First of all, GSR does not believe in the bigger is better concept, well as it pertains to bodies, but not necessarily body appendages. That said, we recommend everyone move away from the super heavy weights and concentrate on your form and higher reps while using way less weight. This will elongate your muscles vs. bulking them out and you'll look more like an athlete rather then some bro driving a monster truck with small-penis syndrome. Remember, what we're trying to accomplish is having a body that resembles someone that surfs, in-proportion, lean, chiseled muscle.

ARMS | Master The Chin up. The chin up is the best arm-building exercise there is, bar none. In fact, chin ups, dips and anything working out the legs benefits all the large muscle groups which stretches out all the muscles for that particular group and burns tons of calories which makes for less body fat and a ripped stomach. And who doesn't like seeing a V-torso along with ripped abs? We suggest 4 sets of chin ups starting with 15 reps and moving down incrementally (i.e. 15-12-10-10). What's that about curls? Curl exercises have their place, but chin ups allow you to lift more weight (think about it: a 40-pound dumbbell vs. your whole body)-and lifting more natural body weight vs. barbell weight is the greatest contributor to lean muscle gains. To build bigger biceps, perform some variation of the chin up at least once per week. You can vary between a forehand or backhand grip, both have different but equal qualities.

TRICEP | Everyone does lying triceps extensions to isolate the tri's, but almost no one gets the full benefit from the exercise. Rather then set up a bar and jimmy your way around under it, utilize the cable machine for triceps. Everything from forward pull-down tri's using an angled downward bar will cut the outside of your tricep. Individual cable pull-backs will focus on the inside of your tricep and the sit down tricep machine works out the tricep overall. Using these 3 exercises will build your triceps to a nice chiseled look and triceps are actually more useful then biceps when it comes to every day usage. Again, start with low weight, 4 sets, 25-20-15-25.

CHEST | Bench Mix-up. When you bench press make sure you utilize all the different bench positions. Each position works out a different part of your chest and be sure to utilize the fly machine with super low weight high reps. This alone will pull apart the chest to lengthen your natural pectoral lines. Most chest exercises emphasize only the concentric contraction of your pecs (when the muscles shorten, as in pushing up in a bench press). But you can achieve greater growth by focusing on the eccentric contraction (the point of a rep in which your muscles lengthen) combined with a powerful concentric action immediately afterward.. Make sure to take a narrow grip (so that your hands are about shoulder-width apart) and pull your elbows in close to your sides-as opposed to letting them point straight out away from your body. Keeping this tighter position will allow your triceps to take on more of the load, and that emphasis will make them grow. You'll also be in a biomechanically stronger position, which means you can lift your weight with more reps. We suggest 4 sets with reps 20-15-12-20, decrease your last set to the beginning weight to maximize your muscle burn in the end. You can also mix up chest day using the power pushup. Here again you're using your own body weight to lift off the ground giving you more of an athletic build vs. steroid monster bulk.

ABS | Everyday. No weights and all different kinds of bench positions and crunches that you can think of work best. The object is not to 'build' the ab muscle as much as tighten it. As always, the key to a tight stomach are: eating habits, drinking tons of water and unfortunately genetics. But you can help nature out by doing as many sit ups as you possibly can, and then more. It's all about the burn baby burn factor and not so much the weights. Stay away from any ab machines with weights. You're here to tighten the stomach not build it out further then your chest (as seen in some monster bodies). The only time you might want to use weights are free-weight plates pulled forward over your head. This will pull apart the stomach and trim the abs nicely. The maximum weight should be the 45 lbs. plate. You can accomplish the same with medicine balls or rubber bands. It's all about resistance.

BUTT, Go sumo | Picture a sumo wrestler about to start a match (minus the silk diaper). Now try dead lifting in that position-your legs wider than shoulder-width apart and feet turned outward 45 degrees. Pull the weight as normal, but lean back a touch in the top position, trying to push your hips as far forward as possible. The sumo stance puts you in a position to lift substantially heavier weight, and it optimizes the activation of your glutes. Do five sets of five reps, resting two to three minutes between sets. Lunges also accomplish this same task and with all leg exercises remember to keep your back straight and lift with your legs not your back. Use super low weights and build up to a weight you're comfortable with.

HAMSTRINGS | If you increase the size of your hamstrings, you'll create better separation between them and the lower portion of your butt (and gay boys really like that). To do it, use an exercise that works both the glutes and the hamstrings maximally, such as the Swiss-ball leg curl. Lie on your back and rest your heels on a Swiss ball. Drive your heels into the ball so that you lift up off the floor and your body forms a roughly 45-degree angle to the floor. Keeping your hips elevated in this position, bend at the knees, rolling the ball toward you. Reverse the motion until your knees are straight again. That's one rep. Perform three sets of eight reps, resting 90 seconds between sets.

