A lesson in selecting the right variables to reach your goals How many crunches can you do? Leg raises? Jackknifes? How long can you hold the front/side plank? And how is that six-pack of yours coming along? Yeah. Mine too. There have been periods in my life where I was doing thousand of crunches weekly….
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A Hacker’s Guide to the Human Body
An introduction to the Four-Hour Body for the curious, wary and non-believers. Remember the scene in the movie Dogma where Rufus (the 13th apostle, played by Chris Rock) starts talking about how humanity ruins good ideas like the teachings of Jesus by arguing about the details? Rufus: Mankind got it all wrong. Taking a good idea…
Growth.
Things have taken a turn. I’m gaining weight – 5lbs in the past week. At this rate, by the end of the month I’ll have undone 7 months of diet and exercise in three weeks. What’s to blame? Weight Gain 4000 Get More: SOUTH PARKmore… {Share this Video on Twitter} I’ve been 100% compliant to…
Supplements – Cheating Your Way to Fitness?
“I don’t know man, it sounds like there are a lot of supplements on this diet program. I don’t think that stuff’s for me.” J was interested in starting the slow-carb diet portion of the Four Hour Body, but had some concerns about the number of supplements mentioned and recommended in the book. This wasn’t…
Reducing the reduced diet – Hacking a diet plan when fat loss plateaus
In the previous post, Suicide Solution, I talked about my absolutely miserable experience with the Last Mile Diet outlined in the Four Hour Body. For a week, I was on a strict diet of measured amounts of proteins and (healthy) fats. No carbs whatsoever. It was absolutely terrible. I had constant headaches. I couldn’t think…
Day 91 – What a Difference a Day Makes
Feeling a bit better today after grabbing a full night’s rest last night. I ran to the grocery because starting the Last Mile was kind of unplanned and I wasn’t set with enough greens to last me the week. Bought a few bunches of asparagus and kale, and also several bags of almonds. I made…
Day 90 – Suicide Solution
Wine is fine But whiskey’s quicker Suicide is slow with liquor Take a bottle drain your sorrows -Ozzy Osbourne, “Suicide Solution” I’ve decided to start what may be one of the dumber experiments I’ve conducted on my own body in recent memory. No, I’m not going on a liquor-based diet to see how quickly I…
Day 88 – Stalled or Pivoting?
So this week I went back on the pAGG stack after cycling off for two weeks to give my body a chance to rest. I’ve been remiss in posting here regularly and in making it easy to see my trending, but here are the results of today’s weigh-in: Weight: 168lbs (12 lbs lost) %…
Day 22 – Baby did a bad, bad thing
I slipped up. Last Thursday I went out with some friends and other folks after a local networking event for AWESOME PEOPLE. It was a good time. But I hadn’t had any dinner. I had a few glasses of wine, but no food. I could tell the difference in my body the next morning. I’ve…
Day 13 – Feeling good, feeling great. Feeling great, feeling good, how are you?
Man, I am loving the slow-carb diet. It’s easy, I’ve found a few basic dishes that get me through the week easily. I’ve had a few small cheats here and there, mostly unplanned drinks, lunches and/or dinners for work. Other than that, it really is easy to stick with Tim’s recommendation of “a few simple…