I don't agree with the philosophy behind it but honestly if you already have a blender, give it a shot, it's not going to kill you. It will give you a good baseline for where your normal eating habits are at. If you lose a good amount of weight* and feel better, you really need to re-evaluate what your day to day diet is like, if you don't feel better then you probably aren't eating that shitty. *If you gain the weight right back after you resume normal eating it was water weight you lost.
Yeah one of my buddy has been talking about the "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" documentary on juicing for about 3 months but I don't think he's actually pulled the trigger. All the Netflix docs suggest the same basically vegan diet, organic only of coarse. From the trend of health articles the pendulum has swung away from the super high protein Adkins style to a solid majority vegetable based diet, like 75+% veggies and then the rest clean carbs.
I've read that a diet high in refined carbs is more to blame for heart disease. Now, if you have a genetic predisposition towards this kind of health issue, then yeah, eating copious amounts of red meat probably isn't the smartest thing. For the average human, red meat is okay. But then again, you are also supposed to be eating a lot of vegetables and exercising. People like to pick out one thing and go yes! That is okay! But ignore all the other things you're supposed to be doing and wonder why their system isn't running optimally.
I think juicing is a good supplement...the bf got me into drinking a mix of fruits and veggies for breakfast and a mid-afternoon snack. I don't know about curing cancer, but I think it's a good way to get in a few vitamins and minerals.
Even if you are at risk for heart disease, red meat generally won't make it worse. Like you said, red meat/saturated fat has been wrongly accused the whole time. Pretty much the only time you need to avoid it is if you're really worried about too much iron or you have an auto-immune disease that is exacerbated by it.
Last night after watching some of the World's Strongest Man competition, my roommate and I have decided that we're going to host a similar event amongst our friends (6-8), obviously scaled way back to 'athletic, but fairly unremarkable 24-28 year old guys' level. I really have never paid much attention to the WSM competitions but I love the idea of recreating and competing the event amongst friends. Anyone have any experience with this? Which six events should we do? Ideally the events would involve equipment that was fairly easy to acquire/build/set-up. How would you scale these events, relative to body size, for my buddies and I so that we could all compete together? We range from 5'6" 135 lbs. to 6'1" 235 lbs., so it'd be nice if we had a formula to figure out who has to lift what to compete. There's a chance that no one has experience with such things and/or that no one cares, but I figured I'd ask the board. Thanks in advance for any tips/advice.
You could pick certain lifts (bench press, squat, farmer carry, etc) and do a % improvement for the win. Have all of you lifted at all in the past? That'll also determine what kind of lifts. It's easy enough to do a farmer carry or a bench press, but you need to have proper form for a squat or a dead lift, so get together, figure out what everyone is capable of, and then go get your current maxes.
Yeah we've all lifted. Maxes are good and all but what about something like the stone lift? How could I figure out a fair way to scale the rock masses and the platform height? It's not like we all know where we stand on things like that, farmer's carry, vehicle pulls, whatever else.
And the end of heavy triples I felt my form breaking down, so I dialed it down and checked. Looks like I'm falling forward a bit when I get tired, will have to work on holding big air.
I've got over 40 strongman contests under my belt and have competed all over the country. I've also been promoting contests since 2005. There is no real way to have 135 lb guys fairly competing against 235 lb guys. The best thing to do is to have two weight classes. Most reputable contests consist of a deadlift, an overhead press, a speed/moving event, a medley, and stones. Those 5 events do the best at testing all aspects of strength, speed, and fitness. Deadlift is pretty easy to do. Most lightweight contests which I compete in (competitors under 231 lbs) are usually around the 450-500 lb mark for reps or will increase in weight if it is a max event. Overhead press can be a log, a bar, a keg, a large stone, heavy dumbbell, etc. Log or bar weights for lightweights is generally in the 225-250 lb range for reps or will increase in weight if it is a max event. Kegs and stones will vary in weight depending on the contest. Dumbbell is generally 140-150 lbs. The speed/moving event can be anything like farmers walk, sandbag carry, super yoke, tire flip, etc. Weights and distances vary greatly depending on the event. The medley is any two or more events that run concurrently. They typically test strength as well as endurance. Use your imagination. Stones are stones. Pretty simple. The stones in a lightweight contest generally run from 225ish up to 375ish for a 5 stone set and are loaded onto platforms approximately 4' high. Let me know if you have any specific questions.
That does it, in the event that something happens to my father I want Steve Pulcinella to be my new dad.
I don't know if anyone follows the powerlifting community, but it seems that overnight every perceived slight just blew up. From Louie Simmons taking a backhanded shot at Mike Tuscherer, to Daniel Green making arguments as to why Westside is not he best template for raw lifters. It's pretty funny if you ask me.