RUNNING | One of the glutes' main functions is to power you forward when you stride, so there's no more natural way to train them than to run. Find a fairly steep hill you can run up, and stand at the point where the top is about 100 yards away. Sprint to the top and then walk slowly back to where you started. That's one rep. Do three to eight reps.

SHOULDERS | The most important and easily overlooked muscle group. The missing piece in most guys' shoulder development is the rear deltoid, which is almost always underdeveloped relative to the front and side portions of the muscle. To bring it into balance, cut back on the amount of pressing exercises you do, and try this drop set of the reverse cable fly. Attach a rope handle to the cable and grab it with one hand. Bend at the hips until your torso is almost parallel to the floor and raise your arm out to the side until it's level with the floor. That's one rep. Perform 15 reps on both sides, and then rest 30 seconds. Perform another 10 reps, and rest 60 seconds. Finally, complete five more reps. While it's a lot of work for a small muscle group, it should be just enough to shock the long-neglected rear delts into growing and giving you that long torso look that is oh so sexy.

CARDIO | Another of the most overlooked exercises. Doing cardio before or after your workout is crucial to a healthy looking lean athletic body. How many times have I seen a guy go right from the locker room to the weight bench and start lifting. It will be just a matter of time before he pulls some muscle because he's not warm and with time he'll look all bowled over walking like a neanderthal because he's just lifted weights and done nothing to keep his skeleton in shape.

DIET | One of the most overlooked 'causes of drab body. What you put in your body will affect the way it looks regardless of how much time you spend at the gym. All those french fries and sodas will not miraculously disappear because you're at the gym. Do yourself a favor and start eating real foods. Foods that come from the grocery store (not the frozen food section!) and not the fast food mall. Along with the food intake make sure you drink tons of water, tons.

GSR believes everyone should look as good as the models on our website. Some people are genetically born with it, some guys have a beach as their backyard and get to play and workout at the same time while surfing. But most of our viewers need to work at it but it's not unattainable. Get your mind into it, do the steps necessary and don't give up easily on your routine no matter how much it hurts or how much you think it's not making a difference. It is and it will. You better believe it.

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Gay Atheism
When gay atheists finally begin to gain some power, what then? Here is where the analogy breaks down. Gay politics is strictly civil rights: Live and let live. But the gay atheist movement, by its lights, has no choice but to aggressively spread the good news. Evangelism is a moral imperative. The Movement does not merely disagree with religious myths, it disagrees with tolerating them, with cooperating in their colonization of the brains of innocent young gay boys minds.

"How much do we regard young gay teens as being the property of their parents?" The Movement asks. "It's one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their gay children? Is there something to be said for intellectual society stepping in? What about bringing up gay teens to believe manifest falsehoods?"

The Movement is also a believer in democracy. It understands perfectly well that there are practical constraints on controlling the spread of bad memes. If the solution to the spread of wrong ideas and contagious superstitions is a totalitarian commissariat that would silence believers, then the cure is worse than the disease. But such constraints are no excuse for the weak-minded pretense that religious viruses are trivial, much less benign. Bad ideas foisted on gay teens are moral wrongs. We should think harder about how to stop them.

It is exactly this trip down Logic Lane, this conscientious deduction of conclusions from premises, that makes The Movements proclamations a torment to its moderate allies. While frontline warriors against creationism are busy reassuring gay parents and legislators that teaching The Movements theory does not undermine the possibility of religious devotion, The Movement is openly agreeing with the most stubborn fundamentalists that evolution must lead to atheism.

It's a cogent point, and we have to face that. The answer is that the big war is not between evolution and creationism, but between naturalism and supernaturalism. The sensible religious people are really on the side of the fundamentalists, because they believe in supernaturalism. That puts The Movement on the other side.

Three years ago The Movement adopted a new word to demarcate the types of things it couldn't believe in. The word is -bright-, a noun. Coined by Sacramento, California, educators Paula Geisert and Myrna Futrell to designate a person with a naturalistic worldview, -bright- was designed to be broader than the atheist movement; it is not merely God that is untenable, but superstition, credulity, and magical thinking in general. Geisert and Futrell unveiled their proposal at an atheist conference in Florida, and The Movement was there. The monthly Brights meetup in London is among the largest. The main organizer, Glenda Slade, is a 41-year-old entrepreneur who studied computer science at the University of Cambridge and management at Insead, Europe's leading business school. Slade points out that political developments in Europe and the US have created new opportunities for consciousness-raising. "The war on terror wakes people up to the fact that there is more than one religion in the world," Slade says. "I think we're at a crucial point, when we admit that certain types of religion are incompatible with certain rights. At what point does society say, 'Hey, that's insane'?"

