Dive bombers

Here is a quickie workout:

My time is 12:10

30 Walking Lunges total
30 Kipping Pullups
30 24" Box Jumps
30 Paralette Pushups
30 Side Squats total
30 Jumping Jacks
30 Dive Bombers

Oh, and don't forget to breathe.

Good luck and feel free to post your times and shame me properly.

Darkarashi

Men and Women

Before I get carried away on a long blahblahblah on differences between protein, carbs and fats, just a little perspective on differences between men and women.  Makes more sense later.

Take two people and have them divide up 9 oranges and 7 apples between them.  Anyway, they want without cutting them up into little pieces.  Someone is always going to have at least one more orange, but the other will have more apples.

Questions we argue about is having more orange better, or more apple.  Both are good, one has more health benefits against illness, the other more benefits against becoming ill.

So rather than being drug into these arguments, just accept your bad gender self and start living.

When you come across general statements downplaying your gender, take a moment to study them.  Is there a seed of truth or did this sprout from a seed of fear.

Good luck,

Bunnies!!!!

Here you go,

Disapproving Bunny workout (well actually more of a Disapproving Kit workout)

These totals are half of the regular workout.

4 rounds of:

100 Jump Ropes
25 Squats.

I used a 2lb jumprope for this.  My time is 7:08
Good luck, oh and bring oxygen.

Charles

First diet challenge.

Alrighty then.  Now that we know calories are both important and not really important, we can begin.

Next step is to determine how many calories we need a day to live, get through work, get through a workout.

We have all heard that if you ingest 3500 calories a day, you'll gain weight.  This is just a means and not really appropriate for you.  Three rules of thumb for determining daily caloric intake.

Rule One:  If you are sedentary multiply your weight by 10.  I weigh 180lbs so I would need 1800 calories to maintain.  Sedentary is where you sit on the couch, sit in the car, sit at the office.  Sit, sit, sit.  You are not doing much, but your body still needs energy to maintain.  This is basic life support.

Rule Two:  If you are a normal mortal and work out 3 times a week and play a sport like football or softball on the weekend, multiply your weight by 15.  I.e. 2700 calories for me.

Rule Three:  If you are an immortal and work out everyday preparing for the Olympics or work hard construction, multiply your weight by 20. I.e. 3600 calories for me.

I re-iterate, that these are rules of thumbs.  You may find a +\- of 25% on your totals depending on your bodies needs.

I both work construction and train.  I have had to cut back on my workouts since i cannot simply eat enough to fulfill my requirements.  Now this brings up an interesting point.  Average daily caloric intake is nice to spout off about, but isn't realistic.  Some days, I am putting away 6 to 7 thousand calories to rebuild my body from heavy lifting in the heat.  Other days, I maybe hit 2 thousand calories so my body can rest from trying to digest food.

Resting from eating?  What a maroon right?  Not really.  Heavy diets are a strain on the body too.  Sometimes your tummy just wants to nap in a sunbeam and relax.

We are scheduled from week to week.  We also need to schedule our diet accordingly.  We can not eat the same static diet everyday and expect to be on our game.

So now look at your "dear diary" of food from last week.  Kinda of a crazy assortment you have been stuffing in your pie hole.  This is OK.

"WHAT?" unhealthy diet is OK?  Not really.  If your diet consists of an extra large meat pizza with two six packs of coke everyday, then continue and change gradually.  If you decide the next day to switch to a diet of one celery stick, your body will rebel and mess a fool up.  This is an incredible stress on the body.

So here is your next step in changing your diet for the better.  Try to cut out High Fructose Corn Syrup.  HFC for short.  It is estimated that each American puts away 60 pounds of this stuff every year.  60 POUNDS!!!  Now you know why our pants have writing on the back like "Wide Load".

Start reading your labels and look for HFC.  You will most likely panic and go hide in the closet somewhere til HFC disappears from our food.  Not happening.  This is not meant to scare you, but bring awareness to what you are ingesting.  Juices, cereals, diet bars and canned goods are biggest culprits.  Now you have to decide what is a necessary evil to eat.  Your Noodly-O's may have to go, but the instant oatmeal can hang out longer until you find a better substitute.

By becoming more aware of what goes into your body, you can start making changes based on how you feel.  Out diet is not something we should stress about.  Small change by small change will bring about a better you.

Da

Counting Calories

So people ask me for advice on what to eat when they are sick, when they are tired, when they want to lose weight...and I figured to write down here to help everyone out with what I have found.

First, one blog is not going to cover it.

Second, two blogs just not going to work either.

Let's start with the basics, counting calories.  A calorie is nothing more than a unit of energy we get from food.  100 calories from an apple is the same as 100 calories from refined sugar which is the same as 100 calories from red meat.

Now there are two things to consider when selecting foods or drinks for our caloric intake.

Number one:  what type of food is necessary for energy, for rebuilding the body and/or storing up for future energy needs.  The different types of foods range from: proteins, carbs, fats, alcohols, sweeteners, fibers, and erythritol.  Erythritol?  That can't be healthy.  It will not kill you, but does not really help in the healthy eating arena.  All these categories can be broken down into glucose for the body to use as energy.  But here is the consideration, how much energy does it take to break these things down into simple glucose the body can use.  Meat takes a great deal of energy to break down.  This is why we often go into food comas after big meals.  Energy is diverted to help digest that large pizza, 5lb burrito or the all you can eat bar.

So now you are thinking, "Well, I'll just down a couple spoonfuls of white sugar and have all the energy I need."  Um...WRONG!!!

Number Two:  is about digestibility of food.  Our bodies have evolved over at least a billionty years.  It takes more than just calories to fuel us.  The quality of food is as important as the quantity.  You would actually gain more energy from a spoonful of Turbinado sugar than refined white sugar.  The less commercially processed the food is, the more we can gain from it.

The body digests, filters and distributes nutrients to where they are needed.  If you drink a soda pop, you may get some energy from it.  The body may send some of the moisture to parts of the body needing it.  And then it looks at the crap that is left over and promptly sends it to the tush (we may need this later) storage area.

What! No way, you say.  I give you diet sodas as an example.  Take an 18 ounce bottle.  What is in there that gives it one calorie?  We know there is water and a bunch of chemicals that makes it taste like the "real" stuff.  But why drink it?  Would you drink water mixed with beetle carapaces?  Or do you drink it because you can drink a twelve pack and the 12 calories won't add to your weight?

Guess what?  There are some things your body will not digest and if you are lucky, it will pass through.  Otherwise, it stores these "things" in the tush, thighs, belly or where-ever you store your potential energy.

One final note.  Just remember we do not eat to lose weight, we eat to live.  You eat well, you live well.  If you want to know the quality of your fuel, just take notes of everything you eat in one week.  And be honest to yourself.  You deserve at least that.

Latest workout to chew on and try to digest.

Here you go 15 minute workout divided up into 15 one minute rounds, no rest.

3 rounds for max reps                            My numbers met each round.

Kettlebells Swings (KBS) 32lbs                 21/18/21
Beat on Heavy Bag                                    -- -- --
Pushups                                                 21/24/20
Goblet squats with 25lbs dumbbell           29/19/22
Jump ropes (2lb jumprope)                     101/79/89

Good luck with this one.  It tends to burn up all the oxygen in the room.

C

Cough...cough

Time to dust this blog off.

Ack...ack.

So I am thinking of posting about habits and treatments I have found to keep myself healthy.

Let's face it, staying balance is a precarious past time.  You either over do it or under do it.  Being perfectly balanced happens for only an instant in time.

So, tips and tricks and workouts...OH MY!  Coming soon,

promise,

C