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Eiji

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  1. Don't know about millet and buckwheat. But the food blogs of Oh she glows and Minimalist baker are fantastic.
  2. Haha, yeah! You're a beast trapped in the body of a goddess!
  3. 10/30/15 Training: Pull-ups BW x 14,13,13,13,13* *last rep was a grinder Archer ring dips BW x 5,4,4,3,4 both sides 20 rounds of: 5 BW ring rows 5 BW ring dips In 16:29 I know I'm neglecting overhead work. I'll get on it. Tomorrow morning I'm going to see about that 5 mile hill run. Starting to hydrate now.
  4. Sounds good. I know that my personal experience with a high protein diet worked well for training that was limited to anaerobic workouts 5-6x per week. Once I started including endurance, 2 a days, metcons, I ran out of glycogen and carbs, and started burning up protein for energy. My sweat started smelling of ammonia, my recovery plummeted and I started getting fevers after strenuous activity. Increasing carbs and cutting out protein powders solved my issues and I was able to continue my training.
  5. 10/29/15 Went to a cross fit gym to workout with some of the academy recruits. 4 rounds of: 10 pull-ups 15 53# kettle bell swings 10 box jumps 24" 20 push-ups 400m run 50 jump ropes 400m run 50 jump ropes There was 6 of us and we paired up into 3 teams. Each teammate had to do all of it but couldn't be doing it at the same time. I did 10 pull-ups then he did 10 pull-ups and I couldn't start the swings till he was done with his pull-ups. All the way down the list just like that except for the run portion. We did the jump ropes while the other was running. My team came in at 34:33 Team 2 - 36:40 Team 3- 38:52 Haha...pretty good for an old man. Love it when I'm working out with the young guys and they say "how old are you?!? WTF?" Last set of pull-ups I cranked out 19 just to see what I could do at that state of oxygen debt.
  6. I started lifting when I was 14, 5'6" and 95lbs and really got serious at 15, 5'7" and 105 lbs. At 17 I was 5'10 1/2" and 197 lbs at <10% bf. Everyone at school thought I was juicing but I was just efficiently harnessing the hormones that were naturally surging in my body. I did that by lifting heavy and often. Squats, pull-ups weighted and unweighted, dips weighted and unweighted, bench press, bent rows, overhead press, and deadlifts. I wasted no time on machines or isolation movements besides throwing in some biceps stuff once in a while. AND I ate like a freaking horse 7 full meals per day. I ate so much my parents made me get a part time job to pay for the extra food I was eating. At 17 I was benching 265, pull-ups with 90lbs, dips with 90lbs, squatting 350 and deadlifting 450. Not crazy numbers but decent for 2 years of focused training and EATING. If you want stale progress and injuries listen to HitRob's advice not to increase calories while training hard.
  7. Absolutely correct sir. I have to get my kids off to school in the mornings and Wednesdays I volunteer at another schools reading program so sometimes I just have to fit it in when I can. Getting the volume in should still be beneficial for my conditioning and getting out there when it's hot keeps me used to working in high heat.
  8. That's ridiculous and why you see so many huge labor camp survivors. You can't build without materials. Something never comes from nothing.
  9. 10/28/15 I had a very busy day running around doing errands and didn't bring any food with me. I ended up at a Thai place and scarfed down some sweet basil veggies with tofu and 2 servings of rice at 12:30. That ended up being way too much to process in time to do my run and be home by 2:30 when my kids get home. I didn't figure that out till about half way up the mountain when my energy production was suffering and my stomach contents didn't want to stay down. I was able to complete the run without incident albeit about a minute slower than yesterday. 3 miles with 900' of elevation - 33:35
  10. 10/27/15 continued 500 push-ups and 500 sit-ups completed.
