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A Gym Killer’s Basic Standard Vocabulary

Published

7 years ago

November 3, 2017

If you are an experienced gym killer, with years pressing your brains out in several different gyms across nation or globe, you are probably checked out on this introductory guide to gym vocabulary. That is not to say there isn’t something useful for you in this section, especially in respect to getting a full Nutritional Diversity experience.

However if new to the gym or the idea of ‘gym killing,’ and likely lack in some of the terminology, basic principles and gym lingo it would be good to give this a once over, before reading advanced gym instructional material.

A ‘Gym Killer‘ in modern day gym lingo is defined generally as someone who does their thing, hard, in the gym. I have a more specific definition. Optimal fitness ability balanced through the categories of strength, stamina, dexterity, mental, and flexibility.

Gym Vocabulary

Here are some of terms, you are likely to hear bouncing around the weight room floor.

Set = One repetitive set of dedicated exercise repetitions of the same form and type. For Example : I am doing three sets with 30 second rest breaks in between of 10 repetitions (or reps) on flat bench using 225lbs.

Rep = One repetition of any given exercise, usually within a set of repetitions or reps. For Example : Today I think you should do less reps and heavier weight in your sets and build a good layer of muscle back up it looks like. ‘High rep’ usually indicates less weight, and more reps. Ten reps has been gym set standard workout weight, for safe but hard resistance’ and 5 rep weight is ‘low rep’ muscle tearing / building weight, that you need to work up to starting with your warm up.

Pyramids = Going from high rep to low rep heavier weight, back to high rep lighter weight. This is an excellent strength and muscle building technique most would still consider a basic principle yet yields heavy results in practice. For Example: Most people do three sets as a minimum of a particular workout, they will do a lighter high rep set first then up the weight, then go for gold on the third with their heavy lower rep set. Pyramids are simply stepping it back down with two or three more sets. My pyramids in the gym are super set pyramids, with 6 steps up and six steps down, because I feel the extra steps, really fill in the spectrum of strength and support in a fuller more capable manner in the end.

Super Set = Working different muscle groups quickly one after the other, such as chest and thighs, one resting while the other working, usually with less rest in between sets. Most of the year all my gym sessions are super setting the whole time. Super setting means to do a set of one muscle group immediately followed by another. Super Setting is a mega throttle programing mode, that I take to a whole new level, but studies have shown for years that using this training method of using different muscle groups, the body can carry a higher endorphin level as more of a constant, throughout the session. With super setting especially incorporating a serious breathing mantra, and four or five muscle groups, into my rhythm.

Just drawing out my pyramids with more sets and doing complex super-setting, after the right kind of gym warm up, is enough to multiply my results that a traditional 3 set routine would do for me. Some of my best days are the ones where I have some extra time and show up at 5 am where I own the gym, and can do plenty of super setting using multiple pieces of equipment.

Burn Outs = Burnouts are when right after doing a set, the gym practitioner drops the weight does another set, drops the weight, and does another and so on until the muscle is burned out and can do no more. Calisthenic burnouts are popular where immediately following the set the calisthenic exercise for that muscle group would be rep-ed out until muscle failure. For Example : After his bench set he dropped and did x#of push-ups till burn out, or with dumbbell curls did 4 reps her hand with 60 lbs, 4 more with 40 pound dumbbells immediately after, and as many as can be done with 30 lbs until muscle failure. Burnouts are usually not performed more than once a week and many plans I see call for them once every5-6weeks.

Multi-set =Multi set is working the same muscle group, with little to no rest, doing different exercises one after the other in one set. For Example: I am going to do ten reps of inclined dumbbell bench immediately followed by ten reps of declined bench nautilus machine, immediately followed by ten cable fly’s in an insane chest multiset.

Max = This is the maximum weight that you can use doing one rep. This requires a serious warm up to prevent injury. For Example : Whats your max on squats? For me right now it’s 540lbs on a standing free weight squat, that is the maximum I will use at this time.

