Hey Matt, You've got a very informative thread going on here. Unless I've missed a post that addressed a rather unflattering side effect of eating green stuff. I've noticed you don't have beano as a supplement in your lists. I don't know about anybody else, but when I change my diet to a more live food source diet I become a lot more musicalistic by degrees of decibels. Are you guys who eat a live food diet not bothered by explosive nature of cabbage, broccoli, legumes and such? I'm just a little curious how you guys deal these unfortunate side effects. Yours in "song of the cargo ship in fog." Chuck
Matt, Thank you VERY much. I'll look into your recommendations - prepare yourself for further questions! Much appreciated, H
LOL! I'm sure the only thing that MIGHT detract you from that is if there's a Heat game on the tube....verdad?!?
First, buy a tuning fork. Second, read up on proper preparation (cooking, not - H). "Combating the 'gas problem' One problem that many people face in eating this group of foods is bloating and intestinal gas due to non-digestion of raffinose sugars. Let this not prevent from enjoying this healthy food group. There are ways and means to deal with the gas problem. Never cook legumes in the water they have been soaked, because this water is loaded with raffinose. Add a pinch of baking soda while cooking the legumes. In addition to removing raffinose sugars, it also helps the reduce cooking time. If you are using canned beans, then thoroughly rinse them in lots of water. This will also help reduce the salt content. Cooking legumes with a pinch of asafoetida is an age-old Aurvedic technique that helps prevent build up of intestinal gas. If you are not used to eating legumes, start with a small serving and gradually increase the quantity. If you still get into 'trouble', there is always Beano to rely on." http://dailytiffin.blogspot.com/search/label/Health
You'll no longer be the neighborhood foghorn, need a tuning fork nor any type of preparation with this quality organic stuff.
Hi Matt, You mentioned alkaline diet. Are there any online sources you can provide for such diets? Great thread Jim
Where did you read this? I don't see how you can do body weight exercises to strengthen your legs. Your legs are already strong enough to carry your own mass.... Unless you load 250 pounds into a backpack and do squats with it, but in that case I don't consider it a bodyweight exercise anymore. Even a weakling like me has outgrown bodyweight exercises.
umm, for anyone who reads this, I wouldn't blindly follow Matt's recommendation to take anavar for 3-4 weeks. It is an anabolic steroid and has risks such as stressing your liver, lowering your HDL and raising your LDL. If you're a woman, that much anavar will give you a mustache and do lord knows what to your period. Plus, no doctor would prescribe that much. 20-40mg is not a "moderate" dose. The theraputic dose is 5-7.5mg/day for men. Only athletes and bodybuilders would take 20-40mg/day, and it's obviously not under the care of a physician.
Not quite. If you have 8% bf and never work out, your abs will show but they won't be "well-defined", at least not to the extent of those fitness models you see in magazines. For your abs to be well-defined you need to do ab exercises and have good genes. Also bear in mind that models you see are standing under certain lighting which really highlights their abs. I have been between 8 and 14% my whole life and never had a 6-pack until I did ab exercises. Even then, I will never have abs like a model because my genes suck.
jmo, dont want to but in , but......... The real difference is in "effective "strength, usable strength, and body weight stuff can certainly do that. Tonnes of lifters/bodybuilders can do outrageous squats and deadlifts etc, but not that many could pull that weight in a practical way, you know? Those are very controlled exercises, quite different from actually using every muscle, ligament connection etc in an exerted, "unstable" arrangement, like football. Look at the gracie brothers, (the brazilian ju-jitsu guys) or virtually any olympic level gymnast, their power to weight ratio just destroys these strongman contestants. Not to suggest they could pull a locomotive, but practical, effective body strength.