayStation 4. Is PlayStation 4.5 becoming a real thing? Are we soon able to play our PlayStation 4 games with a mouse and a keyboard? 

Is that really fair?

You can listen to the episode in the player below, or on Stitcher via the banner below. Of course you can find it on iTunes, aCast and places alike as usual. 

Enjoy the episode!

Special ep about VR in The Fit Gamer Podcast

Virtual Reality being discussed on The Fit Gamer Podcast

We start out talking mostly about the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge phone that comes with Gear VR. Bas had bought it and tested it for more than a week now. Hear what he has to say!

On the subject of VR we continued to mention the AMD SulonQ that has been announced. And of course we could not get around the fact that Sony has announced a price for their VR and also the release date.

The news about this whole Virtual Reality thing moves really fast and it is hard to catch up before everything changes again.

You can listen to the episode in the player below or via the Stitcher banner. It can also be found on the regular places like iTunes, aCast and other places where podcasts are found!

Enjoy!

AMD enters the race for VR

AMD SulonQ is scheduled for release this summer

The SulonQ states that it is aiming to help us avoid embarrasing situations such as falling on our asses. Their VR will be cordless! Sounds great, right? 

They announce that they will have a resolution of 2560x1440. And that would be better than the competition the Vive and the Rift. Otherwise the speccs looked similar.

The thing that seperates this VR from the rest is the fact that there will be a small PC strapped on the back of your head. 
This raises a big question. When using the Vive or the Rift, when you need better speccs you just upgrade your PC. What happen when you need to upgrade your SulonQ? Can you purchase a 2.0 version of the small PC connected to the headset?

Much info is yet to be released. But we do like competition. The more actors in the market, the higher chance that we, the consumers, get better deals from each company.

One question that pops up in my head is regarding the battery. How long will this cordless baby be able to run before you need to recharge it? Or is there a way to charge it while using it? Even though you might fall on your ass while doing that due to the cord.

Sony VR has gotten a price

399$ Play Station VR release in October

In Europe however we will have to pay 399€ (euros) which is more. I am not familiar with the third currence that was displayed on their conference. However, the fact that the price is announced and that it was about the same as the price for a Play Station 4 system is good news. 
If anything, the risk was that the price would have been higher. 

There are however some things that we need to consider. There are no controllers included in the price as far as I understand. And the Play Station camera is not included either, and you will need the camera to use VR.

The speccs are shown in the image below.

The speccs will not be as powerful as Vive and Rift. We all knew that from the beginning so we can't attack Sony for that right now. 

There are upsides of the Play Station system though. The price is a lot less than the competition even if you don't own a PS4 system already. And there has been a lot of talk about the number of games being released for the PS4 VR.
Sony have promised that 50 titles will be released from October until the end of the year.
And Starwars Battlefront will be released as PS4 VR exclusive. 

And the competition grows now after the announcement that AMD will be involved in one VR product called "Sulon".

As a consumer, we will probably gain a lot better products and at better prices due to all of this competition. Let's just hope that the products don't get worse because it tries to be compatible with too many different VR systems.

Personally I am glad about the price on the PS4 VR because I will probably go for a PS4 soon. That way I figure that I can enjoy VR at a reasonable price later on.

When it comes to the news about the Star Wars Battlefront though I was a bit skeptic. The article I read stated that it was not decided whether the VR release and the normal release would be different or the same. 
Honestly?
How would it be possible to release two similar games, where one is competing on the normal market with the sick demands of graphics etc and the other one will be first generation of VR?!

The graphics on the first generation of VR will not come close to the insane versions of normal video games there is out there. So I believe that either the game will simply be supported by VR in the sense that you can watch the game in your headset and enjoy a big ass screen or that they will cut back on the graphics a great deal for a full VR release.

Is it really the first AAA title that was announced for VR though? Tekken 7 was said to come with VR support. And we all assumed that it would not be a VR game, just that you can use the headset to watch the game through. 
But now I wonder. Are they so confident in their abilities to create good games for VR already? Will both Star Wars Battlefront and Tekken 7 be in full VR?
A beat em up in VR?

It is most likely just going to be about using the headset as monitor.