Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

My current health plan is:

-Eat real nutrient dense foods.

-Intermittent fast for 12–16 hours per day. Vibes based. And sometimes go multi-day.

-Go for long walks or bike rides in the sun daily. Touch grass and do stuff. Often you can combine this with business meetings.

-Sprint a couple times per week.

-Do cold plunges a couple times per week. Seriously, this seems easy to skip and it’s hard. But if you want to triple dopamine levels for the working day without later downsides, putting yourself in freezing water is the thing.

-Do some squats and pushups. And then deadlift your own body weight for several reps.

-Even then you’ll potentially fail. This isn’t one of those meme posts. I used to be utterly ripped in my competitive martial arts days in my late teens until my mid twenties. But then I got distracted, mainly due to a broken leg and lack of direction. Over the past several Covid years, I’ve weakened, and had trouble hiking mountains. I still have visible abs but they feel fake now. But I focus on a couple things amid my crazy work, which I have ingrained now. The first is intermittent fasting. It literally fixes all my other errors as a baseline. I can fuck up for a year and not gain weight because I only eat in 6 or 8 hour windows. Or even 10 hours. The rest of the time trains the body to burn fat. Next is I do a reasonable baseline of pushups, squats, and sprints per week. Nobody can make me choose to. It’s just my baseline. Last is I do a lot of squats and bicycling to keep my leg muscles interested, which have been mediocre. So if a new martial arts leader has a plan, I’m happy to listen.

This resonates. Things I gravitated to in the past few years:

- Morning run 5/7 days; always outside, rain, sun, snow, doesn't matter

- Vary the run; sometimes slow, sometimes faster, sometimes intervals; 30-50 minutes; nose breathing when the pace is slow

- Intervals: used to Tabata style only but have now started experimenting; currently doing 2mins fast, 4mins slow, 4-6 reps; this has had a big impact on VO2 max; Tabatas are great but I don't always have the raw will to do them

- Doing mostly functional strength training, sometimes with a personal trainer for guidance and to learn new exercises; huge impact on my posture and overall strength despite weights that would make most people chuckle; expensive but worth every cent in my opinion

- no calories after dinner (which we eat around 630pm); breakfast after the run - makes for a natural daily fasting period of 13-15 hrs

- bfast is a shake with macadamia, cashews, spinach, 4-5 types of fresh fruit, some protein powder (only the best kind, no flavors), some creatine, camu camu berry powder (highest vitamin C content with all the other co-nutrients)

- zero sweet drinks (obviously), including pressed juices

Hard to make this work if you work in the big corporate hamster wheel but I don't 😀

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