I can’t believe how good this works!

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in General

I haven’t posted in awhile.  I’ve been focusing on other things and letting exercise be just 15 – 20 minutes of my day and not everything I think about.  I don’t feel like I need to “think” about it anymore.  I don’t need anymore studies or books to read.  I really feel like I have found the “it” for health.  Primal fitness or Evolutionary Fitness, whatever it’s called, is it.  Eating vegetables, meat/fish, nuts and fruit (unprocessed) and little else while doing brief but intense exercise plus long walks has been incredible for me.  

For the past 12 or so years, I had love handles and my cheeks have been full.  Since I took this way of eating and exercising on, I can’t keep fat on.  Love handles are gone.  Cheeks are showing bone structure.  I am thinking I actually want to taper back as I am getting veins showing around my lower abdominals and thighs.  I can’t believe it.  I do NOT need to do any “cardio” or watch my calories.
I’m pretty good about eating only what I mentioned above.  Although, I will let 2 to 3 meals in a given week contain a pancake or a piece of pizza.  It doesn’t seem to matter.  The occasional beer doesn’t seem to matter either.  It’s like my intense exercise, empties my body’s energy stores completely so whatever is left around is burned for fuel.   The only danger I have found is over training.  Sometimes I get into to doing air squats and will do five minute sessions say 4 times over the course of 7 sessions.  That’s about two thousand squats in 2 weeks.  That can tighten my hamstrings to the point of discomfort.  I’ve got to watch the accumulation of intense movements and remember that variety is required.  Apart from that, this stuff is total gold.
  

Friday’s Workout: Squat, pull and burp

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in Health, Workouts

I was feeling energetic at first, but into the third round I called it quits. I was exhausted and I mean completely beat. I started with 15 minutes of jump rope and then did following for time…

  1. 50 squats
  2. 20 horizontal rope pull-ups
  3. 20 burpees
  4. 40 squats
  5. 15 horizontal rope pull-ups
  6. 15 burpees
  7. 30 squats

It was only 5 minutes and 20 seconds. Still, I was so exhausted, I had to skip the 10 pull-ups and 10 burpees. I can’t believe how wiped out I was. I think I’m going to have to name this session the squat, pull and burp.

Rest day (actually two)

Posted by abraham.williams@gmail.com on in Health, Workouts

Given my recent post linking to a study on chronic weightlifting, I’ve enjoyed 2 days of no strength training whatsoever. There’s something to be said for rest. Now that I’ve had a few days of rest, my body feels a surplus of energy and I’m ready to do some rounds of training.

There’s also something to be said for taking a break from a restricted way of eating. I don’t eat bread or flour, but when I saw the line at Tartine was short, I decided to stop in for a quiche and a coffee. Honestly, the quiche is delicious and I had intended not to eat the crust, but I ate it anyway. It was good that I ate it because most grain-based food always ends up feeling like glue in my mouth and I was reminded of this. I was also quite sluggish after the quiche. Having these deviations back to grains reminds me why I don’t choose to eat them.

Rest from training, eating black-listed foods… it all serves as a reinforcement. It makes exercise and eating well sustainable. Rest and variation, it’s the way to go.

Tuesday’s Burn

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Today was a hard day to exercise. Work has tired me out. But…I feel so good afterwards…so I do it. After a warm up walk with the dog and some stretches, I did 3 rounds of this:

  1. 20 Clean and press w/ kettle bells
  2. 20 sumo squats
  3. 5 pole climbs (monkey climb)
  4. Pilates 100’s

It was a good sweat for 25 min. Took longer than normal. Pole climbs are hard after clean and press.