Super Groove, or Zone : A state of being where top performance is what is happening. For Example : “That guy is in his groove, he is in his zone, he is killing it.”

Maxing and Burnouts are usually performed once every 6 weeks, to break plateaus, and shock the weight trained and conditioned muscle to become even stronger.

Fasting = not eating.

Week Off = Just as important as week on or weeks on are, a week off is very important. Most pro athletes and trainers consider a full rest and recovery, a two week off period.

Peak Week = Depending on athletic game rhythm, such as a football games schedule, or a boxers fight night, a soldier’s recon missions and down-times rest and training overall, wants to orient in support of the most powerful possible performance at game time or peak week. Navy Seals train to stay up moving and fighting for a week at a time, where as a boxer twelve rounds, a foot ball player a few hours in their day but that day comes once a week, etc.

PR = Personal Record

PRT (Military) = Personal Training Requirements

PT (Military) = Physical Training

Abstract

The Great Escape: From Control Freaks to Wild Freedom – Why Now Is the Time to Reclaim Nature

Published

11 hours ago

April 16, 2025

Brandon Angel

In a world overrun by power-hungry governance, psychological manipulation, and the slow suffocation of true freedom, a rising number of us are feeling the pull.

The pull to break free.
To step outside the matrix.
To return to what’s real.

We’ve been governed by control freaks — suited tyrants and tech overlords masquerading as “leaders” and “innovators.” But their true obsession is not progress. It’s power. They build systems designed not to empower us, but to extract from us — our time, energy, attention, and even biology. The deeper you look, the more you realize: the system is the sickness.

But here’s the plot twist they didn’t count on:

Technology has evolved enough to set us free — not trap us.

We now have the tools to build a parallel way of life — one that merges ancient wisdom with modern tools. Solar power, water purification, mesh networks, permaculture systems, self-sufficient homesteads, portable communication, decentralized currencies. The same tools once designed to enslave us? We can now flip them — and build the future with them.

We are the first generation in history with the option to live as digitally connected, biologically sovereign, ecologically embedded free people.

Why the Shift Is Urgent

Governments are not governing anymore — they’re managing populations like products.
Big Tech isn’t innovating for humanity — it’s engineering obedience through algorithmic control.
Modern life isn’t thriving — it’s performing survival in a synthetic box.

The air is polluted.
The food is sterile.
The minds are fogged.
The hearts are closed.

And yet, a vital instinct is awakening.

Something in our DNA is remembering. The jungle. The stars. The soil under our feet. The clean water. The tribe. The honest work. The joy of living by rhythm, not by rush.

This Is Not a Rejection of Tech — It’s an Evolution

Let’s be clear: this is not about running away barefoot into the forest and giving up everything.
It’s about reclaiming power and re-designing life from the ground up.

Growing real food.
Building intentional communities.
Filtering water. Harvesting sun.
Running clean energy. Running businesses from the jungle.
Educating kids in ways that feed the soul.
Using technology on our terms — not as masters, but as tools.

This is about becoming wildly functional again — as individuals, as families, as ecosystems.

The Smart Money Is on Nature

While governments collapse under their own lies and corporations cannibalize themselves in greed, the smartest move of the decade is this:

Invest in land. Invest in health. Invest in community. Invest in freedom.

The nature-backed life isn’t a step backwards — it’s a giant leap forward for human sanity.

The future belongs to the resilient, the rooted, the regenerative.

To those who’ve remembered what it means to be human.

This Is the Call

To all the visionaries.
To the misfits who never fit in their cubicles.
To the healers, the warriors, the planters, and the protectors…

It’s time.

Time to take the blueprint of the old world, set it on fire, and plant something better.

Let the control freaks have their illusions.
We’ll be in the wild — thriving, building, growing, free.

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LETS DO SOME CRAZY TALK!