Like The Movement, Slade rejects those who might once have been his allies: agnostics and liberal believers, the type of people who may go to church but who are skeptical of doctrine. "Moderates give a power base to extremists," Slade says. "A lot of Catholics use condoms, a lot of Catholics are divorced, and a lot don't have a particular opinion about whether you are gay man. But when the Pope stands up and says, 'This is what Catholics believe,' he still gets credit for speaking for more than a billion people."

Now that people are more worried about the fatwas of Muslim clerics, Slade says, this concern could spread, become more general, and wake people up to damage caused by the Pope.

For the New Atheists, the problem is not any specific doctrine, but religion in general. Or, as The Movement believes, "As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers."

The New Atheist insight is that one might start anywhere – with an intellectual argument, with a visceral rejection of Islamic or Christian fundamentalism, with political disgust – and then, by relentless and logical steps, renounce every supernatural crutch.

"Who here is an atheist?" you may ask a room full of gay guys. Usually, the first response is silence, accompanied by glances all around in the hope that some other gay guy will speak first. Then, after a moment, another gay man does, almost always a gay man not women, almost always with a defiant smile and a tone of enthusiasm. He says happily, "I am!"

But it is the next comment that is telling. Another gay man turns to him and says: "You would be."

"Why?"

"Because you enjoy pissing people off."

"Well, that's true."

This type of conversation takes place not in central Ohio or in Utah but on the West Coast, among technical and scientific people, possibly the social group that is least likely among all Americans to be religious. Most of these gay guys call themselves agnostic, but they don't harbor much suspicion that God is real. They tell me they reject atheism not out of piety but out of politeness. As one gay man said, "Atheism is like telling somebody, 'The very thing you hinge your life on, I totally dismiss.'" This is the type of statement he would never want to make.

This is the statement The Movement believes must be made – loudly, clearly, and before it's too late. I continue to invite my gay friends for a nice, invigorating stroll down Logic Lane. For the most part, they just laugh and wave me on.

What we need is a father figure; one that everyone will listen to. Maybe we could invent one. He could be the original father of everyone. Better yet, let's make him the creator of the whole world and everything. We can tell people that they have to behave a certain way because they are part of his plan for the universe or something.

I wonder what he should look like. How about we make him a large duck-billed platypus? Okay, that might be a tough sell. No one is going to listen to an animal that ugly. We‚ll have to make him look like someone everyone will listen too, like their father. It would seem like an awfully big coincidence, though, that the creator of the universe just happens to look human. We'll say that it is not that the creator looks like humans, but that humans were made to look like the creator. We'll be stroking their egos at the same time. That could work for us.

But how are we going to get anyone to buy this? If we tell them we know who the creator of the universe is, they will want to meet him. Maybe we can build a statue or something. Better yet, what we really need to do is make them want to believe us. That means we have to give them something, or at least promise them something. It can't be anything practical, though. It's not like we actually have anything to offer. Perhaps we can exploit a common weakness, like their fear of death. That seems to scare people the most. We can say that if they do what the creator tells them they will never die! And the creator wants you to stop beating each other over the head with rocks and start treating everyone the same way you would want them to treat you. That way they will listen to us and we can all get along.

The problem is, as soon as somebody is eaten by a lion they will realize we are lying to them and they won't listen to us anymore. Okay, so we won't tell them that they will never die. We'll tell them that when they die they go somewhere else. It would have to be some place good. Not only good, but better than anything they could possibly imagine, and they get to stay there forever. Better yet, we'll tell them that they get to go where the creator is. That will also take care of our meeting the creator problem.

We will need a way to keep them in line, though. We should also tell them that if they don't listen to us they go someplace bad. We'll say they get thrown into a big pit of fire where they will have to stay forever. Hell, we can probably make them more afraid of the eternal pit of fire than of actually dying! But as long as they do what we say, they get to go to the happy place. And since they're going to the happy place anyway, some of them might not even mind dying. Just imagine, people who will do anything we tell them because they aren't afraid of dying. That could be useful.

