You are what you eat

Oct 9 2007


All you hear today is, " I got to diet and loose some weight". What they really mean is that the person has amassed a lot of body fat, much more than they think, and all they have to do is cut out a few donuts and they will look like a fashion model. Not! Remembering that to loose one pound of body fat means metabolizing 3500 kcal. Not and easy task(unless you use Kettlebells and Crossfit) especially if you use normal exercise as a main method of this reduction process. Well you can bicycle for 4 hours, 4 aerobics sessions, run 16 miles, bowl for 10 hours and you will loose 1 lb of body by metabolism. Yes you can loose 5 lbs or gain in one day by water weight change as water weighs 8.3 gals and the human body is 70% water. So to loose fat content it going to take a serious adjustment in your lifestyle, especially what and above all, how much you eat.

As I get older I seem to require less food intake to maintain my activities. Therefore I adjust my eating habitsto activities each day. Lots of exercise I eat well, lay around I nibble. Simple.

We need not get involved in all the latest diets if we would only eat when we are truly hungry, and eat a volume of calories that is constant with our lifestyle.

A former friend had Lap-Band installed in his gut to loose weight. This is a drastic method of weight loss and can have profond side affects. After one year he lost 150 lbs, however, he began to regain his weight after going on second year. Why? because his eating style and habits were never adopted for the long haul of life. Diets as a process are mostly short term unless the lifestyle to accommodate the real diet needs is established and coupled with a compatible exercise program.



Today's training:

2-Kettlebell sessions with training clients.



later a single rep training:

power clean 135#

push press 75#

hammer curl 60#

performed in singles continuously for 30 min. time. or 28 sets. lots of speed on each rep. Not a cardio just ATP all the way.



As I said Monday, this week will have more OL lifts.