If you're a male and over 30, like me, you might have a hard time gaining muscle and losing body fat as most likely your testosterone has started to decrease. While you can go to a doctor and get a prescription, it can be a bit costly and you're taking a risk of exposing yourself to unwanted side effects. Luckily for us there are many dietary supplements that work as a testosterone booster.

For the past few weeks, I've been taking two capsules of Maximum Power by Core Vitality daily. The supplement is manufactured in a  state-of-the-art GMP and FDA approved facility.

It has a mixture of Tongkat Ali, Maca (0.6% extract) L-Arginne and Ginseng Blend as well as 745mg of Core Vitality's proprietary blend. 

The Proprietary Blend contains Sarsparilla, Pumpkin Seed Powder, Muira Puama Powder, Oat Straw, Nettle, Caynne Pepper, Astragalus, Catuaba Bark Powder, Licorice, Tribulus Terrestris, Orchid, Oyster Extract and Boron.

Fire Birds
Director: David Green
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Retail: $14.98
ASIN: B00WV7TN80
Running Time: 91 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on Blu-ray for the first time is the 1990 action-film Fire Birds. Directed by David Green, the film stars Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young. There are no extras or special features on the single-disc.

Originally released under Disney's Touchstone Pictures label in 1990, the film received negative reviews from critics, all of which compared the storyline to 1985's Top Gun. It didn't do very well with moviegoers at the time, grossing under $15-million before being pulled from theaters after only three weeks.

The film centers on U.S. Army and the Drug Enforcement Administration putting together a task force to stop the drug cartels in South America. Nicholas Cage plays a hotshot pilot Jake Preston
who enlists into the Apache air-to-air combat training program, which one of the trainees happens be his ex-girlfriend Billie Lee Guthrie (played by Sean Young). Running the training program is flight instructor Brad Little (played by Tommy Lee Jones), whom for some reason sees past Preston's cockiness and pushes him to become a great pilot.

Of course Preston tries to romance Billie Lee before they are sent on a deadly mission to take out the cartel leader, Eric Stoller (played by Bert Rhine).

Ever After: A Nantucket Brides Novel
Nantucket Brides Trilogy, book three
by Jude Deveraux
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pub. Date: June 23, 2015
ISBN: 978-0345541857
Pages: 358
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Now available to purchase in bookstores is the third installment in the Nantucket Brides Trilogy - Ever After by bestselling author Jude Deveraux. It might seem a bit odd to find a male reader writing a review for a contemporary romance, but the fact is that I grew up reading any book that I could grab my hands on, which included the Jude Deveraux romances that my mother owned.

Typically, the author uses characters that are related to the Montgomery and Taggert family that first appeared in the 1980 novel, The Black Lyon, which was published a year before I was born. The characters that appear in the Nantucket Brides series are in related to the same family line.

Ever After centers on Hallie Hartley, a young woman who just got her physical therapist license. Life hasn't been too easy for her. Her mother died when she was young and her father and stepmother died when she was a teenager, leaving her alone to raise her stepsister Shelly, who’s a spoiled brat.

Just as she's about ready to start a new job, she finds a huge surprise in her living room - Jared Montgomery. It seems Hallie had inherited an old house in Nantucket from a distant relative and Shelly had been posing as her, so she can steal the house. Shelly had also agreed to let to Jared's cousin, James Taggert, stay on the first floor, so she could help him recover from his knee injury, which is really weird as Shelly knows nothing about physical therapy. Once Hallie and Jared figured out what was going on, she quickly agrees to travel to Nantucket and help his cousin as it's the only way to get away from her stepsister.

Technical Writing from Open Courseware

Technical writing is something everyone has to do no matter whether you sell houses, fight fires, or are an author. This specific course outlines helpful tips through video lessons on content creation, resume building, e-mails, concise copy, and more.

Introduction to Writing for Children from Falmouth University

This course is completed with two video courses outlining tips for writing for children. Writing for children is a little different than writing for adults, and any writer interested in writing for children should check out this free online writing course.