Published

2 months ago

February 25, 2025

Brandon Angel

Subject: Podcast

Dear PODCAST,

I hope this message finds you well. My name is Brandon Angel, and I’m reaching out because I believe your audience would benefit tremendously from hearing the real truth about nutrition—the truth that mainstream health industries don’t want people to know.

For years, we’ve been fed incomplete, one-dimensional diets that keep people weak, sick, and dependent. I’ve spent a decade deep in the jungles of Central and South America, studying ancient nutrition, biological optimization, and the true power of Nutritional Diversity. What I uncovered has the potential to revolutionize health, performance, and human resilience.

Why This Interview Will Resonate With Your Audience:

The Food War is Real: How modern diets, processed foods, and corporate agendas have systematically stripped people of their biological power.
Nutritional Diversity – The Missing Link: Why a highly diverse, unprocessed diet outperforms every mainstream trend (vegan, carnivore, keto, etc.) in energy, cognition, and longevity.
The Microbiome = Human Potential: How gut health, plant and animal diversity, and regenerative farming can restore strength, mental clarity, and instinct in ways modern medicine never will.
My Story – A War Against the System: From escaping false charges to living in the jungle to uncovering the ultimate nutrition strategy—this is not just another health podcast episode.
The Movement Has Started: Nutritional Diversity is gaining momentum, and we’re calling on pioneers in health, fitness, and self-optimization to join the mission.
A Personal Story of Discovery and Loss: I arrived in Panama, intending to visit my uncle, only to find myself instead claiming his remains. As I searched for answers about his life, I uncovered not just his story but an entire hidden world of knowledge that was slipping away. That journey of grief, revelation, and discovery led me to a truth so profound that it changed everything I thought I knew about health and survival. His murder, and those of several other Americans, were later investigated in a Dateline special and covered in bestselling books, exposing a shocking web of crime that many had tried to keep buried.

Why This Moment Matters – The Pivotal Shift We All Need

We are standing at a critical turning point—a moment where humanity must reclaim its strength, intelligence, and resilience. The modern food system is broken, and its impact is undeniable. But we don’t have to stay trapped in it.

Nutritional Diversity is the revolution we need. It’s not just about food—it’s about breaking free from a system designed to weaken us and returning to a way of eating that unlocks true human potential.

This isn’t just another health trend. This is the key to mental clarity, physical dominance, and longevity—the missing piece in performance, recovery, and disease prevention. The solution has been right in front of us all along, and now, it’s time to take it back.

I’d love the opportunity to dive deep on your podcast and deliver a raw, high-impact conversation that your listeners won’t forget. If this aligns with your mission and audience, let’s lock in a date and make it happen.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Best,
Brandon Angel
Founder, Nutritional Diversity Sciences

Your Websites: NutritionalDiversity.com, BrandonAngelFitness.com

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Abstract

“Who controls the food supply…” Take the Power Back!!

Published

2 months ago

February 24, 2025

Brandon Angel

“Who controls the food supply controls the people.” – Henry Kissinger [i]

Imagine If 20% of the Population Took Action Today: A Vision for Nutritional Diversity and Land Restoration

A Future Shaped by Small Alternative Agricultures

Imagine if, starting today, one in five people took up the challenge of cultivating small-scale alternative agriculture—permaculture food forests, regenerative farms, nutrient-dense wild plots, and biodiverse gardens—all designed to support the Nutritional Diversity Diet.

Where would we be in five, ten, or twenty years?

Five Years: The Awakening of the Land

Millions of small plots, backyards, and vacant lands transformed into living, breathing ecosystems.
Urban and rural landscapes are interwoven with perennial food systems, soil-building crops, and high-density nutrition.
Local communities regaining food sovereignty, free from chemical-dependent supply chains.
A new generation of eco-entrepreneurs emerges, pioneering micro-farms that thrive on biodiversity, not monoculture.