  11. Ha, yeah it's actually 900' in the first 1.5 miles to get to the top then 1.5 miles of a jog on the way down.
  12. Adding volume is very important for progress, hypertrophy, and increasing your work capacity. Increasing your work capacity may not be important to a bodybuilder because they don't really care about how much they can do but about how they look. But increasing your work capacity gives you more time under tension and increases your intramuscular glycogen stores. I believe up to 3-4x the amount stored by your muscles now. That by itself will add a couple of lbs to your frame. I look at the amount of work done during your workouts and really cannot grasp how they could produce anything more than a minimal stimulus for change. Which could be why in the year of working out you really haven't added much muscle. I'm all about calisthenics but your approach is very unorthodox. Look to sample routines like HannibalforKing's beginners routine, sample routines from Calisthenicmovement, FitnessFAQs. Even Pavel's routines are not shy on the volume. All of those guys have done this before worked out the kinks and have charted paths to progress. All those are on YouTube. Just because you're making progress doesn't mean you're making the progress you could make. The first year of working out should pack in 10-20lbs of muscle. Good luck
  13. 10/27/15 I could've used another hour of sleep but it only happens when I'm disciplined at night. Tonight will be disciplined! That's the plan. I will leave my phone in the kitchen so I'm not tempted. Practiced with FF tools all morning so I didn't get to the run until noon so the sun was beating down. Training: Trail run - 3 miles with 900' elevation in 32:34. Over 2 min faster than yesterday but that's not saying much. Felt pretty good. When I made it to the top it felt like I had taken a short cut somewhere. I didn't, it just felt much shorter today. The plan for the rest of the day is studying with 500 sit ups and 500 push-ups mixed in. I'll keep you posted
  14. How tall are you? I'm interested in how you train and will follow you log. Should be a good addition to the logs currently active.
  15. You could try fasting for while. That should do it
  16. My being vegan for however many months has no bearing on whether supplementing with protein powders is better or worse than getting your protein from whole foods or minimally processed foods. I say even if I was still a meat eater getting nutrition from whole and minimally processed food is always better than getting your protein from a jug from some unregulated industry who's sole concern is corporate profits. That is my awful advice. Seriously give it a rest Why don't u start a log or something instead of making it your quest to troll my posts
  17. Your better advice "google it" nice I would like to add that bulk black beans at Costco are also very affordable. I wish they had garbanzo beans as well. Organic brown rice is good to. Soy products are great because they have a concentration of very high quality protein but do not misunderstand that I would suggest neglecting other sources as well. My opinion much to the annoyance of jmf, because apparently he is the only one here that writes facts and not opinions, is that you are much, much better off getting your protein from whole and minimally processed foods including SOY PRODUCTS. I think that is great advice. But if you really want to throw your hard earned money at nutritionally deficient protein powders try MRM veggie.
  18. 10/26/15 Training: Trail run- 3 miles with 900' elevation in 34:50. Man this one hurt today. I did not feel light at all going up. Pull ups x 13,13,13,13,12 Bulgarian ring dips x 8,8,8,8,6 I was a bit slower on my run this morning but showed good progress on both pull-ups and Bulgarian dips. Tomorrow I'll run the trail again and do push-ups and planks. Or just the trail depending on recovery.
  19. Just so you know, it's already been proven that you can build muscles and reduce body fat on a vegan diet. It's not uncharted territory fella. Mr universe is vegan for goodness sake. Give it a go at 70/15/15 for a while then adjust from there. Stick with whole foods and minimally processed foods. I'm currently running at about 60/20/20 and 3500-4000 kCal/ day but that works for me and how I train. Not a bodybuilder more performance based. Good luck with your vegan diet. It is worth it. And don't get too bent over my smartass comments.
  20. Ok man. You're the resident expert. My advice to eat whole foods and minimally processed vs stripped of nutrition protein powders is bad. Me letting people know that carbs are not bad but our primary fuel of choice for intense work is bad. Getting good sleep is bad. Letting people know that the soy myth is propoganda from the Weston price foundation along with the whole low carb nonsense. Soy is probably the best source of protein for the vast majority of vegetarians/vegans. Look to Asia for that. 60/20/20 is sooo baaddd. I am so sorry expert jmf. I will def make sure to run all my posts by you before they publish. Look man our opinions differ. You love your protein powder. I know that. It's ok. People all over eat differently and train differently yet still produce the results they are training for. We all don't have to be like you or agree. When did I ever say eat nothing but processed soy. You cannot argue the quality of soy as a protein source can you? So in your opinion to be a healthy vegan athlete I need to injest a pea/rice/hemp protein powder? How long have people even eaten hemp? If I then align my opinions with yours they will then have value?
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