Write What You Know from the Writing University

The Writing University offers practical and helpful podcasts on a variety of writing techniques. All lessons are useful, but this lesson talking about how you can “write what you know” without limiting yourself is particularly helpful to new and old writers alike.

While changing your eating habits and adding a bit of exercise into your daily routine might seem easy to most people, the one think that we sometimes over look is our protein intake.

Protein is the key ingredient in building muscles and burning body fat. You don't have to be lifting heavy weights to gain muscles as you can be using light weights or doing any intense workout program.

Your muscle fibers become torn during exercise and it takes time for them to recover. Ingesting extra protein before and/or after an workout can prevent muscle soreness and help your body recover from your workout faster.

I was recently sent a bottle of MCF (Mike Change Fitness) Muscle Protein to test out and review. Each 990 grams container has 30 servings (one scoop). Each serving has 120 calories, 22 grams of protein and 4.5 grams of carbs.

The ingredients include:

Muscle Protein Blend: Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Peptides & Whe Protein Isolate

Digestive Enzyme Complex: Protease, Lactase, Bromelain, Asperigillus Niger & Aspergillus Oryzae

Other ingredients include: Cocoa Poweder, Natural & Arifical Flavors, Fibersol-2 (Maltodextrin), Sucrose, Sodium Chloride and Sucralose.

The Berenstain Bears: God Bless Our Country
by Mike Berenstain
Publisher: ZonderKidz
Pub. Date: April 14, 2015
ISBN: 978-0310734857
Pages: 24
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

In my early elementary days in the late 80s, one of my favorite book series was The Berenstain Bears by the late authors Stan and Jan Berenstain. At one time I did own every book, but then as I got older, I lost interests in the series. Eventually, I let my cousins borrow the books, which I never saw my book collection ever again. Over the years, I've found a few of the books at a thrift store, so I started recollecting the series.

Since the death of Stan and Jan Berenstain, their son Mike has taken over writing and illustrating new adventures of the Berenstain Bears, but the newest books have Christian themes.

Now available in bookstores is The Berenstain Bears: God Bless Our Country, which finds the Bear family getting ready to celebrate Fourth of July in Bear County. Papa and Mama tells their cubs (Brother, Sister & Honey) the true meaning of the holiday. From the Revolutionary War to Immigration, the cubs learn how this country was born right before the cubs hop on their bikes and participate in the annual parade.

No Good Deeds
Director: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Retail: $14.98
ASIN: B00WV7TOT8
Running Time: 98 minutes
Rating: R
Buy Link: Amazon

Review:

Arriving on Blu-ray for the first time from Mill Creek Entertainment on July 7th is the 2002 thriller from director Bob Rafelson, titled No Good Deed. The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich and Stellan Skarsgård. There are no special features or extras on the single-dis.

Long before Samuel L. Jackson wore an eye patch for "The Avengers" and Stellan Skarsgård played Dr. Erik Selvig in the "Thor" films, the actors teamed up for No Good Deed. Jackson plays diabetic police detective Jack Friar. Though he normally works only on grand theft auto cases, he decideds to help out his neighbors by retrieving their daughter who has been staying on Turk Street with her boyfriend.

With only a picture of the daughter's boyfriend to work with, Friar goes door to door on Turk Street looking for her. This when he meets Mr. & Mrs. Quarre (played by Joss Ackland & Grace Zabriskie), whom nicely invites him into their home, which turns out to be a troubling mistake for Friar as the criminal known as Hoop (played by Doug Hutchison) steps out of the shadows with a gun. Despite trying to tell Hoop about the girl he is looking for, Friar is taken hostage.

Friar quickly finds out that both Mr. and Mrs. Quarre and Hoop work for Tyrone (played Stellan Skarsgård), a criminal who plans on robbing a bank with the help of a inside banker (played by Jonathan Higgins) and a young woman Erin (Milla Jovovich).

When things don't exactly go as plan, Firar's only chance of survival is to trust Erin with his life.