Ten Years: The Turning Point

Soil once depleted by industrial agriculture now teeming with life, enriched by microbial diversity.
A shift in global nutrition: Gut health improves, disease rates drop, and food security becomes decentralized.
Rivers and oceans heal as synthetic fertilizers and agricultural runoff disappear.
AI-driven ecological monitoring and drone-assisted reforestation bring back lost biodiversity.
Carbon sequestration skyrockets as trees, fungi, and regenerative landscapes capture atmospheric carbon at scale.

Twenty Years: A Thriving Regenerative Civilization

Industrial farming is replaced by hyper-diverse, closed-loop food systems.
A self-sustaining, nutritionally complete ecosystem supports human health and planetary stability.
No longer a “niche practice,” biodiverse agriculture becomes the foundation of global food production.
The climate stabilizes, deserts are reclaimed, and the world breathes in balance with nature.
Humanity lives longer, stronger, and more harmoniously, nourished by food systems that heal instead of harm.

Call to Action: The Time Is Now

This is not a distant dream—it is a blueprint for action. With the right support, incentives, and knowledge-sharing networks, we can make this vision a reality.

We propose the Nutritional Diversity Ecological Enhancement Initiative, a scalable, measurable, and globally replicable system to:
Provide tools, education, and guidance to small-scale land stewards.
Establish financial and technological support for high-diversity micro-farms.
Integrate AI, drone technology, and microbial soil innovations for rapid ecosystem regeneration.
Create global food security by focusing on nutrient density over yield quantity.
Develop decentralized marketplaces, ensuring farmers thrive economically while enhancing ecosystems.

We invite partners, visionaries, and world leaders to be part of this movement—to fund, support, and ignite a regenerative revolution.

The first seeds of change are ready to be planted. Will you be among the first to grow the future?

What Happens When We Take Action?

When 20% of the population actively participates in alternative agriculture and land regeneration, we initiate a chain reaction—one that transforms food systems, ecosystems, human health, and even the global economy.

Phase 1: The Shift Begins (Years 1-5)

People reclaim land—from vacant lots to degraded soil, rooftops to backyards—turning them into diverse, regenerative food systems.
Microbial restoration kicks in as synthetic inputs are abandoned in favor of probiotic soil amendments, composting, and mycoremediation.
Communities reconnect through local food exchanges, cooperative farming models, and educational hubs that teach Nutritional Diversity principles.
Corporate agriculture feels the shift—as millions of people begin sourcing food from local, nutrient-dense, chemical-free alternatives.
Consumer health improves as gut microbiomes are restored, chronic disease rates decline, and processed food dependency weakens.

Phase 2: The Turning Point (Years 5-10)

A new agricultural economy emerges, where small-scale, biodiverse farms outperform industrial monocultures in nutrition, sustainability, and resilience.
Desertified lands begin to heal, carbon is pulled from the atmosphere, and regenerative land practices stabilize microclimates.
Big agriculture is forced to adapt—industries pivot to regenerative practices or face extinction as decentralized food systems thrive.
Nutritional intelligence spreads, with functional medicine and whole-food-based nutrition becoming the global standard.
Biodiversity explodes—pollinators, wildlife, and native plants return, forming self-sustaining ecosystems within human environments.

Phase 3: A Regenerative Future (Years 10-20)

Human health reaches a new peak, with stronger immune systems, fewer metabolic diseases, and a lifespan extended by decades through nutrient-rich diets.
The climate crisis reverses itself, as forests, soil, and mycorrhizal networks become major carbon sinks, cooling the planet naturally.
Oceans heal, as agricultural runoff ceases, marine food chains restore, and dead zones shrink.
New economic powerhouses emerge, built on regenerative production, decentralized supply chains, and abundance-based commerce.
Governments and corporations embrace the movement, integrating nutritional diversity farming and ecosystem repair into global policy.

The Inevitable Future—If We Act Now

This isn’t speculation—this will happen if enough people take action. The first adopters set the stage, and as results multiply, the movement scales exponentially.

The Nutritional Diversity Ecological Enhancement Initiative is designed to facilitate, accelerate, and scale this transformation.

We have the tools. We have the knowledge. We have the opportunity.