Still, we are going to have to be careful. There is always going to be somebody who isn't going to believe us. Like that kid who keeps making those round pieces of glass that he uses to look at the night sky with. We also have to consider that if we can make this work, so can somebody else. I mean, what if somebody from the other side of the river comes over and says that they are the ones who know who the creator is! That could really muck things up for us. We might have to make an exception to the whole, treat people the same way you would want them to treat you. We'll say that the creator wants you to treat people the same way you would want them to treat you unless they don't happen to believe in the creator, in which case the creator wants you to hit them over the head with a rock. That way we can get rid of the ones who don't believe us or, at the very least, shut them up so they don't cause problems. We can also say that, since the people on the other side of the river don't believe in him, the creator wants us to go over there and hit them over the heads with rocks. (And take their stuff.)

But we are always going to have to worry about people asking the wrong questions, like why bad things keep happening to them, even if they do what we say. Maybe its good enough if we just keep them from looking too hard. We can say it is just part of the creator's plan, and us mere mortals are too simple-minded to understand. That way we'll convince them that it's no use for them to try and figure it out. That's the key- stopping them from trying to figure anything out.

Who am I kidding? That could never work.

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Free Willy
GSR was a little curious about what was behind the recent rash of teens showing their boy parts in public lately. Hmmmm, what could possibly be the reason that guys would want to show off what they got? Bragging rights?

GSR decided to ask four of its faithful groupies why they feel the compulsion to show it all in public and what sort of high they get from doing it. And here's what they had to say:

Brian appears in the first pic. Although he believes his flashing is daring, others might think it tame in comparison with what they're into. Brian only strips down to his undies (a boxer man) and he says he enjoys doing it mostly because it's a slap to all things normal, at the establishment. When asked why he didn't feel the need to show more, his response was that he got off on just going down to his boxers and never considered whipping it all out.

We also asked him where most of his showing occured and he said mostly his backyard or the beach. Not sure if this will evolve into something more daring but for the time being Brian seems content with just showing what he's got on under his Volcom jeans.

Liam appears in this second pic and as you can see he pretty much bares it all. This pic is of him flashing at a waterpark in the SoCal area and pretty much getting away with it.

GSR asked when he got into this and he said when he was younger his parents always encouraged him to walk around nude and it just felt natural to continue doing it but with a bit of a twist, now he does it in public

Asked why he moved his act from the privacy of his home to the great outdoors he said it felt good, felt free and it was a rush to get away with it with tons of people all around. "It's like every time I do it, and it isn't very often, I get this intense rush of a) feeling good and b) getting away with something". "Just to see the looks in people's eyes as I rush past them and they don't even know what hit them, makes it all worth it".

Guess we can't argue with that, eh?

Next up is one of my closest friends Thomas. Thomas is also a complete nude-dude and likes to expose himself in super obvious public places like malls, but he's lightening fast and people usually don't even notice, he says.

Thomas shows me an entire online pic blog of all his public naked pics and let me tell you it's pretty impressive the places this guy shows it off.

When asked if he ever got caught or was afraid of getting caught he said "Hell no, that's half the fun!" "Some of my best work was done at malls here in soCal and not a single person even noticed, that to me is quite an accomplishment."

We'd have to agree, indeed it is, indeed it is.

Last but not least is the most vanilla of our bunch: Ryan.

Ryan doesn't necessarily expose himself as much but prefers to grope himself in public places.

Asked if this was something he did since childhood, he agreed that yes, it was, but only recently has it become a more public event for him.

The strange thing, or not so strange really, is that he doesn't do it when there are other people around. Seems like he only gets his thrill 'cause he gets away with doing it all by himself.

When asked why, he sorta gets shy and then says that it's not like he wants to shock people, he just likes to feel 'it' in public.

Crazy, but we're not one to judge, right?

So is what we're seeing a sign of the times? I mean girls clothes are getting more skimpy and slutty so is this just the teen guy response to that behavior? Seems like the bottom line is all the guys like the thrill factor, the adrenaline rush, and getting away with something so crass and right out in the public is the main reason for their act.

And that pretty much makes it the reason they all like to call it their 'sport'.

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i mean i understand the immediate physical attraction but aren't we better then our super straight 'construction' jocks that oogle everything with tits passing them by on the sidewalk?

what happened to hello? what happened to intelligent conversation? am i just a hot dog on a stick to all a' you or perhaps is there something deeper that lies within?

hmmmm, maybe you should find out, next time you find yourself attracted to someone (gay, straight, girl, guy) why not approach them differently then you're used to? how 'bout you say hey and if they even respond or seem half way interested maybe you can carry on a conversation with them and see where it leads.

hey this is just me thinking but aren't we a civilized nation yet or are we still living in the stone ages of the castro era where everyone had his hands down everyone's pants 24/7? just a thought, a thought for the day. out. goin' surfin' now...